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Florence Mercer & Leslie Lipkind |
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Abigail Bottome, Nancy Cribari, Catherine Garnache, and Leslie Lipkind |
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Minutes September 26, 2007, Meeting Present: Harold Babcock, Nancy Cribari, Catherine Garnache, Leslie Lipkind, Florence Mercer 1. We accepted the minutes of the July 25 meeting. 2. Budget report 3. Fall 2007 programs: Historic Restoration of Old Houses, Katrina Voices, Traces of the Trade
4. Possible programs for Spring 2008: Peter Richardson on UU Churches in Boston, Harold will ask The Garden of Unitarian Universalism, Florence will bring more info Labyrinth Community Supported Agriculture, Florence will bring more info Video/discussion-"The Way Things Are" (Huston Smith) Cakes for the Queen of Heaven-still a possibility with Alex Mezey Geocaching-Ted Bailey Three habits (Covey), 3 two-hour sessions, 6-8, April Church tour-Jim Dyer and Burt Steeves Caleb Cushing-Jim Dyer Strawberry Banke-Group with leader-Anne Dodge will find out more Possible welcoming congregation speaker 5. Next meeting Oct. 24. Minutes - February 28, 2007 Present: Catherine Garnache, Abigail Bottome, Veronique Hyde, Leslie Lipkind The minutes of the January 24 meeting were reviewed and approved. We discussed how to publicize the Progoff Workshop. Will request an email alert and an announcement at Church on Sunday. Several of us will attend the Visioning workshop on Saturday and will report to the other members at the next meeting. Possible fall programs: Buddhist practice, October 10 Abigail will pursue the performance of the Grimke sisters. We talked about broadening the audience to include high school students.
Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, October 25, 2006 Present: Harold Babcock, Abigail Bottome, Nancy Cribari, Catherine Garnache, Florence Mercer The Committee approved the minutes of the Sept. 27 meeting. The fall programs are going well except for the Comfort Shawl program. Maybe Linda will get more people on Nov. 1. Possible programs for Winter/Spring 2007:
The next meeting will be Wednesday November 15 at 7 even though Leslie has a conflict. Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer, Chair Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, September 27, 2006
Present: Abigail Bottome, Leslie Lipkind, Florence Mercer The Committee approved the minutes of the August 22 meeting. We received 15 responses to the 2006 Congregation Interest Survey. The big vote getters were social issues, world religions, and in a three-way tie, spirituality, UUs, world events. We decided to wait a few years before doing this again. Thanks to Leslie & Abigail for distributing the surveys and picking up the results. The fall programs are going well except for the Comfort Shawl program. Maybe Linda will get more people on Nov. 1. We decided to postpone the Singles program until the Spring because the Vision committee has an event on the same day we were going to have the program. We decided to light the Chalice as a committee on Oct. 15. Catherine volunteered to be at the Adult Ed table on Committee Sunday. Possible programs for Winter/Spring 2007:
The next meeting will be Wednesday October 25 at 7 even though Leslie has a conflict Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer, Chair Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, July 20, 2006 Present: Abigail Bottome, Catharine Garnache, Leslie Lipkind, Florence Mercer The Committee approved the minutes of the June 20 meeting
Courses scheduled so far: Catherine Garnache picked the film, now just needs a date. The film is "A Face in the Crowd." Catherine and Lynn Kettleson will host a four-part film series on Westerns in the winter. We decided to revise the 2004 survey rather than hand out a new one. Florence is to bring the revised survey to the next meeting. Leslie and Abigail will hand the surveys our the first day of church. Next meeting, Thursday August 24 at 7:00 p.m. (might be changed) Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer, Chair Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, June 20, 2006 Present: Abigail Bottome, Catharine Garnache, Leslie Lipkind, Florence Mercer The Committee met at Café de Sienna. The group welcomed Abigail Bottome to her first meeting. The Committee approved the minutes of the May 24 meeting Courses scheduled so far:
Next meeting, Thursday July 20 at 7. Note: Maryanne Macaulay did come to the church to attend the meeting but finding no one there, went home.
