[BES Friends] [Fwd: This weekend and month at BES]

[Stephen Meskin]

Unless otherwise noted all activities take place at the Baltimore 
Ethical Society, 306 West Franklin St.  For more info call 410-581-2322 
or check our web site at www.BaltimoeEthicalSociety.org

The rest of this message has
1) This weekend's activities
2) Activity schedule summary for the month of January
3) Zelda Simon's Obit from yesterday's Columbia Flier
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Memorial Service for Zelda Simon, Sat Jan 6 1 PM
Slayton House, Columbia

1st Saturday Coffee House: Jan 6 starting at 7 PM */_
To approx 9PM ? Refreshments ? Free (donation suggested)
_/**Young People's Literary Moment: Showcasing Work By and Appealing to 
those in High School, Middle School, and Elementary School.* */_

Barbara M. Simon, a Maryland State Art Council Poet In The Schools, and 
Karen Elliott read and discuss their original poetry for young people at 
this Coffeehouse, hosted by Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. 
The "Open Reading" that follows will be limited to students--elementary, 
middle, and high school--reading their own poems or playing music and to 
adults reading poems or playing music appropriate to the evening's theme.

Karen Elliott organized and presented in-class poetry workshops for 8 
years at Hamilton Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore City. She also 
ran a poetry contest for students and teachers. She has published in 
Poets' Ink, was Food Editor for Joe: A Coffee Companion, and recently 
gave a featured reading at the Harford Poetry Society.

Barbara M. Simon is President of Maryland State Poetry & Literary 
Society. She also works with the Maryland State Arts Council as an 
Artist-in-Education as well as teaching creative writing for the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Both a poet and a fiction 
writer, her latest poetry publications have been In The Yard (an Old 
Mountain anthology), Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action, 
and Octopus Dreams, the PoetryInBaltimore.com anthology. Her poems were 
co-featured in a collection brought out in 2004 by the aptly named 
neighborhood press, and she won in 2002 a Maryland Arts Council 
Individual Artist's grant in fiction.

Also featuring 4th grade student Ian Church on recorder and 7th grade 
student Ayla Church reading poetry.

_/*Poetry Group Sun Jan 7, 9:30 am

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_/*Moveable Treats Sun. Jan 7, 10:30 am to Noon*/_

_/*January 7 Platform: "You Ought to be Ashamed"*/_

Fritz Williams, Leader, Baltimore Ethical Society

In our struggles to do well and live good lives, we are guided by 
internal standards and expectations which have a deep hold on us.  For 
better and for worse, our lives are affected by powerful emotions of 
self-appraisal-guilt, pride, embarrassment, self-glorification, and 
shame.  These emotions have a positive impact because they promote 
social responsibility and help  prevent deviant behaviors.  But they 
also have effects which are detrimental to our moral health and 
integrity.  Fritz Williams looks at these powerful interior dimensions 
of our moral lives.

_/Board Meeting (all members are welcome) Sun Jan 7, 12:30 pm

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/*_Sunday Platforms:Promptly at 10:30 am_*/
January 7  "You Ought to be Ashamed" Fritz Williams, Leader of the 
Baltimore Ethical Society
January 14 "An Intimate Dialog on Martin Luther King, Jr." Tony Hileman, 
Senior Leader NY Society for Ethical Culture
January 21 "Is it Time for a Peace Dept?" Ted Nunn, Md Coordinator Peace 
Action Campaign
January 28 "The Companion Paths of Eth. Humanism & Buddhism" Anne 
Klaeysen, Leader Eth. Humanist Soc. of Long Island

_/*Other Activities*/_
Memorial Service for Zelda Simon, Slayton House, Columbia, 1pm to 3 pm
1st Saturday Coffee House Jan 6, 7:00 pm
Moveable Treats Sun. Jan 7, 10:30 am to Noon
Board Meeting (all members are welcome) Sun Jan 7, 12:30 pm
Poetry Group Sun Jan 7, 9:30 am Sun Jan 21, 9:30 am
Eight Commitments Workshop # 3 Sat Jan 13, 6:00 pm or Sun Jan 14, 12:30 
pm  Reservations required for Dec 9 meeting, with pot luck dinner.
Study Group Sun Jan 14, 9:30 am Sun Jan 28, 9:30 am
Newcomers' Meeting Sun Jan 28, 12:15 pm

_/*Snack Schedule*/_
    Jan   7:    A to F
    Jan 14:    G to L
    Jan 21:    M to R
    Jan 28:    S to Z
Please bring a snack on "your" week (based on the first letter of your 
last name).

_/*Zelda Simon*/_

Zelda Simon, of Columbia, died Dec. 24, 2006, at Lorien Nursing Home, in 
Columbia. She was 77.

Born April 29, 1929, in Baltimore, to Albert and Gladys Goldberg, she 
attended a high school in Baltimore and graduated in 1948. She then 
attended Goucher College and graduated in 1951.

A decade later, in 1961, she married Harold C. Simon.

According to family, Ms. Simon lived a robust and enjoyable life with 
her family and friends. She was an avid craftsperson and eventually 
became a master potter.

Her hobbies included knitting, cooking, traveling, reading and doing 
word puzzles.

She was a founding member of the Baltimore Ethical Society since 1950. 
She also founded Columbia's Claythings, a group for potters and she was 
a member of the Baltimore Potters Guild.

For over 15 years, she served as a volunteer for the Howard County 
Public Library, as well as for the Columbia Festival of the Arts.

Ms. Simon was an active member of the community, participating in such 
groups as the Democratic Coalition of Maryland, MadHatters of Howard 
County and the Audubon Society of Central Maryland.

She was predeceased by her husband, Harold C. Simon, and a brother, 
Murray Goldberg.

She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Jan Paris, of Chapel 
Hill, N.C. and Julie Simon and Peter Brecke, of Atlanta, Ga.; a son and 
daughter-in-law, Adam and Julia Amo-Simon, of Yardley, Pa.; a 
sister-in-law, Jean Goldberg, of Golden, Colo.; three grandchildren, 
Alexander and Jackson Simon and Nicholas Simon-Brecke; and many lifelong 
friends.

A Memorial celebration is set for 1 p.m., Jan. 6, 2007, at Slayton House 
in the Wilde Lake Village Center, 10451 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia.

Memorial donations may be made to: The Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W. 
Franklin Street, #102, Baltimore, MD 21201 or to: Friends of Howard 
County Library, P.O. Box 830, Columbia, MD 21044-0830.

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