NORTHERN OCEAN COUNTY BRANCH Volume XXXXII Number 8 May-June 2011

May-June 2011

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE– PAMELA CORATTI Hello Branch Members, As my presidency is winding down, I think about all the challenges we faced together as a branch and in spite of these challenges there were so many things to be proud of the past two years. I’m very proud of the fact that we gave out two essay awards to young people and two $1,000 scholar-ships, one to a returning women to college and the other to a high school student in honor of our be-loved Kathy Barra. I’m proud of the hard work and dedication that we put forth to pull off an auction that made a lot of money and had a following. I’m proud of the interesting programs we had, espe-cially continuing to have the bully workshop, which was always close to my heart. It has been run-ning smoother than ever! I will think about the last two years fondly even though there were personal losses and health concerns. I will still be proud of the fact that I was an AAUW branch President. Thank you all. Let’s give our new President, Pat Baroska as much support as we can. Please think about becoming part of this new collaborative board of directors. There will be less meetings and no locking people into positions that they don’t want or don’t have time for. The board will collaborate and share the responsibilities so there is no heavy burden on one person. There will still be a President, Secretary and Treasurer. That’s all we need for a branch to run says National. Call Pat if you want to be on the new board. Please come and bring friends to our Psychic Night fundraiser on May 12th. It is always a fun night out and an easy way for the branch to make money. Thank you to Maureen Mitchell who spear headed our Flower Power Fundraiser! Excellent job Maureen! Thanks to Joanne Messina, our scholarship chair and Susan Haas, our Public Information person for all your hard work on our scholarships. Peace, Pammi Pamela Coratti, President AAUW-NOCB

Program: WHOLE FOODS Date: Tuesday, May 17 7:30 pm Place: The Worthington Assisted Living 458 Jack Martin Blvd. Brick, NJ Refreshments served.

Program: DECK DINNER and Installation of Officers, Scholarship

Awards and Good Food Date: Tuesday, June 21 6:30 pm Place: Barbara Tuzio’s 1821 Boat Point Drive Pt. Pleasant Sign up at May Meeting or Call Barbara at: 732-899-3267

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I respectfully accept the Presidency of our Northern Ocean County Branch of AAUW— In thinking back to our 40th Anniversary Memories, I remember writing these thoughts….

My AAUW experience has enabled me to form endearing friendships and to help evoke positive changes in the lives of others. We need to continue with trends that will make a differ-ence and allow women and girls to believe in the beauty of their dreams. Northern Ocean County Branch, let Us Commemorate Our Past and Embrace Our Future..... Member: Jersey Shore Branch 1975-1981 Northern Ocean County Branch 2006- Present.. apropos

We have so much to be proud of in our Branch Endeavors over the years... Sincere Grati-tude to all the women who have committed to our Mission... A special thanks to Pam and all of our current members for the dedication and hard work in the projects and activities we have pursued... Let us think Growth and Support and be Flexible and Resilient as we Move Forward.. Please contact any member of our New Collaborative Board with your ideas for programs, fundraisers, special projects and social activities...

Patricia AAUW NOCB Official Board of Directors 2011-2012 Patricia Baroska-President Judith Hromoko-Secretary Marie Sweeney-Treasurer Lenora Donatiello Maureen Mitchell Cathy Paredes Marlene Pigut Joanne Pisapia Maria Sendzik Barbara Tuzio AAUW NOCB Official Board Of Directors: Agree to be Responsible for Branch Organization and Activity and will meet three times during the fiscal year. AAUW Chairs: Agree to attend at least one of the Official Board Meetings during the fiscal year.

All members are welcome to attend Board Meetings.

Message from Your New President

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“By supporting the Educational Opportunities Fund, we make a difference in the lives of women who will one day make a difference for us all. Every year, women earn their graduate degrees or complete their research because of our gifts.” (AAUW Calendar for May) Our membership voted to contribute $1,132 to the Northern Ocean County Branch Research and Project Grant. This will complete the $35,000 endowment which began as a Named Unit with an ini-tial contribution of $2,500 in 1996. In 2002 it was upgraded to the Research and Project Grant be-cause we had surpassed the $10,000 needed to establish the Grant. Congratulations to us all for ac-complishing this endeavor in 15 years. Thank you again for all of your support of the gift auction, which funded our contribution. Barbara Tuzio

Watch for us in September! Contact: Pat Baroska ShoreBeachGirl@hotmail.com

Jersey Shore Theater Group

Our NOCB AAUW Book Discussion Group meets at "Atlanta Bread" on one Thursday each month at 3:30 p.m. All members are welcome! Date and Selection for May12, 2011- "Shadow Divers" by Robert Kurson Our Group meets at area Restaurants during the Summer for Lunch at 1:00 p.m. Dates and Selections for June, July and August.:

