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Cablecast and web streaming of program in series Upcoming Cable Television/Web Show: For details of airing see bottom of page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday SEPTEMBER 22, GUEST: JOHN RAFFERTY
President:
"The Secular Humanist Society of New York" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you tube link below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jitNT7ze0g4 - JOHN RAFFERTY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More about: JOHN RAFFERTY & SECULAR HUMANIST SOCIETY of NEW YORK JOHN RAFFERTY – C.V.
I have been a philosophical humanist all my life, and became an active one when I joined the Secular Humanist Society of New York in 1997. Over the next several years I became a regular contributor to the SHSNY newsletter, PIQUE, and joined the SHSNY Board of Directors in 2003. I became the Editor of PIQUE in 2004, and in 2007 was elected President of the Society, positions I still hold.
In 2012 I will assume the Chairmanship of Reasonable New York, a consortium of eleven New York-area freethought organizations (including New York Society for Ethical Culture, Center For Inquiry-NYC, and New York City Skeptics, as well as SHSNY) that work together to advance the cause of reason and science both here and nationally.
I am a professional writer, and have been all my life. The hours are generally good, most people can’t do what I do, and the work involves no heavy lifting.
After college, the army and jobs as a social worker, bartender, junior-high-school teacher and free-lance “true-adventure” writer for pulp men’s magazines, I became a copywriter in the advertising department of Esquire Magazine. I left to be associate creative director of a small advertising agency, then director, and in 1972 started my own firm, an agency specializing in magazine advertising and public relations.
Since dissolving that business in 1988 (the desktop revolution, which I celebrate personally, was doing me in professionally), I have made my living as a copywriter and free-lance creative director, while editing newsletters on scientific equipment, archaeology, and (pro bono, of course) secular humanism.
I am a graduate of Queens College, SUNY (B.A., Philosophy, 1959), and was a New York State Regents Graduate Fellow at The New School for Social Research (1959-61) studying under distinguished humanist Horace Kallen (Secularism is the Will of God), but left (marriage, a child, only one income) before earning my M.A. Currently I am in a three-year graduate-level program in Humanist Leadership conducted by the Humanist Institute.
I am an active member of The Players, America’s oldest theatrical club.
I am four times a father (best job I ever had), eight a grandfather, and live happily in midtown Manhattan with my wife, the nonpareil painter and environ-artist Donna Marxer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOHN RAFFERTY in his own words:
"I'm the
President of
the Secular
Humanist
Society of
New York and
the Editor
of its
newsletter,
PIQUE. I've
been a
humanist all
my life, but
only woke up
to that fact
in the
mid-1990s.
Meeting
other
humanists -
like the
people here
- is a joy."
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest For THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 Individual programs can be viewed each week dayPr (11:00 AM - NOON / (NYC Time) Channel 34 of the Time/Warner, Channel 83 of the RCN, & Channel 33 of the VerizonFiOS Cable Television Systems in Manhattan, New York.
The Program can now also be viewed on the
internet at time of cable casting at:
WWW.MNN.ORG
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