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Special Interest Group Events

For information, call 717-232-3517, or e-mail the special interest groups chair. Also see special interest group descriptions.

Note: Interested in forming a films/cinema group? 
Contact Linda at lkfigueroa47@yahoo.com.

 
Winter-Spring 2008 Events

Afternoon Book Group
Afternoon Bridge Group
Culture Vultures

Dine Around Harrisburg
Cuisine Specialties

Games Group
Drama Group
Intergenerational Group

Paperback Book Group


Afternoon Book Group

For information, call Gladys at 652-5643.
March 4, 2008
(Tuesday)
1 p.m.
The group will meet at the home of Gladys Nelson will be the reviewer of Rise and Shine Anna Quinlan. Please notify Beth at 795-8266 or epkenned@comcast.com at least three days prior to this date if you plan to attend.

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Afternoon Bridge Group

The group meets the second Monday of each month at 11:30 a.m. 
at the Brew House Grill in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.   
For information call 717-732-9880. 

 

March 10, 2008
(Monday)
11:30 a.m.

The group will meet at the Brew House Grill in Camp Hill. Contact Marion Wetherell at 732-9880 if you want to be a substitute.

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Culture Vultures Bus Trips

To reserve a seat on a Culture Vultures bus trip or to suggest an event, call Barb at 717-774-5559 or e-mail warfelb@yahoo.com.
Trips are open to all, not just AAUW members.
 

Saturday, 
March 29, 2008 trip

Reservation deadline passed;  some seats may be available.

Attend the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia 
Museum of Art. Organized in celebration of the centenary of Kahlo's birth, this exhibition of fifty paintings will focus on her 
extraordinary self-portraits. Also on view will be portraits and still-life paintings in which Kahlo projects her passions, both personal and political onto other people's likenesses or everyday objects. 

Cost: $79.00

Coming in May We will visit Grounds for Sculpture, located in New Jersey. Acres of sculpture and a wonderful 5-star restaurant. More information to come!
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Cuisine Club

Saturday, 
March 1, 2008
Join us at El Sol restaurant where Erica Voss-Meloy and Dave Meloy will host. For more information, contact Erica at meloy@paonline.com.
Saturday, 
April 26, 2008
We will meet at Stoney Creek Tavern, with hostesses Wilma Kennedy (wjkbird@comcast.net) and Toni Neikens (TonNeik@aol.com).

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Cuisine Specialties

March 13, 2008
(Thursday)
6:30 p.m.

The group will meet at a member's home for dinner. New members welcome! For details please contact Mary Lou at 566-6711 or e-mail mmcdow6046@aol.com for details. 

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Dine Around Harrisburg

Unless otherwise noted, dinners are set for Wednesdays at 6:30 P.M. 
Join us! For information or to RSVP, e-mail or call Chris (717-892-6793).

May 14, 2008 
(Wednesday)
 

New Market Bistro, 433 N. 21st Street, Camp Hill, 737-4432 

June 11, 2008 
(Wednesday)
 

Chocolate Avenue Grille, 114 W. 
Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, 835-0888

July 9, 2008 
(Wednesday)
 

Boiling Springs Tavern, First and Front
Streets, Boiling Springs, 258-3614

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Drama Group

For more information on the 2007-2008 season, 
please contact Please contact Marjie at 766-9815 or mharle@mindspring.com
 

Our Baltimore Center Stage subscription is full for the 2007-2008 season, but if anyone would like to join our group for other productions (to be determined later), please contact Marjie Harle.

To be added to our substitute list for Center Stage, let us know. Sometimes a ticket holder cannot attend a play, and we look for someone to use the ticket. 

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Games Group

For more information, contact Marda  (717-877-8261).

In January, game-playing friends (who had been present at one of our previous gatherings) invited us to join them for a Sunday afternoon of board games at the Crimson Frog Coffee Shop in Camp Hill. Over 20 participants enjoyed a wide variety of games and we anticipate a repeat of this function in the near future. If you would like to join us, contact Marda at mlkpsu@comcast.net so that she can forward you the next invitation.

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Intergenerational Group 

Meetings are held at Homeland Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday of each month at 2:30 P.M.
For information, e-mail the web manager or call 717-761-2259.

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Paperback Books

All meetings are on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
If you would like to attend or want more information, Kathy at rdkrausse@comcast.net.
 

Date Book Reviewed by At the Home of
March 20 
(Thursday)

Wild Swans by Jung Chang  Dorothy Brown
Barbara Gillette
(Notify Barbara at bgillette@pa.net if you will attend.)
April 17 
(Thursday)
 
Fathers and Sons  by Ivan Turgenev Lee Johnson  Marjie Harle
May 15 at 6 p.m. 
(Thursday)
 
Planning picnic at Jan Reinhardt’s. Please plan to recommend books you’ve read and found interesting or for which you have read intriguing reviews. Another possibility is a classic you’d like to revisit. 
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