Lifelong Learners Toast 25 Years of OLLI

To: EDUCATION AND STATE EDITORS CHICAGO, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — OLLI turns 25 this year at Northwestern University and thousands of senior students credit the dynamic program for dusting off their Shakespeare, insights into U.S. law and foreign policy, and knowledge of pop art and more. Stuart Applebaum, 75, is among the "closet academics" looking forward to celebrating this important milestone with a dinner at the University Club of Chicago this June. The retired furniture company president first signed up for a "Social Ethics" class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in 1997 through Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. The…

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