Interest Groups

League of Women Voters^®
of Marion and Polk Counties

Interest groups allow small groups of League members to pursue special interests.

Book Club. Book Club Schedule for 2008-2009. Education Group. Foreign Policy.

Book Club

Bea Epperson
The Book Club has made its selections for the 2008-2009 year using the theme: Around the World in Books. The list begins in the previous column.
The September 3rd selection takes place in Morocco. The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah is a nonfiction account of British travel writer Shah's year in moving to Casablanca and making his new home habitable. Along the way he meets some very interesting characters and encounters customs and traditions which provide roadblocks to his plans. It's a "tongue in cheek" kind of book that is hard to take too seriously but will generate many chuckles as well as give the reader some insight into Moroccan culture. Tahir Shah is a well known author of adventure travel books with interesting twists and turns.
The Book Club will travel to Lincoln City for its September 3 meeting at the home of Mary Thimm. The group will meet in the parking lot behind Roth's West Salem store at 9:30 a.m. to carpool to the coast. If you have not already done so, please RSVP to Bea Epperson.

Book Club Schedule for 2008-2009

Meetings are on the first Wednesday of the month at 3 p.m. at the home of Bea Epperson, 4840 Jones Rd. S.E. However, check the Calendar each month in case of a change of location.
Theme: Around the World in Books
September 3, 2008 - The Caliph's house: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
Morocco: Nonfiction

October 1, 2008 - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
S. America: Fiction

November 5, 2008 - I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travail in the New Russia by John Mole
Russia: Nonfiction

December 3, 2008 - Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed by Jeremy Diamond
Various countries of the world: Nonfiction

January 7, 2009 - The Prince of the Marshes by Rory Stewart
Iraq: Nonfiction

February 4, 2009 - The Zookeepers' Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Poland: fiction

March 4, 2009 - Gonzales & Daughter Trucking Company by Maria Ampara Escandon
Mexico: Fiction (Salem Library has a set of books to loan.)

April 1, 2009 - The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Tobin
U.S. : Nonfiction

May 6, 2009 - The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
England: Fiction (mystery)

June 3, 2009 - A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
U.S. (Oregon): Nonfiction (memoir)

July 1, 2009 - People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
Spain, Bosnia, Venice, Australia: Fiction

August 5, 2009 - TBD Choice of:
Three Cups of Tea by Gary Mortenson
Enough by Bill McKibben or
Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
by Eric Larson (Salem Library has a set of books to loan.)

New Education Interest Group

Kathy Reed
At the Annual Meeting it was proposed that an Education Interest Group be formed to consider the topic After-school activities for teenagers and funding for them. If you are interested in participating, please let me know and also indicate if you would be willing to chair the interest group.
Interest groups may choose their own agendas, activities, and meeting times. Interest groups are encouraged to recommend actions to the board--actions that are premised on LWV positions--but may not take public action on their own initiative. Non-League members may participate in an interest group but may not serve as its chair.

Foreign Policy

The Foreign Policy group will not meet in September.

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