ADVENTURERS' CLUB MEETING FEB 21, 2021
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021
A blog for the members of the Adventurers' Club of Honolulu which meets every 3rd Thursday evening except for December, when there is a different date. The meetings at various Honolulu restaurants include dinner and an adventurer's presentation. Editor: Donna Wendt (Comments or questions about the club or programs, etc. may be made at the end of every posting at "comments") Click on "older posts" at bottom, to see earlier meeting info and photographs.
ADVENTURERS' CLUB MEETING FEB 21, 2021
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021
ADVENTURERS' CLUB OF HONOLULU JAN-MAR 2021
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Hello Adventurers!
It certainly has been an unusual year that none of us saw coming. We have had to adjust to on-line meetings, being unable to meet in person, or even to travel much. We have unhappily cancelled long-anticipated trips, chased refunds, rebooked to travel later, and then even later. At the same time, we recognize that there are many people who are worse off than we are.
Thanks to everyone who submitted pictures for our travel quiz, to Donna Wendt for her help in putting the quiz together, and to everyone who participated. It was just for fun, there were some beautiful pictures and it was interesting to see different parts of the world and realize how many places there are still to visit.
We will continue to meet via Zoom for the first quarter. I know it isn’t the preference for all our members, but current case counts and test positivity rates restrict event capacity. However, the Club has made reservations from March forward at our usual venues, hoping that having vaccines available will improve the situation sufficiently that we can meet in person sooner rather than later! Please check the reminder email sent on the first of each month for confirmation of the location and reservation instructions.
Finally, it’s time to send in your 2021 dues. As you will see elsewhere in this newsletter, current members will see a reduced amount due. Your Board considered the reduced expenses of meeting virtually, balanced with the need to keep an adequate reserve in case of pandemic-related increases going forward, and decided on a one-time “loyalty reward” for sticking with us during this time. We hope it will help us keep you.
Aloha, Carolyn Gire, President
January 21, Zoom "Pre Covid Trip through Scotland & England" by guests, Chloe Chapman & Adam Bradford
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IT’S DUES RENEWAL TIME!
It’s time to renew your Club membership. Please complete the attached 2021 Renewal Form and send it to Nira Cooray at 1703 Paula Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816, no later than February 15, 2021.
Please note any changes in your contact information. If there are no changes, please write “NO CHANGES” across it & also return the form to Janet, along with your check payable to The Adventurers’ Club of Honolulu. Reduced 2021 dues for renewing members are $15 for single regular resident members; $25 for spouse/partner couple regular resident members & $25 for non-resident [outside Oahu] members (new member dues will remain at the 2020 levels.) Please renew promptly! Mahalo!
PRESENTING YOUR NEW OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
We are pleased to present the Club’s new officers and directors for the year ending Dec. 31, 2021:
President: Carolyn Gire
1st Vice President and Program Chair: Bill Chapman
2nd Vice President and Membership Chair: Nira Cooray
Secretary: Gretchen Arnemann
Treasurer: Judy Simon
At-Large Director: Janet Miller
At-Large Director: Lori Alexander
Immediate Past President: Lowell Angell
For the year ending Dec. 31, 2022:
At-Large Director and Assistant Treasurer: Bill Arnemann
At-Large Director: Jim Harwood
ZOOM MEETINGS:
1. RSVPs are accepted from the 1st of the month until the Sunday before the meeting. You will receive a confirmation email.
2. The link to sign on to the meeting is sent on Monday morning, to the email address you used to RSVP. Please check to make sure you have received it and contact Carolyn if you don’t get it via email carogire@hawaii.rr.com.
3. Guests are welcome to online meetings at no charge, but all guests musts be reserved by a member. When you RSVP for your guest, please provide their name and whether they will view with you or separately.
4. Finally, did you know that the identifier that shows on Zoom is the name you use to set up your device? For most of us, it’s our name or something like Carolyn’s iPad. But sometimes it’s something like Tutu’s iPhone or someone else’s name. This makes it difficult for the host to identify you, and in the interests of making our calls secure while admitting our members and guests, please let Carolyn know if you or your guest have a “secret identity”.
BEYOND THE REEF:
Member Don Laird passed away in Honolulu on November 14, age 82. Don joined the Adventurers’ Club in 1998 as member #470.
Born and raised in Michigan, he did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned a PhD in Political Science, focusing on international relations, and was the recipient of a U.S. Foreign Language Scholarship to study the Indonesian-Malay language.
Don taught at universities in Michigan, then in the Philippines on a Fulbright-Hays Visiting Professorship, before moving to Washington DC, where he worked in international programs for the Office of the Chief of the Naval Operations, the National Science Foundation, the General Accounting Office, and the Department of the Army. In 1981, he came to Hawaii with the Army's international program of exchanges and exercises with more than 40 Asian-Pacific countries, and was able to travel widely in this position, from Madagascar to Korea to Australia.
