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TORRANCE TELEGRAM
Torrance Branch 2013 – 2014
EXECUTIVE BOARD
PRESIDENT
Athena Paquette Cormier
TREASURER
Indrani Chatterjee
SECRETARY
Janice Pomerantz
MEMBERSHIP VP
Patricia Arnett
PROGRAM VP
Susan Negrete
AAUW FUNDS VP - Open
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
EPC Peggy Monga [email protected]
Pam Kenoyer
PUBLIC POLICY Venora Lee [email protected]
COMMUNICATIONS
Newsletter Editor:
Elaine Bohrer
Proofreader & Branch
E-Notifications:
Keri Gilbert
Webmasters:
Susan Negrete
Jann Segal
Mailing & Publicity:
Janet Flynn
HOSPITALITY
Pat Carroll
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Torrance Branch AAUW, P.O. Box 1392, Torrance, CA 90505 [email protected] http://torrance-ca.aauw.net
Issue 6 January, 2014
Torrance Telegram January, 2014
Torrance Telegram June, 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you had a great holiday season and are ready for a great 2014. I love the freshness of a new calendar, clean slate for new opportunities. AAUW Torrance is starting the year off with a bang. Between the new upgraded version of Girls in Gear, the Out and About being planned, and the new interest groups, we have lots of opportunity for camaraderie, learning and advocacy.
Look for the announcement of the upgraded website coming in the next couple of weeks, where you will find the Board Meeting Agendas, financial statements and much more. Thanks to Susan Negrete for diving in and Jann for helping to make the transition smooth. This is part of the Board’s commitment to answering the membership’s needs and concerns through action. This one is for transparency and better communication from the board to the members.
Speaking of giving and advocacy, I want to congratulate our member and past president Ann DuPuy for being recognized by AAUW national for her support of AAUW Legal Fund through Legacy Planning. Thanks, Ann, for you dedication to our branch and to girls long into the future. If you would like to know how to leave your Legacy with future dollars and not affect your current cash flow, you can call me or come to our event in the next couple of months where we will walk you through the different ways you can support any charity and get a tax advantage, too.
Please save the date for our next fundraiser, March 15th location TBA. Jamie Watson AAUW Torrance member (and
President of Torrance Historical Society), will head up an Afternoon Tea and silent auction. If you love tea, or are a foodie, and would like to help her plan it out, decorate or provide some of the goodies, please contact her. The proceeds will be split into a scholarship donation to national and to local girls. Amounts and process to be determined at a future date. We would love AAUW members’ input.
Board nominations are coming up. Please let me know if you would like to participate on any level and I will inform the nominating committee. Cheers and have a great January! Athena
Unless otherwise noted, our board meetings will be held on the first Tuesdays of the month, 7:30 pm, at Athena’s office: 3625 Del Amo Blvd., Ste. 220, Torrance. Our next board meeting: January 7.
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Shape the Future – Half-Year Mania!
Now is the optimum time to encourage your friends to join Torrance Branch, as National dues have been reduced 75% to $12.50 and, combined with state and branch dues, the total membership cost through March 15 is $40.50. Membership would not be renewed until July 1, 2014 for the 2014-15 year. Please send any questions or inquiries to: Pat Arnett, [email protected]. Any checks and applications should be sent to our treasurer, Indrani Chatterjee, at Torrance Branch AAUW, P.O. Box 1392, Torrance, CA 90505 Her contact email is: [email protected].
New Year’s Resolution: FIND AAUW MEMORABILIA! According to Better Homes and Gardens as well as the DIY Network, the number one resolution each New Year is to get organized, whose by-product is clearing out our “stuff.” This year Torrance Branch is offering a prize for doing it! In our yearlong effort to connect members to AAUW, we have begun celebrating our past, present and future. As a result, members have indicated they wish to know more about our national, state and local history. So, the board is asking members, as you begin to clear clutter, to start looking for any and all AAUW memorabilia from the past, both long ago or more recent, from any branch, local, state or even IFUW events of the past, in any form:
Programs from national or state conferences, conventions, LACIC, LA District annual meetings
Pins, election materials, badges, brochures
Items won or purchased at fundraisers
Logo items from the past
Membership cards or badges
Pictures from events of the branch, county, state, national or IFUW
Other things not mentioned
At a future general meeting we will ask you to bring your items, and together we will share and exchange our past, as well as learn from and about each other. Someone will be awarded a prize for the most intriguing memory, but all of us will win.
