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President Marcus Higgs

Vice Presidents: Jane Mays & John Culliton

Secretary: Pat Page

Treasurer: Marian Jellyman

Editor Venie Phillipsvenie.phillips@gmail.com

Woodbridge Rep: Jean Lea

Committee members Bronwen Parr, DorothyMitsakis, Lyn Schofield, Neil Hore, Chris Noonan

The President’s PenDo you know that U3A Kingborough isaffiliated with U3AOnline, the Internetbased University of the Third Age,hosted by the Griffith University inQueensland? The AustralianGovernment has provided funding forthe project through its Ministers forEducation and Aged Care and theirrespective Departments.

U3AOnline allows our members to studyU3A type courses at home or elsewherevia the Internet. It also provides a listof U3A addresses, news items and otherhelpful information.

Courses vary from time to time but caninclude subjects such as: Autobiographyand Journaling?, Antarctica, Astronomy,Genealogy, Western Philosophy, Impactof the Romans. See their Home Pagefor more information. The website iswww.u3aonline.org.au

Our Committee recently has beeninvited to participate in a researchsurvey for U3As in Australia and NewZealand.

By the way, I’d be interested to havefeedback from members relating to youruse of our U3A Kingborough website.e.g. How often you access it? How

convenient you find it for obtaininginformation?

We are well into our Term 3 programand participants seem to be enjoying thevarious courses. If you have ideas forfuture courses please bring them to theattention of our program committee -Bronwen, Dorothy, Lyn and Neil.

Next March Bronwen will be retiringfrom her position leading the programcommittee, after three years in the job.Who would like to volunteer for thiscritical and fulfilling job? You willreceive ample support! Other specificcommittee positions will also fall vacant– see the article on the 2009 AGM in ourJanuary Newsletter.

Before we know it we’ll be at Pear Ridgefor our End of Year Lunch, whichpromises to be an excellent socialoccasion.

NB. Clarence U3A celebrates its 15th

birthday on 31st October!

Marcus Higgs, President

Kingborough Inc.P.O. Box 479 Kingston 7051Mobile Tel. 0405 327 071

Email: u3akingborough@email4life.com.au

NewsletterNo 36

October 2008

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U3A Kingborough Calendar

End of Year LunchFriday 28th November 2008

Kingborough Summer ProgramFrom 5th January 2009 - 20th February 2009

Hobart U3A Summer SchoolTuesday 12th January to Thursday 12th February, 2009

Annual General Meeting24th March 2009

Sausage Sizzle24th April 2009

2009 Term DatesTerm 1 – 9th March to 22nd May

Term 2 – 15th June to 21st AugustTerm 3 – 21st September to 27th November

2009 Membership SubscriptionNot due till next year

Your 2008 membership entitles you to the first newsletter in 2009.

You will receive a Membership Subscription Formin the first newsletter for 2009.

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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 Kingboroughwith other U3A members.

Venue: Pear Ridge Restaurant, MargateDate: Friday 28th NovemberTime: 12.00 noonCost: $25 per person

Enquiries to Marian u3akingborough@email4life.com.auor Dorothy (6229 2620)

To reserve your place, return the booking slip (below) with your cheque ormoney order by 21 st November.

….…………...………………………………………………………………………

End of Year Lunch - $25 per person

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 paymentcan be identified.THEN ALSO notify us by email that you have made the Internet Direct Debit, markingyour 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

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Kingborough Summer Program 2009-January 5 to February 20-

Exciting activities for enjoyment in the summer.U3A Kingborough, Kingston Seniors Action Group, Kingston Online Access Centre andAdult Education are pleased to announce a summer program for your consideration andpleasure. NOTE: Some activities can only accommodate a limited number of people.U3A Kingborough & KSAG Summer ProgramDay Time Location Activity DetailsMonday 10.00-12.00 Adult Ed KA2 Art - Fun to draw

FacesLimited

1:30-3:30 Adult Ed, KA2 Writing on the spot Limited2:30-3:30 Juiced Up,

Kingston BeachCoffee Club Open

Tuesday 10:00-11:00 Gloria JeansChannel Court

Coffee Club Open

Wednesday 10:00- 12:00 Adult Education, KA1 Kaleidoscope Open1:00-3:00 Adult Education, KA3 Sing Australia-Feb 18th

onlyOpen

Thursday 10:00- 11:00 Adult Education, KA2 Keyboard for absolutebeginners

Limited

11:30- 12:30 Adult Education, KA1 Singing Seniors Open11:30- 12:30 Adult Education, KA3 Games for the Mind Open3:00-4:00 The Beach, Blackmans

