September 22, 2022---Ukranian Refugees. Speaker: Nancy Strutezenberg, Director of Philanthropy, Refugee and Immigrant Services; Contact: Cheryl Cunningham. (school donations)
October 5-6, 2022---2022 IRSPA State
Conference Waterloo – Best Western Plus Executive
Residency (319-888-1000)
October 27, 2022---Mental Health and Youth. Speaker: Amber Rand, Vice Principal
of Orchard Place. Introduced by Gail Soesbe; Contact: Dee Fleishacker.
November--- no meeting
December 8, 2022---Jolly Holidays. Contact: Mike Walag.
Starting on January 26, 2023, meetings will be held at The Euclid Room located next to the HyVee Grocery Store at 2540 E. Euclid in Des Moines. This is at the corner of E. Euclid and E. 26 Street.
January 26, 2023---Lustron Homes in Des Moines, Contact; Sherry
Wilkinson.
February 23, 2023---The Underground
Railroad and the John Brown Freedom Trail. Speaker:
Gail Brewbaker; Contact; Sherry Wilkinson.
March 23, 2023---Mary’s Helping
Hands. Speaker: Lauren Burke and Robin
Fulton; Contact: Dee Fleishacker. (donations
of diapers and clothing for Mary’s Helping Hands, announce scholarship winners,
dues are due)
April 27, 2023---Farmer’s
Market—Past, Present, and Future. Speaker:
Megan Renkel from the Greater Des Moines Partnership Farmers’ Market Manager;
Contact: Marla Carr. (cash donations to DMARC Food Pantry. dues are due)
May 25, 2023---Iowa Juneteenth. Speaker Dwana Bradley; Contact: Liz Benjamin. (dues are due, election of officers)
June 22, 2023---Program: Learning at
the Loo. Speaker: Jan Mitchell, former Iowa
Teacher of the Year. Storyteller Project Speaker Erin Sears, shares her story
about her student teaching experience in a remote Eskimo village; Contact:
Marla Carr. (last chance to pay dues)
July 27, 2023---Bookend Presidents: from Hoover to Truman. Speaker: Herb Strentz; Contact: Bill Snyder.
August 24, 2023---The History of
Camp Dodge. Speaker: Michael Vogt, Curator of the
Iowa Gold Star Museum; Contact: Sherry Wilkinson. (installation of officers)
