[Hac-announce] Upcoming Events - Humanist Association of Connecticut

[Richard Siddall]

Hello everyone,

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In our November meeting, we said that the December "Humanist 
Conversations" meeting would be this Saturday, December 5th.  That was 
incorrect.  Since David & June Schafer are out of town at the December 
meeting of the Humanist Institute, we postponed the meeting one week.

This coming Monday, December 7th, we'll meet at the Turkish Kebab House, 
1157 Campbell Ave., West Haven, for our last New Haven-area social 
dinner of the year.  This will also be our last meal at this restaurant 
for a while.  As usual, we'll meet in the restaurant at 7:00 PM.  If 
you're planning to attend, please RSVP to Carol Stone via Meetup.com at 
http://meetup.com/cthumanist, or by email to editor at cthumanist.org, or 
by phone at (203) 264-8546.  (RSVPs help us let the restaurant know how 
large a table our party will need.)

The December "Humanist Conversations" meeting will be on Saturday, 
December 12th at 2:30 PM in the library at USNH, 700 Hartford Turnpike, 
Hamden.  We'll watch and discuss the 1950 movie "Trio", a compilation of 
three of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories, including an introduction 
by the author himself.  The film is itself part of a trilogy of movies 
based on works by Maugham.

On Saturday, December 19th, David Schafer will lead the second in our 
series of monthly discussions on "The Bible from the Standpoint of 
Scientific and Historical Analysis," from 3 to 5 PM in the library at 
USNH, 700 Hartford Turnpike.  During this session we will be comparing 
the Creation Story in the book of Genesis with the much older Sumerian 
myth known as "Enuma Elish."

Our Annual Meeting, elections, Solstice Party, and silent auction will 
be held at USNH, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden, on Monday, December 
21st.  We'll start at 7:30 PM with a pot-luck dinner.  (Please bring a 
dish to share.)  At 8:00 PM we'll hold a brief annual meeting and 
election of officers for the 2010 calendar year.  (The slate of officers 
is in the December newsletter.)  Following the elections, our Solstice 
party will begin, and will feature a silent auction, and a brief talk by 
P.J. Deak entitled "Observations of Hope: Charles Dickens in America, 1842."

Our Hartford-area social dinner for December will be replaced by our 
last activity of 2009, our annual brunch at 12 noon on Friday, December 
25th.  This year we'll return to the Pacific Buffet & Grill, 20 Ives 
Road, Wallingford.  Please RSVP using the contact details above.

Directions to most locations of our meetings are on the web site at
http://www.cthumanist.org/directions.html

Regards,

         Richard Siddall
         webmaster at cthumanist.org