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Speakers - 2012

Mansfield U3A invites a varied range of speakers to most monthly meetings and members always enjoy their informative and sometimes humorous talks at 11.00.

The titles are in your membership card but the notes will be added here by Speakers Secretary Teresa Wells as soon as she can tell you a bit about what to expect!

Date Speaker Subject
Tuesday 17th January Members Day David Ling: A look at some members' photographs
Jean Kirk: The Portland Estate
Peter Hart: Classical Music
Doreen Storer: Chat and Stitch
Finale: Two songs by our Singing for Fun choir
Tuesday 21st February Capt. Dyer Lawrence of Arabia
Captain Dyer was educated at Nottingham High School and learnt to fly whilst at school. He studied engineering at Cambridge university and joined the University Air Squadron. He joined the RAF as a graduate in the sixties and flew a variety of aircraft for twenty years.

He was then employed in Civil  Aviation for a further twenty years and was a test pilot for a large aircraft company. He has flown various people of notoriety to destinations around the world.

He retired after forty years with 10,000 flying hours. 

Over the past ten years he has entertained and informed members of a variety of groups and societies,  such as Probus, Round Table and Rotary .  He is also a registered cruise line speaker.

Tuesday 20th March John Barlow The Birds in our Gardens
Tuesday 17th April Simon Brister A School in Kenya
Tuesday 15th May Don Witton People, Plants, Pleasures, Passions
Tuesday 19th June Christine Doughty The Secret Diary of a Deputy District Judge
Tuesday 17th July Ron Stammers The Story of the Victorian & Edwardian Seaside
Tuesday 21st August No Speaker Annual Summer Party
Tuesday 18th September No Speaker AGM



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