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. University Woman Texas! Winter 2006 Saturday afternoon, we will have Pat Volume 61, Issue 5 Greetings! Castillo, Executive Director and co- founder of the P.E.A.C.E. (Putting an By Lynn Smith Convention Edition End to Abuse through Community With great enthusiasm, I want to Efforts) Initiative in San Antonio. invite and encourage all of our She has worked as a grassroots Inside this Issue AAUW Texas members to attend the community organizer and advocate Convention At-A-Glance 42nd Biennial State Convention to be around neighborhood issues, 2 held May 19-21, 2006. domestic violence, women in prison, Board Meeting Highlights and the children and victim services. 3 2006-2007 Dues Living the Mission is our convention Preservation Opportunity theme, and how appropriate that we On Sunday morning at AAUW s th Are You Up? are having it in San Antonio, the 125 Birthday Breakfast, we are 4 Texas Impact Grant charming city that captures the true privileged to have Chief Justice Regional Director s Message spirit of Texas. Alma López of the Fourth Court of 5 Sylvia Newman Giving Circle Appeals. She is the first Hispanic Don t Forget Those Forms AAUW mission-based workshops female to hold such a high position. Do You Live the Mission? will give members knowledge and She will speak to us about breaking 6 tools to take back to their branches. the glass ceiling . Keynote and Featured Women leaders will share their 7 Speakers expertise and experiences in Public Saturday evening, the Legal Convention Delegates Education, Advocacy, Leadership, Advocacy Fund Dinner will be held 9 Proposed Slate of Officers Marketing, Public Policy, and on riverboats allowing you to enjoy and Candidate Information Mentoring in these exciting the River walk and Mexican cuisine. District Elections workshops. 13 Restructuring Taskforce Read more about our featured Bylaws Proposals Speakers and Events speakers beginning on page 7. This 15 On Friday evening at the opening is truly an exciting group of women. session, we are honored to have Lynn New District Boundaries, If Workshops Hickey, Athletic Director at UTSA. 20 Bylaws Adopted Twelve workshops will be presented Lynn is serving as only the fourth Workshop Highlights in three sessions. We will explore Athletic Director in UTSA history, 22 Special Events different opportunities and which is one of the newest NCAA AAUW Texas Registration challenges facing women with topics Division 1 universities in the Form such as: Marketing Your Branch, 23 country. Pre-Convention Tours Community Action Projects, 24 On Saturday morning, C. Lynn Drawing the Line (the new EF Branch Sales McNair, AAUW Director of research of sexual harassment), 25 EF Silent Auction Development will speak in the Public Support for Public Education, Soutwest Central Regional morning. Uncovering the Truth in Political 27 Conference Information Rhetoric. At the Educational Foundation AAUW Texas Luncheon, we are pleased to have Please join us in San Antonio as we P. O. Box 26827 Mary Ellen Smyth, past Educational experience Living the Mission. Austin, Texas 78755-0827 www.aauwtexas.org Foundation president, joining us. Winter 2006 Convention at a Glance Friday, May 19, 2006 Saturday, May 20, 2006 Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:00 a.m. AAUW Texas Board Breakfast on Your Own 8:45 a.m. Workshops C Meeting 8:00 a.m. Registration opens AAUW Your Community s 12:00 noon Registration opens Best-Kept Secret 8:30 a.m. Second Business Meeting Branch President s Briefing 1:00 p.m. Pre-Convention Tours: Keynote Address: C. Lynn MCNair, Public Support for Public Mission Tour or Downtown Tour Director of Development Education EF Challenges Reaching Your Dinner on your own. 10:15 a.m. Workshops A Fundraising Goals (Restaurant list available at the Registration Desk.) Success in Small Branch Membership 10:30 a.m. Birthday Breakfast & 5:15 p.m. Bylaws and Restructuring Mission in Action Closing Session Plight of Women, Domestically Featured Speaker: Chief Justice Briefing. and Internationally Alma López, Fourth Court of Appeals 5:30 p.m. AAUW Texas Past Drawing the Line President s Dinner 12:30 p.m. Adjourn 7:30 p.m. First Business Meeting 11:30 a.m. Educational Foundation Keynote Address: Lynn Hickey, Luncheon. Speaker: Mary Ellen University of Texas at San Antonio, Smyth, Past Educational Foundation Director of Athletics President 9:30 p.m. Meet the Candidates 1:30 p.m. Voting Rooftop Reception 1:45 p.m. Workshops B Mentoring the AAUW Way Transitions -- Community Colleges as a Gateway to Hotel Information Women s Education Uncovering the Truth in Political The St. Anthony Rhetoric 300 East Travis All You Wanted to Know about San Antonio, Texas 78205 AAUW Convention Forms at a Glance (210) 227-4392 Registration Form Page 