June 23, 2011- Read any novel by Mary Higgins Clark. 1:00 p.m. lunch at The Shrimp Box Restaurant July 14, 2011- Read any novel by Harlan Coben 1:00 p.m. lunch at The Black Trumpet Restaurant August 4, 2011- Read any novel by Janet Evanovich 1:00 p.m. lunch at The Wharfside Restaurant Contact: Pat Baroska at 732-267-3127, ShoreBeachGirl@hotmail.com or Lenora Donatiello 732-458-4317

Literature: Books at Perks

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FUND

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We met at the home of Barbara Tuzio Friday May 6 for a “Spring Picnic”. After a delicious meal and wonderful desserts, we played sever-al rounds of “Scattegories for Juniors”. Every-one was a winner and received a prize. Watch for the “Clam Bake” dinner in September.

Contact: Pat Baroska 732-899-3267

ShoreBeachGirl@hotmail.com

COZY QUILTERS The Cozy Quilters met April 28 at the home of Barbara Tuzio. After spending the winter in St. Thomas, Judith Hromoko was welcomed back to the group. She worked on crocheting a scarf. Marie Hageman cut out “pennies” for a “penny rug”. Maria Sendzik cut pieces for a new quilt pattern entitled “Day and Night” and Barbara sewed bindings on her “Circle Me Lord” quilt. Dessert was left-over Easter Bunny cake, fresh strawberries, ricotta cheese cookies and of course Easter candy. Come along for our next gathering at the home of Maria Sendzik on May 19 at 2pm. Barbara Tuzio

FRIDAY NIGHT GOURMET GROUP

PSYCHIC NIGHT This is the return of a fun event. Please bring your family and friends Thursday, May 12th at the Brick Memorial Veterans School Library (105 Henderson Ave.) from 6pm to 9pm. Contact Pam to get an appointment with your favorite psychic 732-714-0986. The charge is $20 per reading. Refreshments included. See flyer attached. Please contact Marie Hageman if you are interested in helping at 295-1439.

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May 5th Cinco de Mayo 5th Board of Directors Meeting at Marie Hageman’s, 7pm 6th Friday Night Gourmet Group at Barb Tuzio’s, 6:30pm 8th Happy Mothers Day 10th 48th Anniversary of Equal Pay Act 12th Psychic Night 12th Books at Perks 15th Re-entry Scholarship application deadline 17th Branch Meeting– Whole Food Program 19th Cozy Quilters at Marie Sendzik’s 2:00 pm 24th teentech 2011 at Rowan Univer- sity, 9-2pm 30th Memorial Day 31st Deadline for returning mail-in paper ballets

June 1st All dues received by Maureen Mitchell 2nd Cozy Quilters at Judith Hromoko’s at 2:30pm 5th Kathy Barra Memorial Scholarship Application deadline 17th—19th AAUW National Convention in Washington, DC 19th Happy Father’s Day 21st Celebrate the first day of summer at the DECK DINNER at Barbara Tuzio’s at 6:30pm 23rd Books at Perks. 1pm. Shrimp Box

IMPORTANT DATES

On a Personal Note

Best Wishes to Pammi on her weight-loss surgery on August 23rd! JOANNE PISAPIA will be showing her watercolor paintings at three outdoor events: on Saturday, June 4th at the Old Sea Girt train station (on Washington Blvd. across from Fratello's) from 10-4; on Saturday, June 18th at Art in the Park in Spring Lake (off Warren Ave.) from 10-4; and on Saturday, Sept. 10th at Brielle Day (South St.) from 10-4. Come on out for a stroll and enjoy some beautiful art work. Hope to see you.

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AAUW-NJ Annual Meeting Pamela Coratti, Marlene Snedaker, and I attended Saturday April 16 at the Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township. The day was so exciting and jam-packed with information that I’d like to share it with all of you. Linda Hallman, National Executive Director AAUW, spoke about “AAUW Today and Tomorrow”. Here are some of the highlights of her talk. 1. AAUW’s new Strategic Plan is more important than ever. The goals of the Plan are:

Membership Advocacy Education and Leadership Philanthropy Management

2. The One Member/One Vote will be implemented this year. Voting can be done online, at the con-vention, or by paper ballot which was mailed to all members on April 15. Please review all materials and decide what method you will use for voting. Online voting began May 1. The deadline for mail-ing paper ballots is May 31 and voting at the Convention ends June 17 at 9pm.

3. Membership Survey—Out of 9000 responses, 81% of the members were satisfied with their mem-bership and 83% said that AAUW did important work nationally. Survey respondents gave these reasons for joining: Similar interests, Asked by a friend and Believe in the mission.

