From aauw-atlarge at lists.olympus.net Fri Sep 1 18:33:00 2006 From: aauw-atlarge at lists.olympus.net (aauw-atlarge@lists.olympus.net) Date: Fri Sep 1 18:38:41 2006 Subject: [AAUW-atlarge] AAUW Member Letter for September Message-ID: <000601c6ce27$5b6c7a00$9002a8c0@connie> This Member Newsletter is coming to you via AAUW of Washington Member -at-Large -listserv from Connie Dunkelberger, State President. Do not reply to this message. Direct comments and questions to feedback@aauw-wa.org American Association of University Women A Legacy of Leadership - 125 years MEMBERSHIP -You are the Key to the future of AAUW By Jessica Koeberle, State Branch Membership VP It has been found that the most effective way to gain new members in your branch is to make EACH Branch MEMBER recruit one new member this year, our 125th Anniversary year. The KEY step in committing to this is to review the Member-Get-a-Member section of the AAUW website: http://www.aauw.org/member_center/membership_growth/Member-Get-A-MemberCampaign.cfm. (That is an underline after org/member_ and membership_growth). It may be a long address to follow but it is also long in great resources. The Tips and Tactics are the engine that makes it all happen! Each President and Membership VP should go into this. Please share your membership recruitment events to me - branchmembership@aauw-wa.org your ideas are very important to us all. By Valorie Marschall, State MAL Membership VP The membership campaign includes recruitment of a MAL so encourage busy women in your area to join at the Association and State level. There is an easy way for them to join on the public section of to our state web site www.aauw-wa.org . It gives all the instructions including a form for our state dues and the address for the post office box. We will be trying to use our MAL in a constructive way on state wide projects or in areas where we do not have branches so they feel a part of the organization. This is pathway many of our active younger members do follow. If you have questions or are a MAL who wants to get involved with a project contact me at malmembership@aauw-wa.org. WASHINGTON LEARNS and STEM By Dixie Swensen, State Public Policy Chair Washington Learns public hearings, which will help set the education agenda for the 2007 legislative session, will be held in six cities during the month of September. Check the website www.washingtonlearns.wa.gov for dates and times. Members are encouraged to attend. SAVE THE DATE - October 20, 2006 for STEM SUMMIT I AAUW of Washington State and the AAUW Educational Foundation have embarked on a joint initiative to increase the number of Washington women entering and advancing in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) careers. On October 20, 2006, AAUW of Washington State will bring together a group of experts for a full-day facilitated round table discussion of barriers and challenges to entry and promotion in STEM careers. Microsoft is sponsoring the meeting, called STEM Summit I, on their campus in Redmond. All AAUW members and interested stakeholders are invited to attend. VOTER INFORMATION By Carolyn Hayek, past state president Information on judges is sometimes hard to find. Here is a web site co-sponsored by various county Bar Associations, the Municipal League of King County, Washington Women Lawyers and the League of Women Voters among others, which may be a big help in making this important choice of judges. The web site www.votingforjudges.org puts at voters' fingertips the judicial candidates' biographies, bar and civic organizations' ratings, newspaper and organizational endorsements, links to major newspaper stories about the races, Public Disclosure Commission contribution records for each campaign, and links to the judicial candidates' own campaign websites. No candidate is favored over another and ratings and endorsements by diverse groups are provided. The goal is to provide a wide range of information so that voters can make their own decisions. Take a look at this web site and make your informed choice. CELEBRATIONS By Constance Dunkelberger, State President We finally have an editor for the Evergreen Leader. Kathleen (Kathi) Pickett of the Hudson's Bay Branch volunteered to be our editor so we will now resume our direct mail newsletters to come out at least three or four times a year, as well as this monthly Member Letter. For the first issue of this program year we are planning to have some articles about how branches around the state will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of AAUW. Maybe it will be doing something with your branch history, such as getting your historical records organized, out of garages and into a community historical museum or the state archives in Bellingham. There are a lot of things your branch can do. Be creative and then let us know just how creative you are going to be. We also want some individual and branch stories. If you have a short memory you would like to share, send it to evergreenleader@aauw-wa.org and get your name in print for our anniversary issue. The deadline is September 15th so we need articles now. They do not need to be long. In fact they should be short even a sentence or two can be grouped together by our team of writers, but we want something from every branch in the state. If we can not publish everything received, we perhaps will be able to use the items at another time. AAUW Member Letters will arrive once a month. If you wish to receive more information about AAUW of Washington you can sign up for Leader Letters or AAUW-WA Advocate, even if you are not a branch officer by contacting feedback@aauw-wa.org. You may also use feedback@aauw-wa.org to unsubscribe from Member Letters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.olympus.net/pipermail/aauw-atlarge/attachments/20060901/9ca2a2b8/attachment.html