New courses offered by Evergreen Forum

   Like spring, The Evergreen Forum is coming back and, as it does every spring and fall, it is offering a wide variety of new courses.
   A daytime study and discussion program for adults, The Evergreen Forum is part of a national group of lifelong learning institutes based mainly in university communities. Initiated several years ago by area residents, the forum is a volunteer organization run by its members. Its study groups, unlike traditional classes, are peer-led, and discussion is encouraged.
   Classes meet once a week for approximately two hours beginning the week of Feb. 28 for six to eight weeks. Fees are $50 per course and $35 for additional courses in the same semester. Scholarships are available.
   Experienced and accomplished community members lead the courses. They include Gillett Griffin, former faculty curator of Ancient American Art at the Princeton University Art Museum, who will lead "Ancient Art in the Americas and the Old World," and Mark Miller, program notes annotator and lecturer for the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and Princeton Pro Musica and host and producer of the "Music Room" on WWFM. He will lead "Composers at Work in their Later Years."
   Other courses in spring 2005 are "Shakespeare off the Page," "’Ulysses:’ a continuation," "Science Tuesday on Thursday," "The Politics of Oil," "Doing Local History," "Alexander Solzhenitzyn’s Novels: ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ and ‘The First Circle,’" "Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’ and Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary,’" and a mini course, "Art Crawl."
   The forum is sponsored by the Princeton Senior Resource Center and most courses meet in the Suzanne Patterson Building behind Princeton Borough Hall.
   For a brochure giving further information on the courses, course leaders, days and times the courses meet, call the Princeton Senior Resource Center at (609) 924-7108. Full course descriptions are also available at www.evergreenforum.org.