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Newsletter No 36 ~ October 2008
Kingborough Inc.P.O. Box 479 Kingston 7051
Mobile Tel. 0405 327 071
Email: u3akingborough@email4life.com.au
| President: Vice Presidents: Secretary: Treasurer: | Marcus
Higgs Jane Mays & John Culliton Pat Page Marian Jellyman |
Editor: Woodbridge Rep: Committee members: | Venie Phillips
venie.phillips@gmail.com Jean Lea Bronwen Parr, Dorothy Mitsakis, Lyn Schofield, Neil Hore, Chris Noonan. |
The President's Pen
Events End of Year Lunch Friday 28th November 2008 Kingborough Summer Programme From 5th January 2009 - 20th February 2009 Hobart U3A Summer School Tuesday 12th January to Thursday 12th February, 2009 Annual General Meeting 24th March 2009 Sausage Sizzle 24th April 2009 2009 Term Dates Term 1 – 9th March to 22nd May Term 2 – 15th June to 21st August Term 3 – 21st September to 27th November 
Your 2008 membership entitles you to the first newsletter in 2009. You will receive a Membership Subscription Form in the first newsletter for 2009. END OF YEAR LUNCH** MOUTH WATERING MENU AT PEAR RIDGE, MARGATE!**Vegetarian meal available – indicate when booking. Come and celebrate our year of learning and friendship in U3A Kingborough with other U3A members. Venue: : : : : : : Pear Ridge Restaurant, Margate Name/s ……………………………………………………………. Tel. No. ……………………………………………………………. Email ……………………………………………………………….. Number of vegetarian meals required………………………. Total Payment……………………………………… $__________ Method of payment: Please circle your choice. Cheque / Money Order / Internet Direct Debit* *Direct Debit – By Internet ONLY - Put your name in ‘description’ box so that your payment can be identified. THEN ALSO notify us by email that you have made the Internet Direct Debit, marking your email END OF YEAR LUNCH – send to u3akingborough@email4life.com.au If posting, send to:: “End of Year Lunch” U3A Kingborough Inc. PO Box 479, Kingston 7051 Kingborough Summer Program 2009
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| Day | Time | Location | Activity | Details |
| Monday | 10.00-12.00 | Adult Ed KA2 | Art - Fun to draw Faces | Limited |
| 1:30-3:30 | Adult Education, KA2 | Writing on the spot | Limited | |
| 2:30-3:30 | Juiced Up, Kingston Beach | Coffee Club | Open | |
| Tuesday | 10:00-11:00 | Gloria Jeans Channel Court | Coffee Club | Open |
| Wednesday | 10:00-12:00 | Adult Education, KA1 | Kaleidoscope | Open |
| 1:00-3:00 | Adult Education, KA3 | Sing Australia-Feb 18th only | Open | |
| Thursday | 10:00-11:00 | Adult Education, KA2 | Keyboard for absolute beginners | Limited |
| 11:30- 12:30 | Adult Education, KA1 | Singing Seniors | Open | |
| 11:30- 12:30 | Adult Education, KA3 | Games for the Mind | Open | |
| 3:00-4:00 | The Beach, Blackmans Bay | Coffee Club | Open | |
| Friday | 12:00 | Brookfield | Potluck-Discussion Group | Open |
| 1:30-5:00 | Kingston Online Access Centre | Skeletons - Family History Research | Limited |
Watch out for more details on the notice boards at U3A and in the
Library end December early January 2009.
Expressions of Interest (no
enrolment needed) will be:
- via the clip boards at U3A (Adult Ed building) during the last two weeks of term,
- by email kingboroughU3A@email4life.com.au or
- by phone 0405 327 071
Booking for the following courses is at the KOAC through Adult Education.
NOTE: the courses are offered in the morning, afternoon and evening of different days.
| Wednesday Feb 4,11,18 | 10:00-12:00 | Feb 4th Mastering Your
Mobile Feb 11th Understanding your mp3/ipod Feb 18th Playing with digital photos |
| Feb 4,11,18 | 1:30-3:30 | Feb 4th Digital
Scrapbooking Feb 11th Digital Earth Feb 18th Family History |
| 4th,11th,18th Feb | 6:00-8:00 | Feb 4th Mastering Your
Mobile Feb 11th Understanding your mp3/ipod Feb 18th Playing with digital photos |
SUNDAY LUNCHES
1st Sunday each month.
