We Co-Hosted 2013 Wisconsin State Conference

(This is a post about an archived event that happened years before we started the website)

 

“Making Connections with the Past and Meeting the Challenge of the Future”

Saturday, May 4, 2012
Racine Masonic Center  1012 Main St.  Racine, WI 53403

7:30 - 9:00 AM Registration, Coffee and Kringle

8:00 - 8:45 AM Conference Presidents’ Council Meeting

9:00 - 9:45 AM General Session Part 1

10:00 - 10:45 AM Breakout Session 1

11:00 - 11:45 AM Breakout Session 2

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch  “Build your own” sandwich and salad buffet & Danish dessert

1:15 - 2:00  PM Author, Becky Melby  Mrs. Melby lives in Burlington, WI.  She writes contemporary women’s fiction.  Her Lost Sanctuary series released in 2012 contains  historical threads that take readers back to 1852 and the underground railroad, the battle for women’s rights and child labor laws in the early 1900’s, and the reign of organized crime in the Roaring 20’s.  Stories in this series take place in Rochester, Kenosha, and Racine, WI.  She has also co-authored 9 novels.

2:00 - 3:00 General Session Part 2

Breakout sessions: (Each topic was offered twice.  Participants chose two.)

Todd Brennan, Outreach Coordinator Alliance for the Great Lakes.  His responsibilities include outreach to communities in Wisconsin including working with schools, residents, and organizations to make their coastal communities more resilient.  He coordinates the Adopt-a-Beach program and implements the Alliance’s Great Lakes in My World curriculum in Wisconsin.

Kate Jerome, Urban Farm Manager & Horticulture Instructor at Gateway Technical College, Kenosha, WI.  Kate has spent the last twenty years as a freelance garden writer and teacher.  At Gateway Technical College she teaches landscape design, plant identification, landscape management, and urban farming classes.  She is a consultant and writer for Chicago Botanic Garden and Olbrich Botanical Garden in Madison.  

Wendy Spencer, Events Coordinator at the Masonic Temple.  Mrs. Spencer portrayed Mrs. Henry Durand who moved into the newly constructed Mansion in 1857 with her husband, Henry, and children.  She will conduct a tour of the mansion.