Dear Members and Friends,

We are holding our Summer Solstice Luncheon on Sunday afternoon, June 28, at the Royal East Restaurant, 782 Main St., Cambridge at one o'clock. And you are invited - of course!

The ambience and the food are wonderful, friendliness abounds. This year we will be celebrating for a special reason. Our national organization, the American Humanist Association, has designated us as "Chapter of the Year," an honor bestowed earlier this month in Phoenix, AZ at the Annual Conference of the AHA.. We received great praise (for just being who we are), a framed citation, and a check for $500. It was fun.

One very happy effect of that occasion was the willingness, the eagerness, of the AHA president to speak at the June Luncheon. He is our own David Niose, a husband/father and lawyer/writer in the Fitchburg area, and a member of our board of directors. He heads the AHA at an eventful time for Humanism, when its ranks are expanding, its programs multiplying,  and the media focussing on our secular causes, such as separations of church and state, civil rights and gay rights, educational reform, health care and world peace. What is he seeing from his advantaged heights in Washington, DC and how does he size up the Obama administration?  He'll tell us at our summer luncheon.

Our president, Dr. Joe Gerstein, and the Board join me in wishing you a healthy and relaxing summer,

Tom Ferrick

Update 1:  While you are thinking about it, please reply by email or call in your reservation today, (617--547-1497) -- that's necessary. Deadline to reserve: the last Friday of June. Plan on paying $21.00 per person, by cash or check, when you arrive at the restaurant, (or ahead of time by mail). 

Update 2: Directions to the restaurant’s Parking Lot:  In Cambridge’s Central Square area, turn from Massachusetts Avenue onto Main Street.  After passing by the Royal East on your right, take the next right, Windsor Street, and turn into the first parking lot on your LEFT, repeat, LEFT). 

Update 3:  Members of the Board of Directors will meet at the Royal East at 11:45 AM.