Schedule 2025-2026

PROGRAMS shall promote equity, education, and the development of opportunities for women and girls that enable them to realize their full potential.

Please remember to read your Viewpoints for more details about each program and speaker, as well as any changes that might occur during the program year!

Program Information

Holiday Social: Saturday, December 5, 2025,

12 noon, Wildwood Golf club

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Program Title: A Step In The Right Direction

Speaker: Kathleen Schreckengost, DPT and Alexa Ciamarra, OT

Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist, Kathleen and Alexa, will get us moving in the right direction with an interactive session designed to make our daily living safer and easier. We will leave their session with practical skills and helpful resources, and the confidence to live safely at home.

9:30 am Social

10:00 am Program

11:00 am Business Meeting

Wednesday, March 18,2026

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Program Title: The Impact of CEDAW –Global to Local

Speakers: Marcia Bandes, Chair, Pittsburgh for CEDAW and Peggy Schmiedecke, Co-Vice Chair, Pittsburgh for CEDAW

Marcia and Peggy will discuss the objectives of CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The speakers will highlight CEDAW’S core objective which is to ensure women have equal rights and opportunities.

6:00 pm Social

6:15 Gateway to Equity

6:45 Program

7:30 pm Business Meeting

Wednesday, April 15,2026

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Program Title: The Harmony Line

Speakers: William Fronczek and Scott Becker

Bill and Scott, President Emeritus and Ambassador Emeritus, respectively, of the PA Trolley Museum, will provide us with an historical perspective of travel on the trolley lines that once operated throughout the North Hills, and how the lives of Pittsburghers revolved around those lines.

6:00 pm Social

6:30 pm Program

7:30 pm Business Meeting

Annual Dinner

Wednesday April 29, 2026

Wildwood Golf Club

Past program

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Prior to our program presentation we will award the annual Sr. Matilda Incentive Grants.

Program Title: Bettis: Where Aviation Took Off

Speakers: Brian Butko and Sue Morris

Speakers: Authors Brian Butko and Sue Morris will pilot us through an exciting era in aviation, beginning at Bettis Field, the epicenter of Pittsburgh aviation. The early years of flight, from barnstorming to commercial flights, involve stories of the daring men, as well as women, who made Bettis the place to be.

6:00 pm Social

6:20 pm Sr. Matilda Incentive Grants

6:50 pm Program

7:30 pm Business Meeting

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Program Title: The Glock Foundation

Speakers: Carol Glock and Barbara Paul

Carol Glock and Barb Paul are prime examples of women helping women. After being diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, Carol decided to start a foundation to help other women during their breast cancer journey by providing them with both emotional and financial support. Barbara Paul adds her 30+ years of biomedical research experience to help Carol carry out her mission.

9:30 am Social

10:00 am Program

11:00 am Business Meeting

Saturday, November 1

Location: La Roche University, The Ryan Room

Shape the Future

Program Title: What’s Being Lost? Fighting For Our Rights

Speaker: Lisa Tetrault

Back by popular demand!

Dr. Lisa Tetrault, associate professor at CMU will speak with us about the many, many rights women (and others) have won that are under such massive assault that it feels impossible to keep it all in view, particularly given the swell of misinformation that surrounds it. Together, we’ll work to think about what this is and how to cut through the disinformation, so we can more effectively strategize about how we’d like to respond.

9:30 am Social

10:00 am Program

11:00 am Business Meeting