Irving Goodman Aging Lecture Series: After the Eclipse: Years Later, Later Years

Join OLLI on Wednesday, September 26, at 1:00 p.m. for our annual Irving Goodman Aging Lecture Series. We are pleased to welcome our guest speaker, Judith Stitzel. 

A New Yorker by birth, a West Virginian by choice since 1965, Judith Gold Stitzel is a retired professor of English and Women’s Studies at West Virginia University where she was the founding director of the Center for Women’s Studies.

After 46 years of marriage, Judith lost her husband Bob when he died in 2007. She spent the next year exploring the process of grieving and what it means to be “a couple.” In 2011, Word Association Publishers published Field Notes From Grief: The First Year, based on Stitzel’s journals kept during that time.

The author will share her journey of the past decade while reading from After the Eclipse: Years Later, Later Years, a work-in-progress based on journals she has kept over the past decade. The book explores and reveals the sometimes challenging, sometimes humorous, changes in identity that have followed her loss.

Judith is honored to be the speaker at the 2018 Irving Goodman Annual Lecture because of her deep respect for OLLI and because Irv and Sharon were the first friends she and Bob met in Morgantown – and remain dear to heart.

Lecture and discussion will be followed by a reception. The event, held in classroom B at the Mountaineer Mall, is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. Please call the OLLI office at 304-293-1793.