AAUPW Members
**************** Some of the AAUPW members at our 2014 Holiday Party ***************
December 31, 2007
November 30, 2007
November Program Meeting
Speaker: Danny Strike, Founder and Director of Entity Theatre, Munich's English-Speaking Theatre Workshop
October 31, 2007
October Program Meeting
Speaker: Marcella Lassen, American Pop Artist whose subject matter is that global icon, the hamburger
September 30, 2007
Letter from the President
I hope everyone had a great summer. As we start our 2007-2008 membership year, I'd like to re-cap our great 2006/2007 year:
- Increased membership ~50% - at all time high of 68 members
- Added Movie Club to our list of activities
- Created new Choir Group that had 2 internal and 1 external performance
- Established a scholarship fund for Junior Year Abroad - Munich
- Adopted IMMA as our official 'sister' organization and helped them with 2 events
- Learned from 7 great speakers
- Read and discussed 8 interesting books
- Tried out 10 new restaurants
- Toured the Munich Botanical Garden
- Held 3 holiday parties - Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Fourth of July
- Made many new friends
- And most of all, laughed and had fun
I'd like to thank the outgoing AAUPW Board members that helped make all of the above possible. There was definitely time and thought from all of them that contributed to our successful year. I'd also like to welcome the incoming Board. The reward for the time you are devoting to the club is seeing the smiling faces of our members.
I hope that all of you will rejoin/join our group. We are definitely a great group of women. I'm looking forward to continuing in my role as president. See you in September!
Shari
July 31, 2007
June 30, 2007
June Program Meeting
A guided tour through Munich's Botanischer Garten, one of the finest botanical gardens in Europe.
May 31, 2007
May Program Meeting
Speaker: AAUPW member Audra Shanley, Website Editor of The New7Wonders Campaign, which has the express aim of documenting, maintaining, restoring and reconstructing world heritage.
May 1, 2007
IMMA Open House
IMMA (Initiative für Münchner Mädchen) hosted an Open House, and AAUPW members supported the event by baking cakes, greeting guests, handing out leaflets and serving at the café.
April 30, 2007
April Program Meeting
Naomi Isaacs presented an investigation into how the dynamics of breathing influence our voices, our style of communication and our daily life, and offered members the chance to investigate our individual breathing patterns and identify our personal breathing dynamic – a bit of self-awareness which can help to enhance our "charisma quotient".
March 31, 2007
March Program Meeting
A keynote lecture and panel discussion on the topic of Raising Bilingual Children, featuring Christine Louise Hohlbaum, award-winning American writer, AAUPW member Kristy Koth, co-owner of a publishing house specializing in bilingual children's books, and Leslie von Wangenheim, board member at the Bavarian International School.
March Book Club Meeting
We discussed A Confederacy of Dunces, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Kennedy Toole.
March Stammtisch
Il Cigno Ristorante & Pizzeria (cozy and simple restaurant with traditional Italian menu)
February 28, 2007
February Program Meeting
Sascha Mamczak, Senior Editor for Fiction Hardcover and Paperback at Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, spoke on the topic of Book Publishing.
January 31, 2007
January Program Meeting
Member Christina Negulesco Tolan spoke on her involvement in many aspects of the art world and the challenge and satisfacton of owning her own photography gallery here in Munich, Galerie Negulesco.
December 31, 2006
Private Tour of Stadtmuseum Exhibit
Our popular January 2006 speaker, Herr Gerhard Meighörner, conducted members on a private tour of the München wie geplant exhibition at the Stadtmuseum.
December 1, 2006
December Program Meeting
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Our annual Holiday Party - including the popular White Elephant Gift Exchange!
Our annual Holiday Party - including the popular White Elephant Gift Exchange!
November 30, 2006
November Program Meeting
Eva Hieronymus, who runs a Socialburgerhaus in Berg am Laim informed us about the center - one of several in the city - which bring together various social services under one roof.
October 31, 2006
October Program Meeting
Mel Kelly introduced us to Toastmasters International - a non-profit organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, training seminars and speech contests - and invited AAUPW members to do a bit of extemporaneous speaking followed by instant feedback.
September 30, 2006
August 31, 2006
July 31, 2006
June 30, 2006
June Program Meeting
Our annual walking tour: After Hours at the Zoo - a private tour of Tierpark Hellabrun, including a look behind the scenes.
May 31, 2006
May Program Meeting
With an audio-visual presentation including slides and archive recordings, member Anne Janssen told the remarkable tale of The Comedian Harmonists, the German singing group of the 1930's which was forced to disband at the height of their fame because three of their members were Jewish.
April 30, 2006
April Program Meeting
AAUPW President Shari Temple - Managing Director in Europe for Aidmatrix Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides technology for other non-profit organizations - spoke of her work with food banks, disaster relief and other humanitarian non-profit organizations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
April 1, 2006
March Program Meeting
David Dorian Dowdy, founder of consultancy Triple D Start-Up Service, spoke on the topic of what it takes to start up a business in Germany.
February 28, 2006
February Program Meeting
Our very distinguished guest speaker, Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern (Israeli Cultural Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria) spoke of her personal history, her dedication to reconciliation between Jews and non-Jews, and her longstanding efforts towards the re-erection of the Israelitische Kulturgemeinde on St. Jakobsplatz.
January 31, 2006
January Program Meeting
Renowned urban planner Gerhard Meighörner spoke on "What Makes Munich so Livable? - The Past and Present of Munich Urban Planning".
December 31, 2005
December Program Meeting
Our annual Holiday Party - including the popular White Elephant Gift Exchange!
November 30, 2005
November Program Meeting
We heard from member Susan Dzieduszycka-Suinat, founder of the Overseas Vote Foundation, the first-ever non-profit, nonpartisan public charity dedicated to making overseas voter registration easy and accessible to the millions of Americans overseas.
October 31, 2005
October Program Meeting
Member Patricia Guy, Public Affairs Officer for the American Consulate in Munich, gave an insider's view of the life of a Foreign Service Officer.
September 30, 2005
September Book Club Meeting
We discussed The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and compared this coming-of-age book to Vernon God Little, which we had discussed in May.
August 31, 2005
July 31, 2005
June 30, 2005
June Program Meeting
Our annual walking tour: Henker, Huren, Hexen! (Hangmen, Whores and Witchery!) - a fascinating walk through Munich's history and the Age of Superstition.
May 31, 2005
May Program Meeting
One of AAUPW's founding members, Dee Pattee, talked about the class she teaches in writing autobiographically-based material: "Everyone's Life is a Story".
April 30, 2005
April Program Meeting
Dr. Doris Kajewski, chemist and patent examiner at the European Patent Office, shared a bit of what goes on behind the scenes at the only European governmental organization headquartered in Munich.
April Stammtisch
Künstlerhaus am Lenbachplatz- Mövenpick (excellent international cuisine plus delicious cakes and ice creams)
March 31, 2005
March Program Meeting
Member Melissa Schafer, working on her PhD in Agriculture Economics/Rural Sociology at the Weihenstephan campus of the Technical University Munich, talked about her experiences doing research on Bavarian organic farmers and the market for local food and organic food in Bavaria.
February 28, 2005
February Program Meeting
A privately-conducted tour of the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung.
January 31, 2005
January Program Meeting
Sibylle Bernstiel gave a presentation on the exploration of the American Northwest and the contribution of Lewis and Clark.
January 1, 2005
December 1, 2004
November Program Meeting
Our speaker was Ingrid Reich, Head of Public Relations for IMMA, a Munich women's initiative for the counseling, protection and advancement of women.
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