Winchester University of the Third Age

CHAIRMAN'S LETTER                         May 2026

Thank-you to the 146 members who came to our AGM and talk in March. We easily made a quorum as well as nearly running out of chairs! I must also thank the three Committee members who resigned this year: Julia Allison, for her work as Secretary and her valuable contribution to discussions; Sian Rolls, for providing lifts and trying to contact members for whom we do not have email addresses; and Vernon Tottle, for 8 years of dedicated service and remarkable commitment, both as Treasurer and a Trustee.

As I mentioned in my AGM report, I do not think that any previous generation has seen such rapid technological progress as we have seen. People are generally able to live longer and the original vision of a university of the third age is a particularly inspiring one, I believe. Whilst the first age is from childhood to adulthood and the second age is that of our working lives, when many of us have also been busy as parents, during the third age of life we usually have far more freedom of choice concerning what we do and how we spend our time.

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