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.