23 (866) 854-1639 (reservations) 3:15 p.m. Third Business Meeting Pre-Convention Tours Deadline for Convention Rate Featured Speaker: Patricia Castillo, Registration Form Page 24 of $99.00 single or double is executive director of PEACE April 26, 2006. Sales Table Reservation 5:30 p.m. Legal Advocacy Dinner Form Page 25 NOTE: The convention rate does not include the 16.75 8:00 p.m. District Meetings and percent hotel tax. Elections 10:30 p.m. President s Hospitality 2 . University Woman Texas! (Abilene Branch), and Robin Board Meeting High- Moore (Nacogdoches Branch). Preservation Oppor- lights To spend $1,200 to fund the tunity cataloging of AAW Texas records By Nancy Myers By Cindy Scott at Texas Women s University in Denton, Texas. As AAUW Texas approaches 2008, The 2004-2006 AAUW Texas Board To accept the report of the the 100th anniversary of the first of Directors held its fifth meeting in Restructuring Taskforce and branches in the state, we are updating San Antonio on November 11-13, proposed district boundaries. the archival records stored in the 2005. library of Texas Woman s University Items of Interest To propose that the convention in Denton. The following items were discussed delegates adopt the Association at the meeting: Public Policy Program 2005-2007 Over the years much material has as the Texas Public Policy accumulated there, but it has never Program for 2006-2008. been fully catalogued. Now a Notable Women of Polk County, graduate student is devoting many Texas, a history of East Texas What are the Dues for hours to sorting, cataloging and women has been written and cross-referencing pertinent published by members of the Polk 2006-2007? information. This will be a valuable County Branch under the direction source of research material for By Loyce Collenback of Dr. LaWanna L. Blount, Ph.D., anyone delving into the history of with the forward written by AAUW and/or the history of women AAUW Texas President Pat Ross At the 2003 Association Convention held in Providence, Rhode Island, the in Texas, so we are anxious to see the The 172-page book may be goal realized. purchased for $25. delegates approved a dues increase of $2 per year and a review of this new The materials needed for the state process at the 2009 Association The Southwest Central Regional records are State Board meeting Convention. Conference will be held June 9- minutes, lists of State Board 11, 2006 in St. Louis Missouri at Because of this automatic annual members, state newsletters, the St. Louis Frontenac Hotel. increase, Association dues for 2006- convention programs, conference 2007 will be $45; AAUW Texas programs, rosters of state members A branch organizational meeting dues will remain at $10. Branches or state branches, if any, and brief will be held at Texas A&M should collect at total of $55 in write-ups of special events. If you University in early December addition to the branch dues. feel you have any pertinent materials please contact Nancy Myers, State under the leadership of Pat Ross Dues for 2005-2006 will continue to and Linda Conger. Historian, 6805 Rain Creek Pkwy., be received through March 15, 2006; Austin 78759; telephone (512) 338- thereafter the 2006-2007 rates will 4335 or e-mail: [email protected] Branch archive items, such as apply. New members joining after minutes, directories, programs, and March 15, 2006 will pay a full- Or, you may contact the archivist appropriately labeled photographs, year s dues that will be renewed July directly: Dawn Letson, Woman s may be sent to Texas Woman's 1, 2007. Collection, Texas Woman s University in Denton. Pre-1992 University, P.O. Box 425528, documents should be sent as soon Tell Us About Your Branch Denton, TX 76204-5528, tele. (940) as possible. Visiblity! 898-3754, FAX (940) 898-3745 or e- Motions mail: [email protected] The Board of Directors voted: Been in the paper or on TV? Have a great brochure or flyer? We d Our state organization has been To allow the president to call a like to hear about it and share attempting to get histories from each special meeting of those board your success stories with others. of the branches so please get out all members involved in convention those stored items and make them planning in February. Please send examples no later available to the branch or state than April 1, 2006 to : historian. If a branch needs archival To accept the nominations of the space, material may be sent to convention elections committee to Pat Ross 4218 St. Ives Denton as well, but clearly identify it include: Dianne Sharr, chair (North as branch, not state items. Thank Harris County), Celina Fennel Sugar Land, Texas 77479 Or by email to: [email protected] you for your cooperation! . 3 Winter 2006 eral speech ready that works for tion and the Violence Against Are You UP on any occasion.