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Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Location:  Columbia Area Career Center, 4203 South Providence, Room 173B.  Park at the southwest corner of the building and enter from there.

Dinner will be prepared by Culinary Arts students.  Reservations required. Cost:  $25.  Please note:  If circumstances prevent you from attending, we will still require your payment, as the branch will have guaranteed a specific number of reservations.  Please RSVP to Christine Roberson, croberso@columbia.k12.mo.us  Deadline May 7.  If you have special needs, please let Christine know when you make your reservation.

Program:  Women Behind the Camera,  Paula Elias, Director,  Citizen Jane Film Festival

The Citizen Jane Film Festival celebrates the work of female filmmakers from around the world.  The festival premiered in 2008 and has been held every fall since then on the Stephens College campus and in downtown Columbia,  Paula Elias has directed the festival since its initiation.  She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and the University of Missouri-Columbia, and is currently president of Axiom, a full service advertising agency in Columbia, which she and her husband own.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Location:  First Presbyterian Church, 16 Hitt Street

Program:  Women and Gardening/Business, Betsey Kohler, owner and manager of a gardening business.

Betsey Kohler is the owner of Muddy Boots Gardening.  She has twenty years of experience growing flowers for the Columbia Farmers Market and seven years of experience working with clients on their gardens.  A woman doing a traditionally male job, she finds her business fulfilling and self-rewarding, especially in her relationship to her clients.  She works with them so that together they achieve gardens that reflect the clients’ personalities.

AAUW National Legacy Circle, Sue Barley, Missouri State Board member

Sue Barley is a strong supporter of AAUW both nationally and in Missouri.  She currently serves on the National Fundraising Committee and the Regulatory Guidance Task Force, as well as the Legacy Circle Committee.  She is a member of the Ballwin-Chesterfield and St. Louis branches and is co-Governance/Parliamentarian officer on the AAUW Missouri State Board.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 7:00 p.m.

Location:  Columbia Public Library, 100 West Broadway

Program:  Women and History, Mary Kay Blakely, Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism

Blakely, a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine since 1981, has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue and Family Circle. She has received many honors such as the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. In addition, Blakely has appeared on several television programs, and her written works have been collected in fourteen writing anthologies published in five countries. She is currently a journalism professor at the School.

Saturday, February 8, 2014, 9:30 a.m.
Location:  Unitarian Universalist Church, 2615 Shepard Blvd.
Cost:  $20

Program:  Women in Space, Linda Godwin, formerly of NASA

Linda Godwin became an astronaut in 1986 and is a veteran of four space flights with over thirty-eight days in space and two spacewalks.  She is currently a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Missouri.

Reservations required:  Contact Elaine elaineblodgett@gmail.com, 256-2803 or Bonnie bonmullen@socket.net, 445-9160.  Please reply by Thursday, February 6.

Sunday, December 15, 2013, 2:00 p.m.
Location:  HyVee South Meeting Room, 405 E. Nifong Blvd.

Program:  Women and Health, “Look Good, Feel Better”, an American Cancer Society Program, Susan Haines.

Susan is an International LGFB trainer and has been on the faculty for ten years.  She owns her own business in Columbia and has been awarded the National Cosmetology Association’s Affiliate President of the Year Award, among others.

Members may bring member gift cards for Girls’ Town if they wish.

Please make reservations with Elaine Blodgett elaineblodgett@gmail.com or Bonnie Mullen bonmullen@socket.net

Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Location:  The Chez, First Presbyterian Church, 16 Hitt Street

Program: Women and Philanthropy

The Heifer Project, Speaker: Cleo Kottwitz

Heifer international is a global nonprofit working to end hunger and poverty around the world by providing livestock and training to struggling communities.  The talk will focus on the organization’s impact on women’s lives.

Free parking is available south of the church and in the public garage on Hitt Street.  If you enter the church from the south parking lot, The Chez is on your immediate left.  If you enter by the front door of the church, turn right and down a short flight of stairs.

Bring:

. a friend

. books to sell to benefit AAUW Funds

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
Location:  Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1600 W. Rollins Road

Program:  Benton Elementary School, The Queen Bee Bots, The All Girls Lego Robotics Team.  Bethany Morris and Heather McCullar, teacher sponsors of the team, will talk about the program and enlighten us about Robotics.  Our branch is a sponsor of the team. This is Columbia Branch’s latest project in our partnership with Benton School.  The Board hopes that you will enthusiastically support it by attending this meeting.
AAUW Funds, Diane Ludwig, co-chair AAUW Funds Committee

Diane will talk about AAUW’s exciting new funds and new international outreach.

Bring books to sell.  Bring a friend and encourage her/him to join AAUW.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
Location:  Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1600 W. Rollins Road

Program:  Women and Leadership
Truman Leadership Project, Nicole Phillips, Program Director

Plans for the Year & 2013 NCCWSL Experience, (National Conference for College Women Student Leaders),  Kelsey Saragnese, AAUW Student organization president

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

Location:  Trinity Presbyterian Church, 1600 W. Rollins Road

Pot-Luck Dinner and Kick-Off to the Year

Bring:

. Dish of food to share and your own table service (drinks will be provided).

. Gently used books for the book sale table (Proceeds to AAUW Funds).