New Energy for Minnesota’s Early Childhood Education (ECE)
9:30-10:30
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: Barbara Yates, Executive Director, Think Small; Executive Committee Member, MinneMinds Coalition (byates@thinksmall.org)

Yates has a success story to tell about how a coalition of ECE supporters calling themselves MinneMinds persuaded the 2013 Minnesota Legislature to restore realistic ECE funding. You’ll learn why and how they did it and what this new financial energy will do for Minnesota’s youngest learners. -Geri Burns

How We Die in Minnesota
10:45-11:45
Presidents’ Hall

Speaker: Warren Wolfe, retired Star Tribune reporter and author

Five days before his death, author William Saroyan issued a humorous but profound statement, “Everybody has to die,” he said, “but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?” Death is so feared in America that many refuse to plan for it or even talk about it. We will look at current medical practice in Minnesota, use of hospice care, and the laws and practice surrounding suicide, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. -Catharine Abbott

Announcements
11:45-12:00

Luncheon
12:00-1:15

Luncheon Hostess: Shirley Fulmer
Guest Hostess: Virginia Hansing

• New Members – Association Room
• Public Policy – Fellowships Room
• Scholarship – Minneapolis Room

The Romanovs’ Legacy of an Empire Lost
1:15-2:15
Presidents’Hall

Speaker: Carol Veldman Rudie, Lead Docent at The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Lecturer for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Carol Rudie will share her passion and love of art and culture through an insider’s look at TMORA’s upcoming exhibition of worksfrom the Romanov Dynasty. -Ann Little