Our lives have changed dramatically since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pan-demic! We have had to make a lot of adjust-ments and many life-style changes in that time, but I believe, true Zontians that we are, we did just that with great success. District clubs kicked off the year with in-person or Zoom meet-ings without missing a beat. I noticed that the District Zoom ac-count has been very active and has been a good return on our in-vestment. Several clubs also have had virtual fundraisers and worked on their ser-vice and advocacy projects. We have also had a few successes at the district level. In Octo-ber, we held two virtu-al sessions to replace the Fall Governor’s Conference that would have taken place in Elizabethtown, Ken-tucky. Both the Presi-dents’ Forum and the Conference were well

attended with Zonta International District 5 Liaison Souella Cum-ming getting up at 2:00 AM New Zealand time to attend both ses-sions and Zonta Inter-national President Sharon Langenbeck ‘dropping’ in from San-ta Clarita, California for a few minutes and saying a few words. All our presenters were outstanding. In November, we had two significant events. By the end of “Every Member, Every No-vember’ campaign, members from District 5 made donations to-taling $4,600.00. Dis-trict 5 thanks these members for their gen-erosity. The other No-vember event that just ended was Zonta’s participation in the in-ternational campaign to end violence against women. It is my hope that all seventeen clubs took part during the 16 Days of Activ-ism in some form or another. Thank you all for all

that you do for Zonta. Now, I wish each and every one of you a safe and healthy holi-day season. Here’s hoping for a better 2021!

F R O M T H E G OV E R N O R ’ S D E S K I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Spotlight on Area 1 2

Spotlight on Area 2 3

Spotlight on Area 3 4-5

Spotlight on Area 4 6

Area 1 Continued 7

Area 2 Continued 7

Save the Date 7

Area 3 Continued 8

Area 4 Continued 9

ZI Foundation Report 10

JMK Scholarship Winner 11

Food for Thought 11

UN Crossword Puzzle 12-13

D ISTRICT NEWSLETTER B IENNIUM VOLUME 4 , ISSUE 2

JANUARY 4 , 2021 SANDY HOMMEL , EDITOR

Roji Rao, District 5 Governor

District 5 Board:

Roji Rao Governor Eileen Borchardt Lt. Governor Sonia Shellito Treasurer Melissa Smith Secretary Caroline Menezes Area 1 Director Connie Kingsbury Area 2 Director Jenny Markovich Area 3 Director Judy DeBe Voise Area 4 Director Ramona Jeffries Parliamentarian

through socialization, food, and camarade-rie. Starting in the new year, they will continue with selecting a book from the ZI list to re-view as a club since there was such great discussion amongst members.

The Zonta Club of Toledo 1, realized that social distancing was affecting their mem-bership meetings so they decided to hold a series of dialogues with the community to discuss issues pertain-ing to the community and to bring aware-ness to Zonta. On De-cember 11 they had the first of their dia-logues on “New Nor-mal: Adapting to change in COVID and beyond” . Zontian

Kimm Hrdlicka Tigges from Zonta Club of Co-lumbus spoke on the partnership of Zonta International and the United Nations.

Figure 1: Social impact due to

Covid 19 shared at the Zonta

club of Toledo’s dialogue series.

All clubs in Area 1 continued to meet and discuss busi-ness through Zoom and other virtual platforms as Ohio saw a spike again in the number of cases infected with COVID 19. Clubs have real-ized that the impact of COVID is immedi-ate and personal and the first order of business for most of them was to take care of the club’s needs. For example, Zonta Club of Bowling Green real-ized that with COVID, there is much social isolation occurring even amongst members, due to the virtual monthly meetings. Therefore, they de-cided to host a book club discussing the book, GIRL UP by Laura Bates. They met via ZOOM, to discuss important topics of the book, while support-ing each other

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This was followed by four panelists and members of the Club of Toledo who discussed the impact of COVID on the health and well being of the communi-ty. The panelists shared health re-sources available to the community.

