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Luncheon to Introduce 2013-2014 UNM Scholarship Recipient
Caitlin ArmijoCaitlin Armijo
Caitlin is seeking a medical degree at UNM Medical School
Caitlin’s Goal: To become a surgeon
Where: Gabriel’s Restaurant
5 minutes north of the Opera
If you are able, please bring non-perishable food items
& feminine hygiene products
for the Adelante Program for Homeless Students
RSVP by April 1st: Elaine Carson – [email protected]
When you RSVP, please let Elaine know if you would like to carpool to
Gabriel’s
If you would like to carpool, please meet at Jinja Bistro, 510 N Guadalupe @ 10 am.
Travel Via Hwy 285/84 to Exit 176, Cuyamungue –this road runs into Gabriel’s driveway
Gabriel’s: 505-455-7000
Gabriel’s will provide individual checks
To preview Gabriel’s lunch menu:
http://www.restauranteur.com/gabriels/menu.htm#Lunch%20Menu
AAUW–SANTA FE BRANCH MEETING
SATURDAY, APRIL 5th, 10:30 am
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Capital Women
Branch May Meeting:Wednesday May 7, Per-sonal Safety & InternetFraud.
Board Meeting: Apr. 12,10:00 am, First ChristianChurch. All are welcome toattend.
Daylighters Book Group:Wednesday, April 9 at theLaFarge Library from 1-3:30 p.m. The topic is“Music”. Contact person isHelen Fan 795-7767.
Book Women: Apr. 21,Conversations with Myselfby Nelson Mandela, at thehome of Elaine Carson.Contact Judy Kares, 474-0799.
AAUW-NM Convention:April 25-27,Las VegasNM—see the spring Road-runner for details.
**May Newsletter Dead-line: April 15.**
Rocky Mt. RegionalAAUW Conference: June6-8, Reno, NV.
WHAT’S COMING UP?
STEM PROGRAMS REACH ASIA
I just returned from a three week journey to Asia. My husband and I went to Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, HongKong and China. We spent five days in Siem Reap Cambodia where the Angkor Wat Temple is located. We stayedin a small boutique hotel run by a French family. We had our own personal driver each day who drove us aroundin a Toyota Camry for $20 a day. The hotel would give us a suggested itinerary each day which after reviewing itwith the driver we would discard it and then free-lance our day. We had been cautioned that many of the Cambo-dians had limbs missing from landmines still buried in the area. When we met our driver Sam - it was noted hehad most of his right hand missing. We found outlater it was from a land- mine explosion. He spokevery good English. His wife was a mid-wife whoworked in a clinic 3 hours from their home. His wifewould go to work at the clinic Monday morning bybus and return home Fri- day evening. They had 4children. Their 16 year old daughter took care of the2 younger children while her parents worked. Theyhad a 18 year old daugh- ter who won a 4 year En-gineering scholarship to an all-girls university in Bang-ladesh. She was picked as the only recipient fromCambodia. The family hopes this daughter willbe able to help the family financially when shegraduates and gets a job. They currently all live in a1 room home in Siem Reap. They hope to beable to add a room on to the home when thedaughter gets a job and sends them money. Theyrealize this daughter will probably never return toCambodia.
So we find STEM programs are impacting girls all over the world. Not only do these programs provide a better fu-
ture for women and girls but for their families too.
From Our PresidentFrom Our President
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Jeanne is again studying Roberts’ Rules of Order as she travels.
WANTEDWANTED
Are you interested in legislation & government policy?
Do you have a little time to serve AAUW?
Our branch needs a Public Policy Chair.
Keep the branch informed aboutlegislation related to AAUW’s Public Policy Program.
Work with AAUW-NM Public Policy Chairs.
Lobby during the legislative sessions, if you wish.
Contact Nickola Rubow, Nominating Committee Chair or Jeanne Patrick,Branch President, if you are interested.
