Last ALPS email from Secretary Mr. Bob Thompson (with a few minor edits by Doge J. Peterson).
ALPHA LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Founded 1973
"… To engage in moderate debate, discussion, and exchange of views and opinions on timely affairs or on social and political theories of earlier thinkers … with dissenting and diverse views that are intellectually credible and expressed in reasonably civilized form."
-- Maxwell Flapan, Ph.D., (1906-1973), Founder
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Granny Stories
By Susan Devan
at
Green Acres Center
4401 Sideburn Road, Room 112,
Fairfax City, VA 22030
7:45 PM
Presenting the Presenter:
Susan Devan is now retired, and was an Administrative assistant, Institute for Thermal Processing Specialists; former geographer at Dept. Interior; analyst for DOD; mother of six children. Currently, free-lance writer for Hexagon; fine artist with commission underway; she now writes plays, short stories and nonfiction. She continues to write and be recognized by literary groups in West Virginia. BS, Foreign Service from Georgetown U. Having read a couple of these stories, they are really funny!
On the Calendar .... Our calendar is set for 2009. Thank you, writers!
2009
May 27 Larry Lamborn: On Genealogy
Jun 24 Joe Scheisl – The Clouds of War
Jul Summer break – no paper needed
Aug Summer break – no paper needed
Sep 30 Maria Ivusic – My Brother, A Patriot in the USA
Oct 28 Susan and Dick Devan: A Debate - At the time of the American Revolution, which side would we have supported and why? He says, she says …
Nov 18 Richard Geller: The Great Depression 1929-1945, A Second Look
Dec Holiday break – no paper needed
2010
First month James Peterson - The History of Regressive Thought
Attendance in March ‘09 = 9
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. -- Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad
ALPS web site is restored as a blog - Thanks to James Peterson, the ALPS web site and discussion blog is now open. Web address is: http://alpsociety.blogspot.com/ Check out this blogspot today. See the new address in the letterhead.
Finances ...
Balance 3/15/09 $239.27
In the hat 3/25/09 12.00
Balance 4/19/09 $251.27
C. R. Thompson , Sec.,
4219 Burke Station Road,
Fairfax, VA 22032
703-978-5823,
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