Annual Meeting

The changing role of women has been well-documented. From stay-at-home moms to Gloria Steinem and back to stay-at-home moms, each generation, it seems, has brought a shift among female priorities.

Nationally syndicated and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman will address that evolution and how it has affected hospitals when she visits the Monterey Conference Center on Wednesday, January 14. The Boston Globe writer and editor will be the featured speaker at the annual joint meeting of Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula’s Auxiliary and Community Hospital Foundation, which begins with a noon luncheon.

“It’s all a very interesting piece of the social picture, what’s going on in hospitals,” Goodman says. “Over the course of a generation, women have had many more options to become doctors. Then again, maybe fewer women are choosing to go into nursing care because they’ve had those options.”

Goodman, one of the nation’s most highly regarded columnists, began writing for The Boston Globe in 1967. Her work now appears in nearly 450 newspapers across the country.

She has won several awards including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award, and the President’s Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus. In 1980, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary.

For annual meeting ticket information, call the Community Hospital Development Office at 625-4506.