Archived TSO Calendar (2022)
January, 2022
Friday, January 14
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
Thursday, January 20
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, January 21
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Book selection meeting.
Wednesday, January 26
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, January 28
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: 1968 – The Year That Rocked The World by Mark Kurlansky.
February, 2022
Friday, February 4
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Book TBD.
Thursday, February 17
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, February 18
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, February 23
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, February 25
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: Apollo 8, The Thrilling Story Of The First Mission To The Moon by Jeffrey Kluger.
March, 2022
Tuesday, March 1
• 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Japanese Tea Bowls – for Fashionistas, Rebels and Everyday Kind of People by Carol Frankel.
Thursday, March 3
• 12 noon to 1:30 p.m., Online Seminar: The State of Politics in Hong Kong by Professor Simon Shen.
Friday, March 4
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Book TBD.
Thursday, March 17
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, March 18
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, March 23
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, March 25
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: Uncertain Justice – The Roberts Court and the Constitution by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, 2014.
April, 2022
Friday, April 1
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online
Thursday, April 14
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, April 15
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. The selected books for 2022 are available here. Please note that the April & May meetings will start at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, April 27
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, April 29
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: Gangsters of Capitalism – Smedley Butler, the Marines and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. Katz, 2022.
May, 2022
Friday, May 6
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left by Yuval Levin. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, May 19
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, May 20
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Book Club Online: My Antonia by Willa Cather. The selected books for 2022 are available here. Please note that the April & May meetings will start at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, May 25
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, May 27
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: Founding Mothers – The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts. New theme: Colonial America Before the Revolutionary War.
June, 2022
Friday, June 3
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, June 15
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Our Blue Planet, an Exhibit at SAM by Andrea Smith-Clarke.
Thursday, June 16
• 10:00 a.m to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: The Blood-Brain Barrier Interface: How Your Brain’s Blood Vessels Mediate Brain-Body Communication by Dr. Willam A. Banks.
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, June 17
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: The Vanishing Half by Bill Bennet. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Tuesday, June 21
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Nesting Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles by Sheldon Plentovich.
Wednesday, June 22
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting
Thursday, June 23
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Home is Where the Fire Is by Heather Wong (Bellevue Fire Department).
Friday, June 24
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: American Colonies – The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor, Parts I and II.
Monday, June 27
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Keeping Washington Coasts Clean by Megan Juran.
Tuesday, June 28
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: Wait-What–Now We’re Fighting About Water Too? by Janet Neuman.
Thursday, June 30
• 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Online Seminar: The Sophia Way: A Place of Hope and Change for Women by Dietra Clayton.
July, 2022
Friday, July 1
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Lincoln and the Fight for Peace by John Avlon. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Friday, July 15
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilson. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, July 21
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Wednesday, July 27
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, July 29
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: American Colonies – The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor, Part III.
August, 2022
Friday, August 5
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael Beschloss. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, August 18
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, August 19
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Anxious People by Fredrik Bachman. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, August 24
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, August 26
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: The Island at the Center of the World – The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Robert Shorto, 2005.
September, 2022
Friday, September 2
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times by Michael Beschloss. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, September 15
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, September 16
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, September 28
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, September 30
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: Mayflower – Voyage, Community, War by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2007.
October, 2022
Friday, October 7
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop
Them by Barbara Walter. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, October 20• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online Meeting cancelled, next Curriculum Committee Meeting is on 11/17
Friday, October 21
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: Blessings by Anna Quindlen. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Wednesday, October 26
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, October 28
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: 1774 – The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton, 2020.
November, 2022
Friday, November 4
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization by Harold James. Upcoming books for 2022 are available here.
Thursday, November 10
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Curriculum Committee Meeting Online
Friday, November 11
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
Wednesday, November 16
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, November 18
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
• 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Friday, November 25
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik, 2007 – Prelude, Part I + II
December, 2022
Friday, December 2
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Politics Book Club Online: The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk. Books for 2022 are available here.
Tuesday, December 6
• 10:00 a.m., Online Event: Taste of TELOS: Previews of 8 different Winter Quarter 2023 classes by the instructors: Ted Watts, Fred Silber, Cynthia Smith, David Summers, Robert Barnes, and Ray Pfortner
Thursday, December 8
• 10:00 a.m., Online Seminar: Ceramics by Marge Levy
Friday, December 9
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
Monday, December 12
• 10:00 a.m., Online Seminar: The Guidance Groove by Carolyn Kurle
Wednesday, December 14
• 10:00 a.m., Online Seminar: All About Owls by Connie Sidles
• 3:30 p.m., TSO Council Meeting Online
Friday, December 16
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 11:00 a.m., TSO Events Committee Meeting Online
Monday, December 19
• 10:00 a.m., Online Seminar: Bellevue Police Department by Alycia McKinney
Friday, December 23
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
Wednesday, December 28
• 10:00 a.m., Online Seminar: Sex After 60 by Dr. Barbara Cochran
Thursday, December 29
• 1:00 p.m.to 2:30 p.m., Book Club Online: The Codebreaker by Walter Isaacson. The selected books for 2022 are available here.
Friday, December 30
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Constitution Club Online
• 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., American History Book Club Online: The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik, 2007 – Part III + IV, Epilogue