Coffee With Author Edith Pearlman

Edith Pearlman will speak about her award winning book of short stories, “Binocular Vision” on Saturday, May 5, 10 AM at Georgetown Peabody Library, on Maple Street. Coffee, Juice and home made baked goods will be served at this fund-raiser at the cost of twelve dollars. The event is co-sponsored by the North Shore and Newburyport branches, American Association of University Women and the Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library. For reservations, contact Linda Britt, 978-531-6116.

AAUW’s share of the proceeds will be awarded to a local college student to attend the National Conference of College Women Student Leaders.

Photos of AAUW Newburyport and North Shore branches holiday luncheon with silent auction and speaker

AAUW Newburyport and North Shore branches annual holiday luncheon

silent auction items for fundraiser

more silent auction items for fundraiser

International Fellow, Elizaveta Lehchiner from Russia

Elizaveta describes her background and says Thank You! to AAUW for sponsoring her work

Elizaveta explains apoptosis, a form of cell death, and its potential for the treatment of cancer

AAUW Silent Auction & Lunch With International Fellow

On December 10th AAUW Newburyport and North Shore branches will hold their annual holiday luncheon with a silent auction, where our 2011 International Fellow will speak.

Our annual holiday luncheon and silent auction to benefit the Educational Foundation is fast approaching.  It will be on Saturday, December 10th at the Rowley Public Library at 11:00 a.m.  Please contact one of the co-chairs, Scottie Robinson at 978-768-1183 or Nellie Wadsworth at 978-825-0779, if you are attending the luncheon.  We need to know by December 8th to prepare food.  Feel free to bring a guest with you.  The cost of the luncheon is $15.  

Fellow 

We will be having an international fellow, Elizaveta Lehchiner from Russia, as our speaker this year.  She is studying at Harvard University, with a concentration in Chemistry.  Her research focuses on how cells achieve the balance between life and death.  She is looking forward to applying her knowledge to the development of new pharmacological agents to treat disease.

Silent Auction 

We are asking people to bring items for the silent auction.  This is good time to clean out stuff or re-gift items.  Everyone has things they would like to “recycle”.  You can also bake items for the auction.

Kim’s Project 

Liz Fragola, MA AAUW president, as a follow up to our very successful State Meeting held recently on Human Trafficking, has asked that we help out "Kim's Project."  The things this organization can use the most are gift cards that are good at multiple places, since the women they serve have such diverse needs. If you don’t have time to to get a gift certificate, you can donate money and Liz will take care of purchasing gift cards.  As we learned, this organization gets these women who were used in trafficking on the path to new lives.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you on Saturday.  The day is always so much fun.

Linda Britt

Coffee With Stephen Puleo, "A City so Grand, Boston, 1850 -1900"

                                                 

Stephen Puleo will be the presenter at an author's event, to be held, November 19, 10 AM, at Georgetown Peabody Library, on 2 Maple Street. He will speak about his newest book, "A City so Grand, The rise of an American Metropolis, Boston, 1850 - 1900".

The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library and the American Association of University Women. Refreshments will be served, consisting of home baked goods, coffee, tea,and juices. The cost of attending is twelve dollars a person. Reservations can be made by calling Mary Paganelli, 978-352-2587, or Pat Gorton,978-352-8931.

Stephen is an author, historian, university professor and communications professional. Stephen delighted a "Standing room only" crowd at a recent author's event when he spoke about his book, "The Boston Italians". We are thrilled to have him for a return engagement.

AAUW's share of the profit will be awarded to a local college student to attend the association's annual National Conference of College Women Student Leaders. The Friends will use their share of the funds raised to buy museum passes and present programs for local residents.

A City So Grand, Boston 1850-1900, chronicles this breathtaking period in Boston’s history for the first time. Readers will experience the abolitionist movement of the 1850s, the 35-year engineering and city-planning feat of the Back Bay project, the arrival of the Irish that transformed Boston demographically, the Great Fire of 1872 and the subsequent rebuilding of downtown, Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone in Boston, and the many contributions Boston made to shaping transportation, including the Great Railroad Jubilee of 1851 and the grand opening of America’s first subway.

