SCOV/ILR SAMPLERS FALL 2024 

SCOV Institute for Learning in Retirement (ILR) offers free, no-registration required, weekly  presentations to all residents of our community. All Samplers are on Thursdays, 2-3 PM at  Catalina Vista. Watch the ILR website as well as the Tipster and TWISCOV for announcements of  each Sampler. Membership cards required for entrance to Catalina Vista.

Oct. 3 Meet Tucson Wildlife Center, Saving Wildlife of Tucson and  Southern Arizona for Over 25 Years. Hubert Parker,  Development Director  

Oct. 10 Nuclear Power: Past, Present & Future. Steve Briscombe, years  of experience in nuclear power plants, SCOV resident 

_{Oct. 17} The Natural History of Bats. Debbie C. Buecher, bat biologist and  owner of Buecher Biological Consulting in Tucson, Arizona 

Oct. 24 Research at Biosphere 2. Jason Deleeuw, Research Associate,  Biosphere 2  

Oct. 31 Journalism Today: Good and Bad News. Irene McKisson, co founder of Executive Luminaria, a non-profit news organization 

Nov. 7 Birth of the CT Scan. The history and development of this  important diagnostic tool. J Thomas Payne, Ph.D. former  Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota  Medical School 

Nov. 14 The Beginnings of Social Inequality. Social complexities prior to  prehistoric farming. Pat Herarden, Professor emeritus, Purdue  University 

Nov. 21 The History, Worth and Beauty of Arizona Minerals, Fascinating  Geology. David Korzendorf, retired geologist and vice president  of the Tucson Gem & Mineral Society (TGMS) 

Dec. 5 ILR Presentation of Future Classes