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Women in Charge - Women Take 21st Century Recognition Charge Joan Kutlu, 2]'1 Century Recognition coordinator Phyllis Thompson, president Indiana is Platinum again this year!! Thank you to Womenin Charge- WomenTakeChargeis the Board for all the things they do that enable us to designed for all members of AAUW. Are you a achieve this high honor. leader in your branch or would you like to be? Are you a Member at Large and a leader within your Congratulations are also extended to the following branches: community? If yes is the answer, then join your state board at Marian, Inc. in Indianapolis on July . Fort Wayne, platinum 12 for this workshop. Evansville, gold . Coffee and conversation begin at 9:30 a.m. with the . LaPorte, gold . Anderson, silver workshop starting at 10:00 a.m. Lunch is planned for 12:00 noon and the afternoon session begins at You are all to be congratulated for the wonderful 1:00 p.m. Dismissal will be at 3:00 p.m. Cost is work you are doing in your communities. And the $10; the registration form is elsewhere in this issue best way for others to know about you is for you to and reservations are due by July 5, 2003. brag about yourselves - the best vehicle being the 21st Century Recognition program from The latest updates from Association Convention Association. will be shared with those attending. Put this important date on your schedule and 'come on down.' Marian, Inc. is located at 1011 St. Clair Street and (Continued on page 4)
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Andthe Winnersare """""""""""""""""""'" 9 New officers elected 3 Are You a Member-at-Large? 3 Phrases from Phyllis 2 Book of the Month 12 Planning for 2003-04 6 Branch News 13 Program Ideas Plus 14 Consensus Recommendations 7 Public Policy 2003-05 10 Educational Foundation 5 Tee Shirts 8 Indiana State Convention 4-5, 7 Thank you, Richmond 13 Indianapolis to Participate in Taste of Success. 5 Time Line 15 Leadership Workshop Registration form 5 Women in Charge! 8 Women, Men and Suffrage 11
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Indiana Board of Directors 2002-2003 Phrases from Phyllis Phyllis Thompson, Indiana President President Phyllis Thompson Phrases from Phyllis 4634 Morning Wind Place, Fort Wayne 46804 (260)436-5546, email: [email protected] One thing I like to do is read. I Director ofProgram E. Jean Amman used to read seven books per 4305 Castleton Court, Muncie 47304 week. That was before I became H-(765) 282-2188, W-(765)285-1333 State President of AAUW again. However, now I email:[email protected] Director of Membership Patricia Robinson am privileged to read other materials and I am 269 Mill Creek Dr., Chesterfield 46017 learning from those materials also. (765)378-7800, email: [email protected] A book I am currently reading is entitled "Nine and Director of Finance Mary Lou Thomas Counting." It is about the women who currently 11708 Redding Dr., Foft Wayne 46814 serve in the Senate of the United States. It offers a H-(260)672-0803, W-(260)459-1650 email: [email protected] picture of optimism and opportunity for women Recording Secretary Agnes George everywhere. By their courage, their stamina, and H-(219) 949-6015, W-(219)939-3180 their actions, each of them has proved that public email: [email protected] serviceis preciselythat - an opportunityto serve Director of Public Policy Mitzi Witchger the greater good, a chance to make a measurable 209 Sedwick Court, Noblesville 46060 impact on the world around them. They also (317)877-4058; email: [email protected] understand that women are urgently needed to Educational Foundation Kay Depel bring their special perspective to the public debate. 11543 Westwood Place, Crown Point 46307 As the author Carol Gilligan states so eloquently: (219) 663-8932, email: [email protected] "In the difference voice of women lies the truth of Diversity Coordinator Carroll Parsons 148 S. Wayne St, Danville 46122 an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and H-(317)745-6565, W-(317)391-8847 (Continued on page 3) email: [email protected] Educational Equity Carroll Parsons See above BylawslResolutions Coy Halpern (765)832-8658, email: [email protected] 7459 B Somerset Bay, Indianapolis 46240 Lending Library """"""""""""""'" Beth LeRoy (317)257-2640; email: [email protected] 701W. 11th St, LaPorte 46350 Legal Advocacy Fund Liaison Florence Salai (219)362-8268; email: [email protected] 12926 West 151stAve., Cedar Lake 46303 Area Branch Coordinator PhyllisWayco (219)696-5535, email: [email protected] 472 Scarborough, Valparaiso 46385 Newsletter Editor Barbara Wellnitz (219)464-4727; email: [email protected] 509 "I" Street, LaPorte 46350-4869 International Relations Sharon Shafer (219)324-9244, fax,;,(419)735-9284 23452 Broadwood Dr., Elkhart 46514 email: wellnitz@csinetnet (574)264-7281 Webmaster Marsha Miller Parliamentarian Treva May 522 S. Center, Terre Haute 47807-4402 5962 S. 200 E., Anderson 46017 H-(812)232-O650,W-(812)237-2606 (765)779-4113; email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Nominating Committee Emily Stephens CollegelUniversity Relations E. Jean Amman Regional Director Delinda Chapman (see Director of Program above) 77CottageGrove,Springfield,IL 62707 Communication & Administration. Susan Wahls (217)529-9330 8213 Black Oak Court, Fort Wayne 47825 chapman- [email protected] (260)482-7511; email: [email protected] Past President and 21st Cent Recog... Joan Kutlu The Indiana Bulletin is published four times each year 320 North Kibby, Clinton 47842 for members of Indiana AAUW.
