Worth Repeating: Tony Dow: Actor and Sculptor

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 9/3/13: 

You probably know Tony Dow from his role as Wally on “Leave It to Beaver,” or perhaps you became a fan later when he was on “General Hospital.” After his successful acting career, Tony became a director and producer for over twenty years. As he neared retirement in the early 2000s, he decided to return to an early love: sculpting. He works in burl wood and some of his sculptures have been cast in bronze. Click here to get details on his website. Click here or see below to enjoy a video of him in his studio (3:01).

 

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Help Our Friends at The Dinner Party Win a $100,000 Grant

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The Dinner Party is a community of mostly 20- and 30-somethings who’ve each experienced significant loss (a parent, sibling, partner, friend), and get together over dinner parties to talk about it and the ways in which it continues to affect their lives. The group is competing for a $100,000 grant from the Goldhirsch Foundation as part of their LA 2050 grants challenge.

LA 2050The LA2050 initiative was developed to create a shared vision for the future of Los Angeles, and to drive and track progress toward that vision, with a goal of making Los Angeles the best place to play, connect, live, create, and learn. The Dinner Party would like to expand its programs and has applied for a grant under the “connect” banner.

EngAGE and Experience Talks are committed event partners with The Dinner Party.

Popular vote decides the winner of the grant, so please get involved! No donation is required, just a few minutes to sign up and vote. Click here for all the details. Voting ends Tuesday, September 16th. Thank you!

 

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Experience Talks 9/6: Suzanne Lloyd

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01 - KPFK ListenLiveButtonTune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! You can also enjoy hearing all of our previous shows on the Listen Page of our Experience Talks website.

Saturday, 9/6 at 8 AM PT: Suzanne Lloyd talks with host John Semper Jr.

Suzanne Lloyd - SaintCanadian-born actress SUZANNE LLOYD is best known for her work in film and television in the ’60s and ’70s. She appeared in the feature films “Seven Ways from Sundown” (1960), “Pepe” (1960), “The Return of Mr. Moto” (1965), “That Riviera Touch” (1966), and “The Champagne Murders” (1967).

 

Suzanne Lloyd-zorro-3She was a frequent guest star on both British and American television, including “Bourbon Street Beat,” “The Islanders,” “Rescue 8,” “Buckskin,” “The Texan,” “Laramie,” “Lawman,” “Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza,” “The Avengers,” “Thriller,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Bat Masterson,” “Perry Mason,” “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color,” and six episodes of “The Saint.” Lloyd also had a recurring role as Raquel Toledano on the classic “Zorro” television series.

 

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“Amazing Randi” Is Subject of New Documentary

FYIJames Randi, 86, is not just a well-known magician, he’s also a famous fraud-buster. He has been debunking telepaths, spoonbenders, and faith healers for decades, and now he is the subject of a new documentary. Randi has won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, taught at UCLA and NYU and been decorated by scientific societies in Switzerland, Belgium and the United States. But if you’d like to prove to him that you have paranormal powers, you’re welcome to take him up on his million dollar challenge!

Learn more about Randi in this fascinating article in the Miami Herald. Get the details of the million dollar challenge on his James Randi Educational Foundation website. And take a few moments to watch a sneak preview of the documentary.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/30/4316916/at-86-james-randi-is-still-amazing.html#storylink=cpy
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Marc Freedman on a “School for the Second Half of Life”

EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter passed along this news from our friend Marc Freedman, Founder and C.E.O. of Encore.org, about the publication of his thoughtful essay:

Marc FreedmanWith millions moving beyond the middle years, it’s time to create a “school for the second half of life,” as Carl Jung urged more than three-quarters of a century ago. In a new essay for Harvard Business Review‘s blog network, now live at HBR.org, I set out a case for this new stage of education, and try to imagine how we might realize its possibilities. 

Higher education has an opportunity and, I believe, a responsibility, to respond to the new normal of longer, healthier lives with offerings that challenge, inform and inspire – that move beyond the enrichment courses that characterize much lifelong learning – and that can help individuals in their 50s, 60s, and 70s prepare for second acts infused with purpose and significance.

I’m inspired by innovative efforts at Harvard and Stanford to prepare seasoned leaders to launch ambitious encore careers aimed at solving social problems in systemic ways. And I’m equally heartened by a growing array of institutions across the higher-education universe mounting their own groundbreaking initiatives targeting boomers and aimed at the twin goals of individual and social renewal. At Encore.org, we’re working with many of these institutions, including Pace, Tulane, and the University of Washington, through our emerging “Encore U” initiative. 

The time has come to dramatically expand these opportunities, and in the article I argue that we can do so through taking a page from the GI Bill’s transformative success. 

What do you think? I hope you’ll read the new essay, share it with friends and colleagues, and weigh in with your ideas and comments on HBR.org

With all best, 

Marc Freedman 

Founder and CEO, Encore.org 

P.S. A vanguard group of higher-education professionals will be part of Encore.org’s 2014 conference in Tempe, Arizona, Building an Encore NationThey’ll be joining 500 leaders from media, business, philanthropy, government, local communities, and the nonprofit sector – who all see the potential of tapping the experience of those in and beyond midlife to improve our communities and the world. Our roster of speakers includes New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, AARP COO (and soon-to-be CEO) Jo Ann Jenkins, Packard Foundation CEO Carol Larsen, journalists Farai Chideya and Chris Farrell, as well as longtime Encore.org supporters Michael Eisner, Sherry Lansing, and Jane Pauley. If you are a leader or activist in the encore movement or would like to become one, we hope you’ll think about joining us, too.

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A Changing World: Jobs Far Away from the Cutting Edge

change life or world take another direction with changes for theIn 2002, producers at “Radio Diaries” interviewed “New Yorkers who were among the last—and in some cases, the very last—to hold jobs in industries that were dying … They came up with seven people—a Brooklyn fisherman, a water-tower builder, a cowbell maker, a knife-and-scissor grinder, a lighthouse keeper, an old-fashioned bra fitter, and a seltzer man.” The interviews are now online. Read more here. Listen to all of the interviews here.

 

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Labor Day

 

Dept of LaborLabor Day is not just a time to lament the end of summer and the start of school, nor is it merely a weekend filled with great bargains for the frugal shopper; it’s a national holiday that celebrates the value and tenacity of the average worker, one who was shamefully exploited not that many years ago:

“In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult counterparts’ wages. People of all ages, particularly the very poor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working conditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities and breaks.”

Click here to learn more about Labor Day and the dramatic history that led to its founding.

 

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