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DECEMBER 2013/JANUARY 2014 AIWConnections December/January Program Annual Christmas Tea, Tuesday, 10 December at 13:45 SAVE THE DATES COFFEES Friday, 6 December Area Coffee: Lavaux Riviera Wednesday, 11 December Meet & Greet Coffee Wednesday, 8 January Meet & Greet Coffee Friday, 24 January Area Coffee: La Cote DECEMBER EVENTS Friday, 6 December Get in the Christmas spirit at our annual Christmas Tea with delicious home- Free Spirits: Foire d’hiver et de made cakes, carol singing, and entertainment by the fabulous Dynamic Divas. Tradi<on Saint-André, Thonon We will celebrate on Tuesday, 10 December from 13:45-16:00 at the AIWC Tuesday, 10 December Clubhouse, Avenue Eglantine 6, 1006 Lausanne. The cost is CHF 15 for Christmas Tea members and CHF 20 for guests. Friday, 13 December Reservations and/or cancellations must be received by Friday, 6 December. Art Appreciaon: “Délices Space is limited and priority will be given to members. Please let us know if d’ar<stes”, Vevey you are unable to attend on the day as there may be a waiting list. Tuesday, 17 December Send an email to [email protected], complete the registration Out to Lunch Bunch: Le Palais form under EVENT REGISTRATION on our website www.aiwc- Oriental, Montreux lausanne.org, or call the AIWC office at 021 320 26 88 and leave a clear JANUARY EVENTS message with your details. Thursday, 9 January New for 2014 Geneva and currently Program Out to Lunch Bunch: Café de Director at Wellness Attitude, a l’Evêché, Lausanne Monthly General Meeting company specializing in the field of Friday, 10 January at 9:30 Friday, 10 January fitness and health. Patricia will AIWC General Mee<ng In January, AIWC Lausanne will speak about keeping your “New introduce a regular monthly meeting to Year’s Resolution” towards a fitter, Thursday, 23 January which all members are welcome. The healthier 2014! Explore Lausanne: Thermal General Meeting will be held at 9:30 on All members welcome. Send an Baths, Yverdon the second Friday of every month. email to registration@aiwc- Friday, 31 January JANUARY lausanne.org or just turn up. Light Free Spirits: Foire de Saint Date: 10 January 2014 refreshments will be served. Ours, Aosta, Italy Time: 9:30-11:30 Place: Salon Alice Bailly, Opera de FUTURE EVENTS Lausanne, Rue de Theatre 12, Lausanne Friday, 14 February Nearest bus stop Georgette, nearest AIWC General Mee<ng, parking Bellefontaine. Lausanne Enjoy your holidays without guilt Friday, 14 March because January’s General Meeting will AIWC General Mee<ng, feature guest speaker Patricia Soave, a Lausanne former teacher at the conservatory in PAGE 1 DECEMBER 2013/JANUARY 2014 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE in Vevey, and on Tuesday, 17 is still there. Please help welcome December, the Out-to-Lunch these women to our club! Bunch dines at Le Palais Oriental in Montreux with an January is the start of a new venture opportunity to visit the for the AIWC. We will hold a General Marché de Noel. In addition, Meeting on the second Friday of each there are the usual Area and month at the Lausanne Opera from Meet & Greet Coffees and 9:30. The Meeting will be free entry activity group meetings. with coffee, an opportunity to socialise with other members—old You may notice that most of and new—and will feature a speaker the above take place during on a variety of topics of general the day. However, times are interest. This will also allow you to changing and more and more find out about new activities and The holiday season is nearly upon us, women are out in the events in the pipeline. This is YOUR and the run up has well and truly workplace by day. As a club that Meeting! Please support it. All these started. As usual, there will be so prides itself on inclusivity, we are things are only as good as the much to fit in before many of you finding that we need to include the members make them. increasing number of working return home for the holidays and This is the last newsletter of 2013, others welcome family and friends women. Last month, we had a very successful wine tasting on a Friday which has been a very full and to a “Winter Wonderland” (hopefully) interesting year. All of us on the here in Switzerland. evening, and the pub and cinema “pop up” evenings are also popular. board are brimming with ideas for The club has had a great autumn But we’d like to do more to the coming year and hope that we packed with events, outings, and encourage working women to join will be able to make 2014 as exciting, activities, and in December we can the club. We need to offer more varied, and inclusive as possible. look forward to another full month. activities in the evenings (to add to Let me wish you all the very best for On Friday, 6 December, there is a trip the one evening book group), and