SE*ED: A Couple of Yanks in Oxford and London

This year marks the 100^th anniversary of what was once known as “The Great War.” We now call it World War I. Roads Scholars is an organization that promotes adult traveling education, and puts on educational lectures at sites across the world. Roads recently hosted a week-long symposium on the history of the year 1915 in its relation to WWI.

Jim Ahrens and Shane Estes attended the Roads Conference and spent a week in Oxford, as well as several days more in London. They will be presenting on June 29 at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center Senior Education Program. They will be discussing what they learned about history from the lectures, and what they learned about English culture from the time they spent as tourists and as students.

 This program is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Drake community library with refreshments beginning at 9:30 a.m.

Parking is available at the Drake Community Library, along Park Street, on Fifth Avenue, and in the First Presbyterian Church parking lot.

Seniors needing transportation may call GRMC Communications and Development, 641-236-2593, by Thursday before the program.

If you are a person with a disability who requires special assistance, please call 641-236-2593. For more information about upcoming speakers, please check GRMC’s website at www.grmc.us or call 641-236-2953.