| Chairman (GLAAM LocSec) |
Bruce Smith |
(661) 575-0719 |
send email |
| Media / Public Relations |
Vesper Burnett |
See L.A. Mentary |
send email |
| Gifted Youth |
Madeline Walker |
(310) 569-8415 |
send email |
| Webmaster |
Brian Madsen |
(310) 592-0875 |
send email |
| Mensaphone |
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(323) 960-5542 |
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… or click here for the complete GLAAM contact list.
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Click here for the May, 2012 GLAAM newsletter.
(Requires password. Forgot your password?)
For back issues, see our newsletter page.
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The next few events on our Event Calendar:
- Wednesday, May 16:
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7:30pm, Wednesday Asian Dinner
- Thursday, May 17:
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Noon, Brunch Davidians
- Friday, May 18:
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8:00pm, NTN Gaming Event
- Saturday, May 19:
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9:45am, Coastal Scrabble®
11:00am, Mensa Testing
4:00pm, Singles Mingle!
7:30pm, Folksong SIG
- Sunday, May 20:
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10:00am, COLA Urban Hike
3:00pm, Croquet
4:00pm, Poker/Gaming
4:00pm, Crumpets, and Tea
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The 2012 Hollywood Bowl signup sheet is now available.
(It's a PDF file, so you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat PDF reader, which you can
download here.)
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GLAAM is attending The Book of Mormon musical in October and Peter Pan
in January, both at the Pantages Theater. Contact Madeline Walker at (310) 569-8415 or
Madeline@spidellspecialties.com
to let her know you're interested so she can reserve enough tickets.
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Click here for photos from StaRGazing 2011, GLAAM's annual Regional Gathering.
(We have pictures from StaRGazing 2012 too — lots of 'em. Your webmaster just needs
to find time to organize and upload them. Expect them soon!)
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GLAAM is partnered with
Amazon.com.
A percentage of all sales that start here will go directly to the GLAAM treasury.
Doing so doesn't affect the cost to you, but does help GLAAM collect extra funding
for activities, scholarships, etc. As long as you're going to buy from them anyway,
why not start by clicking on the
Amazon.com
logo?
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Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa (GLAAM) is the Mensa local group for Los Angeles,
Kern, Inyo, and Mono Counties, as well as parts of San Bernardino, Ventura, and
Santa Barbara counties. With approximately 1,500 members, we're one of the largest
local groups in the national organization. Our Calendar
typically lists between 50 and 100 events in our area each month, and there's a
Regional Gathering held each year on Presidents Day weekend.
The detailed calendar can be found in our monthly newsletter, L.A. Mentary:
The Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Commentary. Its other content
includes member letters, Special Interest Group (SIG)
news, a directory of contacts for various activities,
puzzles and organization announcements. Current and
back issues of L.A. Mentary are available on the Web in electronic form.
For convenience and bureaucracy, GLAAM is divided into five
sub-groups, referred to as “areas”: Mid-City, Coastal, the San
Fernando Valley, East L.A. County, and the Hi-Desert. Because Greater Los
Angeles covers a huge area, some local groups have split off from GLAAM as
increasing membership contributed to local activities. These include
Inland Empire Mensa and
Harbor Area Mensa.
Other neighboring local groups are
Orange County Mensa and
Channel Islands Mensa.
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Mensa is an international society with over 100,000 members. The sole qualification
for membership is a score at or above the 98th percentile on any of a number of
standard tests, making it a
virtual melting pot of personalities and ideologies.
Over five million Americans are qualified to join.
Contact our Proctor Coordinator for
information on testing in the Los Angeles area.
Mensa is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to conduct research in psychology
and social science, identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity
and serve as a means for stimulating intellectual and social contacts among its members.
Much of the research and fostering is done by the
Mensa Foundation.
Mensa per se holds no opinions, champions no causes and is not affiliated with
any other organization.
“Mensa” is not an acronym. The word is Latin for “table” and
signifies the round-table nature of the organization, wherein all members are treated
as equals. (We don't spend our time sitting around comparing IQs. Such behavior is
considered rude.) We are well aware the word means other things in other languages
(e.g.: “cafeteria” in German, “stupid woman” in Mexican slang).
We don't care.
Further information about American Mensa can be found at
American Mensa's Web site along with links to
the Web sites of other local and national Mensa organizations and Mensa members around
the world.
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Copyrights, disclaimers, privacy, and policies.
Mensa does not hold any opinions, or have, or express, any political or religious views.
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