DECEMBER 2015

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 

The Waukegan Area Branch has a modified schedule of events during winter months, but we're still alive and well!  Enjoy the season!

 

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, December 3.

 

Jane Addams Day Celebration

2-3:30pm, Saturday, December 5

Hull House Museum/Residents' Dining Hall

800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago

$10

RSVP Chicagoaauw@hotmail.com

 

• The At the Movies interest group will get together at 7pm, Monday, December 7, to discuss Smila's Sense of Snow (1997).

 

• Helen Simonson's novel Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, December 10.

 

WAB Holiday Luncheon

Midlane Country Club

4555 Yorkhouse Road, Wadsworth

Saturday, December 12

11am...silent auction

noon...lunch

$29

Questions?  jps151@comcast.net 

NOVEMBER 2015

• The Reflections on Reading interest group will discuss Nickolas Butler's novel Shotgun Lovesongs at 7pm, Thursday, November 5.

• The compelling documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2013) will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group at 7pm, Monday, November 9.

• Please come to the branch general meeting - open to the public- 7pm, Tuesday, November 10, at the Gurnee Police Facility (Washington & O'Plaine).  Author Gail Lukasik will tell us about her genealogical journey documented on the television program Genealogy Roadshow.  Signed copies of Lukasik's book Peak Season for Murder will be available for purchase.  Visit http://gaillukasik.com.

• Reservations for the branch holiday luncheon - Saturday, December 12, Midlane Country Club, Wadsworth - are due to the branch treasurer.  Info?  wabaauw@gmail.com.

AAUW-IL, Inc., Northern Fall Conference 2015

 

Members of the Waukegan Area Branch of AAUW

attended the Fall Conference

October 10

at Oakton Community College.

 

We provided an outstanding speaker!

OCTOBER 2015

• Tuesday, October 1, 7pm...Reflections on Reading interest group

• Monday, October 5, 7pm...At the Movies interest group

 

Saturday, October 10, 9am-noon

AAUW-IL, Inc.

Northern Fall Conference

Oakton Community College

Des Plaines Campus

 

 

• Sunday, October 11...INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL

 

• Tuesday, October 13, 7pm...General Meeting, Gurnee Police Facility...topic: Charter Schools...as always, this meeting is open to the public.

 

• Tuesday, October 20, 7pm...Travelogue interest group

 

• Thursday, October 22, 7pm...Branch Board

 



SEPTEMBER 2015

Welcome to our new year!

 

 

• The Reflections on Reading interest group will kick off the year with a discussion of Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch at 7pm, Thursday, September 10.



• If you want to learn more about AAUW, please come to our Saturday, September 12, general meeting at the Gurnee Police Facility (Washington & O'Plaine). The potluck brunch will begin at 9am.  Then we will watch and discuss the AAUW video One AAUW, which will update us on AAUW's initiatives.  As always, this general meeting is open to the public.

 

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss the film Osama (2003) at its 7pm, Monday, September 14, meeting.

 

• "Why Redistricting Matters" will be the topic of Christopher Butler's presentation at 7pm, Wednesday, September 16, at the Park Ridge Library.  Butler is associated with the group Independent Maps.

 

• The film I Am a Girl will be shown at AMC Showplace 16 in Rockford at 7:30pm, Monday, September 21.  Reserve your ticket at http://gathr.us/screening/11613

 

• The Travelogue interest group will learn about "Basel to Amsterdam" at its7pm, Tuesday, September 22, meeting.

 

WELCOME BACK!

 

 



 



AAUW-IL Public Policy

Former AAUW-IL lobbyist Paula Perdue and current AAUW-IL Public Policy co-chair Jo-An Sabonjian held a public policy meet up for 30 District 4 & 5 members on August 22.

AUGUST 2015

 

Women's Equality Day Event

7pm, Tuesday, August 25

Warren Newport Public Library

"Lake County Women Who Made History"

Presenter: Diana Dretske, Lake County History Museum

Joined by women's historians/authors

Barbara Joan Zeitz and Mary Goljenboom

Sponsored by the Lake County Women's Coalition
Register online at wnpl.info or call 847-244-5150, "4"

Plans for another wonderful AAUW year are being made.
Branch activities will resume in September.
Stay tuned....

JULY 2015

The branch board will have its transition meeting/pot luck supper at 6pm, Thursday, July 23, at the home of the incoming president.

ENJOY THE SUMMER!

