DECEMBER 2013

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

• The At the Movies interest group will meet at 7pm, Monday, December 2, to discuss the documentary GasLand (2010) and the fictional Promised Land (2012).
• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, December 5.
• WAB's annual Holiday Luncheon and Silent Auction will take place at the Waukegan Ramada Inn on Saturday, December 7.  Bidding will begin at 11am; lunch will be served at noon.

SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2014!

NOVEMBER 2013

• Sponsored by the Midwest Liaison, American Association of University Women (AAUW) National STEM Task Force, Engaging Girls in STEM will be held on Saturday, November 2, from 9:30-11am at the Des Plaines campus of Oakton Community College.  The presenter will be Gerry Oberman, Ph.D.
• The Exploring Culture interest group of the Waukegan Area Branch of AAUW will visit the Driehaus Museum in Chicago on Saturday, November 2.
• The At the Movies interest group will discuss The Secret Life of Words (Spanish, 2005) at 7pm, Monday, November 4.
• Professional actress and storyteller Paddy Lynn will present Meet Emily Dickenson, the Belle of Amherst at the WAB general meeting at 7pm, Tuesday, November 5.  The meeting, which will be held in the community room of the Gurnee Police Facility, is open to the public.
• Honolulu (Alan Brennert) will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, November 7.
• The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm on Thursday, November 21.

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

OCTOBER 2014

Blog is being repaired. Hope to see you again soon.

WAB 2013-2014

Mark your calendar for Waukegan Area Branch AAUW general meetings, always open to the public.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013, 9:30am, Gurnee Police Facility Community Room, National History Teacher of the year Joshua Bill talks about "Bringing Our Fallen Heroes into the Classroom"

OCTOBER 8, 2013, 7:00pm, Gurnee Police Facility, Cyndee Schaffer. author of "Mollie's War"

NOVEMBER 5, 2013, 7:00pm, Gurnee Police Facility, Paddy Lynn presents "The Belle of Amherst"

DECEMBER 7,2013, 11:00am, Saddle Ridge Restaurant (Waukegan), Winter Luncheon & Silent Auction

FEBRUARY 11, 2014, 7:00pm, Gurnee Police Facility, Ty Rohrer presents "Influential Women of Waukegan's Past"

MARCH 11, 2014, 7:00pm, Gurnee Police Facility, Sally Foster presents "Child & Elder Abuse"

APRIL 12, 2014, 11:00am, Lambs Farm (Libertyville), AAUW Scholars Brunch

MAY 12, 2014, 7:00pm, Gurnee Police Facility, Meg Goljenboom presents "Have Courage, Work Hard"

JUNE 10, 2014, 11:00am, Midlane Country Club (Wadsworth), Summer Luncheon & Silent Auction

More important AAUW dates:

OCTOBER 26, 2013...Districts 4&5 Fall Conference...Oakton Community College

JANUARY 18, 2014...Dictrict 5 Networking Luncheon...Embassy Suites, Deerfield

MAY 2-3, 2014...AAUW-IL Convention...Pheasant Run, St. Charles Please check monthly for information on branch interest group and board meetings.

SEPTEMBER 2013

• The Reflections on Reading interest group will meet at 7pm, Thursday, September 5, to discuss Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden.  After the discussion, book choices for October through June will be made.

• Waukegan High School history teach Joshua Bill, 2012 winner of the National History Teacher of the Year Award, will speak at the branch general meeting at 9:30am, Saturday, September 7, at the Gurnee Police Facility (Washington Street & O'Plaine Road).  As usual, this meeting is open to the public.  It is also a potluck brunch, so bring your appetite!

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss two documentary films - Top Secret Rosies (2010) and Bill Cunningham New York (2010) - on Monday, September 9, at 7pm.

• Monday, September 19, 1pm, will see the kick-off of the Book Review interest group.

• The Philippines will be the topic of the Travelogue interest group when it meets at 7pm, Tuesday, September 24.

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, September 26.

AUGUST 2013

JULY 2013

The branch board will have its summer transition meeting, which is a pot luck supper, at the president's home at 6pm, Thursday, July 25.


Check out the national and state websites for news from the conventions.  Links appear in the column to the left.

Congratulations to WAB member Nann Blaine Hilyard (third from right),
who was recently elected AAUW-IL Financial Director!





