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• FEW March Mtg: More Than a Medal

  • When
    March 11, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  Women's Assistant Hockey Coach at SCSU, former Olympia Jinelle Siergiej's journey growing up in the sport of Hockey has brought her many experiences including playing on the USA Olympic hockey team and taking the silver medal in the 2010 Olympics. Those experiences have helped her develop mental toughness, perseverance, and have contributed to her success in life. She will be sharing those experiences and her story with us in March. 

  Siergiej joined the staff at SCSU in 2014-15 as an assistant coach and was promoted to Associate Head Coach prior to the start of the 2019-20 season.

  Jinelle Siergiej begins her seventh season with the women's hockey program at St. Cloud State University in 2019-20. Siergiej most recently served as an assistant coach at Robert Morris University during the 2013-14 season.  A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Siergiej played hockey for the Badgers from 2004-08. She gained All-WCHA honors in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and was selected to the WCHA All-Rookie team in 2005. At Wisconsin, Siergiej was part of two national title teams in 2006 and 2007 and left the campus as UW's all-time leader in goals, game-winning goals and power-play goals.

  Siergiej represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics and helped the USA women's hockey team gain silver medalist honors that year.  She participated in the world championships with Team USA in 2007 and was part of the Four Nation's tournament with Team USA in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010.

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• FEW April Mtg: Title IX at 48 - Looking Back and Moving Forward

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    April 08, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  The Title IX law states that “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

  The law applies to all aspects of education, but most people know of it in relation to sports. Before Title IX, one in 27 girls played sports. Today that number is two in five. Former coaches, Lori Ulferts and Carol Howe-Veenstra, will share their experiences and expertise of Title IX.

  Lori Ulferts received her bachelor and doctorate degrees from the University of North Dakota (UND), where she also lettered in four collegiate sports. She has a master’s degree from Frostburg State University in Maryland, and she coached basketball and volleyball at the University of Minnesota-Crookston (UMC). Ulferts also coached basketball at Minnesota State University-Moorhead (MSUM) for five years and St. Cloud State for 14 years. She is a Hall of Fame member of UMC, Frostburg, MSUM, and UND.

  Carol Howe-Veenstra, a 1975 graduate of MSUM, taught physical education at St. Cloud Technical High School and coached volleyball and track and field. She received her master’s degree in physical education from St. Cloud State. In 1985, Howe-Veenstra began a 30-year career at St. Ben’s which included 15 seasons as the volleyball coach and 28 years as the director of athletics. Howe-Veenstra is a member of several Halls of Fame including the Minnesota High School Volleyball Coaches Association, Tech High School, MSUM, and CSB.

  
  

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• FEW May Mtg: Warrior to Citizen

  • When
    May 13, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  Major John Donovan - Military Veteran & Homefront Resource Center 

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• FEW June Mtg: Living Your Best Life

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    June 10, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  Our lives and the world around us are seemingly moving faster. With increased demands for our time and energy, how do you make choices on what is most important?

  Alia Allison is a Yoga Teacher, Executive Coach and Director of Talent Management. She will share her personal journey of flipping her life upside down in order to intentionally create her best life. Alia will inspire and challenge FEW members and guests in an interactive session to discover:

  • What do you need to let go of in service to living your best life? 
  • What do you want to invite more of in order to thrive? 

  Gather insights, create steps forward and build a network of peers to support you in your quest in living your best life.

  Alia is an advocate, truth teller and co-creator. She believes that a leader’s fullest potential is already inside of them and that her purpose is to help you to unleash it. As an Executive Coach and Talent Management Director, her goal is to empower and activate positive, authentic growth in individuals through self-discovery, awareness and choice.

  Alia Allison was born and raised in Wisconsin and attended University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Business. She has held a variety of roles at Target Corporation and General Mills Inc. Currently, Alia is the Director for Talent Management for Athleta (subsidiary of Gap Inc) in San Francisco, CA. In addition, Alia received her 500 Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) certification at Charmed City Yoga (now YogaWorks) and Zuna Yoga. Lastly, Alia is a Certified Co-Active Professional Coach (CCPC) through CTI.
  

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• FEW July Mtg: Sharpen Your Vision

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    July 08, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  Facilitated Discussion and Connecting

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• FEW August Mtg: American Women Win the Vote

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    August 12, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  The 72-year struggle for American women to win the right to vote was the greatest nonviolent revolution in the history of our country. Three generations of women and the men who supported their efforts persevered to include American women in the Constitution.

  Paula F. Casey of Memphis, Tennessee, has dedicated more than 30 years to educating the public about the woman suffrage movement, especially Tennessee's pivotal role in the 19th Amendment's ratification in 1920. She produced a video in 1989 entitled "Generations: American Women Win the Vote," and helped publish the book, The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage. She had the book made into an e-book and audiobook read by the co-author, Dr. Jan Sherman, in 2013. She has been instrumental in getting public art about the suffragists placed across Tennessee. She served on the state committee that selected the bas relief plaque that hangs inside the State Capitol Building in 1998. The Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument was unveiled in Nashville's Centennial Park in August 2016 while she was president. She served as fiscal agent for the Sue Shelton White statue in front of Jackson's City Hall. She chaired the Memphis Suffrage Monument committee which unveiled its monument, "Equality Trailblazers," facing the Mississippi River by the University of Memphis law school. She co-founded the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail and urges all states to tell their suffrage stories with heritage trails.
  

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• Tour of the New Tri-County Humane Society Building

  • When
    August 25, 2020
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    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    735 8th St NE, St Cloud, MN 56304
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    1 registrant

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  Tri-County Humane Society invites FEW members for an after-hours, behind the scenes tour of their new facility!  Meet and mingle with your FEW friends and some new furry ones, too. 

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• FEW September Mtg: It Hurts to be Human

  • When
    September 09, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  Jerry Sparby - Founder and Executive Director of the Yes Network

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• FEW October Mtg: Having Meaningful Conversations with People Who Think Differently - and Get Along

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    October 14, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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  King Banaian is dean of the School of Public Affairs at St. Cloud State University. He is also a professor in the Department of Economics at SCSU. He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School. He is author of The Ukrainian Economy since Independence (Edward Elgar, 1998), co-editor of The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators (Palgrave, 2008) and more than forty articles and book chapters discussing monetary policy and political economy. He has served as a consultant to central banks and governments in several developing. King was state representative in the Minnesota House for District 15B, 2011-13. He is also host of the King Banaian Show on Business1440 KYCR broadcast in Minneapolis, and co-author of the St. Cloud Quarterly Business Report. He lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, with his wife Barbara.

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• FEW November MTG: The Art Of Gathering / Business and Connecting

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    November 11, 2020
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Tuscan Center
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    250

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  Using Priya Parker’s bold approaches from her book “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” and our annual business meeting as a case study, alter your idea of what a meeting should be. We will workshop in small groups to learn “how to create a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.”

  
  

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