Spring is the season of renewal in AAUW-land as well as in nature. I invite every AAUW-MA member to celebrate this season at our April 27-28 Convention and Annual Meeting weekend in Lowell. The weekend promises to offer diverse experiences for each of us from the Partnerships in Diversity Forum, through the LAF dinner, to the Annual Meeting. Details about the program are included elsewhere in this Baystater issue. In addition to a stellar program, there will be opportunities to network with AAUW members, to gather program ideas from other branches, to participate in an interactive membership workshop, to recognize the achievements of branches and branch leaders, and to elect some state officers. Plan to come to Lowell to help AAUW-MA celebrate its achievements and to shape its future!

As we think about the coming year in AAUW-MA, I invite you to volunteer to serve on a state committee as a member or as a chair. We seek members for Program, Membership, Educational Foundation, Legal Advocacy Fund, Diversity, and Public Policy committees. Serving on a state committee is a marvelous way to share your expertise with other AAUW members and to learn from them. I encourage you to complete and return to me the "Call for Volunteers" form included in this issue, so that you will indeed help to shape AAUW-MA's future.

I hope to see you in Lowell on April 27 and 28.

This program began to form last year when Massachusetts received a Public Policy Impact Grant of $800 from the Association. Part of the grant is being spent on the "Sharing the Power: Lunchtime with Women Legislators" being held March 14th, 2002 from 12:00 - 2:00 pm at the Great Hall, State House in Boston because the Association required at least two public policy related forums.

The "Partnerships in Diversity" forum promises to be enriching and provides a model for future events at the state or branch level. The forum will address issues of diversity, equity, and enfranchisement with representatives of ethnic and community groups in Lowell. Along with the "One Lowell Coalition," AAUW will facilitate dialogue regarding issues of common concern, promote informed participation in government processes, an highlight national public policy issues.

Won't you join us in Lowell and experience a little women's history, too?

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News from Membership
Hollie Bagley, Membership VP

Spring is the time for all AAUW women to turn to planning for the 2002-2003 AAUW year.

1.Set goals. Now is the time to formulate a strategic plan and set membership goals. Use the 2001 AAUW Membership Tool Kit for tips and suggestions.

2.Use technology. Now is the time to implement those technology tools we should be using. Ask your branch Membership Vice President to share Chapter 6, "High-Tech Tools," at your next board/branch meeting.

3.Find committees. Ask members to join a committee. Get new members involved. If we all do a little, the load is lighter.

4.Plan programs. In planning programs keep in mind the membership link. Good programs attract and retain members. Plan a program based on the AAUW Program initiatives.

5.Harvest talent. AAUW's members are talented. Make an effort to match talent to task in your branch. Don't be afraid to ask for help from your membership. Need a specific task done?

6. Invest in the future. Plant the AAUW seed in upcoming college graduates. Give a gift membership.

7. Be enthusiastic. Show your enthusiasm for AAUW when you talk with colleagues, neighbors, daughters, granddaughters, nieces, friends. Enthusiasm is contagious!

8. Attend meetings. In addition to branch meetings, state meetings are for every member. They give us part of the bigger picture, provide for networking state-wide, and rekindle our AAUW enthusiasm. Finding time for meetings is difficult, but the rewards far outweigh the sacrifices.

9. Stay informed. Visit the national website at http://www.aauw.org and our state website at http://www.aauw-ma.org often to stay connected with AAUW.

The current 2000 revision of the Bylaws of the AAUW of Massachusetts refers to the head of the Legal Advocacy Fund as the Chair. The following proposed changes, which will be voted at the April state convention, will elevate the position to Vice President and bring further emphasis to the importance of the LAF.

Article VII Officers, Section 2.

The elected officers shall be a president, or official representative, or co-presidents; vice-presidents for program, membership, Educational Foundation and Legal Advocacy Fund; secretary and treasurer. These officers shall be included in the Executive Committee.

Article XI Rotation of Officers, Section 2

The vice presidents for program, membership and the Legal Advocacy Fund; and the treasurer, shall be elected in odd numbered years.

According to Article XX of the bylaws, a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at the state convention will be required to amend the bylaws, provided a written notice has been sent to the members at least 30 days prior to the meeting.

On Saturday, April 13th 6 PM, Massachusetts AAUW is sponsoring a Silent Auction and Dinner to benefit the Sema M. Faigen International Fellowship. It will be held at the Newton Marriott, exit 24, Route 30 east, off Rte. 128. The cost per person is $75.00. A cash bar and selection of international and domestic cheeses will precede the dinner of Grilled Sea Bass.

