Stockton Institute for Lifelong Learning

 

SILL: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Every Tuesday in April until 4/22
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | 12 - 1 p.m.
Location: Stockton Hammonton, Room 201
With a growing need for morale-boosting activities on the home front during WWII, the first women’s professional baseball league was created. Existing from 1943-1954, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) formed the foundation for women’s professional sports. In this course, learn about history of the league, including the training, rules, and players.

Patty Chappine is an adjunct professor at Stockton University. Her recent book New Jersey Women during World War II: On the Home Front and Abroad was published by Lexington Books in 2024.

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each four-session SILL course is $45. Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County. 
SILL: Who are "we"? American Immigration & Citizenship Policy and The Italians on the Land
Begins April 15 & ends 5/6
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Location: Stockton at Hammonton Room 201, Room 307 on 5/6
In the first half of this course, we will review the history of immigration and citizenship policy in the United States - from the Revolutionary period to today. In the second half of the course, we will take a special look at an anthropological study written by Dr. Emily Fogg Mead(e), an early American sociologist and scholar of Italian immigration (and mother to anthropologist Margaret Mead!). We will read Dr. Meade's The Italians on the Land, written about Italian immigrants to Hammonton, NJ and discuss how her work sheds light on the complexities of immigration and xenophobia in the South Jersey region in the late 1800s-early 1900s. This course is being presented with support from the Historical Society of Hammonton.

Dr. Jess Bonnan-White is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Stockton University and an affiliated faculty member of the MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program. She studies homeland security and policing and is currently engaged in a long-term research project on policing in Northern Ireland. She has a BA in Archaeology (Washington University - St. Louis), an MA in Anthropology (Northern Illinois University), and a PhD in Anthropology (University of Iowa). Dr. Bonnan-White is a resident of Hammonton and is active in humanitarian work as a volunteer with the New Jersey Region of the American Red Cross.

Click on the title to register. Tuition for each four-session SILL course is $45. Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County. 
Rosie the Riveter: Women Defense Workers of WWII 
Every Tuesday until May 27th
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 12 - 1 p.m.
Location: Hammonton Room 201, 307 on 5/6

During WWII, women worked for the defense industry as welders, riveters, machinists, and much more. In this course, learn about the real-life Rosie the Riveters who stepped into new roles and became an essential part of the war effort.

Patty Chappine is an adjunct professor at Stockton University. Her recent book New Jersey Women during World War II: On the Home Front and Abroad was published by Lexington Books in 2024.

Click on the event title to register. Tuition for each four-session SILL course is $45. Courses are FREE for residents age 60+ who live in Atlantic County.