Respectfully submitted, Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, May 24, 2006 Attending: Florence, Leslie, Harold (briefly) New members: Leslie will ask three people and Florence will ask Harold for likely new members Harold decided to do a course next fall on Transcendalism meeting Oct. 26, Nov. 2, 9, 16 from 6 to 7:15. Decided to ask Catherine to choose an interesting film, "What the Bleep" does not interest half the committee. Possible program: Modern American Religions (7th Day Adventists, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Greek Orthodox, Unity, Alliance, etc). Harold suggested Diana Eck’s book on American religions (has only Christianity, Islam, & Hinduism). Fastest meeting on record. Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, April 19, 2006 Present: Florence, Harold, Julie, Leslie We reported on the Celia Thaxter event, America's Heart & Soul, and the UU Parenting course. The Thaxter event was very successful, we had 65 people. Few people came to the film, we are not sure why. Harold & Julie's parenting course has only two or three attendees. The issue seems to be babysitting, or just time away from the family. We are not sure. The Roots class was very successful, so successful in fact that the participants want to continue meeting once a month on the 4th Tuesday as "Spiritual Literacy." They are currently reading 'The Book of Job.' The Retirement class led by Alex Mezey is meeting Wednesday mornings and has 8 attendees. In June Harold will ask Bill Graham of the Divinity School if he will lead a workshop on Islamic Fundamentalism in the fall. He has so few after church Sundays left before the end of the church season that he will pick a date in the fall for the Singles meeting. Harold will lead the Ethics course, but in the Spring after he comes back from Transylvania. This fall he will lead a three-session course on the book of his choice. Florence had not yet talked to Linda Buddenhagen about the Comfort Shawl Workshop. She did contact Katherine Wysong, a nurse at AJH, about leading a two-session workshop on living wills, five wishes, and advance directives. Katherine is going to send some dates she would be available. Harold said that the Beverly UU minister, Sylvia Howe, might be willing to teach "Developing Leadership Skills" at our church. Florence will call her. Ben Labaree will lead a follow-up session for people attending his Newburyport history class on Oct. 19. Then he will lead a four-session course in the mornings starting Oct. 26 called "Right or Wrong: Three Decisions in American History: Concord Bridge, 1775; Fort Sumter, 1861, and Hiroshima, 1945." Perhaps he will teach the Newburyport History in the spring. James Funston, a Portsmouth UU from Amesbury, has offered to lead a workshop on freemasonry. We urged him to relate it to early American history, including Amesbury & Newburyport. We will offer it in the fall. With the money left in our budget and the money we made on the Celia Thaxter event, we will go together with two other committees to buy an LCD projector. People said they would not want me to be left doing all the work on these adult ed events. So I want committee members to commit to helping with one or two events. We'll talk about it at the next meeting. The next meeting will be May 24 at 7. Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, March 22, 2006 Present: Catherine Garnache, Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, MaryAnne Macaulay Celia Thaxter program 3/26: Leslie away, MaryAnne and Catherine will try to attend to help serve refreshments. America's Heart & Soul film 4/1: Florence on her own to provide refreshments, all members unable to attend except Marie who will lead discussion after film. Action: Put up flyers in the church, have announcement in church 3/26 and ask John to put this on an email alert. Singles Programming: Action: Ask Harold to have an initial singles program after church. The program must have content, order and structure. Perhaps it should focus on spirituality, social life, and connection. If our church is a community, why do single people feel uncomfortable in it? Possible future directions for singles in the church are small group ministry, dinner clubs, and community service programs. The group suggested a Habitat for Humanity project, voter registration, IMEC, Red Cross, and Katrina work. Fall/Winter programs:
