Midweek: lunch with friends, intermittent sunshine, and something new

Waukegan Area Branch members

 Saturday's AAUW meeting was the annual Fellows Luncheon.   The Waukegan and Deerfield branches invite women who have received AAUW fellowships to study in the U.S. (specifically, the Chicago area) to tell us about their research.

Matilda Adebove from Nigeria is studying educational psychology at Loyola.  She belongs to a religious community and told us that her International Fellowship freed up funds for seven other sisters to pursue educational opportunities.

K.C. Palisoc from the Philippines is doing research in data science and public policy at the University of Chicago.  She was formerly an economist with the Asian Development Bank.

We saw a video clip from Kristine Lornezo who received a Career Development Grant at DePaul where she is studying urban forestry.  (Quite a change from her background as a public school teacher and a hairdresser!)
  

The luncheon is also the kickoff for the annual spring quilt raffle.  It's an in-the-family raffle (no license--please don't report me!) with sales at this event and at the AAUW-IL state convention in May.   Proceeds benefit the AAUW Greatest Needs Fund to support programs for equity for women and girls. 

(The quilt is Out of the Box.  There's a full-on photo in this post.)

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We're back to seasonally normal temperatures after last week's 80-degree days.   We took advantage of sunshine yesterday afternoon. 

The boardwalk at Hosah Park is shorter than it was last year.   Erosion is a big problem along our stretch of the lake shore.

   In the picture above the blocked-off end is at the T where the boardwalk (left) goes down to the water.  Everything to the north of that is gone.

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In the studio:   something new!  

 It involves several hundred HSTs, many squares-in-squares, and a lot of trimming.  I really like Deb Tucker's Square Squared ruler for accurate SIS.

Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss  Midweek Makers

P.S.  Swans are more common these days but still a thrill to see. This at Lake Forest Place after I dropped off Eleanor and Dorothy after the AAUW luncheon.

P.S. 2  Thanks to Jennifer for the WWL shout out this week.