AWA CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Fall Semester 2011

September
12	Potential Dinner and Meeting	5:30 PM	AWA House
14	Communications Committee Meeting	6:30 PM	Pedro's Madison East
17	Corp Board/ Strategic Planning Meetings	8:00 AM	AWA House
19	Dinner with Babcock	5:30 PM	Babcock House
19	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
24	Football Parking/ UW vs. South Dakota	TBA	AWA House
26	Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
October
1	Football Parking/ UW vs. Nebraska	5:00 PM	AWA House
3	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
3 - 9	World Dairy Expo Week	-	Alliant Energy Center
7 - 15	Homecoming Week	-	Campus
10	Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
15	Football Parking/ UW vs. Indiana	11:00 AM	AWA House
16	Parent's Day At AWA	TBA	AWA House
17	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
21	Ag Women's Leadership Summit	8:00 AM	Crowne Plaza Hotel
24	Intent To Pledge/ Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
27	Networking Dinner	5:30 PM	AWA House
28	AGR/AWA Hayride/Barn dance	TBA	Jared Wendt's House
31	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
November
3	AGR/ AWA Dinner	6:00 PM	AGR House
5	Football Parking/ UW vs. Purdue	TBA	AWA House
7	Formal Interviews/ Meeting	TBA	TBA
14	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
21	Initiation	TBA	AWA House
24 - 25	Thanksgiving Break	-	-
26	Football Parking/ UW vs. Penn State	TBA	AWA House
28	Officer Meeting	6:30 PM	AWA House
December
5	Meeting/ Holiday Party	TBA	AWA House
8	AGR/AWA Movie Night	TBA	TBA
15	Last Day of Fall Classes	-	-
TBA:	Composite Pictures - After October 10th
	Other Sister Bonding, Professional, Service, Fundraising, and Networking Activities

• Bold font indicates mandatory events. Please notify the responsible officer and secretary if you are not able to attend a mandatory meeting
• Italicized events indicate events that members are highly encouraged to attend.
• Assume meeting attire is business casual unless otherwise stated.
• Dates and locations are subject to change.

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Fall 2011 Goals

• Have 100% of members use 2 of their 5 free meals at the house
• Have 100% attendance at 1 non-mandatory professional/alumni networking event
• Have 75% of membership attend at least a half day at the Ag Women’s Leadership Summit.

How to be an AWA "Member in Good Standing"

• Attend all mandatory events, so deemed by the officer team
• Pay dues by the third meeting
• Complete a total of 2 service, 1 fundraising, and 1 AWA planned activity each semester. If you have to miss an event, email Sonia Gelsinger (gelsinger@wisc.edu), with your excuse at least 24 hours in advance

Excused Absences- the following are considered excused:

• Class, exams or scheduled review sessions
• Studying if you have 3 exams within 24 hours of the event
• Family emergencies
• Extreme sickness/injury
• The rest will be submitted to Sonia and handled on an individual basis

Actions for Unexcused Absences-

• 1st unexcused—email notifying of the absences
• 2nd unexcused-email notifying of absence with warning about the 3rd
• 3rd unexcused—no longer a member in god standing, name brought before the membership for possible deactivation

Homecoming Activities

Events to be Planned

Dinner with AGR
Dinner with Babcock