Barbara Starrett SaddleBrooke Freethinkers are proud to have Daisy Vargas, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Arizona, College of Humanities, speak on “Religion, Identity, and Encounter in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” on Sunday, April 21, at 9:45 a.m. This talk will focus on how Mexican Catholic religious practices aid and inform the maintenance…
Barbara Starrett SaddleBrooke Freethinkers Randy Smith, treasurer, and Barbara Starrett, president, present a check for $750 to Cynthia Chevalley, executive director of the Tri-Community Food Bank, to help support their program. Food banks and food pantries like Tri-Community Food Bank organize the collection of food donations and distribution to those in need. Most non-profit hunger…
Barbara Starrett SaddleBrooke Freethinkers is honored to have Professor Monica Casper Ph.D. speak on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, at 10 a.m. at the MountainView Ballroom with coffee social at 9:30 a.m. Doctor Casper, with three decades of research and action on issues related to violence against women and gender-based violence, will provide a contemporary overview…
Barbara Starrett On Sunday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. at the MountainView Ballroom, SaddleBrooke Freethinkers is proud to present Hate Crimes with Kent Burbank, MSW and Denis Provencher, PhD. The FBI defines hate crimes as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or part by an offender’s bias against a race,…
Barbara Starrett Climate Change Science and Policy Options will be the topic for the upcoming Freethinkers meeting on Sunday, March 26, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. (with coffee social at 9:30 a.m.) at the HOA 2 MountainView Ballroom. Dr. Lockwood Carlson will discuss climate changes in the last few hundred years and the key roles of…
George Citron and Barbara Starrett Richard Gilman, a Tucsonan who became publisher of the Boston Globe and today advocates for a better education for all kids, will address the SaddleBrooke Freethinkers Club on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at the HOA 2 MountainView Ballroom at 10:00 a.m. Coffee social starts at 9:30 a.m. His topic will be…
Carolyn Badger Do you get exhausted around fast-paced people, or impatient around slow-paced people? Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do you know your primary personality style and that of your mate, family and friends? On Sunday, December 18 at the SaddleBrooke One Activity Center, you’ll hear how your personality style affects your interaction…
Fran Berman On Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. in the MountainView Ballroom, SaddleBrooke Freethinkers welcomes Dr. Bonnie Buntain who will speak about One Health. One Health is the interconnectedness of the health of people, domestic animals and wildlife and our shared environment called ecosystems. This interconnectedness has positive and negative impacts on our…
Patti R. Albaugh Barbara Starrett, M.D., president of the SaddleBrooke Freethinkers, spoke to the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary on the origins and focus of her organization. Dr. Starrett comes well qualified to lead an organization such as Freethinkers. She is a retired board-certified internist who was a pioneer in efforts to bring quality health care to…
Fran Berman Did you think the April 24 presentation on Cognitive Behavior Therapy was the last opportunity to meet with Freethinkers until October? Well you don’t have to wait several months to mingle with other Freethinkers. Monthly throughout the year we meet at the Roadrunner Grill for Thirdsty Thursday. While there were only a few…