HOLIDAY LUNCHEON Date: December 19, 2023 Time: 12 noon (doors open at 11:30 am) Place: Carmel Country Club Cost: $45/person. Payable at Friday meetings or mail a check payable to Senior Scholars. Address: Senior Scholars at Queens; ATTN: Eileen Griggs; 1900 Selwyn Avenue MSC 1409; Charlotte, NC 28274.
Curriculum Meetings are open to Membership. Join our Curriculum meetings to hear about upcoming speakers/events or to suggest speakers you know (or have heard speak) and believe would be of interest to your fellow Senior Scholars.
TOPIC: The Rural-Urban Divide and the 2024 Election SPEAKER: Chelsea Kaufman, Assistant Professor, Wingate University Chelsea provide an overview of how political attitudes and voting behaviors have varied across rural and urban areas over the last several election cycles and discuss what this might mean for 2024, especially in "swing states" like NC.
All members old and new are invited to attend in person or via Zoom, our New Member Orientation meeting. Learn more about the organization including how to meet people, join events and how you can help the organization – the best way to meet new people! In person meeting is in Room 106 in PUMC.
TOPIC: Inherit the Land; Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will SPEAKER: Gene Stowe, Author Two antebellum white spinster sisters in Marvin, NC, raised a Black man and then his daughter as their own beginning in Reconstruction. The women left them their 800 acre homeplace, a will upheld against all odds by two White juries in […]
All members old and new are invited to attend in person or via Zoom, our New Member Orientation meeting. Learn more about the organization including how to meet people, join events and how you can help the organization – the best way to meet new people! In person meeting is in Room 106 in PUMC.
Curriculum Meetings are open to Membership. Join our Curriculum meetings to hear about upcoming speakers/events or to suggest speakers you know (or have heard speak) and believe would be of interest to your fellow Senior Scholars.
TOPIC: Policing in 2024 and Beyond SPEAKER: Johnny Jennings, Chief of Police, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Jennings will discuss how policing has transformed over the past 4 years under his leadership and how he sees policing evolving in the future. BIOGRAPHY Johnny Jennings was sworn in as Chief of Police of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department […]