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‘Secret City Girls’ featured at AAUW luncheon Monday

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Taking a cue from the book, “The Girls of the Atomic City,” by Denise Kiernan, the Monday luncheon program of the AAUW Oak Ridge Branch will feature a panel of Girls of the Secret City, a press release said.

Colleen Black, Lynn Fortenbery, Cleva Marrow, and Dot Wilkinson will share their experiences about how they came to Oak Ridge from various states and the early days in the new community and their varied jobs, the release said. They will talk about their first impressions of Oak Ridge and happenings in their new home town. [Read more…]

Social worker discusses Healthy Start during Monday AAUW meeting

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Virginia Coleman

Virginia Coleman

A social worker will discuss Healthy Start, a program that helps children and parents, during a Monday evening meeting of the American Association of University Women’s Oak Ridge Branch.

The talk by Virginia Coleman, who has a master’s degree in social work, is open to the public and starts at 7 p.m. Monday at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church at 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike.

A press release said Coleman worked for years to see the Healthy Start preventive program come to fruition. During Monday’s meeting, she will talk about the reasons for the program and its success. [Read more…]

AAUW meeting features dance program, scholarship recipients, new officers

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AAUW Dance Program

An AAUW luncheon meeting today features a fun program, the introduction of college scholarship recipients, and the induction of new officers, a press release said.

AAUW member Peggy Emmett, who has won many regional and national dance competitions, and her dance partner Sam Gordon will give a program on dance, the release said. They will perform some of the routines that Emmett, with her interest in theater, has created, the release said.

Gordon owns Go Dance Studio on Shaeffer Road in Knoxville. [Read more…]

Roane State official to discuss financial aid during AAUW meeting

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A Roane State Community College official will discuss financial aid for college students in a noon meeting on Monday at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.

Tina Long is financial aid director at the college. She will discuss financial aid during a general meeting and luncheon of the AAUW, Oak Ridge Branch. [Read more…]

AAUW features Tennessee women of courage

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Tennessee Women of Courage

For its Women’s History Display at the Library this year, the American Association of University Women, or AAUW, has chosen to feature a forthcoming book,’’Tennessee Women of Vision and Courage,” which has been put together by the Tennessee Women Project.

The directors of the Tennessee Women Project, Ruth Johnson Smiley and Charlotte Crawford, will address the AAUW at its March 25 meeting at 11:30 a.m. in the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church Social Hall.

In previous years, “Women Leaders in World Government’’ have been featured, as well as ‘’Outstanding Women in East Tennessee,’’ in the organization’s Women’s History Month displays at the Library.

‘Doctor Woman’ discussed at Monday AAUW talk

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May Wharton, founder of the Uplands Retirement Village in Pleasant Hill, Tenn., will be one of the subjects of a Monday talk at an American Association of University Women meeting at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.

Dr. Wharton, who came to Pleasant Hill in 1917, was called “Doctor Woman.”

Monday’s talk by W. Calvin Dickinson, a retired history professor at Tennessee Tech, starts at 11:30 a.m. Dickinson will also talk about Dr. Dora Lee Wilder, the first woman to receive a medical license in Tennessee, early in the 19th century.

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AAUW presentation Monday discusses children, schools

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Three speakers who work with kids will discuss children and schools during a Monday meeting of the Oak Ridge branch of the American Association of University Women.

Titled “The Basic Need of Children in School,” the presentation will feature Gina Begluitti, family services coordinator at Oak Ridge Preschool; Theresa Venable, librarian, and special events coordinator at Children’s Defense Fund, Hayley Farm; and Tara Voit, certified Montessori instructor, and executive director of the Scarboro Learning Center.

The meeting will be in the Social Room of the Unitarian Universalist Church. It will begin at 11:30 a.m. with a $7 sandwich luncheon.

The program will begin at noon and will include a question-and-answer period, a press release said.

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