Third Age Learning (University of Guelph)

Third Age Learning-Guelph is a non-profit organization devoted to providing a continuing series of interesting topics to interested acti ve retired persons or adults (over 55) who are not employed full-time. The first series was launched in Jan. 1988 after Dr. Mark Waldron, then Director of Continuing Education, University of Guelph, was introduced to l'Universite du Troisieme Age in France. Third Age Learning refers to the period of active retirement after the first two ages: Youth and Earning a Living. The fourth stage is Old Age. The organization uses the Arboretum and other facilities of the University to carry out its mandate of sponsoring and providing lectures and other opportunities for retired people to continue to learn. About 250 people come out to any one session and there are 450 on the mailing list. An eighteen-member Board of Directors is in charge of affairs. Two programs of lectures have been offered each fall and winter which cover a wide variety of subjects in science, the humanities, history, social science and music.

From the description of General information, newsletters, and brochures concerning the Third Age Learning lecture series, Guelph, Ont., 1985-. 1985- (University of Guelph). WorldCat record id: 626160657