AAUW NEWS OF NOTE
President: Kay Campbell
(781) 740-0788
Membership VPs: Sheila
Doherty (781) 848-8122 and Hollie Bagley (781) 749-6274
Program VPs: Allison
Marshall (781) 749-8591 and Jane Moore (781) 659-9443
Vision Statement: AAUW is committed to making a significant impact on
education and equity for all women and girls.
We will remove barriers and develop
opportunities to enable women and girls to reach their full potential.
This shared vision drives
the work of AAUW at all levels.
CALENDAR
January
30, Tuesday Clutter-Bugs,
Panera’s
at the Derby Shoppes,
February 3, Saturday State Winter Meeting, all day
www.aauw-ma.org
for details
February 13, Tuesday Branch
Meeting,
Alternative Health Practices and Remedies
Facilitator: Jane Moore
February 15, Thursday Writer’s Group,
home of Kay Campbell
February 20,
Tuesday Girls’ Game Night,
home of Sharon Lemoff
March
1, Thursday Adventures
in Dining,
El
Sarape,
March
13, Tuesday Branch
Meeting,
March
27, Tuesday Board
Meeting,
home of Sharon Lemoff
BRANCH MEETING
On February 14 at
This should be an interesting evening for everyone, and there will
be a healthful snack for all to enjoy.
Call Jane Moore with any questions, or e-mail jcrmoore@comcast.net
PRESIDENT’S LETTER
What a pleasure to once again be able to write, ‘Welcome, new member!” Thanks to an invitation from Sondra Schmidt, our newest member Mary Devlin came to our January book discussion evening and joined soon thereafter. Welcome! Thanks to Priscilla Johnsen, Patricia McKay and Allison Marshall for organizing a delicious dinner and stimulating book discussion.
Have you ever wondered whether you
might benefit from acupuncture? Have you ever seen it done, live? Jane
Moore has invited two professionals from Norwell’s
If you are free on Saturday
February 3rd, you can still register to attend the State Winter
Meeting at Bridgewater State College. The highlight of the day is expected to
be the presence of Sheriff
Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County House of Correction, who will be part of a panel
about Campus Sexual Harassment and Assault. For more information, visit: www.aauw-ma.org. Hollie Bagley is the
registrar, so if you don’t have e-mail and want to go, call her at:
781-749-6274. The cost is $25 for the day, including breakfast and lunch.
We hope to see you at one of our activities this
month! Kay
Help Wanted – Corresponding
Secretary:
We have a ‘nice little job’ (as Hollie has been saying for years)…. We need someone to fill this role. We occasionally need someone to write notes and cards on behalf of the branch. This has become important more as our branch continues to grow. We also need help printing out and mailing the BayStater newsletters to those who can’t receive them by e-mail. If you can help us out, please call Kay at 781-740-0788 or call: kaycam@aol.com. The newsletter only comes out three times a year, and only five or six copies have to be mailed. If you’re interested in getting involved on the board and don’t have a lot of time, this is a perfect way to start.
Problems
Receiving E-Mail BayStater?
Hollie Bagley is the editor and creator of the BayStater newsletter. The first e-mail edition went out recently, and we know that some members had trouble opening the PDF attachment. If you could not open the newsletter attachment in PDF format, can you please let me know. We apologize that it appears the problem hasn’t been resolved for several of you. As per the above ‘help wanted’ announcement, we want to make sure you can get it. We’ll get you a ‘snail mail’ copy. In any case, please contact Kay Campbell: 781-740-0788, or e-mail kaycam@aol.com. We (and Hollie) need to know who never got it so we can fix the problem! Thanks for your patience while we iron out this new way of delivering the newsletter.
National Convention – Phoenix
The upcoming national convention in
Save the Date – May Banquet Date Changed!
We have rescheduled the May Banquet to May 15th…place and time to be announced
WRITER’S GROUP
Our
next meeting will be on
GIRLS’ GAME
NIGHT
Sharon
Lemoff will host the next game night at her home on Tuesday, February 20th
at
ADVENTURES
IN DINING
After
closing down
CLUTTER
BUGS
The newly
formed Special Interest Group, The Clutter-Bugs, will meet for the first time
on Tuesday, January 30 at
PUBLIC POLICY
Celebrate Our Successes in 2006!
