Sun City Texas Democrats

General Meeting: Saturday, October 3, 2009

Time:  9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Speaker
Place: Sun City Activities Center Atrium
Program: Becky Moeller
Becky Moeller is president of the Texas AFL-CIO, overseeing the 220,000-member labor federation’s legislative, political education and community service programs.
Moeller is the first woman to hold statewide elected office in the Texas AFL-CIO, having broken that barrier in 2003 when she became secretary-treasurer. During her four-year term in that office, she brought efficiencies and oversight to the state federation budget that kept programs going even after the departure of a substantial chunk of membership from the AFL-CIO umbrella.

General Meeting: Saturday, June 6, 2009

Ms. Sharp is currently with the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library serving as Education Specialist.  She is in charge of the Library’s adult and childrens educational programs.  Using materials from collections in the library she arranges workshops, seminars and presentations for teachers, adults and children.

General Meeting: Saturday, May 2, 2009

Location: Atrium, Sun City Activity Center
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Speaker

Speaker: Judy Hetherly, the first woman mayor for the city of Lampasas, will speak on the topic of the Texas Education Agency and how it relates to the Texas Board of Education.

Ms. Hetherly is chairman of the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. and serves on the Preservation Lampasas Inc. Board, which is heading up revitalization of the historic Lampasas Colored School.

A native of Texas, Mayor Hetherly graduated from high school in Lampasas and Southwest Texas State. She then earned her Master of Arts degree from Texas Woman’s University.

NOTE: Candidates for Sun City CA Board will not be speaking to us today. It was decided that there are many venues where they will all appear, and that it would take too much time away from our speaker.  However, we urge you to attend the Candidate Forum on May 7 at 9:00 AM in the Sun City Ballroom or view it live on Channel 79.  Please review carefully each candidate’s qualifications and background; this decision is very important to our future as Sun City residents.

Earth Day Fair: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Location: Legacy Hills Park Pavilion
Time: 1:00 to 6:00 PM

Our 2nd Annual Earth Day Fair will be at the Pavilion this year The event will feature several ecologically minded clubs and organizations from Sun City and Georgetown. The focus is on actions that Sun Citians can take to ensure that our world will be safe and clean for now and the future.  Click here for a Schedule of Events:  Earth Day Fair 2009

General Meeting: Saturday, April 4, 2009

Location: Atrium, Sun City Activity Center
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Speaker

Speaker: Dr. Mary Lou Lustig is a Professor Emerita of History and has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. In addition to teaching at WVU, she has taught at New York University, where she was also the co-project director and co-editor of The Papers of William Livingston. She is the author of three books: Robert Hunter (1666-1734): New York’s Augustan Statesman; Privilege and Prerogative: New York’s Provincial Elite, 1710-1776; and The Imperial Executive in America: Sir Edmund Andros, 1637-1714.

Now living in Round Rock, Texas, Dr. Lustig continues to supervise those graduate students who began their degree programs under her direction. She is currently researching a study on the Loyalist DeLancey family and frequently lectures to groups in the Austin area about colonial and revolutionary history.

Her subject will be Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”

General Meeting:  Saturday, February 7, 2009

Location: Atrium, Sun City Activity Center
Time: 9:30 AM

Speaker:  Arvella Oliver, a recent graduate of the Climate Project in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied with former Vice President Al Gore, will speak to the group.  Ms. Oliver is a graduate of Southwestern University where she was a double major in History and Literature.  She received her master’s degree in History from Rice University.  She recently taught a class titled “The Science of Climate” for Senior University.

General Meeting:  Saturday, March 7, 2009

Location: Atrium, Sun City Activity Center
Time: 9:30 AM

Speaker:  Megan Morrow, the Outreach Director for Texas Watch, an activist organization, will speak. Ms Morrow is the liaison between Texas Watch and consumers on media and policy matters.  Ms. Morrow, a New Yorker until her teens when she moved to Texas, is a recent graduate of the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in Government.  She is known for her passionate support of social change and empowerment of the average citizen.

General Meeting:  Saturday, January 3, 2009

Location: Atrium, Sun City Activity Center
Time: 9:30 am: social, coffee; program: 10:00 am

Speaker:  Bob Moser, the newly appointed editor of The Texas Observer, will speak to the group. Mr. Moser was the former editor for The Nation Magazine and a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University.  He also wrote the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report on American extremists regarding the religious right and the anti-immigrant movement.

General Meeting: Saturday, December 6, 2008

Location: Ballroom, Sun City Social Center, 2 Texas Drive
Time: 9:30 am.
Event: Holiday Party and regular meeting.
The Sun City Democrats will meet at 9:30 a.m., December 1, 2007, in the Sun City Ballroom for the annual Holiday Party and report on the club’s progress during the year 2007. A variety of refreshments and beverages will be provided at no cost to the members. All you need to do is come ready to meet with your fellow Democrats for a pleasant beginning for the Holiday Season and a brief business meeting.
The Sun City Democrats meetings are free and open to the public.  Please call Mary Kay Pierson at 864-9909 or Carol Flynn at 864-3544 for additional information.

Election Night Party: Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Location: The Oaks (Legacy Hills Golf Course), 301 Del Webb Blvd.
Time: 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Event: Election Night Party.  Come join us for an Election Night Party!  We may not stay until we get final results, but there will undoubtedly be a lot of things to celebrate along the way.  Impromptu end zone dances are welcome!  We will have dessert, fruit, cheese and decaf coffee and teas.  If you need stronger refreshment, feel free to bring it along.  Questions:  Call Jodi Salyers (864-2812) or email:  jodotcom@aol.com.