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SPECIAL EVENTS
ANNUAL MEETING & REFRESHMENTS
TWO WEEKS AWAY! RSVP by Friday, June 9! Members and their guests are invited to socialize, catch up on PLATO business and enjoy Keynote Speaker Amy L. Rosebrough, Interim State Archeologist, present “The Story of the Discovery, Recovery and Preservation of the Lake Mendota Canoes”. This free, special event will take place on Wednesday, June 14 from 12:30 – 3pm at The Goodman Community Center's BRASSWORKS building. RSVP and learn more here.
FIELD TRIP
NEXT MONTH! Wait no longer – register by Tuesday, June 6 for our trip to Historic Dubuque, Iowa, and the Mississippi River Museum on Wednesday, June 21. One participant will bring her grandchild as a guest and suggests others might like to do the same. The downtown Dubuque funicular and the amazing Mississippi River Museum with live animal exhibits will fascinate any child, as well as you. View photos, learn more and register here.
BREAKFAST GATHERING
NEXT WEEK! Second Friday Breakfast – new venue and time! We will move outdoors this Summer to the Memorial Union Terrace on the UW campus and gather from 10:30am – 12:30pm on June 9, July 14 and August 11. Learn more and RSVP here.
PLEASE NOTE – Fourth Friday Breakfasts will be moving to a new location on the east side of Madison. Details will follow.
BIKE RIDES
Check out new areas of Madison with these self-guided bicycling routes.
LECTURES
Expand your horizons with recorded PLATO Lectures offered by PLATO members and special guests who share their knowledge on many topics.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS
Select from a range of topics and formats
for your Spring reading, viewing, or listening,
curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.
DID YOU KNOW? for May 30 – June 12, 2023
Alice Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was a black chemist in Hawaii who at the age of 23 in 1915 discovered a way of treating leprosy before antibiotics. Unfortunately, others claimed credit for it. Scholar Paul Wermager explains, “Not only did Alice Ball overcome the racial and gender barriers of her time to become one of the very few African American women to earn a master’s degree in chemistry, [but she] also developed the first useful treatment for Hansen’s disease. Her amazing life was cut too short at the age of 24. Who knows what other marvelous work she could have accomplished had she lived.”
Visit the Social Justice page for more about Alice Ball
or past DID YOU KNOW? features.
DID YOU KNOW? – spotlighting notable historic events and contributions made by non-mainstream individuals you might not have learned or read about. Suggestions for inclusions are welcome (send to Kathy at: ksmichaelis@gmail.com).
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