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Dates
To Remember
March 1 - Drama Reading
Group: "I Ought to Be in Pictures".
March 20 - Book Review Group:
Eva Kastel will review Lost on Earth.
March 23 - Souper Supper
First Baptist Church of Castro Valley, 18550
Redwood Road, Castro Valley
April 17 -Author Nan Austin
Gardner will join us to discuss her book,
Sojourn in Saudi.
April 22 - Country Italian
Supper
May 15 - Annual book review
group discussion: This year's book is Michael
Crichton's "State of Fear".
Danville-Alamo
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
presents
War
on Terror: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Afghan
Women through Education
Speaker: Edna Mitchell,
Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Mills College Date:
Saturday, March 25th Time: 9:30am-12:30pm Shadowhills
Cabana Club, 1001 El Capitan Dr., Danville,
CA 94526
Dr. Edna Mitchell has many years experience
as a professor of education and an administrator
in higher education including institutional
leadership in educational program planning,
development, and evaluation; and creation of
the internationally recognized Women's Leadership
Institute at Mills College, which is recognized
as an official NGO of the United Nations.
Her international experience
includes three years as a consultant to the
Ministry of Education in Nepal, a year as a
Fulbright Professor in Hungary, a year as a
professor and Associate Dean at Zayed University
in the UAE working in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
She was employed as an Education
Specialist in 2004-2005, working for Creative
Associates, Inc., a USAID project in Kabul,
Afghanistan, on assignment to the Ministry of
Higher Education to assist on projects of priority
in restoring infrastructure in higher education.
In October 2005 she returned
to Kabul on special assignment as a consultant
to the newly created American University of
Afghanistan to create an academic master plan
for the University. If you have any questions,
please contact Asha.
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