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i.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:~1 I' (Continued/rom page 2) w w responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the w w failure of connection." W W~ Are, you a Member-at-Large? ~ ~ If you re an AAUW Member-at-Large (MAL), ~ As I reflect on women's role in society and particularly in Indiana, there is much for AAUW I you're probably wondering why you received I members to do. It is time we assume the role of an ~this issueof the IndianaBulletin.Wein ~ advocate. What is an advocate? Webster states, "An I Indiana want all AAUW members to feel I W connected to our state organization and a W II advocate is one who speaks or writes in support of ~ ~~ ~ branch (or local group). Therefore, we are something." When was the last time you as an ~ ~ AAUW member spoke to or wrote to your State I sending this mailing to all the MALs in Indiana I W in hopes each and every one of you will want W II Representative or Senator? When has your Branch ~ ~ II done this collectively? Or has your Branch done i to be a part of our state group. i this in collaboration with another organization in ~State dues are a mere $7 per year which entitles ~ I your community? I you to four issues of this publication, I " W invitations to attend our State Convention and W j All of us live in particular communities and there ~. ~ ~ summer LeadershIp Workshop, and any other ~ are many opportunities to make our voices heard. activities and events sponsored by the state. I Do wejust sit back and listen to a speaker, or do we WI WI become active and advocate AAUW's position on w We have branches in many locations around W 11 the issues? W the state and would be glad to assist you form a W 1\ II I had the opportunity on April 16thto attend a ~ new branch in your area if one is not close by. ~ W Currently we have branches in Anderson, W 1\ lobbying day at our state capitol. Statistics prove that Indiana is one of the ten worst states for ~Calumet Area, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort ~ ~ Wayne, Gary/Merrillville, Goshen, ~ I women. It ranks 45thfor women's employment and , I Indianapolis, LaPorte, Madison-Hanover, I II earnings. Women in Indiana earn 68 cents to each II dollar earned by men. Women managers in 7 of 10 ~Michigan City, Muncie, Noblesville, ~ II industries surveyed, actually lost ground in closing I Richmond, South Bend, South Lake County, I W Valparaiso, and Warsaw. A new one is now W II the wage gap between 1995 and 2000. Higher forming in Hendricks County. II education is not free from wage discrimination. ~. ~. I! Full-time faculty members earn nearly 9% less than ~If you are interested in joining at either the ~ I' I their male counterparts. Over a lifetime wage I state or branch level, please contact our I jl disparity costs the average American woman and W membership vice president, Patricia Robinson W her family an estimated $250,000 in lost wages, ~at 765-378-7800. ~ II impacting Social Security benefits and pensions. To ~ ~ help understand the issues involved in pay equity, a ~ ~ II ~.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:+I:.I:+I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.I:.X.I:.x.I:.1 bill was introduced to study and obtain facts. The I Indiana House of Representatives approved the
'..: study. The Senate would not even hear the I proposal. It is time we as AAUW members get New Officers Elected It involved and advocate for all women in Indiana. The following officers were elected at the 2003 rJ We need to make our voices heard. We need to get State Convention to serve for the 2003-05 II involved. We need to the "Women in Charge and biennium: Ii Women Who Take Charge." We need to make a difference!!!! Jean Amman - President-elect(willaut0matically assume the presidency in July 2004) (Muncie)
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.0: ~,., <$P' ' 0 - ~!!: ~ ~~ ~ ~ f ~ z E. 1fith6t~, ~ ,:9. (Continuedfrom page 1) was the site of last summer's workshop with the on College to St. Clair Street and turn east (hard great view of the city! right). Go over the railroad tracks and Marian is the first building on the right after the tracks. Due to much road construction in downtown Indy, both 1-65and 1-70may be closed but those From the East: West on 1-70to Michigan, Ohio, & directions are included herejust in case one way Fletcher Street exit. Follow the ramp to Michigan will work for you. Street exit. At the 1st stop light, turn right onto Michigan Street. Go to College Avenue and turn At any rate and from any direction, get on N. right (north). Head North on College to St. Clair Meridian Street (U.S. 31) and turn east at the Street and turn east (hard right). Go over the Indianapolis Public Library onto St. Clair Street railroad tracks and Marian is the first building on and follow that over the tracks, etc. as given below. the right after the tracks. From the North: South on 1-65to Ohio, Michigan & Fletcher Street exit. Follow exit ramp to (Continued from page 5) Michigan Street exit. Turn west (right) on Michigan Street to 1st stop light, which is College can be achieved. Avenue. Turn north (right) on College and continue to St. Clair. Turn east (hard right) on St. Clair and I am always available for a program on the go over the railroad tracks. Marian is the first Educational Foundation. Just give me time and building on the right after the tracks. place and I will do my best to accommodate. I gave From the South: North on 1-65to Market Street three programs this past winter and spring. I enjoy visiting the branches and meeting the wonderful exit. West on Market to College Avenue, turn right members. I can be reached night or day through my (north). North on College to St. Clair Street and email. You can leave a message on my phone voice turn east (hard right) onto St. Clair. Go over the mail. If you have any questions regarding EF, I will railroad tracks and Marian is the first building on do my best to find the answer for you, the right after the tracks. From