4. Social Media—AAUW is on Facebook and Twitter and encourages branches to get on the web. Linda also said that AAUW was like a radio station—all you have to do is “tune in”. 5. PEARL is the acronym for AAUW. It stands for Protection, Education, Advocacy, Research, Leadership. After Linda’s presentation, AAUW-NJ members spoke about the College/University Connection, a vital component of AAUW’s promise with AAUW-NJ being uniquely suited to be a leader in developing this program. Our branch already has a connection with Georgian Court University. Next Jean Wadsworth talked about the AAUW-NJ Charitable Trust which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. The trust is asking for contributions of $20 per member or a contribution of any amount from branches. Our branch contributed last year in memory of Bernice Coratti. After lunch a 20th Anni-versary Cake was served for dessert. Nominating Chair, Joan Odud, presented the 2011-2013 Slate of Officers which included 3 new wom-en: Carol Cohen for 3rd VP Program, Bettine Avenia for Secretary, and Beth Forman for Public Policy Director. The afternoon was devoted to the W.I.L.D. Women of Georgian Court University. Ten students and their dean, Karen Goff, discussed their experiences in the Women In Leadership Development pro-gram. Some talked about the AAUW-NJ Issues Conference at Brookdale in January, some spoke about what W.I.L.D. meant to them and how it is changing them, others about their academic and so-cial lives at GCU.

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There are 4 phases in the W.I.L.D. program with one devoted to each college year. Freshman year em-phasizes the Mercy core values of personal exploration, justice, integrity, compassion, service and re-spect. Sophomore year deals with the integration of personal and professional goals. Junior year focus-es on the implementation of these goals and Senior year promotes the application of their knowledge. The women were articulate, beautiful, confident, devoted, enthusiastic, funny, sweet and young. Their presentation was a highlight and all are e-members of AAUW. The afternoon ended with the traditional basket raffle which benefits EOF and LAF. And guess who was a winner two years in a row? That’s right! I went home with a basket that was “for the birds”, put together by members of the Salem County Branch. Our beautiful “Down the Shore” basket was won by AAUW-NJ President Sally Goodson. This article may be a little long, but I needed to share with all of you to remind you what a wonderful organization AAUW is. Share PEARL, the goals of the new AAUW Strategic Plan, and the developing College/University Connection with your friends and family and invite them to join us to work for equity and education for women and girls through AAUW. Barbara Tuzio

AAUW-NJ Annual Meeting—continued

AAUW “PEARL”

PROTECTION EDUCATION ADVOCACY RESEARCH * LEADERSHIP

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IT’S TIME TO RENEW!!!! $69.00 Regular Members

$20 Life Members $22.00 Student Affiliates Dues must be received by June 1. All paid members will be eligible to win a free year’s branch dues at the Deck Dinner on June 21st! Any questions, call Maureen at 732-295-3926. Name: _____________________ Street Address:________________________________________________________ Town: ______________________________ State: ________ Zip: __________ Phone: _______________________ Email address: __________________________ Additional title or degrees to be listed by name: ______________________________ Degree and School: ____________________________________________________ Newsletter - please select one: ___Email (preferred) ___Regular mail

Please mail this form with your dues to:

Maureen Mitchell

16 Stratford Drive

Brick, NJ 08724

RENEWAL TIME—PLEASE MAIL IN

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I am happy to announce that our online Flower Power campaign netted AAUW NOCB a profit of $461 as of April 26. My sincere thanks to all who participated, especially our highest sellers: Alice TaRLACH, Barbara Tuzio, Marie Sweeney, and Susan Haas. A final report with any additional funds will be sent to all members. Many of you forwarded the meail to friends and family as our Report Summary includes individuals out-side our organization who purchased from Flower Power and contributed to our fundraiser! Although we did not reach my illustrious goal of $1500, our treasury is $461 richer. Thank you again! Maureen K. Mitchell, Flower Power Campaign Manager

FLOWER POWER FUNDRAISER UPDATE

teentech 2011 Tuesday May 24 9:00-2:00

AAUW NOCB WILL PAY for one female, grade 9-11, to attend “teen tech” this year. If you know someone who meets these requirements and is interested in technology, forward their name to President Pamela Coratti. Anyone expressing interest may be chosen at random. Some words from Sally Anne Goodson, AAUW-NJ President: AAUW-NJ is very proud to again sponsor teentech 2011. This daylong Tuesday of workshops at Rowan University is for NJ high school girls, grades 9-11. This is a very exciting educational pro-gram that has made an impressive impact on our female participants and their teachers for over 10 years. The program’s goal is to connect girls and technology.

