| The President’s Pen This
term, one of our courses is dealing with the topical subject of climate change
and sustainable living. As well as the potentially serious impact of climate
change on some human populations, the threat to many other plant and animal
species is serious. But how can we contribute to a global solution?
We know that cars contribute greatly to the emissions of carbon dioxide,
currently considered the greenhouse gas that most seriously contributes to
human-induced climate change. The car has been so convenient and the freedom
and mobility it provides has radically influenced the way communities operate.
U3A is no different. Our survey in 2006 gave the following percentages on the
ways in which members travel to U3A: Own car 88%, Taxi 1%, Friend’s car
4%, Bus 9%, Walk 15%, Scooter 1%.
Since 2006, I’ve become aware
that numbers of our members are arranging to share travel to attend activities.
Also, our Committee is aware that Metro Tasmania has improved the bus services.
These kinds of initiatives will contribute significantly to reduced vehicle
emissions if enough people choose these ways to travel. Hopefully, if we survey
our members in 2010, we will find that the percentage usage of Friend’s
car, Bus and Taxi categories have increased and that the Own car category is
much reduced below 88%. Wouldn’t that be great!
On another
subject, each year opportunities arise for financial grants relating to
projects benefiting U3A. Unfortunately, we often get little advance notice
which affects our ability to respond. The Committee would like to hear from any
member experienced in preparing grant applications and willing to assist us in
this task.
Following Minister David Bartlett’s visit last year,
planning work to initiate U3A in Glenorchy has been assisted by his staff. A
public meeting at Glenorchy is to be held on 23rd November and the Presidents
of Hobart and Clarence U3As and I will be participating. Hopefully, the outcome
will be positive.
Marcus Higgs
President.
U3A Kingborough Calendar
2007
End
of Year Lunch
Friday 30 November
2008
Hobart U3A’s Summer Program -
8 January – 7 February
Kingborough U3A Inc. Annual General
Meeting - 31 March
Welcome Sausage-Sizzle - 18
April
Term Dates
Term 1 Monday 3 March to Fri 16 May
Term 2 Monday 16 June to Fri 22
August
Term 3 Monday 22 Sept to Friday 28 November.
2008
Membership
Not due until next year
Your 2007 membership entitles you to the first newsletter in 2008.
You will receive a Membership Subscription Form in the first
newsletter for 2008.
END OF YEAR LUNCH
Come and celebrate, with your friends and other U3A members, our
year of learning and friendship in U3A Kingborough.
Venue: Kingston Hotel
| Date: | Friday 30th November 2007 |
| Time: | 12.00 noon |
Cost:
| $22.00 for a two course meal
with a choice of Main
and Sweet dishes |
with a choice of Main and Sweet dishes
Vegetarian meal
available – indicate when booking
Enquiries to Marian (Tel:
6229 9071) u3akingborough@email4life.com.au
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marking your email END OF YEAR LUNCH – send to
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Post to: “End of Year Lunch” U3A Kingborough
Inc.,P.O. Box 479, Kingston 7051
First Term 2008 program – a sneak preview!
Term One 2008 is shaping up to be interesting and diverse.
For the
full details you will have to wait for the January Newsletter but here is a
peek at some of the courses (and the tutors) that will be on offer.
Provided by: Bronwen Parr, Dorothy Mitsakis, Lyn Schofield and Jean Lea
(Programmers)
At Woodbridge you’ll be
offered:
A History Kaleidoscope
Art With Sue Miller
Writing With Peter Laud
Music with Nora Durell
At Kingston you
can attend:
A Period in the History of Art (Tony Bellette)
Comparative Religions (Tony O’Brien)
Discovering the World of Birds
(Tas Boskell)
Shakespeare (Ian Henderson)
Spanish (Bob Magnus)
Social Psychology (Peter Ball)
Preserving Memories (Mariaan
Jellyman) | Plus our regular favourites:
Play Reading
Have Your Say
Art and Drawing
Writing
Workshop
Meditation
Keyboard
Computers
Kaleidoscope
Strolling Seniors
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Seniors’ Summer Taste of Kingborough 2008
For the third year running, the Kingborough Seniors
Action Group (Ksag) will be offering a summer program in January and
February.
We will continue our long running success story of
‘Coffee with Friends’, now on:
• Tuesdays at 10 am - at Gloria Jeans in
Channel Court, and
• Thursdays at 3 pm - at The Beach Café,
Blackmans Bay
These will be our main points of contact where, from
Tuesday January 8th,, you can catch up on all the ‘goss’, although we
will be advertising in the usual places too. Fridays at 1.30 pm - join us at
Brookfield, Margate for ‘Pot Luck’ - a mix of whatever you fancy:
poetry and prose, music, books, the world is your oyster every Friday
afternoon.
We will be offering other events at Brookfield, so keep
in touch! We hope that there’s going to be a touch of nostalgia (but that
is under wraps as serious negotiations are underway) as well as some other
events.
So, if you really want to know what is happening in
Kingborough, drop into Gloria Jeans on Tuesday January 8th. and hear all about
it.
See you there, Joy Tunney..
SUNDAY LUNCHES
1st Sunday each month at 1.00 pm
Continuing right through Summer
This is a great way to meet and get to know people.
Lunch with
new and old friends at different venues in Kingborough and Hobart
Come
for a coffee or full lunch.
To be on the email notification list,
email Marian: marianj@email4life.com.au
Then book
for each event by email or phone (6229 9071) at least 3 days
in advance so that tables can be booked.
Transport arranged
if required.
Watch the U3A Notice Board for more details.
