1. Minutes
Academy for Lifelong Learning Advisory Committee
June 15, 2011
11:15 AM
Mod 2 – Room 101
Present: Cheryl LeJune, Leta Towle, Gene Chism, Carol Edwards, Donn Peterson, Sarah Walter,
Marsha Dugger, Anne Criddle, Susan Chapman, Joan Camenson, Roy Lazenby, Donna McCarty,
Cynthia Hobart, Don Hobart, Sharon Samson, Connie Nelson, Evelyn Carrington, Carolyn
Severson
11:15 AM Call to Order
Cheryl LeJune called the meeting to order and welcomed members. There were no corrections
to the May minutes.
Committee Reports:
Curriculum Report
Summer 2011 classes have started and have been well attended thus far. The Fall class
schedule has been finalized and turned into the CE Department. The “common-look” cover will
be finalized shortly. We will let you know as soon as the schedule is published online.
Copies of the first draft of the Spring 2012 Schedule will be available at the Advisory Board
meeting on June 15th. Spring classes will run January 17th through May 13th. Even though 2012
seems like a long way off….it really isn’t. So put your thinking caps on and start working on
setting up classes for Spring. Remember that multi-part classes need to be scheduled as quickly
as possible so that other classes can be scheduled around them. Roy said to assume the Spring
deadline is November 1.
Let’s plan on a Curriculum meeting on Thursday, July 14th at 10:30 in the Mod 2 classroom.
Everyone is invited to participate on the Curriculum Committee. We need lots of ideas and
suggestions. Do you or someone you know (from your church, stores you patronize, or other
locations) have an interesting hobby or business that would be make for an interesting class?
Sign them up….if you are interested, others will be also.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the Curriculum Committee.
Submitted by Sarah Walter
Email sarahwalter@sbcglobal.net
Curriculum Committee members: Susan Chapman, Judy Dankers, Cynthia Hobart, Cheryl
LeJune, Elsie Markuson, Donna McCarty, Connie Nelson, Gail Peart, Peggy Presnell, Sharon
Samson, Leta Towle, and Sarah Walter.

2. Bus Trips
The June 2 trip to Nacogdoches was a great success. We visited Millard’s Crossing with the aid
of two delightful docents. The buffet lunch at the Hotel Fredonia was excellent and we had our
own private dining area. A step on guide gave us a brief tour of the town and Stephen F Austin
University. At the end of the day we had some time to either shop or enjoy the museum at the
visitor’s center.
Our next trips are as follows;
July 19 - Waco - Carol Edwards
Aug 9 - Telephone Museum & Houston Museum of Natural Science - Sharon Samson
Sept 13- Bellville/ Newman's Castle - Marsha Dugger
Due to the upcoming closure of the ALL bank account, some decisions need to be made
regarding bus trip procedures. A meeting will be held within the next 30 days to address these
issues. Sharon scheduled a meeting for July 13th (Wednesday) at 11:15 AM.
Submitted by: Sharon Samson
Committee members: Ann Candela, Ginny Harwell, Peggy Presnell, Connie Nelson,
Carol Edwards, Joan Camenson, Susan Chapman, Cynthia Hobart, Donna McCarty, Liz Gannon ,
Marsha Dugger, Susan Scott, Louise Rugaard, Ann Liner, David Timmermeyer
Events
Our next event is Fall Registration. Cheryl suggested we might want to come up with different
entertainment, i.e. having college students sing a little medley, or something else based on
what they will be doing in the Fall. Having the college jazz band play a couple songs advertising
any jazz concert coming soon. I really like that idea. We will be discussing refreshments and
another display of what our classes make. I will be sending out a request for volunteers to help
with fall registration in July. Fall registration is set for Saturday, September 10, from 9:30 AM to
noon in the Conference Center. Kathye may want to set up an event committee meeting.
Respectfully submitted, Kathye Allen
Heritage Liaison
No report this time.
Susan Chapman
Communications
Our membership has grown to almost 600 members! Notifications and reminders are sent out
on a weekly basis. This committee has been active with the same members since 2005, and we
are now ready to let some others enjoy the fun.
Submitted by:

3. Gene Chism, Leta Towle
Gene and Leta have been chairing the Communication and Membership position since 2005.
Gene is looking for a replacement. He can keep up the class roster, but wants someone else to
package and send out the ALL the News, etc. (On some other campuses, this is done by a
college employee). This could be a good time to restructure the duties of the position. We will
need to define the position before we can advertise the opening.
Outreach
Nothing to report at this time. Duties on hold.
Publicity –
Nothing to report at this time.
Respectfully submitted, Joan P Camenson
Meet You There
On June 13, thirteen people had lunch at JB’s Steakhouse and Grill. Eleven people took a tour
of Cypress Assistance Ministries.
Future dates for 2011:
July 26 10:00 AM Tour of Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Art - 12:30 PM Lunch at Hasta La
Pasta
August 7 1:00 PM Lunch - 3:00 PM Musical Theater at Lone Star College CYFAIR Hairspray ﾝ
August 22, 2011 Movie and lunch
September: Open
October 10: Kleb Woods and lunch TBD
November 8: Houston Zoo
December: Old Town Spring and lunch TBD
Action Items
From Roy Lazenby: Lone Star College will publish and mail out the common look Fall 2011 Class
Schedule to all ALL members. We can provide pictures and an excel list of members by July 1st.
For Spring, they will start selling ads in the schedule. Roy wants us to ask at our meetings:
“What are ideas we can implement for budget savings?”
Only two college campuses (Cy-Fair and Montgomery) offer Summer classes. In the future, he
recommends we offer those classes for free as a marketing tool. We have been doing this, but

4. the attendees are not supposed to get an ID card or pay any fees until the Fall sign up. (But
sometimes, the way the system is set up, it doesn’t always happen that way).
From Cheryl LeJune: She wants membership registration numbers tied to the $20 ALL fee to
help us be able to keep track of our own members.
For now, the class room assigned to ALL in the fall is HSC 106. It is smaller than what we are
currently using, so she will continue to try and get that changed.
We will be moving our bank account into the college system. We now have permission to start
raising money for ourselves and put that into the account. We will need to look into all kinds of
ideas – company volunteer matching plans (some give $500 for 20 hours of work per year),
Kohl’s has an event volunteer donation, we can accept in kind donations for door prizes, etc.
We can get tax receipts for donations. Darcy Mingoia is looking into making a list of
participating companies and their regulations. We could have a table at the open house to
alert members to these programs. This area could be a different type of assignment for the
Outreach committee.
Additional Items
A working meeting is planned for Wednesday, June 29th at 11:15 PM in MOD 2 room 101. ALL
advisory committee members and any volunteers are welcome to attend. Items to be
discussed: effect of bus payment/bank account, communications defining and advertising open
position, outreach involvement in fund raising.
12:15 PM Adjourned
This meeting was adjourned at 12:15 PM. The next Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled
for Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM.
Respectfully submitted,
Anne Criddle, Secretary