March 14, 2010

10am Forum
"New Orleans Schools After Katrina,"
Emily Krone, speaking


Emily Krone will report on what she found while studying schools in New Orleans, and some of it might surprise you. Emily  is the Senior Manager for Outreach and Publications at the Consortium on Chicago School Research. She previously worked as an education reporter at the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights. Most recently, she traveled across the country in 2008-09 writing about charter schools and school reform as part of a  year-long journalism fellowship sponsored by the Washington-based Phillips Foundation. She received a Master in Science and Journalism from Medill at Northwestern University and a B.A. in history from Princeton University. Deb will facilitate. 

Celebration of Life - 11am
"Prairie Pastors: The Legacy of the Iowa Sisterhood,"
Ms. Lynn Garner, preaching


In little more than a month, we'll ordain Lynne, one of our former Board presidents, to the Unitarian Universalist ministry.  We'll hear just some of the fruits of our scholarly labors this morning as she preaches on a 19^th Century precursor to the strong presence of women in the liberal clergy in the late 20^th/ early 21^st Centuries.  It helped support one of our own-the Reverend Dr. Rowena Morse Mann-and it happened on the prairies not far from Chicago.  What's more-Lynne's topic was the result of an early Auction bidding contest won by Jerry Jaecks!