Mr. Putnam was an Elderhostel guide to the maritime history of New York aboard a number of trans-Atlantic voyages on the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Queen Mary 2.
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In her spare time, she is a coordinator for Elderhostel in Palm Springs. She is currently living in the close community of Palm Desert.
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"ALIROW and Elderhostel Institute Network Connect", ALIROW News, March 2004, p.2: "...our founder, Dr. Francis Meyers", available from www.archive.org for alirow.org, using year 2005.
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"In Memory of Marty Knowlton" , Elderhostel. Accessed March 18, 2009. Within five years it had grown to 20,000 students. The program was expanded internationally, to Mexico, Great Britain and Scandinavia, in 1981.
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Osborne, Lawrence. "Never Too Old to Learn", The New York Times, February 18, 2005. Accessed March 18, 2009. By the time of his death, Elderhostel offered 8,000 programs across the United States and in 90 countries.
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In 1984 a regional network, the Association for Learning in Retirement of the West (ALIROW), was formed to assist. Its usefulness led representatives of the lifelong learning institutes at New School University, Harvard College, UCLA, Duke University, and American University to create a national network. To implement it they teamed with Elderhostel, an established travel corporation that serviced the same age group. The Elderhostel Institute Network opened in 1988 with the mission of supporting its member lifelong learning institutes, leading workshops, giving advice on how to start new institutes, and providing information about its member institutes, which numbered about 75 in 1988.
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Martin "Marty" Perry Knowlton (July 30, 1920 - March 12, 2009) was the American co-founder of Elderhostel, a non-profit organization established in 1975 that allows senior citizens to travel and take educational programs in the United States and around the world.
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He served on boards of the Kentucky Literacy Foundation, the national Elderhostel program, the Frontier Nursing Service, and the Appalachian Regional Hospitals. Larry D. Shinn, "President Emeritus John B. Stephenson dies from a viral infection," The Berea Alumnus, Winter 1995, pp. 21-22.
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Grimes, William. "Martin Knowlton, Co-Founder of Elderhostel, Is Dead at 88", The New York Times, March 17, 2009. Accessed March 17, 2009. Following the completion of his military service, Knowlton attended Birmingham-Southern College, where he was awarded a degree in history in 1946.
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After leaving Elderhostel, Knowlton moved to California. There, he established Gatekeepers to the Future, an organization that was intended to motivate seniors to lobby for environmental change. It was restructured and renamed the Center for the Study of the Future in the early 1990s.
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With Mr. Stein's enthusiastic support a young actors studio was created in 2007. The studio consists of a series of classes for children between the ages of eight and twelve. Two summer week-long day camps are conducted and coordinated with Internationsl Elderhostel intergenerational programs. A professional production cast from northern Indiana high school students is also produced.
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In 2004 the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and buildings are currently undergoing renovations with labor provided by volunteer groups including Passport in Time, Elderhostel and Amizade.Gallatin Nation Forest News Release., Gallatin Forest Supervisor Signs OTO Ranch Forest Plan Amendment Decision, 27 January 2006 The site continues to provide habitat for large wildlife.
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Winslow, Ron. "Elderhostel: A Growing Chain", The New York Times, September 9, 1979. Accessed March 18, 2009. (paid access) The program started in 1975 with 220 students ages 60 and up on five campuses in New Hampshire, with the support of Eugene S. Mills, president of the University of New Hampshire and a grant of $7,500 from the Spaulding Potter Charitable Trust.
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The Brenau University Learning and Leisure Institute offers non-credit classes for mature adults looking to stimulate their thinking and expand their knowledge. A variation on common Elderhostel programs, BULLI is made available to and oriented towards adults in the Northeast Georgia community who are seeking academically oriented continuing education. In April 2012 BULLI expanded to a Braselton satellite campus in cooperation with that Georgia city's government.
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Baseball pioneer Maybelle Blair, 91, still likes a ball with zip on it. Retrieved 2019-03-27. Following her retirement, Blair became vice president of Center for Extended Learning for Seniors (CELS); an educational travel tours program provider for Elderhostel. Blair also became an active collaborator in different projects of the AAGPBL Players Association since its foundation in 1982, serving on the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Fundraising Committee.
