“You Can Learn A Lot from The Corner of An Envelope”
This is a free lecture no reservation required
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Ellison Lecture Hall, Room 102
Watson Fine Arts Building, Wheaton College
People have been using postage stamps since the first stamp was introduced
in England in 1840. Come hear about the history of stamps and the postal system.
Handle the first stamp, called the “One Penny Black”, learn about the 2012 US stamps
and discover how a stamp almost started a South American war.
Other topics include movies that have stamp themes, famous people on stamps, rules
about who gets on a stamp, strange postal stories including about a bank that was built
with bricks delivered by the post office. There will be time for questions
and each member of the audience will take home a free packet of stamps.
Henry Lukas
Director of Education & Community Education Museum of Stamps & Postal History
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The following courses require that you be enrolled to participate
Music of Richard Rodgers from Hart to Hammerstein
Sections are identical -- each is six sessions (Each section is limited to 60 students.)
Section 1: Mondays, March 26 - April 30 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Section 2: Wednesday, March 28 - May 2 11:00 am - 12;15 pm
Both are at Wheaton in Watson, Room 222
Richard Rodgers was a winner of multiple Tony, Academy, Grammy, and Emmy awards
as well as the Pulitzer PrizeHe had a long, illustrious career, writing many hit shows
first with Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II.
This course will examine Rodgers stylistic evolution from the first twenty-five years
with Hart and the nearly twenty years with Hammerstein through the shows
Pal Joey (1940), By Jupiter (1942),Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945)
South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959).
We will also discuss Rodgers other works, such as Ghost Town, Victory at Sea,
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, No Strings, and Do I Hear a Waltz?
Lecture with considerable listening and viewing.Participants are asked to read
a biography of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, or Richard Rodgers.
Ann Sears, PhD, is Professor of Music at Wheaton College
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What Movies Tell Us about Ourselves
6 sessions Wednesdays, March 21 – April 25
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Wheaton Media Center, Balfour-Hood
This course will explore what feature length fictional films reveal
about our concerns, moral and social conflicts and values.
Why are some types of films popular at one time and not another?
Why are stars so important to our enjoyment of a film?
Finally, what kinds of judgments can we make about a society by examining its films?
The class will focus on analyzing and discussing clips from
both classic and contemporary films.
John Grady, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Wheaton College,
and New Media Editor, Visual Studies
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Women Artists from the Middle Ages to the
Twenty First Century
6 sessions Fridays, March 23 – April 13, (skip April 20), April 27 – May 4
10:30 am - 12noon
Norton Public Library
Portrait, landscape, and still life painting characterized the art by accomplished
but little known women artists well into the 20th century.
But women rights insisted that art history include art history.
The lives and work of women artists from around the globe will be explored
in the context of major art movements as well as folk art
from the 15th century to present day.
Denyse Wilhelm, M.S. & MFA, is Assistant Dean, Wheaton College
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Becoming "We the People": The Federalist's Era
6 sessions Mondays, May 21 - June 25
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Hindle Auditorium, Science Center
This course tells the story of the beginning of American nationhood,
American democracy and American market capitalism.
As the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton encouraged citizens
to "think continentally," to agree to a national bank and
to get back on good terms with Great Britain.
President Washington meanwhile, urged Americans to put aside
their parochial interests and to develop an "American character."
From the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the election of
Andrew Jackson in 1824, we will examine how Americans argued
over the language of the Constitution, the government's role in economic growth
and the presence of slavery in a nation whose founding document proclaimed
that "all men are created equal."
Recommended Text: James Simon, What Kind of Nation, Simon and Schuster (PB).
Gary L. Hylander, PhD, teaches history at Framingham State University,
Bay Path Collegeand and is
Program Supervisor of Student Teachers at Boston University.
Look for NICE guides with Polka Dot Umbrellas to find your class
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