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Guest Speakers Forum: China Connections Through The Decades

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WEDNESDAY  June 17  2015  
CHINA CONNECTIONS…THROUGH THE DECADES

 A FORUM OF GUEST SPEAKERS

1970’s: Yvonne Fogarty –  NZ Champion Table Tennis Player: “Ping Pong Diplomacy”

1980’s: Thelma Fisher:  “Meeting Rewi Alley”
NZCFS China Tour Dec 1983- Jan 1984 for nurses and educators – how an intermediate school teacher from Oamaru caught a glimpse of life and society in China, including meeting Rewi Alley for afternoon tea.

1990’s: Jim McRae – the 80’s  – oilfield technology in remote areas, and again in the 90’s for 2 years as GM of a joint venture company and also as GM of one of the first wholly foreign owned enterprises in China….

2015: Two students from Dunedin –  A Beijing and Shanghai Choir Trip  – hear their first hand reactions to this new experience.

Time: Wed 17 June 7.00pm

Venue: Burns Rm 1 Dunedin University, Albany St