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She also worked as a lecturer at Alaska Pacific University, where she taught Alaska Native arts for fifteen years. Additionally, Reed worked for the Alaska Marine Highway Elderhostel program. Reed began working with dried fish as an art material in 1986 using dead "river kill" fish collected from the Chena River. The family moved south to Anchorage shortly afterwards when her husband, Dick Reed, an architect, was hired for a large project.
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It was also under his direction that the College Inn, part of Dixie State's Elderhostel Program, was developed. Alder served as president of the Mormon History Association in 1977-1978. He is a Latter-day Saint and served as a counselor in the presidency of the St. George Utah Temple. Alder wrote with Blaine M. Yorgason and Richard A. Schmutz the book All That Was Promised: The St. George Temple and the Unfolding of the Restoration (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013).
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Knowlton was born in Dallas, Texas on July 30, 1920.Nelson, Valerie J. "Martin P. 'Marty' Knowlton dies at 88; co-founder of Elderhostel", Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2009. In 1940, he left college to join the Free French Forces, where he served in the Middle East as an ambulance driver and was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He joined the United States Army in 1942 and served as a medic in the Pacific Theater and was awarded the Silver Star.
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Jeri McCormick is a Wisconsin-based poet with Appalachian roots. McCormick founded Fireweed Press where she has edited and published dozens of books by major poets. McCormick taught creative writing in senior centers and Elderhostel programs for twenty-five years, while co-editing reference books for teachers of older writers and a magazine for older writers, Heartland Journal. McCormick has published five books of her own poetry in the U.S. and Ireland, and her poems appear in sixteen anthologies, including The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the 18th Century to the Present.
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He held the position of director of the Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company, member of the executive council of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association and at one point was vice-president of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. Shaw also worked tirelessly for community groups including Veterans Against Nuclear Arms and Elderhostel. Shaw received the Order of Canada in 1993. Throughout his career Shaw was honoured numerous times with honorary degrees from such institutions as Acadia University, Dalhousie University, St. Francis Xavier University and the Nova Scotia Technical College.
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The Pillow partners with community organizations throughout Berkshire County to provide access to dance activities and learning from Festival artists and staff. A year-round partnership with the Railroad Street Youth Project promotes teen leadership and community involvement through the development of choreographic work. During the Festival, the Pillow partners with Berkshire Institute for Lifelong Learning; Elderhostel Programs; and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Days In The Arts and Shakespeare & Co. Arts for All programs. The Pillow provides these groups with dance classes, guided tours, performance and School observation opportunities, and access to artists and staff.
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For the last decade Landmarks has served as the sponsor in the Philadelphia Region for the world-renowned Road Scholar program (formerly known as Elderhostel). On average each year, Landmarks Road Scholar Program attracts over 2,000 visitors to the Philadelphia Region to enjoy its many historical and cultural resources. Landmarks Road Scholar ranks 20th out of a total of 638 sponsors around the world. Landmarks is a major supporter of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Flower Show and The Barnes Foundation among others through its purchase of admission tickets to these fine organizations.
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R/V Atlantic Explorer at the dock. The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (known as BIOS) is an independent, non-profit marine science and education institute located in Ferry Reach, St. George's, Bermuda. The Institute, founded in 1903 as the Bermuda Biological Station, hosts a full-time faculty of oceanographers, biologists, and environmental scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, K-12 groups, and Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) groups. BIOS's strategic mid-Atlantic Ocean location has at its doorstep a diverse marine environment, with close proximity to deep ocean as well as coral reef and near shore habitats.
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Since the early 1970s Pine Mountain Settlement School has specialized in environmental education; it also has operated an elderhostel program.Jennifer Minton, The Current Roles of Settlement Schools, KET, Lexington, Kentucky The Pi Beta Phi Settlement School began an extension called the Craft Work Shop in 1945 in cooperation with the University of Tennessee;Josh Flory, Pi Beta Phi fraternity to sell Arrowmont land, Knoxville News Sentinel, August 16, 2008 it is now an independent nonprofit organization known as the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts that provides college and graduate-level courses in arts and crafts.
