St. Croix Valley Branch
President: Marjorie Williams
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Greetings from St. Croix Valley Branch AAUW
to friends, members and visitors! You are warmly invited to attend our
meetings at First United Methodist Church in Stillwater on the corner of
Greeley and Myrtle.
General meetings are usually 2nd Mondays,
beginning with a social hour at 6:15 p.m., followed by a business meeting at
6:45 and a speaker at 7:30. January and March meetings are at the same
location, beginning at 9 a.m. with a continental breakfast, followed by a
business meeting and a program at 10:00. Guests of either gender are welcome
at all meetings.
We offer four Special Interest Groups in
Books, Environment, Gourmet Dining, and Movies.
If you are interested in membership,
please call Elena Adams at 651.342.1010. For more details about our
organization, call or email me. We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for visiting the AAUW
website! Marjorie Williams, President
St. Croix Valley Branch
Programs Schedule
First United Methodist Church, 813 W. Myrtle Street, Stillwater, MN 55082
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Schedule to be announced by Sept, 2009 |
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Our programs are
open to the interested public. Membership is open to those individuals holding
an associate or equivalent degree from a qualified educational institution.
Current college students can join as a student affiliate.
Please Come
Join Us ! For
information about AAUW membership and scholarship awards, please call Leslie 651-439-9239
ST.
CROIX VALLEY
Best of the Year
The
St. Croix Valley branch planned its programs for the year and then checked them
against the mission of AAUW. We found that even when we chose the programs
first, our interests fell within the mission of AAUW. Our program speaker for
October 2008 was Dr. David Laird, president and CEO of the Minnesota Private
College Council. We are fortunate to have his wife, Joanne, as a past president
and current member. Dr. Laird educated us on the concerns that higher education
has for the lack of leadership in our secondary schools in preparing our
students, both men and women, to do well in college. He has worked with those
comparing education quality and depth in other industrialized countries with
that of the United States. Young
girls in this country are less likely to take math and science than some other
industrialized countries. We are behind countries like China and India in
producing engineers per population.
Our program for May will
be centered on Women of Uganda. We will be discussing women’s issues of
Uganda, but the United States’ relationship with Africa will be a part of the
discussion. This program came about because a member’s daughter was involved
in a U.S. sponsored program to put qualified and educated young Americans in
Third World countries to help with education and training.
We have spent some time
talking about the Legal Advocacy Fund and giving out information about the cases
going to the Supreme Court that involved equity issues.
Our main fundraiser during
the past several years has been through Herberger’s Community Day Sale. We
have had good participation in the fall, raising money toward EF and LAF.
This year we will give out
two $500 scholarships. We sponsored a student attending the Leadership
Conference last year. We are in discussion about that this year.
We did not celebrate
Women’s History Month except through announcements about it.
We helped to register
college students to vote last fall, an effort that involved several days and
numbers of people at our local community college. We felt it was quite
successful. Some of our members are involved in giving volunteer classes to
students who are new residents of the United States.
We advertise our programs locally. We feel we need to
do a better job of visibility in the community |