U3A Browns Bay NZ New Zealand

Welcome to U3A Browns Bay

Retired or near retirement.

This website opens up a new world for retirees

with retirement options.

Are you in need of mental stimulation and want to have fun and keep the grey matter working?

Then U3A Browns Bay could be for you.

This is the Archaeology Group Christmas gathering. There were two very interesting presentations by group members and the meeting finished with Pot-Luck lunch on the deck.

Nov Christmas Meeting

Each member makes a contribution in keeping with

their particular skills, ability and knowledge.

The Walking Group on the last walk of the year, comes across the Naval Marae at Devonport.

Peter Laslett who founded U3A in UK in 1981 said

Those who teach shall also learn and

those who learn shall also teach.

U3A Browns Bay Inc.

PO Box 35 851

Browns Bay

North Shore

www.u3abb.net.nz

www.brownsbay.u3a.org.nz

About to retire? With U3A you can plan to work at living, rather than living to work!

GUEST SPEAKER 7 February 2012

Dr Ip

Topic:

"Maori-Chinese Encounters: the Indigenous and the Immigrant"

click on picture for more information

GUEST SPEAKER UPDATES

Geoff Chapple, Executive Officer of Te Araroa spoke to us at the December 2009 meeting and is already hitting the headlines with the opening of the Mt Pirongia Track. See full story here.

A talk about NZ joining the SPACE RACE comes closer to reality. 30th Oct 2009 Launch If you missed the talk links here to Videos [1] [2] [3] [4] No 4 is the launch

COMPUTER GENEALOGY

Using a computer for researching and drawing up family trees can make the process very fast these days. Here is useful information from notes taken of a talk given by Boyd Miller of North Shore Computer Genealogists

INTEREST GROUP NEWS

The newsletter reports from the groups are seen here. Several groups have started creating their own web pages.

Inventions and Inventors have visited two sites to see WWII Mosquito Aircraft being restored in Auckland. Other visits have been to see 3D Printing in action and Flat diaphram Speaker technology.

MEMBERSHIP AREA

U3A Browns Bay Inc North Shore members come from Okura, Glenfield, Wairau, Torbay, Murrays Bay, Mairangi Bay, Takapuna, Hibiscus Coast, Devonport Northcoate and Birkenhead

PREVIOUS SPEAKERS

Our previous Guest Speakers for this year are listed here

The December Guest speaker ~ William Keith

Subject: Frontiers in the treatment of hearing disorders in Children

Dr Bill Keith, of Sound Skills, is a leading audiology expert in New Zealand. He spoke to our December meeting about addressing hearing loss especially in young children. Advancing technology makes it possible to accurately test the hearing of babies in the first days of life. It is vital that steps are taken to remedy any hearing loss as early as possible before the auditory links in the brain are almost certainly lost forever with the passage of time.

He showed us the difference that cochlear implants can make to the lives of these children and their families so that almost normal hearing and speech can be enjoyed.

But the main emphasis of his talk was about Auditory Processing Disorder where there is nothing wrong with the ears but the brain cannot process the sound received. This occurs in 3 – 5% of children, mainly boys and is often undiagnosed.

The training and appliances which Dr Bill Keith’s group is able to provide, can not only treat the disorder but can actually enhance the child’s whole life as the problem disappears.Click here for a pdf copy of the slides from the talk.

Dr Bill Keith

Check out “Age-Plus”, which has a shop in Clyde Road, Browns Bay at the Northern end. This is a non-profit making organisation from which you can get assistance when you need it or maybe volunteer to assist someone else.

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Site updated 01 Jan, 2012 Web design: Garry Clark

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