DAYTONA BEACH
Tidings
February 2023
AAUW FL Regional Leadership and Governance Workshop
Friday, February 24
10-4 pm

Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art
352 South Nova Road
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
(386) 255-0285

 PROGRAM
10:00-10:15.
Registration and Meet your Counterparts
 
10:15-10:30 Welcome and Introductions
AAUW-FL, Pres. Bea Holt
 
10:30-11:15  On Being the Best AAUW Leader
  •  Be a Mentor - motivations and rewards
  •  Opportunities at the Branch, State and National Levels
  • Making a difference in your Community
Open Discussion - Bea Holt - All Branch Presidents & Participants
 
11:30-12:15  Brain-Storm with Counterparts - Break-out Sessions 
  • Informal Gathering of small groups of members with similar Branch responsibilities or interests.
  •  Share ‘best’ practices, greatest challenges, future plans or ideas.
  • Identify ways to work together for common goals
Summary to be prepared by Kristi Pierce, Pres., St Augustine Branch
 
12:15-1:15    Boxed Lunch (selection below) ….Mix & Mingle
 
1:15-2:00      Branch Governance Principles Revisited
  • Orientation of Board members and new Branch members
  • Maintaining and archiving important Branch records
  • Programs to educate and stimulate
                       Moderator - Elinor Bozzone, Pres., Flagler County Branch
 
2:15-3:00      Member Recruitment and Retention - A Core Strategy for Success
  • Reaching out to new sources of members
  • Integrating new members into the Branch operations
  • Fostering members as future leaders
  • Get noticed - Increase local visibility and name recognition
                       Moderator - Kristi Pierce, Pres., St Augustine Branch
 
3:15-4:00      Wrap-Up/Re-Cap           
Registration Fee: $25
Please make check out to AAUW Florida and mail to:

Diana Sells
4386 Trails Dr
Sarasota, FL 34232

aauwflsells@gmail.com
941 879 2294

by February 17
Boxed Lunch Selections
(Includes Half Sandwich and Half Salad and a Cookie)

You Pick One Sandwich and One Salad



Send selections to Pat Ross paross@aol.com
by February 17

Can you help ? Call Pat 386-252-1659

Book Group
February 13
10:30 am

At Susan Jano's
4535 S. Atlantic Ave #2504
Ponce Inlet
February 13–Wastelands: The True Story of a Farm Country on Trial, by Corban Addison. An extraordinary story of how some North Carolina residents stood up to a meatpacking company polluting their communities.
Great Decisions
Monday, February 27
3:30
What is a war crime? How does this definition apply to recent events in Ukraine?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in widespread charges of war crimes and calls for justice. But what exactly are war crimes? Opinions of what constitutes a war crime have evolved, as have ways to identify and punish the perpetrators. How will the war crimes committed in Ukraine be dealt with? By Francine Hirsch
Great Decisions meets the last Monday of the month.

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Coming Up:
Friday, February 24: AAUW FL Regional Leadership Conference,
  • Education Room, Hyatt and Cici Brown Museum of Florida Art
  • Would you like to attend? Can you help (set up, pick up lunches, etc)?
Wednesday, March 30: DSC's Women's History Luncheon honors AAUW
  • Tickets $45
Saturday, April 22: Florida's Female Pioneers
  • Anderson Price Building, 42 N. Beach Street, Ormond Beach
  • Peggy Macdonald, alumna of the University of Florida, public historian and adjunct professor at Stetson University and Indian River State College, will examine some of the women who have shaped Florida, including Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated free school in Florida; Harriet Beecher Stowe, famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin who kick-started Florida’s tourism industry with her 1873 book, Palmetto Leaves; and Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first and only female Florida Seminole Tribal Chair and the first elected female tribal chair of any federally recognized American Indian tribe in the nation.
Help Select the Girls to Attend Tech Trek!
There are several candidates from Volusia. County for Tech Trek who need to be interviewed this month. One at Holly Hill MS and five in Deltona at Heritage MS. We will interview the girls at their schools. (New Smyrna will interview several who are in their area).
Can you help?
Please contact Pat paross@aol.com. 386-252-1659

We hope you will be able to join us!. Please note on your reservation if you wish to be seated at an AAUW table.
We are tenacious and trailblazing — 
advocating for women and girls since 1881 and into the future! 
Together, we can achieve a vision of equal opportunity for all!
For information contact: 
Patricia Ross- AAUW Daytona President: paross@aol.com

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