Our Spring Luncheon was held on the Holiday Inn in Highland Beach. We had a wonderful presentation by Dr. Bernedette Russel, Provost of Palm Beach Community College in Boca Raton. She shared with us what's happening in education at the College and how it impacts our community. We had many of our members come out for this event, where the new board for 2008-2009 was also inducted by Pat Dyer. Faith Campbell gave over her responsibilities as our President to Susan Holzschuh. Most of our other board members stayed the same for the new year, with Faith taking over the job as mentor to the new president and writing the branch's newsletter.

The first picture starting on the left is Jacie Keeley, Branch Vice-President of Programming, Dr. Bernadette Russell, Provost of Palm Beach Community College Boca Raton, and new Branch President Susan Holzschuh. The picture on the right is Faith Campbell, Branch President 2006-2008 and Susan Holzschuh. Additional pictures include many of the luncheon attendees.

The speaker at our February Meeting was Tony Brandt from Hospice by the Sea. She spoke about having a Living Will and other needs as such as a surrogate for health care to make decisions for us when we are unable to do this. what a Living Will really means and where you should have it available etc. All was  exceedingly useful information for us to have at any age. She works with our AAUW Branch member Paula Alderson at Hospice by the Sea and certainly gave us a lot to think about and some wonderful handouts. She then answered questions and had some enlightening examples of how Hospice works for everyone's benefit.

Our Holiday Luncheon was a great succcess with many in attendence. Our speaker for the day was an Kim Scheft an Adjunct from Palm Beach Community College that specializes in Brain Games and Memory Play.  She had a very interesting life story to share with us about her own need to improve her memory, and played a very entertaining memory game in which we all participated.

Pictured below many of our attendees. Pictured with our speaker in the photo on the left starting on the left is Faith Campbell Branch President, and Jacie Keeley Vice President of Program. In the picture on the right is  starting on the left is Jacie Keeley, Faith Campbell Amy Selzer Director of of Membership,  Financial Officer Dr. Pat Dyer, and our guest speaker Kim Scheft. Other photos are pictures of  members that attended the luncheon.

We had a very interesting presentation by  at our November Meeting on Identity Theft. Pictured below are the some of our meeting attendees along with our featured speaker Lawrence Ingwell.

Our first General Meeting of the year was held on Oct 18th at Palm Beach Community College. We started the year off with an excellent speaker, Dr. Ann Ruben, who gave us an interesting presentation on the development of her trademark shirt "Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!" According to Dr. Ruben, Walmart, who originally agreed to sell the shirts, pulled them from their shelves because the message didn't represent "family values". She also discussed her "Women are Wonderful Foundation. To read more about these topics  you can go to her website: http://www.womenarewonderful.com/index.html.

Pictured below on the left are  Branch Secretary Carole Fielder,  Branch President Faith Campbell, and  Branch Vice-President of Program Jacie Keeley. In the picture on the right is  Branch Financial Officer Dr. Pat Dyer, Branch Member Pat Sheerin, Faith Campbell, and speaker Dr. Ann Ruben in her trademark shirt.

Many of our branch members came out to support Dr. Patricia Dyer in her nomination at the Soroptomist "Women of Distinction" Breakfast, Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 at the Boca Raton Marriott. Dr. Dyer's nomination was for Education.  Following is the write-up about Pat's contributions included with the program: "Pat's matematical ability has been the stepping-stone to a life of helping others. Her highly distinguished career in education culminated as Chief Academic Officer of Palm Beach Community College. Pat is an elected member of the FAU Alumni Hall Of Fame. Whether as chairperson of the preschool at her church, as President or Financial Director for AAUW, or serving on one of many educational comittees, she is always qwuietly sharing her talents with others."

Our May 07 - End of The Year Luncheon - brought out many of our members to install our new officers and hear a very interesting presentation by Stephanie Kunkle. The Luncheon was held at the Highland Beach Holiday Inn on A1A on Saturday May 12th . The first picture below on the left contains our AAUW Boca Branch President Faith Campbell, along with Gonzalee Ford our new Director for Public Policy and our speaker Stephanie Kunkle. Pictured below on the right is our newly installed Program Director Jaci Keeley and Felice Levine who is in charge of Registration. Other officers installed at the Luncheon were Renee Tong Director of Communications/Newsletter and Susan Holzschuh Director of Publicity. Guests included other Board Members and current branch members, some of whom are pictured below. Everyone attending had a wonderful time.