Action: Florence will look at courses from other churches and come back with a list of suggestions for the next meeting. There will be two membership preparation meetings, April 9 & 23, after church getting ready for new member Sunday. Action: Harold & John decide what they want to cover in these sessions. Advertise in Biweekly. Next meeting will be Wednesday April 19 at 7pm. Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, Feb. 15, 2006 Present: Florence, Leslie, Marie, Catherine, Harold Walter Power of Finance Committee presented 2006 Canvass goals and asked us to consider being canvassers. Donna Titus will perform Celia Thaxter on March 26 at 4:00 for $100. We will ask a $5 donation. The committee will help with food for the reception. Singles Programming: We could have a Circle Dinner for Singles only. Harold could convene a group of singles who would then find their own direction and conduct their own affairs. They could have a film discussion group. Among many issues facing singles are housing, finances, retirement, health, loneliness, and single parenting. Possible programs for Fall 2006:
Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, Jan. 5, 2006 Present: Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Maryanne Macaulay, Marie Murphy, Catherine Garnache Programs booked:
Singles: We discussed various approaches. John provided a list of single people in the church; Florence reported no singles programming on the interconnections database. There is a need for this but we want to have ideas when we get people together. Action: Marie will ask Tom Stites for names of churches that might be doing singles programming. Film: We decided to show Heart & Soul, an uplifting film, on April 1, at 7pm. We'll have food and discussion. We will show What the Bleep in the fall. Action: Marie to buy or borrow the DVD of Heart & Soul and provide a descriptive paragraph for the catalog. UU Courses: We will try to have "Ethics, Building Your Own Theology" and "Breaking Free: Women of Spirit at Midlife and Beyond" in the fall. Florence found the teachers guide "Breaking Free." Action: Locate teachers for the courses (all on the committee will try). Knitting: Julie couldn't come to the meeting but explained in an e-mail that she would contact the girls and their mothers asap. Action: Julie to contact the kids & moms to see if they would be interested. Spring Birding: Leslie reported that the Gettes don't have any weekends available to do a Spring Birding outing. Celia Thaxter: One woman presentation: Donna Titus has agreed to do this. We suggest a late Sunday afternoon in March. Florence emailed Donna at the last minute and had not heard from her by the time of the meeting. Action: Florence to call Donna for date & description. Universalism: The Larger Faith: Harold thought he might be able to give this three-week course before the UU Parent course. The Committee felt there was a need to have more information about Universalism, the other half of our church. We tentatively scheduled it for three Thursdays, Feb. 23 to March 9, and in a effort to make this available to Choir members, hold it from 6 to 7:30pm. People would bring dinner with them. Action: Florence to email Harold with this information for his approval. Jazz and Unitarian Universalism: Tom Stites has agreed to teach this course next fall. Action: Leslie will talk with Tom to set dates & description for fall catalog. Exploring Unitarian Universalism and FRS Membership: three Sundays, April 9, April 23, April 30, 11:45 a.m. in the Lower Meetinghouse Conference Room Have you been considering becoming a member of the first religious Society, but wanted to know more about Unitarian Universalism and what it means to be a member of the First Religious Society? Here is your chance! Tom Stites and Alexandra Mezey will discuss the history and philosophy of the church and the Congregationalist model of governance. Meet church leaders and Harold Babcock in a small supportive group. New Member Sunday is May 7. Bring your coffee and join in. This was sent to the participants who so far seem to agree that this change is ok. Since breaking it into separate parts was not very successful we have decided to bring back the three-Sunday course on the Sundays before New Member Sunday. April 16 is not listed because that is Easter. Email reminders before the course sign-up deadlines: Since John's email reminder about Jazz Vespers was so productive, we decided to ask John to send out a short email just before the deadline to signup for each course. Action: Florence to ask John to send out these emails. Next Meeting: February 15, 2006 Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer Minutes of Adult Education Meeting, Dec. 8, 2005 Present: Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Julie Parker Amery, Maryanne MacAulay, Marie Murphy Programs booked: American Roots, Feb. 28-Mar. 28 (5) Tues. nights; Newburyport History, Ben Labaree, Mar. 2, 9, 16; 10-11:30; Emerson Country Tour, May 27, Rain date June 3. Minimum of five people.
Programs to be fleshed out: Film: "Heart & Soul" or "What the Bleep" Action: Marie to bring more information and pick a date. UU Course: "Ethics, Building Your Own Theology" Marie liked it, Leslie took it to review.