JUNE 2013

• The Exploring Culture interest group will visit the Lake County Discovery Museum - Lakewood Forest Preserve, Wauconda - Tuesday, June 4.  Featured exhibits include "Modern Masters" (post-WW1 artists), "Mucha: Expanding Art Nouveau" (objects by Alphonse Mucha), and "Migration" (watercolors by Peggy Macnamara).

• The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian's historical novel about the Armenian genocide, will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm. Thursday, June 6.

AAUW Convention

Breaking through Barriers, Leading across Generations

June 9-12

Sheraton Hotel

New Orleans

AAUW IL/MO Convention

(from WAB member Nann Blaine Hilyard's blog With Strings Attached)

 

Monday, May 6, 2013

AAUW-full -- and $500 for LAF!

The AAUW IL/MO state convention was May 3-5 at the Hilton at the Ballpark in downtown St. Louis. We had a joint convention in 2001 and it was high time to try it again.  I left home early Friday and picked up AAUW friend Kate at her house in a western suburb. Despite rain the entire length of I-55, we arrived in St. Louis at noon. 

[Note: to find out more about AAUW just click here:  www.aauw.org]

I always feel so "AAUW-full" after an AAUW convention -- that's "awe-full," not "awful"! -- because our collective efforts to empower women have accomplished so much since 1881 -- and there is still much to do.  AAUW members are interested, interesting, and dedicated.


The Cubs/Cardinals walk around Busch Stadium raised $2319 (Cubs) and $1285 (Cardinals) for a total of $3606 for  the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund which honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to equality and education for women and girls.

AAUW's  Legal Advocacy Fund  (LAF) works to challenge sex discrimination in higher education and the workplace. The speaker Saturday evening was a woman who was sexually harassed and abused while she was in the National Guard, starting with the recruiter who signed her up when she was a junior in high school. The harassment, ostracism, and loneliness she endured during her Guard service (including a deployment to Iraq) were horrible.  AAUW support for a class-action lawsuit has helped both financially and emotionally.  She is now 27 and working as a pediatric nurse in Indianapolis.

I don't always dress to match my quilts!

Every spring I donate a quilt to the Waukegan Area Branch  to raffle to raise funds for AAUW projects.  This year it was Easy Street, the most recent Quiltville mystery. Ticket sales at convention were great!  The net proceeds, $500, will go to LAF.  The LAF plaintiff pulled the winning ticket -- and the winner was delighted!

I took Kate and Shirley May home on Sunday afternoon.  No rain and good company made the drive easier.

Nann

My blog comes "with strings attached" because I value the connections between and among people, organizations, and institutions. I'm a librarian and a quiltmaker who participates in local and national associations.

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MAY 2013

• Margaret Dilloway's novel How to Be an American Housewife will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, May 2.

AAUW Illinois/Missouri Joint Convention

ILuminating & MOtivating Together

May 3-5

Hilton at the Ballpark

St. Louis

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss Postmen in the Mountains (Chinese, 2004 American release) on Monday, May 6, at 7pm.
 
• The May general meeting = 7pm, Tuesday, May 14 - will feature R. J. Lindsey portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Join us at the Gurnee Police Facility.

• The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, May 16.

• The branch board will meet on Thursday, May 23, at 7pm.
 
• A trip on the beautiful blue Danube will be the topic of the Travelogue interest meeting at 7pm, Tuesday, May 28, following a potluck supper.

APRIL 2013

• The Dancer Upstairs (2002) is the next film to be discussed by the At the Movies interest group, which will meet at 7pm, Monday, April 1.

Candidate Forum

Waukegan Unit School District Board Candidates

7pm, Wednesday, April 3

Juarez Middle School

201 N. Butrick Street, Waukegan

• The Reflections on Reading interest group will discuss State of Wonder by Ann Patchett at 7pm, Thursday, April 4.

Candidate Forum

Waukegan Mayor, City Clerk, & Treasurer Candidates

2pm, Saturday, April 6

Park Place

414 S. Lewis Avenue, Waukegan

 

T U E S D A Y,   A P R I L  9

~ELECTION DAY~

~EQUAL PAY DAY~

• The Waukegan Area Branch general meeting this month will be the AAUW-IL District 5 Education Opportunities Fund Scholars Brunch at 11am, Saturday, April 13, at Lambs Farm, Libertyville.  Recipients of grants and fellowships will explain the work they are doing thanks to funding from AAUW.

