OUW is Collaborating with
Wellfleet Preservation Hall :
Open University at Wellfleet Preservation Hall
The OUW Board of Directors is proud and happy to announce its collaboration with Wellfleet Preservation Hall. Open University at Wellfleet Preservation Hall is underway, with Fall Session currently being organized. You can check the WPH website (wellfleetpreservationhall.org) for information in late summer. Thank you for joining OU-WPH to learn something new or focus on an interest and share your thinking!
As many in the OUW community are aware, Rhoda Flaxman, our founding director, died on March 10, 2024, of leukemia. She was living in Charlotte at the time. After adjusting to this new, sad reality, the OUW board decided that the best way to keep OUW vibrant and moving forward with new ideas was to collaborate with an organization that shared Rhoda’s goal of building community around intellectual exchange and the arts. Some have noted that our partnership with WPH already has a history, since Rhoda first offered her initial courses, that were focussed on Cape Cod, with the sponsorship of Wellfleet Preservation Hall.
See the Provincetown Independent’s obituary for Rhoda at /https://provincetownindependent.org/obituaries/2025/03/26/rhoda-flaxman-founder-of-open-university-dies-at-84/
These are the courses that were offered Spring 2025.
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