Senior University Featured December 2022 Class Highlights
December Senior University Class Highlights
Monday, December 5 & December 12
Wednesday, December 7 & December 14
Basic Computer Skills Series
This is a basic computer class. The series will cover Windows, Web Browsers (the interface to the Internet), using the Internet, social media, email, printers, and computer security. You can bring your own laptop and follow along with the instructor. If you don’t have a computer, handouts of the information will be available.
10:00 – 11:30 am, Bristol View 1st Floor Bowditch Room
Thursday, December 8
Irish Traditional Music for the Holidays
An hour of fiddle music and conversation highlighting the approach of the holidays with reels, jigs, and hornpipes with Susan Waters and Margaret Keefe.
2:00 pm, MJ Wicks Wellness Center
Friday, December 9
Back to the Fur Trade– Living History Performance by Karen Haas
The cast of characters in the fur trade of the Pacific Northwest in the 1800s was a fascinating diverse blend of Europeans, Native Americans, Hawaiians, and American settlers. Meet these people who created the region's first "shopping malls" as Karen takes you "Back to the Fur Trade."
Dressed as a Hudson's Bay Company laborer, she tells the tales, sings the songs, and shows a trunk full of tools and treasures from a time that brought great change to our land and culture.
2:00 pm, MJ Wicks Wellness Center
Thursday, December 22
A Pioneer Christmas: Traditions Across America
This program explores the various traditional celebrations of the Christmas season as they might be found, across this country during the latter part of the 19th century. As people moved westward, they brought their traditions for celebrating the season with them and adapted them to their new environment.
Dressed in the authentic clothing of a pioneer woman, and using three differently decorated Christmas trees, Tames Alan compares and contrasts how the holiday was celebrated by an upper-middle-class family in an East Coast city, a homesteading community in the Midwest, and those who tried to keep their traditions alive out on the prairie.
Discussed are the significance of presents, crèches, nutcrackers, and what was used to decorate the trees. Tames also talks about the perils of holiday travel and how food played a major part in the celebrations.
When people gathered to celebrate the holiday, there would be music, dancing, and the singing of carols. During this program, the audience will learn the history of and be encouraged to sing some traditional carols that were popular in this era.
2:00 pm, MJ Wicks Wellness Center
You must register to attend. Please register with Jana Wennstrom at 253-756-6219 or jwennstrom@franketobeyjones.com
Franke Tobey Jones
Senior University
Senior University at Franke Tobey Jones provides a wealth of lifelong learning programs for people 55 or better, for both campus residents and seniors in the surrounding community. This educational and cultural program designed for seniors is unique to Pierce County. Senior University offers the opportunity to build skills, explore new subjects and enjoy the learning process with others. Lecturers and instructors are experts in their fields hailing from local colleges and universities, businesses, not-for-profits and cultural organizations, along with others who have retired with rich career experiences. Most classes are offered free of charge as a public service to the Tacoma-Pierce County community.
The Mission of Franke Tobey Jones
To enrich and extend the quality of life for seniors in our community. As a not-for-profit organization, we provide senior residential services, a supportive continuum of care and innovative community outreach.