AN IMPORTANT CORRECTION TO A NEWSLETTER DATE
End of Season Picnic, Monday May 26 at noon in Parkville. Contact BES
by phone or email for directions.
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OTHER COMING EVENTS
May 11 Platform: "Messages of Difference" by Alan Klein, Trainer/Consultant
As the South Pacific song goes, "You've got to be taught..." In our
youth we are bombarded with messages from many sources, some
intentional, some subliminal. We will explore the messages that we
received about people who are like us and people who are unlike us, as
well as their impact on our lives today.*
Alan Klein* is a trainer, consultant, coach, facilitator,
administrator and teacher. He specializes in the areas of leadership
development, valuing diversity, team building and communication. Alan
also provides organizations and other groups with support and
facilitation in the use of large group methodologies. Throughout this
work, he emphasizes self-awareness as a vehicle for enhanced competency
and effectiveness in interpersonal situations. He was elected to
membership in the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science in 1997
and currently serves on its Board of Directors
May 18 Poetry Group 9:30 am, Newcomers' Meeting 12:30 pm
May 18 Platform: "2008: Common Ground: The Earth as Humanist Icon" by
Hugh Taft-Morales, Ethical Culture Leader-in-Training
Reflecting on the first photograph of the earth taken from beyond
the moon, Archibald MacLeish wrote in the New York Times that it was an
image with whose help "man may discover what he really is". It reveals a
truth that we ignore at our own peril: "To see the earth as we now see
it, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it
floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on
that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they
are truly brothers."
This image, generated by rational science yet emotionally and
aesthetically inspiring, offers common ground to people of diverse
philosophical perspectives. Not only does it remind all human brothers
and sisters of our interconnectedness, it reflects a profound
philosophical link between beauty and fragility. The image of the earth
reflects the existential limitations central to human existence, and
should continue to serve as a humanist icon - an enduring, sacred,
symbol worthy of spiritual devotion.*
Hugh Taft-Morales* taught philosophy and history at the Edmund
Burke School in Washington, D. C., for 19 years. He left teaching in the
summer of 2006 to train for leadership in Ethical Culture and is in a
three-year leadership certification program with the Humanist Institute.
Hugh served on the Board of the Washington Ethical Society from
2002-2006, and for the last year was president of the Board. He served
for two three-year terms on the American Philosophical Association
Committee for Pre-College Instruction. He wrote a booklet entitled "So
You Want to Teach Pre-Collegiate Philosophy?" published by the APA. In
1986 he earned a Masters in Philosophy from University of Kent at
Canterbury, England. He graduated Cum Laude from Yale University in
1979. He lives in Takoma Park with his wife, Maureen, and has three
children -- Sean (20), Maya (14), and Justin (12).
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