Through the advocacy of our nationwide
network of e-activists; the AAUW Action Network, AAUW has helped make an impact
on public policy issues throughout 2006. The growing power and reach of this
network can claim some impressive achievements. Just consider that over the
past year, together, we have:
• Convinced the House and Senate to reauthorize the
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act, with improved
provisions for women and girls.
• Helped defeat several attempts to repeal the estate tax, and told the truth
about the impact of continued budget and tax cuts on services critical to women
and girls, especially education programs.
• Turned out the women’s vote by sending reminder e-cards celebrating Women’s
Equality Day, and others urging women to register to
vote and to go to the polls on Election Day. Action Network also ensured the
distribution of AAUW’s Woman-to-Woman Voter Turnout Guide,
resulting in voter education programs across the country.
• Held members of Congress accountable using the AAUW
Congressional Voting Record. Action Network members thanked
members of Congress who scored well for their support of AAUW priority issues,
and the AAUW Capitol Hill Lobby Corps
hand-delivered voting records and thank you notes to all members scoring 80
percent or above.
• Increased awareness of the wage gap between men and women through programming
based on AAUW’s Pay Equity Resource Kit
and forwarding Equal Pay Day e-cards across the country.
• Supported successful efforts to pass the reauthorization of the Voting Rights
Act, holding true to AAUW’s suffragette past and the conviction that all citizens
should have the right to vote free from intimidation and discrimination.
• Protected the United States Constitution by ensuring that discrimination was
not codified in the most sacred democratic document by defeating the Federal
Marriage Amendment. AAUW was founded at a time when women were relegated to
second-class status and addressing that injustice has been at the heart of our
mission ever since.
• Successfully advocated for the passage of the
• Persuaded the Food and Drug Administration to finally approve
over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception to women after years of
political delays.
• Ensured that proposed “Sunset Commissions,” which likely would have cut
critical social programs outside the democratic process, were not advanced
within the House and Senate.
• Helped to kick off AAUW’s 125th anniversary celebrations, recognizing a 125 year
legacy of leadership.
AAUW urges you to resolve in the New Year to help others speak their mind, too! Help Action Network grow and be even more of a force in our nation’s capital. Urge your friends and family to join AAUW and AAUW’s Action Network today! You can enter their e-mail addresses to send them an invitation to join at http://capwiz.com/aauw/taf/ .
Heather Gregory,
Public Policy Chair
* * SPECIAL OFFER * *
You are our “Key to the Future”
Recruit a new branch member
at a special
50% off rate!
Between
January 1 and March 15 new branch members may purchase a half-year Association
membership at the remarkable low price of $22.50—that’s 50% off the regular
Association dues. Invite your friends
and colleagues to take advantage of this limited time offer --because equity is still an issue.
Our state and branch also offer 50% half-year state and branch
dues.
Check with Branch Membership Vice Presidents for details.
(Half year membership is from January 1 thru
MEMBERSHIP MATTERS
Please welcome our newest member: Mary G. Devlin
New member Sondra Schmidt invited Mary to
our January meeting and Mary joined shortly afterward. Thank you, Sondra!
We are now into the second phase of this year’s Member-Get-A-Member Campaign. Although we are far from our goal of 100% participation we are proud the Hingham Area Branch has four members listed in the national Hall of Fame on the Association website. Please continue to spread the word about AAUW and to bring guests to our programs. In order for a prospective member to take the step to join us, she must have the tools to make an informed decision. Encourage prospective members to learn more about AAUW by visiting the Association website (www.aauw.org) and our branch web page (http://www.aauw-ma.org/Hingham%202005/index.htm). Use our new mission statement as your two-minute elevator speech when someone asks you, “AAUW, what’s that?” AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research. Invite your prospective member to an AAUW event. Let her see first-hand who our members are. We will do the rest by inviting her to join.
Chit Chat: 2006 closed on a
very happy note with the birth of Neal Emmet Doherty on December 31st,
son of member Julie Doherty and
grandson of Sheila Doherty. The January/February 2007 issue of Saudi Aramco World features an article
written by Kay Hardy Campbell. “Effat’s New
Roses,” is a wonderful profile of
RECOGNITION AWARD
LAST CHANCE! LAST CHANCE! LAST CHANCE!
Applications for the Pamela J. Lincoln
Recognition Award are due on March 1st. To receive an application form contact
Patricia McKay at 781-337-3375.