BayCoffee Club Open

Friday 12:00 Brookfield Potluck-DiscussionGroup

Open

1:30-5:00 Kingston OnlineAccess Centre

Skeletons - FamilyHistory Research

Limited

Watch out for more details on the notice boards at U3A and in the Library end Decemberearly 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

Kingston Online Access Centre Summer ProgramBooking 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.WednesdayFeb 4,11,18

10:00-12:00 Feb 4th Mastering Your MobileFeb 11th Understanding your mp3/ipodFeb 18th Playing with digital photos

Feb 4,11,18 1:30-3:30 Feb 4th Digital ScrapbookingFeb 11th Digital EarthFeb 18th Family History

4th,11th,18th

Feb6:00-8:00 Feb 4th Mastering Your Mobile

Feb 11th Understanding your mp3/ipodFeb 18th Playing with digital photos

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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 venuesin 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, PARTNERSAND FRIENDS WELCOME

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

Next Lunch –

December 7th at 1.00pm

“Fish Bar”

50 King Street, Sandy Bay

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UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE HOBART INC.Summer Program 2009

Monday 12th January to Thursday 12th February, 200910.00 am to 11.00 am

Convened by Astra PalkovsTo 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 ChurchillAvenue.- number 34 on the map below). Take a bus to Churchill Avenue, Stop 14, use the overpassand 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 andGrosvenor 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.

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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 willfollow the normal Tuesday, Thursday sequence.

Monday, 12th January. John Hamilton.Saving the Tasmanian Devil: A new 21st Century perspective.

Thursday, 15th January. David Dunkley.Living and Working in Tonga: David Dunkley is the Private Secretary to His MajestyKing George Tupou V of Tonga.

Tuesday, 20th January. Professor Michael Stoddart.The Scented Ape: The biology and culture of human odour.

Thursday, 22nd January. Professor Norelle Lickiss.Teaching Medicine in Foreign Climes: Cancer care – notably in Iran.

Tuesday, 27th January. Lindsay Broughton.A Tasmanian Artist in Paris.

Thursday, 29th January. John Honey.Adapting Fiction for the Screen: John will talk about a unique experience - adaptingfour different books for the “big” screen.

Tuesday, 3rd February. Mr. Damien Bugg AM, QC.Maureen and Roy Davies Memorial Lecture.

Thursday, 5th February. Bertrand Cadart.From Soissons, France, via Mad Max to Mayor of Spring Bay Council.

Tuesday, 10th February. Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart.Death in the Colony.

Thursday, 12th February. Heinz Vojacek.Are We There Yet? A changing world.

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First Term 2009 program – a sneak preview!

Term One 2009 is shaping up to be interesting and diverse.For the full details you will have to wait for the January Newsletter but here isa peek at some of the courses that will be on offer.

Provided by: Bronwen Parr, Dorothy Mitsakis, Lyn Schofield, Neil Hore and Jean Lea(Programrs)

At Kingston all our regularfavourites:

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

Plus we are planning some of thefollowing: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

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U3A Darwin Conference August 2008 – “A Life to Live”

Earlier this year, Marian Jellyman represented U3A Kingborough at the Australasian U3AConference in Darwin on. This is an abridged version of her report. A fuller report will beposted 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 ona map, knew there were a lot of Australia’s original inhabitants living around thereand 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 allaround Australasia. In the chair was Kevin Davis AM, a former teacher (amongstmany 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 awelcome from the Darwin U3A Patron, Dr Val Asche, who challenged us to ‘vegetateor 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 thedifficulties and the challenge of providing ‘something for our grandchildren to lookforward to’. Dorothy was elected an Alderman for the City of Darwin in 1996 andhas been acting Lord Mayor on a number of occasions.

The major topic for the first day was “The history and development of the NT”. Ifound this very interesting as I knew almost nothing about it. The Hon AustinAsche, AC QC who is the 15th Administrator of the NT, spoke of the history of “Whenwe belonged to South Australia”. Kathy De La Rue then spoke about the next phasein the NT history entitled “Personality of a Commonwealth Out-Station”. JanieMason continued on with “The history of government today in the NT”. Her talkfurther explored the position in the NT and whether a case could, or should, bemade 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 weredimmed and we watched a short movie of the surrender of South Vietnam andviews of the people trying to flee from the North Vietnam army. Then we saw therefugees escaping in their leaking boats and finally the arrival of boats in DarwinHarbour. One of the people we were seeing on those boats was our speaker. Hisstory was amazing - he is now His Excellency Hieu Van Le, Lieu. Gov. of SouthAustralia!