the West: East on 1-70to Market Street exit. Enjoy your summer and I want to meet you in Indianapolis this summer. Maybe our paths crossed West on Market Street to College Avenue. North at the State Convention in Richmond or at the Association Convention in Providence. (Ege 4 =:) http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in Indianapolis to Participate in Welcome, New Educational Taste of Success Foundation Directors Indianawillbe representedat the Association Kay Depel, Educational Foundation director Conventionin variouswaysin additionto sending If you are new to the office of Educational delegates. Foundation director of your branch, welcome to the best office held on a branch level. You are the . Indianapolis has been notified that they will be spokesperson for one of the oldest and (to me) the part of the Taste of Success program most important areas of AAUW. We promote . Phyllis Thompson, Indiana president, is running AAUW through our fundraising for fellowships, for Association Nominating Committee, which grants, and special programs involving your election is held by region at Association community as well as statewide. You are part of Convention every team on your branch board as you need to . Mitzi Witchger, Indiana public policy director, coordinate with your membership and program vice will present at the National Conference for College presidents. By December 15, you will have filled Women Student Leaders held in conjunction with out the Contribution Report Form (CRF) and the Association Convention secured a check from your treasurer for this . Delinda Chapman, Great Lakes Regional contribution. Mail this to me (see page 2 for Director, is moderating the plenary session on address). Saturday at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders Many of you are very creative with ways you raise money. We share these and many other things at Weare proud of the Indianapolis branch, Phyllis, our summer workshop (see details elsewhere in this Mitzi, and Delinda! issue). This summer we will discuss in detail all the new information from Association Convention held in June in Providence, RI. I will be distributing the 2002-2003 statistics for giving from Indiana as well as many ways gifts to the Educational Foundation (Continued on page 4) p------. I I : Registration - Leadership Workshop : : Indianapolis - July 12, 2003 : : Please Print : I~ I I I I Address I I I I Telephone Special needs I I I I Branch Vegetarian meal I I I I Cost IS $10, which includes workshop materials, lunch, and snacks. I I I I Checks should be made payable to AAUW and sent with this form to: Mary Lou Thomas, 11708 Redding I : Dr., Fort Wayne, IN 46814. Registrations postmarked after July 5 must include a S5late fee. No : I refunds! I I I I~------.I http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in ~ge 5:=) ,- Planning for 2003-04 De/indo: Chapman, Great Lakes Regiona/ Director It's the time to begin thinking and people from your coalition partners will lessen the planning branch programs for next work the branch has to do. year. When at the AAUW State Who are the coalition partners? They are our old Conventions this spring, I picked friends in the community who we have worked up many good ideas for programming. I imagine with before on one project or another: BPW, others are writing about some of these same ideas League of Women Voters, NOW, the women's in this issue. I am going to share these ideas with center at your local college/university, sororities, you in case you missed hearing one or more of them. women legislators, PEa, and other branches. A program that speaks directly to our mission of One idea that your seasoned members can share promoting lifelong education is to invite through a branch meeting of interest to potential Educational Foundation scholarship recipients in members is an "etiquette" session. Yes, etiquette! your state or an EF panelist who made the critical Not only did I hear this idea in Ohio as well as on selections of the scholarship winners. The women NPR, but also two of my alma maters have held and men who serve the Educational Foundation as similar sessions for their students. For the last two members of our selection panels have indicated generations families have been so busy there has their willingness to speak at state gatherings and/or been no time for sit-down meals in the evening, or branch meetings in their respective areas. These even Sundays. Children have lost the role models individuals are academicians, experts in their fields for etiquette. AAUW members have not lost the and very committed to AAUW's mission and the skills and techniques, and they are experienced work of the Foundation in carrying out that mission teachers. Table manners, which fork to use for through our fellowships and grants programs - what, how to place your napkin, and what to wear American, International and Selected Professions for various occasions are just a few of the lessons Fellowships selection panels. In the case of our to be taught Combine this with a sit-down meal Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellows panel, these and you're off and running. No doubt you'll women are all professional educators and members discover more skills to share. Have fun at your who have a deep commitment to that program. The planning meeting brainstorming the agenda. EF chairs can access the list of participants. The message I heard loud and clear was that When you plan a program, keep these ideas in younger members want action activities. They want mind: to be part of an Expanding Your Horizons math and science event, or a "transitions" or a "sister-to- . Have a coupleof peopleassignedto be the sister" program. I want to plan a "transitions" welcoming committee for any guests or new conference and use Claudia