From aauw-women at lists.olympus.net Fri Sep 1 18:27:26 2006 From: aauw-women at lists.olympus.net (aauw-women@lists.olympus.net) Date: Fri Sep 1 17:27:31 2006 Subject: [AAUW-WA-BrMember] AAUW Member Letter for September 2006 Message-ID: <000601c6ce26$94782a20$9002a8c0@connie> This Member Newsletter is coming to you via AAUW of Washington Member-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-women/attachments/20060901/d575dd04/attachment.html From aauw-women at lists.olympus.net Mon Sep 11 15:01:01 2006 From: aauw-women at lists.olympus.net (aauw-women@lists.olympus.net) Date: Mon Sep 11 14:01:19 2006 Subject: [AAUW-WA-BrMember] AAUW Adelante Book Club Selections Message-ID: <000601c6d5e5$6742dca0$9002a8c0@connie> This Mailing is being forwarded to you via AAUW of Washington Member?listserv as requested by Julie Buffington, State Diversity Chair. 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 DATE: September 10, 2006 TO: Members of AAUW of Washington FROM: Julie Buffington, AAUW of WA Diversity Chair SUBJECT: ?Adelante! Book Club Selections for 2006-2007 Book clubs are a fun, social way to open a dialogue on women, diversity, and change. Many AAUW members share a love of reading, and that love, partnered with a desire to seek out books written from diverse perspectives, launched a new component of AAUW's diversity outreach program in 1996 ? AAUW's ?Adelante! Book of the Month Club. ?Adelante! means ?go ahead, you can do it!? Since then, AAUW members have enjoyed exploring new ideas and perspectives through monthly discussions, both in person and through e-mail. ?Adelante! book groups meet in book stores, libraries, other public venues, and online, gathering both members and nonmembers to talk about issues of social justice based on the month?s selection. AAUW hopes you enjoy the 2006-2007 ?Adelante! Book Club selections, and encourages members and nonmembers to open a dialogue of women and diversity in their communities. See http://www.aauw.org/community_programs/adelante/06.cfm for a list of the 2006-07?Adelante! Book Club selections. September (Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15) Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America by Rose Castillo Guilbault (2006) In this memoir, Guilbault invites us into her girlhood, revealing what it was like to grow up as a Mexican immigrant in a farming community during the turbulent 1960s. With openness, courage, and charm, she recalls her early struggles to learn English, to fit in with schoolmates with their Barbie dolls and cupcakes, to win approval, and to bridge the tensions between the home life and the public world to which she was drawn. October (Disability Awareness Month) Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs (1997) Nancy Mairs, a gifted essayist who is fierce and funny by turns, landed in a wheelchair years ago due to degenerative multiple sclerosis that has sapped much of her strength. She bends an agile mind and sharp tongue around the daily tasks of seeing eye-to-navel with a world that clearly prefers nondisabled "normals." November (Native American Heritage Month) American Indian Ballerinas by Lili Cockerville Livingstone (1999) American Indian Ballerinas includes authorized mini biographies of ballerinas Rosella Hightower, Yvonne Chouteau, Maria Tallchief, and her sister Marjorie Tallchief. All four dancers share a common ethnicity (Native American) and state of origin (Oklahoma), and all came to prominence at the roughly the same time, the 1940s-1960s ? though the four had markedly different temperaments. Without working too hard to compare them, the book shows how their common heritage of dance and spirituality suffused their respective artistic careers. You can also join the discussion online as AAUW supports an online discussion board for ?Adelante! books and related discussions. I hope that you will join me in reading and discussing the ?Adelante! books and I welcome your comments and questions. diversity@aauw-wa.org Julie -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.olympus.net/pipermail/aauw-women/attachments/20060911/affa4931/attachment-0001.html