TODAY !!!
• BOOK SORTING
10:00am-12:00pm At Towne Mall

Monday Feb 13
• BRANCH MEETING, LOCATION TBA
7:00pm-9:00pm Women and Heart Disease, Kelly Valen, Acute Care Health Practitioner

Tuesday Feb 14
• BOOK SORTING
10:00am-12:00pm At Towne Mall

Thursday Feb 16
• JOY LUCK CLUB BOOK DISCUSSION AT GINNY'S
7:00pm-10:00pm The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Saturday Feb 18
• BOOK SORTING
10:00am-12:00pm At Towne Mall

2011-2012 Officers

President:
Anita K. Shew
Co-Program Vice President:
Chris Buchert
Co-Program VicePresident:
Katie McNeil
Co-Membership Vice President:
Rose Grau
Suzy Tadych
Recording Secretary:
Betty Jo Baker
Corresponding Secretary:
Robin Becker
Treasurer:
Becky Ward
AAUW Funds (EF & LAF):
Paula Lindon
Scholarships:
Debbie Worbis
Book Sale Co-Chair:
Libby Abele
Tina Newlin
Social Media:
Virginia Palmer
Newsletter:
Suzy Tadych
College/University Relations:
Tina Newlin
Diversity:
Melissa Worbis
Public Policy/Historian:
Tamara Kreigh
Co-Historian:
Pam Pearson
Kathy Wilson

Links of Interest

	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
	AAUW-OHIO
	JOY LUCK CLUB BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
	MIDDFEST INTERNATIONAL

Monday, February 13, 2012: Location TBA, 7pm

• Speaker: Kelly Valen, Acute Care Health Practitioner “Women and Heart Disease”

Monday, March 12, 2012: Book sale site, Towne Mall, 5 pm - Annual Book Sale Dinner and Sorting

Book sale, March 15-18, 2012

Monday, April 9, 2012:  Location TBA, 7 pm

• Speaker: Anita Carroll, Director, Middletown Public Library, “The Twenty-First Century Public Library”

Monday, May 14, 2012: Location TBA, 6 pm - Dinner

• Speaker: Greg Rasmussen, Superintendent, Middletown City Schools, "Connections to Learning-Celebrate Education"
• Introduction of Scholarship Winners and Installation of Officers
• 130th National AAUW Celebration

And see what we've enjoyed so far this year:

Monday, September 12, 2011: Verity Lodge, Miami University-Middletown, 6 pm - Potluck dinner

• Speaker: Tim DeHart, Middfest International, “A Glimpse of Peru”

Host Middfest Sponsors' Lounge, September 30-October 2, 2011

Saturday, October 8, 2011: Woodside Cemetery and Arboretum Meeting Room, 11:30am, - Luncheon

• Speaker: Karen Rainey, Public Policy Advocate, AAUW Ohio, “AAUW 2011”

Tuesday, November 8, 2011: Middletown Public Library, 7 pm

• Speaker: Lisa Kenyon, Professor, Wright State University, “Kids and Science: What is STEM and How is that Changing the Teaching of Science?”
• Special Guests: BeWISE Scholarship Winners

Holiday Bazaar, Saturday, November 12, 2011, 9am-3pm, Walton Ct.

Light Up Middletown - Volunteer Week TBA

Monday, December 12, 2011: First United Methodist Church or Middletown Public Library, 7 pm

• Program: Duane Gordon, Executive Director, Middletown Community Foundation; Sharon Williamson, Opera Singer, Maryellen Clinard, Organist, “In the Spirit of Giving”

December 16-22, 2011: Light Up Middletown - Volunteer Week

January 2012: Fireside Chats, Locations and times TBA

• Theme: The Future Will Belong to the Nature-Smart
• All branch read: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder and/or The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Book Discussion: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 7pm, at Katie's

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In cooperation with
AAUW Mason-Lebanon Branch

Tuesday Mornings, 10am-11:30am, except November 22, December 20, and December 27

Saturday Mornings, 10am-11:30am, beginning January 7, 2012

Donations may be dropped off at the AAUW sale site at Towne Mall, Loading Dock D, which faces State Route 122. Look for the AAUW signs at Store 456 near Elder-Beerman.

For more information and to arrange for book pick-up, call

• 513-424-4725
• 513-424-5458
• 513-424-7551

Last day to accept donations is Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Contributions of gifts to AAUW are not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal tax purposes.

Middletown-AAUW's 2010-11 year was recognized with the following awards, presented at the AAUW-Ohio State Convention, April 9-10, in Akron

Starz Award with Honors - to receive this award, Middletown Branch

• Sent representatives to the 2010 AAUW Ohio Convention
• Sent representatives to the 2010 Leadership Conference
• Submitted our Branch Officer list to State in timely fashion
• Submitted Branch dues by August 1 deadline
• Contributed to LAF and EF
• Held a minimum of 5 Branch meetings
• Published newsletters and program books
• Kept our website updated
• Collaborated in community projects and promoted diversity in our programming