SPOKANE HUMANISTS
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Annual Banquets • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • Return to Home Page
March 3: Tim Connor, local investigative reporter. Tim talked about Spokane government privacy issues. He recently received the largest cash award for public disclosure violations from the city of Spokane in United States history!
February 18: Bart Haggin, "Libertarianism Will Get You and Your Mama!" Libertarianism is a strong force in US economic and political philosophy.
February 3: Eileen Starr presented "A Tale of Two Expeditions: Lewis and Clark vs. John Mullan".
January 21: Gabor Zovanyi, EWU professor of Urban & Regional Planning, spoke on Environmental Aspects of Our Region's Future.
January, 6: Paul Haeder, contributing writer to The Inlander, and teacher at SFCC and SCC spoke on "Embracing one's Narrative and the Value of Collective Thinking in the Shifting Global Tide of Tipping and Collapsing Systems".
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December 17: Ron Kocsis, Certified Occupational Therapist, spoke on Assistive Technology.
December 2: Rachael Osborn, Spokane environmental activitist spoke on "Water & the Public Interest: where things stand and why it matters". Rachael Osborn is executive director of the Columbia Institute for Water Policy, a Spokane-based nonprofit dedicated to the sustainable, equitable and ethical use of the fresh water resources of the Columbia watershed. She also teaches water and environmental law at Gonzaga Law School.
November 19: Breean Beggs, Center for Justice, "Riverpark Square, the Power of Public Record Requests and Democracy".
November 4: George Critchlow, Gonzaga University professor, "Balancing the tension between free speech values and the rights of students to learn in a supportive environment free from prejudice and whether or not seemingly bigoted expression is ever an acceptable form of humor".
October 15: Richard Steele, Phd., Visiting Asso Professor at EWU, "Electronic Voting - Systems and Problems".
October 7: Don Clegg, Humanist writer for the Spokesman Review, spoke on writing, getting published and other related subjects.
September 16: Doug Orr, Rod Stackelberg and Tom Jeannot led a discussion regarding current events.
Summer Events:
August 5, 2006 "LUPPER" 3:30 p.m Home of Bart and Lindell Haggin on the Little Spokane River;
July 8, 2006 "LUPPER" 3:30 P.M.Home of Ken and Lee Swedberg;
June 3, 2006 BRUNCH AT 9:30 a.m.Home of Eileen Starr and John Douglas
May 21: Dr Wayne Limber spoke on Alzheimers Disease.
May 6: Harold Balazs, Spokane artist, spokeon Art and Humanism.
April 16: Dr Rod Stackelberg, Professor Emeritus of History at Gonzaga, spoke on "Understanding the Past through Understanding the Present: What I've learned about Nazi Germany in the last five years".
April 1: Dan Lambert , Evergreen Renewable Resources, spoke on energy resources.
March 19: David DeWolf, Gonzaga law professor, spoke on Intelligent Design.
March 4: Paul Quinette, a nationally regarded clinical psychologist spoke on "Sex, Hope and the Psychology of Fishing"
February 19: Sanford (Sandy) Gerber, Professor Emeritus, Communications Disorders EWU, spoke about faces, Cranial Facial Anomalies, Clues to other Physical Problems
Saturday, February 4: Chase Davis, Upper Columbia Sierra Club, spoke on recent environmental events.
January 15: Bart Haggin spoke on oil.
Saturday, January 7: Marianne Torres spoke on "An Objective View of the Israeli-Palestinian Situation".
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December 18: Julian Powers, Local Expert on Global Warming, spoke on his subject, Global Warming.
Saturday, December 3: Tom Jeannot, professor of Philisophy at Gonzaga, spoke on Marxiam, Capitalism and the loss of Democracy.
November 20: Breean Beggs, Executive Director for the Center for Justice, spoke on Separation of Church and State.
November 5: Doug Orr, professor of Economics at EWU, spoke on the crisis in pensions.
October 16: Timm Ormsby, State Representative from the 3rd District, spoke on Washington State Government.
