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JUNE 2014 AIWConnections End Of Year Summer Lunch SAVE THE DATES! Our annual End Of Year Lunch takes place! Friday 13th June at the Restaurant of the COFFEES All Areas Welcome Hotel Du Monde, Place Du Village 7,1091, Grandvaux, with panoramic views over the ! lake and vineyards. http://www.restodumonde.info Monday 2 June ! Lausanne (LSN) - Lausanne Palace The deadline for signing up for the lunch ended Friday 30th May. However, if anyone Friday 6 June would still like to attend, they should contact Gill Sirohi directly on the office@aiwc- Lavaux/Riviera (LR) - Manor lausanne.org mail address no later than the 5th June. Choose your menu at the Restaurant, Vevey following link. Lunch menu choice. If you require a particular dietary consideration Wednesday 11 June please contact Gill as well for this as soon as possible. Meet & Greet Coffee at Clubhouse ! Wednesday 18 June It! begins with an aperitif at 11.30 am, followed West Riviera (WR) - Le Rivage, Lutry by a 3 course menu of your choice, including ! wine, water and coffee at CHF 65. HAPPY HOURS All Areas Welcome There! is plentiful parking in the central Wednesday 11 June ! Grandvaux public car park (approx. 5 mins La Côte Area (LC): End of Year ApériNf walk). Public transport is available by bus - Morges Casino 47/66 from Lausanne, Pully, Lutry or by train Wednesday 25 June to Grandvaux with a steep descent into the Lausanne Area (LSN): Wine village. !Wednesday - Yatus Wine Bar OUTINGS Summer Wine Tasting at the Clubhouse! ! ! Saturday & Sunday 14-15 June As the days get longer and warmer it's time to cool down and relax with some easy- Top Gear - Lake Como, Gravedona, drinking styles of wine. Come and discover a summertime selection of light, zesty Italy and fruity wines. Some make an ideal aperitif, while all are perfect partners to Thursday 26 June barbecues and salads, cold cuts and cheeses, and more. Enjoy 8 great value-for- Private tour of Le Corbusier’s Villa money wines across the range of white and red, rosé and sparkling from around the “Le Lac” world. AIWC Kids See page 5 for schedule of events. Simon! Hardy from Fitting Wines will be hosting a tasting at the Clubhouse on June 19 at 7:00PM. The cost of CHF 40 per person, spouses and non-members are welcomed ! to join. Light snacks will be provided. Payment in advance is required to reserve JULY & AUGUST EVENTS your spot. Please email Briana at [email protected] for more information. !All Areas Welcome Friday, 4 July Area Coffee : Lavaux/Riviera(LR) - Private Tour of Corbusier’s Villa “Le Lac” Manor Restaurant, Vevey Wednesday 9 July & 13 August Following! his successful talk on Graham Greene at Meet & Greet Coffee at Château the April General Meeting, Patrick Moser, as well as d’Ouchy being a publisher, is also the curator of The Villa "Le Wednesday 16 July & 20 August Lac" and has offered to give AIWC members a private guided tour. Area Coffee : West Riviera (WR) - Le Rivage, Lutry The Villa is one of the famous "white houses" developed by Le Corbusier Saturday 26 July & 23 August www.villalelac.ch/en/index.html during the 1920s. It is considered to be an architectural masterpiece combining futuristic design and practicality and is regarded Top Gear OuNngs as one of the architect's most personal and inventive works. Wednesday 30 July & 27 August Cost CHF 20. Sign up on our website or send an email to [email protected] Happy Hour: Wine Wednesday - Chateau d’Ouchy Parking on road beside the house or bus 201 from Vevey Gare to stop Berger then AIWC Kids 300m walk. See page 5 for schedule of events. PAGE !1 " JUNE 2014 " PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE WELCOME NEW weekend “Cross Country who will be stepping down Skiing”. The reintroduction of this month. MEMBERS a full programme of “Moms & ! Kids Outings” and “Indoor Linda Dyson will leave her Myriam Maystre is Swiss and lives in Craft Days” has meant that position as Hospitality Chair Lausanne with her husband who is also once again we have activities a f t e r a v e r y l o n g a n d Swiss. She is reNred and joined the AIWC available for mothers with dedicated time seeing to the in February of this year. younger and school age needs of all the Members. children. Lynne Field is stepping down ! a s L I L C h a i r h a v i n g Caitlin Pa/erson is American and Twelve new Activity Groups successfully run several moved to Pully with her husband. She This is the last Newsletter of this year means that the total Living in Lausanne Seminars worked as a nurse in the US and loves this club year 2013-14 and so I number of groups