Sunday, July 2
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Picnic with the Society - Riverside Park & 105th St. - 12:00 noon (no Meeting at the Society)
Bring your blankets and tablecloths. For more information or to rsvp, call Suzy at 212-874-5210, ext. 113. (In case of rain, location will be Ceremonial Hall - 4th fl.)
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - Will resume again in September
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Society offices closed
Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4
Sunday Meeting, July 9
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Sunday Meeting - 10:30 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall - 4th Fl.
"Together We Can Make a Difference"
Arnold N. Fishman, President, American Ethical Union
Andra Miller Presides
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - Will resume again in September
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Photography Workshop
Thursday, July 13
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Room 514
Sunday Meeting, July 16
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Sunday Meeting - 10:30 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall - 4th Fl.
"The Labor Movement, Union Corruption, and America's Lost Promise"
Robert Fitch, Author
Joseph Marvel Presides
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - Will resume again in September
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Socrates Cafe
Wednesday, July 19
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Room 508
Join Ken Gans and John Gurney for a stimulating philosophical discussion on humanism and basic philosophical questions. If you are interested, contact Ken Gans at 212-787-7000 ext. 1039. No charge and no reservations needed.
Sunday Meeting, July 23
Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
Sunday Meeting - 10:30 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall - 4th Fl.
"Ground Zero for Peace"
Megan Bartlett, Emergency Medical Technician
Carol Nadell Presides
Sunday School - Ethics for Children - Will resume again in September
Afternoon Activities - 1:30 p.m. - Will resume again on Sunday, September 10.
"The Politics of Dignity: Democracy’s Next Natural Step”
Wednesday, July 26
Robert W. Fuller, author of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity, lead an in-depth discussion on the rising dignitarian movement, which breached the political divide with its message of “dignity for all.” Having diagnosed rankism as discrimination based on rank, Fuller speaks of a world where it will have been eradicated.
Photography Workshop
Thursday, July 27
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Room 514
"Ethics on the Air" - NYSEC on WBAI
The New York Society for Ethical Culture is back on the radio!
Many have lamented the society's withdrawal a year ago from WQXR, where senior leader, Khoren Arisian, was reading his talks every other Sunday morning at X a.m. (once a month?) The cost had escalated beyond our budget restraints.
But toward the end of last year, Kathy Davis, the public affairs director at WBAI (99.5 FM) told the society's director of marketing and special events, Leslie Doyle, that the station would like to provide an hour a month for the New York Society for Ethical Culture to do a program. Davis had learned enough from Doyle about Ethical Culture to conclude that its message would be good to round out the station's format.
Our current senior leader, Tony Hileman, and two society trustees, Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross and Andra Miller, offered to explore ways to program the hour, and began a series of meetings with Doyle and Dr. Marc Bernstein, our archivist. They decided that an easy way to provide content would be to use the taped platform talks by leaders, and they chose two for the first two half-hour programs — one by the St. Louis society's leader, Kate Lovelady, and one by Hileman.
Unfortunately, this plan proved to be extremely time-consuming to implement, and post-production sound engineering turned out to be very expensive. As the team listened to the two experimental programs, they realized that as engaging as speakers are in person, talks to large audiences do not translate well to the intimate medium of radio.
At this point, the committee decided that perhaps interviews would be the best way to go. Just to test it out, Bernstein and Miller got together with their tape recorders to discuss Felix Adler's "Supreme Moral Rule," a subject that Miller had treated in a platform talk. They taped 53 minutes of conversation, exploring Adler's "conditions" for "bringing out the best in others and thereby in yourself."
<4>Meantime, Doyle was contacted by WBAI with the request that the society provide a program right away. Bernstein and Miller were satisfied enough with their experiment to be comfortable doing a half-hour program. Harrison-Ross and Miller thought that Nneka Pope's short talk on June 25 had content that would lend itself to another half-hour interview and thus round out an hour — and so Harrison-Ross and Pope taped a program too.
On Wednesday, June 28 at 11 and 11:30 a.m. the two programs were aired. Several station listeners called for information — so it seems the word on Ethical Culture is getting out.
Though the ad hoc committee was thrown into action sooner than they had expected, it was successful enough that with the encouragement of WBAI, the committee has taped two additional hour-long programs. One, an interview with Joe Chuman, leader of the Bergen society, on "Ethical Culture's Role in the Modern World," and one, an interview with Anne Klaeysen, leader of the Long Island society on "Forgiveness."
These programs are being evaluated for technical quality. Once edited, they will be aired sometime in the next few months at times yet to be set. If you'd like to hear the program that was aired in June, check WBAI's program archive at http://archive.wbai.org/ for Public Affairs Special XML, Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11 a.m.
"Ethics on the Air"
NYSEC on WBAI
The New York Society for Ethical Culture is back on the radio!
Many have lamented the society's withdrawal a year ago from WQXR, where senior leader, Khoren Arisian, was reading his talks every other Sunday morning at X a.m. (once a month?) The cost had escalated beyond our budget restraints.
But toward the end of last year, Kathy Davis, the public affairs director at WBAI (99.5 FM) told the society's director of marketing and special events, Leslie Doyle, that the station would like to provide an hour a month for the New York Society for Ethical Culture to do a program. Davis had learned enough from Doyle about Ethical Culture to conclude that its message would be good to round out the station's format.
Our current senior leader, Tony Hileman, and two society trustees, Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross and Andra Miller, offered to explore ways to program the hour, and began a series of meetings with Doyle and Dr. Marc Bernstein, our archivist. They decided that an easy way to provide content would be to use the taped platform talks by leaders, and they chose two for the first two half-hour programs — one by the St. Louis society's leader, Kate Lovelady, and one by Hileman.
Unfortunately, this plan proved to be extremely time-consuming to implement, and post-production sound engineering turned out to be very expensive. As the team listened to the two experimental programs, they realized that as engaging as speakers are in person, talks to large audiences do not translate well to the intimate medium of radio.
At this point, the committee decided that perhaps interviews would be the best way to go. Just to test it out, Bernstein and Miller got together with their tape recorders to discuss Felix Adler's "Supreme Moral Rule," a subject that Miller had treated in a platform talk. They taped 53 minutes of conversation, exploring Adler's "conditions" for "bringing out the best in others and thereby in yourself."
Meantime, Doyle was contacted by WBAI with the request that the society provide a program right away. Bernstein and Miller were satisfied enough with their experiment to be comfortable doing a half-hour program. Harrison-Ross and Miller thought that Nneka Pope's short talk on June 25 had content that would lend itself to another half-hour interview and thus round out an hour — and so Harrison-Ross and Pope taped a program too.
On Wednesday, June 28 at 11 and 11:30 a.m. the two programs were aired. Several station listeners called for information — so it seems the word on Ethical Culture is getting out.
Though the ad hoc committee was thrown into action sooner than they had expected, it was successful enough that with the encouragement of WBAI, the committee has taped two additional hour-long programs. One, an interview with Joe Chuman, leader of the Bergen society, on "Ethical Culture's Role in the Modern World," and one, an interview with Anne Klaeysen, leader of the Long Island society on "Forgiveness."
These programs are being evaluated for technical quality. Once edited, they will be aired sometime in the next few months at times yet to be set. If you'd like to hear the program that was aired in June, check WBAI's program archive at http://archive.wbai.org/ for Public Affairs Special XML, Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11 a.m.
