National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION 2015

Zola M. Jones Clara Frost

Southwest Sectional Director Southwest Sectional Lay Member Mary E. Cromwell earned her A.B. degree from the National Association of University Women University of Michigan, and her M.A. degree from the University of SOUTHWEST SECTION and additional graduate work at Columbia University. She taught mathematics in The Remarkable NAUW Founders Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. Miss For 66 years, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was a vanguard for Women and Cromwell was keenly African American civil rights. An original Suffragette...until they prevented interested in social problems her from full participation, Mrs. Terrell turned her formidable efforts to the and served as the first plight of African Americans. A teacher and lecturer, in her 66 years she secretary of the National participate or founded: association of College  Colored Women's League, Washington, DC Women in 1924.  National Association of Colored Women (NACW), founder  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, charter member  International Congress of Women  Association for the Study of Negro Life and History  College Alumni Club or College Alumnae Club, founded in 1910; Dr. Nancy Fairfax Brown evolved into the National Association of College Women (not be received her A.B. degree at confused with the National Association of Colored Women, also Howard University and founded by Terrell) - this became the National Association of professional training at University Women in 1974 Howard University and  American Association of University Women (membership rejected in Columbia University. She 1946, accepted in 1949) earned an A.M. and Phar.D. For many years Dr. Brown was an English teacher in the Miss Sara Winifred Brown attended Virginia's all-Black Hampton Normal Washington, D.C. high and Agriculture Institute, graduating with honors. In 1894, Brown, while a schools. In 1919 the teacher of English at the Normal School, took a leave of absence to government sent her to become one of the first Black women to matriculate at the Cornell France as a Y.M.C.A. secretary University’s Medical College. She went on to become a medical doctor, and in 1930 she, too, and during World War I was a member of the “flying squadron” of fifty accompanied the Gold Star women physicians appointed by the Women’s War Work Council. From War Mothers to France as a 1908 to 1911, Dr. Brown assisted Howard University's medical department hostess. She was the first female trustee of Howard University The first female trustee of Howard University. February 2015

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NAUW Southwest Sectional NAUW Southwest Sectional DoubleTree Hotel—Torrance DoubleTree Hotel—Torrance

National Wear Red Day

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lincoln's Birthday Valentine’s Day

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Susan B. Anthony Birthday Presidents Day Shrove Tuesday Washington’s Birthday Mardi Gras

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION 1st Sectional Director 2nd Sectional Director Adelaide Dunn R.C. Ola Brown Southwest Sectional Directors

3rd Sectional Director 4th Sectional Director 5th Sectional Director Velma Diaz-Infantes Inez Wauls Marian Phillips 6th Sectional Director 7th Sectional Director Verna Warren Grace Robinson

8th Sectional Director 9th Sectional Director 10th Sectional Director 11th Sectional Director 12th Sectional Director Beverly Jackson Mary Ellen Maddox Pauline McGriff-Smith Shirley Brown Josephine Bolden

13th Sectional Director 14th Sectional Director 15th Sectional Director 16th Sectional Director Sallie Gibson Audrey Jordan Evelyn Wright Zola Jones March 2015

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 St. David’s Day Employee Appreciation Day Read Across America Day

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Daylight Saving Time starts

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 St, Patrick’s Day March equinox

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29 30 31 Seward’s Day National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION Forever Emeralds, National Officers and Branch Presidents

National President Evelyn Wright (Culver City Branch) and National First Vice President Christiana Worthams (Inglewood Branch)

2015 Southwest Section Branch Presidents

NAUW Forever Emeralds April 2015

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1 2 3 4 April Fool’s Day Holy Saturday (first day)

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sunday Orthodox Good Friday Last Day of Passover National Tartan Day Orthodox Holy Saturday

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Orthodox Easter Sunday Orthodox Easter Monday Yom HaShoah Thomas Jefferson’s Birthday Tax Day

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Patriot’s Day National Library Workers Oklahoma Day Yom Ha’atzmaut Arbor Day Day Administrative Professionals Day

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May 2015

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rhode Island Independence National Nurses Day Day Primary Election Day Indiana

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mother’s Day Ascension Day Peace Officers Armed Forces Day National Defense Transportation Day

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Emergency Medical Services National Maritime Day for Children Day

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Memorial Day Whit Monday National Missing Children’s Day

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Helen Ricks Culver City Branch President

Evelyn Wright NAUW National President 2015

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1 2 3 4 5 6 D-Day

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Kamehameha Day

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Bunker Hill Day starts Day Emancipation Day

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 June Solstice Father’s Day

28 29 30 National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION July 2015

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1 2 3 4 Independence Day observed Independence Day

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26 27 28 29 30 31 Parents Day National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION August 2015

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1 Colorado Day

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9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Victory Day

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 in Hawaii Senior Citizens Day

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Women’s Equality Day Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

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Los Angeles Branch Founders Los Angeles Branch Charter Board

Los Angeles Branch 1994 Charter Members Recognition Los Angeles Branch 2000 Scholarship Committee September 2015

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6 7 8 9 10 11 12 California Admission Day

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 National Grandparents Day Rosh Hashanah Constitution Day and National POW/MIA Citizenship Day Recognition Day

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Emancipation Day Native Americans’ Day September equinox

27 28 29 30 Gold Star Mother’s Day National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION

Yvonne Meredith Santa Monica Branch President

Zola Jones Southwest Sectional Director October 2015

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1 2 3 Feast of St. Francis of Assisi

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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Indigenous People’s Day Muharram Boss’s Day

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Alaska Day observed

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Fannie Love South Bay Branch President November 2015

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Saints’ Day All Souls’ Day Election Day Daylight Saving Time ends

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Santa Monica Branch Veteran’s Day Service

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22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Thanksgiving Day Lincoln’s Birthday/Lincoln’s Day American Indian Heritage Day

29 30 First Sunday of Advent Cyber Monday National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION December 2015

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6 7 8 9 10 11 12 St. Nicholas’ Day Chanukah/Hanukah (first Feast of the Immaculate Feast of Our Lady of day) Conception Guadalupe Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Last Day of Chanukah Pan American Aviation Day

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 The Prophet’s Birthday Eve Christmas Day (until Jan. 1) Washington's Birthday Day After Christmas Day

27 28 29 30 31 National Association of University Women SOUTHWEST SECTION January 2016

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1 2 New Year’s Day

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Prophet’s Birthday Orthodox Christmas Day

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Orthodox New Year

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Martin Luther King Day Civil Rights Day

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