2024-2025 Events
(Guests are always welcome!)

Book Group: Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire by Stacy Cordery
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time:  10:00 am

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Holiday Brunch

Location: Weeks House, 1002 E. Broadway, Monmouth
Time:  10 – 11:30 am

Please bring a dish to share. A $10 donation to go to the AAUW Greatest Needs Fund is requested. We hope you’ll bring a guest! 

This is another opportunity for new members to join, as well as for those whose memberships have lapsed for 2 or more years to rejoin. Both types of new members will receive the $36 discount off their membership cost if the check or charge is made at the brunch, for a total rate of $55.00. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 6-7:00 pm (CST)

Please don’t pass up on your invitation to a Zoom meeting “AAUW Priorities in Light of the Election Results” featuring Meghan Kissell, AAUW Senior Director of Policy and Member Advocacy. The talk will focus on social justice priority issues and other priorities that go with or hinge on social justice.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-yuqTwrHNXLgJev5-OXXtKlzJSUE1VI#/registration

Past Events

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Town & Country Art Show Gallery Reception
Monmouth Area AAUW branch sponsors the Kathy Lowe-Arthur Best of Show Award as a way to help support the arts in the community.  The winner is awarded $100.
Location: Buchanan Center for the Arts, 64 Public Square, Monmouth
Time:  2-4 pm

Friday/Saturday, April 19-20, 2024

AAUW-IL State Convention
Holiday Inn & Suites Chicago Northwest
495 Airport Rd, Elgin, IL

Saturday, June 1, 2024

100th Anniversary Celebration!
Lunch and Reminiscing
Location: Patton Block Grill & Brew Pub, 88 Public Square, Monmouth
Time:  12:00 pm

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Book Group:  The Women by Kristin Hannah
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time:  10:30 am

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

National Voter Registration Day

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

The Jane Addams Branch invites you to “Truth, Trust, and Turnout: Navigating Elections, Civic Engagement, and Disinformation.”

Dr. Suzanne Chod, Professor of Political Science at North Central College in Naperville, will explore the relationship between political trust, polarization, and disinformation and its effects on elections and democracy. Specifically, she will offer details on the calculated use of disinformation to divide us further and erode democratic norms. Dr. Chod will also discuss how to spot and combat disinformation in the current election cycle and beyond.

All AAUW members and guests are invited to this Jane Addams branch Zoom program at 7 PM.    Please register in advance.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Book Group:  Glitter and Glue: a Memoir by Kelly Corrigan
Location: Your Zoom Room (link will be emailed to participants)
Time:  10:00 am

Monday, September 30, 2024

Meet & Greet with current & prospective members
Appetizers, dessert, and drinks were served. Bringing degreed friends and college students was encouraged. Program plans for the year were discussed. All new members and previous members who have lapsed more than two years could join at this event and save $36 off their dues. Student memberships: Both undergraduates and students pursuing a graduate degree are eligible to join for $18.81.
Location: Warren County Public Library Board Room, 62 Public Square, Monmouth
Time:  5:30 – 7:00 pm

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Book Group: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles
Location: Your Zoom Room (link emailed to participants)
Time:  10:00 am

Saturday, November 9, 2024, 10:30 am

Online Event: Meet the AAUW Fellows and Grantees
Hosts: Chicago AAUW Branch and Jane Addams AAUW Branch
Two recent recipients of the AAUW fellowships and grants speak to us about their research, studies, and projects.