Greenwood's book, Go members in attendance For It! Young women like to partner with other . Hold your event in a neutral, accessible non-profit or women's organizations to produce a setting, like the library or a restaurant "helping" event, like working with a woman's . To attract younger members, combine your shelter to paint rooms, or holding a candidate forum meeting with a "deli potluck." (That's or lobby day. where everyone stops by the deli and brings Another terrific idea discussed was hosting a a dish to share-no cooking required!) coalition luncheon around a central topic, such as . Consider a "breakfast potluck" to change pay equity or Title IX, or our latest research the time of day for your meeting publication. Bring in a speaker on a hot topic. (Continued on page 7) Expanding the planning committee to include (Ege 6:=> http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in Commission's report." "Consensus Recommendations" of The minority report authored by Foudy and de Title IX Commission Still Leave Varona can be found at www.SaveTitleIX.com, the Room to Drop the Ball website of the Save Title IX Campaign launched to Mitzi Witchger, director of public policy protect this important civil rights law and the AAUW said Education Secretary Rodney Paige's equality for women and girls in sports it provides. intention to move forward only on the allegedly AAUW is a member of the Save Title IX unanimous recommendations made by the Campaign, along with many organizations, Commission on Opportunity in Athletics still celebrities, athletes, and members of Congress who leaves Title IX and equality in athletics for women are bipartisan in their strong support for preserving and girls in great jeopardy. Title IX and better enforcing existing regulations. «Secretary Paige's intention to pursue only the «Even a decision to pursue only the supposedly supposedly 'consensus recommendations' is not a unanimous recommendations of the Commission's position direction for Title IX or for the equity in report would undermine the important civil rights athletics for girls and women," said Lisa Maatz, legislation," said Jacqueline Woods, AAUW's AAUW' s director of public policy and government executive director. "Americans overwhelmingly relations. «The' consensus recommendations' support this law, its positive impacts are clear and actually leave Title IX policies vulnerable to any incontrovertible, and we should instead be changes Secretary Paige would like to make in concentrating on how we can better educate schools interpretation or enforcement, while having the as to how they can best comply with these appearance of being unanimously mandated by the policies." Commission." AAUW, representing more than 100,000 college "There is no question that this could lead to major graduates and 1,300 branches, is the nation's reversals on Title IX policies that would truly harm leading advocate for education and equity for women and girls," said Maatz. "It's ironic, but not women and girls. See www.aauw.org for more surprising, that some of these purported' consensus information. recommendations' are also those that Use the following site to read AAUW's statement Commissioners Julie Foudy and Donna de Varona regarding these recent developments: www.aauw. objected to so strongly that they felt compelled to org/1OOO/pressJelease/030227.html. issuea minorityreport- a reportthat Secretary Paige refuses to put into the official record with the To be an active advocate for sports equity, visit the Save Title IX website at www.savetitleix.com. (This site is one where you can enter your zip code (Continuedfrom page 6) and send a pre-written email to your Congressional . Senda pressreleaseto yourlocalpaper, Representative and two Senators, with a copy to the especiallyif youreventis unusual President.) . Send another press release with a picture !~ from the event after you have held it The Taste of Success at the AAUW convention in (Continuedfrom page 3) Providence in June will feature many more "best Agnes George - Recording Secretary (Gary/ practices" from around the country. We will come Merrillville) back with more great ideas to contemplate and use. Mitzi Witchger - Director of Public Policy Stir those creative juices, think outside the box, and (Indianapolis) go for it! Show those young women we are Nominating Committee: Treva May, chair attentive to their needs and desires to participate in (Anderson); Hilde Calvert (Muncie); Jane Cox a worthwhile cause - AAUW. Don't forget this is (Anderson); Karen Tannebaum (Evansville); and fun, too, fun during the planning and the event. Loretta Zygmunt (Evansville). http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in Qage 7~ ~ Women in Charge! For Indiana, that's Hoosier AAUW Women in Charge! Mitzi Witchger, director of public policy AAUW members Caroline Steward, Coy Halpern, The AAUW website (www.aauw.org) is new and Marjorie Snodgrass, and Indiana President Phyllis improved. Take a few minutes to browse it to help Thompson and Ijoined BPW (Business and you be even more effective. Click on another state. Professional Women) from across Indiana to lobby Maybe a state where you've lived before, gone to in Indianapolis at the General Assembly for Pay school, have friends or relatives there, want to visit. Equity on Tuesday, April 16. We worked to let our Check out the AAUW branch websites. Glean elected officials know that we want improved, some new ideas for your own branch. The AAUW equitable salaries for Hoosier women. Plan tojoin hotline number is 80.0-60.8-5286.Call it if you have our AAUW lobbying efforts at the State Capitol public policy questions that you can't find the next year. Circle April 15 on your calendar for answers to on the website. 