th AAUWSee you on April 5 . Pat AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

EASTON BRANCH

April, 2014 No. 141

Easton Branch Officers

Year 2013-2014 APRIL PROGRAM

CO-PRESIDENTS Patricia Crane 410-819-3653 CELEBRATING EASTON BRANCH Kay Wendowski 410-822-7457 TH PROPGRAM Elaine Wilson 410-770-5049 55 ANNIVERSARY

MEMBERSHIP Janet Harford 410-746-5961 SECRETARY Joan Schwartz 443-413-6591 TREASURER Linda Tebbs 410-763-8265 April 5, 2014 MEMBER. TREAS. Sheila Scott 410-822-7336 12:00 Noon

COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

PUBLIC POLICY: Joan Leukhardt 410-690-3554 Scossa Restaurant EF/LAF, Funds Sharron Cassavant 410-822-6323 HISTORIAN: Suzanne Smith 410-822-4324 WEB MASTER: Sharron Cassavant 410-822-6323 Directions: 8 N Washington Street, Easton. Across from the Courthouse.

NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE: PUBLISHER: Kay Wendowski, EDITOR: Pat Crane

Hi There: PRESIDENTS’ MESSAGES My favorite Holiday has come and gone and I

didn’t even get a chance to celebrate it in any way. We honored 13 women last month at our Women Well, I may have told a few jokes, but my Who Make a Difference luncheon at the Miles nemesis, Old Man Winter got me at every turn. River Yacht Club. Thanks to Mettah and Sharron Work and classes cancelled, Snow on the day itself for chairing the event. We had a wonderful crowd; cancelling the parade, no pouring of the tea, etc. the booklets were most attractive; the food was The only Hi light of the month was the grand delicious; gifts appropriate; and the venue was in program as Pat so eloquently expressed it. There keeping with the theme, Lighting the Way. Thanks were a few glitches, none of our making but within go to Linda, also, who was instrumental in the individual organization’s internal lack of coordinating the event with the Yacht Club. communication. We will take the opportunity to m ake it right at our Anniversary meeting. Both Congratulations to Eleanor Hairston, our honoree Chris Polk, our favorite news reporter from the and member, who has served the Easton Branch “Star Dem” and Mary Whitehead of the League of since 1970, and held significant volunteer roles in Women Voters will be honored at Scossa’s. many community organizations. I hope you had the opportunity to see another of Our key note speaker, Eleanor Welsh, Dean of Chris Polk’s good reporting on the front page of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English the Newspaper of the 50th Anniversary of the at Chesapeake College gave us inspiration to Soroptimist of Talbot County especially in the continue our outreach in the community. As a honoring of Christine Dolan our wonderful Speaker group, women are a very powerful force. on trafficking at the library. Fondly, Kay th On April 5 we will be celebrating the 55 anniversary of our Easton branch and electing new officers. I hope all our members will come PS. Lately my Brain is like the Bermuda Triangle celebrate and enjoy a delicious lunch at Scossa’s. Information goes in and then is never found again. See you then. Pat

do need to know if you plan to attend. Please RSVP by April 2nd to Pat Crane, ([email protected] or 410-819- 3653).

CALENDAR

March 31, 2014: Board Meeting MAY BRANCH MEETING April 5, 2014: Branch Meeting, th 55 anniversary celebration, Annual Meeting and Elections, Scossa Monday, May 19 is the date for the Restaurant, 12:00N last meeting of the year. We will hold our May dinner at 6:00 PM, at Judy April 26, 2014: State Convention, Fredrick, MD Lawrence’s home again this year. We May 19, 2014: Branch Meeting, will gather on her charming front porch for cocktails and then enjoy a May Dinner, Judy Lawrence’s home, 6:00 PM wonderful assortment of dishes from June 7, 2014: Bus Trip, Pea Patch the members. We will have a drawing for a free membership if you have paid Island, Chesapeake City th June 21, 2014: Planning Meeting, your dues by May 19 . More information will be in the next 12:00 N, Venue TBD newsletter. Mark the date on your

calendar now, however.

