UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE U3AJavea Minutes of the GENERAL MEETING held on 26th January 2005 At the Casa de Cultura, Javea The meeting commenced at 11.00 am and President, George Murray, despite the cold weather welcomed in excess of 90 guests. George also thanked Javea Town Council for the use of the theatre at the Casa de Cultura and Tony Cabban and Mike and Katrina Frost fortheir effortson behalf of the proposed Javea U3A. George invited MaryAnderton, President U3A Calpe, to give a brief introduction into the history of the Calpe branch and the intentions of the U3A as a body of not only persons of retirement age, but anybody, not in full time employment aged between 30 - 80 years, with expertise that they in the form of groups can pass on to other likeminded people. Mary expressed that the word "University" may be misleading, as there are social gatherings such as tenpin bowling followed by a meal or tapas and wine after a U3A meeting at nominal cost to enable members to socialise and integrate. At the end of her presentation Mary handed over a copy of the Constitution of the Costa Blanca U3A to George Murray to enable the branch to be formalised. Mike Frost thanked Mary Anderton and explained his position within the branch of the U3A and individually introduced the Committee members inviting each of them to give a brief insight into their background and intentions. Jackie Heaton, Group Co-ordinator George Murray, President UJA Javea Sally Wells, Membership Secretary Bill Winterton, Treasurer Judy Mason, Secretary (in Pauleen Gail's absence) Pauleen Gail, Secretary (absent) New Groups The attending groupleaders explained their intentions which are: George Murray Science (George having a background in science advised that he would be willing to consider a group interested in this activity if people expressed a particular interest in it and a particular aspect of the sciences). George & Joyce Murray Discussion Group Guest speaker with discussion afterwards. Mike & Katrina Frost Water colours and gardening (A visit to the garden centre at Montgo Verdi 3.00 o'clock on 4th February has been arranged followed by an invitation to visit Mike and Katrina's home to view their "weed patch"). Bill Winterton Model Making (Bill said that he has been making model aircraft and railways since he was 11 years old and has considerable workshop facilities together with an extensive railway layout in his garden and would be willing to help anybody who wanted a hands-on experience). Sally Wells History group (Centering on either the history of art, Spain, Military, or Spanish Architecture dependent on members' preferences). Mike Frost Travel (A trip was proposed to Valencia for the Falles on March th 19 , a show of hands confirmed a trip be put in place picking up from Moraira, Javea and Denia. The cost would be about 11-12€ and payment to be made on application by member). Future trips will require full payment for a day's outing. If longer, a non-refundable deposit, Wlless for il1ness reasons. Payment to be made directly into Barclays Bank U3A account. Non-members would be welcome if places are available at a nominal premium. Further suggestions for groups and group volunteers gave a show of hands and will be noted but were initially astrology, birdwatching, crafts, cookery, photography (film and digital), public speaking and social Rummikub. Membership Applications for membership were received. The meeting closed at 12.15 pm. The next General Meeting will be on 23rd February 2005 at l 1.00 am at the Casa de Cultura, Javea Appended to the Minutes a list of Questions and Answers and possible new groups and leaders. (Si�ed) /!ld (Seconded ........ J Supplementary to the Minutes of the UJA General Meeting held on the 26lh January 2005 Q. Are the activities all year round? A. Activities tend to be suspended in Summer between July and August. There are no meetings in December. Q. Will there be a newsletter? A. Yes. Q. How do you apply for membership? A. Come to the next meeting. Q. When will the monthly meetings be held? A. Proposed forlast Wednesday in each month at 11.00 am. Q. How soon can we pay our subscription? A. Today i.e. 2 months gratis, membership will run from April to April Q. What is Javea's U3A Headquarters' address? A. Presidenfs address (George Murray) however the U3A (Costa Blanca branch) is no longer affiliated to the UK U3A. Supplementary to the Minutes of the UJA General Meeting held on the 26th January 2005 List of Possible New Group Leaders Astrology: Sue Bentley 96 646 8446 E-mail: [email protected] Birdwatching: Nigel Bentley 96 646 8446 E-mail: [email protected] Crafts: Pat Barlow 96 649 1707 Mobile: 676317160 Cookery (with a