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
Next Lunch –
December 7th at 1.00pm
“Fish Bar”
50 King Street, Sandy Bay
UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE HOBART INC.
Summer Program 2009
Monday 12th January to Thursday 12th February, 2009
10.00 am to 11.00 am
Convened by Astra Palkovs
To be held at University of Tasmania, Life Sciences Theatre No 1.
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.
U3A HOBART SUMMER PROGRAM DETAILS
Time: 10.00 – 11.00amVenue: University of Tasmania, Life Sciences Theatre No 1
Please note the 1st lecture will be on Monday 12th January, thereafter the lectures will follow the normal Tuesday, Thursday sequence.
First Term 2009 program – a sneak preview!
For the full details you will have to wait for the January Newsletter but here is a peek at some of the courses that will be on offer.
Provided by: Bronwen Parr, Dorothy Mitsakis, Lyn Schofield, Neil Hore and Jean Lea (Programmers)
| At Kingston all our regular favourites: | Plus we are planning some of the following: |
| Art Youth3A Bookclub Have Your Say Play Reading and the Theatre Writing Workshop Brush up your Maths Meditation My Music Games for the Mind Keyboard Computers U3A Bush Walkers (formerly Ramblers) Strolling Seniors Small Engines | Assert
your Conviction Ten Interesting Talks Greek Plays Glenn Pullen Presents Architecture History Geology Poems for Pleasure History of Music At Woodbridge: Art with Sue Miller Writing Wellbeing with Pip and Nadine |
U3A Darwin Conference August 2008 – “A Life to Live”
Earlier this year, Marian Jellyman represented U3A Kingborough at the Australasian U3A Conference in Darwin on. This is an abridged version of her report. A fuller report will be posted to our website in the near future – watch out for it.
I knew very little about the ‘top end’ before I went. I could roughly place Darwin on a map, knew there were a lot of Australia’s original inhabitants living around there and that it was closer to Asia than to Canberra.
At the roll call on the first day I found there were about 70 U3A members from all around Australasia. In the chair was Kevin Davis AM, a former teacher (amongst many things) who kept the ‘class’ in good order – not an easy task!
The welcome, given by Yvonne Forrest, President of U3A Darwin, was followed by a welcome from the Darwin U3A Patron, Dr Val Asche, who challenged us to ‘vegetate or activate’. The Key Note speaker was Dorothy Fox. An Aboriginal from the ‘salt water people’ - the Larrakia tribe, she spoke movingly of being an ‘original Australian’ and the difficulties and the challenge of providing ‘something for our grandchildren to look forward to’. Dorothy was elected an Alderman for the City of Darwin in 1996 and has been acting Lord Mayor on a number of occasions.
The major topic for the first day was “The history and development of the NT”. I found this very interesting as I knew almost nothing about it. The Hon Austin Asche, AC QC who is the 15th Administrator of the NT, spoke of the history of “When we belonged to South Australia”. Kathy De La Rue then spoke about the next phase in the NT history entitled “Personality of a Commonwealth Out-Station”. Janie Mason continued on with “The history of government today in the NT”. Her talk further explored the position in the NT and whether a case could, or should, be made for it becoming a State rather than a territory.
Day 2 concentrated on “Multicultural Darwin”.
The first session is one I will remember for the rest of my life. The lights were dimmed and we watched a short movie of the surrender of South Vietnam and views of the people trying to flee from the North Vietnam army. Then we saw the refugees escaping in their leaking boats and finally the arrival of boats in Darwin Harbour. One of the people we were seeing on those boats was our speaker. His story was amazing - he is now His Excellency Hieu Van Le, Lieu. Gov. of South Australia!
We did wonder how anyone could follow that talk but Captain Wendy Say of ‘Norforce’, a young woman who is a wife and mother but also in the Military, spoke of her role as an educator. Entitled “The Military Presence in the Territory” she explained that her role is with indigenous volunteers and part-time soldiers who, she pointed out, have thousands of years of tracking and survival skills.
The next speaker was Marie-Louise Pearson (nee Quong) and her talk was entitled “All the 8’s – or a 3rd Generation ABC growing up in Darwin”. (ABC=Australian-born Chinese). Marie-Louise’s family is famous in Darwin. Her father ‘Eddy’ ran the ‘Quong Bakery’ which everyone frequented and other members of the large extended family are now prominent in many fields.
