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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Any Mensans?
Message-ID: <1941@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 10:41:10 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 10:41:10 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:46:42 EST
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Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
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Summary: 

In article <681@sjuvax.UUCP> bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) writes:
>Mensans hang out with mensans because non
>mensans are so incredibly dull, boring and boorish.  I wouldn't be
>surprised if most of them were maladjusted individuals who couldn't
>interact with society as a whole; and therefore form their own little
>society.

When I joined Mensa in San Francisco in the early 1960s, it was an active
group of not especially maladjusted individuals.  They were interesting,
intelligent, active in the community.  The activities were mostly for fun
(like Serena Jutkowitz' gourmet dining group), but there were serious
activities too -- especially around the problems that isolated high-IQ
children face.

I remember the first Mensa meeting I ever attended.  It was at the elegant
Pacific Heights home of the later infamous and now deceased Jeremy Ets-Hokin.
Someone gave a talk with slides about the Comedia dell'Arte.  Then coffee 
was served and people mingled and talked.

I'm a life member, so I still get Mensa periodicals, even though I haven't
attended anything in a long time.  They seem to be just as lively and
interesting as ever.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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