DECEMBER 2010

• Registration for the AAUW 2011 National Convention begins December 1. The convention--Breaking through Barriers: Advocating for Change--will be held June 16-19 at the Renaissamce Washington, D.C., Hotel. Check it out at http://aauw.org.

• The Waukegan Area AAUW branch board meets 7pm, Thursday, December 2, at the home of the hostess.

• Music Within will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group at 7pm, Monday, December 7, at the home of the hostess. The film is based on the story of Richard Pimentel, who was instrumental in bringing about the Americans with Disabilities Act.

• The annual WABAAUW Holiday Luncheon will be Saturday, December 11, at the Ramada Inn, 200 N. Green Bay Road, Waukegan. The Silent Auction raises funds for AAUW projects. We invite you to come meet us at this social affair.

• AAUW Illinois celebrates Jane Addams 150th Birthday at Hull House in Chicago on Sunday, December 12.

H a p p y ~ H o l i d a y s !

NOVEMBER 2010

• The film Paper Clips (2004) will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group at 7pm, Monday, November 1, at the home of the hostess.

E L E C T I O N ~ D A Y

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2

V O T E !

• Tatiana de Rosnay's novel Sarah's Key will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, November 4, at the home of the hostess.

• Dr. Louise Cainkar, Marquette University professor and author of Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American Experience after 9/11, will address the branch at it's 7pm general meeting, Tuesday, November 9, at the Zion-Benton Public Library. This program is open to the public.

• The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, November 18, at the home of the hostess.

Plan ahead: The Waukegan Area Branch AAUW branch annual holiday luncheon will be held Saturday, December 11, at Saddle Ridge Restaurant, Ramada Inn, 200 N. Green Bay Road, Waukegan. For $20, you'll have a choice of entrees (chicken/beef/fish), shop at the silent auction, and meet branch members. Contact us at wabaauw@gmail.com for more info.

PHOTO OPPS

Waukegan Area Branch members with fundraising quilt at AAUW-IL Fall Conference.
WAB members are ready for the candidate forum.

OCTOBER 2010

• The Ghost Writer (2010) will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group 7pm, Monday, October 4, at the home of the hostess.

• The Reflections on Reading group will discuss Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary at 1pm, Thursday, October 7, at the home of the hostess.

Candidate Forum

6pm, Thursday, October 7, 2010

Waukegan City Hall, Council Chambers

100 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue

Waukegan, IL 60085

Sponsored by AAUW Waukegan Area Branch & Lake County League of Women Voters

• Author/storyteller Lynn Rymarz will portray feminist/journalist Nellie Bly at the general meeting, 7pm, Tuesday, October 12, Waukegan City Hall Council Chambers. This program is open to the public; come check us out!

• The branch will have a fundraising bake sale at the Lake County Courthouse, Wednesday morning, October 13. Proceeds will benefits AAUW projects.

AAUW Illinois Fall Conference

"AAUW: It's the REAL Thing"

9am-1pm, Saturday, October 16

Joliet Junior College

Keynote speaker: Carlynne McDonnell, AAUW California

For further details, go to http://www.aauw-il.org/

• The Book Review interest group will gather at 1pm, Thursday, October 21, at the home of the hostess.

• Russia will be the topic of the Travelogue interest group at 7pm, Tuesday, October 26, at the home of the hostess.

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, October 28, at the home of the hostess.

SEPTEMBER 2010

Here we go again...another wonderful world of AAUW!

• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at the home of the hostess, 7pm, Thursday, September 2.

• The 2003 French film The Butterfly, starring Michel Serrault and Claire Bouanich, will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group, 7pm, Tuesday, September 7, at the home of the hostess.

• Come celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jane Addams birth at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago at noon, Wednesday, September 8. This birthday party is sponsored by the mayor's Office of Special Events.

• Barbara Joan Zeitz will talk about Gender in the Courts at the branch general meeting, 9:30am, Saturday, September 11, at the Gurnee Police Facility. This potluck brunch event is open to the public.

