Ruth Loeffler Talk

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Please join us this Friday evening for potluck dinner and a public meeting. Dr. Ruth Loeffler is our guest speaker.

Ruth Loeffler, Ph.D. and long-time English teacher at Norman High, will speak about fostering creativity. Even though she retired in 2006, she has remained an ardent proponent of the student anthology called Soupstone that she and her home room students started 35 years ago. Guidelines allowed any kind of creative writing, art, photography, This year the contest was named the “Ruth Loeffler Writing Contest” to honor her.

Loeffler will speak about encouraging creativity and creative thinking, not only in the young, but in all of us. Her primary belief holds that creative writing strengthens logical thinking. And that creating metaphors is a very advanced form of logic. When young people can think of a concrete image that has two or more meanings, they have grown in their abstract thinking. It’s true for older people, too. All of us are being forced these days to think logically and metaphorically to find our values.

Potluck dinner starts at 6:30pm. Norman Bahá’í Center is located at 526 Iowa Street.