NOW Minutes

Northeast Missouri NOW Minutes

May 30, 2009

 Present:  Hena Ahmad, Monica Barron, Laura Gruber, Jerry Hirsch, Jane Maxwell, Julia Reed, Linda Seidel, Mary Sims.

 We anticipated a very short business meeting & then Movie Night, but ended up talking business longer than we’d planned. 

 Reports to National NOW:  Linda has filed the annual report of our activities, and sent a copy of our bylaws (because National NOW couldn’t find them).  We talked about whether we needed bylaw revisions, and decided that probably not enough has changed to make this necessary.  Julia still needs to file the form for our financial statement.

 Women’s Equality Day.   It was suggested that we hold some kind of event to celebrate Women’s Equality Day (August 26), which commemorates the passage of the 19^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, giving women full rights to vote.  After considerable discussion of when, where & what kind of event we want to have, we decided that since Truman’s classes start Thursday, August 27, it would be best to hold our celebration on Saturday, August 29.  We’d like to have a program of several people presenting spoken &/or musical selections relating to women’s history.  And we would like to see if we could rent the Kirksville Arts Building for their 2-hour meeting rate of $50 (without kitchen privileges), since it’s a nice space and it’s air-conditioned. 

 A committee consisting of Julia, Monica, Linda & Jane was formed to make further plans.  This will begin with investigating the availability of the Arts Building for 3-5 pm, Saturday, August 29.  If that works out, the committee will start contacting individuals who might take part in the program (if you have suggestions, contact someone on the committee).  We’ll keep everyone informed.

 Blog.  Monica has created a blog for Northeast Missouri NOW.  She’s going to send me a brief description of how she sees this working for us, and I’ll pass it on to everyone on the email list.  In the meantime, go ahead and check it out at http://nemonow.wordpress.com/

 4^th of July Parade – NOT.  We talked about briefly about marching & decided:  too hot, too few people in Kirksville, don’t want to do it this year.  Concentrate on the Women’s Equality Day event instead.

 Movie.  Finally we got to the movie!  We had several possibilities to choose from & since most of us hadn’t yet seen Milk & wanted to, that was what we chose.  I think we were all impressed with the film, the acting & of course the story, & enjoyed talking about it after. 

 Watch your emails for information on the blog & the Equality Day event & our next meeting!

  Mary Sims

Secretary, Northeast Missouri NOW