THE ADVENTURERS’ CLUB OF HONOLULU
Newsletter: September to December, 2014
When
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Where*
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Topic
and Presenter
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Contact**
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Deadline
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Thursday - September 18
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OCC
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Encountering the Desert Aborigines of Australia Richard Gould
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Tuesday September
16
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Thursday - October 16
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WCC
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Tuesday October
14
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Thursday - November 20
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MGR
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A Ten Year
plus Residency in Outer Mongolia
Christopher Greywolf
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Teena Urban at
or 946-3551 (email preferred)
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Tuesday November
18
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Thursday - December 11
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PHR
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Members Only entry - Adventurers Club Photo Contest
Donna Wendt
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Erika Wyrtki
at 949-2229
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Tuesday December
9
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*WCC
(Waialae Country Club); MGR (Maple Garden Restaurant); PHR (Pagoda Hotel Restaurant); OCC (Outrigger Canoe
Club)
Adventurers’ Club members/guests may only book a
reservation via our reservationists.
** If making reservations via e-mail, please include the words: Adventurers’ Club Meeting and the Meeting Date If you
have to leave
a message or are sending an email, please include your
phone number.
If unable
to reach listed reservationist,
please call Erika Wyrtki at 949-2229
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The big news for the rest of the year is the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Club. The Board of Directors has decided to celebrate by sponsoring a sumptuous
buffet at the Waialae
Country Club for members. This event will be heavily subsidized. Members will enjoy a Grand
Buffet worth $70 for only $20 each. Each member can bring up to 2 guests for only $35 each guest. Additional guests will pay full price of $70.
SAVE THE DATE - OCTOBER
16
Don't get too preoccupied with the food.
The real content
of the meetings are the presentations. In September you'll hear about the aborigines of Australia. In October you'll meet the curator
of the museum in the Marquesis Islands that is credited with a major revival
of the Marquesan culture. In November you'll share
the experiences of a professional swordsman, whose decendants are from the Blackfoot Nation,
who spent 10 years living
in a Yurt in Mongolia. And finally, the Favorite Photo Contest
led by Donna Wendt in December.
Please notice the revised schedule. You’ll
want to come early to have extra time to enjoy the buffet. Be sure to come a little
early, have a sip of wine, and visit with your friends. The Adventurer's Club is becoming a real community.
Ralph Sprague
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
Adventurers Club Photo Contest -entries by Members Only
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By Member Donna Wendt
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Please send Donna Wendt your best five Adventure / Travel Photos. Please send your submissions by Nov 10 to Donwen@aol.com including where they were taken and the year about 1 MB is a good size. JPG format is best, but other formats such as TIFF can be used. She suggests that you can also send photos as email attachments or even in the body of an email. Contact Donna if you have problems and she will help you out. Please do not send the same ones you sent last year. Be in attendance to speak a sentence or two about each picture you submit. There will be prizes!!
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
Adventurers Club Photo Contest -entries
by Members Only
PAGODA HOTEL WEST CONFERENCE ROOM |
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By Member Donna Wendt
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Please send Donna Wendt your best five Adventure
/ Travel Photos. Please send your submissions by Nov
10 to Donwen@aol.com including
where they were taken and the year about 1 MB is a good size. JPG
format is best, but other formats such as TIFF can be used. She suggests
that you can also send photos as email attachments or even
in the body of an email.Contact Donna if you have problems and
she will help you out. Please donot send the same ones
you sent last year. Be in attendance to speak a sentence or two about
each picture you submit. There will be prizes!!
Reservations Erika Wyrtki 949-2229 by Tuesday, December 9,2014 TOP PHOTO WINNERS:
Kim Case learuning falconary - Saudi Arabia
DINING AT THE PAGODA RESTAURANT - HONOLULU, HAWAII: | ||||||
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| Selection of prizes for the evening
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SEPTEMBER 18,
2014
Encountering the Desert
Aborigines of Australia
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By Member Richard Gould
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For two and a half years,
Betsy and Richard Gould
lived with and studied the Ngatatjara-speaking Aborigines of Australia's Western Desert. They
were provided a close
look at hunter-gatherers whose
contact with Europeans had been minimal. Despite profound differences in their cultures, they befriended some people
whose lives and abilities they came to appreciate. These
Aborigines were
living directly off the land
in a stressful desert environment. Many
of them made and
used stone tools
and practiced rock
and cave painting. They were often presented with remarkable feats of adaptability in the face
of tough conditions. Richard will sample the behavior they saw and discuss some
of the unexpected ways
in which these hunter-gatherers lived in arid Australia under difficult conditions for thousands of years. He will provide a "snapshot" in time of the way of life for
the Aborigines in the 1960s.
Much has
changed since those days
for the Aborigines, and today
they live quite differently because of interaction with the modern world.
However, these people
had traditional abilities that exceed today's reality TV shows. Richard will help us understand the Aborigines in ways that go beyond
commonly-held stereotypes of the hunter-gatherers.
