Reservations are Due December 5th!

What you can do if you have not already reserved your place at the Holiday Party:

• Please note that if you have not already registered and can pay the $2.39 in online fees, we encourage you to register for the party on Eventbrite.  Reservations will get your meal choice and information immediately.
• You can also print this form and send a check to Dawn Boyd. Please contact her immediately at darnone1@att.net to let her know that your check is in the mail and your meal choice.

Speaker Dennis Mangers

Dennis Mangers, President of the Board of Trustees of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation and member of the Board of Trustees of the California State Bar, is our guest speaker at the December 12 Holiday Party.

Mangers began his accomplished career as an elementary school teacher, working with first, second, third, and sixth grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District from 1964 until 1968 before becoming California’s youngest school principal, serving first in the San Joaquin Valley and later in Fountain Valley.  He continued his work in education as a member of the California State Legislature (1976-1980) as a member of the Education Committee, Chair of the Subcommittee on Education Reform and as author of the Gifted and Talented Education Act. He retired professionally in 2009 as Senior Advisor to then-President Pro Tempore of the California State Senate, Senator Darrell Steinberg.

Manger’s experience with the arts is extensive.  He is an accomplished singer, one of 18 young performers selected in 1966 in a nationwide talent search by the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Company for a full scholarship to the USC School of Performing Arts.  He went on to play featured roles in Civic Light Opera productions of My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Yeoman of the Guard and Iolanthe.

He is a member and former President of the Board of the Sacramento Ballet, former Chair and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the California Musical Theatre, which produces The Music Circus and The Broadway Series, and was appointed last year by Mayor Kevin Johnson to the Sacramento Performing Arts Theatre Task Force. Mangers will speak on the status of performing arts in Sacramento.

AAUW is fortunate to have one of our scholarship recipients also speak at our December event.  Rachel Jahnsen is a student at California State University, Sacramento, and expects to earn her BA in Theatre Arts in 2016. She has studied and worked with children while raising her 3 children, who are now all teenagers. After finding theater techniques useful for reaching her son with Asperger’s syndrome, she used them while working as a teacher’s assistant to help special needs pre-schoolers learn communication and teamwork skills. Rachel’s children will join us at the luncheon, enjoying their mother’s talk and the holiday celebrations.

The AAUW Sacramento Branch is excited to be sponsoring a program on human trafficking and sex trafficking for our members and the general public on March 10, 2016.  We will have a panel of speakers talking about abuse and violence against women and girls in the Sacramento region.

Our panelists include Jenny Williamson, Executive Director of Courage Worldwide, an organization that offers shelter, counseling, education and training for women and girls rescued from traffickers; Holly Gibbs, a former victim and health educator; and Jan Scully, former Sacramento District Attorney and founder of the Family Justice Center, a new program for victims that offers legal services, counseling and referrals to housing, job training and educational programs.  The Family Justice Center is being developed in collaboration with California State University, Sacramento, and will have a satellite program on campus that will offer victim assistance as well as provide internship opportunities for students on campus.

We need your help in contacting other community groups that might be interested in joint sponsorship and encouraging their members to attend. We will not be asking for financial assistance, but we need them to encourage their members to attend. They will be listed as joint sponsors on promotional materials, and we may set up tables where they can distribute their relevant literature. Could you help with your contacts?