Beginner Pickleball

Instructor: Stephanie Shouse Lane, IPTPA Certified Instructor
Dates: Wednesdays, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and March 1
Time: 6:45 – 7:45 p.m.
Location: Gray Gymnasium, Athletic and Wellness Center
Cost: $100 for the series
Class is limited to 20

Want to learn how to play the fastest growing sport in America? It’s called pickleball. New to pickleball – a beginner? No problem. This beginner’s class is for those who may or may not have played before, but don’t know how to keep score, have no court positioning knowledge, and hit the ball at one speed: hard!

Instructor BIO - Pickleball has become a passion for Stephanie since 2011 when she picked up the paddle again after first learning about it in her college days in the late 80’s at Lipscomb University. She has enjoyed an accomplished career in Pickleball consistently winning tournaments that have included:
•2012 USAPA Nationals IV: 35+ women’s singles gold
•2014 USAPA Nationals VI: 35+ mixed doubles silver with Steve Wong
•2015 USAPA Nationals VII: 19+ mixed doubles gold with Kyle Yates
•2017 USAPA Nationals IX: 35+ mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2018 US Open III: 45+ mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2019 US Open IV: 50+ mixed doubles silver with Johan Svensson
•2019 National Senior Games: 50-54 women’s doubles gold with Yvonne Ting and mixed doubles silver with Jeff Carlson in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
•2020 Texas Open: senior pro mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2021 Pickleball Hall of Fame Championships: 5.0 50+ mixed doubles gold with Mircea Morariu
•2022 PPA Red Rock Open: mixed senior pro doubles gold with Dave Weinbach

Today Stephanie enjoys competing as a senior pro or teaching clinics on many weekends and serving as an IPTPA certified instructor, regional director, and master teaching professional. She loves being a member of the Pickleball Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.

She considers some of her favorite accomplishments to include being the first-ever sponsored Paddletek player, being named the 2020 Co-Pickleball Rocks Player of the Year along with Riley and Lindsey Newman, serving on the Pickleball Rocks Team since 2014, and being inducted into both her high school and college Athletic Halls of Fame. She has been married to her best friend, Andy, for 31 years and together they have 20-year-old LeEllen who now plays pickleball at the 5.0 level.

Intermediate Pickleball

Instructor: Stephanie Shouse Lane, IPTPA certified instructor, regional director, and master teaching professional
Dates: Wednesdays, February 1, 8, 15, 22, and March 1
Time: 7:45 – 8:45 p.m.
Location: Gray Gymnasium, Athletic and Wellness Center
Cost: $100 for the series
Class is limited to 20

Is the intermediate class for you? Have you already played before and know how to keep score? This class will have you learning that grip pressure is different depending upon what shot is being hit, and it will help you understand that keeping the ball “unattackable” for opponents is the goal… even though you may not play points from the kitchen line consistently… yet!

Instructor BIO - Pickleball has become a passion for Stephanie since 2011 when she picked up the paddle again after first learning about it in her college days in the late 80’s at Lipscomb University. She has enjoyed an accomplished career in Pickleball consistently winning tournaments that have included:
•2012 USAPA Nationals IV: 35+ women’s singles gold
•2014 USAPA Nationals VI: 35+ mixed doubles silver with Steve Wong
•2015 USAPA Nationals VII: 19+ mixed doubles gold with Kyle Yates
•2017 USAPA Nationals IX: 35+ mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2018 US Open III: 45+ mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2019 US Open IV: 50+ mixed doubles silver with Johan Svensson
•2019 National Senior Games: 50-54 women’s doubles gold with Yvonne Ting and mixed doubles silver with Jeff Carlson in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
•2020 Texas Open: senior pro mixed doubles gold with Dave Weinbach
•2021 Pickleball Hall of Fame Championships: 5.0 50+ mixed doubles gold with Mircea Morariu
•2022 PPA Red Rock Open: mixed senior pro doubles gold with Dave Weinbach

Today Stephanie enjoys competing as a senior pro or teaching clinics on many weekends and serving as an IPTPA certified instructor, regional director, and master teaching professional. She loves being a member of the Pickleball Hall of Fame Nominating Committee.