Knitting: Julie proposed a basic knitting workshop led by kids in the Junior Class & their mothers who had knitted things as a special project. Action: Julie to contact the kids & moms to see if they would be interested. Spring Birding: Action: Leslie will contact Bill Gette for dates. Being a UU Parent: Harold & Julie will teach this course in April (?). Action: Harold & Julie to provide dates and description of course. Celia Thaxter: One woman presentation: Donna Titus has agreed to do this. We suggest a late Sunday afternoon in March. Action: Florence to call Donna Titus. Next meeting Jan. 5, 2006.
Respectfully submitted, Minutes of Adult Ed. meeting Oct. 19, 2005 Attending: Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Annie Maurer, Marie Murphy, Josie Seymour, and Katherine Garnache. We discussed the upcoming Fall programs, including making plans for the hosting of the coffee hour by the Adult Ed committee and the movie, Flight from Death, scheduled for November 5th at 7:30. Both the program on Newbuyport and Harold's Three Prophets of Liberal Religion are fully subscribed. Play-in-a-Day had to be cancelled but will be tried again in February. Planned winter and spring programs include a presentation on Celia Thaxter by Donna Titus, a Jewish study led by Lucy Lockwood and Larry Constantine, and a program to be determined led by Harold. We discussed whether we should try to develop programs that have a broader appeal, including such things as a quarterly film presentation, a program on goddesses from various tradition, or a program on using herbs. We also determined that we would gook into some of the curricula available from the UUA, including Ethic, Life Tapestry, and Owning Your Religious Past. The committee will next meet on Wednesday, November 16th and in December on Thursday the 8th.
Minutes of Adult Ed. meeting Oct. 5, 2005 Attending: Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Annie Mauer, Maryanne Macaulay, Harold Babcock, Marie Murphy We met briefly to respond to Vicki Dyer's suggestion that we spread our brochure out in the community. Florence reported that she had sent information about Plays in a Day to the local newspaper at the behest of Nancy Herbison-Evans. While discussing the pros & cons of advertising various programs, Marie said it would make a welcoming statement to have our brochures out in the community. Everyone agreed so we all took brochures for spots we had in mind. Addendum: Florence had thought Vicki would distribute the brochures, but that turned out not to be the case. One person did respond to the newspaper story of Plays in a Day, but didn't call and didn't find out it had been cancelled.
Minutes of Adult Ed. meeting Sept. 1, 2005 Attending: Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Catherine Garnache, Marie Murphy, Alex Mezey Adult Religious Education Fall Brochure. We went over the brochure with a fine tooth comb and made many changes. We suggested registration forms for the brochure. Florence agreed to make changes the committee wanted and to get the copy to Marie Murphy for final editing. Vicki Dyer was to make 150 copies which were to be distributed in various spots around the church and parish hall as well as in the pews. We decided to try to renew the pew supply every week. Alex spoke briefly about the basic adult religious education curriculum. The consensus was that we would work on implementing it incrementally. We decided to split up the "Exploring UU" class that had met for three weeks before New Member Sunday. Tom Stites will lead "Exploring Unitarian Universalism" the first Sunday of every month. Harold will host "Meet the Minister" Oct. 23, Nov. 20, and Dec. 18. John Mercer will lead "Introduction to First Religious Society Membership" Sunday Nov. 6, the week before New Member Sunday. We decided to have name tags at the programs so people could get to know one another. Minutes of Adult Ed Meeting, Aug. 4, 2005 Attending were Florence Mercer, Leslie Lipkind, Marie Murphy, and Alex Mezey. We talked about "Take Back Your Time" and agreed that we haven't enough time to really prepare to do the program properly but will ask Harold to mention it during announcements. Florence will ask Amy Pollard to do a workshop on "Voluntary Simplicity" for the spring series. We discussed getting out information on our programs using a List Serv, but decided not to do it. Forum topics will be announced in a box on the Web Site. Vicki will also tell people the forum topic and the current book being discussed. This means the facilitators giving her the info. The brochure will be divided into Ongoing Programs which require no registration and New Programs which will require registration. Florence will ask Kathy Kondylis if she will be the facilitator for "Play in a Day." Florence received Catherine Garnache's description of the film program on fear of death. We discussed the possibility of a singles' group. Marie agreed to work on it. Florence was also to call Donna Titus (Celia Thaxter impersonation), Lucy Lockwood & Larry Constantine (Jewish study), and Susan Mikesell (Women in Transition).
