Long Beach –Members and guests of AAUW Long Beach Branch will welcome Virginia Sanchez, General Librarian with the Long Beach Public Library on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at the Leisure World Clubhouse, 1280 Golden Rain Rd., Seal Beach, CA. Sanchez is widely recognized for her efforts as a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst stationed for ten months at Camp Blackhorse outside Kabul, Afghanistan where she organized “Operation Literacy” for servicemen stationed there to read books to their children.
The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. with the program at 11:00 a.m. For luncheon reservations, please call Pat Ferrer at 562-597-4781. Cost of the luncheon is $12.00. The program is open to the public.
.AAUW provides scholarships to local middle-school girls to attend Tech Trek, a summer camp at University California Irvine and Whittier College for one week and also the S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Education and Math) Conference in February to encourage local middle-school girls to prepare for college.
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