Newsletterjuly14

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Thursday 3rd July 2014 U3A Main Meeting, Venue: Cleethorpes Memorial Hall from 2.00pm to 4.00pm Speaker: Stuart Sizer on The Ghosts of Louth Thursday 10th July 2014 Outing to Castle Howard Starting at 8.00am from Memorial Hall.

Tuesday 29nd July Committee Meeting from 2.00pm to 4.00pm at 97 Abbey Road, Grimsby, DN32 0HN

Thursday 7th August 2014 U3A Main Meeting, Venue: Cleethorpes Memorial Hall From 2.00pm to 4.00pm Performance from the Entertainment Group Tuesday 26th August Committee Meeting from 2.00 t0 4pm at 97 Abbey Road, Grimsby, D|N32 0HN Thursday 11th September 2014 Main Meeting, Venue: Cleethorpes Memorial Hall from 2.00pm to 4.00pm Speaker: Himanshu Ghadiali on Indian Religions (Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism)

U3A VISIT TO CASTLE HOWARD – Thursday 10th July 2014 The bus will leave the Memorial Hall at 8.30 am so please be there by 8.15 am latest so you can be checked in. Cars can be left at the Memorial Hall - please park your car on the left as you enter from Clee Road. Would those members getting on the coach at the Memorial Hall please leave the first two rows of seats both sides of the coach free for the wheelchair users.

The next pick up is at the Trawl at 8.40 am and the last pick up is at 8.45 am outside Great Coates Church on the main road.

Committee was Elected on 3rd October 2013 at AGM in Cleethorpes Memorial Hal Chairman: John Wilkinson 316597 Secretary: Anne Mann 348833 Treasurer: Himanshu Ghadiali 343474 Vice Chair: Jill Maltby 752688 Brochure Co-ordinator: Anne Mann 348833 Group Co-ordinator: Pauline Campbell 813010 Publicity: Christina Hanson 871333 Membership Records: Anne Easterbrook 310061 Membership Assistant: Janet Cullum 599482 Webmaster: Geoff Lenthall 699748 Welfare: Marj Dalby 599750 Speaker Finder/Visitors: Jill Maltby 752688 Catering Team: Jenny Dutton 873613 Gill Clarke 312820 Janet Cullum 599482 Co-opted Members: Margaret Sisson 234554 Janet Parratt 239165 How to Join Group Activities?

We aim to leave Castle Howard by 4.30 pm so should be back in Grimsby around 6.30 pm.

UNDERSTANDING MEMORY

Membership to U3A gives you entitlement to join any group. Membership of any group is restricted only to practical management of numbers of member attending that group. If there is a more demand of any activity, management committee is keen to support starting new group. If you can help to start a group, please contact Pauline Campbell

The next Understanding Memory 4 week course is starting on Wednesday 9 th July 2014 and will be held at 97 Abbey Road, Grimsby, DN32 0HN. The first week will commence at 10.00 am until 12.30 pm and the corresponding weeks will be held from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm.

Every Member, new or old, who would like to join any group (whether full or not) needs to register their interest with the group co-ordinator’s Liaison officer Pauline Campbell. Either by telephoning her or sending her E mail: groupscoordinatorofficer@grymsbyandcleethorpesu3a.org.uk.

We still have places available so please contact Pauline Campbell on 01472 813010 if you would like to take part in this course.

She will contact the Group leader/co-ordinator on your behalf. The group leader/coordinator will then contact you with details of the group. If the group is full, you will be placed on a waiting list. You will be kept informed.

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Marj Dalby says : I was born and raised in Hull, where my father was a lorry driver and my mother a chiropodist's assistant. I attended St Mary's grammar school and left with 13 'O' levels to become a cadet nurse at the Western General Hospital in Hull. I continued to do my nursing training and after a short stint as a staff nurse did Midwifery training, part 1 in Cornwall and part two in Hull.

After a few months as a district midwife I felt the need for change so went to Rio de Janeiro where I worked as theatre nurse in the Hospital dos Estrangeros. My contract was for 2 years but the political unrest in the country was such that I returned after one year. Brazil had a revolution 2 months later!