Honored guests and guest speakers will be the five International Fellows studying in Massachusetts this year. Hongyu Cai of China will receive an M.S. in Architecture/Real Estate Development from MIT in June. Pascale Fournier of Canada will receive her L.L.M. (Law) from Harvard University. Elina Manjieva of Kyrgyzstan will receive an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Sabina Panth of Nepal will receive an M.A. in Communications from Brandeis University and Tashi Zangmo of Bhutan will receive her M.Ed. in International Education from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I can assure you that these industrious women will enthrall you.

Beginning on April 1 you will be able to view the auction items on our Massachusetts website, www.aauw-ma.org. You may place a bid to me by phone or by E-mail. Final bids will be taken at the auction. A few select items will be sold at a live auction with Barbara Hyle as auctioneer. Included will be a flight for two in a small airplane to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard for the day, thanks to Pat Adams and her husband, and a weekend at Londonderry Inn Bed and Breakfast in Belfast, Maine. Marsha Oakes, former Peabody Lynnfield branch member, is the proprietor of the Inn.

Branches and individuals are encouraged to contribute gift items or gift certificates for the auction. Branches will be credited with the amount of the sale of its donations. Gift certificates can be mailed to me and special arrangements will be made for the delivery of gifts. Reservations for attending the auction are due by April 8th. Please send your checks made out to AAUW Massachusetts, to me at 19 Brook Street Georgetown, MA 01833. Contributions should be made by April 1 to be listed in the program book. However contributions will be accepted up to the day of the auction.

The climax of the first day of the Spring Conference in Lowell on Saturday, April 27, 2002, will be a dramatically moving presentation by Areta Kowal-Vern of her lawsuit vs. Loyola University charging age and sex discrimination in the denial of a promotion. She will be the guest speaker at the dinner sponsored by the Legal Advocacy Fund which is assisting her and will also meet informally before the dinner at a reception where she will share other aspects of her remarkable career.

Kowal-Vern, a 52-year-old doctor with 26 years experience as a clinician and pathologist was recruited by Loyola University Medical Center as an assistant professor of pediatrics in August 1987. Her professional growth, advancement and contributions to her profession are remarkably impressive at every level of her career, yet when she asked to be promoted to associate professor she was denied and faced with discriminatory recriminations resulting in her current litigation. She is now one of the many women the LAF selects to aid with financial and supportive services.

The opportunity to share the emotional trauma and courage that women such as Kowal-Vern experience offers a powerful revelation of the value of LAF both to the litigants chosen and to other women experiencing similar discrimination. Kowal-Vern was one of nine individuals terminated at Loyola University, all of whom were over 40 years old and five of whom were women. The terminations were not part of a department downsizing, rather the department was increased from 35 to 47 members and there are no women physicians in important executive positions or committees. Loyola is not unique in this discriminatory practice. What is unique is the opportunity to hear of the issues from an individual seeking redress with the assistance of AAUW;s Legal Advocacy support.

8:30 - 9:00 Registration in the Grand Foyer

Coffee, Tea, and pastries

9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and Keynote Address, Grand Ballroom

Niki Tsongas, Director, External Affairs and College Advancement

Middlesex Community College

9:30 - 10:30 Panel Presentation by One Lowell Coalition

Victoria Fahlberg, One Lowell Coalition Director

Anne Marie Martin, Committee Teamwork

Cecelia Okafor, African Assistance Center

Margarita Zapata Turcotte, La Prensa Latina

Martha Welch, International Institute

Pov Ye, Cambodian American League

l0:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

1l:00 - 12:30 Workshop Sessions**

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch "Picnic in a Basket"

l:30 - 3:00 Workshop Sessions**

3:00 - 3:30 General Closure

3:30 - 6:30 Free Time; walking and trolley tours of Lowell National History from 4:00 - 5:30

6:30 - 7:00 LAF Reception

7:00 Legal Advocacy Fund (LAF) Dinner and Program

Featured Speaker: Areta Kowal-Vern, LAF Litigant (read her story on page 3)

** WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:

(1) Enabling Emerging Leaders - Victoria Fahlberg, Executive Director, One Lowell
(2) Cultural Aspects of Employment - David Turcotte, Center for Family, Work, and Community, UMass/Lowell
(3) Access to Women's Health Care - Tanya Kapka, M.D., MS Public Health, Lawrence Hospital
(4) Voter Empowerment (A.M. only) - League of Women Voters team
(5) Standardized Testing: Its Cultural Relevance - Doreen Argus, Ph.D. , Psychology Department, UMass/Lowell
(6) Status of English as a Second Language (ESL) - Panel of ESL Teachers
(7) Domestic Violence - Shirley Fan, Asian Task Force
(8) Hate Crimes (P.M. only) - Karen McLaughlin, Governor's Task Force on Hate Crimes
(9) Women's History of Lowell: Women Woven into the Industrial Revolution (A.M. only) - Tess Shatzer, Lowell Park Ranger

8:30 Registration and Coffee in Grand Foyer

9:00 -12:00 Annual Meting in Grand Ballroom

12:00 -1:30 Luncheon: Pizza Buffet

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ABOUT OUR CO-SPONSOR....