Jenny Flew 96 575 6421 male bias): Mobile: 616002043 E-mail: [email protected] Film/Digital Photography : Greet Pole 96 646 2424 Public Speaking: Sylvia Cresswell 96 579 2316 Social Rummikub: Jackie Heaton 96 577 1839 Walking: Requested that walks be suitable for varying abilities UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE : JA VEA MINUTES of the EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Held at the Social Centre on Wednesday 25th May 2005 at 11 a.m. APOLOGIES from Pat Jones (Treasurer); Sally Wells (Membership) and Mike Frost (Travel) 1. THE President welcomed everybody including any new members. He gave thanks to Tony Cabban and Anna Vasbinder for organising our meeting place free of charge. Thanks also were given to the bar staff He went on to say that he and his wifeJoyce had been invited by the University of Alicante to a meeting in Benissa which was called "the Permanent University", which the U of Alicante wanted U3A to be involved with. It is a paying university. He also mentioned a project called UCONET. The booklets in English provided by the U of Alicante were available foranyone to look through at the end of the meeting. The Treasurer was unable to be present, but had reported that we have 2088€ in the Bank. We are not a profit-makingorganisation and should not accrue money so the problem facingthe new committee would be - what do we do with it? Some money must be set aside to pay for the Constitution if we go ahead with it. , ·· The Group Co-ordinator, Jackie, had a fewnotes fromMike (who was ill) about the trip to Xativa. There were 6 places left, I 0€ each. The coach would leave Rafalet at 9.30 and the party would meet up at the Tourist Office in Xativa at a pre-determined time forchoo-choo to the castle, which would cost 2€ per person. She also announced that 2 new groups were starting up, the first was Digital Photography and the second was Eating Out. Members should see the group leaders afterthe meeting. Tricia Essery (Holistic Therapy) would like interested people to telephone her beforethe next meeting, when the group would meet at I O a. m. at Barclays Bank on the Cabo road on Monday 30th May when she would lead them back to her house. Finally Jackie asked fora meeting of group leaders next Wednesday 1st June at the Social Centre at 11 a.m. to see how things are progressing. Various group leaders introduced themselves: Cookery, which would start the following day with about 10 members; Craft; Astrology; bird watching, who had a group going to Elche Nature Reserve next Tuesday. Classic Cars, which had affiliated themselvesto the Marina Alta Classic Car Club, which has over 100 members; Model Making, Digital Photography; Public Speaking which met once a fortnight, next meeting tomorrow at Xabia Port. Genealogy had 12 members at gresent and had early morning meetings at 9.30. Next meeting 9.30 on 14 June. Wine tasting; Walking group. Meditation group had definitelygot a room at the Social Centre where it would meet at 9.30 am every Friday. It was on the 1st floorat the end of the corridor. 2. ELECTION of OFFICERS The following members had been nominated: President: John Hemmons Vice-Presidentffravel : Mike Frost Asst. Travel : Larry Sherington Secretary: Pat Ainsley Treasurer: Lin Jones Membership Secretary: Angela Chantry Deputy Membership Secretary : Sally Wells Group Co-Ordinator: Jackie Heaton There being no other nominations or dissent fromthe floor, these members were unanimously elected. John Hemmons was asked to say a few words as new President : As George said, nobody wanted these jobs but agreed to take them on. He and his wife were both very interested in U3A, but what really fascinated him was the name of the group. Shakespeare wrote about the seven ages of man and his third age was the schoolboy "creeping like snail unwillingly to school" and we certainly did not fitinto that category. He said he felt very enthusiastic about the group and would do everything possible to help all the committee members and indeed all the members. There was nothing more he could say at the time as he had only been President for about 40 seconds! So he handed back the microphone to "our sadly retired President, George". George thanked the present committee for all they had done, and also gave thanks to the group leaders. He said he looked forwardto being involved in a the U3A, which he thought was fbulous. He said perhaps the time had come to think on even wider horizons; maybe we should give back to the local community here. A donation of only 1 € per member would raise approx. 200€ fora charitable purpose in Javea. Finally he said possibly the U3A should purchase a proper PA system instead of relying on a simple microphone.