Mature Women’s Grant Bus Trip

Saturday, June 7 is the fundraising

trip to is being PROGRAM planned for including an Historical Tour (ferry from City) to Pea APRIL BRANCH MEETING Patch Island. Lunch will be at the Chesapeake Inn Restaurant & Marina, NOTE: MEETING CHANGE OF and there will be time to explore DATE TO Chesapeake City. APRIL 5 TH, 12:00 NOON The bus will leave from Easton and We recently found out that we will be arrive at State Park, celebrating the 55th anniversary of our Delaware City. Fort Delaware, the branch this year, so the board has Union fortress dating back to 1859, decided we will do something special. once housed Confederate prisoners of Because this celebration is on the war. It was originally built to protect heels of our Women Who Make a the ports of Wilmington and Difference luncheon, we will have a . branch gathering on Saturday, April 5th at Scossa Restaurant at 12:00 noon. From there we will board a ferry to Pea For fun, we will ask each attendee to Patch Island which is an historic Civil share what they were doing in 1959. War living site. We will also hear about the early A jitney will provide transport from the branch meetings from some of our island dock to the granite and brick members. An afternoon of fun and fortress. Here, costumed interpreters good food is planned. In addition, we take us back to the summer of 1864. will hold our annual business meeting Fill the day with hands-on history. and election of officers. We will be able Help the blacksmith hammer out new to select our lunch from the menu, but parts for a cannon, or work with the laundress. Be on hand when the 8-inch gun fires a live charge! See a replica of Pea Patch Island as it appeared in 1864 and artifacts from the Island's past. BOOK CLUB: We will ferry back and board a bus for Date: April 28, 2014, 1:00 PM the ride to Chesapeake City and lunch Hostess: Sharron Cassavant at Chesapeake City Restaurant & Book: The Odd Women by George Marina. There will be free time to walk Gissing to shops & sightseeing in Chesapeake City. MOVIE GROUP: http://www.destateparks.com/park/for Date: Friday, April 25, 1:00 PM t-delaware/ Host: RSVP to Lois Krum 410- 822- Send your check to Linda Tebbs, 5607 30621 Kingston Road, Easton, MD, Movie: Sunshine and Oranges 21601 and include your choice of From the 1940s to about 1967 luncheon entrée. Choice of salad or hundreds of thousands of British soup will be made at the restaurant. children were separated from poor Dessert, bread/rolls and beverages are families and single mothers and also included. shipped to Australia, where in church institutions, they were used as child Stuffed Flounder labor and sometimes abused and fillet of flounder stuffed with crab raped. The story was made public in imperial and topped with a light 1986 when a social worker named lobster cream sauce Margaret Humphreys was told by an adult woman "I want to know who I London Broil am." marinated beef served with au jus naturale MATURE WOMANS’ GRANT

Chicken Marsala This month we have Mettah medallions of chicken sautéed with Kollmann to thank for donating two mushrooms in a marsala wine sauce tickets to the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 15, at The bus will leave from the Easton 7:30 PM at the Easton Church of God. Firehouse parking lot at 8:15AM, and Once again we will have a drawing on we will leave from Chesapeake City at May 12. By donating $25 to the approximately 4:30PM. The cost is Mature Womans’ Grant you will be $75 for members and their guests and entered in the drawing. The two $85.00 for non-members. Send your tickets sell for $70, so again, this is a check to Linda Tebbs, 21601 Kingston real bargain. Send your check to Road, Easton, MD 21601. Don’t wait Linda Tebbs, 30621 Kingston Road, too long as this is a popular trip. Many Easton, MD 21601 by Monday May 12. spouses are already signed up.