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A glimpse of our December Zoom Meeting
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Since we aren’t able to have our usual holiday dinner meeting together in December, and the wonderful photo contest that Donna Wendt puts together for us just wouldn’t be the same via Zoom, we have something different for you, capturing the elements of fellowship and photos, but without the food. It’s a Where in the World Travel Quiz!
After a short business meeting, we will see how good we really are at recognizing pictures of well-known places around the world. No prizes except bragging rights for those with high scores! We will follow this with time for sharing your stories of where you should have been in 2020 or what adventures you are hoping for in 2021.
If you would like to participate by submitting a photo to the quiz, please do so, do Donna Wendt donwen@aol.com. We are looking for photos of interesting locations that will challenge (but not frustrate) us, especially a different perspective of a famous location or picture of Christmas celebrations somewhere.
So if you have ONE photo you love of somewhere that isn’t too obscure, please email it (jpg preferred) with the
name, location (town/city and country) and who took it
to Donna (donwen@aol.com)
BEGINNING NOVEMBER 1st AND NO LATER THAN NOVEMBER 30th.
OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2020 NEWSLETTER
Aloha Adventurers!
It’s hard to believe that we have reached the last quarter of a very unusual year and I thank you for adjusting to the changes we have had to make. As you can see, your Board of Directors has moved this quarter’s meetings to Zoom, since it seems quite unlikely we can meet in person at our usual venues. We would like to acknowledge members Kitty Austria, Lowell Angell and Stacey Thomas & Michael Dalesandro who had volunteered as reservationists for the 4th quarter.
It’s also coming up to the time when
we hold our elections. In accordance with our bylaws, prior to the October
meeting you will receive the slate of candidates for election as directors and
officers for the coming term. The slate, along with any additional nominations
from the floor, will be voted on by members attending the November meeting. The
new directors and officers will be installed at the December meeting. If you would
like more information or have any questions, please contact me at
carogire@hawaii.rr.com, or our Elections Committee Chair, past-president Lowell
Angell at angell@hawaii.edu or (808) 988-2098.
Please
join us for the interesting meetings we have scheduled in the coming months.
Aloha,
Carolyn Gire
President
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ZOOM MEETINGS
Please check out page 2 for Zoom (online) meeting updates.
VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED!
Our Club runs smoothly only because a dedicated corps of members do the many
tasks necessary to make it all happen. Besides your elected officers and
directors, we have volunteer members who take your reservation for the
meetings. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please consider helping by taking reservations or
by serving on the board. We would love to have you and you’ll be helping your
Club!
FUTURE SPEAKERS/PROGRAMS Know
of a good future speaker or program (maybe yourself!)? Tell our 1st
Vice-President/Program Chair, Bill Chapman about it. Email him at:
wchapman@hawaii.edu
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ZOOM MEETINGS POLICIES:
1. The RSVP date for our
Zoom meetings is the Sunday before.
2. The link to sign on to the
meeting is sent on Monday morning, to the email address you
used to RSVP. Please check to make sure you have received it and contact
Carolyn if you don’t get it via email carogire@hawaii.rr.com.
3. Guests are welcome to online
meetings at no charge. When you RSVP for your guest, please provide their name
and whether they will view with you or separately. If they will use their own
device, please provide their email. It is your responsibility to send the link
on to them once it is sent to you
4. Finally, did you know that the
identifier that shows on Zoom is the name you use to set up your device? For
most of us, it’s our name or something like Carolyn’s iPad. But sometimes it’s
something like Tutu’s iPhone or someone else’s name. This makes it difficult
for the host to identify you, and in the interests of making our calls secure
while admitting our members and guests, please let Carolyn know if you have a
“secret identity”.
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October 15, 2020
(Zoom)
“Joseph Francis Charles Rock in
Yunnan China”
by member Jerry Coiner
Joseph Rock was an explorer, geographer, botanist, and linguist, well-known to anyone interested in the history of botany in Hawaii. From 1919 to 1949 he was a National Geographical Society Explorer, stationed in Tibet. A native of Vienna, Rock worked for a time at Mills College (later Mid-Pacific Institute) and was the first botanist in the Territory of Hawaii’s fledgling forestry department, later joining the University of Hawaii’s faculty. Jerry has been researching his life and work for many years and will concentrate on Rock’s work in China and Tibet.
Dr. Jerry Coiner holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Kansas. He and his wife Eloise have traveled extensively throughout Asia and the Pacific. He is an active member of the Rotary and also of the Hawaiian Philatelic Society, where he serves as Treasurer He is the author of numerous scholarly articles on agriculture, vegetation change, urbanism, and climate. Before coming to Hawai‘i, Dr. Coiner was with the Department of Geology and Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York.