DIRECTORY CHANGE Please delete the home phone number for Kay Odgers leaving her cell number only: 310 367-0621
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Torrance Telegram January, 2014
Torrance Telegram June, 2011
SOME GOOD NEWS FROM THE TECH WORLD
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were catapulted into the spotlight when they scored two of the top positions in Silicon Valley — though the tech industry is still largely dominated by men who look like Mark Zuckerberg. Last year's Fortune 500 list featured just four women CEOs working at tech companies in the top 100, and far fewer women than men are taking on jobs as coders, venture capitalists, and tech entrepreneurs. Experts have pointed to Silicon Valley's "brogrammer" culture and a lack of female role models as contributing to the problem — but women are managing to make huge contributions to the field anyway. Here’s a look at five women who are helping pave the way for the next generation of female coders:
Jen Myers founded the Columbus, Ohio chapter of "Girls Develop It," a program that offers low-cost introductory classes on a variety of web development topics. She is also a teacher at Dev Bootcamp, which helps students become web developers in nine weeks.
Tessa Taylor just launched her new company, Co, which helps users sync their Twitter, Facebook, and email accounts and access friends' contact information all in one place.
Kimberly Bryant, in April 2011, founded Black Girls Code, because she wanted to create opportunities for girls like her daughter, a middle-school student at the time, learn programming in an environment that was culturally relevant and not dominated by men.
Mary Louise Krakauer, Executive VP at EMC corporation, a global IT company which has more than 60,000 employees worldwide, is actively trying to make the tech industry a better place for women.
Jennie Lamere is a typical 18-year-old: She likes watching shows like Pretty Little Liars, goes hiking with her dad, and is getting ready to go to college in the fall at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She also likes to build robots and enter coding competitions, or "hackathons." In April, Lamere beat out 80 other competitors — all of them male — to win a hackathon event in Boston.
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, Jan. 08, 6:30 pm, at Moog.
Please contact Pam Kenoyer, [email protected], for admission.
(Please note: our February and March EPC meetings will be held one week earlier than usual on Feb 5th and March 5th. Mark your calendars.)
WOW it’s almost 2014 already! Welcome back for a new year of Tech Trek. All members interested in this program should make a point of attending this first meeting of the year. It’s a good overview of a whole year of Tech Trek activities and you can meet the folks who
regularly give their time to make a difference in young girls’ lives.
At our Dec 11th
meeting we set up our Tech Trek time line for emailing out forms to Principals and math and science teachers, receiving nominations, school buddy activities, reading applications, etc. for the rest of the year. Pam Kenoyer updated us on the status of scholarships. Keck Foundation has again donated $4,000 and the Weinans have sent $1,000. THANK YOU SO MUCH! We discussed several other companies we would like to approach for scholarships, too. Thanks to all who attended our meeting. For the new year we always need Readers and School Buddies—good ways to become involved in Tech Trek. Looking forward to seeing you all participate! ARE YOU AVAILABLE for a few days BETWEEN FEB 5 AND FEB 14? We need SCHOOL BUDDIES to visit the schools
to give the five nominated girls at each school their application packets and explain what Tech Trek is. We have a script for this talk if you would like. New School Buddies will have to pick up their packets and instructions 1 week earlier than usual at our Wednesday, Feb 5th EPC meeting. Veteran SBs can make other arrangements as needed. SBs then deliver the packets between Thu. Feb 6 and Fri. Feb 14. Now is the time to contact me at [email protected] if you can be a School Buddy or Reader. We can arrange for you to go with a veteran School Buddy to see how this is done. So let me know ASAP as I would like to begin to assign schools and set up schedules. Also, we need at least three READERS per school and we’ll probably be doing 15 local middle schools again, so if you can read more than one, it would be greatly appreciated. We do our Reading during the first two weeks of March.
Peggy Monga and Pam Kenoyer attended a noontime luncheon on December 8 at Alcoa in honor of this year’s recipients of Alcoa grants. Many Alcoa staff were in attendance. Always a pleasure to see the other recipients and hear of the work they do. Alcoa’s grant to Tech Trek for 2014 is $10,000! Tech Trek is high on Alcoa’s priority list!
DON’T FORGET “GIRLS IN GEAR” – TWO PART CAREER FORUM FOR GIRLS – JAN. 28 & FEB. 4! (SEE PG. 1)
Happy New Year! Peggy Monga, EPC Co-Chair
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Torrance Telegram January, 2014
Torrance Telegram June, 2011
A sampling of responses to the remaining three questions:
Question Average
I feel the branch cares about me as a person. 4.13
My opinions seem to matter to the branch. 3.87
The mission and purpose of the branch makes me feel
positive about my affiliation.