 

JUNE 2015

The Program Planning Committee will meet at 9am, Monday, June 8, at the Gurnee Panera.

 

Waukegan Area Branch

Summer Luncheon & Silent Auction

11am, Tuesday, June 16

Midlane Country Club

Wadsworth, IL 60083

$24 per person

Guests are welcome!

contact June, jps151@comcast.net

 

 

AAUW Convention

San Diego

June18-21

for information, go to

http://AAUW.org



MAY 2015

AAUW-IL, Inc., Annual Convention

Friday, May 1, and Saturday, May 2

Hilton Doubletree

Bloomington

 

 

• The At the Movies interest group will discuss The Hundred Foot Journey (2014) at its 7pm, Monday, May 4, meeting.

 

• Elizabeth Stroud's novel The Burgess Boys will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at it's 7pm, Thursday, May 7, meeting.

 

• This month's general meeting - 7pm, Tuesday, May 12 - will feature Kristine Bunch, who will tell about her wrongful conviction and exoneration for murder of her three-year-old son.  As always, the general meeting is open to the public.

 

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

April 2015

• The film Before Midnight (2013) will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group at 7pm, Monday, April 6.

• The Reflections on Reading interest group will discuss Malala Yousafzai's I Am Malala at its 7pm, Thursday, April 9, meeting.

 

AAUW-IL District 5

Scholars Brunch

11am, Saturday, April 11

Lambs Farm

Rte. 176 & I-294/Illinois Tollway

Libertyville

 

 

APRIL 14

EQUAL PAY DAY

Noon Rally at Daley Plaza

Chicago

 

• A member's trip to Germany will be discussed at the 7pm, Tuesday, April 21, meeting of the Travelogue interest group.

 

• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, April 23.

 



MARCH 2015

• Because last month's At the Movies was cancelled due to bad weather, two films - Belle and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - will be discussed at the 7pm, Monday, March 2, meeting.

• Melanie Benjamin's historical novel The Aviator's Wife  will be discussed by the Reflections on Reading interest group at 7pm, Thursday, March 5.

Lake County Women's Coalition

Women's History Month Brunch

9am, Saturday, March 7

Brae Loch Country Club, Grayslake

Speaker: Pamela Welcome, portraying Sojourner Truth

 

 

International Women's Day

Monday, March 9

International Fair: 10:30am; Luncheon:  noon

Union League Club, Chicago

 

 

• The 7pm, Tuesday, March 10, branch general meeting will feature Fran Colboth and Helen Scott with the program "Women's Firsts," which covers 400 years of American history.  Join us at the Gurnee Police Facility.  As always, this general meeting is open to the public.

 

• The Travelogue interest group will meet at 7pm, Tuesday, March 24.  Newfoundland and Labrador will be discussed.

 

• The Branch Board will meet Thursday, March 26, at 7pm.

WAB in February 2015

 

Ruth Hull Chatlien, author of The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte (Readers Choice gold medal winner), addressed members of the Reflections on Reading interest group.

 

 

Waukegan Area Branch members attended the District 5 Networking Luncheon.

 

 

FEBRUARY 2015

• The 2014 film Belle will be discussed by the At the Movies interest group at 7pm, Monday, February 2...weather permitting.

• Author Ruth Hull Chatlien will give a presentation on her 2013 historical novel The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte at the 7pm, Thursday, February 5, meeting of the Reflections on Reading interest group.

AAUW-IL District 5

Networking Luncheon

11:30am, Saturday, February 7

Deerfield Embassy Suites

Speaker: Dr. Lise Eliot

 

• Elyse Dobney, specialist for STOP-IT - The Salvation Army's Family & Community Services Organization for Victims of Human Trafficking - will speak at the February 10 general meeting.  This meeting will be at 6:30pm at the Warren-Newport Public Library and is co-sponsored by the Alpha Nu & Beta Upsilon chapters of the educational group Delta Kappa Gamma.  As usual, this general meeting is open to the public.  Hope you can join us!

• Spain will be visited by the Travelogue interest group at 7pm, Tuesday, February 17.

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

 

 



January 2015

 

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

 

• The state board will meet at 10am, Saturday, January 10, in Bloomington.
• The branch board will meet at 7pm, Thursday, January 22.
• Plans for another wonderful year are underway.

 

 

AAUW, AAUW-IL, & WABAAUW

wish you & yours a happy, healthy, productive 2015!