We are starting up the hiking clubsince the weather is getting warmer.Our hikes will either be the first orsecond Wednesday of the monthand the third or fourth Friday of themonth. An e-mail will go out toyou a week before the hike. Eachof those involved will rotate plan-ning a hike. The hike will be ap-proximately one to two hours induration and at a moderate intensitylevel. Afterwards, those who wantto go out to lunch will choose a lo-cal restaurant. I will plan the firsthike in April. Thereafter, the per-son in charge of the hike will e-mailme the information and then I will
SANTA FE AAUW HIKING CLUBSANTA FE AAUW HIKING CLUB
The Unbook Club Meets
Again
The Unbook Club welcomes local au-thor and AAUW member Maxine Dav-enport to the next meeting ThurdayMay 8th at 5 pm . The meeting will beat Esther Milnes home at 2116 Sendade Daniel, Santa Fe 87501- Phone505-467-8684. Maxine Davenport is aAAUW member and published authorof 2 mystery books: She will be dis-cussing Murder Times Two and Satur-day Matinee. Light snacks and bever-ages will be served.Senda de Daniel is off of Hyde ParkRoad .From Hyde Park Road turn righton Cerros Colorados and then turn lefton Senda de Daniel which is the firstleft turn.If you have any questions, please con-tact Jeanne Patrick 984-1720.
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send it out to the members on thelist. It is important that all mem-bers RSVP and if you have to can-cel at the last minute, you need tocall the contact person. We willuse 50 degrees as the minimumtemperature. If the high for theday is 50 degrees based onwunderground.com, the hike willgo forward. If the high tempera-ture is less, it will be cancelled.
If you are interested in being partof this fun, active group, e-mailBarbara at [email protected] to be put onour e-mail list.
Barbara Asarch-Aronowitz & Nickola Rubowenjoying one of last year’s hikes.
WANTEDWANTED
Do you like learning newcomputers skills?
Do you have 2 hours a monthto spare?
Our branch must have aWebsite Manager.
No web design experience nec-essary – will train you.
Contact Lina Germannif interested.
Members Nominated for
Offices on the Branch Board
2014-2016
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Gail Price Fine holds a BA from Emory University
1965, MS from Vanderbilt University 1967 and MA
from Peabody College 1967. She has enjoyed a 45
year professional career as a Rehabilitation Audiolo-
gist and Speech-Hearing-Language Therapist/
Teacher for hearing impaired people of all ages.
Her primary interest has always been the birth to
12 pediatric population. Gail and her academic phy-
sician husband have lived and worked in 6 states
(Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Texas, Oklahoma
and New Mexico). Dr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Fine are
fully retired now and love living in Santa Fe. They
have two married daughters and two grandchildren
residing in distant states who consider this their
favorite place to visit. The entire family enjoy op-
era, theater, art, music, culture and nature in north-
ern New Mexico.
MEMBERSHIP
VICE-PRESIDENT
Kris Rodgers was born and raised in western New York
State. She was an AFS student for a summer in Greece
while in high school and spent her junior year abroad in
Aix-en-Provence, France, while at college — preludes to
what would become a predominantly expat life. She
graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in
French and Anthropology and subsequently lived in
France, where she redid her qualifications, for some 14
years, before moving to Australia, where she lived for
12 years. She moved to Santa Fe in 2000 to be with
her aging parents, who had, off and on, retired here.
She enjoys gardening, social tennis, international folk
dancing, reading, traveling.
FINANCE OFFICER
AAUW FUNDS CHAIR
Luanne Moyer is a second generation native Californian
(unusual in her era). She grew up in the Los Angeles
area, attended the University of California Irvine for
two years then went to northern California to finish
my schooling. Luanne graduated from Humboldt State
University in Arcata, CA with a BA in Sociology.
Ended up back in southern California in a retail job,
until she’d had enough of that and went to work for
what over the years was Pacific Telephone, Pacific
Telesis, SBC and finally AT&T. Along the way she
moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. After working
in telecommunications for 31 years she retired De-
cember, 2012.