ONE LOWELL COALITION: BUILDING A NEW AMERICAN COMMUNITY:

According to its Community Action Plan published in 2001, "this coalition is a group of community organizations working together to promote civic participation and greater integration of Lowell's many refugee and immigrant communities. Approximately half of Lowell's population is composed of these minority members, yet they are poorly represented in the public life of the city. One Lowell Coalition seeks to better understand the barriers and opportunities open to Lowell newcomers, so that adequate strategic planning can occur to promote a more democratic, healthy, and well functioning city that recognizes both the contributions and needs of these groups."

8:30 Registration and Coffee

9:00-12:00 Annual Meeting

9:00-9:30 Branch Program Showcase

9:30 Welcome: Marion Kilson, President

9:30-10:30 No Talking Heads: A Workshop for Everyone who cares about AAUW:

Hollie Bagley, Membership Vice President

10:30-11:30 Reports on Shaping the Future

Minutes of Annual Meeting Annalise Conti

President's Report: Marion Kilson

Treasurer's Report: Linda Britt

Proposed Bylaw Revision (pg. 2) Pat Costello

Election & installation of officers Rosemarie Buote

Program Report Carol Carbaugh

Educational Foundation Report Pat Gorton

LAF Report Florence Baturin

Task Force on the Future Report Elizabeth Kenney

11:30-12:00 Awards

Branch Leader Recognition Awards

Educational Foundation

Membership

Program

NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT

The following is the slate of nominees for the Annual Meeting and election at the Annual Meeting on April 28, 2002 at the Doubletree Hotel, Lowell. All offices are for a two-year term, 2002-2004.

PRESIDENT

Marion Kilson (Bedford-Lexington)

SECRETARY

Kerry Degnan (Boston)

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION VICE PRESIDEN

Elizabeth Kenney (Bedford-Lexington)

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Traude Strohschneider (Plymouth), Enid Wilson (Boston), Bridget Fancher (Taunton) (Alternate), Barbara Burgo (Taunton) (Alternate)

Respectfully submitted, The Nominating Committee
Rosemarie B. Buote, Chair
Sheila Doherty, Susan Tatelman, Laurel McGregor

HOTEL INFORMATION

FOR STATE CONVENTION

Double Tree Riverfront Hotel

50 Warren Street

Lowell, MA 01852

(978) 452-1200

Room rate $89 + 9.7% tax and room charge per night. Fifteen rooms at this rate are being held until March 26th; register early! When calling for reservations, mention that you're with AAUW-MA.

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Diversity Doings Nancy Moore, Chair

DIVERSE ORGANIZATIONS LISTS. By the time you read this, we feel confident that we will have received from you the list of diverse organizations in your branch area. Thank you for participating!

TURTLE AWARDS. Applications are due by April 1, 2002 for the Branch Turtle Awards. If you have misplaced your application form distributed in the fall, please email me at erroomniv@aol.com for a copy of the form. The criteria remain the same as last year, and we will re-evaluate the process and the criteria during this summer. Criteria basically are:

1) Program: A branch program or project involving one or more of the groups identified in the AAUW Diversity Statement
2) Outreach and Visibility: Press clippings, photos, conference program, brochures or other materials as evidence of working with another community group on a specific area of concern related to diversity or social justice.
3) Membership Growth: During the year, branch gains at least one new member from a group represented in the AAUW Diversity Statement.

Send your application to me at 5 Daniels Drive, Bedford, MA 01730

IMMIGRATION VIDEO AVAILABLE. 'Voices of Difference: Stories of Immigrant Women' is a 30-minute video produced in Buffalo, NY, and funded by the Women's Pavilion Pan Am 2001. It is now available to branches across the state. You may like to consider this as the centerpiece of a branch program on diversity in your planning for next year. It is available from the Diversity Resource Team. The video presents a new perception of diversity in our society, and can be especially appropriate to use next fall after you have attended the "Partnerships in Diversity" Program at the April 27 State Convention in Lowell.

DRT WORKS WITH PUBLIC POLICY CHAIRS. Because of the large diversity component in the 2002 AAUW State Convention program, The DRT has been participating in the planning and outreach efforts to implement the State Public Policy Impact Grant with Patricia Ho and Lois Pulliam, State PP

Chairs. One important avenue of outreach for the convention program has been Lowell Women's Week, taking place March 3 - 9, 2002, where the DRT has been regularly represented on the planning committee for that event. The Lowell Women's Week Planning Committee is made up of 15 or more diverse organizations in the City of Lowell, and this is their fifth year of producing the LWW.