This committee will have the applications available the beginning of INTEREST GROUPS April at the mid-shore colleges, libraries and on our web site (AAUW Easton MD) or by requesting it at [email protected]. The . . applications will be due June 2nd, and the student selections will be TWIGGS INVESTMENT CLUB: announced at our Salad Daze dinner Meets the first Monday of every month meeting in September. at 4:00 PM at RBC, Easton. National Conference of College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL), June 5-7 at The Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD. AAUW Maryland will host the final MEMBERSHIP conference reception. Janet Harford, Chair D.C. Circuit Hears Arguments in Welcome to our newest members: Klay v. Panetta On February 14, the U.S. Court of Jo Ann Asparagus-Murray Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard 9632 Macks Lane arguments in Klay v. Panetta, a Legal McDaniel, MD 21647-9724 Advocacy Fund-supported lawsuit 410 822-4808 brought by survivors of military sexual Email: [email protected] assault. First filed March 6, 2012, the Lincoln University - Bachelor of Arts suit alleges that U.S. military officials (1969) tolerated sexual predators in their University of Pittsburgh - Master of ranks and antagonized service Science (1971) members who reported rape, sexual Kathleen Rattie assault, and harassment and argues 11796 River Road that this culture of sexual assault Ridgely, MD 21660 violates the plaintiffs’ constitutional 410-924-3630 rights. In early 2013, the U.S. District Email: [email protected] Court for the District of Columbia granted the defendants’ motion to Included with this newsletter is a dismiss the case. The court held that renewal form for 2014-2015 dues. the plaintiffs’ injuries were “incident to They are still $69.00 with $46 (all but their military service” and that the $3 of the national dues) tax court was prevented by legal deductible. Dues paid by Monday, precedent from ruling on a military May, 19, will be eligible for a free matter. Burke then appealed to the national membership ($49.00). Send D.C. Circuit. Stay tuned for the your check to Linda Tebbs, 30621 appeals court’s ruling. Kingston Road, Easton, MD 21601 by Monday, May 19, or bring to the Supreme Court Hears Arguments dinner meeting on May 19. in McCullen v. Coakley On January 15, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in McCullen v. Coakley, a case testing the constitutionality of buffer zones around reproductive health care clinics. Anti- choice activists filed suit against Massachusetts to challenge a state law AAUW FUNDS designed to protect clinic patients from Sharron Cassavant, Chair intimidation and harassment. The law creates a 35-foot buffer zone around Congratulations to Priscilla Hilliard reproductive health care clinics that for winning the tickets to the Baltimore only patients, employees, and their Symphony performance on March 29. agents may enter, preventing anti- Thank you to all of our members who choice protesters from approaching donated to the Janet Wert Crampton patients as they enter the clinic. The Fund. Christine Schmitz, VP AAUW plaintiffs argue that the law violates funds, in the recent edition of The their free speech rights, claiming that Marylander, congratulated all Maryland they are constitutionally entitled to branches for making AAUW of approach patients to offer anti-choice Maryland a Platinum sponsor of the literature and anti-choice counseling. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Our website continues to evolve, and now Circuit upheld the law, and the includes a page called WHAT’S HAPPENING ON plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme THE EASTERN SHORE with links to a number of Court. AAUW signed on to an amicus area publications — the Star Democrat, Tidewater Times, Easton Cinema, Avalon brief urging the Supreme Court to Theater, and others . Your AAUW website uphold the law. Look for LAF's can be your one-stop information central analysis of the court's ruling later this site. Send your suggestions for more year. interesting links to web administrator, Sharron Cassavant ([email protected]) NOMINATING COMMITTEE Kay Wendowski, Chair And please don’t forget to send particularly helpful or important health and safety tips The nominating committee comprised for posting. of Kay Wendowski, Chair, Sheila Scott and Priscilla Hilliard has put forth the following nominees for officers for 2014-2015: Co-Presidents, Linda Tebbs for two years and Kay Wendowski for one year; Co-

Program Vice Presidents, Pat Crane and Lois Krum; Secretary for one PUBLIC POLICY year, Sheila Scott; Operations Joan Leukhardt, Chair Treasurer, Mettah Kollmann. Mebership Treasurer remains open. Our co-presidents, Pat and Kay, and I There will be an electronic vote for this attended the 2014 Women’s Legislative position at a later date. We will vote Briefing at the Universities at Shady Grove on this slate of officers at our April 5th recently. Seventy-two organizations were represented at the day-long conference, branch meeting. including Easton Branch AAUW and five other Maryland AAUW Branches. It was WHATS NEW ON THE exciting to experience the energy of the WEBSITE? hundreds of women in attendance. The attendees, spanning age groups, ethnic Sharron Cassavant, Web Master backgrounds, and professions, were united in their purpose to improve society through Our website now reflects the changed political/legislative action. Value and Value promise language adopted To begin the day, greetings were extended by AAUW in February. The statements now by county and federal representatives, read: including The Honorable Ben Cardin, U. S. o Easton Branch Vision Senate. The keynote speaker, journalist Statement: AAUW empowers all Joanne Bamberger, presented “Mothers of women and girls to reach their Intention: How Women and Social Media highest potential. Are Revolutionizing Politics in America.” o AAUW’s Value Promise : By Afternoon seminars offered the opportunity joining AAUW, you belong to a to choose topics of personal/institutional community that breaks through interests. I attended “Advocacy for Older educational and economic barriers Women’s Issues,” receiving tables of so that all women and girls have a women’s economic needs. (Let me know if fair chance. you would like copies of those.) In addition, I viewed “Miss Representation,” a AAUW also published an updated Strategic documentary about our society’s depictions Plan in February. You will find it in and detrimental expectations of girls and MEMBERS ONLY/ESSENTIAL INFORMATION. That women. (You are encouraged to see it; page also gives you instant access to our it can be ordered from Netflix.) Membership Directory, Bylaws, and our membership renewal form. Maryland State Convention is April 26. See The Marylander for more information.