20.0.4.It's an easy date to remember because it's the AAUW Biennial Action Priorities for Federal day taxes are due. action are chosen according to criteria of viability, As the public policy director, various requests for critical need, strong member support, and potential support come across my desk in the form of phone for distinctive AAUW contribution. The most calls, email, and US. mail. There are so many recent ones are: topics on which to share AAUW's position. US. Federal judge nominations, pay equity, Title IX, . AAUW supports a strong system of public Social Security, Welfare reauthorization, Medicaid, education that promotes gender fairness, equity and diversity. taxes, war, peace, health, choice. The list expands almost daily. . AAUW works to achieve economic self Do your part by taking 10.minutes a week to let sufficiency for all women. your state and national legislators know where you . AAUW advocates equality, individual stand on issues. They like to heCl\from you. The rights and social justice for a diverse more folks and the more zip codes, the better. It is society. YOU who keep them in office, by voting for them. New priorities will be voted on in Providence in They represent you. Take time to write, call, and June. State priorities often mirror national ones. email your thoughts on matters that are important to you and to AAUW. Join others who hold similar Indiana priorities will be reviewed and ratified in positions. League of Women Voters is one example Richmond on May 17. If you have particular public policy issues that you want AAUW to examine and of often like-minded folks who are proactive and work to make a difference. . support, please email me at greatmw@insightbb. com. Tee Shirts are Going Quickly Kay Depel, Educational Foundation director 14/16, and adult medium and large. This project Thank you AAUW members for the great response will end soon. on buying the Boys Can and Girls Can tee shirts. Please email me what product you would like for We are now only holding 14 Boys Can shirts in EF to sell for 20.0.3-0.4. sizes 2/4, 6/8, 10/12, and adult small, and medium. The Girls Can shirts have dwindled to 12 in sizes 0e 8 =::> http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in And the"Winners are... Congratulations to the newsletter contest winners: Editorial quality . Branches with fewer than 40 members - . Style (professional, easy to read) Goshen . Originality . Overall . Branches having between 41-70 members - Calumet Area (1st),Richmond (2nd) Design and delivery . Branches with more than 70 members - . Professional presentation Fort Wayne and Muncie tied . Page design Alice Snider ofNoblesville and Darlene Scherer of . Graphics and/or pictures South Bend served asjudges in addition to your . Overall look editor. I thank them very much for their help to make this contest a success. And thanks go to the Scoring branches for submitting their newsletters. . One point per bullet for Essentials and Recommended In case you're interested, the following criteria were used in our evaluation: . Scale of 1- 5 with 5 being high for Editorial quality and Design and delivery Essentials . Each judge scored each newsletter . Scores for each newsletter were totaled for . Newsletter title and branch name all issues and from alljudges . AAUW logo . Highest scores in each branch size are . Publication date WInners . Branch officer contact information If you publish your branch newsletter, you might . State officer contact information refer to this list for suggestions of articles and . Association contact information information to include. The purpose of a newsletter . Editor's name and contact information is to keep members informed of branch events as well as educate new and prospective members what Recommended we're about. It's an important communication tool . Branchfuturemeetingnotice so use it to its fullest! . Branch prior meeting report I know more branches publish newsletters so I hope . Branch president's message to see more submissions next year. In order to be . Branch activity (study groups, projects, etc.) considered for an award, you must specifically . Branch membership news submit your newsletter. In future issues, I'll remind . Feature article you how and when to do that. But in the meantime, . Editor's column/article next year's contest begins now so keep three extra . State news copies of your newsletters so you'll have a head . Association news start for next year! The judges enjoyed reading each . Volunteer opportunities issue submitted and it was a great experience from our perspective. . Public policy . Educational Foundation (EF) If you have any comments, ideas, or suggestions, . Legal Advocacy Fund (LAF) please let your editor know! http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in <::Ege9~ Indiana Public Policy 2003-05 Mitzi Witchger, director of public policy The following public policy agenda was adopted Indiana AAUW promotes the health and well being May 17,2003 at the Indiana State Convention. of all. We support: Indiana AAUW affirms AAUW's long-standing . Right to safe, affordable and accessible physical commitment to the passage and ratification of the and mental health care Equal Rights Amendment. We support: . Choice in the determination of one's . Efforts to preserve and protect civil rights reproductive life guaranteed by the United States Constitution and . Affordable prescriptions the Bill of Rights . Licensed, adequate, and affordable dependent . Public budgets that balance individual rights care and responsibility to community . Health promotion and disease prevention . Equalization of marital property rights programs . Pay equity Indiana AAUW recognizes the importance of Indiana AAUW believes that public education is protecting the environment. We support: the foundation of a democratic society. We support: . Energy conservation, pollution