General Meetings are normally scheduled for the third Wednesday of
every odd-numbered month, excluding January. The dates for 2025 are:
19 March (AGM), 21 May, 23 July*, 17 September, 19 November.
* The third Wednesday of July, the 16th, falls during school holidays. The July meeting has therefore been scheduled for the following week. This date will be confirmed later.
We are very grateful to Howick High School for making their
facilities available to us as the regular venue for our General
Meetings. Please note that our General Meetings start promptly at
15:00 (3:00 PM) and you should arrive as soon after
14:30 as possible (not before) for registration / checking in.
Members, please remember to wear your name tags.
The next General Meeting of U3A Howick will be the
This meeting will be held in the usual venue, the Team Teaching Room at Howick High School
DIRECTIONS: Turn into Amber Avenue from Main Street at the traffic lights near Greendale Spar. Pass the main entrance gate to Howick High School on the right. Drive into the school grounds through the Jubilee Gate entrance (by the tennis courts, further down Amber Avenue). You can park in the available parking areas or on the open ground under the trees immediately on the right. Walk up the ramp on the side of the main school building and enter an open corridor on your left. The Team Teaching Room is on the right a few metres along. Look out for the “U3A” signs.
The Guest Speaker and topic at the Annual General Meeting will be
Synopsis: Why go to Antarctica to study space? The answer lies
in the Earth’s magnetic field. This talk starts with the history of
finding the South Magnetic Pole. It then looks at some of the science
carried out at the South African Antarctic base Sanae, and the role of
the magnetic field. Observations range from ‘whistlers’ in the 1970s,
through video imaging of the aurora australis, to active
experiments with an upper atmosphere radar, part of a global-scale
international network.
Jon Rash spent a year at Sanae as an upper atmosphere scientist. He
was involved in Space Physics research throughout his many years as
lecturer, later Associate Professor, at the University of Natal, later
UKZN. For the past two years he has been a part-time researcher for
the SA National Space Agency.
The Guest Speakers at our later General Meetings in 2025 will be:
21 May: Elwyn Jenkins - Changing Place Names in South Africa
23 July: Yvonne Spain - The Time of My Life
17 September: Speaker and title to be confirmed
19 November: Speaker and title to be confirmed
Watch this space...