ZOOM - Login and Testing: 6:50 pm
PROGRAM - 7pm
RSVP EMAIL - Please send your reservations
to Carolyn Gire at
carogire@hawaii.rr.com by October 11, 2020
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November 19,
2020 (Zoom)
“Wave Woman—The Story of
Betty Pembroke Heldreich
Winstedt & Hawaiian Surfing”
by member Vicky Durand
Wave Woman is the untold story of an
adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight
years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Winstedt was the granddaughter of Mormon
pioneers who, after spending an active and athletic childhood in Salt Lake
City, moved to Santa Monica with her family and enrolled at USC to study dental
hygiene. Betty went on to elope with a man she hardly knew, and to have two daughters.
In middle age, Betty finally followed her dream of living near the ocean; she
moved to Hawaii and, at age forty-one, took up surfing. She lived and surfed at
Waikiki during the golden years of the mid-1950s and was a pioneer surfer at
Makaha Beach. She was competitive in early big-wave surfing championships and
was among the first women to compete in Lima, Peru, where she won first place.
Betty was an Olympic hopeful, a pilot, a mother, a sculptor, a jeweler, a
builder, a fisherwoman, an ATV rider, and a potter who lived life her way,
dealing with adversity and heartache on her own stoic terms. A love letter from
a daughter to her larger-than-life mother, Wave Woman will speak to any woman
searching for self-confidence, fulfillment, and happiness.
Vicky Durand, a longtime member of
the Adventurers Club, first fell in love with Hawaii in the mid-1950's at age
twelve, when she spent a summer with relatives on the island of Molokai.
Returning home, she talked her mother Betty into a Hawaiian trip the following
summer. By the following winter, the adventurous Betty had moved her two young
daughters to Honolulu. Vicky spent her teenage years surfing with her mother.
They competed in the annual Makaha International Surfing Championships.
Together, they were invited to Lima, Peru, to promote women's surfing. Looking
back at Vicky and Betty's evolving relationship, Betty always told Vicky that
every day was an adventure. Never afraid of the difficult challenges ahead,
Betty inspired Vicky to take new challenges
ZOOM - Login and Testing: 6:50
pm
PROGRAM - 7pm
RSVP EMAIL - Please send your
reservations to Carolyn Gire at
carogire@hawaii.rr.com by November 15, 2020
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December 19, 2020
---- To Be Determined
Unfortunately, because we are using
Zoom for this meeting, we will not be able to do our traditional, much
anticipated photo contest. It just wouldn’t be the same experience without
being together in person to enjoy camaraderie and Donna’s wonderful contest
results and prizes! We are working on something different and will have more
details soon.
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September 17, 2020 7pm meeting is a ZOOM meeting
Please RSVP to Carolyn Gire
via email carogire@hawaii.rr.com by Sunday,
September 13th 5:00 PM to be added to the list for this meeting.
addresses with your RSVP. For security and privacy
purposes, the Zoom’s "waiting room" feature will be used and
only individuals on the list will be admitted. All confirmed
attendees will receive an email confirmation on Monday,
September 14th with the Zoom link to access the meeting on
Thursday.
Please contact Carolyn with any questions or to schedule a test run with Zoom ahead of
time. Mahalo! Stay safe everyone and please take care.
UHM Associate Professor, Dr. Beilman, will discuss decades of work as a geographer & environmental scientist, covering his fieldwork in Russia, the Canadian Arctic, and Antarctica. As Dr. Beilman explains: “The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the Earth’s fastest warming regions and is experiencing rapid ecological change. During a five week research cruise in March 2020, he visited sites along four hundred kilometers of the western Peninsula studying plants and soils. He will describe his work using a drone to observe the continent’s surface & discuss the implications for changes in the Southern Ocean, marine ecosystems & plant growth on land.”
Dr Beilman holds a PhD from UCLA, a MSc from the University of Alberta in Canada, followed by post-doctoral study at Queen’s University in Belfast, UK. He was born & raised in western Canada & spent his early days “appreciating the serene northern forests & majestic Rocky Mountains of western North America.” His PhD dissertation was on carbon hotspots in West Siberia, Russia.
Thursday
Jul 16
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Zoom
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Mauna Kea:
Early Planning & Development
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By new member
Jim Harwood
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Thanks to Jim Harwood for an amazing presentation |
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Thirty members attended the Zoom meeting from their homes |
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Desolate road up Mauna Kea 1963 |
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Earliest set up on Mauna Kea |
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Early little telescope |
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Difficult to reach the summit of Mauna Kea in early days |
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Mauna Kea Hale Pohaku Area and bunkhouse |
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Jim Harwood, Mauna Kea telescope pioneer |
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Lake Waiau on Mauna Kea about 1963 |
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Mauna Kea 1963 era |
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Early telescopes on Mauna Kea including Lake Waiau at left |
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Nothing like a sunset on Mauna Kea |
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Telescope stations on Mauna Kea |
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Mauna Kea with HQ and snow |
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Telescopes on Mauna Kea in 1979 |
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OVI BUN in Romania gave a surprise tour of his farm using his cell phone - it was early morning there |
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Besides farm animales Ovi also raises bees in a big Bee Hive |