A Celebration of Entertainers We Lost in 2024 (In-person)
Fall (2-3 hours) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT
Join us to celebrate entertainers who passed away in 2024. These talented folks left a significant mark on the evolution of their craft and on society. Some are well known and many others also deserve our remembrance. Chita Rivera, Maggie Smith, Bob Newhart, James Earl Jones, Mitzi Gaynor, Donald Sutherland, Seiji Ozawa, Kris Kristofferson, Judith Jamison, Gena Rowlands, Quincy Jones, along with 44 others, will be featured in video clips of their greatest performances.
This course will be presented in a lecture format.
John Peterman
After serving for 23 years as head of an elementary school in Massachusetts, John Peterman turned his attention to creating lifelong learning courses centered on the entertainment industry. Throughout his life, John has been a public speaker and a mid-20th-century music and film enthusiast. His Osher courses on film and music include “Movie Stars Born in 1919, 1920, 1921”; “Comedy in Movies and TV 1960-1964”; “Girl Groups of the ‘60s”; and “Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love: Movies, TV, and Music, 1954- 1964”.