General Meetings
Apart from July and August, and December, the Jávea U3A holds meetings every month. These are currently held at the Parador Hotel, Jávea on the last Wednesday of the month.
Each meeting is minuted and the minutes published on the web for subsequent agreement at the next meeting.
General Meetings Minutes
Copies of the minutes of recent monthly meetings are available below. They are all in PDF format.
Future Speakers
Below is some information about the proposed speakers for future General Meetings. These are provisional bookings at this stage.
29th FEBRUARY 2012
CANCER CARE CHARITY JÁVEA & ECMOR
A short talk by Terry Saville, Treasurer of Cancer Care Charity, Jávea, to explain what Cancer Care is doing, in particular regarding the founding of ECMOR and the recent purchase of a sequencing machine from America, which will be the centrepiece of the new cancer research laboratory, to be situated in the La Marina Hospital, La Xara.
TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT BREAST CANCER. . . . . by Lindsay Johnson.
Breast cancer is becoming increasingly common throughout the developed world and within the UK over 40,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Why is this disease becoming more common? What factors put some people at greater risk than others? What can individuals do to minimise their own risk? This talk aims to answer all these questions and more.
28th MARCH 2012
Annual General Meeting - no speaker.
25th APRIL 2012
THE EXCAVATION OF THE MARY ROSE - A TIME CAPSULE OF LIFE ON A TUDOR WARSHIP by Dawn Perrier Baker.
The Mary Rose was the flagship
of Henry VIII‟s naval fleet; on the 19th July 1545 in a battle with the French Armada just outside Portsmouth Harbour, the Mary Rose
sank suddenly with 700 men on board. Apart from a few attempts to explore the wreck in the 1800s, it remained untouched for 500 years
when in 1979-1982 a team of divers and marine archaeologists from the newly formed Mary Rose Trust embarked on a project to excavate
the contents of the ship and bring to the surface the remains of the hull of the Mary Rose. This was successfully achieved in 1982
and the remains of the ship and all its contents are now housed in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. The Mary Rose Project is
significant because its contents, the personal possessions and even the men on board remained intact, preserved in the soft mud of
the Solent for 500 years, providing a „time capsule‟ of life on board a Tudor warship.
Dawn Perrier Baker was a young diver and part of the team involved in this fascinating excavation and is now active in promoting the work of the Mary Rose Trust. In her talk Dawn will give her personal experiences of the original dives and excavation work and show some of the artefacts raised and talk about what the Mary Rose Project has taught us about Tudor life.
30th MAY 2012
“From Ancient Greece to London E15: The Olympic Story” by Peter Atkinson.
Peter will begin with the development of the games at Olympia and their place in Greek society, from their 776BC origins to their abolition around 400AD with Christian suppression of the worship of pagan gods. We shall then explore the evolution of the modern games from Athens in 1896 to London in 2012. In addition to some remarkable athletic performances and examples of international harmony, it is a story of rampant nationalism, political manipulation, boycotts, terrorism, conflict between amateurism and professionalism, commercialisation, corruption, and cheating.
27th JUNE 2012
BUDGET AIRLINES by Alan Blake.
Alan is a retired pilot who will be giving us an insight into what goes on behind the scenes of a budget airline. Most of us will have experienced use of these airlines, and we should be given some detail on the background and reasons for the various problems and frustrations some of us may have experienced?
26th SEPTEMBER 2012
Still to be filled.
31st OCTOBER 2012
Jail Tales by Chris Duffin
Chris Duffin will once again be regaling us with more and different anecdotes of her interesting and very amusing experiences as the first woman governor into HMP Strangeways and the notorious Dartmoor Prison. She has recently written a book entitled "Jail Tales" in which she recounts some of the many stories and incidents from her twenty-year career both as a lowly 'screw' and as a prison governor. Whether it's flying out of the UK with a briefcase full of class A drugs, talking to the BBC News in her nightie, displaying a naked hunk's willy on her office wall, or having Myra Hindley as her tea-lady, these tales will amuse, entertain and definitely change your view of life behind bars. Her talk will also include anecdotes that are not mentioned in the book.
Photos
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A few photos from the October 2011 General Meeting. |
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A few photos from the very special November 2011 General Meeting. |