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SPEAKER INFORMATION - and Coming
Speakers: The 2012 Season March 2012 will be
Professor Tim Anderson.
From the New Zealand Brain Research Institute. His topic will
be "What is Parkinson's Disease?". If you know a speaker who would like to talk to U3A please inform a Committee Member with the contact details.
SPEAKERS HEARD ALREADY 2006 – 2011
Oct 2006
Dr. Jay Mann How to poison your spouse the natural way Nov 2006
Peter Sadler
Road Code, humorous episodes Dec 2006
Kirsten Roberts
A volunteer vet at the Iditarod, the Alsakan Dog Sled Race
Feb 2007
Tatiana Blagova Russia pre-1991 and now Mar
2007
John Kirk Anderson Photography as photo journalist with The
Press, based in E. Timor and briefly in Iraq Apr 2007
Bill Willmott
China -
3 Gorges Dam Before & Part
Way Through
May 2007
Vicki Hyde Entity of Skeptics
Jun 2007
Dr. Norton Hiller
Palaeontology Research at the Museum
Jul 2007
Gordon Ogilvie
“Enjoying the Port Hills”
Early Chch history Aug 2007
Neill Pickard
Jazz
- Tape recorder, guitar
Sep 2007
BrianPauling Media in Crisis Oct 2007 Sean Joyce A top speaker from ToastMasters Nov 2007 Prof. Richard Rowe
History of Canty wines & Wine Trail
(also lead Wine Trip to 3 wineries Mar
2008) Dec 2007
Jill Worrall Describes Middle East &Asia, personal
anecdotes of travels
Feb 2008
Jim Tully The Media Landscape of New Zealand Mar 2008
Elizabeth Osmers Gordon English Language in NZ
Apr 2008 Olwen Munro
Being 1st woman pharmacist in CHCH, & early medical equipment May 2008
Paul Knox Air Traffic Control Jun
2008
Iain Patton “P” , methamphetamine
Jul 2008
Margaret Richardson Hearing Dogs for Deaf People Aug 2008 Dr Patrick O’Sullivan Olympics – Prestige, Power,
Pan-Hellenism Sep 2008
Dame Malvina Major My musical Journey Oct 2008
Sasha Stollman A Tale of a Whale (history &
restoration of blue whale skeleton) Nov 2008
John Goodrich
Anniversary of Harry Ell starting Summit
Road & Summit Road Society Dec 2008
Ross Gumbley Artistic Director, Court
Theatre
Feb 2009
Prof Geoffrey Rice
Victoria Square, a microcosm of urban change Mar 2009
Neill Roberts
History of the NZ Art Market Apr 2009
Sarah Oliver
South West
Christchurch Area Plan
May 2009
Ray Harper
Customs Work at Airports etc
Jun 2009
Marie O’Connell Sound and visual material from Archives
Jul 2009
Philip Simpson Flight of the Icons – rata, totara,
cabbage tree Aug 2009
Mike Crean Stories behind the Stories Sep 2009
Yelena Pogrebinskaya
Adventures of a Ukrainian female engineer in New Zealand
Oct 2009
Bryan Goulstone Explaining the U3A website
Brian Barkley Tales from Yorkshire
& the Taxman
Nov 2009
Barry Holliday
Antiques Roadshow and talk on antiques Dec 2009
Dick Tayler
1974 Games and his motivation
Feb 2010
Wendy Gee
Music for the Body Mar 2010
Professor
Dee Mangin Health
and medical care for men and women in the Third Age Apr 2010
Rev.
Ian Crumpton 400 Years of the
Telescope May 2010
Chris
Rennie
A
brief history of early surveying of the South Island and the copying and recording of maps Jun 2010 Denis
Pyatt
My
experience of Teenagers Jul 2010
Anthony
Wright
An
Introduction into the history of Canterbury
Museum
Aug 2010
Jan Slater Genealogy Sep 2010
Alistair
McLaughlan
French
voices in Akaroa & New Zealand Oct 2010
Maureen Vance
What ARAS
does Nov 2010
Mark Walton My musical life story; (including
distance education in outback Australia,)
Played on his clarinet
Dec 2010
Carolyn Catt 6 months in the Galapagos - Covered
flora, fauna, geology, social issues
Feb 2011 Diane Brody Creating the illusion – behind the scenes of a
theatre wardrobe. Mar 2011 No Meeting due to Earthquake Apr 2011 John Hunter Manager of Rialto Cinemas, Christchurch. May 2011Richard Janssen An aeronautical engineer and osteopath. "Ouch my . . . hurts" - Who is an osteopath and what they do? Jun 2011 Murray McEwan "Syft Technologies - history and
applications". This is a company that makes 'Sniffer' devices. July 2011Sir Kerry Burke "The Devil's Cocktail and the removal of our elected ECAN" Aug 2011 Nicky Reece PlainsFM 96.9 Community Radio Sep 2011 Richard Blaikie Deputy Director,McDiamaird Institute "Nanotechnology" Oct 2011 Vivien Boyd Alzheimers Society Canterbury Nov 2011 Gary Moore The Future Dec2011 Victoria Metcalf Animal Geneticist Lecturer, Lincoln
University Her Life in Antarctica while researching marine
life.
Jan 2012 John Suckling "Restart" - rebuilding Christchurch