On returning home I worked as a surgical ward sister at the Western General, but felt all the administration was not for me so went to the local college for a year during which time I took physics and chemistry from scratch to O level (it was not considered ladylike at school), plus two A levels. Leeds University kindly accepted my SRN, SCM as equivalent to a third A level, and I did my medical training in Leeds, followed by 3 years GP training in Pontefract.

I became a GP in Cleethorpes which I loved, and during which time I was briefly married, but had a car accident after only 9 years in the post in 1984.

I had a total of 26 fractures, was ventilated for 3 weeks and have since had a total of 70 operations to keep me going. I also have regular acupuncture which keeps pain at bay. Driving with hand controls has helped me to maintain some independence.

Needing something to do, I taught first aid for several years at the local Red Cross, and volunteered as a counsellor at the Well women centre on a weekly basis. I also became a Trustee of the Across trust which ran the Jumbulance, providing holidays and pilgrimages for the sick and disabled. I travelled as the Doctor on 33 trips, which was wonderful as I could practice some medicine and a 'pusher' was provided in return for my services! During this time my wheelchair was my greatest asset as the other disabled folk knew I understood their difficulties.

Through Across I met a good friend (actually many good friends) in Father Paul who later accompanied me as 'pusher' on several cruises to the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Caribbean. Our last trip before the funds ran out was to South Africa, where I got to see Victoria Falls, the Big Hole at Kimberley and Table Mountain in Cape Town.

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If you know, any member is unwell, please contact Marj Dalby

Cont from page2 Re: Marj Dalby Feeling the need for more mental stimulation I trained to be a magistrate including chairmanship training and sat on Grimsby and Cleethorpes bench for 19 years until mandatory retirement at aged 70. The court staff were fantastic and arranged ramps and grab rails, and the porter would collect me in the wheelchair from the car park. .

In the 1990's I did several Internet courses on Spiritual philosophy and then taught a small group at a monthly class for 5 years, until I felt I was covering the same ground a second time. At the age of 66 I enrolled at Hull University to do a Masters degree in Criminology, which I enjoyed tremendously, my dissertation being on Women in the Criminal Justice system. Again the staff were great and arranged for me to be collected from the car park and wheeled to lectures.

I joined U3A in 2009, and became a committee member in 2002, where I am currently the welfare officer. I attend the monthly meetings and enjoy the book club and the card making group.

MAKING CARDS GROUP The Making Cards group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month – please note the new address: 4 Southern Walk, Grimsby, DN33 2PG (off Southfield Avenue, take 1 st left into Eastfield Avenue and Southern Walk follows – No. 4 is at the bottom in the cul-de-sac on the left). This is a small group who like to bring along their own samples to share and we all learn from each other. We are a mixed group – some experienced and some just keen to learn new ways of making cards using many different techniques. If you would like to join our group please contact the Group Liaison Officer, Pauline Campbell on 01472 813010.

Computer/IT Support Group This group will meet on Thursday 17th July 2014, 2.00pm at 97 Abbey Road, Grimsby, DN32 0HN International Cookery Group This group will meet on Monday 21st July 2014, 2.00pm at West Marsh Community Centre.

Play Reading Group

Croquet summer 2014

Play Reading Group will not be meeting in August. Please note that Play Reading Group will meet on 1st Thursday 4th September instead of usual meeting day on 2nd Thursday.

Vibrancy is the word -- from the croquet group. members bring with them.

Social Cycling Group

Croquet has got off to a good start with 5 new members joining us this year. There is a mixture of talent and one member managed a "Hole in one ", or should I say a "hoop in one". All players prove very apt at the game.

Are you interested in leisurely cycling? You would love to cycle but you do not have a cycle.

Please contact Pauline Campbell.

It is the enthusiasm the

The croquet group has been up and running for 20 years at New Waltham. I have been helping for 17 of those years each Tuesday.

Group will meet on Wednesday 9th and 23rd July.

Request to All Group Co-ordinators It is important that you share your group activities with the rest of the U3A membership through this newsletter and our website. Information can be sent to Anne, Pauline or Himanshu.

Request to All the Members We like our members to be active participants in all the U3A activities. Our website is interactive. You can share your views and opinions on website or in the suggestion box at the main meetings.

Committee would like to hear from you.

