Opening Day, Monday, September 9, 2019
AAUW Minneapolis
Enjoy the Day!
8:45 – 9:30 Dining Room
Welcome Back Social Time
Please note the earlier start to the day which will allow you
a bit more time for meeting and greeting friends at the
beginning of a new AAUW program season. Our
faithful coffee committee will be providing delicious
cookies and bars as well as coffee and tea for your
enjoyment.
9:30 – 10:30 Presidents’ Hall
Welcome to Minneapolis AAUW 2019-2020
President Carol Sheldon will welcome us to the opening
day of another wonderful AAUW Minneapolis program
year. Susie Erickson and Doris Grimes, Program Vice
Presidents, will introduce Topic and Focus Day chairs who
will preview the up-coming 2019-2020 planned programs.
There will be updates on the fourth Monday interest group
programs as well as reports from Membership and Gala
chairs.
10:45 – 11:45 Presidents’ Hall
Perspective from a New Novelist Speaker: Rebecca Ansari, Novelist
In Ansari’s first novel, The Missing Piece of Charlie
O’Reilly, Charlie O’Reilly’s little brother, Liam, vanishes.
No one believes Charlie except his best friend, Ana, and a
new boy in town. Together they embark on a journey into
an unseen world where they learn the importance of
families and forgiveness. Ansari will tell us about how she
came to be a writer, how she found an agent and an editor,
and what roles they play. She will describe sources of
ideas for a story, how ideas can change during writing, how
to keep story details in order, and how to tie up loose ends
after changes are made.
Carol Sheldon
11:45 – 12:00 Presidents’ Hall
Recognition of Past Presidents
ANNOUNCEMENTS
12:00 – 1:15 LUNCHEON

1:15 – 2:15 Presidents’ Hall
Amazing Minnesota
Speaker: Lee Lynch, Carmichael Lynch, Inc., Co-founder, Author
In 1962, Lynch co-founded Carmichael Lynch, an
advertising agency which rose to become one of the top ten
most creative agencies in the world. He retired from
Carmichael Lynch in 2008 and immersed himself in other
businesses and nonprofit activities. He was a key player in
the renaissance of the historic Hennepin Avenue Theater
District. An ardent advocate for Minnesota, he authored
the book, Amazing Minnesota, in 2017. Lynch will tell us
why Minnesota is so amazing and make you feel grateful
and proud to be a Minnesotan.