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Advertise in Pleasant Tidings! To have your business card appear in Pleasant Tidings, please forward your check for $15.00 to Marie Sweeney, 204 Riverside Drive N, Brick, 08724. Your business card should be sent to Alice Tarlach at 33 Patmore Rd, Brick, 08724, or sent via email to alicetarlach@comcast.net.

Certified Public Accountant

MARLENE P. SNEDAKER

1808 Riviera Parkway Fax (732) 892-2759 Pt. Pleasant, NJ 08742-5243 E-mail:dsneda6911@aol.com

Telephone: (732) 899-8357

Certified Public Accountant

LEGAL ADVOCACY FUND

Call me if interested in Bridge lessons!

ADVERTISEMENTS

STANDING WITH THE WOMEN OF WAL-MART

Through our Legal Advocacy Fund, AAUW brought the lead plaintiffs in Dukes v. Wal-Mart to Washington, D.C., for their hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court on March 29th, and signed an amicus brief supporting their plea to argue their gender discrimination case as a class action suit. AAUW also co-hosted a reception in their honor, attended the oral arguments, and co-led a rally outside the court. Joanne Pisapia, LAF

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AAUW Membership Drive Assotin of i Serving the Jersey Shore area

~Meetings held in Brick, NJ~ ~Projects and Interest Groups held in various locations~

AAUW’s Mission Promotes

* Advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research

* Membership includes National, State, and Local levels for individuals with associate degrees and higher, as well as college students….. * AAUW NOCB is a non-profit 501(c) – Proceeds to benefit community projects * Would you like to network with women of like minds while helping women and girls in their educational pursuits?

Scholarship Awards Essay Awards * Consider involvement and socialization with like-minded women?

* Join our various fun interest groups and participate in

rewarding projects and functions?

Community Service Projects Book Group Fundraisers: Psychic Night and Flower Power Movie Group Gourmet Group Quilting Group Theater Group If you’re interested in joining our dynamic group of professional women, who are dedicated to a mission of serving women and girls, please contact one of the following members of our branch:.

Patricia Baroska (732) 458-5906 ShoreBeachGirl@hotmail.com

Marie Hagemann (732) 295-1439 mhageman@verizon.net

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Northern Ocean County Branch

Kathleen Barra Memorial $1000 Scholarship Announcement The Northern Ocean County Branch of the American Association of University Women will award a $1000 scholarship in memory of one of our members, Kathleen Barra. Qualifications and Application Dates:

Female relative or friend of a current member of AAUW-N.J High School Senior, Class of 2011 Enrolled full-time in college in the school year 2011-2012 Major in business related program (e.g., business, marketing, economics, etc.) Application requests accepted April 5- June 5, 2011 Application deadline June 5, 2011

Interested students may request an application from:

Joanne Messina

714 Joseph Avenue Lanoka Harbor, N.J. 08734 gingercookee@yahoo.com

Applications will be sent by e-mail or U.S. mail. Please include your name, address and telephone number. Applications with official transcript must be returned to the address above by

U.S. mail only by June 5, 2011.

MEMBERS: NOTE THE UPDATED QUALIFICATIONS

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Northern Ocean County Branch

$1000 Academic Scholarship Announcement

The Northern Ocean county Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will award a $1000 academic scholarship.

Qualifications:

Reentering Adult female 25 years of age or older Resident of Ocean County NJ Continuing undergraduate education Completed at least 30 college credits towards a Bachelor’s Degree Will be enrolled in the school year 2011

Interested women may request an application from:

Joanne Messina Messinajoanne@yahoo.com

714 Joseph Ave Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734

Applications will be sent by U.S. mail only. Please include your name, address and telephone

number.

Applications must be completed and returned to address above by May 15, 2011.

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President: Pamela Coratti 732-714-0986 Secretary: Judith Hromoko 732-477-5519 Program VP: Vacant Treasurer: Marie Sweeney 732-206-9818 Membership VP: Maureen Mitchell 732-295-3926 Editors: Alice Tarlach & Barbara Tuzio 732-458-0832 732-899-3267

Barbara Tuzio 1821 Boat Point Drive Point Pleasant, NJ 08742

Save our branch some money by receiving your newsletter via email. Please notify Alice at alicetarlach@comcast.net.

ABOUT AAUW American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a nationwide network of more than 100,000 members and donors, 1000 branches, and 500 college/ Institution partners. For 129 years, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fun-damental issues of the day— educational, social, economical, and political. Our commitment to our mission is reflected in all aspects of our work. The AAUW and the AAUW Education Foundation advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for wom-en seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination. See AAUW current activities at http://www.aauw.org + http://aauwnj.org

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