AAUW of Missouri President Lynne Roney made reservations for the Missouri delegation to eat together at Sam’s Café/Canyon Cafe (like the one at Plaza Frontenac) on Saturday evening. 

To the right:  Deb McWard, Dr. Mary Mosley, Linda Stark, Sue Barley, Carol Davis McDonald, Linda Berube,  , Lynne Roney, Jan Scott, Jane Crigler, Pat Shores, Yvonne Morrison, Julia Triplett, Mersine Kallaos.

In the ballroom on Sunday, from 2-3:00 PM, we assembled for the Global Perspective on Women and Girls plenary. Greg Mortenson, founder and director of the Central Asia Institute, author of Three Cups of Tea (his autobiography), and member of the AAUW Boise (Idaho) Branch, showed a video and spoke about his work in central Asia and his Pennies for Peace project. He began his talk with an African proverb: “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual. If you educate a girl, you educate a community.”  Mortenson has dedicated his life to promoting education, especially for girls, in remote and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has established nearly 60 schools through his nonprofit organization, which provides education to more than 24,000 children in areas where educational opportunities previously were not available. He is a living hero to rural communities of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he has gained the trust of Islamic leaders, elders, commanders, and tribal chiefs for his efforts to champion education. In 1996 he survived an 8-day armed kidnapping in Pakistan and escaped a firefight among feuding Afghan warlords in 2003.