Events, April – June 2019

TSO Events
April – June, 2019

Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information on event time, room number, and reservations. You have a reservation only after you get a confirmation reply. Please request a reservation before the last 24 hours. Please let us know as soon as possible, and before the last 48 hours, if you must cancel.


iPhone (only) Tips & Tricks
by Paul Schmid
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Discover how to do more and have more fun with your iPhone, learn about useful library apps, dozens of tips and tricks and get personalized help with your iPhone questions. Please bring your iPhone for hands-on help.


iPhone (only) Photos
by Paul Schmid
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 &
Thursday, June 13, 2019 (repeat session)

Find photos of family and friends, share your memories with music and motion with just one tap, AND take better pictures today. Please bring your iPhone for hands-on help.


TELOS Readers Theater presents
All in the Timing by David Ives

Directed by Mark Waldstein
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Come and enjoy four hilarious short plays from the witty and whimsical pen of David Ives. It’s an alternate universe where monkeys type Shakespeare…dating faux pas come with do-overs…and no matter what you ask for, you can’t get it. With Ives’ writing, The New York Times has said, “metaphysical questions and elbow-in-the-ribs gags coexist peacefully; thoughtfulness and silly wordplay live side by side.”

The original Off-Broadway production of these plays ran for 18 months. But ours runs one time only!


The Artwork of Miha Sarani
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Miha has been teaching art and art history for several years in the TELOS Program. Many of his students have requested a presentation regarding his own art. This is your opportunity to learn about his artistic journey from Slovenia to Seattle.


iPhone (only) Advanced Basics
Because you’re ready for more.

by Paul Schmid
Tuesday, June 11, 2019

In this fun, interactive workshop you’ll learn powerful, super cool features that’ll help with everything you do!

  • Spotlight – the fastest way to find anything on your iPhone from apps to contacts to pictures with sunsets.
  • Dictation – your pocket stenographer. Master dictation and you’ll write twice as much twice as fast. Who knows, maybe you’ll start that journal you’ve been talking about?
  • Siri – your executive assistant. While dictation writes what you say, Siri does what you ask. Learn to make Siri work for you. Really!
  • iCloud – what is it? How can I get the most from it.

Learn this and dozens of tips and tricks. More importantly, you’ll learn something you can show your kids, or maybe even your grandchildren.

About your trainer:

In 6 years at Apple, Paul Schmid taught 1000s to get the most from their smart phones while having fun. Before Apple, Paul had a career in training and marketing. Currently, Paul teaches tech and Shakespeare at Bellevue College.

Note: To get the most from this class, know your Apple ID and password. If you need help, go to: https://support.apple.com/apple-id


The American Opioid Crisis
Historical Context and the Present Epidemic

by Dr. James Maynard, M.D., Ph.D.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

In 2017 the New York Times called the U.S. 50 State opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history and the Department of Health and Human Services declared it a public health emergency. The human use of opium and its derivatives date back over 5000 years. And, as laudanum, it came to America on the Mayflower in the medical bag of pilgrim physician Thomas Fuller. This seminar will trace both the global and the American historical roots of opium product use leading to the current crisis, as well as the impact of commercialization and physician prescribing practice on the recent explosion in the use of modern synthetic opioids. Suggestions will be made for combating the epidemic.


The Great War in Washington State
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Lorraine McConaghy will examine the home-front during this forgotten war which ended just a little over a century ago.

Lorraine is a public historian, who spent most of her career in history working in historical museums, including the Lemelson Center for Innovation at the Smithsonian, Washington State History Museum, and Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry.  She completed her Ph.D. in 1991, and her dissertation compared post-World War II residential suburbs in Cincinnati, Hackensack, NJ, and Bellevue, WA.  However, in the last two decades, her major research interests have been the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods in Pacific Northwest history, and the University of Washington Press published Warship Under Sail concerning the U.S. Navy presence in Elliott Bay during the Treaty Wars and Free Boy concerning the escape on Puget Sound of a slave from Olympia to Victoria.  She is currently working on a manuscript for UW Press, a richly-illustrated, popular history scheduled for publication in 2020; she hopes to next research the biography of Washington Territory’s antebellum governor, Richard Gholson.