After another pleasant lunch and walk in the Darwin sunshine we had a round table discussion with Reg Prasad, a retired Doctor from Fiji of Indian birth, who trained in NZ and settled in Victoria before retiring to Darwin some years ago. John Anictomatis, Greek by birth -10% of Darwin residents have Greek heritage - and Edward Solo, African and only in Darwin since 2001 having been held in refugee camps before then. After talking for a while about their various experiences they were each asked to state what they found most difficult or different living in Australia/Darwin and what was best? Edward said he found it difficult that he could only have one wife instead of the usual in his tribe - 4! However he did say that his wife was happy that was the position. They all commented that in many cases the migrants to Australia kept their cultural traditions alive more actively than those in their homeland did.
Day 3 was entitled ‘Our Environment’.
Professor Eric Valentine gave the keynote address: ‘Water, water everywhere, so what is the problem?’ This was a wonderful explanation of the position of water in our world. Eric told us that 70% of the earth’s inhabitants have no clean water and that 25,000 people die each day from using dirty water. There is potential for the next war to be over water. Eric took a very difficult topic and made it easy for us all to understand. Next came ‘Native Plants and Native Medicines’ by Dr Glenn Wightman. He works with small groups of people to conserve and preserve the traditional botanical knowledge. He goes on field trips recording and collating data relating to the names and uses of plants and animals for the numerous Aboriginal language groups.
The penultimate session was on ‘Tropical Fruits’ with tasty samples. Chris Nathanael lives on a property 40kms from Darwin where he has a large wholesale fruit nursery – open to the public each Saturday to educate them as to just what will grow in the NT. He is advisor to many other horticulturalists and he broadcasts a talk-back gardening program on ABC Darwin (like Peter Cundall in Tasmania). He is continually trialing crops to find the most suitable cultivars for Northern Australia – this includes mango, citrus and avocado. He said that, like everywhere, gardeners must learn to understand their own conditions – climate, soil type, appropriate crops and cultivars and work with, not against, these.
The final speaker Dr Judith Opitz was another inspiration! Her paper was called ‘Memories of Darwin and Kakadu’. Judith was born in 1924 and she migrated to Australia in 1958 aiming to have adventures and see the country before returning after the required two years. She is still here. With her husband she set up what is now the “Kakadu Experience”. She will have a book out later this year called “An English Rose in Kakadu” which tells of her many adventures. And she still looks like a wonderful ‘English Rose’. As well as the more formal part of the conference we were taken to many places in Darwin – a Reception at the Town Hall, The Museum & Art Gallery, Chinese Temple and Museum, the crocodile conservation park, and the famous markets. We finished with a typical evening watching the sun go down as we enjoyed a meal at the Beach.
And of course there was time to discuss common issues and problems with many other U3A reps and to pick up some tips.
Thank you for the opportunity to represent U3A Kingborough in Darwin. It was a wonderful experience.
Marian Jellyman
In each edition of the newsletter we like to 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.
Sent in by Margaret Richardson – a regular and welcome contributor!WE DON’T NEED A BREAK!
They’re giving us a break.
Why, for goodness sake?
They’re not running a crèche
We don’t need a break!
The doors are all locked
Our entry is blocked.
There’s no way to get in
Oh what a sin!
Why must this be?
Please give us the key.
Don’t close us all down
No wonder we frown.
We crave for our classes
Us bright lads and lasses.
We’ve paid all our dues
No wonder we’re bemused.
Our classes are great.
We love all our mates.
Our tutors are the best
They don’t want a rest.
Then who is to blame?
It’s a terrible shame.
Is it those at the top
Starting the rot?
Well, it’s just got to stop!
So come on you lot
Don’t be such clots.
Give us what’s right.
We don’t want a fight.
We love our U3A
It brightens our day.
Our life it excites
It’s such a delight.
So please heed our cries,
Our sad little sighs.
Learn to be wise
Don’t sever the ties.
Why should we pine?
We don’t have the time!
So keep open our school.
Make it the rule.
Open your ears
Without favour or fears.
Attend to our call.
Don’t build up a wall.
Must we tell you once more
With a mighty loud roar?
For goodness sake
WE DON’T NEED A BREAK!
Margaret –your pleas have been heard and you will be able to enjoy our Summer Program during the break. Ed. U3A Kingborough wishes to thank our local Member of Parliament, Ross Butler, for his generous support in the production of this newsletter.
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