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September Events

 

September 4, 2012  Women's Personal Finance Series

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

DUC Room 276

Building and Saving


  

September 14, 2012 

Fall Welcome Luncheon

11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Harbison House 

Brief Remarks at Noon



 September 15, 2012

Women and the Kemper Study Session

10:30 am coffee & pastries

11:00 am gallery tour

Kemper Art Museum 


 

September 27, 2012 Create the Woman's Club Future

Long Range Planning Meeting  

9:00 am - 3:30 pm

DUC Room 276


 
























































































































































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August/September 2012

Gloria pic 

A Message from the President

 

Friendship exists. Love exists. Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer

 

Summer is almost over. We start a new academic year.

 

On your visits to a park, museums, vacation sites, family gatherings, in fact everywhere, have you noticed how many people are taking pictures these days? I've seen people with conventional cameras, cell phones and iPads, all trying to store memories. I, too, have a camera. I love to take pictures at Woman's Club events. I try to grasp through my lens the memories and feelings I want to preserve. I may take several pictures of the same subject, each at a different moment, each from a different angle. I try to frame a sight, a feeling, the look of a friend. The subject may be the same but each view is slightly different.

 

Welcome to the Woman's Club of Washington University. Have you been a member for a while? To you, I say "Welcome Back". I hope you will join other members at our Welcome Luncheon of 2012. I would like to see your smile as you reconnect with an old friend. I would like to hear that you are going to join an interest group. Or maybe it is the same group you are participating in, a slightly different look, a few new people, a different angle in September from that of the previous May.   Are you new? To you I say Glad you're here! I would like to know you are looking forward to becoming part of a dynamic club. I hope you recognize my enthusiasm about being a part of the Woman's Club.

 

During the summer I spent several hours at the University archives helping our archivist organize the papers of the Woman's Club. Most of the material was in printed form, but there were a few pictures. I wanted to see more. Photographs can record relationships and feelings.

 

We will take pictures!

 

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Upcoming Events 
 
Financial Literacy

Women's Personal Finance Series

 

Tuesday, September 4, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Danforth University Center Room 276

Building and Saving

 

What am I saving for?   I'm... paying for college; a young professional; married with children; single again; living off my severance package; building a legacy for my grandchildren; soon to retire; planning to travel the world; needing elder care...

 

Guest Speaker: Bill Friebel, CRPC, VP, Regional Sales Manager, Oppenheimer Funds

 

Tuesday, October 2, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Danforth University Center Room 276

Where Should I Put My Cash?

    • The 4 Key Steps to Smart Investing
    • Risk vs. Return of Investment Options

Guest Speaker: C. Alan Brown, VP American Funds

 

Open to the Washington University Community

Bring your Brown Bag Lunch - refreshments provided

RSVP or Questions: [email protected]

 

 Women Can Take Financial Responsibility

 

When asked, "Do women have materially different personal finance issues to deal with than men?" Debbie Bennett, financial services professional and co-founder of the Woman's Club effort says, "Surprisingly - yes. While the technical basics of personal finance are essentially the same, it is extra vital for women to act on their needs early, and we face different life headwinds in our lives as compared to men.  Also, men and women can see the same financial information, or pitch from their financial advisor, and interpret it differently. Historically, the financial services industry has been run by males for males."

 

What's different for men and women regarding Personal Finance? "Women live an average of 14 years longer, women still earn less ($.77 on the male dollar according to the Census Bureau), and women spend an average of 11.5 fewer years than men in the paid workforce, opting out to care for children and/or elderly parents," says Jennifer Luner, former human resources director and co-founder of the Woman's Club effort to educate women on personal finances.

 

Women cannot afford to turn over the purse strings and lose
their financial identity, nor can they expect their spouse, partner, or significant other to have all the answers. And these days, everyone seems concerned if they will have enough money at retirement.   But first, we must feel comfortable enough and confident enough to talk intelligently with a financial planning professional. A complete eight-part monthly series will run throughout in the 2012-2013 academic year. So join us on the first Tuesdays of the month (except December) to learn about and discuss issues important to women and their personal finances.

