December 27, 2008

JANUARY FORUM ____________________________________

Monthly Forum

Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 10:30 a.m.

Red Bank Charter School - 58 Oakland St. / Red Bank, NJ 0770

Global Warming

"Warm Thoughts For a Cold Winter Day -

Global Warming through the lens of environmental

issues, energy independence, and national security.”

"OPEN TOPIC FORUM" ________________________________

Wednesday

January 28, 2009

7:00 p.m.

Red Bank Public Library

84 W. Front St.

Red Bank, NJ 07701

At the Open Topic Forum we invite attendees to suggest topics of interest

to Humanists. Those topics will be put to a vote and we'll have a discussion

of the topics one by one, starting with the most popular and moving on to

the next when we're ready. Bring your ideas and conversation starters.

HUMANLIGHT FOLLOW-UP___________________________

Thanks so much to

Carol & Paul Auer

for hosting a wonderful HumanLight party!

SEE HUMANLIGHT PHOTOS

We decorated a "tree of human knowledge" to celebrate many

of the discoveries and inventions that have made a difference to the lives of all earthlings. Many of the scientific discoveries were mentioned on:

The Science Channel’s

100 Greatest Discoveries

Links to other suggested compendia of human knowledge:

BBC's - Greatest Philosophers

The Guardian's Top 100 Books of All Time

Book List from the

Tree of Knowledge

by the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia

FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN____________________________

Please help us

meet our fund raising goal.

Can you spare the

$50 in your coin jar?

Thanks to all who have already given a gift!

If you haven't yet made a tax-deductible donation to Red Bank Humanists

this year, there are a few days left before the end of the year. Please help

us reach our modest fund-raising goal of $2,000. We are classified as a

501(c)(3), non-profit, educational corporation. That means your contribution

is tax-deductible. These funds will help us support HABcore and Camp Quest

{both 501(c)(3) organizations}, and allow us to place a some newspaper

ads during the year in the local papers, telling others about our Forums,

and special events.

Please mail your contribution today to:

Red Bank Humanists, Inc. * PO Box 8153 * Red Bank, NJ 07701

VOLUNTEER NEEDED_________________________________

We need a volunteer to enter data from the cards we filled out at our last Forum. We'll put the info into our "volunteer idea bank" that we will post on our website.

If you have a computer and know how to use Excel, you could do this

project for us in your own home...at a time when it's convenient for you.

If this volunteer task has your name on it,

please call Steelman at 732-939-6507.

SEE NEW DATES FOR BOOK CLUB______________________

The RBH Book Club is now meeting every month, alternating between

fiction and non-fiction...and now meeting the FIRST Thursday of the month.

See Book Club News on our home page.

7 QUESTION SURVEY__________________________________

What do you think?

Please answer these questions so that we can know how to proceed:

1. Do you know what a blog is?

2. Have you ever seen a blog?

3. Have you ever contributed to a blog in any way?

4. What is your favorite blog?

5. Do you like blogs?

6. Do you have any suggestions about how to create a constructive blog?

7. If we had a blog on our website, would you use it?

Send you answers in an email to Steelman by clicking on the address below: