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AAUW MARIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND APPEAL
This is the time of year when we support AAUW’s mission to achieve gender equity for women and girls in our community by supporting the AAUW Marin Scholarship Fund.
Thanks to the generosity of members and friends and grants from Bank of Marin and Bon Air Center in the last fund-raising cycle, it was possible to enhance the lives of 31 Marin women and girls:
- Six College of Marin students in the transfer program were awarded $1,000 scholarships.
- Two Dominican University nontraditional women students were awarded $3,000 scholarships.
- Three Dominican University students were sponsored to attend the AAUW conference for college women student leaders (NCCWSL),
- Twenty Marin middle school girls were sponsored to attend the 2021 California statewide virtual Tech Trek Camp, AAUW’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) camp.
- We added to our endowed funds to ensure our ability to keep awarding scholarships in perpetuity.
Help us repeat last year’s fundraising success! Our annual fall campaign letter will be arriving soon. Please give what you can and don’t forget to shop this year’s Virtual Silent Auction (proceeds go to the AAUW Marin Scholarship Fund).
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AAUW Marin Silent Auction
Our annual Silent Auction will be “virtual” once again this year with the addition of some direct buy items at the in-person December holiday luncheon. Another way you can support the AAUW Marin Scholarship Fund is by supporting the auction.
The auction committee is still seeking donations of gift cards and tickets, gift baskets, experiences, jewelry with a resale value of $50 or more, and homemade items such as baked goods, jams, handmade scarfs, and baby items.
A special thank you to those who have already contributed items to the auction. If you haven’t yet and have an idea of something you might donate or an idea for a gift basket that you could contribute, contact Dottie Burk at dotburk20@gmail.com or 415-328-8592. Bidding opens the day after Thanksgiving, so we request donations and/or commitments by Sunday, November 13th.
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Our next branch program will be at Book Passage on Saturday, November 20 at 10:00 am. It will be great to be back “live and in person” with Elaine Petrocelli to hear her picks for great reading and gifts for the holiday season.
Please RSVP to AAUWmarin@gmail.com. There is a limit of 50 people for this event and it is on a first come, first serve basis, so get your name on the list pronto! Vaccinated members only, and masks are required (unless the County moves away from the mask requirement in public spaces by then). $5 donation requested as you sign in at our registration table in the event room in the main store. See you there! Get your holiday shopping done early! Remember Book Passage provides us with a discount for purchases we make the day of the event!
Save the Date of December 4th for our annual holiday luncheon at the Club at McInnis Park. More to come on this special event, but it will be live and in person too!. Cost will be $40 and space will be limited to 50 vaccinated members and guests. Masks may or may not be required depending on COVID protocols at the time. Watch for the invitation coming in mid-November. The invitation will have all the details of how to RSVP as well as how to select and pay for your lunch. Come start the holiday season off with the longstanding AAUW Marin tradition. Who knows, maybe Santa will make an appearance!
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MEET 50-YEAR MEMBER CAROL STAIGER
When Carol Staiger went to Mills College during WWII to earn a degree in math, as a small-town girl from Dixon, CA, she said you needed “good grades, money and a rations book.” Following college she worked to help support her family while her husband was in law school. However, when she became pregnant with her first child in the early 1950s, she was fired from her job at Standard Oil. Like so many college-educated women in the 1950s, she joined AAUW to support women’s education and for the social connection and mental stimulation of being around educated women while staying home to raise three young children and support her husband in his career as an attorney. Times have changed but since 1953 Carol has remained an active AAUW member through the changes, first in the Mill Valley branch, then the Southern Marin branch and now with the Marin branch when the branches merged. She has been involved over the years in local Mill Valley and Marin volunteer projects through AAUW and the Outdoor Art Club. Carol is now a resident of The Tamalpais in Greenbrae and is 97 years young, staying physically active, keeping up to date through email on the lives of her three children, three “grands” and three “great-grands”, checking out antique sites on the Internet and leading the “breakfast club” at The Tamalpais to have wide-ranging discussions and solve the world’s problems! Carol, thank you for continuing to make AAUW be an important part of your still-active life.
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Monthly Interest Group News |
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GROUP ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The New Yorker Reading Group meets the second Thursday of every month at 10:00 am via Zoom for lively discussions of selected New Yorker articles. Generally there are about six-eight articles totaling about 40 pages of reading per month. Please email Phyllis Kuehn phyllisk@sonic.net or Olivia Ruel oliviacelello@icloud.com, co-leaders, to be included on the email list for article titles and links, and the Zoom meeting link. There is something for everyone in this month’s collection of articles: long covid, Paul McCartney, your generation - does it matter, fusion energy for a green future, Hollywood’s first scandal, the supply-chain crisis, African American cemetery research, critical race theory, and the septicentennial of Dante. We hope you’ll join us in these discussions. Links to the articles are included and most can be listened to as pod casts if you prefer that to reading. The library has New Yorker issues you can read online.
The Nonfiction Reading Group. We meet the fourth Monday of every month at 1:00 pm via Zoom to discuss books selected by the group. However, in November we are meeting on the fifth Monday, November 29, after Thanksgiving. We are reading The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why by Richard E. Nisbett. Please email Phyllis Kuehn phyllisk@sonic.net or Olivia Ruel oliviacelello@icloud.com, co-leaders, to be included on the email list of the selected books, and for the Zoom meeting link.
Behind the Headlines will meet via Zoom on Wednesday November 10 at 6:00 pm. The speaker is still being finalized for this program. If you are a member of the group you will receive the announcement of the meeting and speaker in a separate email. If you want to join the mailing list, please email Cherie Sorokin at cheryl.sorokin@gmail.com
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Many of you know Gloria as our long time head of Fellowships and Grants, but last year she expanded her responsibilities to cover all programming at the national level. There will be a national Zoom townhall in December so all members can “meet and greet” her. Stay tuned for the announcement.
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Become a member of the AAUW Legacy Circle by making a planned gift to AAUW. The gift will affirm your commitment to expanding AAUW programs and public policy agenda the future of women and girls. These gifts can be given to AAUW's general fund or directed to your preferred program. Help our branch earn Five Stars by signing up for a legacy gift today.
AAUW seeks to increase our long-term financial resources to help continue our important work.
Questions? Read more about the Legacy Circle, review the brochure or contact the Director, Major and Planned Giving at 202.785.7766.
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