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Grand Rapids Timberline
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NEWS
FOR AND ABOUT
AAUW GRAND RAPIDS
BRANCH
MEMBERS
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Volume
42, Issue 4 January 2018
January 15 Lunch Meeting & Program
**NOTE: Time change to noon hour vs. evening for January & February meetings.
**NOTE: Time change to noon hour vs. evening for January & February meetings.
Location: United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids
REGISTER/SOCIAL: 11:30-12:00 AM LUNCH: 12:00 PM BUSINESS MTG: 12:30 PM PROGRAM: 12:40 PM
MENU: Soup, salad, bar & coffee
COST: $10
Reservations due to Deanna Ensley by end of business day, Fri., Jan. 12. Call 218-301-0315 or email deannaensley@yahoo.com
MENU: Soup, salad, bar & coffee
COST: $10
Reservations due to Deanna Ensley by end of business day, Fri., Jan. 12. Call 218-301-0315 or email deannaensley@yahoo.com
TOPIC: Between the Trapeze Bars
Speaker: Megan Kellin, local business owner
Serial entrepreneur and bootstrapper
extraordinaire, Megan Kellin understands the ebbs and flows in business and the
power of enthusiasm. Mom to two awesome kids and proprietor of multiple
thriving start-ups, including Lake Time Magazine and Lake Bride Magazine, The
Lake + Co. Shop, be.Media House and Hotel Rapids. Her professional background
in PR and global travels have elevated her community leadership and passion to
promote, collaborate and ultimately support the spirit of business through
narratives and reconstruction in the north country.
New Member Corner
We will hold a New Member Orientation immediately following the January lunch meeting.
The orientation will begin around 1:15.
If you have not attended an orientation previously, please attend.
If you have a guest at the meeting, she is
welcome to attend also. All Board members are encouraged to attend.
Welcome Four
New Members!
We are pleased to welcome these new members
who have joined our Branch in the past month or so.
Dianne Anderson
Deena Scherkenback
Lily Winter
Alida Zimmerman
Dianne Anderson
Deena Scherkenback
Lily Winter
Alida Zimmerman
Fundraiser THANK YOU
Thank you to all our members for your generous support for our scholarship fund. We raised $902 at our December meeting from this auction! Your creative dessert items made it fun to bid! This is the highest amount raised to date, so I want to thank each of you for your support and generosity to make this fundraiser a success!
Mid-term AAUW Membership Dues
From Jan. 1 until Feb. 28, the AAUW membership
dues will be reduced by 50% ($75/2 = $37.50).
From March 1 until fiscal year end, the dues will return to $75, but
that amount will cover the remaining months of this fiscal year and all of next
year.
For any questions, feel free to contact Cheryl
Vogel, treasurer, 763-229-8098 or cherylvogel@mediacombb.net
State Convention coming to Grand Rapids
We have just recently been approached by
Minnesota AAUW to host the 2019 AAUW
State Convention. Our Board has approved the idea. The likely location will
be the Timberlake Convention Center.
Deanna Ensley and Cyndy Agle are working on the preliminaries at this
time. Deanna will be attending the AAUW State Board Meeting in Apple Valley on
January 19-20 to get this officially blessed and to gather all the appropriate
information, direction and expectations. Deanna and Cyndy spoke with MN AAUW
President Jan Benson on Jan. 3 to cover many details and questions.
Deanna plans to recruit a planning committee
within the next few weeks, (Cyndy will be away until April), and then schedule
the first 2019 Grand Rapids AAUW State Convention Committee meeting in early
February. Please contact Deanna if you you
are interested in this committee…Deanna or Cyndy may be contacting you. Thank
you for your cooperation and interest!
** INTEREST
GROUPS **
Are you interested in starting an interest
group? Great! Any member may start an interest group. An interest group can meet monthly, weekly
and for any length of time. The members
determine their own agendas and arrangements for meetings The meetings are open
to all AAUW members and their guests.
