Join us for our annual Spring Luncheon! Spring Luncheon...

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Georgia Tech Faculty

Women’s Club

Upcoming Events

March 5

Habitat for Humanity

March 12

Tech Beautification Day

March 16

PIRCH Event

April 20

Spring Luncheon

Spring Luncheon

Committee:

Karin Bridges

Courtney Ervin

Marylou Foley

Sharon Garrison

Carol Griffin

Marie Johnson

M a r c h 2 0 1 6

Join us for our annual Spring Luncheon! ‘Getting to Know You’

Things are stirring at GTFWC!

Join us in welcoming Jenny

“Souper Jenny” Levinson as

guest speaker at our annual

Spring Luncheon! Jenny will

share her stories and inspira-

tions with GTFWC as actress,

single mom, and owner of

Planet Jenny, a collection of

cafes geared to nourishing

your mind, body and spirit!

The reception begins at 11:00

am with punch and appetizers!

You can “get to know” Jenny,

browse display tables, and

chat with friends before the

program begins. Be there as

we announce the winner of

this year’s Friendship Award

and announce the student

scholarship recipients. As al-

ways, we will vote on our slate

of officers for 2016-17, fol-

lowed by our installation cere-

mony.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend this important annual event and take part in the vote

on our Bylaw changes!

PROGRAM DETAILS

When:

Wed., April 20th

Time:

11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Where:

Ansley Golf Club

196 Montgomery Ferry

Road

Atlanta, GA 30309

Cost:

$30/person

Payable to GTFWC

Mail to: Sylvia Mallarino-Bras

1067 Robin Lane, NE

Atlanta, GA 30306

RSVP deadline:

April 6, 2016

Please submit your favorite

soup recipe to share with

the Club before March 30th.

Send in an email to Marie

Johnson at

mejdev@yahoo.com

Watch for our evite to

RSVP and select your

menu item!

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President’s Corner

Dear Members,

All I can think to say is

“Bravo!” to all of you who

helped make our last few

months’ events such fun,

interesting, and memora-

ble experiences – Senka

Petrovic, Bonnie Daneker,

Beth Finn, Marie Johnson, Karen Mayne, Ciku Gachugi, Jen-

nifer Lux, Sheila Isbell, Sylvia Mallarino-Bras, and all of our

community service volunteers. You are a terrific group of

ladies and I applaud you! Be sure to view our Scrapbook

next September to reminisce. But there is more to come,

as there always is, in the GTFWC! Look for details in the

following notices.

This has been a very busy year not only with our usual ac-

tivities, but also with the task set before us to update our

Bylaws. With the help of an appointed Ad Hoc Committee,

our Board Members, and Past Presidents, a proposal has

been prepared and is ready for presentation for vote at the

Spring Luncheon. I look forward to sharing a preview of

the proposal at our March PIRCH event. My heart-felt

thanks to all those involved in the process. Also at that

time our 2016-17 slate of Officers will be presented. Join

us at PIRCH to discover who they shall be!

I wish to thank our Scholarship Chair, Christina Choi, who

did an excellent job drawing student applications, and

heading the committee to select our five recipients. Recip-

ient names will be announced at the Spring Luncheon.

One of the best experiences I have had in the Georgia

Tech community has been serving as your President for the

past two years. What a great Club this is, and the proof is

in the pudding!

Carol Griffin, President

OFFICERS FOR 2015-16

President:

Carol Griffin

1st Vice President:

Marie Johnson

2nd Vice President:

Elaine Horton

Recording Secretary:

Courtney Ervin

Corresponding Secretary:

Connie Sholl

Treasurer:

Sylvia Mallarino-Bras

STANDING

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

FOR 2015-16

Friendship:

Kathy McDowell

Historian:

Jan Gaylord

Interest Groups:

Marcy Fortnow

Membership:

Ruth Chow

Newcomers:

Ciku Gachugi

Tonette Melvin

Online Presence:

Gador Manzano

Scholarship:

Christina Choi

Community Service:

Sylvia Mallarino-Bras

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This Saturday

March 5

Time: 7:30 to 3:30

Hostess: Sylvia Mallarino Bras,

Community Service Chair

Questions? Contact Sylvia at email :

SylviaMallarino@AtlantaFineHomes.com or cell 404-786-3944.