October 1: Eileen Starr presented The Anatomy of Hurricanes.
September 15: Annual Banquet at the Ridpath Empire Room, Spokane, WA. The featured speaker was Carl Coon. Mr. Coon is a retired diplomat with an abiding interest in foreign lands and peoples. He retired in 1985 after serving as Ambassador to Nepal. His second book, One Planet, One People, Beyond 'Us vs. Them' was published by Prometheius in September 2004.
Saturday, June 4: breakfast meeting Bart Haggin performed a reading on the Scopes trial.
Sunday, May 15: Laurie Carlson discussed her current book, Sunlight Deficit, Sunlight Solution, which examines our need for sunlight for optimal health and well being, and the historical reasons we moved away from sunlight to pharmaceutical supplementation.
Saturday, May 7: Breakfast Meeting, Doranne Miller led a book review of Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers.
Sunday, April 17: Jan Woodward spoke on "Celebrating Life's Passages - a Humanist Approach".
Saturday, April 2: breakfast meeting Charlie Mason of the Wenatchee Erattics spoke.
Sunday, March 20: Breean Beggs, Executive Director of the Center for Justice, spoke on "The Contents and Implications of the USA Patriot Act".
Saturday, March 5: Eileen Starr told us about the geology of Tsunamis.
Sunday, February 20: Lupito Flores, Station manager of Thin Air Community Radio, spoke on "Media, Democracy, and Community Radio".
Saturday, February 5: David Bowling, PhD. in physics, spoke on the latest in cosmology research.
Sunday, January 16: Lee Swedberg talked about the stages of retirement, "More Than a Pension: Philosophy of Retirement".
Saturday, January 8: Bart Haggin spoke on the subject of FREEDOM.
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Sunday, December 1: JoAnn Kauffman, who grew up on the Nex Perce reservation in Idaho, is the head of Kauffman and Associates, as national consulting firm which advocates better health and social services for native Americans nationwide, spoke on the federal responsibility to provide health care to native Americans.
Saturday, December 4: Karen Davis, President-Director of United Poultry Concerns. Check out her organization at www.UPC-ONLINE.org.
Sunday, November 21: Breean Beggs, executive director of the Center for Justice in Spokane, discussed Gay Marriage and Its Legal Future.
Saturday, November 6: resident author and expert on David Thompson, Jack Nisbet spoke on "Ethics of David Thompson".
Sunday, October 17: Alex Wood, WA State Representative for the 3rd District talked about the 2005 legislature.
Saturday, October 9: 2004 Annual Humanist Focus Banquet, Ridpath Hotel: John Nugent, Board member and Treasurer of the American Humanist Associaltion, spoke on "Luck, Distributive Justice and Moral Responsibility".
Sunday, May 16: Sarah Keller presented "28 Days to Beijing", her adventures on the Trans-Siberian railway.
Saturday, May 1: George Thomas talked about the art of writing effective humanist oriented letters to the editor.
Sunday, April 18: Back by popular demand, Armin Arndt continued his talk from February, entitled "Levels of Moral Reasoning, Part II."
Saturday, April 3: Charlie Mason presented his program on the Missoula Flood.
Sunday, March 21: Moritz Kundig (Spokane architect) presented "Images of European Planning and Architecture".
Saturday, March 6: Ray Ideus told us about his transformation from Lutheran minister to Humanist.
Sunday, February 15: Armin Arndt, Professor of Applied Psychology at EWU, presented Levels of Moral Reasoning and Epistemolical Awareness.
Saturday, February 7: Ross Woodward leads a discussion on the Humanist Manifesto III. See link below.
Sunday, January 18: John Douglas and Eileen Starr talked about their trip to Kamchatka Russia.
Saturday, January 3: Bart Haggin spoke on Globalization.
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Sunday, December 21: Hassein Nikdel, Director of Information Technologies at Telex, a native of Iran, spoke on "The Culture of Iran, Before and After the Revolution."
Saturday, December 6: Mickey Thompson discussed how his hypothesis linkings Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
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