UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday – June 3 – 1230pm – AAUW Lunch Bunch Reservations required-Asparagus at 7876 Broadway, Merrillville

No agenda, other than food and conversation.
Contact person- Linda Cronk

Thursday – June 4 –   1:00 PM – Spirituality Seekers

Spiritual Seekers will meet at the home of MaryAnn Thompson. Discussion continues with Joan Chittister’s welcome to the wisdom of the world, chapter 19, and following

Mary Alice Larson will lead   All members are welcome 
All members are welcome

Contact person is Ann Ruggaber

Wednesday – June 10 –  Carpool at 9:00 AM  – Lunch and Garden Visit at Wellfield Botanical Gardens, 1011 North Main St., Elkhart, IN

Members and guests will enjoy a stroll through the Wellfield Botanical Gardens followed by lunch  at The Chubby Trout.   The half mile Promenade paved trail at Wellfield offers a view of lovely flora and fauna along with themed garden spaces. This 36 acre garden is also a working source of hydropower and drinking water for the city of Elkhart.  

Carpools will leave ValPlayso at 9:00 AM 

CONTACT PERSON:  Clare Pokorny

Thursday- June 17 – 6:30 PM – ArtFlix via  Zoom only

Film:  Becoming Katherine Graham.

Becoming Katherine Graham is a 2025 documentary the chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Washington Post publisher Katherine Kay Graham, from her upbringing in wealthy Washington family to her pivotal role in American journalism during the Watergate era. This film uses a  traditional documentary format, interweaving archival footage with intimate talking-heads interviews, always anchored by Kay Graham’s own voice. It traces her transformation from a self published “doormat-wife” into a fearless publisher who championed press freedom against a powerful and deceitful government. The pacing is steady, with a clear arc from her early days years to her leadership at TheWashington Post, culminating in her decision to publish the Pentagon Papers and her role and covering the Watergate. 

Discussion leader: Anita Quinlan

For information contact Diane Woolever

Thursday – June 18 – 1:00 pm – Spritual Seekers

Discussion of Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister continues at Spiritual Seekers. The meeting will take place at the home of Alta Mae Frobish and Ruggaber will lead  All members are welcome  

   For information, contact Ann Ruggaber

Tuesday – June 23 – 4:00pm – PCCF and zoom – Book Group

Title: Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney 

Discussion leader:  Anita Quinlan

She took 1930’s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest-paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “In some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.”

Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, eighty-five years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough for her mink coat, and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her more than ten miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak. This novel is inspired by the life and work of the poet and ad woman Margaret Fishback.

For more information, contact Clare Pokorny.