Working for the European Space Agency really is rocket science according to one former scientist who spent his career in the field. Geoff Saunders told Dorking U3A members at their annual meeting in May that the agency was one of Britain’s best kept secrets. The work was a collaboration between Europe, Russia, Japan and America […]
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Chairman’s annual report 2016
This past year has been a busy one for Dorking U3A. At the start of my time as chairman I gave three pledges: to improve our website so that people had more information, to introduce social events to the Dorking U3A calendar and to publicise the organisation more widely within the local area. I am […]
Your new committee
Voting for your new committee took place at the annual meeting on Wednesday 11 May. There were 10 seats available as chairman Phyllis Hughes and treasurer Michael Docker serve for two years before re-election. The following people were nominated and duly elected: Lionel Cartlidge Committee function: groups co-ordinator and correspondence secretary Committee member since June 2013 Bob […]
Investment Stakes latest
Having got off to a strong start, Heather Jones extended her lead in the second ‘furlong’. While most of the field found the going heavy, her three-stock portfolio was showing a gain of 21.3% at the end of April, while the FTSE 100 was up a mere 1.9%. Has she gone off too fast? Will […]
Ruth’s verse wins national contest
Dorking Creative Writing group member Ruth Bergman has won the U3A national competition for a limerick with the first line “A U3A writer from Prague” (Prague being a notoriously difficult word to rhyme with). This is Ruth’s entry: A U3A writer from Prague Penned rhymes on the way to Den Haag. She wrote in a scrawl With no trouble […]