Travel Group

The Travel Club will meet at Liz Richardson’s on Thursday, February 12th at 2:00 P.M.  Liz will be sharing information from her recent trip to Hawaii.  Anyone else is invited to bring and share an experience that they have had from traveling there.  This might include a photo or other souvenir related to a trip to Hawaii.  If you haven’t traveled to Hawaii, you are invited to join us and learn some new and different information.    I hope you can join us and I look forward to seeing you there.  Please RSVP to drgraber@charter.net.

Great Decisions Group

Great Decisions discussions have begun at Riverland. The first discussion on January 26th (fourth Monday) was about “Russia and the Near Abroad”. The next discussion will be February 23, and will be about “Privacy in the Digital Age”. Watch for more newsletter
information.

AM Book Group

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelo is the book selection for our morning book group. Ellen Stark will lead the discussion and also host the group at her home on Thursday, February 19th at 9 AM. We will read the Pageturner’s selection, Vacationland by Sarah Stonich, when we meet in March.

Arts & Entertainment Group

We will meet on Sunday, February 8th at 4:00 PM at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church for a viewing of the silent film Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by Rochester organist Andrew Galuska.  Please contact Carla Anderson-Diekmann or Courtney Wyant if you plan to join. See elsewhere in the newsletter for further details!

Arts & Entertainment–March activity

The Arts & Entertainment group has planned the “Uncork & Create: Lake Sunset” class at the Austin Artworks Center.  Cost is $35 if you are a member of the Artworks center, $40 for non-members.  Space is limited and open to the public, so sign up soon, either by calling the Artworks Center at 434-0934, or by registering online at this link:  http://www.austinareaarts.org/create/2015/3/12/uncork-create-lake-sunset 

We will also be meeting before the class at 4:45 pm at El Mariachi for supper/appetizers, so please let Carla know after you have registered for the class so we can reserve space for that too if you are interested. (If you just want to join us at El Mariachi, that would be great too!)

AAUW Meeting – February

David Wolff is the Gifted and Talented Coordinator for the Austin Public Schools and has been the leader on the STEAM Expo (science fair) for the district.  David will be speaking to us about the Gifted and Talented Program and the STEAM Expo and how these programs benefit our students.  We will be meeting on Tuesday, February 10th at the Austin Public Library in the large meeting room.  
Social time will begin at 6:30 P.M. with the program beginning at 7:00 P.M.   Hope to see you there!

 

January AAUW Meeting

This AAUW meeting will be held at Riverland in Austin East, Room C107 on January 13th.  Plan to park in the lot near the theater on campus and come in door E5, near the theater (but not the entrance to the theater.)  Room C107 is straight down the hall on the right side.  The meeting will begin at 7 PM with social time starting at 6:30 PM.
 
Our program will be Kristen Olsen, Community Concierge for Austin!  She will be sharing information about the activities and goals of the concierge initiative in addition to sharing information about their successes.