control, and . Academic freedom, educational equity, and aggressive recycling gender fairness . Comprehensive legislation regulating landfill . Affordable educational opportunities expansion and developing alternatives . Preservation of natural resources . Adequate funding for public education: pre- kindergarten through college . Mandatory kindergarten Indiana AAUW advocates for the recognition of . Enforcement of Title IX including gender women's worth. We support: equity in sports . Increasing the number of women in elective and appointed offices and policy-making positions Indiana AAUW promotes the social and economic . Recognition of the value and efforts of vitality of all. We support: volunteerism and care-giving . Continued legislative funding of the Indiana Commission for Women Indiana AAUW realizes the importance of the arts . A diverse society and humanities. We support: . Educating Indiana citizens about sexual and . Public and private funding of the arts racial harassment . Expansion and maintenance of library and . Enforceable legislation against intimidation and media services hate crimes . Establishment and maintenance of Hoosier . Acknowledging the legal rights of victims historic sites . Consumer protection under the law 0..ge 10~ hltp://web.i ndstate.edu/aauw-in Women, Men and Suffrage Nancy Kohlhoff, Valparaiso branch (Ed Note: This is the 19th in a series of our were bedecked with red roses. Suffragist women exclusive publication of the manuscript written by wore yellow roses. "Mysterious men in great Nancy after much research tofill in the gaps left by numbers" strolled the foyer while "in and out history books when dealing with women's issues through this crowded house moved the bewildered and their struggle to gain the vote.) legislators." Chapter Nineteen Sponsor changes his mind Wisconsin was the first state to ratify the Anthony In their recording of the events in Woman Suffrage Amendment, followed by Michigan, Kansas, Ohio, and Politics, Carrie Catt and Nettie Shuler wrote, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, "That very day the ominous possibilities of the Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Montana, 'invisible government' (which is how they referred Nebraska, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Utah, to the liquor interest) were made manifest. Seth California, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Walker, Speaker ofthe House, who had willingly Colorado, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Oregon, joined the Men's Ratification Committee and had Indiana, Wyoming, Nevada, New Jersey, Idaho, not only pledged his vote verbally and in writing Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia but had accepted the invitation to introduce the and Washington. resolution, sought out the president of the League of Women Voters and announced a change of Twenty-eight of these 35 states had to convene mind. special sessions of their legislative bodies to do it. If the 36thstate would ratify before November The suffragists suspected at once that Mr. Walker's 1920, women throughout the country could vote in cowardly mind change had been facilitated by the fall elections. soothing spirits. Having been defeated so many times by the liquor interest, the women were By June 1920, eight states had defeated the amendment. Connecticut, Vermont, North immediately alarmed. By evening, their worst fears Carolina, Florida and Tennessee had taken no were confirmed. "Groups of legislators under escort action. Of these, North Carolina and Florida were of strange men left the foyer" and visited "a room found by caucus to be beyond reach. The governors on the eighth floor." They returned "reeling through the hall in a state of advanced of Connecticut and Vermont refused to call special intoxication!" sessions in their states. Therefore, the eyes of the nation were focused on Tennessee whose governor, But on Monday, August 9, the legislature convened after much legal wrangling, finally called a special at noon as planned. "The Governor's message session. recommending ratification was delivered and both Houses adjourned for the day. With nothing to do, By August 1920, Nashville was inundated with members again accepted the invitation to the eighth suffragists, anti-suffragists, the railroad lobby, the floor, where a group of anti-suffrage men dispensed manufacturer's lobby and the "whisky lobby." As a old Bourbon and moonshine whisky with lavish majority of the legislators had pledged support, the insistence." outcome appeared to be a foregone conclusion. "Yet, the experienced suffragists faced the coming Prohibition was in effect, and Tennessee, like the event with anxiety." rest of the nation, was supposed to be dry. Indeed, Tennessee had ratified the prohibition amendment. A huge reception was held in the "foyer of the But when the women asked why the law wasn't Hermitage Hotel" on Saturday evening, August 7. enforced, the answer was, "Now see here, in Anti-suffragist women, mostly from the South, (Continued on page 12) http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in ~ge 11=> ~- (Continued from page 11) his change of mind. He said, "it had been charged Tennessee whisky and legislation go hand in hand, that his change of attitude was due to a certain especially when controversial questions are urged. railroad which he named; this he resented, but he This is the Tennessee way." The women were conspicuously failed to give an explanation of his incredulous. strange about face, which was amazing the entire nation." Throughout Monday evening and most of the night, suffragists, both men and women, visited "the After Seth quieted down, to the surprise of different hotels of the city to talk to legislators." everyone, the anti-suffragists moved to adjourn. They all returned