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New Adventures in Learning: Find us on Facebook

Sun Lakes Center: the cover photo on New Adventures' Facebook page

Catherine Hammond New Adventures is now on Facebook. The homepage is up and has many photos and comments, along with information about the lifelong-learning program. Some of the photos show classes and the state-of-the-art facility, along with links to the website and good contact information. Below is a brief conversation with Roxanne Singer, the governing council…

NAIL New Adventures in Learning: Experience the benefits of membership

Professor Dan Richardson from ASU shares recent research with New Adventures’ members.

Catherine Hammond It is not too late to participate in the fall semester for New Adventures in Learning, affiliated with Chandler-Gilbert Community College. Classes continue until Dec. 13, 2019, and many still have openings. Check for availability at www.NewAdventures.info and click on Classes. What are some of the multiple benefits of participating in this lifelong-learning group?…

New Adventures in Learning: Fall Semester begins for New Adventures

Kathie Neffenger (right) with Jean Culver (left) offer their popular art class.

Catherine Hammond Fall Semester for New Adventures in Learning, a lifelong-learning program affiliated with Chandler-Gilbert Community College, began on September 30 and will continue until December 13, 2019. Classes and events include lectures, roundtable discussion groups, a computer class, field trips, and a special event. The lecture classes introduce a wide range of topics. Here…

NAIL – New Adventures In Learning

Carole and Ed Rockland will share tales of their cycling trip in Spain. (Photo by Kirk Tuey)

Fall classes offered New Adventures in Learning, a lifelong-learning program affiliated with Chandler-Gilbert Community College, will present over 80 classes and events between September 30 and December 13, 2019. Several of these focus in one way or another on travel. Carole and Ed Rockland will present “Travels on the Camino de Santiago in Spain.” The…

New Adventures In Learning

New Adventures offers lifelong learning in the southeast valley Catherine Hammond For 20 years, New Adventures in Learning has been affiliated with Chandler-Gilbert Community College to offer lifelong-learning classes. Member Larry Noser suggests, “New Adventures may well be the best and least expensive way to entertain and educate yourself in a collegial atmosphere in Arizona.”…

New Adventures in Learning seeks volunteers

Catherine Hammond Members of New Adventures, an all-volunteer program dedicated to lifelong learning, constantly searches for people to work in many capacities. Currently, the group needs people to help recruit presenters and provide presenter support. The group offers dozens of classes offered each semester and provides both technical and logistical support to the presenters of…

NAIL celebrates 20 years

Mikell Rhoades (left) and Lita Swanson (right) welcome fellow members and guests to New Adventures’ 20th anniversary celebration. (Photo by Kirk Tuey)

Catherine Hammond New Adventures in Learning recently marked 20 years of bringing lifelong learning to the Southeast Valley. Over 200 people celebrated that milestone at SunBird Golf Resort on January 11, 2019. Lee Ross, one of the original members, recollects, “It is hard to believe we have been thriving for 20 years. And like good…

New Adventures In Learning

NAIL elects officers Catherine Hammond New Adventures in Learning, a lifelong-learning program, elected officers for 2019 at its Annual Meeting of the Membership on January 18, 2019. Bill Haskell is the new president and will serve a two-year term. Larry Noser, as president-elect, will take over that position in 2021. Lita Swanson, who has been…

Registration for Spring Semester Begins for NAIL

California author Marty Brounstein will speak on “Heroes of the Holocaust.”

Catherine Hammond Registration for the spring semester for New Adventures, the lifelong-learning program affiliated with Chandler-Gilbert Community College, begins online on Jan. 15, 2020. Classes themselves start on Jan. 27, 2020, with April 24 as the final day of the semester. The nearly 100 classes include lectures, discussion groups, computer classes, field trips, and a…

New Adventures In Learning

  Big January for New Adventures in Learning New Adventures, a lifelong-learning program in the Southeast Valley, marks several important events in the first month of 2019. To begin, on January 11 the group will celebrate its 20th Anniversary in the ballroom of SunBird Golf Resort. The event runs from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and…