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23rd IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1975
Orono, Maine, USA

from Vegetarian Voice, Vol.2, No.4, Jul/Aug 1975:

Congress Program

Thursday, August 21

9:00 - 10:15 A.M.

  • CHILDREN'S PROGRAM: HOW TO BE KIND - Victoria Mucie -Day-Care Ctr. (Lingyel Hall)

  • YOUTH SESSION: VEGETARIANISM - KEY TO A BETTER LIFE - Nat Altman - Carnegie, rm 202

    (All 9:00 - 10:15 classes today are 1-day classes)
  • THE RECOVERY OF CULTURE (repeat)
    Prof. Henry Bailey Stevens - Main Gym
  • FEEDING TOTAL-VEGETARIAN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
    Freya Dinsha and Margaret Gunn-King - Hauck Auditorium
  • DIABETES AND HYPOCLYCEMIA
    Dr. Alec Burton - Bennett, rm. 137
    Victoras Kulvinskas - Boardman, rm. 137
  • NATURAL RECOVERIES FROM GANGRENE, CEREBRL PALSY. POLIOMYLITIS (talk & films)
    Dr. Manuel J. Londono - Aubert Hall, room 316
  • VEGETARIAN IDEALS IN THE WORLD OF REALITY
    Neil Ehmke - Nutting Hall, rm. 100
  • COMAPARATIVE ANATOMY & VEGETARIANISM
    Bob Lewanski - Little Hall, rm. 120
  • VEGETARIAN PHILOSOPHY OF PYTHAGORAS
    Dr. David A. Phillips - Little Hall, rm. 130
  • VEGETARIANISM AND ANIMAL WELFARE
    Peter Hoffman - Barrows Hall, rm.153
  • DON'T LET THE C-A-T (Caffeine-Alcohol-Tobacco) GET YOUR TONGUE
    Dr. H. J. Steed - Murray, rm. 102
    Dr. Keki R. Sidhwa - Little Hall rm. 140
  • THE CARE AND FEEDING OF VEGETARIAN PETS
    Dudley Ghiel - Bennett, rm. 110
  • ETHICAL AND MORAL ASPECTS OF VEGETARIANISM (repeat)
    Prof. Tom Regan - Bennett, rm. 141
  • "ORGANIC" BREAD-MAKING
    Leonard Lasky - Coburn, rm.15
  • VEGETARIAN COOKERY
    Chefs of the Golden Temple - Conscious Cookery (Boston & Washington) - North Stevens, room 37
  • VEGETARIANISM IN THE MEDICAL WORLD
    Dr. Conrad Latto - Boardman, room 344
  • THE TRAGEDY OF FACTORY FARMING (rpt)
    Dipl. Ing. Julius Fleischanderl - Jenness 100
  • YOGA AND NATURAL CHILDBIRTH (repeat)
    Shri Suresh Bhamre - Little Hall, room 203
  • WORKSHOP: ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION (rpt)
    Cond. by Dr. M. Bhamgara - Shibles, room 207

10:45 A.M. - NOON

  • YOUTH SESSION: DON'T LET THE C-A-T (Caffeine-Alcohol-Tobacco) GET YOUR TONGUE
    Dr. H. J. Steed - Carnegie rm. 202
  • LIVING THE GOOD LIFE, PART II
    Scott and Helen Nearing - Main Gym

  • SYMPOSIUM: VEGETARIANISM IN RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIFE, PART I (OF 3 PARTS)
    Moderator, Louis Warter - Hauck Auditorium
    Viewpoints to be presented in this first session: Satguru Jagjit Singh Ji (Namdhari Sikh); Daniel Marshall (Catholic); Shri Panachand Shah (Jain - Mahavira & Vegetarianism); Rev. Stoy Proctor (Protestant: SDA); Ananda Marg, to be announced.

  • SYMPOSIUM: VEGETARIANISM AND NATURAL LIVING AROUND THE WORLD, PART II
    - Bennet Hall, room 137
    Chairman: Mr. Philip Pick
    Mrs. Madge Cockburn, Australia; Fred Whittle, Australia; Lic. German Alberti, Venezuela; Prof. Otto Robinsohn, Israel; and others.

  • BALANCED PROGRAM FOR NATURAL LIVING, II
    Dr. Karl-Otto Aly - Aubert Hall, room 316
    Dr. Ralph Bircher - Nutting Hall, room 100
    Dr. Edwin Flatto - Little Hall, rm. 120
    Rev. Alice Holtman - N. Stevens, rm 37
  • PROTEIN, VITAMINS, MINERALS, PART II
    Dr. David A. Phillips - Little Hall, rm 140
    Dr. Henry J. Weber - Aubert Hall, room 428
  • NATURAL CHILDBIRTH & INFANT FEEDING II
    R. J. Cheetham - Bennett, rm. 141
  • NATURAL EYE CARE EXERCISES, PART II
    Robert Zuraw - Bennett, rm 140
  • VEGETARIAN COOKERY, PART II
    Edythe Schechter - Little Hall, room 110
  • RAW FOOD AND SPROUTS
    Dr. Ann Wigmore - Little Hall, rm. 130
  • WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FIRST-AID
    Dr. Alec Burton - Barrows, room 153
  • THE FOOD & ENERGY CRISIS (talk & film)
    Jack Lucas - Murray, room 102
  • PANEL: STARTING A LOCAL VEGETARIAN GROUP IN YOUR AREA
    Moderator: H. Jay Dinshah
    Brian Graff
    Robert Pinkus
    - Boardman Hall, room 336
  • THE VEGAN VIEWPOINT
    Serena Coles - Coburn, rm. 15
  • ETHICAL & MORAL ASPECTS OF VEGETARIANISM
    Prof. Wilhelm Brockhaus - Jenness, rm. 100
  • THE SCIENCE OF PHYSICAL PERFECTION (rpt)
    Laureen Walters - Shibles, room 207

2:00 - 4:15 P.M.

PARA-DESA
A CELEBRATION IN MUSIC AND DANCE
of
THE EPIC POEM
by
HENRY BAILEY STEVENS
- WITH THE PAUL WINTER CONSORT
and
THE DIVINE LIGHT DANCERS
And Featuring Joel Andrews, Harpist
(LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED)

7:15 - 7:30 P.M.

  • MUSICAL PRELUDE TO THE EVENING SESSION IN THE MAIN GYM, AT NORTH END OF MALL

7:30 SHARP! - 9:30 P.M.

  • PLENARY SESSION - IN THE MAIN GYM
    Chairman for this session: Rubin Abramovitz
    BEAUTY WITHOUT CRUELTY
    Dr. Ethel Thurston (20 min)
    ADVENTURES IN AMERICA'S GREEN REVOLUTION
    Dr. Willis B. Hunting (20 min)
    BLUEPRINT FOR A HUMANE WORLD
    Serena Coles (20 min)
    THE HEALTHY HUNZAS
    Dr. Jay Milton Hoffman (30 min)
    VEGETARIANISM AND NATURAL HYGIENE
    R. J. Cheetham (20 min)

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