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, spokeof her role as an educator. Entitled “The Military Presence in the Territory” sheexplained 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 largeextended family are now prominent in many fields.

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After another pleasant lunch and walk in the Darwin sunshine we had a round tablediscussion with Reg Prasad, a retired Doctor from Fiji of Indian birth, who trainedin NZ and settled in Victoria before retiring to Darwin some years ago. JohnAnictomatis, Greek by birth -10% of Darwin residents have Greek heritage - andEdward Solo, African and only in Darwin since 2001 having been held in refugeecamps before then. After talking for a while about their various experiences theywere each asked to state what they found most difficult or different living inAustralia/Darwin and what was best? Edward said he found it difficult that hecould only have one wife instead of the usual in his tribe - 4! However he did saythat his wife was happy that was the position. They all commented that in manycases the migrants to Australia kept their cultural traditions alive more activelythan those in their homeland did.

Day 3 was entitled ‘Our Environment’.

Professor Eric Valentine gave the keynote address: ‘Water, water everywhere, sowhat is the problem?’ This was a wonderful explanation of the position of water inour world. Eric told us that 70% of the earth’s inhabitants have no clean water andthat 25,000 people die each day from using dirty water. There is potential for thenext war to be over water. Eric took a very difficult topic and made it easy for us allto understand.

Next came ‘Native Plants and Native Medicines’ by Dr Glenn Wightman. He workswith small groups of people to conserve and preserve the traditional botanicalknowledge. He goes on field trips recording and collating data relating to the namesand uses of plants and animals for the numerous Aboriginal language groups.

The penultimate session was on ‘Tropical Fruits’ with tasty samples. ChrisNathanael lives on a property 40kms from Darwin where he has a large wholesalefruit nursery – open to the public each Saturday to educate them as to just what willgrow in the NT. He is advisor to many other horticulturalists and he broadcasts atalk-back gardening program on ABC Darwin (like Peter Cundall in Tasmania). Heis continually trialing crops to find the most suitable cultivars for NorthernAustralia – 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 toAustralia in 1958 aiming to have adventures and see the country before returningafter the required two years. She is still here. With her husband she set up what isnow the “Kakadu Experience”. She will have a book out later this year called “AnEnglish Rose in Kakadu” which tells of her many adventures. And she still lookslike a wonderful ‘English Rose’.

As well as the more formal part of the conference we were taken to many places inDarwin – a Reception at the Town Hall, The Museum & Art Gallery, Chinese Templeand Museum, the crocodile conservation park, and the famous markets. Wefinished with a typical evening watching the sun go down as we enjoyed a meal atthe Beach.

And of course there was time to discuss common issues and problems with manyother U3A reps and to pick up some tips.

Thank you for the opportunity to represent U3A Kingborough in Darwin. It was awonderful experience.

Marian Jellyman

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Members’ ContributionsIn each edition of the newsletter we like to include a pieceof writing from one of our members. If you would like to

contribute, please forward your writing to the editor,preferably in electronic form.

WE DON’T NEED A BREAK!They’re giving us a break.Why, for goodness sake?They’re not running a crècheWe don’t need a break!

The doors are all lockedOur entry is blocked.There’s no way to get inOh what a sin!

Why must this be?Please give us the key.Don’t close us all downNo wonder we frown.

We crave for our classesUs bright lads and lasses.We’ve paid all our duesNo wonder we’re bemused.

Our classes are great.We love all our mates.Our tutors are the bestThey don’t want a rest.

Then who is to blame?It’s a terrible shame.Is it those at the topStarting the rot?Well, it’s just got to stop!So come on you lot

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Don’t be such clots.Give us what’s right.We don’t want a fight.

We love our U3AIt brightens our day.Our life it excitesIt’s such a delight.

So please heed our cries,Our sad little sighs.Learn to be wiseDon’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 earsWithout favour or fears.Attend to our call.Don’t build up a wall.

Must we tell you once moreWith a mighty loud roar?For goodness sakeWE DON’T NEED A BREAK!

Sent in by Margaret Richardson – a regular and welcome contributor!Margaret –your pleas have been heard and you will be able to enjoy our SummerProgram 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.