Minutes of Adult Education Meeting -- Feb. 16, 2005 Present: Florence, Leslie, Stan and Harold The minutes of 11/30 and 12/14 were not available so we will review them at the next meeting. ACTION: Anne will bring the 11/30 & 12/14 minutes to the next meeting. Not enough people signed up for Meditation so we cancelled it. ACTION: Florence schedule Chris Morton for an educational evening in April introducing her meditation experience. Attendance has increased this year. The FRS church history had 18, Buddhism had 32, Understanding the Bible has around 20, and 9 have currently signed up for the Japanese Tea Ceremony. People expressed the need for evaluations which would include suggestions for other programs. ACTION: Leslie will send an old evaluation she has to Florence to be reworked into our Adult Ed evaluation tool. "Spring Birding on Plum Island" will be held on Sunday, May 8, from 7am to 9:30am. This gives people time to get to church. Bill Gette usually charges $12 for this program, but he will only charge us $10. He is expecting about 20 adult participants. Leslie Lipkind has made all the arrangements. ACTION: Florence will ask Judy Murphy for flyers & sign-ups, and will put an announcement in the Steeple BiWeekly starting in April to advertise the outing. Harold's tour of UU historical spots will be May 21 with June 4 as back-up. He will include Harvard Divinity Hall Chapel, Mt. Auburn cemetery with stops at the graves of famous UUs, Walden Pond, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and the Battle Ground in Concord. ACTION: Florence will ask Judy Murphy for flyers & sign-ups, and will put an announcement in the Steeple BiWeekly starting in April to advertise the outing. Alex Mezy & Tom Stites plan to do the Exploring UU course again April 10, 17, and 24. John & Harold will run the April 17 session since Alex & Tom will be away. ACTION: Remind Alex & Tom to assign topics to Harold & John. Fall programs will include Play in a Day, Death & dying film and discussion, and the community speaker program run by Stan Kilty. ACTION: Ask other people if they want to do courses in the fall: Kathy Kondylas (whales), Alex Mezy (retirement), Sandra Thaxter (Hiroshima survivors), Ben Labaree (Newburyport history). Stan Kilty reported that he needs $2,000 from next year's budget: 2 speakers at $150, 2 speakers at $500, transportation and accommodations at $700. This year's budget is $400, so we will request $2400 from the budget for next year. A committee member reminded us that the Adult Ed brochure needs to be updated again for the spring courses. ACTION: Florence tell Julie changes needed in the brochure. Florence urged the committee to become canvassers and to support the Auction April 9. Our 2005-6 goals will be 1) Map current curriculum, 2) Offer new programs, and 3) attract new members to programs and to the committee. Harold suggested asking a new church person who has shown interest in the committee to the next meeting. ACTION: Florence ask Marie Murphy to come to our next committee meeting. Florence put out the idea of getting a co-chair, but had no takers. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, March 16. Please call Florence if you cannot attend. Respectfully submitted, Florence Mercer, Chair Minutes of Adult Education Meeting Oct. 27 2004 Present: Julie, Florence, Leslie, Stan and Nancy apologies from Annie After a brief check-in with everyone, and a review of Sept. minutes, our business began with a discussion of the final results of our survey. We had 106 returned surveys and they showed clearly that interest was expressed in several areas as follows. 1. Introduction to UU ism 20Florence agreed to make contact Cris Morton and Curtis Rising regarding Meditation sessions and also Nathan Wibur about a Japanese tea ceremony We discussed speaking to Bert and Maxine Steeves re: providing a church history study Stan reported on his pursuit of a guest speaker program. He is interested in trying to get Ted Anderson to speak about "The Temple Mount" and also Bill Shultz of Amnesty International. There was discussion about how to fund a guest speaker including asking the Parish Committee for some assistance. Harold joined us for a while and confirmed that he will do a six week course in March/April using a book ' introduction to the Bible for the First time' We discussed arranging to provide "on-line" sign-up sheets for his course as well as phone sign-up and pin-up sheets on bulletinboards. If there is enough interest, he will provide a Friday morning session of this course. We discussed any questions we might like to change or add to our section of the FRS 2005 SURVEY and decided that it is fine as is. Next meeting Nov. 30th we will address our publicity schedule and winter brochure in detail Respectfully submitted Nancy Herbison-Evans ( for Annie Maurer) Meeting of September 21, 2004 Attending: Florence Mercer, Harold Babcock, Nancy Herbison-Evans, Julie Parker-Amory, Josie Seymour, and Annie Maurer The notes from August 17th were reviewed. Some of the programs are up and running or due to begin. The Stiteses have agreed to do the UU class. Knitting with Eileen is meeting on Saturday mornings. Gentle Stretching for Seniors is ready to go but needs to be scheduled. Richard Nosara will be the facilitator for the Current Affairs Forum which will continue to meet the first and third Sundays of the month. The Open Book club will start in October and Annie and Nancy will run it. We have the survey results but Florence is still looking at some that came it late.
