U3AJoBurgEast Newsletter

HAPPY NEW YEAR – we wish you better than the best for this year.

Important Changes : L

Ø For reasons of economy your committee has decided that there will only be two mailings a year – 1 in January and 1 in July.

Ø Both Johannesburg Branch and the Joburg East Branch have both agreed that their mailings will only include information pertinent to their own Branch. This does not mean you can only attend your own Branch – you are most welcome at either branch, as indeed at U3A Branches throughout, on presentation of you card.

However, if you wish to receive the Newsletter & Information of the Johannesburg Branch please email Maureen Meyerson at lesmaur@global.co.za with your request OR phone her at 011 440 8045 with your mailing details.

Ø Please note that the Annual Membership fee is now R35 per person, but if you paid R30 at the Quiz Meeting in 2007 you need not pay the extra until 2009. Tea charges have also been increased to R5.00 – blame the Oil Crisis!!

J OUTINGS B

Together with U3A Johannesburg the following visits are planned:

PLACE	Time & Date	Price
Northwards: historic home on Parktown Ridge	10:00 - Wed 23 Jan 2008	R60pp.
Constitution Hill: with the Constitutional Court and the Old Fort	09:30 – Wed 20 Feb 2008	R40pp
The Origins Centre on Wits University Campus	09:30 – Wed 19 Mar 2008	R35pp

Tour Manager Gill Sagar. For Bookings & further details contact Elaine Trouw – 011 706 8145 email – emtrouw@acenet.co.za details and booking form can also be found on the U3A WebSite : www.u3a.org.za/u3a_jnb/tours.htm

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. Peter Farquharson

A Short History of the University of the Third Age

U3Astarted at theUniversityofGrenobleinFrancein the 1980’s and from modest beginnings has grown and becomerecognized in many countries around the world. Having spread to theUKwhere there are presently in excess of 57,000 members, it traveledto the EasternSeabordofAustraliaand then toSouthAfricawhere it is growingand flourishing.

Atpresent there are two branches inJohannesburg,known as U3A Johannesburg and U3AJoburgEast. The former holdtheir monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of each month atthe Jerusalem Hall of theRosebankUnion Church, in Sandton, while the latter holdtheir meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at the RJMHall atRandjesEstate, Highlands North.

Cape Town has five branches, and othershave grown from the start-up branch in theCapeto cover areas as widely separated asHelderberg,

Overberg,Tygerberg,PlettenbergBay, George/ Wilderness andKnysna.Branchesalso exist atPortElizabethandKwaZuluNatal.

U3A Branch Contacts.

Cape Town: Sherlayne MacFarlane 021686-8922

Durban: Margaret Knight 031 261 8137

False Bay: Ron John 021 799 7213

George/Wilderness: Spencer Hooper 044 8744907

Helderberg: Brian Thorne 021 855 2485

Johannesburg: Marcia Leveson 011 880 7174

JoBurg East: JulieWilcocks 011 887 8160 (am)

Knysna: TheoHorniball044 384 1363

Overberg: RobinLee 028312 4072.

Plettenberg Bay: Amelia White 044 533 0113

Port Elizabeth: Arthur Croft 041 367 2282

Pretoria: GeorgeMcGillivray012 460 8214

Tygerberg:HanniePotgieter021 913 4618

David Erbstoesser:It is with sincere regretthat we inform members of the passing on of David. He was indefatigablein his skills with sound systems, always finding creative solutionsto meet our needs and so generous with his time and knowledge.He will be sorely missed.