4.67
I have made friends. 4.81
Since joining AAUW, and in particular last year, I have had
an opportunity to learn and to grow.
4.05
Torrance Branch treasures diverse opinions and ideas. 4.39
There is open communication through all areas of the
Branch.
3.79
AAUW Member Survey 2013 We have received responses from about half of our members. Here are the results
based upon a scale from 5 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree).
I would like the Branch to offer:
a daytime book club
women's support group
social concerns
something different for the holiday party; it's very dull, but the food and friends are great.
international integration with AAUW mission
financial literacy program, similar to Tech Trek
more special interest groups
more advertising in the community
publicity for EF & NCCL programs
more daytime meetings
An area I would like to see improvement in is:
board meetings with reports from all interest groups. Minutes distributed
social activities associated with community
more diversity and friendship
more discussion groups on politics, social issues
communications
membership
fresh blood
new approaches to old things
more diverse
having sat a.m. meetings
membership
recruitment
emphasis on professional issues of gender equality
My favorite thing about the Branch
connections to well informed educated women
the members and the interest in women's causes
great women and great causes.
speakers
the assoc with other forward thinking women
friendships and purpose of AAUW
AAUW’s commitment to education and political stands.
programs and people
You’ve said you want new blood on the Board. A number of positions will be opening up for the 2014-2015 year. Let Athena know if you are interested in a position or know of someone who would be a good fit. Also, if you would like to attend a Board meeting, they are held the first Tuesday of every month at Athena’s office: 3625 Del Amo Blvd, Suite 220, Torrance (see page two).
You’ve also said that an area we need improvement in is membership. If you have ideas on how to attract new members please email Pat Arnett, Membership VP (see page three).
And you said you want more special interest groups. The “Great Decisions” group started in 2013 and a “Games Night” group is starting in January. See page five for contact info.
The complete survey will be made available on the branch website in the near future.
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Torrance Telegram January, 2014
INTEREST GROUPS
Diversity Book Group
Date & Time: Fri., Jan. 17, 6:30 pm discussion, 7:30 potluck At the home of Ann DuPuy RSVP Ann 310 316-4808 or [email protected]
Half the Sky, Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, by Nickolas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn (2010) Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
Diversity Book Group contact: Lydia McCarver, 310 374-1505 or [email protected]
Evening Literature Group
Date & Time: Tues., Jan.28 7:30 pm at the home of Jann Segal, RSVP Jann, 310 372-7193 or [email protected]
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. First published in 1958, the novel is considered to be an archetype of the modern African novel in English, one of the first to receive critical acclaim, and is widely read in African schools today.
Coming in Feb: The Cellist of Saravejo by Steven Galloway.
Group Contact: Lisa Blank, 310 835-9613 or [email protected]
Women in Transition (WIT)
Date & Time: Wed., Jan. 8, 7:00 – 8:00 pm 3625 Del Amo Blvd. Suite 360 Conference Room, Torrance
RSVP: by Mon., Jan. 6, to Susan Negrete, [email protected] or 310 377-0642 or 714 402-1322 (c) This will be a business meeting to discuss any changes the members would like to see in the format, schedule or to present discussion topics. (A list of un-used 2013 topics will be provided at the meeting.)
Great Decisions Group
Participants gather to discuss key foreign policy issues facing the world today, as outlined in the Foreign Policy Association briefing book. Contacts: Jann Segal, 310 372-7193,
[email protected]; or Lydia McCarver, 310 374-1505 or [email protected]
Film Group
Date & Time: Wed., Jan. 22 Time: 7:00 pm
At the home of Elaine Bohrer RSVP: 310 376-3352 or [email protected]
Tibet, Buddhism and the Dalai Lama Kundun (1998)(Rated PG-13 for violent images) Tibetans call
the Dalai Lama “Kundun” or “The Presence.” Martin Scorcese brings this visually stunning true story of the 14th Dalai Lama, from his childhood through the harrowing events of the Chinese invasion of Tibet and his subsequent life in exile. Using non-professional actors, Scorsese’s film is “an act of devotion…it exists as an aid to worship”—Ebert (Tor. Lib. & Netflix)
Unmistaken Child (2009) Follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of the respected and beloved Lama Konchog. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk's devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa, to search for his master's reincarnation, a child who may be anywhere in the world. “It is filmed as events occur, in the actual locations, showing a world of great contrasts between and ancient way of life and a society that uses automobiles and helicopters”—Ebert (Tor. Lib. & Netflix)
Group contact: Peggy Monga, [email protected]
Games Night Are you an old school gamer? We mean
words, cards, dice and board games! The Torrance Branch is looking for members who would like to participate in a new 2014 Interest Group: Games Night. We
continue to get feedback on favorite games,and the list keeps growing: Backgammon, Yahtzee, Bunko, Chickenfoot Dominos (say what?!), Scrabble, Clue, Mah Jongg (who can teach us the American version?), Poker, Trivial Pursuit.
