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  \begin{Minutes}{ Lakeside Freethinkers }
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    \participant{John de Waal, John Stokdijk, Henry Laxen,
      Stephen Segall, Michael Rose}
    \minutesdate{May 18, 2016} \starttime{4:06pm}
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    \author{Henry Laxen}
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    \item[JDW] John brought up changing our mission statement, meeting
      time and place, and frequency of meetings.  After a brief
      discussion we decided to keep things the way they are.
    \item[JS] John S. had prepared a book report, but because of
        John DeWaal's email problems, he (JDW) did not know about it,
        and hence did not announce it in the Ojo del Lago.  John
        S. will hold off presenting the report until the next meeting.
    \item[JDW] Mentioned Ashley Montagu's book titled: ``Man's Most
        Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race''
    \item[HL] Said that the most interesting meetings were the ones
      that involved some kind of controversy, such as the one on the
      existence, (or not) of free will. 
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