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October 2014 Girls Through Advocacy, Education, Volume 14 Issue 6 Philanthropy, and Research.” Douglas County AAUW www.douglascounty-co.aauw.net “AAUW advances equity for women and October 2014 girls through advocacy, education, Volume 14 Issue 6 philanthropy, and research.” Inside this issue: October 15th – Branch Program: Learn About Our Library President’s message 2 Submitted by Peggy SerVaas 3-4 Minutes The Tip of the Iceberg – Getting a Glimpse of the Awesomeness of Douglas County Library Budget Report 4 Suzanne LaRue will be walking us through the library’s Scholarship Recipients 5 website – skipping lightly through many of the features listed there. In addition, Suzanne will be taking us even Neighbor Network 6 deeper by highlighting the services that are perhaps most unknown – like the “one on one” computer help, History & Culture 9 walk-in e-reader help, homebound book delivery, and the LaRue Library’s Sensory-Enhanced Story Time, a pre- school story time designed for children and Young Adults Public Policy 12 who are on the Autism Spectrum or differently-abled. October 15th Suzanne will also share the latest on the District’s three 6:30 building projects. Our branch members tend to be heavy library users, but may not know all this trailblazing institu- PS Miller Library tion has to offer. Please plan to attend and feel free to bring a guest. We guarantee you will learn something valuable. Learn About Our Library Suzanne LaRue “Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.” Simon Van Booy Editors Submit to Kathy Kathy Chavez: [email protected] (303-814-6898) Chavez by the 25th of the Month, Nedda Altschuld: [email protected] (303-688-2587) 1 Co-President’s Message Doris MacDougall October has arrived and that means fall – cooler weather and beautiful autumn colors throughout our state. To use a phrase from one of our local weather gals – “Tis a privilege to live in Colorado!” Never more true than this time of year. Our new AAUW year has begun with several highlights. Our 6th annual Tacos ‘n Tunes this sum- mer was again a financial and social success, and at our September meeting, we were introduced to our two newest scholarship recipients. With this year’s presentation, Lou Flatland announced that our branch has provided over $41,000 to deserving women in Douglas County – we can be proud! Also, the annual AAUW Leadership Conference was held in Vail last month and five of our Douglas County members attended to hear about issues and plans at the state level. President Marilyn Zim- merman led discussions on creating a Strategic Plan for Colorado, fashioned somewhat after our national AAUW Strategic Plan. The State Board also proposed and approved the creation of a State Fund for the NCCWSL program; which we contributed to last year at the national level. The program chairperson announced two vital mission-based subjects not only of interest on the branch and state level, but also being addressed nationally - Child Care Expense and the Privatization of Education. A special important message came from the State Nominating Committee – they are now accepting nominations for open State Board positions. In the Colorado Bylaws, Article IX, Section 2. Elec- tions, in odd-numbered years (starting 2015), nominees needed for President-Elect, Program De- velopment Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer; Co-Public Policy Director position is nominat- ed every year. The Nominating Committee’s timeline is as follows: 1. Nominating committee would like to receive candidates by November 1, 2014; 2. Slate of candidates presented at Public Policy Day (February 7, 2015); 3. Election of candidates will be during the State Convention in Ft. Collins on April 24-25, 2015.The Committee is looking to fill these positions which will serve a (2) year term. The replacement candidates who start their tenures on July 1, 2015, will serve two years until June 30, 2017. Note: The President-Elect serves a one year term, then two years as president and finally one year as past president. As most of you know, Douglas County has been well represented on the State level for several years: with Diane Norten leading our charge as President, now as immediate past president, Ken- dra O’Hayre still serving on the Finance committee, and Cheryl Hansen and Stephanie Fong also holding positions in previous years. But we are sure there are still so many other qualified mem- bers in our branch and would welcome any interest our members have in serving on the Colorado State Board. The vita form can be found on the state website in the Members Only area. Password to get into this area is sanderson1921. Further questions can be directed to Sarah Behm, nominat- ing committee chair, [email protected] or any of the other six members of the committee. As a final