She considers some of her favorite accomplishments to include being the first-ever sponsored Paddletek player, being named the 2020 Co-Pickleball Rocks Player of the Year along with Riley and Lindsey Newman, serving on the Pickleball Rocks Team since 2014, and being inducted into both her high school and college Athletic Halls of Fame. She has been married to her best friend, Andy, for 31 years and together they have 20-year-old LeEllen who now plays pickleball at the 5.0 level.

American Mah Jongg for Beginners

Instructor: Michelle Tishler
Dates: Thursdays, February 2, 9, and 16
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Lower Level Board Room, Ann Scott Carell Library
Cost: $75 for the series
Class is limited to 16, PLEASE NOTE: This is a very popular class. If you sign up, you are committing to all three classes.

Crak! Bam! Dot! Learn the game that everyone is playing! In this series of beginner Mah Jongg classes you will gain a basic understanding of the game’s fundamental components, rules, and playing strategy. Classes will focus on learning the tiles, understanding the card, making hands, learning the American rules, strategies, and sequence of play. The class will include the 2022 Mah Jongg Card.

Creative Body Mind – Mandalas: Balance~Harmony~Yoga~Art!

This class has been canceled.

Instructors: Leslie Matthews (ERYT 500, CYI), former Harpeth Hall dance and yoga teacher and Marla Faith, former Harpeth Hall art and art history teacher
Date: Thursday, February 2
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Yoga Studio, Athletic and Wellness Center
Cost: $95
Class is limited to 12. No experience necessary, all art and yoga levels welcome!

This workshop combines yoga practice, guided meditation, and art making. Focusing on balance and equanimity, Leslie will lead poses to put these symmetrical concepts into our bodies. Marla will follow with a guided visualization, then a demonstration of how to draw individual mandalas. Each participant will create their own mandala design, using markers or colored pencils.

Investing 101: How to Behave Your Way to Financial Independence

Instructor: Claire Cato 2010, Financial Advisor, Vista Asset Management
Dates: Thursdays, February 9, 16, 23, and March 2
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Bullard Bright IDEA Lab Meeting Room
Cost: $15.00 for the series

Has taking the time to learn how to invest been on your to-do list for far too long? Or have you ever worried that you are making investing mistakes today that will negatively impact your retirement? Investing decisions that can affect your family’s lifestyle 30-40 years from now can feel high-pressure and intimidating, but Claire would like to help reduce – nay, eliminate! – the stress of investing by giving you the tools and knowledge you need to succeed as a long-term investor, and in jargon-free language that is easy to understand.

During this 4-course series, you will learn how to adopt the mindset you need for long-term investing success, practical and actionable tips for setting up your retirement or brokerage accounts, how to factor the destructive effects of inflation into your retirement strategy, common and costly investing mistakes and how to avoid them, and much more! Each class will contain a planned lesson on a different investing topic followed by time for open-ended Q&A, so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn about the investing and personal finance questions that are most important to you.

The Evolution of the Modern British Monarchy

Art Echerd, Harpeth Hall Upper School Social Sciences Teacher
Dates: Wednesdays, February 8, 15, and 22
Time: 6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Location: Richards Room, Patton Visual Arts Center
Cost: $35 for the series

The celebration of Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee, followed by her death on September 8th, led many, both inside and outside of the United Kingdom, to reflect upon the role of the monarchy in contemporary British society. This class will look at the reasons why this seeming anachronism has persisted into the twenty-first century. We will examine the current controversies surrounding the monarchy and discuss what those controversies say about Britain today and its relations with the Commonwealth countries. Finally, we will consider what the future might hold for this ancient institution and what the implications might be for the other forty-two countries in the world today that still have a monarch as head of state.

