Mary Midthun
Instructor

Mary Midthun has a M.A. in Organizational Leadership and a 20+ year career in employee/leadership develpment. In retirement, she spends summers in the north woods of Minnesota, and loves to volunteer, write, travel and hang out with family and friends, including those she's met here in Solivita. 

Lita Epstein, MBA
Instructor

Instructor: Lita Epstein, MBA, has over 45 books on the market including: Trading for Dummies, Stockcharts for Dummies and Reading Financial Reports for Dummies and the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Social Security and Medicre. She also has worked as a manager for the Emory Clinics, Associate Director of Development for The CarterCenter, a press secretary in Congress, and an editor for Popular Photography magazine. Her MBA degree is from Emory University and her undergraduate degree is in Community Development from Rutgers.

Richard Goldsmith, PhD
Professor

Richard Goldsmith, PhD was an award-winning teacher as well as a high school administrator for over 40 years. During his career, he taught AP United States History, AP European History, Cambridge University Sociology, and AP Capstone (critical thinking and college research paper writing).

Catherine Larson
Instructor

Instructor: Catherine Larson, a Solivita resident, was a teacher and IT Leader for the Trumbull Public Schools in Connecticut for 35 years.  She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Western Connecticut State University as well as a Master’s Degree from Fairfield University and has also attained advance training certifications from both Google and Adobe.  She has taught technology to a wide range of students including public school, adult education, corporate training, and private lessons.  She strives to make learning fun, useful and relatively stress-free! 

Dr. Roger Munger
Professor and NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative

Dr. Roger Munger has served for over 15 years as Boise State’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative, helping student-athletes thrive in the classroom, in competition, and beyond.  Under his leadership, Boise State reached a record 96% Graduation Success Rate — #1 in the Mountain West and #7 nationally — and built a nationally recognized NIL program, named Best Institutional NIL Program.  Twice honored by the National Football Foundation, Dr. Munger brings decades of experience in college teaching and athletics governance.  With a front-row seat to the game’s biggest changes, he offers a unique, behind-the-scenes perspective on how NIL, social media, and brand-building are reshaping college sports.

Donna McIlwain
Instructor

Donna McIlwain is a retired elementary teacher living here in Solivita. She is a Bronze Life Master with ACBL and in 2013 became a certified bridge teacher. She has taught beginner and intermediate level bridge since then. In the summer of 2018, she went to the bridge nationals and took seminars to teach Whirlwind Bridge. Donna enjoys helping people learn this game that is good for your mind, is social, and fun to play.

Steve Mattis
Instructor

Instructor: Steve Mattis, After a teaching career of nearly forty years, this Solivita resident has turned his lifelong interest in the Titanic into an opportunity to share his knowledge as a cruise ship lecturer.  He now speaks to groups numbering in the hundreds on cruise ships throughout the world.

Noemi Figueroa Soulet
Film Producer, Director, Writer and Class Presenter

Noemi Figueroa Soulet
Instructor

Kathy Joyce Glascott
Professor

Carmen Boos
Instructor

 Marlena Gloff-Straw
Instructor

Marlena Gloff-Straw has been teaching children and adults about the environment for 45 years. She began her professional career working for a branch of the NJ Department of Agriculture, later moving to the Department of Environmental Protection where she directed that agency’s education program. Her formal work in the field of environmental education ended with the founding of Clenaer Group, LLC, a company that assisted employers in complying with the NJ Trip Reduction Program, as well as school districts in meeting core science standards.

Alan McIlwain
Professor

Alan McIlwain is a Physicist who has built his own 3-D printer. Alan has an MSC in nuclear physics from the University of Manitoba in Canada. He spent most of his career working in material science and electronics. He retired and moved here from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland a few years ago. He has an extra class amateur radio license (KI8JV) but has not been an active ‘ham’ since moving to Solivita.

Rita McCoy
Professor

Rita McCoy is an author, writer, educator, and publisher.  She taught at the University of Tampa before moving to Solivita.  She holds a master's degree in applied communications from the University of Denver and a bachelor's in business administration from Columbia College. Throughout her career she served as Executive Director of Sense of Security.  She served on numerous boards and committees as president and vice-president; and worked in television broadcasting (NBC, CBS, UPN) for over 22 years as a community relations professional.  As executive producer of KTVD-TV, she won several nominations and an Emmy Award for “Colorado Profiles” for the Best Public Affairs program she visualized and created.

Rebecca Ledingham
Instructor

Rebecca Ledingham BA (Hons), MSc, CISSP is a global Vice President at Mastercard responsible for Cybersecurity innovation, Intelligence, and Thought Leadership.  Prior to joining MasterCard, Rebecca was a Cyber Agent at the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI), located in Singapore, where she had responsibility for international collaboration and coordination around cyber investigations and all interactions and partnerships with international law enforcement, private sector organizations, and academic institutions.  Rebecca has spent 19 years in law enforcement, having also spent time as a Cyber Agent with the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) National Cyber Crime Unit, where she investigated high-profile hacking cases, multi-million-dollar cyber frauds, and malware deployments.