Course organiser:Garry Jeffery
Ten enthusiastic members will share with their enthusiastic listeners a topic which intrigues them. Two speakers per morning.
23 Aug:
Jocelyn Baird: The Life Education Trust - who we are and what we do. Life Education - helping children reach their full potential; health education in mobile classrooms where the learning begins.
23 Aug:
Faye Fleming: Vietnam - Trips, towns and tunnels. Highlights experienced in a three-week journey in 2012.
30 Aug:
Kathryn Ell: What makes a compelling memoir?A look at weaving together personal narrative and historical events in two memoirs by Madeleine Albright, the first woman to become American Secretary of State.
30 Aug:
Eric Bloxham: The making of a New Zealand mongrel.Reflections on ancestors and migration.
6 Sep:
Bob Ryburn: New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands.
6 Sep:
Bevan Clarke: An unknown land beside you.The telescope and microscope revealed whole new worlds to Galileo and Van Leeuwenhoek. A modern tool reveals a world of beauty that was always there, next to us, and no-one knew.
13 Sep:
Rex Edwards: Excerpts from a life less ordinary. Some reminiscences from life in a blue suit.
13 Sep:
Michael Mellon: Farmer Co-operatives.Diminishing democracy in agriculture - the problems arising out of Fonterra's cash flow needs.
20 Sep:
Garry Jeffery: The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.Courting in the early 1950s.
20 Sep:
Joe Ryan: The American Civil War.A tragic crisis in a nation's history and the reasons for a Kiwi's interest in the subject.