to Hermitage headquarters to The motion passed. The suffragists were stunned. It report "the same story-the legislature was drunk!" appeared the anti-suffragists were in control of the session. Back in their hotel that night, the "How many legislators?" was the abashed query. No one knew. "Are none soberT' was next asked. "president of the National American Suffrage Association said, 'there is one thing more we can "Possibly," was the answer. In agony of soul, do and only one, we can pray.m suffragists went to bed in the early morning, but not to sleep. The members of the Tennessee Apparently, Alice Paul was not present. Legislature, however, largely slept themselves (QuotesfromCatt,CarrieChapmat1,and Shuler,Nettie sober during the night, and hope revived. Rogers, Woman Suffrage and Politics, Charles Scribner'sSons,NewYork, 1926;generalbackground Tennessee Senate ratifies fromvariouspublishedsourceson woman'shistory. Copyright1993) It took four intense days for the Tennessee Senate to ratify the amendment, which it finally did on (Ed note:thisandpreviouschaptersofthis seriesmay Friday, August 13. But the House "ominously be foundon ourwebsiteat http://web.indstate.edu/aauw- postponed the date of the vote" while suffragists in, clickon "otherlinks.") "in vain tried to get the resolution on the calendar." Meanwhile, the 62 legislators who had pledged support were "threatened and cajoled from early morning of each day until the wee hours of the Book of the Month Club next... baited with whisky, tempted with offers of office, loans of money, and every\other device iAdelante! Style which old hands at illicit politics could conceive or AAUW recommends the following books: remember." W June- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A To the consternation of the suffrage women and the History of Lesbian Life in 2r1' Century delight of the anti-suffragists, "Every day men America, by Lillian Faderman dropped from the poll. One man who had written III July- The Ladies Auxiliary, by Tova Mirvis nine letters in which he declared that he would be W August- Wasted:A MemoirofAnorexiaand on hand 'to vote for woman suffrage until I am Bulimia, by Marya Hornbacher called up yonder' had fallen early. Before the end, Each book relates to a different group of people and all men checked as 'bribable' on the poll, taken encourages each of us to view things from a before the Legislature met, fell from it." different perspective than we may have now. Read these yourself and/or form a group to discuss Four more anxious days followed, everyone was them. Everyone can benefit from the exchange of tallying the vote, trying to count which legislators ideas. remained steadfast and which had succumbed to other pressures. Finally, on Tuesday, August 17, the resolution was put to the first vote. Debates were intense, the chamber reeling with emotion. Seth Walker "made what the mountaineers called a bear cat of a speech" in which he tried to explain (Ege 19 http://Web.indstate.edu/aauw-in Branch News Fort Wayne South Bend Members raised over $5200 for the Educational Members are organizing a college prep workshop Foundation at their book sale, selling 12,500 books for high school girls entitled "Boot Camp for as well as magazines, pamphlets, records, and College" to be presented in February 2004. Four tapes. sessions will make up this workshop and one member is applying for a grant to help with Evansville funding. We'll keep you posted on this as we hear "The 2003 Expanding Your Horizons in Science, more. Mathematics, and Technology, a career conference for young women in grades 6, 7, and 8 was a big Anna Marie Johnson Cunvong shared her first-hand success," writes Eva Jermakowicz, this year's experiences in cultural diversity after spending nine chairperson. Approximately 200 girls from the tri- years in Thailand. state area participated. Assisting the branch were the Girl Scouts, the University of Southern Indiana, The branch was asked to have a member serve on and the Pott School of Science and Engineering. the Adult Guidance Committee for a leadership program the local Girl Scouts are preparing in Indianapolis cooperation with IUSE. This branch will participate in the Taste of Success Anderson program at Association Convention as a part of Women in Charge: Bold, Innovative, Collaborative. Members hosted a Sister-to-Brother Summit in April, the first of its kind in Indiana. Early chat Richmond rooms were separated by gender while later ones The branch hosted Twenty-first Century Scholars were gender mixed. An action plan was prepared Program representatives who spoke to nearly 50 addressing three issues: Diversity and Tolerance, upper elementary and middle school girls about the Body/Self Image, and Preventing Teen Pregnancy. state's innovative way for students to receive a Thank you very much to those branches sharing their newsletters with the Indiana newsletter editor. To the post-high school education at no cost. rest of you - please share your news by sending your newsletter to Barbara Wellnitz (see Board of Directors on page 2). Thank you, Richmond Branch The Richmond branch did a great job hostessing the Indiana State Convention this year. The facility was easy to find, accessible, and had all the necessary amenities. The food was excellent and our drinks were even brought right to our tables as we exited the buffet line! Gloria Castaluccio did an excellent job taking and These hard-working ladies certainly deserve our tracking our reservations and voting status. She thanks and praise! The only thing they could have even brought cookies for the board on Friday improved upon was the weather as it rained all day. evening! However, since that is out oftheir control... http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in CEge13=:> Program Ideas Plus Jean