The member directory has more information about the current active
interest groups. Contact program co-chairs Joanne Bakken or Marilyn Rossman
with questions.
EXPLORING OUR COMMUNITY
Field trips to various places of interest. Dates & times TBD. For more info, contact Co-Chairs: Cyndy Agle, 360-9743, cyndy.agle@gmail.com or Janis Johnson, 326-3595, janisjohnson@yahoo.com
Field trips to various places of interest. Dates & times TBD. For more info, contact Co-Chairs: Cyndy Agle, 360-9743, cyndy.agle@gmail.com or Janis Johnson, 326-3595, janisjohnson@yahoo.com
LITERATURE – Wednesday group
This group meets at 10:30AM on 2nd Wednesday, Grand Rapids Area Library River Room, September-May. Contact is Barbara Zimmer, 327-0911 or kbzimmer@q.com
Jan. 10: Dead Wake by Erik Larson
This group meets at 10:30AM on 2nd Wednesday, Grand Rapids Area Library River Room, September-May. Contact is Barbara Zimmer, 327-0911 or kbzimmer@q.com
Jan. 10: Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Feb. 14: The Underground Railroad by
Colson Whitehead
LITERATURE –
Monday group
Group meets on
1st Monday at 10:00 AM at Grand Rapids State Bank Annex. Contact is Jan Hill, 246-979 or jmhgkh@paulbunyan.net
Jan. 8: La Rose by Louise Erdich; Leader is Jan Hill.
Jan. 8: La Rose by Louise Erdich; Leader is Jan Hill.
PUBLIC POLICY
The group will meet on Jan. 11, 4 to 5:30, at the KAXE Meeting Room. Our guest will be Sandy Layman, our representative to the Minnesota Legislature. We
will be having a conversation about our AAUW members and
Sandy’s ideas and issues for our legislature this year and long range.
All members of our Grand Rapids Branch are invited
to attend. Please reply to Marilyn Rossman if you would like to attend. The
meeting room at the KAXE radio station is probably limited to 20 people at most. If we have more than that we will meet at the
Library or other larger accommodations. Attendees will have an opportunity to
give their three most important issues for this 2018 session. And we will
listen to Sandy’s opinions and major issues. This is all in a semi-structured
way in order to have all listen and learn.
Some of the regular attendees with the Public
Policy Group have been reading All the Single Ladies book. If you have not started with the book and
want to read something else about the issues important for women, please do
so. If you want suggestions, call
Marilyn, 326-6775 or mbro@paulbunyan.net We will use our reading for discussion
at our Feb. 9 meeting.
WALKING & TALKING
Group
is flexible and open to all members. The social contact is important and the
pace varies; if you are looking for speed-walking and a serious workout, this
is not your group. Currently we meet on Tuesdays at 1 PM.
We walk for 1 to 1 1/2 hours and then have coffee. As the weather cools the day and time will switch to Tuesday afternoons at 1 PM. Switch is decided by the group. We walk in the Grand Rapids area on trails and neighborhood streets. Location changes from week to week as chosen by the group. Group is notified by email of next location. To join the group, call or email Karen Karls, 326-2053, k.karls@yahoo.com
“In the 21st century, women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.”
― Bella Abzug, former New York Congresswoman
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Scholarship
applications for AAUW Scholarship
From Sarah Copeland
From Sarah Copeland
Scholarship
applications for the AAUW Anniversary Scholarship (Grand Rapids Branch) are available
starting January 15. Women interested in continuing their education should
apply online through the Community Foundation website at: www.gracf.org
ISD 318 Referendum
vote postponed
In followup to the
presentation on the ISD 318 elementary schools referendum at our October
program meeting, here’s an update:
At
the School Board meeting on Nov. 14, ISD 318 Superintendent Joni Olson
recommended that the Board target April 10, 2018 for a referendum vote on the facilities
plan developed by the Elementary Facilities Taskforce, rather than a February
date that was under consideration.
