St. Croix Valley

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

Schedule to be announced by Sept, 2009

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

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.