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OCTOBER 16, 2014
60th Anniversary Celebration Archaeology in the Polynesian Heartland of the Marquesas  |
By Guest Barry Rolett
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The Marquesas are a remote
and spectacularly beautiful group of ten high
volcanic islands in central east
Polynesia featuring verdant
forests, rugged peaks,
and turquoise seas.
When visited by Captain
Cook on his historic voyages, Marquesan chiefdoms were distinguished by their
monumental architecture, elaborate art, and a religious system
in which important ceremonies demanded. In the past,
the culture featured highly competitive chiefdoms, as well as elaborate tattooing and decorative arts featuring the iconic
tiki motif. Marquesan archaeological sites which
included deeply stratified coastal dunes revealed one of the longest and richest historical sequences in the Pacific.
Professor Barry
Rolett lives
and works on the island
of Tahuata in the
Marquesas islands of the South Pacific. He is a member of the faculty of the University of Hawaii
and, in addition, is subsidized by the Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research. As a student on a fellowship grant,
Barry Rolett
explored the South
Pacific by plane, freighter, canoe
and on foot,
retracing Captain Cook's route on his second
voyage. When
Barry returned to the Marquesas, he elected to live on Tahuata
in order to do his PhD
research. He subsequently was
adopted by a Marquesan family with
seven sons. His adopted brothers and cousins became
very interested in the research he was doing there. Part
of his research had to do with the study of the Hanamiai Dune
which has multiple century deposits with a wide
range of terrestrial and marine species dating from 1025 AD to 1850 AD. He also
established the Tahuata
Museum collaborating with his adopted family as well as the University of Hawaii and the Andover
Foundation.
Together with small teams
of students and volunteers, Barry has led more than fifteen archaeological expeditions to uncover the past
of the people
of the Marquesas.
Barry has a longstanding and ongoing interest in the ways
that Polynesians adapted
to life on previously uninhabited islands. He collaborated in a study which endeavored to explain why some islands suffered human-induced environmental catastrophes, as on Easter
Island, while others
developed sustainable life
styles that serve as a model
for the modern
world. Having just
returned from
the 2014 field
season, Barry will describe all aspects of this
exciting project, including the latest discoveries, challenges, and plans for the future.
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Cocktails
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5:30 pm
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Free parking in club lot:
Waialae Country Club,
4997 Kahala Avenue
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Dinner
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6:00 pm
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The
gala dinner will feature a deluxe
buffet celebrating the 60th
Anniversary of the founding of
the club. Club members will
partake of a grand buffet
worth $70 for only $20 each and can bring up
to 2 guests at $35 each. Additional
guests must pay full price of $70
each.
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Program
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7:15 pm
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(Approximately)
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Reservations
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Contact
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Gretchen Arnemann at arnemann@hawaii.rr.com (preferred)
or call 735-1818 by Tuesday, October
14, 2014.
Late cancellations and no shows will
be billed.
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NOVEMBER 20, 2014
A
Ten Year plus
Residency in Outer
Mongolia
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By Guest Christopher Greywolf
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"Wolf" is a member of the Blackfoot Indian nation
who lives in Honolulu and has a home based business. He is a single parent with
two teenage children. When his then wife
became pregnant with her first
child in Hawaii,
they agreed that she needed to be near her Mongolian parents for the birth of the son.
At first they
lived in a Soviet style apartment in the Bayangol district of Ulaan
Baatar, the capitol
of Mongolia. Because the economy
was depressed in Mongolia at that time,
Wolf worked as a volunteer at the National Museum
of Mongolian History
restoring artifacts and making
replicas of armor and weapons. After the child
was born, the family
moved into
a yurt or Ger, a felt covered round tent,
in the countryside in an area of Arkhangai Province. Wolf herded horses,
camels, and sheep just as it has been done traditionally for ages. Life
was simple, and sometimes hard;
the summers were very warm and the days were
long. Winters were very cold
getting down to below
fifty degrees
so that animals as well as people could
freeze solid. He had wolves
to contend with
during those winters.
Wolf will describe the food and
its preparation, religion and customs
that are still
current. He will
wear traditional clothing as well as donning his armor.
He will display a horse head fiddle which has two strings
and bring a sample of Mongolian music. He will display
a wolf pelt
from a winter
hunt. In addition, he will describe the national holiday and the Naadaam
summer games,
wrestling and horse
racing. Modern
changes are coming to Mongolia due
to advances in mining.
For those of us who are interested in visiting Mongolia, he will discuss the best time to go.
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Reservations
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Contact
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For Adventurers’ Club
Information Visit: adventurersclubhonolulu.blogspot.com/
Message from the Membership Chair
In August we welcome
Carol Morse as a new member.
Carol has been travelling extensively since high school as the daughter of an air force pilot. Ask her about her recent cruise to South America.
Now it is time
to expand the club to increase the fellowship, make new friends, and enjoy the
presentations. Think of your friends who enjoy travel. Invite them as guests, and urge them to join.
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