Past Events

Travel Group

Lorna and Don Blake will be presenting “Nostalgia Revisited: A Month in New Zealand”. They will take us on their automobile trip through New Zealand from Auckland in the North Island to Invercargill at the tip of the South Island. Their itinerary was planned by the daughter of a Kiwi nurse who befriended Lorna’s parents in the early fifties, hence “nostalgia” in the title. She also arranged fabulous homestays with friends and relations, most of whom they had never met, but who treated them like family. You couldn’t buy this tour, but we hope you can still enjoy it.

If you would like to join the meeting, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca to receive the Zoom-link.

Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting 2020

This meeting takes place online. All College members were invited by email to register for the event and receive the Zoom-link.

Agenda Annual General Meeting 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm

1. A Moment of Silence to honour those members who have died
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Approval of the Minutes of the April 17, 2019 AGM
4. Report from the Principal (Donald Fisher) – 10 mins
5. Financial Report (Michael MacEntee) – 10 mins
6. Results of Election of new members of the Council (Dianne Newell) – 5 mins
7. Looking forward (Graeme Wynn) – 5 mins
8. Break Out – meet your Council members in online chat rooms - 15 mins
9. Q&A – responses to your questions and comments from Slido - 15 mins
10. Thank you’s (Donald Fisher) – 5 mins
11. Adjournment

Senior Scholars' Series

Sinking, Swimming, or Just Treading Water? Meeting the Challenges of an Academic Career in the Humanities
The son of refugees from Nazi Germany, Herbert Rosengarten grew up in a post-war Britain that saw radical changes to public health and education, and that offered new opportunities to the children of the working class through state funding. A sound, if somewhat conventional education led him to Vancouver and the English Department at UBC, just at the time when universities in North America were experiencing the first stirrings of student challenges to traditional authority. Rosengarten experienced the impact of such unrest at UBC, both in the changing attitudes and expectations of students, and in the workings of his department, which became a battleground between liberal and conservative factions, each striving to impose its notions of academic governance. The latter part of his career has been spent largely in administrative posts, which have given him some interesting, if not always positive, insights into the intricacies of academic politics.

Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College; organizer Emeritus Professor Ken Carty. For more, see www.greencollege.ubc.ca. Come at 4:30 for tea and coffee in the Green College Piano Lounge and stay for refreshments after the talks. To attend dinner, please make a reservation no later than noon on the business day before the day on which you want to dine. Without prior reservation, we cannot guarantee that you will be served. Pay for your meal at the servery counter by cash, debit or credit (MasterCard, Visa). For reservations call 604-822-0912, or email kitchen@gcdining.ca.