Thursday, April 1
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Adler Study, Room 514

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Thursday, April 1
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507

Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.

Apr. 1 – Excerpts from Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. For more…

Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room 507

We the Kids… The World is in Our Hands! Everyday Leaders Making a Difference in the World

Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. Auditorium

"New York’s Other Environmental History: The Impacts Of Class, Gender, and Race in the History of Keeping It Green"
Curt Collier, Leader

New York lawmakers have been passing environmental laws since the 1680s. Over the years, as American perceptions of the environment changed, movements to establish city parks and green spaces have had varying impacts on the design of the city. However, that history is usually slanted towards recording the efforts of rich white males. Today’s talk will explore another reading of environmental history, one that highlights the efforts of women and people of color to improve their neighborhoods, and why this story never gets told. Understanding this cultural bias is helpful in understanding why a deeper reading of history is necessary if we want to bring about truly effective environmental restoration.

Social Hour and LaCite Knitting Circle Project - 12:30 p.m. - Social Hall

Afternoon Activities - 1:45 p.m. - Room 508

Ethics in the News. Mary Ellen Goodman presides.

2:00 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall

A reading of the play Lillian Wald: At Home on Henry Street written and performed by Clare Coss.

Lillian D. Wald, pioneering public health nurse, social reformer, peace activist, and active member of the Ethical Culture Society, founded the Henry Street Settlement, Visiting Nurse Service, Neighborhood Playhouse, public playgrounds, school lunches, and countless other visionary ‘firsts’. The play is set at dawn, May 8, 1916, in Wald’s office/sitting room at the Settlement, as she prepares to lead a delegation to the White House, where she hopes to convince President Woodrow Wilson to keep the U.S. from entering the war and call for a conference of neutral nations to end it.

Q & A to follow the reading with Clare Coss and Blanche Wiesen Cook.

Clare Coss is a playwright, psychotherapist, and activist convinced that we have it in our power to create a just and safe world.

Suggested donation $5 to benefit the Homeless Women's Shelter at NYSEC.

Saturday, March 27
4:00 PM
Ceremonial Hall
FREE

For any branch science, there are numerous methods by which one may gather and look at data; psychology is no different. Dr. Allan Clifton, clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at Vassar College, proposes a fresh perspective on clinical psychology and how we think about personalities. Join us as Dr. Clifton provides an overview and critique of current psychological methodologies, and shares with us what he believes social relationships can tell us about ourselves. Following his lecture, Dr. Clifton will be interviewed by the Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry in New York City, Michael De Dora Jr.

This event is co-sponsored by New York Society for Ethical Culture and CFI NYC.

Saturday, March 27
8:30 AM (Meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station)

Our traditional five-hour hike to Mt. Taurus in Cold Spring, NY will take you to a summit over the Hudson River. The ride on the Metro North Hudson line takes an hour and ten minutes and offers spectacular views of the river.

A one-way ticket is $11.25; please buy your own tickets. We will meet at the information booth in Grand Central Station at 8:30 am. If you arrive later, you can find us on the train that leaves at 8:47 am. Bring a water bottle, a light lunch and/or snack for the trail, and money for a coffee stop at a local café. Wear hiking or sturdy walking shoes, and dress in layers. Rain cancels.

Friday, March 26
11:00 AM

NYSEC member, Majid Ali, M.D., will be interviewed by Andra Miller and Phyllis Harrison-Ross, M.D., on our Friday, March 26, program on WBAI. The topic, “Ethics and World Ecology,” will explore the challenges of poverty in the world – developing good food supplies; eliminating contamination of ground, air, and water; providing decent health care while preventing disease; and working to stop the dire effects of global warming. The program will present thoughts on the age-old ethical problem: the poverty of many often stems from the gain of wealth and power by others.

Dr. Ali, author of scores of books on understanding disease, is editor of The Journal of Integrative Medicine, and was an adjunct associate professor of pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York. He has been president of staff and chief pathologist at Holy Name Hospital in New Jersey, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Diplomate of both the American Board of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and the American Board of Environmental Medicine, and is a past president of Capital University of Integrative Medicine, Washington, DC.

Thursday, March 25
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Room 508

Thursday, March 25
12:00 PM
Elliott Library, Room 507

Bring your lunch and join Dr. Anne Klaeysen.

Mar. 25 – “How America Can Rise Again,” by James Fallows, The Atlantic, March 2010. For more…

Monday, March 22
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 508

Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 507

Singing Practice. Pat Debrovner and Jerry Ranck preside

Early Sunday Morning - 10:00 a.m. - Room 408

Poetry Reading - Bring a treasured poem and tell us why you like it so much. Cheryl Gross presides.

Sunday School - Ethics for Children - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Room 507

We the Kids… The World is in Our Hands! Everyday Leaders Making a Difference in the World

Sunday Meeting - 11:15 a.m. - Ceremonial Hall

"Feminism Is NOT a Dirty Word!"
Dr. Anne Klaeysen, Leader

Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to review the status of “feminism.” Is it still the vibrant social, cultural, and political movement it once was? Why do so many young women today recoil from that word, proclaiming that they are “for equal rights” but are not “feminists”? I will explore these questions and discuss the “four waves” of feminism in the United States.

LaCite Knitting Circle Project - 12:30 p.m. - Social Hall

Sunday Brunch - 12:45 p.m. - Social Hall

Afternoon Activities - 1:45 p.m. - Room 508

Life with Health: Treating Alzheimer’s Disease: Is a New Approach Possible? Speaker Rosemary Irving is the Manager of African-American Outreach at the Alzheimer’s Association, NYC Chapter. In this capacity, she initiates contact with various groups in the African-American community to educate people about the disease and the services provided by the Association. Ms. Irving is a psychotherapist specializing in early childhood trauma, who also does couples’ therapy and works with families affected by Alzheimer’s disease. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, and the Association of Black Social Workers. Dr. Jackie Pope presides.

2:00 p.m. - Ceremonial Hall

Teen Ethical Leadership Program. For more

Friday, March 19
6:30 PM
Ceremonial Hall

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