Also in 2021 tying in with District 5’s bienni-um goal of Teamship, Zonta Cub of BG is co-partnering with the Zonta Cub of Toledo to coordinate social events for all members to participate in in-creasing benchmarking and socializing oppor-tunities and creating new friendships. Several of the clubs of Area 1 were also able to continue with the mission of Zonta Inter-national. I will highlight a few of the events that took place in Area 1:

The Zonta Club of BG has been working to-gether to support ZI and women and chil-dren locally by partici-pating in the 16 days of Activism. They were fortunate to have Kathy Maul, the director from The Cocoon in Bowling Green, at their virtual club meeting to share with them the real story of abuse in their own community. The Co-coon is a program that

Caroline Menezes

Area 1 Director

exists to provide safety, healing and justice for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, their chil-dren, and all others affect-ed by these abuses. Since the pandemic, there has been an increase in physical and sexual vio-lence locally, regionally and internationally. For survivors of domestic and sexual violence issues of safety and support are more important than ever. The club is also working with The Cocoon in adopt-ing 3 families to provide them the essential neces-sities, along with items requested for the holi-days. They feel that it is important to help these families have as much normalcy in their lives as possible, particularly dur-ing the holiday season. The club will purchase gifts and necessary items for the families and pro-vide a financial donation to The Cocoon to contin-ue providing these much needed services to wom-en and children of abuse.

Figure 2: Semi-truck wrapped with

Zonta’s mission by Zonta Club of

Defiance.

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Area 2 Clubs didn’t let the pandemic keep them from their commitments to service and advocacy. I’m honored to work with these strong and creative women.

The Zonta Club of Cincin-nati has been busy wrap-ping up the last quarter of the year. In November, we celebrated Founder’s Day by honoring District 5 Area 2 Director, Connie Kingsbury. The virtual event celebrated the wonderful work she has contributed to Zonta over the years.

The annual Kendra Scott Jewelry fundraiser was held in early December. The club continues to work on service projects such as donating mats to the homeless popu-lation and providing words of encouragement to people.

A club goal for the biennium is to impact the lives of 2,020 women. Through November, 186 lives have been touched. In addition, the club members donated to Families Forward and the North Fairmount Com-munity Center as part of our Christmas celebration.

Zonta Club of Elizabethtown Members have been busy with a number of initiatives this fall. Club service projects included

assembling boxes for food items that were distributed by Feeding America and provid-ing baby supplies and a mon-etary donation to Clarity Solu-tion – the local crisis pregnan-cy center.

In an effort to bring awareness to issues of Domestic Vio-lence the Club sponsored an Awareness Walk at Freeman Lake Park on October 3rd. Donations from the event

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Spotlight on Area 2 totaling $1100 were given to Springhaven, the local do-mestic violence program and shelter. In support of 16 Days of Ac-tivism, our December club project supported Spring-haven Domestic Violence Shelter through a donation of gift cards for the clients to use as needed for Christmas for the children at the shelter.

Lastly, the club recognized 24 year old Darian Wilbert as the recipient of the Non-Traditional College Scholar-ship. Darian's major is Inter-disciplinary Studies or Com-munications. She is a first generation college student and single mother. The Zonta Club of Louis-ville has been very busy, too. Amazing what we can still do hands -on as well as the in-formation sharing with the Zoom meetings. The Club has been working on identification and then no-tification of all non-profit or-ganizations within our county that work on advancing the lives of women. The November service pro-jects included collecting pro-fessional clothing for Survi-vor's Corner, collecting hats, gloves and blankets for Unit-ed Partners for Women and Children, and collecting shoes for Water Step. The Club kicked off the 16 Days of Activism by hosting a pick

Connie Kingsbury

Area 2 Director

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Spotlight on Area 3

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As the New Year approaches, we all can agree the end of 2020 cannot come soon enough! And not to sound re-dundant, 2020 has been an unprecedented year. Reflect-ing on how we lived with con-stant change, fear, social un-rest and increased violence against women and girls, I am amazed at how Area 3 Zonti-ans overcame these challeng-es and “hit the ground run-ning.”

These energetic hardworking women adjusted their meetings to virtual or masked and social-ly distanced. They stretched their imagination and created new ways to fundraise, advo-cate, educate, add members and, where possible, provide service to many local agen-cies. They also found time to participate in Zonta Interna-tional’s “Every Member, Every November” and “16 Days of Activism” champaigns.

I am beyond proud to be asso-ciated with these remarkable Zontians.

ZONTA ABC’s (Akron,Barberton, Canton) September meeting was a .

busy one! Not only did we conduct our first meeting IN PERSON of the new biennium and install the majority of our officers, but we had a very in-formative, inspiring speaker, Ms. Kellie Farris, from RAHAB Min-istries (Reaching Above Hope-lessness and Brokenness). RA-HAB offers respite to individuals involved in human trafficking along with food, clothing and support of various means. Feel free to check out their website at https://www.rahab-ministries.org/ .

October saw us decorating a tree for the annual Tree Festival Auction held at the John S. Knight Center in Akron (virtually). This event supports Akron’s Children’s Hospital. Members met at Vice President Angela Brake’s home Wednes-day, October 14 to decorate our 3-foot tree with purple and silver ornaments and decorations illu-minating the work that the Hope and Healing Center does for Summit County. It was an ex-cellent way to spotlight Zonta ABC as well.

In November we moved back to virtual meetings, both board and regular. The emphasis for No-vember was fundraising. We are planning a virtual event for the spring. Stay tuned for more.

During this rough time, the Zon-ta Club of Ashtabula felt we needed to do something for the artisans through the One World Shop in Rocky River, Ohio. We would normally have our Inter-national Fair in November but ,with all the restrictions, we felt it just was not possible.

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Jennie Markovich

Area 3 Director

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The members researched oth-er possibilities and came up with hosting a virtual Interna-tional Fair. The format was not only new for us but for One world Shop as well.

One World Shop has partnered with organizations around the globe empowering thousands of artisans, abled and disabled, to create fair trade goods for the North American market.

During November 8-15, items could be viewed and pur-chased online. On November 11, One World Shop held a live presentation. They walked through the store describing items, the artisan, and country of origin. Items ranged from fair trade coffees, teas and hot chocolate, to Nativity sets, out-door metal works, wraps, socks, musical instruments and much more.

This promotional event sold $1,300.00 in products. One World Shop was extremely pleased with the experience of doing a virtual event. Zonta Club of Ashtabula members were happy to support a local business and helpi artisans im-prove their way of life.

You can always go to the web-site at oneworldshopcle.com to see items for sale or visit the store at 19321 Detroit Road, Rocky River, Ohio. We are looking forward to the Interna-tional Fair in November, 2021, hopefully in person.

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Even in the cold and rain, Zonta Club of Ashtabula Area members kicked off the “16 Days of Activ-ism” on November 25, 2020, at the historic lift bridge in the Ashtabula Harbor. The Lift Bridge Community Association (LBCA) supported our effort by lighting the lift bridge with orange lights – the color that symbolizes the Zonta International campaign of “Zonta Says NO to Violence Against Women.”

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S p o t l i g h t o n Ar e a 3 , C o n t.

2020, with its COVID-19 challenges, has been a year like no other; yet, Zonta Club of Cleveland (ZCC), filled with optimism, hope and passion, moved forward. ZCC fulfilled its service commitment to the Renee Jones Empower-ment Center by participat-ing in Project Red Cord Night Out. Members filled 20 bags with personal hy-giene and other items to be distributed to Cleveland women in need. ZCC has also scheduled service days in February (MedWish) and May (Days for Girls) as part of its year-ly service projects. ZCC also held two fund-raisers. The first offered homemade pepper jelly for purchase. Germaine Gibian graciously opened her kitchen for the two-day pro-duction and, under the di-rection of Roji Rao, over 100 jars of deliciousness were produced, all of which sold! The second, a mini holiday fundraiser, was held in cooperation with One World Shop in Rocky River, which allowed mem-bers and guests to shop with a percentage of the proceeds gifted to the Club by the shop. In addition to its service and fundraising efforts, ZCC presented two virtual program meetings between September and November. The first featured Padma

Jambunath of Merrill Lynch speaking on the topic of Women, Wealth and Well-Being. The pro-gram was well attended with 27 participants, and received very positive feedback

The second program, a precursor to ZCC’s in-volvement in ZI’s 16 Days of Activism cam-paign, featured Cleveland photographer Honey Laz-ar presenting Seen + Heard: Conversations about Sexual Assault, Abuse and Rape. This deeply moving program was shared by 30 partici-pants, including members from Zonta Club of Hud-son and Golden Z Club at Cleveland State Universi-ty, and allowed ZCC to share information about ZI’s and ZCC’s involve-ment in the fight against gender-based violence.

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Zonta Club of Colum-bus heard about a new-ly-formed non-profit, Sanctuary Night, at their September meeting from Executive Director, Hannah Estabrook. Hannah’s many years of social work in Colum-bus Catch Court helping women caught in cycles of addiction and prosti-tution showed her that there were huge gaps in services available to women to allow them to have dignity and enough courage to break out and choose healthy lives. At the end of Septem-ber, Hannah left her job as a social worker and stepped out to create a 24/7 safe house for the women of Franklinton from a former pop-up crack house. Until money can be raised and renovations com-pleted on the building, her temporary location continues to be at Low-er Lights Ministry where she has a drop-in cen-ter on Monday evenings

Judy DeBe Voise

Area 4 Director

providing women with food, a place to wash up, clean clothes, hygiene products, and trained volunteers. Presi-dent-Elect, Kathy Froehle, has conducted two clothing and coat drives for the women of Sanctuary Night which were promoted in the club’s social media and her neigh-borhood’s social media. Re-sponse from the club and the neighbors has been strong, and the coat drive has raised awareness of the Zonta club because of the association. Here are the results of the do-nations collected in Novem-ber: 28 winter coats, 28 sweatshirts, 48 sweaters, 44 blouses/cotton t-shirts/tops, 26 pairs of jeans, 35 pairs of other pants, 22 pairs of leg-gings, 6 pairs of boots/shoes, 12 winter scarves, 16 winter hats, 7 pairs of gloves and 21 other items including light jackets, PJs, robes and blan-kets. The clothing is free to the women. Volunteers bring car loads of bins every Monday night from the storage unit to their temporary location at Low-er Lights Ministry in Franklin-ton, Ohio. The women are giv-en vouchers and can choose clothing items using their vouchers.

Ms. Estabrrook thanked Zonta Co-lumbus saying, “While I am incredi-bly thankful for this donation of clothing, nothing could compare to the grateful expressions on the faces of the women on Sullivant Avenue. Very often these women don’t have secure housing. No closet. No dresser. No suitcase. Sanctuary Night is a place where they can once again feel dignified. I’ve seen a donated outfit trans-form a woman’s countenance. Thank you for your contribution to this little transformation.”

Service is to Serve.. to provide, assist, help and attend. It’s hard for a caring group of women to at-tend when a pandemic is keeping us physically apart. Zonta Club of Columbus came together at the end of the summer to brainstorm how to continue our service pro-jects in support of Women at Risk in our Community. Feedback from our community partners identified the main needs were for financial support and tangible emergency supplies. As our main fundraisers were postponed due to the pan-demic, our funds were short, but our motivation was high. Working to find a way to collect emergency supplies for our selected part-ners… the PURSE PROJECT was launched.

Using social media, neighborhood chat pages, church and work bulle-tins, we put out the word to col-lect purses and backpacks to fill with toiletries, hand sanitizers, masks, disinfecting wipes, femi-nine hygiene items.

Designating 5 porch collection points around town, Zonta mem-bers helped gather the items on the wish list.

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In the spirit of the sea-son the Zonta Club of Findlay held its annu-al holiday gathering virtually this year, on Dec. 15. Governor Roji and Area Director Car-oline were able to join for a time as well, and it was wonderful to see them.

up location in a local Crack-er Barrel parking lot for these organizations to pick up their donations. We closed 2020 by sharing our favorite traditions, food and Christmas Carols with a Zoom Christmas for the Club.

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Dates

Even Santa joined in playing a game to check his naughty and nice list. Members en-gaged in the game “Fortunately/Unfotunately”, in which each person adds one line to a story. The first word in each line

alternates between “Fortunately…” or “Unfortunately…” It ended up with the husband of a member being hung on the tree as an ornament but falling off of the tree and needing to use his wife’s walker and boot she needed re-cently!

The clubs of Area 1 wish a very Mer-ry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of the clubs in D5!

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Zonta Cleveland

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For added excitement, ZCC was successful in its efforts to light the Terminal Tower in Downtown Cleve-land orange in recognition of the 16 Days of Activism, and was featured on the Tower’s Twitter page. Woo-hoo! While ZCC hoped to light the Tower for the full 16 days, the one day it was granted is a major step for-ward. ZCC will be back with an ask in 2021, 22, 23…until no woman needs to live in fear of violence.

Eileen Borchardt, Area 3 Di-rector Jenny Markovich, for-mer Governor Joyce Combs, and Z Club of Hawken liaison Mrunalini Rao,for their parti-cipation in the ceremony. Z Club members include Maya Rao, President, Madi Wayt, Vice President, Valerie Lauri-anti, Secretary/Treasurer, Sahana Abhergeni, Allie Dettelbach, Mira Getrost and Liz Krajekian. These young women are a testament to the work of Zonta, and it was a true pleasure to welcome

them into the Zonta family fold.

Members held our first ever online silent auction and mystery wine pull. We learned a lot, but our hard work paid off! We were pleas-antly surprised by the amount raised. In November, at the invitation of the Zonta Club of Cleveland, our mem-bers virtually attended their powerful and interesting program “Seen + Heard: Conversations about Sexual Assault, Abuse and Rape” presented by Honey Lazar. Our action plan for the 16 Days of Activism involved members through either taking a picture at one of the sixteen (16) showcased Northeast Ohio non-profit agencies that sup-ports, empowers and provides ser-vices for women and girls OR mak-ing a poster/sign with a Zonta slogan and taking a picture of it. Each day, facts regarding the non-profits and member’s pictures were posted on social media.

And while it seemed like a long time in coming, ZCC was able to host a virtual charter ceremony to rec-ognize Z Club of Hawken School and its members. It was an especially meaningful occasion for Roji Rao, whose longtime dream was to see a Z Club chartered by ZCC, and Sunny Shellito, who was ZCC’s President at the time the process be-gan. ZCC is grateful to D5 Governor Roji Rao, D5 Lt. Governor

Finally, ZCC continues to make plans for its Centennial Celebration in November 2021. Please mark your cal-endars and plan to join us in Cleveland on Friday, Novem-ber 5, 2021, for our 100 year anniversary gala. It promises to be a wonderful event and we’d love it if you could join us. Zonta Club of Hudson con-tinues to meet monthly via Zoom. For two weeks during the month of October, our

Advocacy Co-Chair,

Marla Piccolomini

Vice President,

Julie Curtis

Tori LaVoie, daughter of Board Member Patricia

Slotter

Our December meeting was a Zoom social, “Holiday-in-your-house-party.” Members were encouraged to show their favorite holiday decoration, share their favorite holiday tradition or memory and share their well-wishes for the New Year.

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A drive to increase membership is a goal re-quiring the dedication of every member.

Members donating to “Every Member Every November” were happy that the club matched an additional amount to add to the total contribution.

Zonta Columbus continued

We gathered at an outside park shelter, for a socially distant and masked dona-tion sorting and organizing event. We assembled 60 purses and 8 large shop-ping bags this first day and delivered to 5 agen-cies.

We continue to collect items quarterly, and our second wave has even more purses and dona-tions than the first time, and ( due to stricter COVID precautions) we have smaller 1-3 person groups organizing items, and assembling purses and bags to deliver to 3 more agencies, including 2 women’s programs that also have babies in need, so our members, friends, neighbors and family have items for them, too

After only 4 months of col-lecting donations, we have assembled:

125 purses and back-packs, 15 shopping bags, gift cards, and clothing items for one specific part-ner program. We have served 10 agencies..

Zonta Club of Newark ‘s president Lois Antritt re-ports that meetings have moved to Zoom meetings. The Christmas dinner was cancelled due to the in-crease in Covid cases; however, the annual Toys for Tots donations were collected and donated to the local chapter. Newark is moving forward to de-velop a plan for acquiring a Safe Haven Baby Box as a spring project. Club members have participat-ed in a number of commu-nity activities individually, but continued club service is postponed due to the increase in Covid cases in surrounding communities

Zonta Columbus assembling purses.

