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New Members
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Here's a link to a page you can print for your directory. It includes the new member listings since the 2010/11 directory was printed
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Please welcome four new members this month.
Angela Houlihan retired from a career in education. She served as the principal at St. Joseph's Kingston as well both a Spanish teacher at Saugerties H.S. and an elementary school teacher. Angela loves to travel (9 trips to Spain), explore, and read.
Two of the new members joined the branch after meeting us at the Women's Expo event.
Erika Weiss teaches in Highland and is a strong advocate of women's issues. She is very interested in our bus trips.
Deborah Cohen spent the Expo event in the next booth and after listening to us all day, decided to join. She has a variety of interests and is a Psychiatric Home Care Nurse and a Long Term Care Insurance Specialist.
Yolanda White lives in Milwaukee and found our branch on Facebook! Yolanda was born in Kingston but has been living and working in Milwaukee for many years. She wants to relocate to the Hudson Valley and is anxious to develop relationships before she moves here.
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Have you paid your 2011-12 dues yet? Pay by the picnic and become eligible for our free membership drawing!
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Kingston AAUW Calendar
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Mon., June 6, 9 am Museum of Natural History Sunday, June 12, 5 pm Potluck & a Film Tues., June 14, 5-7 pm Annual Picnic - See article June 16-19 National Convention, Washington, DC Tues., June 21, 1 pm Book Group, Kingston Library Thurs., June 23 The Hispanic Society and the Jewish Museum Fri., July 15-Sun., July 17 AAUW-NYS Leadership Conference Mon., August 15 Cooperstown - Annie Get Your Gun at Glimmerglass
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Summer Trips
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The Museum of Natural History Monday, June 6, 2011
Last Chance to Reserve! $58 includes bus, driver tip and entrance to the Museum. $55 for members of AAUW and SIP; $39 for the bus alone.
The Hispanic Society... ...and the Jewish Museum Thurs., June 23
The collections of the Hispanic Society present aspects of culture in Spain, Portugal and Latin America -- paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and sculpture. Magnificent ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, ironwork and jewelry, and photographs from 1850.
At the Jewish Museum
- The collection of the Cone Sisters, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters,"
- The Art of Matrimony: Thirty Splendid Marriage Contracts from medieval times to the present.
- Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
- For children: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces-
Cost: $56 includes bus, driver tip and entrance fee to the Museum; $53 for members of AAUW and SIP; $39 for the bus to uptown NYC The bus leaves at 8:00 AM from the rear of the former Ames in the Kingston Plaza, picks-up at the Thruway Park-n-ride in New Paltz at 8:30 AM, and starts back at 4:00 with a stop at Fairway.
Cooperstown and the Glimmerglass Production of Annie Get Your Gun Monday, August 15
Cost: Orchestra $98 ($95 for members); Balcony $82 ($79 for members); Cooperstown alone: $40 The bus leaves at 8:00 AM from the rear of the former Ames in the Kingston Plaza and returns around 8:30 PM |
Potluck & a Film
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On Sunday, June 12, we'll gather at ViVi's at 5 PM for a covered dish supper, after which we will watch an engaging film we thoroughly enjoyed several years ago.
House of Angels - a Swedish drama film about a little village in V�sterg�tland, Sweden, where an aging recluse lives in a mansion on a large wooded property. One day he is accidentally killed and an unknown relative by the name of Fanny Zander inherits the mansion and land. When she and her friend Zac arrive, they turn life in the staid village upside down.
Hope you can come.
ViVi
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About AAUW
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AAUW's Value Promise
By joining AAUW, you belong to a community that breaks through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance.
AAUW's Mission
AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
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| Greetings! | Women's issues are under siege in state houses across the country and Albany is no exception. The Senate Finance Committee and the Assembly Health Committee are on the hot seat and we need to hold our elected representatives accountable.
- Sen. Bonacic is on the Senate Finance Committee which is considering the Pay Equity Act.
- Assemblyman Cahill is on the Health Committee which has two items on its agenda -- one restricting funding for reproductive rights, the other protecting them.
To read more about these acts and send a quick message to your representative via the YMCA's Advocacy site (similar to the AAUW Action Network, but addressing NYS issues), click on over to our website.
Ruth Wahtera, Editor |
President's Letter
Summer Wrap-Up
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 | | Betty Nitzky, President, 2009-11 |
I hope you all vote in the first AAUW one member, one vote election. Ruth Wahtera sent you information about our branch's recommended choices and will be glad to assist you if you need help negotiating this new system.
Also, please consider joining Vivi on the one of the trips this summer. Not only are the trips a good time, they help support our scholarship fund.
Susan Holland, Gloria Sender, and Ruth Bean represented us at the Scholarship Assembly at UCCC where they met our two scholarship recipients. It was a grand event and I'm sure you'll be very impressed with our recipients.
I want to give an "atta girl" to all our members who helped out at the Women's Fitness Expo at Tech City. It was a new adventure for our branch and hopefully one we can continue in the future. Those who worked the AAUW booth had a great time.
I hope to see you all at the picnic on the 14th. We've invited local AAUW members who are unaffiliated with the branch, several people who expressed an interest in AAUW at the Women's Expo, and our scholarship recipients. I'm sure you'll all help me welcome them. And, if you pay your 2011/12 dues on or before the June picnic you'll have a chance at a free membership.
On a personal note, it pains me to inform you all that I have been diagnosed with Stage 1 Breast Cancer. I will keep you posted as I know what is happening.
Enjoy the beautiful June flowers.
Your President,
Bette Nitzky
P.S. Please take note of the branch strategic planning session. Help shape the future of the AAUW Kingston Branch. This is an opportunity to leave behind our Model T infrastructure for a lean, mean hybrid that will get us where we need to go in style.