I'm the coming holiday season. to the Foire d'hiver in Thonon. On looking for volunteers to start up Tuesday, 10 December, the celebrated these evenings. If you have ideas, Happy Holidays!!! Christmas tea takes place at the please write to me on clubhouse with wonderful food and [email protected]. Even if Susan Alloun great musical entertainment. On one is busy working all day the need Friday, 13 December, there is an Art for friendship and social interaction Appreciation trip to L'Alimentarium with other English-speaking women FOR YOUR DIARY Imagine looking up from a mountain village into a spectacle of color. Imagine looking down on the snow-covered peaks of the Alps. Imagine both! Chateau-d'Oex 36th International Festival of Balloons takes place 25 January to 2 February. There are programs for children, air shows, passenger flights, and more. For more information, visit www.festivaldeballons.ch AIWConnections is published nine times a year. No article may be reproduced in whole or in part without the written consent of AIWC Lausanne. AIWConnections reserves the right AIWC CLUBHOUSE to edit copy submitted. Opinions expressed are not necessarily endorsed by La Maison de la Femme AIWConnections or AIWC Lausanne. Avenue Eglantine 6 1006 Lausanne (second Contact: [email protected]/[email protected] floor) Communicaons Chair: Wendy Manwarren Generes Tel: 021 320 26 88 Editors: Wendy Manwarren Generes and Jennifer Whistler Email: Assistant Editors: Mar3na Coxova and Deb DeLau [email protected] CirculaWon Manager: Jeanne Wahl PAGE 2 DECEMBER 2013/JANUARY 2014 LIL 2014 CHAIR NEEDED JOIN THE NOMINATING After two years as chair of the COMMITTEE Living in Lausanne committee, The Nominating Committee, responsible for I’m stepping down and would putting together a proposed slate of executive officers love to ind volunteers to for election for the 2014-2015 club year, will be chaired organize next year’s event. by Liz Coates and Sue Ferguson. Please consider The LIL seminar is one of the joining Liz and Sue on this important committee as a highlights of the AIWC year member-at-large. The committee is interested to hear and a valuable service to new members' suggestions for President, Vice- ex-pats. Many of you attended President, Treasurer, and Secretary. Please send your previous LIL workshops, made suggestions to [email protected]. lasting friendships, and picked up tips on living in CALLING ALL AUTHORS! Switzerland, so if you’d like to share your knowledge and experience, please consider volunteering. There’s a tried and tested formula and nothing is too AIWC authors are invited to the literature onerous. If you’d like to discuss what’s involved, please meeting on Thursday, 20 March at 9:30 in drop me a line at [email protected] Lausanne. We’d love to hear about your It’s a rewarding and fun event to be involved in and a experiences and get a view into your world as great way of giving something Back to the cluB so please a writer. Willing to participate? Please contact do consider offering your support. Many thanks! Eve Krayenbuhl at [email protected] Lynne Field or 021 903 10 58. POTENTIAL CLUB NAME CHANGE There, I've said it. I've identified the elephant in with the amendment process outlined in our the room. The room, of course, being our Constitution, have formed an ad hoc committee. wonderful club. Since the approval of its original The Parliamentarian (that's me, yes, again) chairs Constitution in February 1969, the rules regarding this committee and I invite you to serve with me on membership in our club based on nationality have this committee as it should consist of Board changed multiple times. In 2006, the club grappled members and members-at-large. If you are not able with issues of its identity ultimately choosing to to help on the committee, please send me your insert "International" into the former name thoughts on this issue as all viewpoints need American Women's Club of Lausanne and to rescind airing. the provisions that the President and Vice- President must be U.S. citizens. These changes Deirdre McDaniel, Parliamentarian stemmed from a recognition of the rise of the international composition of the club, a practical WHAT ARE WE READING? desire to allow the entire membership to be considered for leadership positions, and support On the docket for the for the welcoming philosophy on which the club Readers, Original list: The was founded. Understanding the continued Garden of Evening Mist by evolution of our club's demographics, and given a desire to be inclusive, in a more significant vote Tan Twan Eng (6 January); last year we annulled the Associate Member The Unbearable Lightness category of membership for non-Americans of Being by Milan Kundera thereby making all members equal in terms of (3 February); The Round voting rights and ability to hold office.