It was about that time that Luanne and Steve moved
to Santa Fe. They have two daughters, Kathleen (25)
who is living in Sunnyvale, CA and Elizabeth (23) who
recently graduated from Eckerd College in St. Peters-
burg, FL.
Gail Fine
Kris Rodgers
Luanne Moyer
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Tour of the Women’s International Study Center
The Paloheimo Home may be Santa Fe’s answer to Downton Abbey. There were three generations of self-assured women withmoney running an eight acre compound in the heart of Santa Fe. Starting in 1890 and continuing on to 1999 these women en-tertained the most successful scholars, researchers and artists of their era. They also developed world famous El Rancho deLas Golindrinas into a living history museum. The museum currently depicts life as it was during the 18th and 19th centurywith real life weavers, farmers and bakers.
AAUW members for the first time can tour the Paloheimo Home which is now designated as a museum known as theWomen’s International Study Center . The center will house writers, researchers and musicians in the casitas located on theproperty.
They also will be sponsoring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Baden Ginsberg in a symposium August 29th.The tours for AAUW members will be Saturday March 29th at 10 am and Saturday June 14th at 10 am. The center is lo-cated at 614 Acequia Madre St Santa Fe.This is a rare opportunity to see this center. Normally they do not give tours and this is the first time they have given tours onSaturday.
Please RSVP to Esther Milnes at [email protected] are limited to 20 people each.
Since the beginning of this school year, TheAdelante Program has identified and servedmore than 1,500 children and youth experienc-ing homelessness. The Adelante Program isthe only program in Santa Fe dedicated tokeeping homeless students in school and sup-porting them to reach their highest potentialand achieve life success.The ADELANTE program provides professionaltutors; school supplies and uniforms, winterjackets, eviction and utility disconnect preven-tion, transportation, fresh groceries, case man-agement, advocacy and one-on-one studentsupport and inspiration. These efforts haveproved to be invaluable in keeping our kids inschool and helping them graduate, raising highschool graduation rates for our students morethan 30% in the last two years alone.As we continue our support to the SFPS Ade-lante Program, I have a few announcements:1. The dinner fundraiser at Santa Fe Bar and
Grill where 20% of sales went to Adelante
was so successful that Adelante re-ceived a check from the restaurantthe very next day for $1,000! Thankyou to all who went to dinner therethat night.
2. NM Quilters Association once againdonated a quilt to our branch to beraffled with proceeds going to Ade-lante. So you will see me lugging aquilt around to meetings in April untilMay 9th.
3. Adelante is planning its second an-nual benefit dinner for their friendsand supporters. There will be dinner,entertainment, silent auction, liveauction, and the raffle drawing for thequilt. It is free for you to attend as do-nations will be accepted. The benefitis on Friday, May 9th at 1st Presbyte-rian Church.
Lina Germann, Outreach Coordinator
ADELANTE UPDATE
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Last week while in NY for theUN Conference on the Status ofWomen, CSW58, I also at-tended a "side event" given byAAUW. There I met PatriciaFae Ho, Chair of the Board ofDirectors, Linda Hallman, ExecDir/CEO, and Gloria Blackwellwho was on a panel addressingSTEM and barriers to gradua-tion from postsecondaryschools.
The barriers cited were insuffi-cient academic preparation,costs and limited financial aid,work and family responsibilities,and limited information andguidance to students from ei-ther schools or family. Of pri-mary concern, however, wasthe urgency of childcare or day-care that is needed so thatyoung mothers can still pursueand complete their education.
Panelist Linda Young from Austin,Texas described how her state hassuccessfully created, after years ofstruggle, to get community collegesto provide these services on theircampuses. She also stressed thecontinuing need for role modelsand mentors for young women,particularly in STEM areas.