ALL U3A MEMBERS, FAMILIES, PARTNERS AND FRIENDS WELCOME
BOOKINGS
ESSENTIAL
U3A Summer Program - Information
Organised by Hobart U3A and open to all
Tuesday 8th January to Thursday 7th February, 2008 10.00 am. to 11.00
am
Venue:University of Tasmania Life Sciences Theatre No. 1 (on the
upper side of Churchill Avenue.- number 34 on the map below). Take a bus to
Churchill Avenue, Stop 14, use the overpass and turn left to the Life Sciences
Building. The theatre is just inside the door.
Everyone is welcome
– bring your friends along.
Entry – a gold coin donation ($2) – this includes
morning tea after the lecture. Important – please be careful where you
park.
Parking restrictions are strictly enforced and permits are
required for many areas.
Free Parking – Mostly in College Road
and French Street.
Voucher Parking – University visitors’
car park and various locations including Dobson Road and Grosvenor Crescent.
NB Car-pooling is a good idea! University of
Tasmania (Partial view looking up the hill from Sandy Bay
Road).
Summer lectures are held in building No. 34, next to the
overpass.
University of the Third Age, Hobart Inc.
Summer Program - 2008
Tuesday, 8th January to Thursday 7th February, 10.00 am
to 11.00 am
| Tuesday, 8th Jan. | | Prof.
Michael Stoddart |
| | Antarctica: What do we do there and
why do we do it?
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| Thursday, 10th Jan. | | Ian
Terry |
| | Convict Clothing: 19th Century,
Australia
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| Tuesday, 15th Jan. | | Dr. Clare
Hawkins |
| | Landscape Species and Space Wars: the
Protected Area needs of a carnivore in Madagascar.
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| Thursday, 17th Jan. | | Paul
Boam |
| | Encounters with Blake: A look at the
in?uence of William Blake, using painting, music, poetry and literature.
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| Tuesday, 22nd Jan. | | Helen
Norrie |
| | Re-imagining the Waterfront: Helen
Norrie has lead a range of projects with the students at the University of
Tasmania’s School of Architecture, exploring ideas for the Cove. The
projects investigate Helen’s current PhD research – the relationship
between public buildings and public space.
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| Thursday, 24th Jan. | | Dr. Hamish
Maxwell-Stewart |
| | Convict Experience of Transportation.
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| Tuesday, 29th Jan. | | Prof. Kate
Warner |
| | Public Opinion and Sentencing.
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| Thursday, 31st Jan. | Davies Memorial Lecture | Prof. E. Haydn
Walters |
| | Whither with our Health System!
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| Tuesday, 5th Feb. | | Dr. Byeong
Ho Kang |
| | Artifcial Intelligence: can AI rescue
Hal, in 2001 Space Odyssey?
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| Thursday, 7th February | | ss.
Prof.David RitzBene |
| | Benefits of a Good School: Social
aggregation in the marine environment Animals as diverse as krill and whales
can live more or less permanently in groups of various sizes. This presents a
problem for ecological theory as individuals are basically sel?sh in their
short-term behaviour but must sacri?ce some individuality for the good of the
swarm, school or pod. This talk will highlight the diversity of aggregations in
the ocean and some of the methods scientists use to study them.
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Members’ Contributions
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include a piece of writing from one of
our members. If you would like to
contribute, please forward your writing to the editor,
preferably in
electronic form.
U3A - a truly worthwhile experience!
Until
quite recently I only had a vague idea what U3A was actually about. And, as I
wasn’t very interested anyway, I couldn’t see any point in finding
out…. Then, during U3A’s Christmas break last year, arrangements were
made to take some of the courses to Brookfield at Margate. I was prodded by my
family to go along. They were convinced that I was in danger of turning into
the bad-tempered hermit of Mountain River, whose only source of social
interaction - apart from testy exchanges with a bewildered spouse - was with a
herd of smelly, plip-plopping cows in the paddock next door and an irritable
family of scavenging possums visiting the back garden at dusk. As they were
often the only visitors to our isolated cottage, perhaps they had a point.
Sitting on the back porch receiving spiritual invigoration from the sight of
the noble profile of Sleeping Beauty mountain obviously didn’t count!
So reluctantly I went along to Brookfield where a group of U3A stalwarts
had assembled. Over soup and coffee I decided that their conversation was much
more stimulating than that of the plip-plopping cows. And they certainly were a
heck of a sight more friendly than the possums. And the soup and coffee
wasn’t bad either!
What happened after was perhaps inevitable.
The new term at Kingston’s U3A found me enrolled not for ONE but TWO
classes. Some family members were hyperventilating after this momentous
decision!
I’m now entering the last term of the year and will
definitely be coming back for more in 2008. But coming back for what?
Stimulating courses? Pleasant tutors? Of course. But perhaps most of all
I’ll be coming back for the people, for the students - to me the most
important commodity that U3A has to offer. Some attend supported by walking
sticks and walking frames. Others still retaining their youthful spring and
bounce, but all bright, cheerful, friendly and helpful. Smiles and nods abound.
Names remembered. And their genuine concern for each other’s well-being is
heart warming. These senior citizens have amazed and inspired me.
It
is the enthusiasm and fun that they bring to their classes that makes attending
U3A a truly worthwhile experience. And the knowledge of years gathered together
in just one classroom can ignite a zest for life that, for some, has seemed
irretrievably lost.
Now, I find the cows pleasant but boring. The
possums downright rude. As for my husband, he’s thankful that the
bad-tempered hermit seems to have disappeared. Just to make sure, he’s
suggested that I enrol for a few extra courses. You know, that’s what I
think I’ll do ….
Margaret Richardson
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