Fall Welcome Luncheon

 

Friday, September 14, 2012

11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Brief Remarks at Noon

 

 

At the Chancellor's Residence  Harbison House  

6420 Forsyth Blvd

 

A Welcome Luncheon for women newcomers to our University to meet current members and learn about the Club's varied activities.

This invitation is for women faculty and staff and female spouses/partners of faculty and staff.

 

The Woman's Club of Washington University has been welcoming women to the University community since 1910.
Become a part of our circle of friends!

RSVP by Friday, September 7th  

to Pat Sarantites (314) 862-6615  

[email protected]

Women and the Kemper
 

Women and the Kemper Study Session

Saturday, September 15, 2012

10:30 am coffee & pastries - 11:00 am gallery tour

Kemper Art Museum 

 

  

A Conversation with Cynthia E. Smith - A study session conversation and gallery tour of Design with the Other 90%: CITIES with the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's curator of socially responsible design.

 

Women and the Kemper is a special interest group open to members of the Kemper Art Museum. Women and the Kemper members learn about and encourage women's participation in the visual arts through engagement with Museum programs and resources. Exclusive study sessions with curators and guest speakers as well as special events provide additional benefits and opportunities for socially-engaged education. Women and the Kemper is an excellent way to supplement your Kemper Art Museum membership and engage with fellow Museum members.

 

To join or renew your support, please visit kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/WAK or call 314.935.4896 to request a printed brochure.


Create the Woman's Club Future

Join your fellow members

Focus on the Woman's Club goals for the next 3-5 years

Long Range Planning Meeting

Thursday, September 27, 2012

9:00 am - 3:30 pm

DUC Room 276

 

Bring a brown bag lunch

Drinks and Desserts provided

All members are welcome

Activity and event heads, your input is crucial

Convenient parking available in the garage under the DUC

 

RSVP Jennifer Luner [email protected] 314-469-8668

 

Mark Your Calendar!!

 

University Night

   

Yasemin Kuyumeu

 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

6:00 pm Dinner at Ibby's

Danforth University Center

8:00 pm "Cabaret"

Edison Theater

 

Details to follow in October/November newsletter

Plan Ahead

October 20, 2012        University Night

Dinner at Ibby's

Performance of Cabaret at Edison Theater

 

October 23, 2012         Women and the Kemper Annual Luncheon

Tours of the permanent collection, luncheon and annual report presentation by President JoAnn Sanditz

 

November 13, 2012     Fall Symposium

"Eye Diseases of the Famous, the Not So Famous, and the Infamous"

Guest speaker: Morton E. Smith, MD

Whittemore House, Forsyth Ave.

 

December 10, 2012     Women and the Kemper Study Session

"The Art of Collecting" - A study session, which will feature a gallery talk through Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process by Meredith Malone, associate

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Member News
Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden


  Big Dig 2012
 

The Big Dig had a record number of gardeners. They arrived early in the morning to beat the heat and used 35 flats of plants to transform the garden into a colorful space to attract butterflies and people, too. The university greenhouse had grown for the garden a number of plants which included hard to find seedlings for hyacinth bean vine and tropical asclepias, the latter providing the larval food for the Monarch Butterfly. The co-chairs of the Elizabeth Danforth Butterfly Garden committee are grateful for all the efforts that made the Big Dig a success and particularly want to thank all the Big Diggers who were: Pat Sarantites, Assimo Azariadis, Carol Shapiro, Jane Schaefer, Ingrid Lutzler, Claire Jacobs, Dalene Tiers, Crista Carr Shatz, Pat Owens, Njara Stout, Jennifer Luner, Sharon Buchanan, Elise Joerger, Diane Wyse Jackson, Elena Maksaeva, Terry Beachy, Anne Marie Kiddon, Terry Mains, Margarita Ortiz, Linda Fried, Clare Davis, Lee Anne Quatrano, Leigh Pratter, Marlene O'Brien, Tedi Macias, and Jean Davis.

