Quest for Learning

Quest’s Spring 2025 Program begins
Thursday, March 27th

Quest’s Spring 2025 Program begins on Thursday, March 27th, and continues every Thursday (except for April 17th, during Holy Week) through May 8th. An overview of the program is shown below. Complete details on all the sessions, as well as online registration, can be found by selecting the appropriate buttons above. All sessions will be presented in person at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 31 S. Duke St., in downtown Lancaster. Selected sessions will be recorded and made available for viewing on this website a few days after the “live” presentations. These are indicated below by asterisks, although individual presenters in each seminar series may opt not to be recorded.

9:40 a.m. Seminars

A Financial Perspective on the Near Future **
Dr. Gary Leinberger, Presenter
Dr. Helena Tuleya-Payne, Coordinator
Location: Parish House, Fondersmith Auditorium
** The first session in this series, on March 27th, will not be recorded.

Concertos, Requiems, and One-Hit Wonders *
Dr. Davis Giersch, Presenter
Professor Dennis C. Dougherty, Coordinator
Location: Church

Short Story Discussion Group
Dr. Victoria Ehrhardt and Dr. Amy Moreno, Coordinators
Location: Parish House, Classroom (2nd Floor)

Frontiers of Physical Science: Big Questions Unveiled
Dr. Richard Clark, Presenter
Linda Roscoe, Coordinator
Location: Parish House, Chapel

11 a.m. Seminars

The Complexity of American Elections *
Dr. Robert J. Bresler, Coordinator
Location: Parish House, Fondersmith Auditorium

Architecture in American History
James S. Douglas, Matthew Funk Barley, and Gregory J. Scott, Presenters
Christine K. Wiker, Coordinator
Location: Parish House, Classroom (2nd Floor)

The Elizabethtown College Lecture Series
Dr. Fletcher McClellan, Coordinator
Location: Parish House, Chapel

Six Historical Characters with Lancaster Connections *
Jack Brubaker, Presenter
Dr. Joseph Karlesky, Coordinator
Location: Church

Please enjoy our Sample Recordings by selecting the gold button above.

For more than forty years Quest for Learning has offered people of retirement age in the Lancaster community an opportunity to attend a continuing series of educational and enlightening seminars. Presented in six-week sessions twice a year, the seminars cover a wide range of topics — history, literature, current affairs, art, music, science, mathematics, politics, law and many others — and are presented by leading local experts in their fields — educators, public officials, business and community leaders, writers, artists and musicians. Quest participants encounter a unique adventure in learning, experiencing mental stimulation and growth, the excitement of new knowledge, and the pleasure of gathering with old friends and making new ones.

All Quest sessions are presented in person at Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Lancaster. Technical and staffing limitations preclude us from live-streaming sessions, but recordings of selected sessions are available on this website. To see what’s available, select “Programs” in the menu above and then “Recordings of Quest Seminars.”