Read
more in Nov. 15 Herald Review article
at: http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/free_press/isd-moving-closer-to-april-public-vote-on-elementary-school/article_1c6d8d1c-ca0f-11e7-80a4-17a890bf883d.html
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS – Best Wishes!
1 - Kathleen Possai 2 –
Marney Smith 9 – Margaret Koch
10 – Janet Stejskal 25 – Alexandra Zimmerman
27 – Marian Barry Louise Koglin Fideldy, Karen Wennen
28 – Brenda Ruud
10 – Janet Stejskal 25 – Alexandra Zimmerman
27 – Marian Barry Louise Koglin Fideldy, Karen Wennen
28 – Brenda Ruud
AAUW
GRAND RAPIDS BOARD MEETING
November 20, 2017, United Methodist
Church
Members present at the Grand Rapids AAUW branch
board meeting were Cheryl Vogel, Jan Miland, Marj Lavalier, Marva Jean
Hutchens, Deanna Ensley, Cyndy Agle, Nancy Raymond.
Marj made a motion, seconded by Cheryl, that Cyndy
give the caterers, Linda
Wheeler and Sandy Washburn a Christmas gift of $25
each. Passed.
Of the several guests at the November meeting, two
have joined already with more probable. It was suggested that we have another $5
per guest at the April meeting.
Lauren Larson from Visit Grand Rapids, was in
attendance to help with our planning for the September 15, 2018 regional
meeting that we are hosting. She handed out the official visitors guide and
said anyone can visit www.visitgrandrapids.com for any information. A suggested
schedule of the day might look like this: 9:30 registration/coffee, 10:00 tour
of Keisler House, 11:00 speaker, 12:00 lunch.
Other suggestions were: have table hosts, $25
registration to include post card of the picture, Grace, tours in the afternoon
of the Historical Society , Reif Center and other places.
Lauren will put together a welcome bag to be given
out at the registration table. She will also talk to caterer, Barb Shack, to
get a price for food. It is suggested we
get the first mailing out soon for save the date and then the next mailing in
May.
Jean Hoshal sent word that she had received an email
about our branch selecting an honored member for $750 to be sent to a state
fund. After discussion, we decided it would be better to do something locally
to honor women. A committee would choose a member or a community member or
members. A donation in their name or names would be given to our scholarship
fund.
Marva Jean will make a sign-up sheet for volunteers
to help with the AAUW NE Minnesota regional Saturday event. It will be
available at the December meeting. The next board meeting will be Monday,
January 22, 2018, 3:45 pm, at the United Methodist Church.
$902 was raised for scholarships at the December 4,
2017 event.
Respectfully submitted, Jan Miland, Secretary
AAUW
GRAND RAPIDS BRANCH MEETING
November 13, 2017 United Methodist
Church
Marva Jean Hutchins opened the November 13,2017
Grand Rapids AAUW branch meeting with the introduction of many guests. Marilyn
Rossman passed out blank cards for members to write questions for the speaker,
Representative Sandy Layman. Marva Jean thanked the caterers. Jan Mary Hill
mentioned that the picture book, pre-school bookshelf she keeps supplied needs
more books, which can be given to her.
The next board meeting will be Monday, November 20,
2017 at the United Methodist Church.
Cyndy Agle reported that the December 4th meeting,
fundraiser and Christmas party is set to go at the Eagles.
Travel treasures were brought by Janis Johnson,
Kathy Pliska and Jane O’Leary. The money raised is for scholarships.
President Marva Jean, introduced the speaker,
Representative Sandy Layman. She had asked Sandy to tell her story and how her
life’s journey prepared her for dealing with political issues. The question
cards were collected for another time.
Respectfully submitted, Jan Miland, secretary
ADVANCING EQUITY FOR WOMEN & GIRLS – FOR MORE INFORMATION
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