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After graduating from Cal State Northridge with a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1971, Perry taught and coached in Honolulu and at Cal State Hayward, where she earned her master's degrees in P.E. and Education. Perry moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1986 and assisted coaching women's volleyball at Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University). She received her third master's degree in psychology from S.O.S.C. and coached senior citizens in fitness through Elderhostel. She produced the acclaimed fitness video, "Early Morning Stretch" and worked with geriatric patients through Jackson County Mental Health until her retirement in 2002.
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Greenberg began her career in the 1950s as a speech pathologist, diagnosing and treating children and adults with speech problems stemming from brain injury, stroke, and developmental delays. Between 1967 and 1971 she taught at the University of Colorado and Loretto Heights College. In 1971, Greenberg founded the University Without Walls (UWW) program at Loretto Heights College. As UWW director, she developed specialized educational programs for non-traditional students, including Colorado prison inmates and ex-offenders; at-risk high school students; Native American mental health workers; teachers, police officers, returning adult students, Spanish-speaking students, Elderhostel students, and others.
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In recent years he has led craft tours to Bhutan, India (five times), Iran, Jordan, Morocco, and Vietnam, and lectured regularly on contemporary glass art for Elderhostel/Road Scholar programs in Seattle. Lloyd Herman’s book, Art That Works: The Decorative Arts of the Eighties, Crafted in America, was published in 1990 by the University of Washington Press, distributor of his Trashformations; Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy; Tales and Traditions: Storytelling in Twentieth Century American Craft and American Glass: Masters of the Art publications. He co-authored the book, Thomas Mann, Metal Artist. Recent writing projects include books on glass artists Narcissus Quagliata and Josh Simpson.
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Gordon has been an active contributor to many charitable organizations and has given free presentations to groups around the nation, including Elderhostel, Job Core, Augsberg College, Northwestern State University's Creole Heritage Center, New Hope Learning Center, several groups of schoolchildren, Katrina relief organizations, and various art organizations. In 2004, she was invited to address the Mississippi House of Representatives on The Labat Project. She teaches workshops for both children and adults in her collage/assemblage techniques, and has acted as co-organizer in shows across the country, including those in Moss Beach, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Richmond, Virginia and several locations in Mississippi. She is a founding member of The Artists of 220 Main, an award-winning gallery in Bay St Louis which opened its doors just five weeks after Hurricane Katrina; and also of The Arts Hancock County, where she served as Publicity Chair and Board Member from 2004-2008.
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A highly respected educator, Jason also served as Conductor of the Chesapeake Youth Repertory Orchestra in Annapolis, MD for four years. In his eleven years on the faculty of the Governor's School of North Carolina, he taught Twentieth-Century music to academically gifted high school students and lectured extensively on music and culture in our time. Not content to limit his educational endeavors to young people, he has lectured at many institutions including the Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore Symphony and the Peabody Elderhostel program. He is a frequent panelist on the popular radio program, "Face the Music," on WBJC-FM in Baltimore, MD. Recent and upcoming guest appearances find him conducting a variety of ensembles such as the Baltimore Symphony, Washington Sinfonietta (DC), Bismarck Symphony, and RUCKUS, a contemporary music ensemble at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he also teaches conducting.
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McGuire is currently a member of the boards of directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, the Washington Hospital Center, the Washington Metropolitan Consortium of Universities, the National Defense Intelligence College, the Women’s College Coalition, the UNIFI Mutual Holding Company and Acacia Life Insurance Company, and Goodwill of Greater Washington. She is slated to join the boards of the American Council on Education and United Educators in 2008. She serves on advisory boards and committees of the Girl Scouts of the USA of the Nation’s Capital and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative of the U.S. Department of Education. Prior service includes the boards of the Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, and Elderhostel, as well as vice chair of the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association, and chair of the Commission on Lifelong Learning of the American Council on Education.
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