FALL 2025 CLASSES
Come To Our Enrichment Classes
PALS (Perimeter Adult Learning Services) is pleased to announce that it will be presenting classes for the Fall 2025 session running for 7 weeks on Mondays, SEPTEMBER 8 – NOVEMBER 3, No class September 22. The classes will be at Dunwoody Baptist Church. A detailed description of the classes is as follows:
10:00 – 11:00 — SPIES, SABOTEURS and OTHER EXCITING STORIES of WW2 — DAN O’LONE will discuss three of the most important female spies of WW2, the real James Bond and the D-Day deceptions. He will also present the stories of two men, one a diplomat from a country he’d never seen, the other a British spy, each of whom rescued over ten thousand Jews from the Holocaust. NOTE: The first 2 weeks will feature a guest presenter dealing with similar topics.
10:00 – 11:00 — FOLK MUSIC and the DOO-WOP YEARS (1946 – 1966) – TOM DELL will finish up the history of Folk Music and then turn to the Doo-Wop years, a genre that began on street corners and subway stations as groups of teens used the natural reverberation of those locales to enhance the songs they created or copied. Some of these groups recorded their songs and became among others the Robins, The Flamingos, The Cadillacs, The Teenagers, The Dell-Vikings, The Midnighters, and The Coasters.
10:00 – 3:00 OPEN MAH JONGG – Bring your own Mah Jongg card and come play. There is no instructor for this weekly session. Play is based on the National Mah Jongg league rules.
11:30 – 12:30 — THE HISTORY BEHIND — BETSY JONES will tell us the whole story behind the song “We Shall Overcome,” which music is based on a 18th century hymn with words first added before the Civil War and then becoming a protest song in the 1940s; as well as “Hold the Line, “a song first sung by The Weavers about a long forgotten week of riots when Paul Robeson came to sing in the little town of Peekskill, NY. Another favorite story is called “The Bench,” a story of faith and perseverance that finally freed an inmate wrongly imprisoned for 18 years in Sing Sing prison. Other topics include the discovery of unknown and untrained great artists, the history behind famous – and sometimes tragic – photographs; and the centuries old source of a line in a Bugs Bunny cartoon!
11:30 – 12:30 — PERSUASION — MICHELE FRIEDMAN will present an exploration of the concept of PERSUASION from the perspectives of psychology, history, literature and film including Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
PALS WILL NOT HAVE CLASSES IF DEKALB AND/OR FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
2026 WINTER session will be held at Dunwoody United Methodist Church
One fee of $55 covers up to 2 classes each Monday.
Tuition is FREE for anyone 90 and over.