Wednesday, February 1st from 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
Host: Chuck F.
St. Charles County Library - Deer Run Branch, Mtg Room A
1300 North Main Street
O' Fallon, MO 63366
(636) 978-3251
Living Ethics Discussion
the topic is:
"Ethics as a Pipedream"
A rant:
Iraq - Inhumanity to a People - What compensation?
- Giving 57 Iraqi students a U.S. college education
- Is just compensation ever possible?
- Is an ideal community of all people even possible?
- If not, why try?
- A question that calls into question the value of ethics, period.
- Impossible therefore counterproductive?
- Impossible yet invaluable?
Invitation open to members of the Society and their guests.
If you wish, you may RSVP Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Sunday, February 5th from 11:00 AM 'til Noon
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Sunday Lecture Series
In honor of Black History Month, our speaker this week is Terry Baker Mulligan, a St. Louis resident
and author of Sugar Hill: Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem.
Using Harlem’s famous cultural institutions and memorable characters as her backdrop, Terry Baker
Mulligan writes joyously about weathering adolescence while history unfolds around her in the legendary
neighborhood called Sugar Hill.
This feel-good story resonates with humor, warmth and wisdom as Mulligan chronicles her life among
flamboyant evangelists, curly-haired Doo-Wop boys, snuff-dippers, Fidel Castro’s entourage, interracial
marriages, chitlin’ parties and testy interactions between West Indian immigrants and Southern blacks.
Terry will read from her book, interspersing personal commentary.
Terry Baker Mulligan holds a B.A. in English from Wagner College and an M.A. in English from CCNY.
She has attended the Washington University Summer Writing Institute and Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and
was first runner-up for the Heartland Writers Non-Fiction Award in 1998.
Terry has twenty years of experience teaching English in junior high through junior college in New
York City and St. Louis. She is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association, Secretary of
the St. Louis Publishers Association, author of Sugar Hill: The Way it Was (2000), and a
writing tutor at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park.
The general public is invited.
Questions? Comments? Contact Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Wednesday, February 8th from 7 PM to 9 PM
Host: Dee M.
Living Ethics Discussion
the topic is:
t.b.a.
Invitation open to members of the Society and their guests.
If you wish, you may RSVP Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Sunday, February 12th from 10:00 AM 'til 10:30 AM
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Delicious Pancake & Sausage Breakfast
"A Fun-Raiser Extraordinaire"
This Sunday we will be having another yummy all-you-can-eat pancake & sausage
breakfast. Volunteers who are helping to cook need to be at the Brown Road building at 9:00. We
will serve at 10:00 and stop serving at 10:30 so we can get ready for the Platform Presentation at 11:00.
Dee says: We're hoping that many of your will participate in this monthly event
which raises funds for an ESMR building in the future. Every time you join us we get a little closer to
that goal, plus you'll have the advantage of having a healthy, hearty breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage,
applesauce, and a few extras, as well as an excellent opportunity for visiting with other members in a relaxed
setting.
Another plus is the happiness it brings to our cooks when they see their efforts appreciated by your
presence.
And... if you are looking for a creative, inspiring, and inexpensive gift for a friend or yourself,
we have the perfect solution. The ESMR Cookbook is now being offered at half-price, so for only $7.50
you can buy our treasured collection of members' favorites. The reviews have been highly complimentary.
All proceeds go to ESMR -- a win/win situation.
$5 for adults, $1 for kids under 12.
Thanks so much for supporting our last breakfast, and we look forward to seeing you at this one!
The general public is invited.
Saturday, February 18th
Contact Kathy R. for meeting place and other
arrangements
to get to Ronald McDonald House by 5 PM to begin cooking
at 4381 West Pine Blvd, STL, MO, 63108
Ronald McDonald House
"Nothin' Beats Home-Cookin'!"
...especially when family must be with hospitalized loved-ones.
On the third Saturday of each month, a crew from Ethical Society Mid
Rivers prepares dinner at the West Pine location of Ronald McDonald House
in St. Louis. We have been doing this for more than four years, and we have committed to
continue through 2012.
Contact Kathy R. to participate in this
worthwhile project and/or if you have questions.
Mark your calendar also for the these upcoming Saturdays:
17 Mar, 21 Apr, 19 May, 16 Jun, 21 Jul, 18 Aug, 15 Sep, 20 Oct, 17 Nov, & 15 Dec
Check out the NEW,
300th Ronald McDonald House!
For more information about the Ronald McDonald House Charity, click
here.
Sunday, February 19th from 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
ESMR Board of Directors Meeting
Please submit reports and
additions to the agenda well in advance.
Board members, please notify if you will not be attending.
For members of the Board of Directors.
Other ESMR members are welcome to attend as observers
Sunday, February 26th from noontime 'til about 1:00 PM
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Potluck Dinner
It's Potluck Sunday! After the lecture, please join us for lunch.
First-time visitors are invited to attend and bring no food item for the table. Others:
bring a dish, any dish, from soup to salad to sandwich to entrée to side dish to dessert.
The oven is available to keep things warm, and a large 'fridge to keep things cool, and there are lots
of outlets for crockpots, etc.; and the microwave is available right after the lecture ends. (Please
avoid any item that requires your attention from 11 to noon, since any sound in the kitchen is amplified into
the room where our 11:00 a.m. program is in progress.)
Even if you don't bring a dish or beverage, at least bring your appetite! See you then!
The general public is invited.
Looking for more to do and see? Below is a list of
Upcoming Events not directly associated with
Ethical Society Mid Rivers!
Check back frequently for future announcements!
Tuesday, February 28th from 7 PM to about 9 PM
St. Charles Criminal Justice Center
1781 Zumbehl Road
St. Charles, Missouri 6330
PFLAG
A support group for anyone who has a gay family member or friend
and would like to meet others in the same situation.
Please plan to attend!
Regularly meets the fourth Tuesday of every month.
The general public is invited
Phone (636) 928-5639 and/or email StCharlesPFLAG@aol.com
All events are at 260 Brown
Road unless otherwise indicated. It's the U. of MO Extension
Center building in St. Peters, north of Interstate 70. Click
here for directions.
For more information, please email
or call Bob Greenwell, Leader, (636) 284-0280. You will
not be added to any mail list unless you specifically request
it. We very much appreciate your inquiry. - Bob G.
WORTH PROGRAM AND LECTURE
Every Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
We start with Worth Program, a unique 15-20-minute program using
music, image, story, poetry, and inspirational reflections to bring into the present moment an
experience of the inextinguishable worth of self, worth of one another, and worth of being. This
is the basis for living an ethical life with courage, enthusiasm, and joy.
Then parents escort their children to the SEEK room for their Sunday ethics lesson 11:20-12:15
pm.
Adults stay for the ETHICAL LECTURE. This will be an address by Leader Bob Greenwell or a
guest speaker addressing issues of personal ethics, social ethics, living life well, political
concerns, the world in context, or humanist-religious-spiritual perspectives. The current lecture
topic is given near the top of this page. Occasionally an alternate format is creatively used,
such as a program of music or poetry with commentary.
Come early to enjoy coffee, meet folks, browse the literature table. Stay after for more
socializing. Visit and check it out!
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