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Branch Annual Meeting
Picnic with Friends
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 5-7pm
Vivi Hlavsa's Home
Enjoy sinfully healthy food, friends and potential friends, and an enchanting location.
Bring a dish to share!
Bring a friend to share, too!
Questions, directions, need a ride? Call (845) 255-5752 or email Ruth Bean.
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Branch Annual Meeting
Wondering Where's the Slate of Officers?
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When the branch nominating committee can't muster a full slate of officers, does that reflect lack of commitment or interest in the branch? Noooo!
Let' s re-invent ourselves. It's time to talk about what we want to accomplish, then consider how to organize ourselves to accomplish those goals.
Come be part of the fun. Rather than hold elections at the picnic, the branch will gather for a strategic planning session, probably in late June.
All members are welcome; we hope you'll attend. You'll receive details as soon as we've settled on a date and location.
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Public Policy Updates from Susan Holland, Chair
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The Economics of Happiness Along with Susan Hirsch, Lydia & Paul Mellos, Denise Springer, and Ruth Wahtera, I went to a well-attended screening of a new documentary made by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick, and John Page called The Economics of Happiness at the Rosendale Theater on May 24.
We heard from an amazing array of people from around the world, including Norberg-Hodge, Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns Movement, and one of my favorites, environmental activist Vandana Shiva.
The first half of the film led us through the "inconvenient truths" about globalization. The second half of the film provided lots of inspiration and many practical solutions. Studies have shown that increased globalization leads to decreased happiness, whereas increased localization leads to increased happiness. So let's think local, people!
Transition Film Series organizer Deena Wade hosted a question and answer session afterward with Gorelick, author of Small is Beautiful, Big is Subsidized, co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home, and U.S. Program Director for The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC). Originally from Newburgh, Gorelick now lives in Vermont, where he operates a small-scale organic farm with his wife and children and is an adjunct professor at Sterling College. Gorelick graciously stayed as long as people had questions and comments. For more information about the film....
Speaking of thinking locally, let's all go to the Fracking Film Festival! June 2011:
Joanne Steele of the Sierra Club will host two free film nights mid-month at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills at 320 Sawkill Road in Kingston:
- Wed., 6/15, 6:30PM - GASLAND
- Thurs., 6/16, 6:30PM - What You Need to Know About Natural Gas Production with Dr. Theo Colborn and All Fracked Up.
For more information about what you can do to help ban fracking in NYS, see my nifty handout at: http://www.esopus.com/eab/frack_flash_card.pdf
For a copy of the Public Policy Calendar that Susan Holland, Public Policy Chair, publishes each month, go here
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Book Discussion Group
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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Tuesday, June 21, 1 PM
Kingston Library, Community Room
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. The author with a German, American, French, Ojibwa background, writes from an Indian reservation perspective. This is a story of passion and compassion about a priest who meets an Indian Elder who possesses love medicine.
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Bravo! Bravo!
Meet our Scholarship Recipients
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You might like to know something about our two UCCC scholarship recipients. Our committee was impressed. You will be, too.
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Jenna West tells us in her thank you note that she is a first generation college student supporting herself working part-time while going to school. She plans to attend Marist College in the fall to major in Medical Technology and minor in mathematics. Jenna knows that the STEM fields offer rich opportunities for women.
As Valerie Cardenas told us in her thank you note, "The path on which I have embarked is not an easy one....As the single mother of seven children my obstacles are compounded, but they are not insurmountable."
Valerie plans to attend medical school and ultimately work with underserved populations here and abroad. She has been accepted at Columbia, Bard, and the University of Pennsylvania and is waitlisted at Brown; now she has to make a decision.
Our local branch awards two scholarships to UCCC graduates continuing their studies and one to a Kingston High School senior. AAUW is one of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women, providing more than $3.6 million in funding for more than 230 fellowships and grants to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations in the 2011-12 academic year in addition to local scholarships for undergraduates provided by branches like ours across the country.
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News, Celebrations, and etcetera
June Headlines
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How to find the branch calendar or other articles when you can't find the enewsletter in your mailbox. Bookmark this link:
http://kingstonaauw.blogspot.com/
If you look in the column on the right on the website, you'll see links to branch information including the calendar, with a link to print the calendar, our newsletter archive, trip policies, and member profiles.
Where else can you spend a great weekend in upstate NY for $100? What a terrific deal! AAUW NYS' Leadership Conference, July 15-17, Cazenovia College. Air conditioned dorm with elevator. Casual atmosphere. Great opportunities to learn and share. (It's one of my favorite AAUW events! - editor) Any member can attend. Interested in going? Coordinate with Ruth Wahtera via email or phone - 845-339-6568.
Feedback on Walmart: the conversation continues. Read the most recent addition to the discussion from Carole Leib. To keep the dialog up to date it has been moved to our blog. You can read Carole's post as well as the earlier comment.
Engage a Graduate in AAUW at No Cost to You!
Spring is graduation time, and AAUW has a terrific gift suggestion for you. Give an AAUW membership through AAUW's Give a Grad a Gift program! The program enables members to give a free one-year national AAUW membership to recent college graduates. What better way to introduce them to AAUW.
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AAUW's 130th Anniversary Grad Student Rate
Special 130th Anniversary introductory membership rates are available for graduate students, who can join AAUW for just $18.81!
From Rokki Carr, International Chair: If you're interested in microfinance issues, take a look at the information from the Microfinance USA Conference 2011
Best wishes to Carole Leib, Ellen Osgood, Polly Langer, and Gloria Sender who have been dealing with health issues.
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