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, September 23, at the home of the hostess.

• A presentation on Egypt will be given at the Travelogue interest group meeting, 7pm, Tuesday, September 28, at the home of the hostess.

• The Exploring Culture interest group will visit the Geneva Lake Museum of History (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin) on Thursday, September 30.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2010/2011

AUGUST
Thursday, 8/26, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

SEPTEMBER
Wednesday, 8/8, noon, Jane Addams 150th Birthday Celebration
Daley Plaza, Chicago (sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Special Events)

Saturday, 9/11, 9:30am, General Meeting, Gurnee Police Facility
Speaker: Barbara Zeitz; topic: Women in the Courts
Pot Luck Brunch

Thursday, 9/23, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

OCTOBER
Tuesday, 10/12, 7pm, General Meeting, Waukegan City Hall
Speaker: Lynn Rymarz; topic: Nellie Bly

Saturday, 10/16, AAUW-IL Fall Conference, Joliet Junior College, Joliet

Thursday, 10/28, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

NOVEMBER
Tuesday, 11/9, 7pm, General Meeting, Zion-Benton Public Library
Speaker: Louise Cainkar; topic: Homeland Insecurity

DECEMBER
Thursday, 12/2, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

Saturday, 12/11, 11am, Luncheon & Silent Auction, Saddle Ridge at Ramada, Waukegan

Sunday, 12/12, 10:30am, Jane Addams 150th Birthday Celebration, Hull House, Chicago

JANUARY
Saturday, 1/22, 11:30am, AAUW-IL District 5 Networking Luncheon, Deerfield Hyatt

FEBRUARY
Tuesday, 2/8, 7pm, General Meeting, Waukegan Public Library
Speaker: Tom Granger, WPD; topic: Identity Theft

Thursday, 2/24, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

MARCH
Saturday, 3/12, 9:30am, General Meeting, Gurnee Police Facility
Topic: The Lost Boys of Sudan
Pot Luck Brunch

Thursday, 3/24, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

APRIL
Saturday, 4/9, 11am, AAUW Scholars Brunch, Lambs Farm, Libertyville

Tuesday, 4/12, 7pm, General Meeting, Cook Memorial Library, Libertyville
Speaker: Shannon Ferguson-Munns; topic: Civil War Women Spies

Thursday, 4/28, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

Friday/Saturday, 4/29-30, AAUW-IL Convention, Par-A-Dice Hotel, Peoria

MAY
Tuesday, 5/10, 7pm, General Meeting, Waukegan Public Library
Speaker: Jean O'Brien Gibbons; topic: Green Buildings

Thursday, 5/26, 7pm, Branch Board Meeting

JUNE
Tuesday, 6/14, 11am, Luncheon & Silent Auction, The Country Squire, Grayslake

Thursday-Sunday, 6/16-19, AAUW Convention, Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC

JULY
details TBA, Branch Board Transition Meeting & Pot Luck

JULY 2010

The Exploring Culture interest group goes to the Lake County Discovery Museum near Wauconda on Thursday, July 8. Currently featured is a display of original art from 65 years of Golden Books.

The branch board will have its summer meeting and pot luck at the home of the branch president, 6pm, Wednesday, July 21.

JUNE 2010

Things for this branch wind down a bit for the summer, but there are still a few important dates:

• June 7--Luncheon RSVP due to branch treasurer

• June 15, Tuesday, 11am--Branch Luncheon, Midlane Country Club, Wadsworth

• June 19--AAUW dues due to branch treasurer

MAY 2010

The AAUW-IL, Inc., Annual Convention continues at the Lisle Hilton on Saturday, May 1. AAUW Executive Director Linda Hallman is the keynote speaker. New state bylaws will be passed, and state officers elections will be held. Click http://www.aauwil.org/ for details.

The At the Movies interest group will meet Monday, May 3, at 7pm. at the home of the hostess, to discuss The Painted Veil, a film based upon a Somerset Maugham novel.

