News and Announcements

Note to Central New York Mensa members:
The Central New York Mensa web site now has a new page with information available only to current Mensa members! Check out www.cny.us.mensa.org/members/index.shtml or simply click on the Members link on the menu on the left.

You will need your member number and the password that you currently use to access members-only information on the national web site. If you do not have, or do not know, your current password, contact the National Office via the Member Login page.

The Members page was last updated Thursday, October 1, 2009.


Our next monthly meeting will be Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The October monthly meeting has been cancelled.

See the Members page for details about the location of our November meeting.

(There is no regular monthly meeting in December. In December, Central New York Mensa combines its monthly meeting with the December dinner gathering for members and their guests.)


Our next dinner gathering in October 2009 has also been cancelled, due to our planned location closing. Watch this space for any updates later in the month.


Our next local testing session will be October 24, 2009.
See the Testing page for more information.

About Central New York Mensa

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Central New York Mensa covers the Central New York area. Our largest city is Syracuse, New York. Our area extends:

We are Group 130 in Region 1 in American Mensa .

Our local president, editor and membership officer is Paul Baxter.
You can contact Paul via e-mail at locsec@cny.us.mensa.org .
Central New York Mensa members can e-mail Paul to get on the distribution list for Central NY Mensa Extra!, the e-mail supplement to Empire , the newsletter of Central New York Mensa.

Our local proctor coordinator is Frank Laifer.
You can contact Frank via e-mail at testing@cny.us.mensa.org .

Our treasurer is Robert Mussi.

We meet monthly.  January through November, we meet on the first Thursday of the month. (In December, we have a members-and-guests-only combined meeting and holiday dinner.)

We have our own local events , and our local communities also have events.

Our neighbors are Mensa Canada , Mensa of Northeastern New York , Mid-Hudson Mensa , Mensa of the Southern Tier of New York, and Rochester Area Mensa .

We do periodic local testing sessions for admission to Mensa for those candidates who do not have a pre-existing score from a qualifying test.

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