Nancy suggested adding a section of proposed programs on the back of the brochure to drum up interest in programs. Josie suggested asking for people's ideas at the same time. Florence will email John to make sure info about upcoming events is in the Steeple Weekly. It was decided to keep the committee's goals the same as last year with some minor changes in wording. They will need to be presented at the next parish council meeting. Josie will call Leslie Powell about when she wants to set up the Play in a Day. Florence is going to make it possible for people to e-mail or phone to sign up for programs rather than just have a sign up sheet. Proposed meeting dates for upcoming meetings: Oct. 27; Nov. 30; Dec. 14; Jan. 26. Future meetings will be at 7:30. Submitted by Annie Maurer Minutes -- August 18, 2004 Attending: Florence Mercer, Nancy Herbison-Evans, Stan Kilty, Annie Maurer, and Leslie Lipkind After settling in and greeting each other, Nancy gave Florence her materials from last year and there was a short discussion of last year's programs. It was decided to do the Adult Ed survey on the first Sunday and to repeat it on the second Sunday. We will also check and see if the survey can be put up on the Steeple Weekly website so people can reply that way. Leslie and Annie will pass the surveys out on the 12th. The fall programs were discussed:
Minutes -- March 24, 2004
Minutes #1In attendance: Nancy Herbison-Evans and Annie MaurerWe reviewed the agenda and caught up on what had happened in the last month. Two planned programs did not take place (Meet the Author Night and Music Improvisation) due to either a lack of people signing up or problems publicizing and organizing. We discussed how we could more effectively plan for events. Alex Mezey and Tom Stites will be coordinators for the second Exploring UU workshop. a notice in next weeks order of service and a mention from the pulpit will be needed to let people know it is happening. There have been some sign-ups for the Play in a Day workshop; once again, getting it into the weekly order of service and to have it announced from the pulpit are important. These should be done at the beginning of April. Gentle Stretching for Seniors is going to be extended and both discussion groups are going well. The Open Book Club continues to meet. We will need to begin advertising Harold's field trip and the Boston Libraries Tour with announcements and sign-up sheets for May. Annie will call Plum Island Kayak and talk to them about setting up a kayaking tour of the island for some time this spring. She will try to find out what individual as well as package prices are and report back to Nancy. Annie Maurer
Minutes #2(This meeting on this date as our usual time last week was postponed)1.) brief check-in and touch base 2.) It is a regret that two items on our program were cancelled but it was unavoidable. Meet the Author Night did not happen because I could not rally any assistance with the logistics of putting on the supper. 3.) Bettina Turner's Music Improvisation workshop did not happen because not enough people signed -up for it The foot work for this event -e.g. Getting out with a sign up sheet two weeks before at Sunday morning coffee hour, didn't happen as it was right in the middle of the time that I was unable to be at church because of a family crisis and I did not communicate the need for this to Bettina . This event did have good advance notice in the Steeple Weekly and it had a poster on our B. board well in advance and of course it was listed in our printed program still there was low response. ACTION These problems focus on our need for a stronger communication network for our program. I have already spoken with John Mercer about our needs and concerns in this regard and we have agreed to meet each month on the day following our committee meeting to inform him of any new events which he can then ' Flag' in the 'steeple'. We must try to do better publicizing and promoting the rest of the program this year and chalk these matters up to 'learning as we go'. 4.) EXPLORING U U I have arranged for Alex Mezey and Tom Stites to act as co-ordinators for this our second series. They will consult with H. Babcock and J. Mercer about participating. ACTION NEEDED: alert Vicki and or John to include a notice in next week's church order of service printed notices. Ask Harold to mention it in his remarks re: notices also get a poster up on B.b. for this event. 