This LLI Fitness Center Usage class provides participants with structured access to the Fitness Center in a supportive and welcoming environment. Designed to promote strength, mobility, and overall wellness, the class allows members to work at their own pace, explore the equipment available, and enhance their personal wellness -- while receiving guidance as needed from Waubonsee's Fitness Center staff. Class participants may use the Fitness Center on Mondays and have free access to on-site staff Melissa and Lauren, who are available to assist with equipment use, exercise modifications, and general fitness support. This class is ideal for individuals looking to maintain or improve fitness while enjoying the motivation and community of an LLI group setting.

Required:  All students will have a waiver and health history form on file.

NOTE:  There will be no class on 9/7 (Labor Day).

This LLI Fitness Center Usage class provides participants with structured access to the Fitness Center in a supportive and welcoming environment. Designed to promote strength, mobility, and overall wellness, the class allows members to work at their own pace, explore the equipment available, and enhance their personal wellness -- while receiving guidance as needed from Waubonsee's Fitness Center staff. Class participants may use the Fitness Center on Mondays and have free access to on-site staff Melissa and Lauren, who are available to assist with equipment use, exercise modifications, and general fitness support. This class is ideal for individuals looking to maintain or improve fitness while enjoying the motivation and community of an LLI group setting.

Required:  All students will have a waiver and health history form on file.

This LLI Fitness Center Usage class provides participants with structured access to the Fitness Center in a supportive and welcoming environment. Designed to promote strength, mobility, and overall wellness, the class allows members to work at their own pace, explore the equipment available, and enhance their personal wellness -- while receiving guidance as needed from Waubonsee's Fitness Center staff. Class participants may use the Fitness Center on Mondays and have free access to on-site staff Melissa and Lauren, who are available to assist with equipment use, exercise modifications, and general fitness support. This class is ideal for individuals looking to maintain or improve fitness while enjoying the motivation and community of an LLI group setting.

Required:  All students will have a waiver and health history form on file.

Co facilitator:  Jo Ann Gryder

Christine will walk attendees through the basics of American Mah Jong. One of the most interesting of board games, Mah Jong can seem daunting. Join this class for beginners and learn from a seasoned player.

Book:  A beginners Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg-available at libraries and online.  (Not required)

Speaker:  Christine Hepinstall

Co-facilitator:  Jo Ann Gryder

Christine will walk attendees through the basics of American Mah Jong. One of the most interesting of board games, Mah Jong can seem daunting. Join this class for beginners and learn from a seasoned player.

Book:  A beginners Guide to American Mah Jongg by Elaine Sandberg  Available at libraries and on line.  (Not required)

Speaker:  Christine Hepinstall

Co-facilitator:  Carl Hays

A tense historical thriller follows FBI agent's race to stop a Nazi plot to abduct Albert Einstein, who Hitler believes can unlock the atomic bomb. Nazi sympathizers across 1930's America hold rallies in Madison Square Garden and covert operations on Long Island. The FBI protects Einstein from Germany operatives' effort to capture him in order to derail Einstein's warning to FDR.

Book:  The Einstein Conspiracy by Steve Israel (not required)

Co-facilitator:  Kelly Knorst

This fun, beginner-friendly class is designed especially for newcomers! You'll learn basic steps and movements first, then sequence them together to create easy to follow dances. No experience needed - just a willingness to move and have fun. Line dancing is more than exercise- its a full brain and body workout. Learning and recalling rhythmic, sequenced movement supports memory, attention, and executive functioning. It also improves coordination, balance, and overall fitness. Line dancing boosts mood and builds social connection in a welcoming, encouraging environment.

Come move, learn, laugh, and give your brain and body a joyful workout!

Eight Nations: Presented in roughly chronological order of their entering the war: Germany, Poland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Soviet Union, Japan, United States. Each examined in terms of history, government, resources, demographics, recent experience of war, war aims, and how those came together to produce success or catastrophe.