WWURA NEWS
Welcoming retired WWU Faculty and Staff and others
May 2021
President’s Notes
After review of expenses and discussion at several meetings the Board approved an increase in dues from $25 to $35 for regular membership and from $6 to $10 for surviving spouses effective July 1st.
We continue to hope that we’ll be back face-to-face in the fall. Stay safe
Kevin
(360) 733-8145
WWU Give Day is Thursday, May 27
WWU’s sixth annual Give Day is a great way to support the WWURA Scholarship and/or your favorite department, scholarship, team or program at WWU because a percentage of every gift will be matched! Give on May 27th.
WWU Foundation
516 High Street, MS 9034
Bellingham, WA 98225
* Please indicate “WWU Give Day” and the area you’d like to support on the memo line of your check. For example: “WWU Give Day - WWURA Scholarship”
Visit: https://wwugiveday.wwu.edu/ for more information.
Matching Funds and Give Day Challenges
There are many different matching funds and challenges listed on the website. The WWU Challenge Pool provides a % match for every gift that hasn’t been matched by another challenge! Last year’s match percent was 19%, so, if you made a $100 gift on give day, it turned into $119 for your favorite department or program…$500 turned into $595 dollars…and so on! If you’d like to set up your own challenge fund for your favorite scholarship, department or program, please contact Angie Vandenhaak at angie.vandenhaak@wwu.edu or (360) 650-3274.
For Your Calendar
WWURA’s Upcoming Travelogues
Over the past few months we have followed David Carroll and his wife Susan Donnelly as they make their way around the world, focusing on each country’s culture, its people, and most definitely its food. Over the next two months, we will make sure to get them back home, continuing their delightful storytelling and amazing photography. Zoom links will be sent the day before. No need to reserve in advance.
Please note: Because there is much to cover in the final two episodes, each will be 90 minutes long and include an intermission. Feel free to stay for any or all of each presentation.
May Travelogue: Around the World, Part 3
Botswana, wild life safari, Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, and Johannesburg, South Africa.
There will be a short intermission followed by a visit to Morocco.
June Travelogue: Around the World, Part 4
Egypt and Greece. This visit will also include an intermission.
Interest Groups
BOOK GROUP
We will meet May 20th at 2:00 pm on Zoom to discuss Washington Black by Esi Edugyan. Lina will send a link for Zoom.
- June’s book is Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre.
- July’s book is Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Donna Moore
360-733-5769
OPERA GROUP
Metropolitan Opera streaming: streaming schedule for May 6 through May 16
May
- 6-Norma, 2017
- 7- Wozzeck, 2020
- 8-Madame Butterfly, 2009
- 9-Agrippina, 2020
- 10-La Boheme, 1982
- 11-Don Giovanni, 1988
- 12-Tristan and Isolde, 1999
- 13-Der Rosenkalvier, 2010
- 14-the Audition (documentary of Met Auditions)
- 15-Il Barbiere di Sivigla, 2014
- 16-Roberto Devereaux, 2016
CBC Radio is playing operas of the MET from previous years. Start at Saturday 1pm PST.
King FM broadcasts Seattle productions 10 am on Saturdays.
Radio broadcasting of operas
The following stations offer opera each Saturday:
- CBC Radio 2 at 105.7 (starts at 1 pm with Ben Heppner)
- King FM (98.1) at 10:00 am (try computer if your radio/stereo does not connect).
Evelyn Ames
360-734-3184
WRITER'S GROUP
Troy Faith Ward, 425-299-4924, troyfaithward@gmail.com.
Meets twice a month. The groups are kept small so there is time for reading and critiquing each other's work. Our writer’s group now has an opening for one female.
A second writing group has started and is accepting new members. Meets twice a month. Call Bill Smith 360-920-6390, billsmith1545@yahoo.com if interested.
COOKING FOR ONE (OR TWO)
No doubt you’ve heard that realtors may welcome you to their weekend open house with a plate of freshly baked cookies. Less well known, but almost as likely, there could be a discreetly placed pot of cinnamon warming on the kitchen stove. Theoretically, such efforts at hominess are supposed to make you feel welcomed and inclined to purchase the house you’re taking a tour of.
Some years ago, retired Bellingham realtor Sheila Walls discovered the alternate magic of biscotti, served with a pot of freshly made coffee. Ever since then, Sheila’s clients have enjoyed her always popular homemade treat. It’s possible that the biscotti magic even worked on me. She easily sold me my house in Sudden Valley and, 20 years later, helped me find my in-town condo when there were simply none to be had.
I’ve only made Sheila’s biscotti recipe once. However, I found it easy to follow, even though it has a number of steps. It is less complicated, in fact, than the recipes I’ve seen on the internet.
Traditionally, biscotti are served dipped in coffee. Not being a coffee drinker, I opted for cocoa and it proved to be a delicious choice…. comfort food for grown-ups you might say.
- Suzanne Krogh
Sheila’s Biscotti
¼ cup neutral oil such as Canola
¾ cup sugar
2 ½ teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 ¾ cups flour
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup cranberries
1 ½ cups pistachio nuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- In a small bowl, mix oil, sugar, and vanilla. Beat in eggs.
- In a larger bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking powder. Stir in the egg mix. Add the cranberries and nuts and stir well.
- Divide the dough into two logs, each about 12 inches by 2 inches, on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the two logs for 35 minutes, or until they are a light brown. Cool 10 minutes while lowering the oven to 275 degrees.
- Cut the logs on the diagonal in ¾ inch slices. Lay them on their sides on the parchment paper. You will have about 9 slices for each log.
- Bake 8-10 minutes, or until the slices are dry. Serve on their own, or dipped in coffee or cocoa.
Tips
- Sheila and I disagree on the thickness of the biscotti slices. I prefer to have them ¾ inch, while she likes a full inch. Your call, of course.
- I haven’t tried substituting golden raisins for the cranberries or chopped walnuts for the pistachios, but I think they would be a good choice.
Free assessment at the WWU Clinic
Audiological Assessment
Note: Accredited speech and hearing clinic at Western Washington University offers complete audiological assessment to determine the presence, type and severity of hearing impairment.
Otoacoustic emissions, electrophysiologic testing and other assessments are conducted to determine candidacy for amplification and/or referral for medical evaluations.
Phone 360-650-3885 for scheduling appointment. Or visit the website at https://chssdepts.wwu.edu/csd/audiology-services
About Western Washington University Retirement Association
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Website: https://www.wwu.edu/wwura/
Phone: (360) 733-6052