Lorraine McConaghy has taught history, historical research techniques, and oral history practice at the University of Washington, Pacific Lutheran University, and North Seattle College.  She recently completed four years as a trustee for the American Association for State and Local History, and has served on the boards of the Women’s Heritage Center and the Northwest Oral History Association.  Since 2013, she has run her own historical consulting business, providing research, editing, exhibit curation, and oral history services for a wide range of clients, including the Washington State Historical Society, Seattle’s Roberta Byrd Barr Center, and the Bill and Melinda Gates collection.  In addition, she lectures widely on topics in Pacific Northwest history for Road Scholar, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and Humanities Washington.


Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Kit Bakke will discuss the events in her book Protest on Trial.
From a recent review: “Kit Bakke has written a captivating and clearheaded text titled Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy. Utilizing her understanding and knowledge of the revolutionary left of the period, the transcripts of the trial, interviews of participants on all sides, and hindsight, Bakke’s text brings to life the revolutionary optimism of the time and the consequent fear of those whose power was being threatened. She explains the legal strategies of the defense and the arrogance of the prosecution. …Combined with her inviting narrative style, Bakke has produced a great book about an important trial in US history.”

Come and learn more about how this local story unfolded.

Believing that the freedom to publicly dissent is the lifeblood of a functioning democracy, Kit Bakke was active in Students for a Democratic Society at Bryn Mawr College in the 1960s, and later joined Weathermen’s national antiwar, antiracist and anti-capitalist efforts. Born and raised in Seattle, she returned to work as a pediatric oncology nurse. She has bachelor’s degrees in nursing from the University of Rochester and political science from Bryn Mawr College, as well as master’s degrees in nursing and in public health from the University of Washington. Now retired, she writes and volunteers in local philanthropic organizations.


A New Perspective on Retirement:
How to avoid ending up in a nursing home, going broke,
or becoming a burden on our loved ones

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Aging is a family affair but our current fragmented health, housing, financial, and legal systems leave older adults and their loved ones adrift. A Stanford study shows that over 80% of retirees want to stay in their homes and avoid institutional care. 72% of doctors and their parents succeed in that outcome but less than 30% of the rest of us do despite diligent planning with financial, legal, and other professionals. In short, traditional planning is failing retirees in what they care about most. How do we get outcomes closer to matching our wishes?

Elder Law attorney Scott Schill educates attendees on a new, evidence-based, multi-disciplinary, human approach to retirement planning that focuses not just on who gets what when we pass but on our most deeply held retirement goals:

  • Helping people shape planning to avoid institutional care
  • Protecting assets from uncovered medical & long-term care costs to avoid financial distress
  • Mitigating the burden on loved ones if challenges arise to avoid trampling families under the weight of care-giving duties
  • Fostering family communication and cohesion to avoid family conflict
  • Continuing to grow—a meaningful later adulthood reflecting our values & dignity to avoid powerlessness

From the Speaker Scott Schill:

As a Northwest native with three sets of parents living nearby, and a frequent volunteer with the Senior Center of West Seattle and Jewish Family Service, the message that aging is a family affair resonates deeply with me. Prior to joining LifePointLaw, my practice focused on complex commercial litigation at Yarmuth Wilsdon PLLC and Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. In my LifePointLaw/AgingOptions practice, I strive to put my skills and experience in the service of making a meaningful, human difference in the lives of older adults and their families.

I am a graduate of the George Washington University Law School (with honors) and the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to law school, I taught English in Tokyo, Japan for two years, and am also the proud producer of the award-winning feature film Frank vs God starring Henry Ian Cusick (Lost, The100, The Passage). I live in the West Seattle Junction neighborhood with my wife Jennifer, our two children, Theo and Nate, and mischievous dog Trixie.