Self Defense

Instructors: Chuck Williams, Mack Mangrum, AJ Yokley, Tyler Parrish, Belle Meade Police Department Officers
Date: Thursday, February 16
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Gray Gymnasium, Athletic and Wellness Center
Cost: complimentary

This will be a short course on practical self-defense. The participants will learn simple yet effective techniques to defend themselves if they are ever in a dangerous situation or attacked.

Poetry of Yeats and Eliot

Instructors: Joe Croker, Harpeth Hall Upper School English Teacher and Art Echerd, Harpeth Hall Upper School Social Sciences Teacher
Dates: Tuesdays, February 21 and 28
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Richards Room
Cost: $10.00

Two giants of Modernism, William Butler Yeats and Thomas Stearns Eliot shaped the arc of modern verse. In this two-evening course, participants will be given a modest pdf packet of poems in advance of the class, and one night will be spent with each writer. Historian Art Echerd will offer a brief overview of both writers’ lives, with a nod to the historical contexts that formed Yeats and Eliot (and that they in turn shaped). English instructor Joe Croker will lead the group through a discussion of the selected poems, with an eye upon both poets’ daring and sometimes abstruse artistry. Flawed men, brilliant writers, Yeats and Eliot produced work that continues to inform our times.

Seasonal Centerpieces

Instructor: Avon Lyons ’98, Owner, Ostara Gardens
Date: Wednesday, February 22
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Bullard Bright IDEA Lab Kitchen
Cost: $90
Class is limited to 20

In this workshop, you will learn how to build a stunning centerpiece using seasonal flowers and foliage. We will discuss shape, texture and the world of flowers, as each participant creates and builds their own arrangement to take home with them. 

Home Repairs for Honeybears

Instructor: Noni Nielsen ’93, self-proclaimed DIYer
Date: Monday, February 27
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: 1201 Nichol Lane, 37205
Cost: $10
Class is limited to 15; dress comfortably

Many home improvement projects and repairs are easy, inexpensive DIY projects. In this hands-on class, we will cover some of the most common tasks, including replacing light fixtures, plugs and outlets; basic plumbing repairs to toilets and faucets; and other items on your Honey(bear)-do-list.

"For a grout time, take up tiling!"

Instructor: Noni Nielsen ’93, self-proclaimed DIYer
Date: Tuesday, February 28 OR Wednesday, March 1
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: 1201 Nichol Lane, 37205
Cost: $10
Class is limited to 10; dress comfortably

Several basic tiling projects are easy to "DIY" - and they're so satisfying! Learn the fundamental skills needed for tiling floors and backsplashes in this hands-on workshop. 

Hearty and Healthy Soups and Salads

Instructor: Emily McAlister Frith ’75, Owner, Corner Market Catering Company
Dates: Monday, March 6 OR Tuesday, March 7
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Bullard Bright IDEA Lab Kitchen
Cost: $35.00
Class is limited to 25

Hearty, healthy soups and salads to transition from winter to spring…

In the waning days of winter, Emily still craves the comfort and warmth in the kitchen, but she is seriously trying to be more virtuous in her meal preparation, especially with spring break and summer right around the corner. Join Emily as she creates five delicious yet healthy dishes that fit the bill right now!

Book Talk – "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah

Instructors: Kristen Meltesen and Joe Croker, Harpeth Hall Upper School English Teachers
Date: Tuesday, March 7
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Location: By the Fireplace, Ann Scott Carell Library
Cost: $10

As might be expected from Africa’s most celebrated comedian, Trevor Noah’s "Born a Crime"—a memoir of his youthful days at the end of apartheid in South Africa—is brimming with rollicking anecdotes and memorable sketches. Even so, the substance of the memoir—like its title—is deeply incisive. It is a book at once witty and weighty. Noah turns his irrepressible sense of humor upon the cruel, unconscionable system that marginalized millions, including his own family. "Born a Crime" is less a diatribe or polemic, however, than it is an ode to the fiercely independent mother who taught her son how to navigate apartheid’s injustices. Join two Harpeth Hall English instructors—Kristen Meltesen and Joe Croker—to discuss this engaging work written by one of the most important media voices of our time.