The novel Olive Kitteridge will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group 7pm, Thursday, May 6, at the home of the hostess. Suggestions for next year's books are requested.

The Exploring Culture interest group will go to the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie on Friday, May 7.

Please come to the general meeting of the Waukegan Area Branch, 7pm, Tuesday, May 11, at the Waukegan Public Library's Ray Bradbury Room. A grant from the Illinois Humanities Council brings us Sharon Alter, whose program First Ladies as Activists and Leaders should be very interesting. As usual, this general meeting is open to the public.

The branch will have a bake sale at the Lake County Courthouse on Wednesday, May 12.

The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, May 20, at the home of the hostess.

Learn about travel in Spain at the Travelogue interest group's Tuesday, May 25, pot luck meeting at 6pm, at the home of the hostess.

The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, May27, at the home of the hostess.

EQUAL PAY DAY

Lilly Ledbetter at AAUW Convention

April 20 is Equal Pay Day, the symbolic day when women's wages catch up to men's wages from the year before. Help create awareness of this persistant gap by urging passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act.








More than 46 years after passage of the Equal Pay Act, women continue to earn only 77 cents on the dollar to their male counterparts. In this recession, women now make up half of the workforce; more and more families are relying on women's paychecks to make ends meet. Ensuring that women are paid fairly is more important than ever.

APRIL 2010

• Our At the Movies Interest Group will discuss two films this month: Food, Inc. (2008), a documentary, and Up (2009), an animated feature. One may get us down, but the other will lift us UP at 7pm, Monday, April 5, at the home of the hostess.
  


• Join us at 7pm, Tuesday, April 13, at the Zion-Benton Public Library, for our general meeting. Chemist Ron Wingender will answer the question "How Bad Are Environmental Contaminants?"
  


• The Waukegan Area Branch of AAUW will have a bake sale Wednesday, April 14, at the Lake County Courthouse. Proceeds will be divided between our local scholarship fund and AAUW Funds.
  


• Our Book Review Group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, April 15, at the home of the hostess.

~ THURSDAY, APRIL 20 - EQUAL PAY DAY ~

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, April 22, at the home of the hostess.
  

• Come learn about Costa Rica from a branch member at the home of the hostess, 7pm, Tuesday, April 27, when the Travelogue Group will meet.

APRIL 31 - MAY 1

AAUW-IL, Inc. 86th Annual Convention

AAUW - LEADING THE WAY

Lisle Hyatt

Keynote Speaker: Linda Hallman, AAUW Executive Director

Members/Non-members welcome!

Get more info at http://www.aauw-il.org/

Fundraising Quilt

This gorgeous 80X80" handmade quilt, created by Waukegan Area Branch member Nann Blaine Hilyard, will be raffled at the AAUW-Illinois annual convention, April 30 - May 1, at the Lisle Hyatt. Contact us to find out how to buy tickets ($5 each or 3 for $10) in support of women's education: wabaauw@gmail.com.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

MARCH 2010

• The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield, will be discussed by the Reflections of Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, March 4, at the home of the hostess.
  
  AAUW is celebrating International Women's Day with CARE. Join women all over the country at 7:30pm, Thursday, March 4, in a movie theatre near you--for example, Marcus Cinema at Gurnee Mills--to view Half the Sky LIVE. Learn about the movement to empower women in the fight against global poverty. More info at http://www.halftheskylive.com/.
  
  
  

International Women's Day

Luncheon & Fair

10:30am, Monday, March 8

Union League Club

65 W. Jackson

Chicago

$60

Speaker: Maryn McKenna

http://www.chicagowomensday.org/

• Geraldine L. Obermann, PhD, will speak at the branch general meeting Tuesday, March 9, at 7pm, at the Waukegan Public Library. Obermann is the Great Lakes regional coordinator for the National Girls Collaborative Project and will share ideas about promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) for girls and women.