The Artwork of Miha Sarani Part II
Monday, June 24, 2019

In response to requests from many of his students, Miha facilitated a presentation regarding his own adventures as an artist, at the TSO event on June 6.  Due to popular request, he will continue the saga of his journey during this TSO event.  Miha has been teaching art and art history for several years in the TELOS Program.  This is your opportunity to continue learning about his artistic journey from Slovenia to Seattle.


Black People in the 19th Century:
Fugitive Slave Laws, Dred v. Scott, and Plessey v. Ferguson.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

The fugitive slave issue and western expansion (e.g., slavery issue) alerted Northerners to the importance of the slavery issue.  There are several important supreme court cases examining the problems.  Then, in the late 19th Century, the supreme court cemented segregation into American life and culture.

About the Speaker:

Professor Stephen Kalish taught law at the University of Nebraska Law College.  He was also Director of the University’s Center on the Teaching and Study of Applied Ethics.  Since retiring, he has taught courses at TELOS on Clarence Darrow and His Times, Justice in the Distribution of Scarce Resources, Lynchings in early 20th Century America and Landmark Antebellum (1787-1860) Supreme Court Cases in Historical Context.


Climate Change – We Can’t Give In – Why?
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Americans are starting to recognize that the subject of climate change is worthy as a presidential election topic – finally.  But how important should it be relative to the economy, immigration, war, tariffs, and so forth that are the current “hot button” issues.  Answer, climate change is central to, and overrides, all other topics and will do so on a rapidly increasing basis in the near future.  Our leaders and candidates need to be more focused on this issue now.  If you are informed and focused it will make a difference.  Let’s talk about it as a group in a PowerPoint led presentation with Ted Watts.

About the Speaker:

Ted Watts is a retired 50-year Bellevue lawyer with a lifelong interest in history, politics, and current events.  He has taught courses at TELOS on Steam Locomotives in 19th Century America, Ratification of the Constitution, and Current Constitutional Issues (with Jim Maynard).  Ted has two young grandchildren who will feel full-force the direct effects of climate change on all aspects of their lives.  For them it can only get worse if we ignore or diminish the need for action now.  Ted currently serves on the TSO Council and is the newly-elected Treasurer of the organization.


AGE STRONGER:
Developing Physical Vigor and Confidence in the Second Half of Life.
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Body systems suffer normal wear and tear as we age but some of what we think of as the inevitable results of aging are actually the price we pay for not moving enough.  What if we could not only decrease the risk of falling but also decrease the risk of breaking a hip if we do fall?  What if we had a free method of improving our mental health and acuity as we age?  What if we could have the satisfaction of a strong grip, good for handshakes and opening peanut butter jars and, it turns out, a great predictor of quality of life in aging?  Movement accomplishes all of those things!  It’s not hard and we all come equipped with everything we need: a body and gravity.  Let’s explore the myths and the realities of aging together while putting together a tool box of ideas and exercises that will allow us to age stronger.

About the Speaker:

Autumn Needles PMA-CPT® began dancing and practicing yoga as a child.  She first encountered Pilates as a young dancer at Smith College, but didn’t begin her teaching career until almost 20 years later in 2006.  She taught yoga, mat Pilates, and aqua-fit, then got her comprehensive Pilates certification and in early 2012 joined the teaching team at Vitality Pilates.  Autumn particularly loves working with people who come to Pilates due to struggles with injuries or chronic and limiting health conditions with the hope of finding functional strength, balance, and health in their everyday lives as they age.  With that goal she completed a two-year training with Nutritious Movement™ to teach Restorative Exercise based on alignment principles in 2016 and in 2018 became a Buff Bones® licensed instructor.  Buff Bones® is a research-based physical practice designed to develop bone health and strength in those at risk for or diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia.  When she’s not teaching Pilates, Autumn can be found with her nose in a book, taking a walk, or up in the air on a trapeze.


Reservations are required. See our Calendar of Events and Contact Us pages for information on event time, room number, and reservations. You have a reservation only after you get a confirmation reply. Please request a reservation before the last 24 hours. Please let us know as soon as possible, and before the last 48 hours, if you must cancel.

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