Discussing The New Yorker
September 24, 2012 - December 3, 2012
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
10, Monday
No Class: Nov. 12
Location: UNF University Center
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Summary
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The New Yorker, a weekly magazine published since 1925, offers commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, satire and cartoons. Topics reach far beyond New York, covering national and international issues, politics and social matters, medicine, science and more. It also has reviews of music, dance, film, theatre, books and art. This self-directed course will aim to foster stimulating, thought-provoking, civil discourse in a relaxed environment. Each meeting will be led by one or two class members and focus on readings, typically between 20 and 40 pages, from one or more recent issues. Each lead team will announce the reading assignment two or more weeks prior to the meeting and give other details about the class format, which may vary.
Required: Participants must be reachable by e-mail in order to receive assignments and must also have access to the The New Yorker magazine.
Maximum participants:
20
Course Fee & Supplies
Course Fee: $55
Facilitators
Joyce Hellmann Bizot, Carolyn Gentry and Richard Bizot.
Joyce retired in 2007 from the City of Jacksonville where for three decades she was a community organizer, urban planner and administrator in community development, neighborhood, economic development, housing and human services programs. She is a life-long jazz fan(atic) who, in 1981, created the jazz piano competition that is part of the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. In 2009, Joyce was inducted into the festival’s Hall of Fame. Joyce is a member of JCCI and Leadership Jacksonville and serves on the board of community organizations including the Ritz Chamber Players and the League of Women Voters.
Carolyn worked for The Florida Times-Union for 32 years and retired as Public Affairs Director in 2007 but still heads up several T-U community events: the prestigious EVE awards, “The Spot Tournament for Charity,” High School Journalism Awards and Regional Spelling Bee Championship. Early in her career, she taught English and journalism and sponsored the student newspapers in our public schools. She is the 2012 president of the Jacksonville Women’s Network and is past president of the Duval Unit, American Cancer Society and a current member of its Unit Operating Board. She is a member of the South Jacksonville Rotary and is a Leadership Jacksonville Alumni. The Gateway Girl Scouts honored her as a Woman of Distinction in 1997.
Dick, a founding faculty member in the Department of English at the University of North Florida directed their Irish Studies Program for 15 years. Besides his interests in Irish and British literature, he is a lifelong, long-suffering Red Sox fan. He is also an ardent traveler and grandfather of four grandsons – 2 in Atlanta and 2 in Chicago.
