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Detained In My Own Country
08/23/2015
Mitzi Loftus

Mitzi Asai Loftus tells of her family background and of her post WW II experiences as a Japanese-American in Oregon. Ms. Loftus was born in Hood River in 1932 of immigrant parents, and was incarcerated in WW II camps in California and Wyoming between 1942 and 1945. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 1954; has taught English as a Second Language and has traveled all over the world. She was proprietor of Evergreen Aquarium in Eugene for three years while bearing three sons. It was in Hanau, Germany that she met Del and Carolee Allen. She currently lives in Ashland.

Science and Spirit, part 1
08/16/2015
E. Baird Smith

Part One of a two-part presentation. Since classical antiquity,
 we have had two perspectives on the nature of reality – one from the head and the other from the heart. We have found science to be more persuasive than religion. But this has led to the loss of the divine.  In this presentation, E. Baird Smith looks at Big History and Evolution in the light of two twentieth century scientists who were also deeply spiritual – Albert Einstein and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. 
Mr. Smith is a teacher of science and theology. He spent thirty years as a computer scientist at IBM programming. After moving to Portland, Oregon, he studied Theology at the Trinity Center for Spiritual Development. (HGP does not take responsibility for material presented by our speakers.)

Scholarships & Humanist Video Theater
08/09/2015
Kay Byerly & Dave DiNucci

This is a two-part program. In part one, Kay Byerly presents the HGP Scholarship Winners for this year. Part two consists of Dave DiNucci’s “Humanist Video Theater #5” in which Dave moderates audience discussion steered by short on-line videos selected to put HGP’s work into a larger context.

Classical Music
08/02/2015
Robert McBride

Classical music is art, science, history, culture, and community. It provides solace and stimulation, entertainment and insight. Thanks to radio and the internet, this art form, ancient and evolving, is available to more people than ever before. Its beauty and power can cross barriers of language and nationality with ease. And it includes the greatest hits of the last thousand years.
 After more than thirty years spent sharing classical music with untold thousands of listeners around the world, I've had many opportunities to reflect on how my work has helped people. I will share some stories, and some of the music that inspired them.

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