Internat ional Foundation Ambssador’s report

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Sue Dybowski, Zontal International D5 Foundation Ambassador

I’d like to start off by thanking eve-ryone who participated in the Eve-ry Member, Every November Campaign benefitting The Zonta Foundation for Women’s Interna-tional Service Projects. The Cam-paign was a huge success raising $451,747 worldwide. Here at home in District 5, $4,600 was raised. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and to all the Club Presidents for forward-ing all my emails throughout the Campaign. As I’ve mentioned in my presenta-tions, Governor Roji and her Dis-trict Board have set a $75,000 goal for Zonta Foundation for Women contributions for our Dis-trict for the 2020-2022 Biennium. This breaks down to $37,500 per year. Through 11/30/20, $11,184.33 has been raised to-wards this goal. I have been re-ceiving some emails from cubs wanting to know where to send club donations that they would have brought to District Confer-ence. Club checks can be mailed in to Zonta International as follows:

Zonta Foundation for Women

1200 Harger Road

Suite 330

Oak Brook, IL 60523

Be sure to indicate your club name. District 5 and Area num-ber also noted are helpful; how-ever, your contribution should find its way to District 5 with your Club name. You will also need to designate which fund(s) you would like your check allo-cated to. If you have any ques-tions on this or anything else related to the Zonta Foundation for Women, feel free to email me at sadybowski2@gmail.com or call me on my cell at 419-350-1164. I am also very willing to do a presentation to your cubs either virtually or in person (socially distanced, of course) on the Zonta Foundation for Women. As our Every Member, Every November Campaign benefitted the Zonta Foundation for Wom-en’s International Service Pro-jects, January is Amelia Earhart month in Zonta and many Zonti-ans make donations to the Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund during January. Amelia Earhart was a member of Zonta. This $10,000 Fellowship was estab-lished in 1938 in honor of her and is awarded annually to up to 35 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space scienc-es. Since the program’s incep-tion, Zonta has awarded 1,638 Amelia Earhart

Fellowships, totaling more than $10.6 million, to 1,209 women repre-senting 73 countries. The name of the Zonta International Foundation has been changed to Zonta Foundation for Women. The Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarships and the Young Women in Public Affairs Awards are fully funded for this Bien-nium, as is the Women in Technology Scholarship.. ZISVAW (Zonta Interna-tional Strategies for Vio-lence Against Women) is being phased out as a separate fund and incor-porated into the Interna-tional Service Projects. Meet Sue: Sue has been a very strong supporter of Zonta’s International Foundation for many years and is very enthu-siastic about serving as the D5 Ambassador. She formerly was a member of Zonta Club of Toledo in Area 1 and cur-rently is a member of Zonta Club of Cleveland in Area 3. She is happy to answer questions or provide help with your donations or you can log on to www.zonta.org and click on Your Support tab.

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District 5 is pleased to announce that this year’s JMK scholarship was awarded to Lauren Black from the Zonta Club of Columbus.

Lauren is an MBA stu-dent at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where she is studying Real Es-tate and Finance. With-in her college experi-ence, she has received several honors includ-ing Research Fellow-ships at Bryn Mawr Col-lege, Real Estate Case Finalist at the University of Texas and being on The Wharton School Director’s List.

In addition to her schol-arly accomplishments, she is an active volun-teer serving as Co-President of Penn Stu-dents Women in Real Estate, Senior Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion for Whar-ton Real Estate Club, a Community Ambassa-dor for the Government of the District of Colum-bia for Sustainable DC and a Financial Educa-tion Trainer for Capital Area Asset Builders.

As the D5 winner, her name will be submitted to Zonta International for consideration of a ZI scholarship.

D5 2020 Jane M. Klausman Women in Business

Scholarship Award Recipient

Congratulations and good luck, Lauren.

A Little Food For Thought For a New Year

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days,

smiles when sadness intrudes,

rainbows to follow the clouds,

laughter to kiss your lips,

sunsets to warm your heart,

hugs when spirits sag,

beauty for your eyes to see,

friendships to brighten your being,

faith so that you can believe,

confidence for when you doubt,

courage to know yourself,

patience to accept the truth,

Love to complete your life.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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United Nations Food for Thought

Here is a crossword puzzle to have fun with and to learn more about the United Nations, Zonta’s Worldwide Partnerships and the Biennial International Service Projects. Enjoy!