Gardening Group II

Our U3A gardening group II recently spent a most enjoyable visit at Pear Tree Cottage, Glouceby, Nr. Louth, LN11 9UP. The Owners of the garden welcomed us most warmly with refreshment before showing us around their most beautiful garden.

If you are looking for a very pleasant outing, you could visit this garden which is open for the National Garden Scheme on Sunday 20th July 2014 between 11.00am and 4.00pm

As members increased in 2005 Dennis and I took the decision to extend the meeting to 2 days a week. We then enjoyed the game on Tuesdays and Fridays so the 35 members were split into 2 groups, choosing which day they wanted to come. Unfortunately, the loss of loved ones and other health problems relating to age affected the numbers in 2013. We downsized to approximately 25. Also the ad-hoc arrangements., (me being away with family a lot).

2014 commenced in June a month later than norm. To date -- showing about 18 members who are interested in this friendly sociable "Golf Croquet game". Tuesday is the regular day. I have dispensed with Friday on a regular basis as it is too much for me. Past members who are unable to attend on Tuesdays due to other commitments and U3A activities have been informed that they can contact me if the weather is fine and I am here, enabling them to play on a Friday "Ad-Hoc".

I have requested croquet players to sign in their next of kin on the forms I provided -- for U3A insurance purposes.

Hopefully I might find the energy to do our usual strawberry tea and end of season party.

In past years we have dressed up as " bathing belles of the 1920's era" "Edwardian ladies playing croquet" - "All whites theme" and visited Woodhall Spa for three years on the trot playing croquet on their green and enjoying coffee on arrival followed by buffet lunch 12noon - and afternoon tea, as well as taking a stroll to admire the gardens of beautiful Rhododendrons in bloom when not engaged in playing croquet. A talented photographer/player - Brian - was always at hand to record these events. My albums are full of these joyous occasions.

Everyone appeared to enjoy the game and these social get togethers-thank you to all who took part, without you it wouldn't have happened.

Berenice.

Group Activity Armchair Travel Aviation Bird Watching Book Club Bowls indoor Bowls outdoor Bowls outdoor Bridge Calligraphy I Calligraphy II Card Making Classical Guitar Tuition Computer/IT Support Group Creative Writing Croquet Croquet Enjoying Music Entertainment/Drama Family History I Family History II Gardening Group I Gardening Group II International Cookery Lip Reading Literature Mahjong I Mahjong II New Age Kurling Play Reading Poetry Appriciation Reading Music Scrabble Social Cycling Group Social Group Table Tennis Ten Pin Bowling Understanding Memory

Day Friday Tuesday Monday Friday Sunday Sunday Tuesday Tuesday Wednessday Wednessday Wednessday Any Day Thursday Wednessday Friday Tuesday Tuesday Friday Thursday Tuesday Thursday Thursday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Thursday Friday Tuesday Thursday Thursday Any Day Monday Wednessday Friday Tuesday Thursday To be determine

Hours AM PM AM or All Day AM PM PM PM PM AM PM PM Mutual Arrangement PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM AM AM PM 3pm-4.30pm PM PM PM PM PM PM Mutual Arrangement PM AM AM AM AM Four weekly sessions

Frequency Forthnightly 1st Week 2nd Week 1st Week Weekly Weekly Weekly Weekly Weeks 2&4 Forthnightly 2nd Week

Group Co-ordinator John Wilkinson Geoff Lenthall Martin Francisis Jill Maltby Brian Lowther George Bass George Bass Berenice Dudeney Thelma Sadler Sue Bullen Anne mann Gordon Roberts 3rd Week Himanshu Ghadiali 1st Week George Bullen Weekly Berenice Dudeney weekly Berenice Dudeney 3rd Week Frank Marston Weekly Christina Hanson 3rd Week John Wilkinson 3rd Week Anne Easterbrook Noreen Layton Last Carole Petchey 3rd Week Margaret Sisson Weekly Diana Green Forthnightly Estelle Foulkes Irene Kelly Weekly Thelma Sadler Week 1st & 3rd Sid Petchey 2nd Week David Muir 3rd Week Shirley Grant Brenda Roffey Weekly Pearl Turner Week 2nd & 4th Chris Hallgarth Week 2nd & 4th Jill Maltby Weekly John Pitt Weekly Thelma Sadler Anne Mann