We had a wonderful luncheon meeting May. 15, 2010 at Der Dutchman. We welcome new member Linda Lehman and thank all the others who came.  Mary Wells spoke about her work with youth in the public housing community in Lebanon and we presented her with a check for $800 for scholarships for her very successful and deserving teens.

We also had election of Officers:

President: Janet L. Bohren

Vice President for Programming: Jane Gregg

Secretary: Deborah Bennett

Treasurer (FinanceVP): Linda Kraemer

Membership VP: Ginny Stiver

Public Policy Chairperson: Miriam Burke

Publicity: Pat Dollberg

Webmasster (information officer): Janet L. Bohren

‘Tentative’ Meetings and Events for the 2010-2011

“2010-2011 theme: Women in Leadership”

August 14-Leadership Workshop, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.

    All officers and members encouraged to attend. Highlight: Public Policy workshop on sex trafficking in Ohio with state Senato  Fedor and a trafficking survivor.

General Meetings on 3rd Satrday. Bookclub meets  3rd Thursday evenings

September 18th: General Meeting/Shape the Future

October 16th: General Meeting

November 18th: Book Club

December (first weekend??) Special Event: visiting Waynesville at Christmas time

January 15th: General Meeting

February 17th: Book Club

March 19th: General Meeting

April 21st: Book Club

May 21st: General Meeting/Annual Meeting/ Election/Reports

(Note: General Meetings will be held on third Saturday, late morning, Book Club meetings first Thursday, 6:30 p.m.)

More information to follow in coming weeks. Stay tuned!

Attend Saturday Aug. 14, 2010 State AAUW Leadership Workshop

9:30 Am - 3 PM,  Ohio Wesleyan University, Conrades-Wetherell Science Center.

Cost of day and luncheon: $25

Luncheon with featured speakers State Senator Teresa Fedor, who will explain the problem of sex trafficking in Ohio and how her bill SB 235 will bring Ohio law in line with other states and Marlene Carson, founder of Rehab’s Hideaway, a Columbus safe house for women trafficked into prostitution.

There will be two workshops each in the morning and afternoon sessions on bringing your branch online and using the National AAUW’s program in a box.

Take a day and attend a leadership conference where you will meet old friends, make new ones and gain knowledge and skills to help your branch move forward to helping women break barriers in Ohio!

See the state website for details and to register : http://www.aauwoh.org

Our summer newsletter will also be coming out in mid-July with registration information.