Branch EOF Fundraiser

Lone Star Steak House

Gurnee Mills

April 14-21

• The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, April 18.
• Glacier National Park will be the topic of discussion at the Travelogue interest group meeting, 7pm, Tuesday, April 23.

Forum on Wrongful Convictions "Women's Project"

3:30pm, Sunday, April 28

Lake Forest College

Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, Lake Forest



 



 



MARCH 2013

Local Authors Day

Saturday, March 2

11:00am - 2:30pm

Lake Forest Book Store

680 N. Western Avenue, Lake Forest, IL

Featuring AAUW member & women's historian/author Barbara Joan Zeitz

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss the Danish film In a Better World (2010, 2011 in U.S.), which won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for best foreign film, at 7pm, Monday, March 4.

• Due to inclement weather, Reflections on Reading interest group discussion of Sandcastle Girls will be rescheduled at a later date.  Meanwhile, at 7pm, Thursday, March 7, the group will discuss Moloka'i (Alan Brennert).
 
International Women's Day
Friday, March 8
10:30am - International Fair, Noon - Keynote Luncheon
The Union League Club of Chicago
65 W. Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL
For more information or to register, please visit www.chicagowomensday.org
(Co-sponsored by AAUW Illinois)
 
LAKE COUNTY WOMEN'S COALTITION
Women's History Month Event
Featured: Lise Eliot, PhD, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain
Saturday, March 9
9am registration, 9:30am brunch ($10)
State of the Lakes Bank
50 Commerce Drive, Grayslake, IL
 
• The 7pm, Tuesday, March 12, general meeting of WABAAW will be held at the Zion-Benton Public Library.  Julia Pendl will speak about her book Memoir of the Sunday Brunch.  As  usual, this meeting is free and open to the public.

International SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day Events

Free screenings of the film Divan

Featuring Pearl Gluck, introduction by AAUW member Jan Lisa Huttner

6pm, Wednesday, March 13, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, IL

1pm, Thursday, March 14, Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL

• The Book Review interest group will meet at 1pm, Thursday, March 21.

• The Philippines will be the topic of discussion when the Travelogue interest group meets at 7pm, Tuesday, March 26.

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, March 28.

February 2013 Update

 

The Waukegan Area Branch of AAUW

was represented by 11 members and two guests

 at the February 2

District 5 Networking Luncheon

in Deefield.

 

Please note the following changes of date from the previous post:

• 7pm, Thursday, February 21...branch board meeting
• 7pm, Thursday, February 28...Reflections on Reading (Sandcastle Girls) 

FEBRUARY 2013

• The AAUW Illinois District 5 Annual Networking Luncheon will take place at the Deerfield Hyatt on Saturday, February 2...registration at 11:30am, lunch at noon.  The guest speaker will be former US Congressional Representative Melissa Bean.

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese film) at its 7:00pm, Monday, February 4, meeting.

• The Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian, will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at the 7:00pm, Thursday, February 7, meeting.

• Join the Waukegan Area Branch of AAUW for its general meeting, 7:00pm, Tuesday, February 12, at the Gurnee Police Facility (Washington Street & O'Plaine Road).  Guest Pamela Welcome will portray Harriet Tubman and tell her remarkable story as part of Black History Month.

• WABAAUW and the Lake County League of Women Voters will co-sponsor a candidates forum at Park Place in Waukegan at 1:30pm, Sunday, February 17.  Three candidates for mayor and five candidates for city clerk are expected to be present.

• The Travelogue interest group will meet at 7:00pm, Tuesday, February 26.  The presentation will be about New Zealand.

• The branch board will meetat 7:00pm, Thursday, February 28.

JANUARY 2013

Happy New Year!

 

 

AAUW-IL District 5

30th Annual Networking Luncheon

11:30am, Saturday, February 2, 2013

Deerfield Hyatt

1750 Lake Cook Road

Deerfield, IL 60015

847-945-3000

 

Speaker:  Melissa Bean, U.S. Representative 2005 -11

~Open to the public~ 

Lunch $40

 

RSVP by January 18

Donna Zimmerman, donnamz@sbcglobal.net

 

• The board of the Waukegan Area Branch will meet at 7pm, Thursday, January 24.
• Branch interest groups resume activity in February.