AAUW Scholars Brunch

11am, Saturday, March 13

Lambs Farm

Rts. 176 and IL-294

Libertyville

$14

Speakers: 4 grant recipients, PhD level

kaymadden@comcast.net

• Join members of the Lake County Women's Coalition at the State Bank of the Lakes, 50 Commerce Street, Grayslake, at 9am, Saturday, March 20, to celebrate Women's History Month. Honorees will be women who served in World War II. Find out more at http://www.lakecountywomen.org/.

• The Travelogue interest group will meet at 7pm, Tuesday, March 23, at the home of the hostess to hear a member tell about her trip to Australia.

• The branch board meeting will be 7pm, Thursday, March 25, at the home of the hostess.

BRUNCH FOR GRANT RECIPIENTS

11am, Saturday, March 13, 2010

Lamb's Farm

Rt. 176 & the Illinois Tollway/Rt. 294

The program will feature the following Educational Opportunity - formerly Educational Foundation - grant recipients:

• Leah Casabianca, Postdoctoral research, chemistry, UI Chicago
• Rebecca Jensen, PhD candidate, inorganic chemistry, Northwestern U
• Yoko Shimpuku of Japan, PhD candidate, nursing, UI Chicago
• Priscilla Viana of Brazil, PhD candidate, Environmental/Sanitary Engineering, UI Chicago

Lunch will be soup, choice of chicken caesar salad or chicken chopped salad, rolls, beverage, and dessert. The cost of the meal, including tax & tip, is $14. Contact kaymadden@comcast.net to make your reservation by March 1.

Come hear the stories of these exeptional women!

Hope you'll be able to be part of this inspirational day!

FEBRUARY 2010

Cadillac Records (2008) will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group Monday, February1, at 7pm, at the home of the hostess.

Rescheduled from January due to bad weather, the meeting of the Reflections on Reading interest group will discuss Eventide by Kent Haruf 7pm, Thursday, February 4, at the home of the hostess.

Join the Waukegan Area Branch at it February general meeting, 9:30am, Saturday, February 8, at the Gurnee Police Facility (Washington Street and O'Plaine Road). Speaker Marcie Carlson, RN at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Zion, will talk about the nursing role in fighting cancer. A potluck brunch will precede the program, which is open to the public.

FEBRUARY 10...AAUW-IL, Inc., Lobby Day!

The State House Inn, Springfield

Contact: femarcus@comcast.net

The Travelogue interest group will meet on Tuesday, February 23, at 7pm, at the home of the hostess. The program will feature photographs and stories about national parks visited by group members.

The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, February 25, at the home of the hostess.

AAUW NETWORKING LUNCHEON

NETWORKING!

Members of the Waukegan Area Branch joined other AAUW members and guests Saturday, January 23, 2010, at the Hyatt in Deerfield, Illinois, for the 27th Annual District 5 Networking Luncheon. Barbara Flynn Currie (fourth from left), State Representative (25th District) and a champion of women's rights, was the speaker.

JANUARY 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome to another wonderful year of AAUW!

• Make a resolution to help break through barriers for women and girls.
• Continue reading this blog, and attend events whenever you can.
• Check out the national organization at http://aauw.org/.
• Learn more about AAUW in Illinois at http://aauw-il.org/.
• Contact the Waukegan Area Branch at wabaauw@gmail.com.

The Waukegan Area Branch has these events planned for January:

The Reflections on Reading interest group will meet at 7pm, Thursday, January 7, at the home of the hostess. The book selection if Eventide by Kent Haruf. This is a sequel to Plainsong, a book this group discussed several years ago.

The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, January 28, at the home of the hostess.

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AAUW-IL District 5

27th Annual Networking Luncheon

11:30am

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Deerfield Hyatt

Guest speaker: Barbara Flynn Currie, State Representative of District 25

Entree choices: salmon, chicken, vegetarian ($35)

Reservations due January 8. For futher information, contact Eleanor McMurrin at emcmurrin@gmail.com.

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HOPE TO SEE YOU IN 2010!