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2010
Annual Meeting
What: 2010 Annual Meeting
When: March 30th, 2010
Where: Montgomery, Alabama Renaissance Hotel
Time: Registration Starts at 8:00am,
Business Session
is at 9:30am
Contact:
Veronica (334) 262-4177
Please click
here
for directions to the Annual Meeting
Please click
here
for the program for the
Annual Meeting
We will announce
our achievements
of the Community Service program, "Yes,
We CAN Feed Alabama".
Please bring canned food items to help feed
the hungry. We will have bins set up
at the meeting.
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Lily
Eskelsen, Vice President of NEA,
has accepted the invitation from AERA President Charles Smith to be
the Business Meeting Speaker at the AERA Annual Meeting in March.
Ms. Eskelsen was an elementary teacher from Utah. She worked her way
through the University of Utah on scholarships, student loans, and
as a starving folk singer, graduating magna cum laude in elementary
education and later grabbing a master's degree in instructional
technology. She was named "Utah Teacher of the Year" in 1989. She
used that platform to advocate better funding for schools. The next
year she was elected UEA President. She began her career as a school
cafeteria lunch worker. Today, her position in education has
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Dr. Shelley
Stewart
(Center photo above) will provide an informative
presentation during the Luncheon meeting. Dr. Stewart was born into a
deeply segregated Birmingham in the 1940's. Stewart endured
severe child abuse and later homelessness after witnessing the
murder of his mother when he was five years old. Befriended by a
first grade teacher who encouraged him to go to school and learn to
read, he emerged from a childhood of poverty and neglect to become
one of America's most successful business leaders, philanthropists,
and human rights activists. During the 1950's Stewart was a popular
radio broadcaster known to his fans as "Shelley the Playboy," and his
broadcasts helped launch the careers of Aretha Franklin, Patti
Labelle and Otis Redding. More importantly, he gave vital airtime to
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders.
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