Austin Founder Lions Club

Jeanne Goka - Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders

  • 19 Apr 2012
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Wells Fargo Building, 400 W. 15th Street, 3rd floor Auditorium

Registration

  • There is no fee charged for a guest(s) visiting for the first time
  • Guests are charged a lunch fee of $15 for each visit after their first visit.
  • There is no fee charged for a guest visiting for the first time. Please present yourself as a guest at the registration table and we will gladly introduce you to the club.
Jeanne Goka
Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders 
Introduction by Lions Gus Garcia

Ann Richards School

The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders is a unique all-girls school founded to educate young women and give them the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in college, in their careers, and in their communities. This is a public school in the Austin Independent School District serving girls in 6th through 11th grades, and will add the 12th grade next year.

Jeanne GokaSpeaker's Bio: 
Jeanne Goka began her 30-year career in education at Cullen Junior High, an urban school in the Houston Independent School District.
 
Prior to her selection as the first principal of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, Ms. Goka was the director of Austin ISD's Kealing Middle School Magnet Program for Advanced Academics. 
During her tenure, the program added a sixth grade and doubled the number of magnet applicants. Her students scored the highest in the district in all of the subtests of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests in 2006. She also served as the academic dean and taught English at St. Michael's Academy in Austin.
During the 2010-11 school year, Jeanne was the community’s choice as a guest Mother Ginger in Austin Ballet’s Nutcracker performance, was honored as a Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of America of Central Texas, received the Corazon Community Award from Con Mi Madre, and was featured in the Austin Woman August issue. 
She was recently selected to serve on the National Coalition of Girl Schools as the first representative of public all-girls schools. 
She lives with her husband, writer Lou Dubose, and is proud of her children, Michael of Austin and Emiko of Portland, Oregon. She also considers herself the surrogate mother and now Mother Ginger to her students and faculty and staff.


 

Featured Lunch Menu: Roasted pork loin with rosemary mustard, charbroiled asparagus and roasted potatoes, mixed field green salad with assorted rolls and a featured daily dessert. Vegetarian meal or Grilled Chicken Caesar salad are available alternatives as well.

Please register by noon on Wednesday

We order meals based on your reservations and must pay for them even if you do not show up. Please keep this in mind if your plans shift and cancel your reservation so we can adjust the headcount.

Speak with either Bob Walcott
651 260 5205 Cell - 512 331 9294 Home
or Peter Berardino
512 695 2334 Cell - 512 288 3336 Home
to cancel a reservation
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