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Friday Films ⬥
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $89.00
Dates: 4/11/2025 - 6/20/2025
Times: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 10
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 242
Instructor: John Remington

Explore a series of thematically-related films. We'll engage in lively discussions as we analyze the films and our responses to them, while developing a sense of each film's creation, impact, and place in history.

Come ready to experience and discuss films from the 1960s and 1990s! Many of the directors, actors, and other auteurs who had made their mark in the former decade were still active in the film scene by the latter – creating unique visions which were often in conversation with their own and each other’s earlier works. Through their films, we will explore a variety of genres and themes relevant not only to the respective decade that produced them, but also today.
No class held 4/25.

Quest Speaker Series ⬥ NEW!
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $59.00
Dates: 4/9/2025 - 6/18/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 11
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 243
Instructor:
Discover fresh ideas and inspiring perspectives with the Quest Speaker Series! Each weekly session will feature a dynamic presentation by experts, community leaders, and organizations sharing impactful work and thought-provoking insights.

This Spring’s lineup is as follows:
- 4/9: Chinese Pioneers on the Western Frontier with Dale Hom
- 4/16: Pillow Talk: A Community's Path to Better Sleep with Richard Simon
- 4/23: No Bones About It: Freshwater Mussels and Pacific Lamprey Research and Restoration with Alexa Maine
- 4/30: Using Modern Technologies to Understand and Conserve Blue Mountains Birds with Ben Vernasco
- 5/7: Whitehouse Crawford Lumber Company: Its History and Its Family with Peggy Willcuts
- 5/14: What's Going On in Mill Creek? Salmon Recovery in Our Watershed with Brian Burns
- 5/21: Speak the Speech, I Pray You: A Guide to the Pleasure and Practice of Reading Aloud with Sundry Examples from Shakespeare with Nancy Simon
- 5/28: Do You Still Want This? Decluttering as a Family Communication Project with Michelle Janning
- 6/4: Pioneers with Cameras: Walla Walla's First Photographers with Donna Cummins
- 6/11: Sea Cucumbers: Rotting and Regenerating Zombies of the Sea with Jim Nestler
- 6/18: What's In A Story? with Rebecca Hom

The Constitution: What? Why? ⬥ NEW!
ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. Please call us at 509-527-4331 to see if registration is still available.
Fee: $109.00
Dates: 4/10/2025 - 6/19/2025
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 10
Location: Main Campus
Room: MAIN BLDG (D) Classroom 243
Instructor: Tom Scribner

In American society, we venerate the United States Constitution. Some believe it was divinely inspired. We cite the Constitution for whatever rights we claim. But how many of us have read the Constitution or know what it says? Is the Constitution democratic or anti-democratic? Why give states equal representation in the Senate instead of proportional, and why choose the president through the Electoral College? In this class, we will study the Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, and the ratification process. We will examine all seven articles of the Constitution and discuss what amendments may be needed. By the end, you will know not only what the Constitution states, but also why it was initially stated that way. What it all means is a different question - but one that we shall heartily debate.

No class held 5/29.

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