The Third Decade Project Opening Program 2025
Resident and Staff Panel
January 12, 2025
- Who? Alyce Bailey-Thomas, Norm Howe, Mary Lofy, Barb Kelly, Jeri Kelch, Jim Reiter, Marguerite Smith and YOU!
- Why? Look back in order to move forward and prepare for the future. Foster appreciation, involvement, participation, and ownership of this community.
- How? Panel conversation – what do we want to preserve? Community conversations – how do we progress and prepare for the future?
Vision: Third Decade Project
- Working together, we will honor our history by identifying essential elements of the University Commons experience to PRESERVE as we move forward.
- We will explore how we can continue to PROGRESS as an inclusive community that welcomes people from many places.
- We will consider how we can continue to PREPARE for what our community may face in the future.
Today
Representatives of some resident and staff cohorts within our community:
- Lydia Bates, Ellen Stross, Jeff Stross, Chuck Kelly, Marguerite Smith, Margaret Stephenson
- With stories from Bill Kinley and Mark Henderson
Your Task
- Not Storytime! You have a job to do...
- Actively listen for those elements in the early resident and staff experience that seem essential to who we are or want to be as a community.
- Listen for: What lessons from our history can inform our path forward?
- This is what we want to Preserve as we discuss how to Progress as an inclusive community and Prepare for what our community may face in the future.
- This is your homework for the discussion lab in February!!
Final Thought before we begin…
- Looking back vs going back
- Going back - regressive, resistant, fear-based.
- Looking back in order to go forward - progressive, accepting, may induce anxiety of change, but isn’t fear-based. Wisdom.