Adults Sing, Cook, Write and Flamenco Back to School

Want to crew a boat, paint with acrylics, golf or upholster a chair--you'll find it all at The South Orange-Maplewood Adult School! The fall semester is packed with new courses and annual favorites and registration is open.

The Adult School offers sure-to-be memorable lectures, including one by Marc Morial, President of the Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans, and another by Benjamin Nelson, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

In the pages of the fall catalog, you'll also find business classes, wine and cheese tastings, classes that will get online and connected, and classes that will help you re-energize body and mind.

Don't miss:

Susan Gladstone is lecturing on Cities in Developing Countries on Monday, October 17th from 7:30-9pm at the Columbia High School Library.

Marc Morial is lecturing on Governing one of America's Great Cities (about his experience as mayor of New Orleans) on Monday, October 24th from 7:30-9pm at the Columbia High School Library.

Leonardo Vazquez is lecturing on Cities of the 21st Century on Monday, October 31st from 7:30-9pm at the Columbia High School Library.

Frank Popper is lecturing on The Disappearing City on Monday, November 7th from 7:30-9pm at the Columbia High School Library.

On the syllabus at this fall's College for a Day, from 9:30am to 3:30pm on Saturday, November 19th at Columbia High School Black Box Theater, include:

Linguistics (What You Were Never Taught About Language),

American history (Race & Real Estate--The Creation of America's Ghettos),

Neuroscience (Language and the Brain) and

The history of science (Redesigning Life--The New Era of Synthetic Biology).

Michael Jeffries, Columbia High School Class of 1998, will discuss his recent book, Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop at the Don Hamingson Literary Showcase on Wednesday, November 8th.

Benjamin Nelson will discuss the culture of graphic violence and sexual exploitation in contemporary films in his lecture The Violent Screen at this fall's annual Redpath Lecture at 7:30pm in the Columbia High School Library on Monday, November 14th.

Learn more at www.somadultschool.org or call 973-378-7620.