June 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Fiji: Staff: Connpost Business: Betsi Shays, director of the Peace Corps Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Businesswoman's Luncheon

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Betsi Shays, director of the Peace Corps Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Businesswoman's Luncheon

Betsi Shays, director of the Peace Corps Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Businesswoman's Luncheon

Betsi Shays, director of the Peace Corps Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Businesswoman's Luncheon

Women's Leadership Council to welcome Betsi Shays

By ROB VARNON rvarnon@ctpost.com

Betsi Shays, director of the Peace Corps Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, will be the featured speaker at the 11th Annual Businesswoman's Luncheon on Wednesday in Stratford.

The Women's Leadership Council, an affiliate of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, organizes the event each year. This year's event will be held at the Oronoque Country Club, 385 Oronoque Lane, Stratford. It begins at noon and it will cost WLC members $30 to attend.

Alisa Batten, the executive director of the WLC, said the group expects Shays to discuss community involvement, the changes the Peace Corps is going through and raising children in a political environment.

Betsi Shays is the wife of U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. She was unavailable for comment Friday.

WLC events are designed to help women business and community leaders network and discuss issues relevant to them, according to Batten. She said the group has had chief executive officers, educators and media personalities speak at past events in order to give the WLC members a different perspective on opportunities in their communities.

Betsi and Chris Shays served as Peace Corps volunteers from 1968 to 1970 in the Figi Islands, according to the congressman's Web site. She worked as a teacher for 25 years before taking a job with the Washington, D.C., office of the Peace Corps in 1998, according to the Web site.

For more information on the event call the WLC, at the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, 335-3800. Anyone planning to attend must call by Tuesday morning.

Rob Varnon, who covers business, can be reached at 330-6216.




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