AAUW Longmont (CO) Branch

January 2012  AAUW Longmont Branch Newsletter

  Upcoming Program        4th Annual INTERNATIONAL DINNER                           Saturday, January 28, 6:00 PM     1st Lutheran Church        3rd and Terry

 Speaker:  Claudia Kean, with Sister Cities participants        Longmont Sister Cities Program

 Longmont has a long-standing Sister Cities program with Ciudad Guzman in Mexico, and Chino, Japan.  This presentation will include an overview of the Sister Cities’ mission statement, and how it relates to AAUW’s.  Several students who recently traveled to Japan will give a presentation, and an alumnus will discuss how the program has influenced her education and career choices.

 Please bring a covered dish or dessert to share.       You are encouraged to bring a card with the name of the dish, your name, and pertinent information (gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.).  You may wish to include the recipe.  Members are welcome to bring a spouse or guest.

 PARKING:  There is limited parking in front of the church.  We have been asked to park in the lots behind the church (one is covered).  They are accessible from Terry and Pratt.

AAUW Members with 25+ Years – Part 2         In the last newsletter we recognized our many members who have between 25 and 50 years in AAUW.    This month, we would like to recognize our Honorary Life Members (50+ years) and Life Members, who are also listed in the yearbook and recognized at the annual Salad Supper. Thank you for your commitment to this worthwhile organization

 Honorary Life Members (50+ years)                                                                              Corrine Ahlberg  64 years      Irma Bledsoe  79 years       Doris Campbell  54 years           Jean Cross 54 years           Eleanor Flanders  64 years            Ruth Yost  60 years

 Life Members                                                                                                                            Muriel Wrede  44 years            Susie Hajek  43 years

 Volunteers Needed           We need volunteers for the February 11 combined meeting with DKG.  Kathy Flynn is the coordinator and would like at least 6 volunteers to bring muffins, breakfast breads, juice, fruit, coffee, sugar and cream and to serve.  Please contact Kathy at 303-772-4636 or grammaflynn@msn.com.

VP of Programs, Diane Kirkpatrick, is looking for coordinators for the March and May meetings. Homes and facilities are arranged and we have plenty of volunteers.  We just need coordinators to pull it together.  Contact Diane at 303-722-6371 or ceo@phosci.com.

 Welcome New Members        Marilyn Miller Dickson:  A Denver native, Marilyn graduated from CU with a BS in Nursing.  She worked at Stanford University Hospital, the San Francisco Dept. of Health, and retired as Director of Health Services at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.  She is a fellow of the American College Health Association and has a Master’s degree in Community Health from Cal State Long Beach.  Marilyn wrote a handbook on control of tuberculosis in a college setting and was nominated for an Emmy for a film she wrote and directed on contraceptive choices.  She has one son Zack who also graduated from CU.  Leisure activities include reading, travel and painting.

Linnea Ahlberg, Linda Curran, Kimberly Taylor, Beth Nielsen, and Maureen McCoy have all joined since the Spring Fling last May.  We hope to have information for a later newsletter.  We also welcome returning member Viki Samson.

Expanding Your Horizons**        Our annual math, science & technology career conference, Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls, parents, teachers, and counselors will be held at the Engineering Center at the University of Colorado Boulder Campus on Saturday, February 25, 2012.  For the students, the conference features three hands-on workshops in science and technology fields, ranging from Physics to Veterinary Medicine, Computer Science to Meteorology.  For teachers, parents, and other attending adults, the conference features three informational workshops, in topics ranging from Planning for College to Understanding Adolescent Girls.  In 2011, of the girls who reported ethnicity, 50% were from underserved populations (Latina, African American, Other).  About half of the attendees receive scholarships to cover the registration fee.

We are currently actively seeking volunteers for the 2012 workshops, so if you love to inspire teen girls in science and/or technology fields, we would love to hear from you.  We start organizing volunteers in mid-January and hope to have gathered an enthusiastic group of 60 by mid-February.  So…SAVE THE DATE OF FEBRUARY 25, 2012 right now and you will receive confirmation by phone or email after I hear back from you about how you would like to help.  We so very much appreciate your willingness to join AAUW in our mission to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.

Sincerely,   Co-Volunteer Coordinators:

Mary Humke                                          Marsha Coons

303-447-2669 (home)                              303-862-8835 (home)

303-517-8440 (cell)                                 303-817-6872 (cell)

maryhumke@hotmail.com                      marshacoons@comcast.net

** For more information, please open the EYH attachment which includes more detail, including volunteer opportunities.

 Special Interest Groups 

 Book Club.   Our next meeting will be January 19, 7:00 p.m. at Aileen Solt’s home, 1195 Twin Peaks Circle.  Book selection is the very powerful and well written Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

 February 16:  The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel.  Hostess will be Rosslyn Scamehorn.

March 15:  The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester.  Hostess will be Mary Blue.

 State/National News

 The largest cost in the AAUW State budget is that of printing and mailing the AAUW Colorado State Bulletin to every branch member.   At the Fall 2011 Conference, a motion was passed to reduce costs by distributing the State bulletin in the same format as branch newsletters.  Therefore, beginning with the Fall issue of the quarterly bulletin, branches like ours who distribute our branch newsletter via email, will be responsible for distributing the State Bulletin to you via email as well.  The AAUW Colorado Winter 2011 Bulletin was e-mailed to you in December.

Scholarship Application            The Longmont Community Foundation has been busy publicizing our scholarship.  Attached is the announcement they have been e-mailing to businesses and organizations, and there was a piece in the Times-Call.  Several members have forwarded e-mails they received from a variety of sources.

Please encourage any co-workers, family or friends who qualify to log on to the LCF website and complete an application.