Amman, director of programs, compiled this . Women's Studies program from a local list of program ideas for your use: university or college . Heartdiseaseand women . Computer and Internet technology . A representative from your area's arts council . Selected musical presentations by women composers . Read books to upper elementary school . Exhibitions at local museums children during women's history week . Speaker on domestic violence . An expert on antiques and collectibles CelebrateBlackHistoryMonthwithliterature . Investigate environmental concerns . . A synopsis of unique traveling adventures and speakers which can address culture, history, and diversity . Educate members about the Legal Advocacy Fund and the Educational Foundation . Invite local politicians to discuss issues pertinent to your community . Promotetheuniquefeatsofwomen . Ask a state AAUW board member to address . Panel discussion about women in politics . Historical programs topics of interest or concern . Create coalitions with other community groups . Experts who can speak to the history of your . Local artists community . Local authors . Information about "Safety and Scams" as related specifically to women . Create interest groups that could include books, . Stories of women who have dedicated theater, arts, history, culinary, quilting, music, themselves to improving the lives of others needle work, travel, health, genealogy, international Census information and how it relates to your affairs, joumaling, gardening, educational equity . community's future initiatives, group field trips, etc. . Portrayals by women of our historical women . Speaker from the State Board of Education heroines . Recycling - health, environmental, and "Recipe for Success" Profiles of Women Past financial implications . - . Medical research on women's health issues and Present (ready-to-present monologues about 15 notable women). Available from AAUW Thousand . Presentation by your scholarship recipients Oaks Branch, Attention Profiles Sales, P. O. Box Nutrition and exercise . 4223, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-1223. . Massage therapist . "Reviving the Dead Ladies" skit taking the Alternative health treatments . audience back to the first Women's Rights . Cultural diversity - a panel of women from a Convention held in Worcester, MA in 1850. For variety of cultures more information, email judy,terry@mindspring. . Crime prevention specialist com. . Women's rights advocates . Implement a program from the "Choices for a . Distance education Changing World" AAUW Program Portfolio: . Presenter from IFUW Conference Woman to Woman, Sister to Sister Summits, Tech . Book discussions from the Adelante selections Check, Transitions, and Signposts ~ge I~ http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in Time Line 2003 June 1 Branch and State officer reports due June 5-8 National Women's Music Festival, Ball State, Muncie June 19 Pre-Convention Institutes, Providence, RI June 19-21 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, Providence June 20-23 Association Convention, Providence, RI July 1 Branch dues report due July 11 State Board meeting, Indianapolis July 11 Deadline for Indiana Bulletin Fall issue July 12 Leadership Workshop, Indianapolis Oct Deadline for Indiana Bulletin Winter issue Nov4 Election Day Dec 15 EF and LAF monies due to State 2004 February Black History Month February Deadline for Indiana Bulletin Spring issue March Women's History Month April Deadline for Indiana Bulletin Summer issue April Deadline for newsletter contest entries April 15 State Capitol lobby day, Indianapolis April Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day June 1 Branch and State officer reports due June 4-6 Great Lakes Regional Conference, Indianapolis June 6 Indiana State Convention, Indianapolis July 1 Branch dues report due July Deadline for Indiana Bulletin Fall issue Dec 15 EF and LAF monies due to State Coming in the Fall 2003 Issue . Report on Claire King's keynote address to the 2003 State Convention . Picturesfromthe 2003 StateConvention . The final chapter of Women, Men and Suffrage . Educational Foundation contributions for 2002 and 2003 http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AUTO~~3-DIGIT 478 Promoting education and c::tn10 ,..k9 91 equity for women and girls Na, :s:ha Mill.,.... 522 S CENTeR ST Important. TERRE HAUTE. IN 47807-4402 Dated material Please do not delay 1.11111\1,11.,1,11,,1I1111,IHI,1IItt'II..I"..!,II.!,III,"1 Pla;t~~ 2001-02, 2002-03 * 5-S~~ S~a~e * :1.996-97, :1.997-98, :1.~99-2000, 2000-0:1. The American Association of University Women is The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, which provides a national organization that promotes education and funds and a support system for women seeking equity for all women and girls. Our commitment to judicial redress for sex discrimination in higher these issues is reflected in our public policy efforts, education. programs, and diversity initiatives. AAUW is a member of the International Federation AAUW is composed of three corporations: of University Women. Thus, an AAUW membership automatically entitles you to an IFUW The Association, a 150,000-member organization membership. with more than I,500 branches nationwide that lobbies and advocates for education and equity~ Diversity Statement The AAUW Educational Foundation, which funds In principle and in practice, AAUW values and pioneering research on girls and education, seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no community action projects, and fellowships and barriers to full participation in this organization on grants for outstanding women around the globe; the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual and orientation, national origin, disability, or class. http://web.indstate.edu/aauw-in