Summer Meetings: 2004

AAUW Leading and Learning

Saturday, July 24, 2004
8:30 - 2:30
Courtyard by Marriott, Winston-Salem Hanes Mall
1600 Westbrook Plaza Dr.
Winston-Salem, NC
336/760-5777

Note: 1:00 - 2:30 session will be at Forsyth Technical College.

AAUW NC Summer Board meeting: Friday, July 23 at 7:00 at the Marriott.

For the agenda, registration, directions see page 2 of the Summer 2004 Tar Heel News. Deadline for registration and hotel reservations is July 15.

Leader On Loan

Shirley Breeze, member of the Association Public Policy Committee will be our Leader on Loan. She will be teaching us how to be the lead organization on an issue (we will use the healthcare issue that was presented that morning).

Shirley Breeze has long been active in women's issues both statewide and nationally. A recently retired college professor, she now works as a full-time volunteer for ERA and women's issues. As a former president of AAUW Missouri, she worked on the first ERA ratification efforts in the 70s and 80s. She is currently state chair of the Missouri Women's Network, the coordinating umbrella for the Missouri ERA effort and a statewide coalition of women's groups. In that position, she has traveled across the state every other week for four years making presentations on the value of ERA, lobbied the legislature, written materials, trained women to work on ERA, and participated in a myriad of other activities connected to ratification. She is registered as a lobbyist with the state of Missouri, and coordinates several statewide legislative events, including Women's Lobby Day and Legislative Retreat. A member of numerous women's groups and advisory committees, she speaks frequently to groups on public policy and women's issues.

She devoted more than 35 years to teaching/administrative duties in education and is currently teaching part-time in the College of Education at the University of Missouri. She has served as state president and/or officer for several statewide professional groups including Missouri Business Education Association and the Missouri Vocational Association.

She is the author of many education and women's action training materials.