We want to design this new group to maximize enthusiasm and enjoyment. To that end, we are considering including our PVP and Beach Cities sister branches, and scheduling monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly Game Nights - - whatever the membership prefers.
Let us hear from you! Which schedule would best meet
your lifestyle and interest? Send your comments or preferences (or more game ideas!) to Susan Negrete: [email protected] or 714 402-1322 (c) or 310 377-0642
Out & About L.A. Natural History Museum Date & Time: Sun., Jan. 26, Time: 10 am to ? Contact: Ann DuPuy, 310 316-4808 or [email protected] by Jan. 22 for car-
pooling arrangements. We leave by 10 am.
The latest special exhibit is Traveling the Silk Road and a new permanent exhibit is Becoming Los Angeles. The Museum Grill has a place for lunch with a variety of options. General admission: $12 adults, $9 seniors (62+). Admission including special Silk Road exhibit: $20 and $17.
More information at http://www.nhm.org/site/plan-your-visit
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TO:
Jan. 07 Tuesday, 7:30 pm, Board Meeting, Pg. 2
08 Wednesday, 7:00 pm, WIT, Pg. 5
08 Wednesday, 6:30 pm, EPC meeting, Pg. 3
17 Friday, 6:30 pm, Diversity Book Group, Pg. 5
22 Wednesday, 7:00 pm, Film Group, Pg. 5
26 Sunday, 10:00 am, Out & About, L.A. Nat. History Museum, Pg. 5
28 Tuesday, 7:30 pm, Evening Lit. Group, Pg. 5
28 Tuesday, 6:30 pm, Girls in Gear, Part One, Pg. 1
FEB. 04 Tuesday, 6:30 pm, Girls in Gear, Part Two, Pg. 1
SAVE THE DATE: AAUW CALIFORNIA CONVENTION
“Energizing California – Engage, Educate, Empower”
April 11 – 13, 2014 at the LAX Marriott
The DEADLINE for newsletter articles is the 20thof the preceding month.
AAUW Diversity Statement: In principle and in practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in the organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or class.
AAUW Mission Statement: AAUW advances equity for all women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.
CALENDER OF EVENTS 2014
AAUW Torrance Branch P.O. Box 1392 Torrance, CA 90505
TORRANCE BRANCH PHOTO GALLERY
WIT HOLIDAY PARTY The inter-branch spirit of the Women in Transition discussion group was evident at the December 4th 2013 Holiday Celebration. Members from the 3 South Bay AAUW branches enjoyed the festive sisterhood and extensive buffet selections. WIT will celebrate its 4th anniversary in March, 2014.
AAUW FUNDS LUNCHEON Fellowship and Grant Recipients pose for the camera at the AAUW CA FUNDS Luncheon on Oct. 19, 2013. Torrance Branch members Pat Arnett, Ann DuPuy and Elaine Bohrer attended. Pictured fifth from the left is Sharon Westafer, Chair of the AAUW CA Funds Committee and sixth from left is our table-mate, Janell Moore, a grad student in Public Health at UCLA.
Back Row, L-R: Billie Lee Langley, Susan Negrete (Torrance), Ann Paour, Terry-Hays Horner, Judy Milestone (Beach Cities) Front Row, L-R: Arline Korb, Barbara Case (PVP), Donna Larrivee, Indrani Chatterjee (Torrance), Kathy Ford (Beach Cities), Athena Paquette Cormier (President - AAUW Torrance), Jann Segal, Kay Odgers (Torrance)
Back Row, L-R: Billie Lee Langley, Susan Negrete (Torrance), Ann Paour, Terry-Hays Horner, Kathy Ford (Beach Cities) Front Row, L-R: Arline Korb, Barbara Case (PVP), Donna Larrivee, Indrani Chatterjee (Torrance), Sherry May, Judy Milestone (Beach Cities), Jann Segal, Kay Odgers (Torrance)
EVENING LITERATURE GROUP HOLIDAY POTLUCK
Back Row, L-R: Kathy Allen, Pat Reed, Betsy Adams, Lisa Blank, Donna Trimingham, and Sue Fishman Middle Row, L-R: Dana Basiulis, Jann Segal, Mary Lou Busch, Kay Odgers and Eunice Hargrove Front, L-R: Sheila Brewster and Gerry Suzuki
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