has risen to and will be succeeded by joint cooking, food and wine. She also enjoys want to update you all on forty. These will be featured LIL Chairs Cindy Wawrzyniak travelling and spending Nme outdoors, what a busy and eventful year in the September Newsletter a n d S u s a n B r o w n . S u e hiking, yoga, and walking her dog. She it has been. In January we and at the Welcome Back & Ferguson has served her three has volunteered with the held the first of the new Activity Coffee on Friday 12th year term as Recording format monthly General September. Secretary and will be handing communicaNons team. Meetings. They have been over to Rosemarie Schmied. ! very well supported and the T h e m o n t h l y o u t i n g s Liz Coates will be handing Danielle Libine is originally from variety and excellence of the organised by Free Spirits, over the position of Treasurer Canada and also has Swiss and BriNsh speakers and the delightful Explore Lausanne, Out to to Kate Ashton and will be naNonality. She is a professional venue has meant that they are L u n c h B u n c h a n d A r t continuing on the Board as photographer and specialises in women's now an established part of the Appreciation have been more Membership Chair. calendar. varied and popular than ever. portraits. She says ”I really like to help In fact it has been an exciting All that remains is for me to women feel amazing about themselves We have taken on board the time to be a member of the wish you all a very relaxing through my lens.” She lives with her criticism that we do not cater AIWC of Lausanne. and enjoyable summer break husband and children in Lausanne. for working women and and to remind you to join us mothers with young children. ! I would also like to take this at the final event for this year Sandra Govea is from South Africa and This year has seen the start of opportunity to thank all the – The End of Year Summer moved to Pully from the UK with her a number of new evening members of the Board for the Lunch on Friday 13th June. A husband and school age children. She is social groups including the hard work they have put in so truly fitting way to say adieu v e r y p o p u l a r “ W i n e enthusiastically to make this for the summer! interested in cooking, baking, food and Wednesdays” and “Bunco year such a success. I would ! wine and also enjoys hiking and Evenings” as well as the especially like to thank the travelling. She has skills in admin and evening “Dinner Club” and three retiring Board members Susan Alloun database management which she hopes !the club will find useful. Cheryl Miles is Canadian, likes to ski, Renew Memberships play golf and read and has volunteered for the communicaNons team. Interested You should have already received your membership! dues renewal BV for the 2014-2015 club year payable by Monday 30th June at the latest. in nutriNon and the pracNce of mindful If for some reason you have mislaid your BV, the details for e-banking are as follows: living, she has a healthcare background ! and spent a number of years in *Versement pour (destination bank name and address): markeNng and is currently trying to start UBS AG, CH-8098 ZUERICH her own business. *En! faveur de (beneficiary): ! American International Women's Club Cynthia Mon9 Cavalli is a past Av. Eglantine 6 President of the AIWC and now that her 1006 Lausanne three children are well into their teens ! has enough free Nme to allow her to *Compte: 80 – 2 – 2 rejoin the club. She is American with a IBAN: CH83 0024 3243 F932 0249 1 Swiss husband and has lived in BIC (or SWIFT) : UBSWCHZH80A Switzerland for many years. She leads a *The! amount payable is CHF 135 very acNve life and enjoys swimming, scuba diving, rock climbing, skiing, If you will not be renewing your membership or need to receive another paper BV please contact membership@aiwc- running and hiking. lausanne.org. ! AIWConnections is published nine times a year. No article may be reproduced in whole or in AIWC CLUBHOUSE part without the written consent of AIWC Lausanne. AIWConnections reserves the right to La Maison de la Femme edit copy submitted. Opinions expressed are not necessarily endorsed by AIWConnections or Avenue Eglantine 6 AIWC Lausanne. 1006 Lausanne (second Contact: [email protected] or [email protected] floor) Communications Team Co-Chairs: Tracey Johns and Pippa King Rojo Tel: 021 320 26 88 Editors: Tracey Johns and Briana Steele-Zerbini Email: Advertising: Iola Wuttke [email protected] PAGE !2 JUNE 2014 Living in Lausanne and The Canton of Vaud Date: Monday & Tuesday 29 & 30 September 2014 Time: 09.00 – 14.30 Venue: AIWC Clubhouse, Av.