Thank You All for the Great Success: AAFSW’s First Online Auction

Monday, December 13, 2021 – Monday, December 20, 2021   AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Chair Joanna Athanasopoulos Owen, PhD would like to thank all the people who donated wonderful items to AAFSW’s first online auction as well as all the people who bid and bought all the donated items and made AAFSW’s first online auction a great success!   Early in November 2021, AAFSW invited its members as well as all the Livelines members and EFM businesses to advertise and receive a tax deduction by donating to AAFSW’s first online auction! This was a great opportunity to support AAFSW, which helps EFM businesses with free advertisement on the first… Read More

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A Musical Trip Around the World

On Saturday, September 23, 2017, the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW) and the AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Events Committee presented a wonderful musical event, kindly sponsored by DACOR, an organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals, which was hosted at the DACOR-Bacon House, a historic and elegant mansion in the heart of Washington, DC. Many AAFSW members and guests enjoyed a “Musical Trip Around the World” featuring Deborah Miller, lyric soprano and AAFSW Membership Chair, and Jennifer Heemstra, pianist and 2016 AAFSW SOSA winner. Deborah Miller is an experienced, adept, and versatile artist whose repertoire spans five centuries of classical music. She holds a Master of Music degree… Read More

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AAFSW Presents a Special Musical Soiree

A Special Musical Soirée Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.   “A Musical Trip Around the World”   featuring   Deborah Miller, Lyric Soprano   and   Jennifer Heemstra, pianist   DACOR Bacon House  Washington, D.C.   $60 per person $100 per couple   AAFSW and the AAFSW FUN FOR FUNDS FUNDRAISING EVENTS COMMITTEE cordially invite you to welcome the fall on Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the DACOR Bacon House, 1801 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20006.  DACOR, an Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals, has kindly offered to sponsor AAFSW and its guests for this amazing AAFSW Fundraising Event at the DACOR Bacon House, a historic… Read More

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AAFSW and AAFSW Fun For Funds Special Valentine’s Day Celebration on February 10

In a completely sold out event, the Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide (AAFSW) and the AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Events Committee hosted a very successful Valentine’s Day celebration on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 p.m. at the University Club of Washington DC. Nearly 100 guests enjoyed a magical musical arrangement offered in three parts by renowned pianist, Aphrodite Mitsopoulou, as well as the ambience of the University Club, a stylish mansion in the heart of Washington, DC where the diplomatic, international and local university communities frequent. To commemorate Valentine’s Day, Ms. Mitsopoulou gave us an international and Greek piano musical interpretation of the four international natures of… Read More

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AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Events Committee 2nd Committee Meeting February 21, 2017

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017, the AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Committee members got together to discuss our first successful fundraising event which took place on Friday, February 10 at the University Club of Washington, DC and celebrated Valentine’s Day. This event was totally sold out. At our meeting, we discussed all the high notes and the great feedback we got from all our guests. During our second AAFSW Fun For Funds Fundraising Events Committee meeting, we exchanged ideas and we initiated the organization of other AAFSW fun events that will take place in March and April this year. As with our first event, the funds raised from these fun… Read More

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February 28: Ballroom Dance Basic Steps Lesson

Celebrating this Year’s Ballroom Dancing Season with a Special Ballroom Dance Basic Steps Lesson Followed by a Potluck Lunch Tuesday, February 28 at 11:00 a.m. Presenting Lukas Klotzsche: Professional Ballroom and Latin Dance Teacher with KLK Dance Randolph Towers 4001 North Ninth Street, Arlington, VA 22203 AAFSW and the AAFSW FUN FOR FUNDS EVENTS COMMITTEE cordially invite you to celebrate the opening of this year’s ballroom dancing and Viennese waltz season on Tuesday, February 28 at 11:00 a.m. in the “Party and Community Room” at Randolph Towers at 4001 North Ninth Street, Arlington, VA 22203. We will enjoy learning the basic steps of the most important ballroom and Latin dances… Read More

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