Branch Events

We schedule our events for the year (Sept thru May), and as the time nears for each event, e.g. monthly Branch meeting, more details are provided as to time and place. The Home pages gives the information about the next event scheduled (it’s actually from our newsletter cover page).

Most recent events: latest, previous

Spring Luncheon and Installation of Officers
Saturday, May 18, 11:30 AM
Marie Callender’s, Sunnyvale

Our last event for the year is our Spring Luncheon and installation of the 2024-25 Branch Officers. Attached to this Imprint you will find the order form for the luncheon. Please print it and send it back to me at the address on the form by Monday, May 13. I know the price goes up each year, but we want to support local restaurants and keep them in business and most members found last year that there were leftovers, so you actually get two meals in one!!! Please join us as we say farewell to each other for a few months and to congratulate those who stepped up to be our leaders next year!!
Click HERE to see the signup form.


Wednesday, April 10, 2:00 PM
Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall
728 W Fremont Ave. Sunnyvale

Our “Happiness” speaker is Loret Carbone a CA native. She has three master’s degrees and was a licensed school psychologist for eight years. She decided to take a “break” and moved to Chicago. Once there, Loret got into the restaurant business starting as a server and eventually became CEO, COO and President of several restaurant organizations around the country. After 35 years in the restaurant industry Loret went back to
school. She now owns her own executive coaching and consulting business.

Who doesn’t want to be happy?

In this fun, interactive presentation, Loret will teach us about four ways to bring more happiness into our lives.

She’s show us how positive emotions, quiet moments, learning new things, and self-care will not only enhance our lives, but make us happier!

So come join Loret and learn how to hardwire happiness into your life.

School Book Banning
Thursday, March 14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM – Zoom meeting

The AAUW Silicon Valley Branch (formerly Los Altos/Mt View and Palo Alto branches) invites you to a virtual discussion with Dr. Jennifer Lynn Wolf about the book banning movement that is sweeping across the country. This talk will consider:

  • How should we provide and protect freedom of speech in public schools?
  • How has school book banning changed, and remained the same, across the decades?</li)
  • Who is driving the current book banning movement, and who is impacted by book restriction?
  • How can we advocate for reading in the Education Democracy?

Register for this and get your zoom link by using this link;
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwp fuqprjIjGdW6TWnome0fKUXGSleuO-KB

Sisters in Crime
Thursday, Feb 15, 7:00 PM – Webinar

This is a webinar like last year and a fundraiser for Legal Advocacy – helping women fight discrimination in academia and their professional lives. It is always a fun program and we hope you’ll join us.
This year, we have 3 diverse & interesting women mystery authors: Ana Manwaring, Claudia Hagadus Long & (Gin) G.M. Malliet. Here are their bios:

  • Ana Manwaring is the author of the JadeAnne Stone Mexico Adventures: Set Up, The Hydra Effect, Nothing Comes After Z, Coyote and Backlash; Saints and Skeletons, A Memoir of Living in Mexico—the real adventure; and three poetry chapbooks. Ana produces North Bay Poetics, a monthly poetry event.
  • Claudia Hagadus Long is the author of seven novels, including the new mystery series featuring Zara and Lilly: Nine Tenths of the Law and Our Lying Kin (Kasva Press) and coming in 2024, Sisters at an Exhibition. Her books span centuries and topics, from Hidden Jews of Mexico during the Inquisition, women in the mining industry in 1753, women in the labor movement in 1920s San Francisco, and the legacy of inherited trauma as a daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
  • G.M. Malliet’s first DCI St. Just mystery won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. The series was later nominated for Anthony, Macavity, and Left Coast Crime awards. Her award-nominated Max Tudor series continues in 2023 from Little, Brown. Three of her short stories recently placed in EQMM’s Readers Choice Award and her novella, A Murder at Morehead Mews, was nominated for a Derringer.

Since this is a webinar, if you are unable to attend, you can watch it at a later time.
Donation $15. Checks made out to AAUW Funds with LAF on memo line and sent to Gerry Roy, 1639 Lewiston Dr. SV 94087. A confirmation email will be sent. If you send a check & don’t receive an acknowledgement, call me at 408-738-3521.

Game Night
Thursday, Jan 10, 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Fellowship Hall, SV Presbyterian Church
728 Fremont Ave, SV

Our Branch program for January will be a fun afternoon playing your favorite game! What game do you enjoy? Scrabble, Mexican Train, Mahjong, cards, Yahtzee, Boggle, Dominoes or something else? Bring your favorite game and your friends or join in a game that someone else brought. We will have a chance to play, visit and munch on some delicious goodies!

RSVP to Helen helenrd09@gmail.com or 408-739- 8424 by Monday, January 8th.
Join your friends and fellow members for a fun afternoon!!! You might learn a new game!!!

Branch Holiday Social
Friday, Dec 8, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
10366 Tonita Way, Cupertino

Liz Mulford has graciously offered her home to host our Holiday Social on Friday, December8, from 4-6 PM. Please come dressed in your most celebratory holiday outfit and enjoy delicious food and drink and catch up on the news with your branch members. Come as a single, bring your significant other, bring a friend, bring a prospective member, but most of all COME and join in the fun. Please bring a savory finger food to share and the branch will provide the sweets, non-alcoholic beverages and wine to start off the Holiday season on a bright note.
RSVP to Liz at lizmulfordca@gmail.com by December 1.