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May UNF Alumni Book Club
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
10:00 a.m.
Location:
Zoom
Cost:
FREE
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - 2020
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
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Texas Town Hall with President Szymanski
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
12:00 p.m. Central Time
Location:
Zoom Webinar
Register Now
The Town Hall with President Szymanski has been rescheduled for May 19, 2021. All viewers are eligible to win a UNF swag giveaway when they tune in until the end. The webinar is hosted by UNF alumnus and Texas local Ed Jones, who graduated from UNF in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science and again in 1999 with a master's degree in Business Administration. The town hall will feature President and First Lady Szymanski, as well as special guest speaker Karen Bowling, VP of Jobs at UNF.
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May Third Thursday
Thursday, May 20, 2021
6 p.m.
Location:
Main & Six Brewing Company
Join us for May Third Thursday on May 20 at Main & Six for trivia, drinks and a food truck! Come hang out and challenge your fellow Ospreys to a game of trivia while drinking a delicious beer at this alumni-owned brewery! The first 25 alumni to arrive will receive a free Third Thursday pint glass and one lucky attendee will win a $50 Visa gift card. This event is sponsored by Community First Credit Union.
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Nashville Town Hall with President Szymanski
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
12:00 p.m. Central Time
Location:
Zoom Webinar
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We're bringing the Nest to our Nashville alumni for a Town Hall with President Szymanski!
One attendee will win a UNF swag giveaway! To be entered, tune in during the webinar until the end. Eat your lunch while you watch (this is a webinar format, so you'll see and hear our speakers only), and learn about the latest and greatest news from UNF. This webinar will be hosted by UNF alumnus and Nashville local, Travis Shore. Travis graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Banking and Finance and serves on the UNF Foundation Board. He is Deputy Chief Investment Officer for the Vanderbilt University Office of Investments where he leads the private and public market investment teams. The town hall will feature President and First Lady Szymanski, as well as special guest speaker Dr. Richard Buttimer Jr., Dean of the Coggin College of Business.
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June UNF Alumni Book Club
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
10: 00 a.m.
Location:
Zoom
Cost:
FREE
American Dirt - Jeanine Cummins, 2020 Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable.
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July UNF Alumni Book Club
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
10:00 a.m.
Location:
Zoom
Cost:
FREE
Father of Lions by Louise Callaghan, 2021 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut. Combining a true-to-life narrative of humanity in the wake of war with the heartstring-tugging account of rescued animals, Father of Lions will appeal to audiences of bestsellers like the Zookeeper's Wife and the Bookseller of Kabul as well as fans of the true animal stories such as A streetcat Named Bob, Marley and Me, and Finding Atticus.
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August UNF Alumni Book Club
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
10:00 a.m.
Location:
Zoom
Cost:
FREE
The Warsaw Protocol by Steve Berry, 2020 After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder - blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons.
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September UNF Alumni Book Club
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
10:00 a.m.
Location:
Zoom
Cost:
FREE
The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks, 2020 It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women's movement was a younger lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known), barely thirty years old the only woman on the team that prosecuted the highest-ranking White House officials. Called "the mini-skirted lawyer" by the press, she fought to receive the respect accorded her male counterparts -- and prevailed.
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