Events & Projects
EVENTS
62nd Annual A.C.C.W. Conference
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Place: Wilshire Grand Hotel
930 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Speaker: Michael Brophy Ph.D.
Price: $45
Chair: Rosalie Corpuz
Co-Chair: Alexandrina Strode
Read below to find out how to join us for this gala,
spiritually enriching event.
Dr. Brophy is an outstanding, charismatic speaker with a desire to make known the beauty of the Catholic faith. His career has been teaching, organizing and administrating to college age young people. This has taken place in New York, Wash. DC, Wisconsin and even Bulgaria, Cuba, The United Kingdom, Hungary and presently So. Calif. His rich background also includes being an accomplished pianist and filmmaker - having won numerous awards for his films and documentaries at film festivals. ACCW feels blessed and honored that Dr. Michael Brophy, who with his family now resides among us, has consented to speak at our Conference. (Read Dr. Brophy's Complete Biography)
How To Join Us
If you would like to attend, please request an invitation. You can do so by clicking our e-mail address below, typing in your name and address and sending it. Space is limited and attendance is always high, so please request your invitation as soon as possible. Tickets are granted on a "first-come-first-served" basis.
To request tickets, Email us at:
invitationrequest@catholicwomenla.org
Phone: (213) 637-7394
Fax: (213) 637-6394
Michael Brophy - Bio
Dr. Michael Brophy serves as the sixth president of Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in 1932, Marymount College is a Catholic liberal arts college that prepares students from all over the world for transfer to a wide variety of four-year universities. Marymount also offers lifelong learning programs that serve Southern California residents.
Prior to his appointment at Marymount College in 2006, Dr. Brophy served as Campus Executive Officer and Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County, Dean of Students & Associate Provost at Long Island University-Southampton (NY), Dean of Enrollment Management at the State University of New York College of Technology at Canton, and Director of Enrollment Management at The Sage Colleges (NY). As a Noel Levitz enrollment management consultant he worked with the Kentucky, Indiana and Louisiana community and technical college systems. In these positions Dr. Brophy led successful academic, enrollment management, fundraising, and student life programs, producing enrollment increases at The Sage Colleges, Long Island University, and the State University of New York, and new academic, cultural, and campus facility programs at the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Brophy served as a tenured member of the University of Wisconsin Colleges English faculty and has taught English and Film at The Sage Colleges, Long Island University, the Winchester School of Art (UK) and the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County. He was awarded a Fulbright to teach and study in Bulgaria in 2003 and he led a Cuban Arts and Culture course to Cuba for the University of Wisconsin in 2004. Dr. Brophy has presented lectures and presentations at the Universities of Plymouth and Leesside (UK).
As a pianist, Dr. Brophy has accompanied university students, faculty, and choirs and performed in faculty and student recitals. An accomplished filmmaker, Dr. Brophy’s three films have been featured at film festivals around the world. His first feature film, "Tina and Lance," won the Best Feature award at the New York Capital Film Festival and his documentary, "Night for Day: The XP Story," was featured at the International Scientific Film Festival in Budapest, Hungary. Two of his screenplays were selected to the Independent Feature Project Market (NYC) in 2001 and 2002.
Dr. Brophy holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.F.A. in writing from Long Island University (NY), and B.A. and M.A. degrees in music and English, respectively, from The College of Saint Rose (NY). Dr. Brophy resides in Rancho Palos Verdes, California with his wife, Tara, and their three children, Sullivan, Myles, and Ella.
PROJECTS
Prayers for Priests Calendar
Pope Benedict XVI declared a "Year for Priests" beginning with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19, 2009. The year will conclude in Rome with an international gathering of priests with the Holy Father from June 9 to 11, 2010. He is asking you to pray for our priests that they might always be faithful to their calling.
ACCW has joined with the Pope and all the faithful by publishing each month a 'Calendar' with the name of a specific priest (also lists his parish) that we all pray for on that date.
Ilegra Evans, who has taken on this project, also sends a nice card informing the priest that he is being prayed for. Wonderful 'thank you' letters have come back to us from the priests saying how appreciative they are for our prayers and how inspirational and strengthening it is to know they are getting our support.
We post a new Priests' Calendar every other month. Please join us in praying each day for the priest listed. The downloadable calendars below are in PDF format. Please click on the links below to see/download them.
Download Calendar - February 2010
Downdload Calendar - March 2010
Knitting / Crocheting for The Needy
This is a project which has resulted in many thousands of afghans being distributed to the homeless or others in need. It is is accomplished by women all over the archdiocese collecting scraps of yarn, knitting or crocheting them into squares and binding the squares together forming afghans. This very popular project is an inspiring example of the generosity of many people working together to accomplish a great good.
If you would like to participate in this very worthwhile project you can do so by donating yarn or knitting/crocheting. The directions on how the afghans are made, or any other information you may need, can be obtained from the ACCW office (213) 637-7394.