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2006-2007 ACTIVITIES & MEETINGS

 

National Meetings:

You are cordially invited to attend the opening of the exhibition  “Daring Dames: A Century of Photographs of Adventurous Women 1860 - 1960"

 November 3, 2007, 2:00 pm

at the Headquarters of the Society of Woman Geographers

Lecture and Refreshments

 

APRIL 2008

    April 5, 2008 (Saturday)
    The SWG Council will meet at SWG Headquarters. The general session begins at noon. All SWG members are invited attend. Please contact Janet McGinn at SWGHQ@verizon.net if you are interested in attending a Council meeting.

MAY 2008

    May 24, 2008 (Saturday)
    The SWG Council will meet in Chicago during the Triennial. The general session begins 1:30 PM. All SWG members are invited attend. Please contact Janet McGinn at SWGHQ@verizon.net if you are interested in attending a Council meeting.

See News, under Future Events, for All Other Events, Announcements, or Professional Activities featuring SWG Members.

 

Reports on Group Activities:

BAY AREA: In November the Bay Area Group met in our unofficial “home,” the spacious and travelbook- lined offices of Mountain Travel Sobek to hear member Cecelia Hurwich give a fascinating talk on “Vital Women in Their 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s.” Her presentation was based both on her ongoing research and her own life experiences. In January, we met again to hear the wonderful story of writer Ella Ellis’s early life on which her memoir Dune Child is based. The talk, entitled “Dune Child: A Memoir of Life during the Depression in a Pacific Coast Literary Colony among Luminary Artists and Photographers of the Era,” was sprinkled with anecdotes about “Uncle John” (Steinbeck) who dropped in regularly, and was illustrated with photos by the likes of Ansel Adams and Edward Westin.—Joanna Biggar

 CHICAGO: Beata Hayton gave a talk about Viet Nam in February. Camila Montoya’s talk about the history of the Basque region of Spain was held at my house in January—Ellen Steinberg

Present at the Chicago event were Camila Montoya, Sara McLafferty, Brenda Parker, Jodi Mills-Cerny, Mary Sue Coates, Cathy Novotny-Brehm, Dorothy Dare, Helga Polet, Lucia Mouat, Beata Hayton, LaVerne Kuhnke, Janice Spofford, Margot Hamp, Ellen Steinberg and two guests.

 

 

DC: Ben Booz, who in 1979 was one of the first westerners to return to China in the post-Mao period, spoke at Headquarters in February about her fifth visit there last October. Ben taught in the foreign language department of Yunnan University in Kunming, and the occasion for her visit was the 25th reunion of the first class to graduate from the school. The two textbooks she wrote for use in her classes are still in use, at least in western China. In January, members of the Washington Group attended a lecture at the University of the District of Columbia by Dr. Claudette Bennett, Chief of the Racial Statistics Branch, Population Division, U S Census Bureau. Dr. Bennett’s talk was arranged by SWG President Kim Crews, as part of SWG’s outreach to students in related disciplines at the University. Archaeologist Joan Breton Connelly is the March speaker, talking about her latest research on women and ritual in ancient Greece. Her new book is called “Portrait of a Priestess.” —Elizabeth Smith Brownstein

 FLORIDA: The Florida group gathered at their Christmas meeting in the garden of Georgia Tasker, the Miami Herald’s Garden Editor. She and Sandy Schultz gave us a tour of their garden and koi pond. The March meeting will be at the home of Sawsan Khouri Maunder. She will present her slide show entitled “Seeing the Forest and the Trees, a walk through the Lebanese countryside.”—Suzanne Kayyali

Our Christmas meeting took place on Sunday, December 17, 2006 at the home of Georgia Tasker and Sandy Schultz in their beautiful tropical

garden. Back row from left to right: Valerie Klevan, Sandy Schultz, Lauren Raz, Georgia Tasker, Sawsan Khuri-Maunder, Lauren Gould,

Taffy Gould and Marilyn Van Valkenburg. Front row from left to right: Emily Rushin, Rosemarie Twinam, Gypsy Graves, and Donnie Enright.

Sitting in front: Susanne Kayyali

 NEW YORK: Idell Conaway spoke on the Sea Gypsies of Southeast Asia at the Hunter College School of Social Work in January.

 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Members of the Southern California Group, and friends, enjoyed a December visit to the Jewel Tunnel, a mineral warehouse owned by Rock Currier, son of Ada Currier, former Chair of the group and one of our longest-term members. This wholesale establishment is a huge warehouse filled with rocks, gemstones, decorative objects made from stone, jewelry, and more. From bins of broken rock pieces to tiny gems, there is so much to see that we almost neglected to enjoy the lunch kindly provided by Mr. Currier. The items are imported form countries in Africa, South America, and China—Ray Sumner 

Mr. Currier, second from left at the rear, with several of our members. Others were too fascinated by" The Tunnel" to be assembled for a picture.

 

 

Group Meetings:

 

(Click on City Button for Group's Calendar)

     

     

 

 

Bay Area

 

2007 - 2008

   

 

 

June

By popular request:  Field Trip to the Varied Landscapes of SOMOMA

 

 

Chicago

2007 - 2008

   
   
Ellen Steinberg, Chicago Program Chair

 

Florida

2007 - 2008

Sunday,

March 9

Program on New Zealand and Australia, in Coral Gables, from 2:00 to 4:30 PM   RSVP to Chapter Chair
   
   

 

New York

2007 - 2008

   
   

March 20

ADELE HAFT:  Ancient Greek athletic festivals

 

May 17 

LUNCHEON:  Speaker to be announced

 

 

                   

We look forward to seeing all of you at these events.
Donna Henes, New York Program Chair
 

Southern California

2007 - 2008

 

Washington

2007 - 2008

March 8

Marty Talbot will talk on her recent SWG flag-carrying trip to central Laos.

2:00 PM at Headquarters

 

April (TBA)

Presentation(s) by current fellowship awardee(s)

2:00 PM at Headquarters

 

 May

Pre-Triennial Meeting with Topic TBA

2:00 PM at Headquarters

 

May 24 - 27

Triennial in Chicago

 

Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, Washington Program Chair

* denotes an event to which SWG members are invited, but is not an official SWG monthly/seasonal meeting.

 

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