It will be fun!!

Did you see the Evite sent out this week?

Don’t miss the opportunity this weekend to work alongside fellow

GTFWC members doing construction relat-

ed projects.

Family Members 16 years and older

are welcome!

Wear comfortable

working clothes

and closed toe shoes.

Lunch is provided.

It’s Here! Time to come out and lend a hand.

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Tech Beautification Day

Saturday March 12.

Warm up your ovens for baking cookies to

serve to working volunteers at Tech at

noon. If you do not have time to bake, we

welcome monetary donations.

Please contact Carol Griffin (anselm.griffin@comcast.net)

for more information.

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“There

really is

nothing else

like it!”

PIrch Showroom

Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Place: PIRCH Showroom, Lenox Marketplace (across from Phipps),

3535 Peachtree Road, #230, Atlanta, GA 30326

Hostesses: Iris Tien and Elaine Horton

Cost: Just come hungry and bring your curiosity!

This incredible showroom has every cutting-edge product for the home that you can imagine!

It is FUN, it is FASCINATING and it is COMPLIMENTARY! After you get a special coffee or

flavored water at the coffee bar, you will get a guided tour of the facility, including the boutique!

Then their in-house chefs will demonstrate the preparation of our FABULOUS FOOD on some

of their many exciting pieces of state-of-the-art equipment. Beer, wine and soft drinks will also be offered.

Guests, Spouses/significant others more than welcome!

Limit: 60 people. Email or call Iris Tien by March 9, 2016 for reservations: itien@ce.gatech.edu

or 404-894-8269.

This is a most unusual opportunity. The showroom is changing their policies for invit-

ing guests to show off their products, so PLEASE take advantage of this complimen-

tary event!! Their food is always DELICIOUS and the showroom is INCREDIBLE!

We will also be sharing the changes in the Club’s by-laws so that we will be in sync

with Georgia Tech’s having retired the use of the term

“general faculty.”

DON’T MISS IT!

Please call or email Iris Tien TODAY! We already have

around 20 people and there is plenty of room!!

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FRIENDSHIP NOTES

GTFWC extends sincere sympathy to the family of Christine Boteler, who

passed away September 28, 2015, only a few weeks before her 97th birthday.

Christine was a longtime active member, and later, an honorary member of the

Georgia Tech Faculty Women’s Club. Christine’s widower, Winston Boteler, is retired

faculty from Polymer, Textiles and Fiber Engineering.

GTFWC also extends sincere sympathy

to the family of Ellen Weatherly who

passed away on November 17, 2015.

Ellen was a longtime active member of

the Georgia Tech Faculty Women’s Club,

whose husband, Thomas L. Weatherly,

had been a faculty member of the Georgia Tech School of Physics until his passing

in 1982. Memorial donations may be made in her name to the TL Weatherly

Scholarship Fund, through the Georgia Tech Foundation.

Congratulations are in order for

Carole Teja upon the 30th anni-

versary of her presidency of the

Georgia Tech Faculty Women's

Club! Well done, Carole, as you are

now an Honorary member of the Club!

If there is someone you know in the Georgia Tech Faculty Women's Club who is

celebrating a joy, mourning a loss, or needs a note of encouragement during a life

challenge, we would be happy to send a note of support on behalf of the GTFWC.

Simply send your request to Kathy McDowell, Friendship Chair, at

kathymcdee@gmail.com.

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For more information, on

GTFWC events,

check out our club’s website

www.gtfwc.gatech.edu

Wanted! