Kingston AAUW Branch Communication Committee
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Garnette Arledge
Doris Goldberg
ViVi Hlavsa
Susan Holland
Doris Licht
Irwin Rosenthal
Ruth Wahtera, Editor
If you have something you would like posted on either the Kingston AAUW or the Unofficial Passions site, e-mail the information to a committee member.
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Coming Events
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June Branch Meeting
Annual Meeting and Picnic, Rotary Park
From Anne Gordon, Program V.P.:
The Picnic Annual Meeting will be held this year on Tuesday, June 24 from 4 pm to 7 pm, Rotary Park,
at Kingston Point Landing, end of Lower
Delaware Avenue. The park has a gazebo, pavilion,
and scenic view of the Hudson River. Parking
is ample and convenient.
What to bring: - A salad or dessert to share
- Your choice of a drink (no glass allowed)
- Your checkbook to pay your dues ($67)
- Your appetite!
The annual meeting will be brief. We'll be electing officers. The slate: President - Garnettte Arledge
VP - Program, Betty Nitzy
Corresponding Secretary - Denise Springer
Where & When
Rotary
Park,
Kingston Point Landing
Tuesday, June
24th
4:00-7:00PM |
Kingston AAUW Calendar
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June Events:
June 8 -Potluck and a Film - see details below
June 12 - 2008-09 Strategic Planning Retreat, Lifebridge Center, 10-2, all are welcome.
June 17 - Book Discussion, Kingston Library, 1 pm
June 24 - Annual Branch Picnic at Rotary Park, Kingston, 4-7 pm
Watch for the Voter Registration schedule. If everyone volunteers once we can make a great impact.
Make the KAAUW calendar a favorite and you'll always know what's happening. |
Summer Trip Schedule
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The trips are filling up. Don't delay. Read about them here.
June 21 - Botanical Gardens or Bronx Zoo
July 10 - Saratoga and SPAC
July 24 - Boscobel, Twelfth Night
August 3 - Tanglewood & YoYo Ma
August 24 - Glimmerglass, Romeo & Juliet
For information and reservations, e-mail or call Garnette Arledge (845-704-2120) or see details here. |
Potluck and a Film: Bombon, El Perro
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From ViVi Hlavsa: On Sunday, June 8th, we'll be meeting at
5 PM at my house (directions here) for our monthly film discussion. I've
found a little gem of a movie. In Spanish, it has subtitles, but you
won't want to miss it.
Here's a summary of the plot:
Bombon, El Perro (2004)
Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan
"Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant for twenty years
in Patagonia, finds himself jobless overnight. He first tries to survive
by selling knives of his own making. But business is bad and he can't find
real work. One day though, after fixing a vehicle on a farm, he gets paid by
means of a beautiful Argentinian watch-dog! From this blessed
day on, things start shaping well at last...
Please carpool wherever possible. Bring some kind of covered
dish. We'll eat around 5, watch the movie around 6 and you'll be able to
leave around 8:30 .after a brief discussion. I hope you can make
it.
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May was a busy, successful month. The Bridge Party was an outstanding fundraiser and good time. Thanks, Susan Holland et al. And, we had a great turnout to hear Phyllis McCabe and see her wonderful photographs of China.
We're keeping up the pace in June -- no winding down for us. Read about our planning retreat, the picnic, and plans for voter registration.
See you at the picnic,
The editor
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President's Letter: Planning for 2008-2009
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You are invited to join the 2008-09 planning retreat in Rosendale, Thursday, June 12, 10 am to 2 pm.
We'll gather for four-hours, including lunch, at the mountain top
center, LifeBridge.
Here are excerpts from the web to begin your thinking about how we can benefit from our time together:
- Excellent
boards attend to detail and also take time to look at the bigger
picture. Retreats away from the usual place of meeting and with a
different kind of agenda are a good way to self-examine and explore how
the board might adjust its style and composition to get focused
results. According to Dr. Sandy Hughes of BoardSource, an annual
retreat is considered a "best practice" for boards. . .
- Recently,
the board of a three-year-old organization gathered for a tightly
packed four-hour session, including a working meal, having crafted an
ambitious agenda: Flexibility was the key. . .
- Most
organizations are a work in progress, still refining strategy, seeking
to expand the base of members and public participation. . .
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assistance from a timekeeper, the facilitator's role is to keep the
group on task and to ensure that everyone had a chance to talk. And
talk we will do - freely and openly - but in a spirit of respect and
sensitivity for each other. . .
- In the course of those four
hours (which ended precisely on time) the example board generated ideas
for marketing and publicity, new tricks for fund-raising, for programs
and ideas for new initiatives.
What are your ideas? Even if you cannot
be present, I would like to add your thoughts and vision to our planning. And, let
me know if you would like to join us.
See you at the picnic?
Garnette
P.S. The price of gas and the importance of 'thinking green' has converged. Let's make a concerted effort to carpool to our events. Check the directory for members who live near you. Offer or request a ride.
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Branch Voter Registration & Education Drive Begins
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 From Janine Mower:
The AAUW Branch voter registration and education drive will begin in July with a TV show on Woodstock public access channel 23 - date and time to be announced.
Volunteers are welcome to come to Mower's Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday Markets to staff a card table
for voter registration and education beginning Wednesday, July 2. I
will provide the card table; volunteers need to bring their own folding
chairs. I will obtain the voter registration forms from the board of
elections.
More details to follow in the next week or so; watch the KAAUW blog.
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From the Past by Bernie Carpino
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Louise Flood unearthed a 1980 copy of Graduate Woman (AAUW's national publication at that time). A quick look provides some interesting observations:
- Passage of the Equal Right Amendment was a major AAUW goal
- Feature
articles covered these topics: the need for more monetary support for
foster families; non-sexist books for older children; an interview with
Turkey's
first and only woman cabinet minister (she resigned a few weeks after
the interview because needed reforms weren't being carried out); job
and salary sharing by two teachers.
- The magazine was much smaller and far less glossy.
- Projects
reported by local branches: an ERA rally; conference "Menopause Out of
the Closet;" a TV program honoring women; workshop on Families Facing
Change; an arts and crafts fair; sponsorship of an operatic concert,
and sale of pecan.
Thanks for the memories, Louise! |
Safe Roads Update: Help Us Get a Traffic Light Installed
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 Update from Doris Goldberg:
Last month, I asked you to help us get a traffic light installed at the intersection of Route 28 and Hurley Mountain Road. Several of you used our CitizenSpeak campaign to send our representatives a request for their help. Senator Bonacic advised us that the Town of Ulster must request the traffic light first. We've updated the link below to make it easy for you to send a request to Nick Woerner, Town of Ulster Supervisor. So, even if you sent an email last month, please send another by clicking here.
(CitizenSpeak is a free service to help citizens speak out to their representatives.) |
Read Suite Francaise with Us
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 From Marjorie Regan:
At our June 17th meeting we will discuss Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
"Suite Fran�aise is both a brilliant novel of wartime and an
extraordinary historical document. An unmatched evocation of the exodus
from Paris after the German invasion of 1940, and of life under the
Nazi occupation, it was written by the esteemed French novelist Ir�ne
N�mirovsky as events unfolded around her. This haunting masterpiece has
been hailed by European critics as a War and Peace for the Second World War."
We have published the 2008-09 reading list on the blog, here. You can start reading our fall books now.
Do join us at the Kingston Library, at 1pm, June 17th to discuss Suite Francaise.
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Transitions, News, and Celebrations
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 Claire Knickmeyer sent the following note to everyone
Our
move is planned for June 20 and I am really sorry to miss the picnic -
always a highlight for AAUW members, but since I won't be there to say
"Goodbye" to all of you, I'll take this opportunity to say that knowing
and working with you - and you - and you too, was a real blessing to me.
The
Kingston Branch is a wonderful group of women (you didn't need me to
tell you that!) and it's been a privilege to serve with you all. Thank
you, thank you, thank you! I'll send our new address and phone # (when
we have both - soon, I hope) so that you can let me know when you want
to visit us at Ann's Choice in Warminster, PA.
Fondly, Claire Knickmeyer
Our best wishes
go to Claire Knickmeyer and her husband as they begin a new phase in
their lives. We'll miss you and wish you well.Claire
contributed to our branch in too many ways to list including as president
from 2002-2004 and, with her husband Ken, publisher of our directory. ***** Note from branch member Ellen Osgood:
I am soooo excited!
My niece just called me to tell me she won the AAUW college scholarship from her home town AAUW Branch-Barnegat, NJ!
Her name is Stephanie Munnichi, 18, of Barnegat, NJ. She'll be attending American University in Washington, DC.
This girl is DEFINITELY getting a membership to AAUW from me when she graduates from College! It really means something to me!
Congratulations to your niece, Ellen. It's wonderful to hear about all the young women who benefit from AAUW scholarships and fellowships.
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We've heard rumors of TV stars in the making. Janine Mower interviewed Garnette Arledge about AAUW on Woodstock Public Access this month. They had such a good time they're considering making it monthly!
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