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Sundays at 10:30 am in Berger Center
Welcome!!
November 10, 2024
Rodney Jackson & Darla Hillard
Snow Leopards!
Considered sacred to the indigenous people in the mountains of Central and South Asia, these majestic wild cats are threatened almost to extinction by poachers and habitat destruction. Snow leopards are a “keystone” animal – if they thrive, so will countless other species, as well as the ecology. Rodney & Darla have spent decades helping the local villagers and researchers live in harmony with these powerful and beautiful animals.
Rodney Jackson & Darla Hillard
Snow Leopards!
Considered sacred to the indigenous people in the mountains of Central and South Asia, these majestic wild cats are threatened almost to extinction by poachers and habitat destruction. Snow leopards are a “keystone” animal – if they thrive, so will countless other species, as well as the ecology. Rodney & Darla have spent decades helping the local villagers and researchers live in harmony with these powerful and beautiful animals.
About Symposium
The mission of the Oakmont Sunday Symposium is to provide an intellectually stimulating, educational and entertaining experience to the residents of Oakmont and their guests. The presentations are every Sunday (minus holidays) at 10:30 am from September through to May. When County health procedures permit it and we are not under shelter-in-place protocols, we meet in person at Berger Hall at 10: 30 am on Sundays on Oakmont Drive. Oakmont residents and their guests are welcome. A $3 donation is requested. The money pays for modest administrative costs and an honorarium to speakers.
Information about the monthly programs is published on our website and is posted on the electronic and paper bulletins within Oakmont as well as sent to a list of email subscribers. If you would like to join our email list, please click HERE.
Information about the monthly programs is published on our website and is posted on the electronic and paper bulletins within Oakmont as well as sent to a list of email subscribers. If you would like to join our email list, please click HERE.
HISTORY
The Oakmont Sunday Symposium traces its origins to a lecture series begun by a group of residents in 1994. The group opted to host a different speaker each week that would attract a wider audience. They formed a board of directors, elected a president, wrote by-laws and applied for recognition as an approved OVA organization.
This was the beginning of the Sunday Symposium of Oakmont format as we know it today. The mission of the new organization was to give Oakmont residents a place to meet and to learn from a range of speakers and to provide a venue for expanding oneself with information, insights and discussion.
This was the beginning of the Sunday Symposium of Oakmont format as we know it today. The mission of the new organization was to give Oakmont residents a place to meet and to learn from a range of speakers and to provide a venue for expanding oneself with information, insights and discussion.
The Oakmont Sunday Symposium is a non-sectarian, non-partisan organization that provides an intellectually stimulating, educational program of talks to the residents of Oakmont and their invited guests. Speakers are distinguished experts in their fields. Topics include history, contemporary political issues, regional geography, nature, health, travel, literature, art, music and more. In its 25 year history, the Sunday Symposium has hosted over 750 speakers, many of whom come from various Bay Area universities and colleges as well as experts from our own community. We are located in Oakmont, an active adult community of 4,500 residents located in the northern end of the Sonoma Valley just east of Santa Rosa. Its residents are predominantly retired professionals and are well informed and well read. The Symposium meets on Sunday mornings from 10:30 a.m. until noon in the Berger Auditorium (6633 Oakmont Drive). Presentations are approximately 45 minutes in length followed by audience questions. As we are strictly non-profit, we offer our speakers a modest honorarium.