 

The Clayton Garden Club toured the Butterfly Garden in May and were so inspired by our abundance of native plants that they expect this fall to add a new native tree to our collection which now numbers 54 native trees and large shrubs. We had only 8 when the Garden began in l995. Our collaboration with the School of Architecture continues. High school students in Architecture's summer program are using the Garden for sketches of plants to include in their portfolios. In addition, a spring class of Professor Forest Fulton dug up some our surplus native plants for a landscaping project at a St. Louis Public School on Ninth Street in North St. Louis.

 

Please come by the Garden to see our new sign. The co-chairs and Carol Shapiro worked with Hannah Wrangham, a work study student and now a 2012 Art School graduate, to create a sign featuring color photos of 12 of our most common butterflies. Joy Guze suggested this idea years ago and thanks to Bill Wiley, Kent Theiling, Mary Ann Dill, and the University's Physical Facilities office, the sign is now an educational addition for garden visitors.

 

This year's growing season has been busy and challenging. The gardeners who kept the Garden green during record breaking heat and still managed to smile were: Carol Shapiro, Joan Dellbringge, Pat Owens, Diane Wyse Jackson, Claire Jacobs, Barb Ackermann, Tedi Macias, Marlene O'Brien, Leigh Pratter, Lee Anne Quatrano, and Jean Davis. We welcome all gardeners, experienced or not!

 



 Notes from the Courtesy Chair  

       

Contributions

On behalf of the Butterfly garden thank you to June Kilo and Isabel Van Essen for their financial support, and thank you to all the workers who share their time and gardening skills on behalf of Ibby's Garden for their hands-on contributions.

The Woman's Club Centennial Scholarship Fund benefitted from recent donations. Thank you to Terry Beachy, Karen Fields, Helmi Mason, Lee Anne Quatrano and Pat Sarantites. Thanks also to Assimo Azariadis, Annaliesa Hanebrink and Gini Lappas whose contributions were given in memory of Bob Orchard. Annaliesa also made a contribution in memory of Vera Morrow.

 

Sympathy

Two special members, Ruth Selfridge, a 35 year member and Vera Morrow, a 50 year member, passed away this summer. Both had enjoyed and contributed to the camaraderie of our Club.  

 

Condolences

Vivian Meyer's special friend Leon Dardick, Lois Orchard's husband Bob and Emilie LaBarge's husband Robert, all passed away over the last few months. We send our thoughts and sympathy to them and to their families.

 

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Newsletter Article and Event Submissions

The Club is creating colorful electronic e-blasts and newsletters. Choosing to receive newsletters via your email saves money, paper, and volunteer hours. 

Please contact Lee Anne Quatrano ([email protected]) to make a change in the way you receive newsletters. You can choose to receive electronic newsletters only, printed copies only, or both versions.

 

Submitting material for publication

We want to make materials clear and easy to read.

Keep these points in mind:

What is the event (news)? When will it take place? Where will it take place? 

Cost? RSVP Extras...menu, program, other details that may be important

 

Email submissions to Manal Tabbal [email protected] Hiba Safar [email protected]  Lee Anne Quatrano  [email protected] (please copy all three on your submission)

Submissions should be in a Word document with all information in approximate format desired. Include desired pictures as attachments in jpg format.

 

Deadlines

September 5 for Oct/Nov

November 5 for Dec/Jan

January 5 for Feb/Mar

March 5 for Apr/May

 

E-blasts may be submitted at any time, using the above guidelines to Lee Anne Quatrano [email protected]  


Donations

Scholarship Fund

Janet Aach

Assimo Azariadis in memory of Lois Orchard's husband.

