Milton Ulladulla U3A Inc
Whale off Narrawallee Beach courtesy of www.narrawallee.info
What is U3A?
U3A stands for University of the Third Age. The Third Age is the age of active retirement. U3A is a worldwide network of organisations providing learning opportunities for older people at modest costs.
U3As don't grant degrees or qualifications, and there are no educational qualifications needed to join. Rather, they are universities in the original sense - communities of people who come together to learn from one another. Tutors and course leaders come from the membership and give their services free of charge.
Founded in 1988, the Milton-Ulladulla U3A Campus Inc. now has over 400 members.
Our learning year has four terms, corresponding with local school terms. Most classes are held on weekdays, generally in the Harry Higgs Room in the Milton Cultural Centre (next to the Library) on the Princes Highway in Milton. A few are held at tutors' homes, or at field sites.
Some courses continue from term to term, even from year to year. Others are 'one-offs'. Members receive a newsletter just before the start of each term, describing what's on offer and inviting enrolments.
It costs only $15 a year to be a member, plus $5 joining fee for new or lapsed members. In each term members then pay $10 to enrol in one course and $5 extra for a second course; additional courses per term are free.
Valeria Ricetti, a wandering stone mason from northern Italy, finally settled in a rock shelter on a sandstone escarpment rising above the central NSW city of Griffith. Between his arrival in the late 1920s and his death in 1953, he created landscape of terraced gardens, cisterns, chapels, lookouts and tracks extending for a kilometre along the rocky ridge. Little is known for certain about Ricetti, who has entered the city's mythology, but the story of the Hermit of Scenic Hill involves migration, unrequited love, cruelty, internship, mental illness, vulnerability and resilience.
Bruce Ford is a conservation scientist and rock art conservator whose task in Griffith will be to remove 50 years of accumulated graffiti from shelters which Ricetti himself decorated with mysterious symbols. Bruce will talk about the archaeological interpretation and proposed conservation of the site, recently entered on the NSW State Heritage Register, as well as Ricetti's unique story.
Join us for what promises to be another fascinating talk and an opportunity to chat with Bruce afterwards during afternoon tea.
Speaker: Bruce Ford
Place: Shoalhaven Anglican School
Date: Saturday 15 November 2008
Time: 3 p.m.
Cost: Gold coin donation - includes afternoon tea.
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Would you like to know more about the background of our campus?
A few hotlinks to other U3A websites and sites of interest recommended by membersThis term we are offering twenty nine courses or learning groups.
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Or phone (02) 4455 2805
Or write to:
U3A Secretary, PO Box 530, Ulladulla NSW 2539
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This web site was last revised
3 October 2008