General
Ever feel life is passing you by? Activities with fellow Mensans will turn this around. Think coffees, dinners, quizzes, games, movies, walks, concerts, lectures, ballet, museum tours. We’re informal, unstructured, and even intellectually stimulating. Mensa Calgary is a community where members interact, network, support each other and enjoy each other’s company. For further info, contact Patricia at kathleen4057@yahoo.ca ["The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." — Eden Phillpotts]
MensaTest
The next Mensa testing session will be Monday, December 3rd at 6:30 pm at the Calgary Public Library, downtown branch. Contact Vicki Herd for further info: vherd@shaw.ca
CoffeeFests
Diverting discussion at The Purple Perk, 2212 – 4th St SW, 7:00pm, Thursday December 13 and January 6. No subject too hot, no view too contentious, no humour too sublime. Meet your peers.
QuizEvening
Delightful and challenging questions posed by our eloquent maestro. And bring your own if you wish. December 10, 11 or 12. Notifications will go out via email when the evening is chosen.
BookClub
Enthusiastic about books? Visit the Mensa book club, Saturday, Dec 8th at 12:00 noon. The Prairie Ink Restaurant, 120 – 8 Ave SW (2nd floor of McNally Robinson’s bookstore. The book discussed will be Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Everyone invited. For more info, contact Patricia (kathleen4057@yahoo.ca or 212-1461).
SecondTuesdays
Monthly coffee and conversation evening chez Vicki Herd, 2469 Sorrel Mews SW (a couple of blocks south of 33 Ave, east of Crowchild Tr), 7:30pm. BYOB. Second Tuesday of the month.
Requisat in pacem the old SecondTuesday nurtured and sustained by Catherine Ford, with great thanks. Long live the new SecondTuesday at Vicki Herd’s house. All Mensans welcome. The following is Catherine Ford’s letter on relinquishing the Second Tuesday.
Dear friends and fellow Mensa members:
It has been a wonderful, interesting, educational and inspiring ride for the past 25 years, but all good things must end. So, too, with Second Tuesday. Through all these years, I have always been amazed at the ease with which we Mensans get along with each other, despite the fact we are a disparate group.
It has been a privilege to be a host for a Mensa gathering every Second Tuesday of every month – 300 meetings in all – through all the years of my serving on the national board, through three moves and two marriages, and god knows how much Scotch consumed in the furtherance of Mensa.
I don’t do this lightly, and it has taken months for me to come to the conclusion that it is time for someone else to take over.
To that end, the January 2008 Second Tuesday (Jan.8) will be the last. I know that it will take time for the message to get out to everyone, particularly those people who appear only occasionally from out of town, so please spread the word.
Catherine Ford
For general queries email Vicki Herd (vherd@shaw.ca).
