Fwd: New Zealand & Australia's Secular Heritage and its Future Conference - Wellinton 30 August

[Des Vize]

A number of Brights made it to the conference in Wellington.  The attached photo shows John Murphy, Jeff Hunt, Helen Breeze, Bill Cooke (of NZARH, not yet a Bright), Des Vize and John Shaw.  Apologies to Ken Spagnolo who did not make the photo but attended the conference and dinner afterwards.

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Des Vize

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[David Stott]

You sure that’s John Murphy on the right? Looks more like Elton John to me!!!

 

And which tree is June’s?

Regards

David

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[Des]

David

I'll let (Elton) John Murphy deal with the first part of your post.

I probably should have renamed the photo. My first wife, June, was
studying law at VUW when she died of cancer in 1996. Some of the
students planted a kowhai tree in the grounds of the Law School in her
memory. I am no expert on trees but it was probably a poor choice for
the shaded spot where it was planted, because the original has been
replaced at least once. When I am in Wellington I usually pop round
to see how the tree is doing. On this occasion I was with a bunch of
Brights on the way back from lunch to the conference venue. This
particular photo shows more of the Brights than the tree, which is
obscured by Jeff Hunt. But, as I said, I probably should have renamed
the photo.

Cheers,
Des

[Helen Breeze]

Greetings sketpical brights

I just got this in my "bmail", fyi for podcasters

The Dentith Files

This week Matthew presents a snippet of a presentation he will be making to the NZ Skeptic Conference concerning the relationship between science and the paranormal.

 Listen to Audio
MP3, 6m21s, 1.5MB

2008/9/22 Des <des....@gmail.com>

[Jeff Hunt]

How embarrassing to be caught in the act of obscuring a memorial tree. Personally I think  I was cleverly adding colour and elegance to it while Helen did the obscuring and I directed attention to the the plaque with my left foot. :-)

As part of the Freethought Heritage Trail I am constructing at humanist.org.nz/hr/homehr.html I will get a proper photo and add it for everyone to see without me in the way.

Looking at the picture again perhaps it would have been more decorative with us standing behind the tree anyway.

Cheers

[John Shaw]

Jeff,

I blame the photographer; but perhaps that isn't a line you wish to pursue.

John

Jeff Hunt wrote:
> How embarrassing to be caught in the act of obscuring a memorial tree.
> Personally I think I was cleverly adding colour and elegance to it
> while Helen did the obscuring and I directed attention to the the
> plaque with my left foot. :-)
>
> As part of the Freethought Heritage Trail I am constructing at

> humanist.org.nz/hr/homehr.html <http://humanist.org.nz/hr/homehr.html>

> I will get a proper photo and add it for everyone to see without me in
> the way.
>
> Looking at the picture again perhaps it would have been more
> decorative with us standing behind the tree anyway.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Des <des....@gmail.com
> <mailto:des....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> David
>
> I'll let (Elton) John Murphy deal with the first part of your post.
>
> I probably should have renamed the photo. My first wife, June, was
> studying law at VUW when she died of cancer in 1996. Some of the
> students planted a kowhai tree in the grounds of the Law School in her
> memory. I am no expert on trees but it was probably a poor choice for
> the shaded spot where it was planted, because the original has been
> replaced at least once. When I am in Wellington I usually pop round
> to see how the tree is doing. On this occasion I was with a bunch of
> Brights on the way back from lunch to the conference venue. This
> particular photo shows more of the Brights than the tree, which is
> obscured by Jeff Hunt. But, as I said, I probably should have renamed
> the photo.
>
> Cheers,
> Des
>
> On Sep 22, 1:13 pm, David Stott <stott.da...@gmail.com

> > www.the-brights.net <http://www.the-brights.net>

[Jeff Hunt]

And now without Jeffrey standing in the way we have.... ta ra....
http://humanist.org.nz/hr/homehr.html

criticisms, comments and ideas very welcome

Cheers

[Des Vize]

Jeff

 

The Humanist Heritage Trail is a great initiative.  The site looks good already and I'm sure Brights will support it with ideas and by spreading the word.

 

You might like to consider adding Tommy Hunter and the Hunter Building.  I don't know much about the guy but I remember Jim Dakin used to refer to him as one of us.

 

Cheers,

Des 

2008/9/25 Jeff Hunt <jeffh...@gmail.com>