Terry Beachy

Susan Colangelo

Marianne Engebretson

Karen Fields

Annaliesa Hanebrink in memory of Bob Orchard and Vera Morrow and in honor of Jennifer Luner

Gini Lappas in memory of Bob Orchard

Susan Ludeman

Helmi Mason

Delores Miller

Betty Novick

Lee Anne Quatrano

Rose Salisbury in memory of Vera Morrow

Pat Sarantites

Nancy Seifer

Sylvia Silver

Petie Karsh

Butterfly Garden

June Kilo

Isabel Van Essen

Diane Wyse Jackson


Sustaining Members

Azariadis, Assimo

Baron, Harriet

Bernstein, Marcia

Beuerlein, Crystal (H)

Bever, Carole

Bhattacharyya, Maitrayee

Bindler, Barbara

Camel, Greta

Colangelo, Susan

Dassopoulos, Catherine

Eason, Lois H

Eisenberg, Erin King

Engebretson, Marianne

Feiner, Barbara

Fox, Marilyn H

Garg, Sunita

Greenbaum, Elaine

Grollman, Dolores

Hicks, Rochelle

Israel, Margaret

Kahn, Connie (H)

Kass, Charlene

Keys, Marilee

Lawlor, Betsy

Leonard, Charmaine

Lubowitz, Gloria

Ludeman, Susan (H)

Macias, Tedi

McKelvey, Judith

Novick, Betty

Orchard, Lois

Owens, Pat

Platt, Beverly

Quatrano, Lee Anne

Sarantites, Pat

Schaefer, Jane

Silver, Sylvia

Smith, Paula

Stout, Njara

Straatmann, Kathy

Strasberg, Yona

Sutera, Celia

Thakor, Serry

Uetake-Shapiro, Carol-Ann

Van Essen, Isabel

Wall, Helen

Wulf, Maureen


   



Notecards for Sale!

These are not just ordinary notecards.  These are Woman's Club cards created especially to celebrate our centennial year and to share the beauty of our Elizabeth "Ibby" Danforth Butterfly Garden. The gorgeous photos of butterflies are captured on film right in our own beautiful and tranquil oasis on campus. 


Monarch brochure notecard

 

Purchase these cards and use them to brighten spirits and send your thoughtful words on wings of butterflies.

 

A package of 8 cards--2 each of 4 different images--sells for $10.00 per set.  They will be available at Woman's Club events.  You may also purchase them from Sylvia Silver at email: sarks317@sbcglobal or by phone: 314-863-4853.  Enjoy!

 

Swallowtail Notecard

   Join Our Facebook Page

The Woman's Club has a new Facebook page!  It is easy to join if you are currently using Facebook.  New postings on our page will appear on your Facebook wall once you have gone to our page and clicked on the like button.  We will be posting reminders about events, also pictures and short stories about past events and activities.  If you are not a member of Facebook yet,  please consider registering. If a non Facebook member  clicks on this link The Join Facebook page appears first.  You register with your name, email, and create a password. Then you are taken to our page.  We just posted an album of pictures about the Arts Showcase on the WC Facebook page.  If you missed the event you will want to see the pictures of the artists and their talents.   
 
Click here to be transported to the Woman's Club page.  Once you are there click on the like button to be one of our friends.


         
                                 

Publicity Submissions 
 
Submit Club activity photos and stories for possible inclusion in an upcoming edition or on our website.
 
E-blast and website information may be submitted  to
Lee Anne Quatrano, [email protected]. Please allow 5 days for publication.

Newsletter editors:

Hiba Safar, [email protected]
Manal Tabbal, [email protected]
Lee Anne Quatrano, [email protected]
(Please email submissions to all three)

Newsletter Deadlines:

September 5 for Oct/Nov
November 5 for Dec/Jan
January 5 for Feb/Mar
March 5 for Apr/May  
Executive Committee 2011-2012 

 

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Gloria Lubowitz   

President   

 

Jane Schaefer
Director, Educational Programming

 

Pat Sarantites  

Director, Membership 


Lee Anne Quatrano   

Director, Communications

Beverly Platt   

Director, Service to the University

Jennifer Luner

Finance Chair      


Kellie Mandry  

Recording Secretary

 

Susan Colangelo   

Immediate Past President