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Editor’s letter

arlier this year, Joyce Fleming died peacefully at her home in Christchurch. The Service to Celebrate Joyce’s life was held on 31st May during which Mike Ward, President of Free Beaches NZ, presented ‘A Tribute to Joyce Fleming’ and this is featured as our leading article. Joyce was a quiet force to be reckoned with. ‘An inspiring woman’ pretty well sums her up, with a passion for a natural environment and creating change where she thought necessary. We didn’t always agree of course, but Joyce always presented her ideas in a quiet and convincing manner. There were numerous ‘causes’ where Joyce’s enthusiasm and passion made a tremendous difference to Pineglades Naturist Club, including introducing the game of miniten! The presentation of a grounds management plan incorporating the beautiful arboretum which has given so much pleasure to members and visitors alike, was due in no small measure to Joyce’s thorough research and dedication to ensure the plan was followed through. However it was on the promotion front where Joyce excelled; ‘collaborating’ with many others over the years, with several ideas to encourage others, particularly women, to enjoy clothes free living. One of her promotional coups was in NZ Women’s Weekly, but oh dear, the headline ‘I’m a Nudist Nana’ did not go down well at all! Before she became proficient with her computer, we would spend hours on the telephone “rabbiting on” as she was known to do. Joyce contributed numerous articles for gonatural magazine. Always looking for a new “angle” her creative contributions were a delight to read. Even at 86 years of age. Members of the New Zealand Naturist Federation and readers of gonatural magazine join me in extending our sincere condolences to Joyce’s extended family and to Bert. Check out the Polar Plunge feature in this issue. There were so many people getting their kit off and celebrating the Winter Solstice this year, and we received some super photos too! Your contributions are very much appreciated. Many thanks also to all our wonderful advertisers and readers who continue to support gonatural magazine. Thanks to the support and resources of Tourism New Zealand, and the sterling efforts of June CampbellTong and Donna Miller, I will travel to Ireland in September and attend the INF Congress. As Steering Committee Chair, my role is to present a submission on behalf of the NZNF to host the 2016 International Congress of Naturism in New Zealand. Is mian liom luck maith.

Kay Hannam Managing Editor

Deadline for the December issue - 17th October Front cover: June at Nudefest - Photo Steve Betts Left: Becky at Wai-natur - Photo Brian Williams

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Vanessa at Otama Beach - Photo by Daniel Jackson

Contents Editor’s letter....................................................1 Tribute to Joyce Fleming..................................3 INF Congress 2016 bid update........................6 Nudefest 2014..................................................7 Spring - a time for new beginnings....................10 Postcard from France .....................................12 Festivals.....................................14 Nude Golf International...................................17 Polar Plunge ...................................................20

Fire and water in the southern sun...................22 Winter Solace at the Winter Solstice................23 Sometimes everything turns out rosy...............24 Fire! Fire! Quick - grab the extinguisher!.........26 NZ Listings Naturist Clubs and Resorts........28 What’s On.......................................................29 Subscribe to your magazine ............................31 International Publications...............................32 Around & About...............................................37

Issue #230 Sep 2014

Contributors: Steve Betts June Campbell-Tong Paul Campion Kay Hannam John Lowe Nick Lowe Wilma Kremer

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A Tribute to Joyce Fleming Compiled by Mike Ward, President FBNZ Inc

he Service to Celebrate Joyce’s Life was held at Lamb and Hayward’s Westpark Chapel on Wairakei Road Christchurch, at 2PM on Saturday 31st May 2014. It was very well attended by almost 200 people of all ages. It was Joyce’s wish that the service should only be performed by someone who had read her book and understood her life. What was important to Joyce, something she was quite adamant about, was that the service should be not a dour affair but a celebration that acknowledged the part that naturism played in her life. Celebrant Rob Thomson, an Anglican priest who had read Joyce’s book, had listened to her radio interviews, felt that he understood her well from these. He honoured her wish. Joyce’s daughter Christine spoke first, followed by her brother John, who both reminisced on their lives with Joyce. They are immensely proud of the way Joyce’s passing happened naturally, peacefully and the way she would have wanted it. Mike Ward, President of Free Beaches New Zealand Inc. spoke on behalf of FBNZ and the New Zealand naturist community. Joyce was such a major personality in the naturist world, who had played such

an important and pivotal part of the development of the naturist community throughout her life in New Zealand. The final speaker was Ros Birney, a neighbour of Joyce who was a ‘Friend of Muir Park’, as was Joyce, who cared so much about Muir Park and its beautiful trees. Ros explained that Joyce was heartbroken that the council had heavily coppiced some cherry trees that Joyce so loved, shortly before she passed away. There were two hymns; Pilgrim’s Progress and Blest Are the Pure in Heart. The Lord’s Prayer, (thankfully the traditional wording) was also given. During the service, Joyce’s granddaughter Priya, who is Hare Krishna, performed a moving, gentle and spiritual Indian-style dance that she had designed and choreographed specially for the service. There was a slide show of photos of Joyce’s life – a tribute of photos of Joyce compiled by Christine’s daughter, set to ‘The Humming Chorus’ from Madame Butterfly, which was such a favourite piece for Joyce. This slide show included an obligatory shot of Joyce, au naturel of course, frolicking in the sea. The show wouldn’t have been complete without a representation of one of her fa-

vourite pastimes, wearing her favourite costume. It was so appropriate that Joyce’s favourite song ‘La Mer’ (The Sea) by French singer-songwriter Charles Trenet was performed, since she loved the sea so much. Finally, Joyce’s casket was carried out of the hall by family to the Skye Boat Song (an old Scottish Folk song about Bonnie Prince Charlie’s post-battle escape to the Isle of Skye). The service was memorable, a moving and a fitting tribute to the life of one of the few truly inspirational people who has touched so

many lives and who brought so much joy and achieved so much. She was a gentle, loving person, who gave so much of herself throughout her life. She was passionate in what she believed in, but measured, thoughtful and diplomatic. She was so articulate in written word and had such a wonderful gift for projecting these qualities in her many radio interviews. Joyce’s family can be proud of the magnificent send-off that they prepared. Joyce herself would certainly have been proud of her own Celebration Service.

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