On Wednesday, July 13, the marble statue honoring Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled and dedicated in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. Those unable to attend the unveiling can watch the unveiling via live stream at www.speaker.gov/live.
Join us for the revealing of the near-identical bronze sculpture of Dr. Bethune will be held on Thursday, August 18, at 9 a.m. in Bethune Plaza, located at the intersection of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard and Beach Street in Daytona Beach.
Following the unveiling of the near-identical sculpture, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 18, there will be a premiere showing of a feature-length documentary about Bethune in the News-Journal Center’s auditorium at 221 N. Beach Street in downtown Daytona Beach.
Reservations are needed to watch the inaugural viewing of the film, which highlights the journey of the statues created by sculptor Nilda Comas.
For more information, visit www.MMBStatue.org.
Saturday, September 17
Constitution Day
Saturday September 17
VUE, 1381 Educators Rd, Daytona Beach
10:30 am
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government. In celebration of Constitution Day, we will meet with the League of Women voters to learn more about the foundations of our government.
Maria Pecoraro McCorkle will help us take a fresh look at the Constitution and the establishment of justice. Maria was one of the Law Clerks for the Judges of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in downtown Daytona for several years and has taught classes on the Constitution.
Tuesday, October 18
Joint meeting with LWV: Amendments to the Florida Constitution
Volusia County Public School Media Centers–What is Happening?”
Kris Smith, Media Services and Instructional Materials Specialist for Volusia County Schools Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Daytona Beach City Island Library, 105 East Magnolia Avenue, Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Thursday, November 15
1 pm
January 21
Women’s Art Exhibits
10 am
MOAS
February 24
Regional Leadership Meeting
Hyatt and CiCi Brown Museum of Art
March 14
AAUW Florida Lobby Days
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Thursday, March 30
Women’s History Month Luncheon
Daytona State College
Honoring AAUW
11 am
Tickets $45
April 22
Florida’s Female Pioneers
Peggy Macdonald, alumna of the University of Florida, public historian and adjunct professor at Stetson University and Indian River State College, will examine some of the women who have shaped Florida, including Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated free school in Florida; Harriet Beecher Stowe, famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin who kick-started Florida’s tourism industry with her 1873 book, Palmetto Leaves; and Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first and only female Florida Seminole Tribal Chair and the first elected female tribal chair of any federally recognized American Indian tribe in the nation.
May 6
Women and Water
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