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Fall 2025

01 Beginning Mah Jongg
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01 Beginning Mah Jongg

$10

with Vickie Dycewicz

Calendar Sep 15, 2025 at 10 am, runs for 8 weeks

Vickie Dycewicz, Peggy Calhoun

Mah Jongg is a tile-based game developed in the 19th century in China. It is commonly played by four players with a set of 152 tiles (American version) based on Chinese characters and symbols. This entry level class will introduce participants to this fascinating game of skill, strategy, and luck. (Repeat class)

Fee: $15 National Mah Jongg League, Inc. 88th Year card (unless students have their own card).

02 Classic Comedy Films
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02 Classic Comedy Films

$10

with Peter Livshin

Calendar Sep 15, 2025 at 1 pm, runs for 6 weeks

In this course, participants review and discuss six films, identifying traits that make them classics. The movies are His Girl Friday; One,Two,Three; Those Amazing Men in Their Flying Machines; Dr Strangelove; Blazing Saddles and Cat Ballou. Peter is an educator who has facilitated many CAL classic movie courses.

03 Old Dillon: Memories in the Rear View Mirror
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03 Old Dillon: Memories in the Rear View Mirror

$10

with Robin Bremner

Calendar Sep 16, 2025 at 10 am, runs for 4 weeks

Robin and Brad Bremner

 A crucial spot in Colorado’s development, Dillon is worth examining.  This course will offer a brief history of Dillon, looking at the people, the mountain setting, the ski industry, and recreation in the area, all of which changed life in Colorado. Participants will learn why there is a Lake Dillon and what led to the relocation of the town. Robin is an educator who grew up in the community that is now under the lake and will share how life was there. Her father was the mayor of New Dillon in the 1960s and president of the Dillon Development Committee as the old town moved to a new location.

06 Easy Hikes Close to HEB
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06 Easy Hikes Close to HEB

$10

with Alice Edwards

Calendar Sep 17, 2025 at 9 am, runs for 5 weeks

Fall is the perfect season to go outside and enjoy Colorado. Following an introductory classroom session, avid HEB hikers will serve as guides on four easy hikes within an hour of HEB including Piney Creek Trail (Centennial), Paint Mines Interpretive Center (Calhan) and Staunton State Park (Jeffco). Participants are responsible for their own entry fees.

07 Vietnam Helicopter to Continental 737
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07 Vietnam Helicopter to Continental 737

$10

with Bob Hartley

Calendar Sep 17, 2025 at 10 am, runs for 4 weeks

The class will follow Bob from flight school training with helicopters through his tour in Vietnam.  This will include the role helicopters played in Vietnam: resupply, troop insertions, medivacs, and more. He will answer the question: Did he get shot down or crash or both? After the war Bob flew helicopters for construction and the forest service fighting fires and spent 22 years flying for Continental Airlines as a pilot on the Boeing 737.

09 Trailblazing Women on US Quarters
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09 Trailblazing Women on US Quarters

$10

with Mary Foglesong

Calendar Sep 18, 2025 at 10 am, runs for 5 weeks

Mary Foglesong. Multiple Presenters

 This course includes the stories of ten American women featured on the '24/'25 US Mint's American Women on US Quarters series. Multiple presenters will share the inspirational accomplishments of ten Trailblazers including Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (Civil War surgeon), Stacey Park Milbern (activist for people with disabilities), and Celia Cruz (Latin artist).

 

10 Sports Forum
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10 Sports Forum

$10

with Peter Livshin

Calendar Sep 18, 2025 at 12:30 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Participants will discuss current events in the baseball and football world.

Peter Livshin is an educator who has presented several sports courses for CAL. He’s been a baseball and football fan since he was five years old so he has lots of stories to share.

11 The Fat Man, the Little Boy and the Fall of Japan
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11 The Fat Man, the Little Boy and the Fall of Japan

$10

with Harvey Solomon

Calendar Sep 18, 2025 at 3 pm, runs for 5 weeks

This course is about the making and use of the Atomic Bomb to end WWII.  It covers the US Manhattan Project, bomb projects in other nations, and the fall of Japan.  Harvey is a scientist and a scholar with a 75-year interest in history.  Harvey is a scientist and historian who has taught many CAL courses.





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