Past Events (2003)
Our current calendar of events is on our home page and in our newsletter.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Monday, December 29th | We closed out the year with a Southbury/Woodbury social dinner at an unusually busy Curtis House. |
| Monday, December 15th | Our Annual Meeting, Elections and Solstice Party featured music from Wild Notes, a silent auction, and potluck dinner. |
| Wednesday, November 26th | Southbury/Woodbury social dinners returned to the Curtis House, 506 Main Street South, Woodbury. |
| Sunday, November 23rd | November board meeting. |
| Monday, November 17th | The Monthly Meeting featured Doug Peary with a reprise of an early Humanist Hero: Bertrand Russell. |
| Monday, November 10th | New Haven area social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange. |
| Saturday, November 1st | Humanist Conversations: discussion on campaign finance reform following Nick Nyhart's talk. |
| Thursday, October 30th | We had a flying visit from Anthony Marr. |
| Wednesday, October 29th | Southbury/Woodbury social dinner at Leo's. |
| Sunday, October 26th | Our Monthly Meeting featured an inspiring talk from Nick Nyhart, Executive Director of Public Campaign: Clean Money and Clean Elections |
| Sunday, October 19th | October board meeting |
| Monday, October 13th | New Haven area social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano. |
| Saturday, October 11th (Freethought Day) |
Members of the association joined members of the Humanists of Massachusetts in presenting the first AHA New England Regional Conference in Worcester, Mass. |
| Saturday, October 4th | Humanist Conversations: discussion on the latest developments in the Middle East. |
| Wednesday, September 24th | Our second social dinner of the month returned to Leo's in Southbury. |
| Sunday, September 21st | September board meeting. |
| Monday, September 15th | Monthly Meeting. CCSU anthropolgist and author Ken Feder returned with another archaeological mystery: Mysterious Mound Builders: Anatomy of a Historical Enigma. |
| Sunday, September 14th | Memorial Service for Bob Wolsch at Western Connecticut State University, Westside Campus in Danbury, in the President's Lounge at the Ancell School of Business  . |
| Monday, September 8th | Social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano. |
| Saturday, September 6th | Humanist Conversations: another bring-a-book session, "What I've Been Reading This Summer." |
| Wednesday, August 27th | Our second social dinner of the month moved to Leo's, 7 Poverty Road, Southbury . |
| Sunday, August 24th | Our August board meeting was postponed. |
| Saturday, August 23rd | Picnic at the Lyon's home in Cornwall Please bring a chair and some food to share. |
| Monday, August 18th | Our Monthly Meeting featured an update on the state of Humanism from David Schafer and Manny Ratafia, based on seven national and regional meetings the two attended. |
| Monday, August 11th | Our roving social dinner visited the New Haven area at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange . |
| Saturday, August 9th | Humanist Conversations offered a chance to discuss Nash Boutros's talk on Evil at the Curtis House in June. |
| Wednesday, July 30th | We held our second social dinner of the month, and the last at the Curtis House for a while. |
| Sunday, July 27th | July board meeting. |
| Monday, July 21st | At our monthly meeting, Walter Wells presented: All Too Humanistic, That Fine Italian Hand, including a description of Italy's Humanist Party, and followed by a slide show. |
| Monday, July 14th | A New Haven area dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange . |
| Thursday, July 3rd | Humanist Conversations met on a Thursday for a change to celebrate the 4th of July with a showing of 1776 - the Musical |
| Wednesday, June 25th | Nash Boutros gave an updated version of his talk on Evil at our second social dinner of the month at the Curtis House. |
| Sunday, June 22nd PM | June board meeting. |
| Saturday, June 14th | Another great Annual Picnic at the Raffords' home in Middlebury |
| Monday, June 9th | Another social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano. |
| Saturday, June 7th | Humanist Conversations considered who is making money: After the Iraq war |
| Wednesday, May 28th | Our second social dinner of the month at the Curtis House, offered a chance to talk about the recent AHA national convention. |
| Sunday, May 25th | Our May board meeting was cancelled due to emergency surgery. |
| Monday, May 19th | Monthly Meeting featured the latest installment in Doug Peary's Humanist Heroes series: Walter Kaufmann, Humanist Hero. (This talk was originally scheduled for February and was snowed out.) |
| Monday, May 12th 7 PM |
The New Haven regulars attended a social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange. |
| Saturday, May 3rd | Humanist Conversations offered a discussion on business ethics in the light of the collapse of Enron, etc. |
| Wednesday, April 30th | Our second social dinner of the month, this time at the Curtis House. |
| Sunday, April 27th | April board meeting. |
| Monday, April 21st | Our Anniversary Meeting starte with a potluck dinner with AHA Executive Director, Tony Hileman, and was followed by an inspiring talk by Tony: The Future of Humanism, during which Tony handed out copies of the new Humanist Manifesto III, Humanism and its Aspirations, which was officially released earlier the same day. |
| Monday, April 14th | Another New Haven area social dinner at Gabriele. |
| Friday, April 4th | Humanist Conversations considered the role of force in a civilized society, especially whether the war in Iraq was justified. |
| Sunday, March 23rd | March board meeting. |
| Monday, March 17th | Our Monthly Meeting featured co-founder Rob Rafford's thoughts on "Why I am a Humanist". This was followed by a long and engrossing travelogue from adventurer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist, Jon Miceler: Saving Threatened Species and Creating Third-World Jobs. |
| Monday, February 10th | We had an enjoyable social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange. |
| Saturday, March 1st | Humanist Conversations held another "bring-a-book" session. |
| Saturday, February 22nd | Instead of our February board meeting, we had a brainstorming session on short and long term objectives for the organization. |
| Monday, February 17th | Our Monthly Meeting was cancelled due to the big President's Day snow storm, so we missed June Schafer's thoughts on "Why I am a Humanist", and Doug Peary's biography of another Humanist Hero: Walter Kaufman. |
| Monday, February 10th | Our social dinner at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano, 326 Boston Post Rd, Orange was cancelled due to snow. |
| Saturday, February 8th | Humanist Conversations Humanists are often labeled as "unbelievers" by some religious groups, but what do we believe in? This session featured an explanation of the positions of the main Humanist organizations in the USA. |
| Sunday, January 26th | January board meeting. |
| Wednesday, January 22nd | Our second social dinner of the month was at the Curtis House. A few people braved the unseasonably cold temperatures. |
| Monday, January 20th | Monthly Meeting featured Doug Peary's thoughts on "Why I am a Humanist"
Walter Wells was supposed to bring us up to date on the state of Italy and Italian Humanists, but was unwell. David Schafer stood in at short notice. |
| Monday, January 13th | We held our first social dinner of the year in the New Haven area at Gabriele Ristorante Italiano. |
| Saturday, January 11th | Humanist Conversations [Name deleted] talked about participating in the American Atheists' "Godless Americans March on Washington" last November, and we saw some of the CSPAN footage of the event. |
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