When: September 14, 2010

Topic: Caught in the Middle: What is happening to our Midwestern Life?
By: Jim Mackey; Education Director, Wisconsin Technical College System

In the book Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the age of Globalism; ex–Chicago Tribune correspondent Richard Longworth (Global Squeeze) paints a bleak, evocative portrait of the Midwest's losing struggle with foreign competition and capitalist gigantism. It's a landscape of shuttered factories, desperate laid-off workers, family farms gobbled up by agribusiness, once great cities like Detroit and Cleveland now in ruins, small towns devolved into depopulated “rural slums”.  This landscape will affect how we live and where we will work.  Join in the book review and the ensuing discussion to see how our quality profession is affected by this reality and part of the Midwest’s future. It is not necessary to have read the book to participate.

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Cost: Dinner & Presentation: Non-ASQ Members $25 ASQ Members $20 Students: $10 Presentation Only: Guests & Non-ASQ Members $10 Members & Students $5

AGENDA

4:30 Leadership Meeting (all welcome)

5:30 Networking

6:00 Dinner

6:45 Presentation

Menu

Main entrée: Chicken Marsala – Chicken Breast with Mushrooms and Garlic in a Creamy Marsala Wine Sauce

Served with Seasonal Vegetables and Parmesan Herb Crusted Potatoes

Vegetarian Option: Pasta Primavera – Pasta with Seasonal Vegetables in a Light Cream Wine Sauce

Dessert: Chocolate Truffle

Please Note: The vegetarian option must be requested in ADVANCE when the meeting reservation is made, It cannot be requested the day of the meeting.

Location:

Quality Inn & Suites 2969 Cahill Main (off Fish Hatchery Rd) Ballroom South