Early college high schools werealso cited as successful in improv-ing graduation rates for low-incomestudents, first generation collegeattendees, English language learn-ers, and for students of color andfrom Latino communities. If stu-dents in these programs maintain aC+ average, they get a free laptopand tutoring in addition to free tui-tion. New Mexico does not haveany of these schools by the way.
During Q&A and after a woman
from Albuquerque asked for guid-ance (not a AAUW member), I let thegroup know that the Santa Fe branchwas conducting sessions to stimulateSTEM interests in primary schools.Attendees applauded this effortwhich was obviously a unique ap-proach.
After informing the AAUW group thatI was attending the UN CSW58 as arepresentative for an NGO in Hun-gary, I have since learned that Alcoaand AAUW have now collaborated ona $250,000 grant for STEM in Ohioand Hungary. I will be in Hungaryend of May/June and have asked thenational organization if I can be ofhelp to them while there.
Lynn Gardner HeffronNew Member of AAUW – Santa FeBranch
Members enjoying the March8th event at 10,000 Villages
Judy Kares
Ellen Cerreta
& Sarah Fassett
with the manager
of 10,000 Villages
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Careers & Curiosity in Math & Science 2014
Our February Careers and Curiosity in Math and Scienceevent at Sweeney Elementary was a great success. It wasattended by over 600 students grades Kindergarten to 5th.Thank you to the AAUW members who participated aspresenters or volunteers: Enid, Ellen Esther, Riette, Cyn-thia, Sally, Sue, Barbara, Margo, Jay, Marlene, Maxineand Lina.
Next coming up: Thursday April 17 at Nava Elementary(2655 Siringo Road)
Nava Elementary is a smaller school than Sweeney withabout 340 students total Kinder through 6th grade. Still,this school has about 80% of its students classified asEconomically Disadvantaged and about 40% of the stu-dents with Spanish as their first language.
Your help is needed April 17, 2014 from 8AM-1 PM tomake this event successful. The students and teachers atNava are looking forward to this event as this is the firsttime we bring C&C to their school. Please contact LinaGermann to volunteer: [email protected]
This format of career fair has the unstated goals: (1) togive girls role models who are women with careers usingmath and science, (2) to show the boys careers that usemath and science, (3) to send the message for the boysthat girls can do math and science. It is a lot of fun and itis very rewarding. For more information and pictures, seeour website:http://santafe-nm.aauw.net/activities/programs/careers-curiosity/
Lina Germann, STEM Chair
Sweeney Elementary Careers & Curiosity
APPOINTED OFFICERS
Newsletter Editor: Nancy Scheer
Directory Editor: Enid Tidwell
Web Mistress: Lina Germann
AAUW-UNM Fund: Judy Kares
STEM Coordinator: Lina Germann
Historian: Joy Poole
Membership Data Coordinator: Judy Bates
Caring Committee: Joanne Birdwhistell
Association HELP LINEnumber is 1-800-326-
2289. I t i savailable M-F from 10 am -5pm EST/EDT. The emailaddress is:
The Congressional ActionLine is (202) 785-7785.Call 800-821- 4364 forFAX updates from theWomen’s Network forChange.
Advertising rates:
Business card in every newsletter issue $35
Mission Statement
AAUW advances equ i ty fo r women and g i r ls th rough advocacy , educat ion , ph i lan thropy , and research .
La AAUW adelante en eguidad para las mujeres y las muchachas por medio de el apoyo, la educacion,
filantropia, y la investgacion.
Nancy Scheer, Editor
1894 Esplendor
Santa Fe, NM 87505
We’re on the Web!
http://santafe-nm.aauw.net
ELECTED OFFICERS
President: Jeanne Patrick
Program VP: Ellen Cerreta
Membership VP: Barbara Asarch-
Aronowitz
Secretary: Pat Price
Finance Chair: Nickola Rubow
AAUW Funds Chair: Judy Kares
Public Policy Chair: vacant
A P R I L 2 0 1 4 N E W S L E T T E R O F T H ES A N T A F E , N E W M E X I C O B R A N C HO F A A U W , I N C .
