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Oct. 30           Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting

July 31           Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting

June 26      TBA
June 19      TBA
June 12      Nick Seamon, Black Sheep Deli, talking about The Taste of Amherst 
June 5        TBA

May 29           Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting
May 22       Annual Meeting
May 15       Sam Rush, New Century Theater summer season
May 8         TBA
May 1         Jonathan Lash, president of Hampshire College

April 24      Caroline Martin, Amherst College President
April 17      Mick Kitteridge, Kringel Candle
April 10      TBA
April 3        Recipients of Love Notes grants

March 27    Hilary Price, Rhymes with Orange cartoonist
March 20    Robyn Brown and/or Robert Reeeve, The Lord Jeffrey Inn
March 13    Irish Cultural Center, Elms College
March 6      Robert Nakosteen, UMass Isenberg School of Management, Finance

Feb. 28:         Claire Higgins director of Franklin Community Action Commission
Feb. 21:         Love Notes
Feb. 14:         Nancy Fletcher, Antique Valentines

Feb. 7:           Reza and Jennifer Shafii, TigerPress Printing

 
Jan. 31          
Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting

Jan. 24          John Sacerdote/Sudro Brown, Amherst Railway Society Train Show

Jan. 17          Whitney Battle-Baptiste, UMass anthropology professor and historical 

                        archaeologist

Jan. 10          Jen and Reza Shafie from Tiger Press, "Printing Business Today"

Jan. 3            Sherry Wilson, Master Gardener

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2011

Dec. 27, 2011   Best Ever "Worst" gift exchange

Dec. 20    Carol Johnson, Amherst Cinema

Dec. 13    State Geologist Steve Mabee, "Landslide Along the Route 2 Corridor: Effect of Irene on Western Massachusetts"

Dec. 6    Charles Mann,
Author of best-selling books 1491 and 1493

Nov. 29     Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting

Nov. 22     Terry Rooney, artist, chair Public Arts Commission, organizing
Amherst Art Biennial set for fall 2012.

Nov. 15     Rolf Nelson, chef of the Lumberyard Restaurant

Nov. 8     Paul Kozub, creator of V1 vodka

Nov. 1     (snowed out) 

Oct. 25 - John Ebbetts, development director UMass Fine Arts Center, former
Untied Way head

Oct. 18 - Love Notes Meeting

Oct. 11 - Zeke Hecker, Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus, retired teacher of music and composer

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Sept. 27: Epi Bodhi, retired health director, African water project

Sept. 20: Jay Levy, social worker, specializing in homeless, has written
book on his experiences

Sept. 13: Bob Romer, African American Civil War Veterans in West Cemetery

Sept. 6: Erika Zekos, president of Amherst Education Foundation -plans for
the year and future


August 30     
Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting

August  23
  
Book review:  Sara Berger, Harrison Gregg, Bonnie Isman and Jim Wald
will share their favorites.


August 16     
Summer recess (no meeting)

August 9     Paul Bacon will lead off the discussion of personal experiences of
tornadoes and disaster. Members are invited to share their experiences.


August 2     Summer recess (no meeting)

July 26      Kyla Hastie, US Fish and Wildlife Service

July 19     Gini Traub speaking on Civilian Conservation Corps. from state Conservation Dept.


July 12     Cynthia Allen,  Franklin County Beekeeper Assoc. president


July 5        Sara Berquist, Amherst Farmers Market

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June 7        Annual Meeting


May 31       Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting


May 24       tba


May 17       Mike Stone, the UMass Baseball coach


May 10       Wilma Ortiz, of Amherst Regional Middle School, the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year


May 3         Maryelise Lamet and Janis Gray will talk about Shutesbury's 250th Anniversary.


April 26      Todd Diacon, the Deputy Chancellor of UMass talking about the Gateway Project


April 19      James Young, director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies at UMass


April 12       Meredith Michael, anthropologist


April 5         Sherill Hogan, visit to the Middle East


March 29     Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting


March 22      Love Notes Recipients Lunch


March 15     David Sullivan, new D.A.


March 8        Ray Bradley, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Director of the Climate System Research Center, talking about climate change


March 1       Todd Cromack, The International Association of Lions Clubs 


Feb 22        Cinda Jones, North Amherst Development


Feb.15        Love Notes discussion and auction


Feb. 8          Claude Tellier, Cambodian Water Project


Feb 1           CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW  


Jan. 25        Sabine Holub


Jan. 18        CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW  John Sacerdote, Great Railway Show at Big E


Jan. 11        Amanda Lange, sweet chocolate


Jan. 4          No meeting



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Sept. 7    Jim Smith, former town engineer, talking about African Americans in Amherst.

               He has written books on the subject. 


Sept. 14    Steve Kallaugher served in the Peace Corps in Swaziland but was frustrated by Corps constraints in helping people. He left, established a foundation and now routinely returns to Africa  to serve the residents. He is also an actor and was seen in "Hamlet" with Vivienne this summer


Sept. 21    Jim Brassord, Amherst College physical plant - projects on campus.


Sept. 28    Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi,  Amherst Amnesty International  

                  Chapter Coordinator.


Oct. 5       Onawumi Jean Moss,  storyteller


Oct. 12     Resident Directors and/or Board President of the ABC

                 (A Better Chance Program) 


Oct. 19     Mike Greenebaum,  VLO (Valley Light Opera)


Oct. 26     Joan Grenier, Odyssey Bookshop - challenges of independent

                 book seller.


Nov. 2      Lynn Pasquerella - new Mount Holyoke College president


Nov. 9      Love Notes Committees - planning meeting


Nov. 16    Martin Miller, WFCR general manager


Nov. 23    Ruth Hazzard, Winter Farmers' Market


Nov. 30     Fifth Tuesday, therefore no meeting


Dec. 7       Ray Bradley - climate change and global warming 

                  (postponed due to sickness)


Dec. 14    Julie Johnson, Director of the Hitchcock Center


Dec. 21    Amherst Regional High School Chorale


Dec. 28    No meeting