Exit at Route 3 North to Exit 30 which is the "Lowell Connector." Follow directions for the "Lowell Connector" below.

Take Exit 30 for the "Lowell Connector." Follow directions for the "Lowell Connector" below.

Take Exit 35C for the "Lowell Connector." Follow directions for the "Lowell Connector" below.

Follow I-93 to exit 44B (I-495 South). Take Exit 35C for the "Lowell Connector." Follow directions for the "Lowell Connector" below.

Follow the "Lowell Connector" to the end, Exit 5C. At the lights, take a left onto Gorham Street. After the third traffic light, get into the right lane and prepare to take your next right onto Church Street. Take the first left onto George Street which will take you into their parking lot.

State Convention Registration: Registration due Saturday, April 13, 2002

Send registration form and check to: Linda Britt, Registrar, 16 Ellsworth Rd., Peabody, MA 01960

Check payable to AUW-MA 978-531-6116 or Lbritt@vnab.org

Registration for State Convention and Annual Meeting—April 27-28, 2002

NAME ____________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS _________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________

PHONE ___________________________________________________________________

E-mail ____________________________________________________________________

______ Check if interested in the Lowell National Historical Park tours—Saturday 4:00—5:30 PM

Check the program(s) and meal(s) you plan to attend:

______ Weekend Package (Saturday and Sunday program, 2 lunch and 1 dinner) ** $ 75.00

______ Saturday Package (Saturday program, lunch and dinner)** $ 55.00

______ Saturday Forum Only (includes lunch) $ 30.00

______ Saturday Night Dinner (LAF program)** $ 30.00

______ Sunday Program Only (includes lunch) $ 30.00

**Meal choice for Saturday Night: (circle one) Chicken Cordon Bleu or Baked New England Scrod

TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED _____________________________

__ Program Committee

__ Membership Committee

__ Educational Foundation Committee

__ Legal Advocacy Fund Committee

__ Diversity Task Force

__ Public Policy Committee

I wish to be considered as chair of the following AAUW-MA committee: ________________________________________

Name:______________________________________________

Address:____________________________________________

Phone_____________________________

Email_____________________________

Please return this form or email your response to Marion Kilson 4 Eliot Road, Lexington, MA 02421

marion.kilson@salem.mass.edu

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Marion Talbot (1858-1948) grew up in Boston. Her mother, concerned with obstacles to her daughters' education, was active in educational reform. She greatly influenced Marion, who graduated from Boston University in 1880 with a B.A. degree. A family acquaintance, Ellen Swallow Richards, interested Marion in a new approach to the science of sanitation in which Richards was pioneering at MIT. Marion became involved in the emerging field of domestic science, earning her B.S. from MIT in 1888. Her close friend Alice Freeman Palmer, president of Wellesley College, helped secure a position there for Talbot as instructor in domestic science, one of her two major career interests. The other was education for women. She and her mother joined with Richards and Palmer and several other women to organize in 1881 the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. (ACA became AAUW in 1921.) Marion was the first secretary of this new organization and president, 1895-97. She is regarded by AAUW as its founder.

In 1892 Palmer joined the new University of Chicago faculty to be its first Dean of Women and she made Talbot her full-time assistant as Dean of Undergraduate Women and Assistant Professor of Sanitary Science, in the Department of Social Science and Anthropology. She studied the diet offered in the "dorms" and, with Richards as co-author, in 1894 wrote "Food as a Factor in Student Life." In 1899, Palmer having retired, Talbot became Dean of Women and in 1905 was promoted to professor in her own Department of Household Administration. She developed housing for women, renting houses and transforming them into self-governing dormitories.

Talbot recognized that women's roles were being changed in a technical society and regarded the modern home as one needing an administrator, namely a college-educated woman.

Marion Talbot retired from the University of Chicago in 1925, and between 1927 and 1932 served twice as acting president of Constantinople Women's College in Turkey. She died at age 90, confident that she had secured for women the opportunity for a college education.

AAUW--Massachusetts

Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2002

Page One

President's Message

PARTNERSHIPS IN DIVERSITY

News from Membership Hollie Bagley, Membership VP

Written Notice of Proposed AAUW Massachusetts Bylaws Change

Reaching For The Stars Pat Gorton, EF Vice President

Introducing Areta Kowal-Vern - LAF Speaker..

2002 Convention and Annual Meeting

April 27—28, 2002

At the Double Tree Riverfront Hotel, Lowell, MA

AAUW-MA and ONE LOWELL COALITION PRESENT "PARTNERSHIPS IN DIVERSITY"

Saturday , April 27, 2000

Sunday , April 28, 2002