What is in the way of you achieving your dreams? Well-being is the foundation to all success. Without it, you are on a crash course to breakdown! This workshop will discuss the nature of balance and identify ways to incorporate “healthy priorities” into our daily lives. What does that mean? Participants will declare what they desire in terms of work/life balance and create a plan to achieve it!

With passion, anything is possible!

Location: AAUW Carriage House, 494 East Avenue, Rochester

Date: Friday, February 17, 2012

Time: 7-9 pm   Presenter, Luz Flores Lee, Executive and Life Coach

Fee:  $10 non-members, $ 8 for AAUW members

To Register: Call 585.-244-8890

 
Luz is a professional coach and founder of Live, Love, Laugh, Coach! (an Affiliate of Accomplishment Coaching). She provides life and executive coaching to leaders from public and private companies to non-profit organizations. Through the coaching partnership, she and the client create awareness of what is in the way of the client achieving their goals. With that awareness, the client is given the opportunity to take powerful actions that result in the fulfillment of her client’s projects. Luz provides tools her clients need to accomplish their goal to live the life of their dreams. Partnering with her in a coaching relationship will create a fundamental shift in your way of being à impacting your business results, well-being, and personal relationships.

www.livelovelaughcoach.weebly.com

Tickets are $60.
Also, please let Felice know if you would like to car pool. Car pools will leave the AAUW house at 11:15.

 2012 Keynote Speaker: Arild Remmereit
Mr. Remmereit was named the 11th music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra beginning in its 2011-2012 season. To honor his new city and its international distinction as the longtime home of Susan B. Anthony, Mr. Remmereit is featuring women composers in each concert this year.

To celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s 192th birthday, Mr. Remmereit will inspire and enlighten you, with the same passion he brings to his conducting, about talented yet often overlooked women artists who broke new ground just as Susan B. Anthony did.  A native of Norway, Mr. Remmereit’s five directorial debuts around the world in 2005 quickly established his reputation as a major international talent. He is a graduate of the Norwegian Conservatory of Music and studied conducting with Karl Össterreicher, Zubin Mehta, and Leonard Bernstein. Join us for an exciting presentation about “Women of Note” from the singular perspective of the RPO’s exceptional music director.  585- 244-8890

Cost is $15. Please call 585-244-8890 to reserve your space. Luncheon is from 11:30-1 on Saturday, February 11, 2012.

This talk looks at the historical roots of IWD with particular focus on GRAB AAUW’s 100 year anniversary celebration which included a Rochester area “Call for Change” postcard signing campaign. Audience members will have the opportunity to dialogue on three global “calls for change” themes that emerged from the postcards: “Education,” “Economic Development/Justice,” and “Women’s Health and Safety,” and to consider these themes in the context of IWD’s transnational activist platform in support of gender equality. The talk will close with a preview of IWD, March 8, 2012, as GRAB/AAUW invigorates a time-honored Rochester area legacy where those championingwomen’s rights find voice.

Our speaker has extensive academic and practical experience with women’s rights
issues. Barbara is director of Women and Gender Studies at SUNY Brockport
where she teaches Feminist Theory, Sex and Culture and a Senior Seminar in
Women and Gender Studies. Her research interests include, for example, attitudes
on feminism, intersectionality and educational equity/success, and women’s global
human rights.

Dr. LeSavoy is also very involved in women’s affairs in the
Rochester community. She chairs the Rochester/Novgorod sister city Linkages
Women’s Partnership Committee, focusing on linking women and gender
teaching/learning activities at Brockport with Novgorod, and the GRAB AAUW
College/University Partnership committee. She is also a founding member of the
Greater Rochester Consortium of Women and Gender Studies Faculty.
Please come to our Branch Luncheon to participate in an exciting discussion on
women’s rights.

Our luncheon menu will be: Wild mushroom soup, pasta
primavera, and heart-shaped brownies with raspberry sauce for dessert.

Tom Grasso, President of the Canal Society of NYS and Vice Pres. & Past Pres. of Inland Waterways International joins us with a lively and very informative discussion of the canal’s future in our area. This topic is of interest to all of us in our community.

Please RSVP for lunch by calling Mary Louise Riter 381-4368 or sending a $20.

Make your check payable to GRAB AAUW to Carol Zavada, 21 Cottonwood Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Guests are VERY welcome !!

Adam will bring us up to date regarding the recent discussion and suit regarding teacher evaluation tools. Also, we have an all girls preparatory school in Rochester and another on the way. He will talk about how these charter schools are progressing and their impact on student success. If you have other questions about what is going on in Rochester in regards to education bring them. Adam has been very open to our questions and extremely candid in answering them.

Invite your friends. Bring your lunch and hear the latest.

Be sure to let Felice  know you are coming by calling 585-244-8890!

Pat Thompson, Chair

Public Policy

Please email or call (244-8890) Felice by Wednesday, January 11 with your reservation and luncheon choice: chicken salad on croissant or roasted vegetable ciabatta.

Hope to see you there!!

**For the month of January note the change from the 1st Wed. to the second week!!

Please RSVP for lunch with a phone call to Mary Louise Riter 381- 4368 or by sending a $20 check payable to GRAB AAUW to Carol Zavada 21 Cottonwood Lane Pittsford, NY 14534.

and it is once again time for us to gather gifts for those at Alternatives for Battered Women.  We have been gifting this organization for several years and it is one way that we support women and children in our community who are in need.  The Wish List is below.  Please leave your gifts in the first floor coatroom.  We will be delivering the gifts on Thursday, December 15 in the afternoon.

All donations must be in by Wednesday, December 14 at 3pm.

Please email or call  if you have any questions, bvaughan@rochester.rr.com   383-0896.

Alternatives for Battered Women Wish List

Women’s bathrobes–large, extra-large, plus

Women’s pajamas/nightgowns–large, extra large

Women’s underwear (sizes 5-11)

Women’s pants, jeans

Slippers, flip flops

Hair grease (hair food), hair brushes (stiff bristle size), hoodies (any sizes)

Body lotion

Crib blankets, sheets

Baby bottles (Evenflo)

Baby shampoo, bath/wash, baby lotion

Boys’ clothes (infant to size 5)

Umbrellas

Pocket calendars, journals

All items must be NEW, and personal items should be in UNOPENED condition.

Monetary gifts are also welcomed.

Join us for: 5:30 pm Social Hour, 6 Pm Buffet dinner and 7 PM       program. Bring a dish, appetizer, salad or dessert for 8 people gathering. Guests Welcome!! Branch dinner this Tuesday, Dec. 13 and is $12 pp.

Call Felice at 585-244-8890 to register.  We look forward to sharing our feast with you!

Call 585-244-8890 for details and to sign up!