These stories and many more paint an extraordinary portrait of a half-century of progress, leadership, and influence that redefined Boston as a world-class city.

Puleo's book "A City so Grand" will be sold at the event.
Stephen Puleo donates a portion of his book proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. JDRF is the leading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile (type 1) diabetes research worldwide.

Coffee With Andre Dubus lll, Saturday, May 21, 10 AM, Georgetown Peabody Library

Coffee With Andre Dubus lll, Saturday, May 21, 10 AM, Georgetown Peabody
Library, Lincoln Park, Georgetown, MA

With the Friends of the Georgetown Peabody Library, North Shore and Newburyport Area Branches AAUW, we will welcome nationally recognized author and long time friend and supporter of AAUW, Andre Dubus lll to speak about his new book “TOWNIE” on Saturday, May 21, 10 AM at the Georgetown Peabody Library.

Refreshments will be served, including juices, coffee, tea, bagels, home
made muffins and coffee cakes. The cost of attending is twelve ($12.00)
dollars.

Reservations can be made by sending a check made out to AAUW, and mailed to
Judy Donovan (Tel. (978) 535-1544).

AAUW's share of the profit from the event is a grant to attend the National
Conference of College Women Student Leaders, which will be awarded to Deb
Woods, an individual member of AAUW from Beverly. Deb is a graduate student
at Boston University studying Women's Health Internationally. Deb has just
returned from Zululand, where she conducted research for her thesis.Deb is
Massachusetts Chair of CARE. Her  registration fee of $395.00 and the
cost of her airplane flight will be awarded to her.

Publisher's Weekly has written the following review of Andre's book, "Townie". "Long before he became the highly acclaimed author of "House of Sand and Fog", Dubus shuffled and punched his way through a childhood and youth that was full of dysfunction, desperation, and determination. Just after he turned twelve, Dubus' family fell rapidly into shambles after his father, the  prominent writer Andre Dubus, not only left his wife for a younger woman, but also left the family in distressing poverty on the violent and drug infested side of their Massachusetts mill town.

For a few years, Dubus escaped into drugs, embracing the apathetic "no-way-out" attitude of his friends. After having his bike stolen, and being slapped around by some of the town's bullies, while watching his brother and mother humiliated by some of the town's thugs, Dubus started lifting weights at home and boxing at the local gym.

Modeling himself on the Walking Tall sheriff, Buford Pusser, Dubus paid back acts of physical violence. Ultimately, he decided to take up his pen and write his way up from the bottom and into a new relationship with his father. In this gritty and gripping memoir, Dubus bares his soul in stunning and page-turning prose.

Gender Equity and Women in Iran, Cuba and Israel

How are women doing in three diverse cultures? What rights do they have? What can they do to create more equitable conditions for themselves?

Join our  public policy conversation on Saturday, March 5, 10AM, at the Topsfield Library as we recount recent American Association of University Women member trips to Cuba and Israel. Linda Britt and Pat Gorton will describe their encounters with women in Cuba, while Liz Fragola and Patricia Ho will report on their findings in Israel. To begin our consideration of gender equity in other countries, Sanaz Raoufi will speak about the conflicting pressures facing women in Iran.

Following these short reports, everyone is invited to engage in our informal conversation on questions such as –
a. What inequities do these women face in their countries?
b. What cultural, historical or political factors might promote these conditions?
c. Are there different perceptions regarding the status of these women?
d. Do western media reinforce stereotypes and misconceptions?
e. How can women in any culture help bridge misunderstandings or conflicting expectations among groups?
f. How can women help bring about change for equity for each other?

Refreshments will be served. The public is welcome and  there is no charge for attending. For further information call 978-352-8931

Human Trafficking in th U.S., Legal Seafood, Copley Place Dinner Meeting

The Boston Branch, AAUW has invited neighboring branch members to participate in a program about Human Trafficking in the U.S. It is a dinner meeting beginning at 6:15 p.m.,Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at Legal Seafood, Copley Place, 100 Huntington Avenue, Boston.

What is Human Trafficking in 2011? Who is affected? What can we do to help people move from modern bondage to freedom. Barbara Anderson, founder of "All Hands In" will lead us in the conversation.

Read one woman's story in an NPR related article that brings this problem close to home.