For the answers contact Kimm Hrdlicka-Tiggs, D5 UN Ambassador, at kimm@fromtheheart12.com

Challenge Your Knowledge of Our Partnership with the UN and the Council of Europe

ACROSS:

1 Zontians wear this color to create awareness and Say NO to Violence Against Women!

7 Franklin Delano _____________ coined the name for the United Nations in 1945.

9 ________ Sipila, a Member of the Zonta Club of Helsinki I and a Past ZI President and was the 1st Woman appointed Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, in 1972.

10 Zonta International was granted _______________ Consultative Status by the ECOSOC (the Economic and Social Council). This grants Special Privileges and Responsibilities to the UN.

11 ___________ is celebrated as United Nations Month due to its Charter, in 1945, coming into force.

12 UNICEF- _____ (abbr) has saved more children’s lives than any Humanitarian Organization.

15 The _________ of the UN is Peace, Dignity and Equality on a Healthy Planet.

16 The 6 Official Languages of the United Nations are English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, _____________ and ____________ (2 wds).

18 In 1986, Zonta International started to partner with UNWomen on the Goal to Stop ________ Against Women.

19 Zonta International has enjoyed Participatory Status at the Council of Europe since 1983 as an ________ (abbr)

21 In the _______ of 1968, Zonta Club of Manila Member, Helena Benitez, presided over the Com-mission on the Status of Women.

23 This ZI Global Service Project to End _____________ ______________ (2 wds) Partners with the UNFPA and UNCEF. It addresses the social, cultural and structural factors, in 12 Countries with a high Prevalence to this Abuse of Adolescents…mostly Girls.

24 ____________ is the UN entity dedicated to Gender Equality and Empowerment of all Women.

25 #5 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals is ________ Equality, a Focus for all Zontians.

26 The ________________ on the Status of Women or CSW is dedicated to Ensuring Women’s Equality and Promoting Women’s Rights.

30 CSW meets for two weeks in the month of ___________ to discuss how to Advance the Status of Women & Girls. Zonta International has been an important NGO for this Annual Event.

31 ZI has been a Non-Governmental Organizational _____________ of the United Nations, since the very beginning.

32 The Acronym for the United Nations Populations Fund to improve Maternal Maternal Health is

________

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DOWN:

2 In 1946-47, the first Zonta International Service Project was called ____________ ____________ ______________ ___________ (4 wds).

3 The 25th of this month is the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the start of Zonta’s 16 Days of Activism.

4 March 8th is International _________’_ Day and Zonta Rose Day.

5 The UN _________________ General is the Chair of the Senior Management Group.

6 The United Nations Headquarters is located in ______ _______ _______ (3 wds)

8 The Official Website for the United Nations is ____._____.

13 The 16 Days of _____________ from November 25 – December 10th focuses to end Violence Against Women!

14 Zonta International is Partnered with the Council of Europe or _________ (abbr) and is Eu-rope’s leading Inter-Governmental Human Rights Organization.

17 A _____________ - centered ZI Service Project, this Biennium, partners with the UNFPA and is delivering a Response to GBV in Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste. Statistics are that Part-ner Violence is 68 % in PNG and 59% in Timor Leste.

20 Let Us __________ Madagascar (phase III) is a continuing ZI Service Project With UNICEF-USA. It will help over 45K Children where 1 in 4 ages 6-10 and 1 in 3 ages 11-14 do not attend school…mostly girls.

22 The UN ________ is a Map of the World, on the True North Pole, flanked by Branches of an Olive Tree, for Peace.

24 Zonta International has been Partnered with this UN entity for over 50 Years.

27 Our former Zonta International Foundation has updated its name to the Zonta Foundation for Women. This will Elevate visibility and Clearly Define who we are helping with our Funding.

28 Zonta International is a ____ - Governmental Organization at the United Nations.

29 A Biennial ZI Service Project, partnering with UNICEF-USA, is to help Adolescent Girls with Health needs and Protection, in _________