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The University of the Third Age

U3A Okeover

Programme for Term 4, 2014

Term Completed

A Alan Hunter on the Normandy Landings.

Dates: 6 November

B Ian Culpan on ‘Does sport matter?’

Dates: 6 November

C Three Generations in Persia

Dates: 13 November

D Brian Pauling on ‘Television is dead!’

Dates: 13 November

Scroll down for full details of each course.

Times: 10:30 - 11:30

Enrolments for this term closed on Wednesday 12 Nov 2014.

Officers:

Chairman:Howard Harvey021 1363043
Treasurer:Colin Freeman027 2369476
Please hand your enrolment form to the treasurer at the desk if he is available.


Course A

Alan Hunter on the Normandy Landings.

Course organiser:Garry Jeffrey

Presenter:Alan Hunter

6 Nov:
Alan Hunter on 'Representing New Zealand at the 70th commemoration of the Normandy landings.':Alan was the principal of Burnside High School, having prior to that been the principal of Upper Hutt College. He has had a very active & very long retirement: A Bishopdale Tramper compiling a book of writings about their tramps; a member of the Riccarton Genealogy Club, going on to found the Bishopdale Genealogy Club. In World War 2 he was trained as a Canterbury Regiment infantryman & wrote a history of that group for a later reunion. Then he transferred into the Royal New Zealand Navy and was on a minesweeper off the coast of Normandy during the D Day landings.


Course B

Ian Culpan on ‘Does sport matter?’

Course organiser:Neil Fleming

Presenter:Ian Culpan

6 Nov:
Ian Culpan on 'Does sport matter and what is the IOC’s (International Olympic Committee’s) best kept secret?': 'In NZ, and indeed across the globe, sport has become somewhat ubiquitous. What is interesting about this phenomenon is that in most cases the real purpose of sport is neglected and overlooked. This presentation will take a provocative look at sport and interrogate whether sport actually matters and suggest that, as leaders of sport across the globe, the IOC may be wilfully negligent in promoting what sport’s real mission could be. Professor Culpan is the Associate Professor and Director of Research in the School of Sport and Physical Education at the University of Canterbury. Ian established and directs the New Zealand Centre for Olympic Studies. He is the immediate Past President of the New Zealand Olympic Academy and is the President (Oceania) for the Federation Internationale d'Education Physique (FIEP).


Course C

Three Generations in Persia

Course organiser:Mary Carnegie

Presenter:Rachel Ensor

13 Nov:
Rachel Ensor on 'Three Generations in Persia:’In 1895, the 1st generation– Rachel’s grandfather a doctor and grandmother a nurse — travelled from London to a hospital in Isfahan in Persia. During the 2nd generation her mother was born there and her father came over from England to be headmaster of Stewart Memorial College. They met and married. The 3rd generation was Rachel and her siblings. NOTE: Following the 13 November presentations we adjourn to the Hornby Working Men's Club for a celebratory dinner.


Course D

Brian Pauling on ‘Television is dead!’

Course organiser:Neil Fleming

Presenter:Brian Pauling

13 Nov:
Brian Pauling on 'Television is dead. 'Are we at the end of the 'television age'? The rapid development of digital technologies provides increasingly complex media experiences - transmedia storytelling, virtual and augmented reality, simulation - which are all competing for the attention of the younger mind. It is difficult to fathom the social, cultural, political, economic and personal implications of what is now generally recognised as a revolution. Somehow there is the feeling that 'we ain't seen nothing yet'! This session will raise serious questions about how new media functions and the increasingly complex relationships that, particularly young, people have with their communication tools (toys?). Brian Pauling is the Principal Academic Staff Member for the New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT. NOTE: Following the 13 November presentations we adjourn to the Hornby Working Men's Club for a celebratory dinner.