note, our Douglas County program committee of Peggy SerVaas and Sue Goodrich has put together a great series of speakers and programs for the remainder of 2014 and 2015 – even their theme of “Trail Blazers” should be enough to whet your appetite. The neat bookmarks, listing the monthly program schedule, were distributed at the September meeting and are available from Peggy. Hope to see you at the Library on October 15th. 2 Douglas County Branch AAUW Minutes September 17, 2014 Submitted by Stephanie Fong 2014 Scholarship recipients, Ziba Cooper and Faith Moots, were introduced by Lou Flatland. Lou explained our Branch has given such scholarships for the past thirty years for a total of $41.500. Doris MacDougall called the Business Meeting to order. Stephanie Fong served as Secretary for this meeting Business Meeting * Leadership Conference held September 5-6, 2014, Vail CO - Doris MacDougall gave a brief overview of the annual AAUW Leadership Conference – she will re-cap information in the Oc- tober newsletter. * The minutes of the last meeting were approved by the membership. * Treasurer - Marsha Johnson reported the Restricted Account as $1305.71, Unrestricted as $6309.81 and Savings as $4295.09 to date. Audit of the books performed by Stephanie Fong were found to be in order. Fund Raising – Julie Reagan and Stephanie Fong Another successful fund raising event, Taco's and Tunes, was held this year. This event was as successful again largely due to the participation of all members as well as Pegasus Res- taurant. It was discussed that perhaps a Board Meeting could be held in October at Pegasus and present a plaque to show John Delay our gratitude for his part in making the event such a success each year. Program – the bookmarks produced by the program committee listing our programs for the year were distributed to the members. th Public Policy - Public Policy Day is February 7 , 2015, to be held again at the Lone Tree Marriott. Marsha Johnson volunteered to bring and keep the AAUW Fund Raising basket each month. Membership – a new guest, Mary Turner, was introduced and she became our newest member. Communications – Nedda Altschuld will be sending out the new directory listing and asked that members please verify that their information is correct, and to please forward any changes/corrections to her before the booklet is printed. (Continued on the next page) 3 September 17, 2014, Minutes continued Social – Beryl reported that Bear Dance will be site of Holiday Dinner for December 14. Suzanne Kroepsch volunteered to help with the menu and Kristin Sidney will see if her daughter’s high school string quartet was available. Natalie Weber announced that sign up sheets for different groups were available at the back table – only new additions to the interest groups need to sign up. Casual Cuisine was intro- duced again due to popular demand – space for a limit of 10 people was placed on each sheet and discussion followed that guest limits would be determined based on available space of each hostess’s home and resources. Also a need for an overall chairman to coor- dinate each month’s dinner or possibly have the dinners on a quarterly basis. Follow-up to come after looking at sign up sheets. New Business Jane announced a request has come from State to provide a contact from the branch who would be our STEM Chair to receive any information coming from National or State. Suzanne Kroepsch graciously volunteered to be our liaison and report on any new STEM activity. Lou spoke about our aging population in Douglas County. There is an organization called Neighbor Network, that provides services such as driving people to doctor appointments, shopping and various other activities. A couple of our members are already using these ser vices. Volunteers are needed and Nedda will write an article for the Newsletter as to how to contact Neighbor Network. Meeting adjourned. Douglas County AAUW Budget Report – September 25, 2014 Our account balances are as follows: SAVINGS: $4295.09 RESTRICTED CHECKING: $1366.11 UNRESTRICTED CHECKING: $6663.56 Once again, Lou Flatland and her committee found wonderfully deserving young women as recipi- ents for our scholarships this fall. Because there were only two this year, the board decided to split the designated funds evenly and each received $2250.00 And again, we are not dropping the ball when it comes to feeding ourselves, family and friends! We earned a check from Safeway in the amount of $353.75. Thank you to all who participate with Safe- way and King Sooper gift cards. This is the easiest fundraiser that just keeps on giving back to us! Marsha Johnson, Treasurer 4 2014 Douglas County AAUW Scholarship Recipients Submitted by Lou Flatland Douglas County AAUW has given scholarships to deserving women for thirty years.
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