5.) Play-in-a-Day Workshop ACTION NEEDED need to speak with Leslie Powell about a possible meeting to be held for interested parties with her to gain an overview of what this event is all about. To be arranged about 10 days before the event - need to get out a good poster and sign up sheet (a sign up sheet has already appeared on our B.B. and some have signed) speak to Vicki re newspaper advertising and other promotional venues. Ask John M. to re feature this event in the next Steeple one member of this committee needed to appear on Friday April 23 to collect participants' donations (ask Leslie about performance tickets and be prepared to help sell them perhaps before the Saturday event and at the door on the night. 6.) OTHER ON GOING EVENTS 1st and 3rd Sunday Current Events Forum going well next gathering April 4th subject: what do we know about Islam? ACTION (This is Palm Sunday and also Daylight Saving Sunday (ask J. Mercer to mention this in next Steeple and alert people that 9.30 am will seem very early that morning) subject for the meeting on April 18th will be decided at our next meeting. GENTLE STRECHING FOR SENIORS HAS BEEN EXTENDED for a further 4-week session and runs until April 8th. It cost $20.00 for full course. ACTION Ask for John to mention this in next steeple and encourage others to join in. Get a notice of this extension up on B.B. Although there was a hiatus because I was unavailable to lead the Friday Morning Study Discussion Group, they met any way and this lively talkfest will continue for the rest of the year. ACTION: Ask J. Mercer to mention that this group is meeting regularly on Fridays at 10 am. 7.) The open book group all is going well Action: gets a poster on the two bulletin boards Adult. Ed. And the one outside the church office listing our remaining schedule and the list of books ask Vicki to include this groups' meeting each Sunday before their meeting day 3rd Wednesday of each month 8.) For May -- action next month make sure that Harolds' uufield trip is well publicized post a 'feeler poster and sign -up sheet for both a Boston Libraries Tour and Plum Island Kayak Tour 9.) Be prepared to discuss our Annual Report for next meeting and prepare our guestionaire for the church Would like someone to accompany me to the Parish council meeting on April 7th Nancy Herbison-Evans Meeting of November 20, 2003
In attendance: 1. The committee discussed the Healing Power of Meditation workshop presented by Nancy Taylor. Although the workshop went well, the church administration had decided against letting Dr. Taylor use the space for further workshops on this topic. Reasons given included issues related to tying up the space and her need for the space to be available to her for no charge. The committee recommended that some statement by the church be drafted for use in other situations like this to insure that we are speaking with one voice and that there is no confusion among the people in the church who are dealing with the situation. 2. Two of the activities planned, Nancy Kidd's Grief and Loss workshop and Pamela Herman's tour of the Boston libraries, were cancelled due to lack of people signing up for them. It was felt part of the lack of interest resulted from the confusion around the move into the new space and the lack of a bulletin board to post announcements on. It was decided to offer the workshops again in the spring when things are more settled. 3. It was decided to put Afterwords off for a while, due in part to the planned inception of the before church discussion group. 4. The book club, Emerson study group, and New UU group are all going well. 5. Nancy suggested that the new discussion forum's first meeting focus on the recent UU World article on being a liberal in time of war. She will try to arrange for copies of the article to be available before the meeting, scheduled for Dec. 7, so people can read it before coming. It was suggested that the Dec. 21st meeting focus on the new Gay Marriage ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court. 6. We decided to meet on December 17th to discuss program planning for the new year. Suggestions of possible activities included:
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