A benefit Fundraiser for Womankind Counseling Center’s Sheila Stanley Community Counseling Fund will be held Nov. 8 at noon at the Holiday Inn in Concord. The center subsidizes clients who don’t have access to health insurance for mental health therapy. The proceeds from the luncheon will enable more people to take advantage of counseling.
The cost is $50 per person, which will include lunch. The speaker is well-known humorist Regina Barreca. She will be introduced by Congresswoman Annie Kuster, who was her classmate at Dartmouth College.
RSVP and send your check to the Sheila Stanley Counseling Fund, c/o Womankind, 21 Green St., Concord, N.H. 03301. Choose a Caesar Salad with either chicken or vegetables. Call 225-6160 with questions.
Regina “Gina” Barreca is an American academic and humorist. She is a professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.
Some of the many books she’s written include: It’s Not That I’m Bitter, or How I learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered The World; I’m With Stupid: One Man. One Woman; 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between The Sexes Cleared Right Up.
Her memoir is titled Babes In Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.
(Kuster would like the last one because it’s also, presumably, her story at Dartmouth.)
Barreca is also a newspaper columnist, blogs for Psychology Today, and has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, The Joy Behar Show, Dr. Phil, and the Today Show.
Her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
A noted public speaker, Barreca lectures nationally and internationally about a variety of topics including humor, women’s comedy, women’s lives, everybody’s stress, and gender issues in the workplace. She has served as an advisor to the Library of Congress for work on humor and the American character, and was deemed a “feminist humor maven” by Ms. magazine. Gene Barry declared that “Gina Barreca is very, very funny. For a woman.”
Gerri King is the president of Human Dynamics Associates and is a board member of the Sheila Stanley Community Counseling Fund.
