Alice Major will be the guet speaker at the Edmonton & Area Famous Five Society’s luncheon on Thursday, March 25, 2010.

The Society hosts five luncheons a year in the ballroom of Edmonton’s historic Macdonald Hotel. The Enbridge Famous Five luncheon series features speakers from the business, academic and not-for-profit worlds — and at least one poet.

The series theme is “Celebrating Women in Leadership: Past, Present and Future.” Poets may not often be thought of as ‘leaders,’ but Alice will speak about her mother (who inspired her book, Memory’s Daughter) — a woman who never took an active part herself in political life but had a vision of education for her daughters, and made them realize that engagement (and opinions) matter.

Time: 11:30 am reception, lunch starting at 12 noon.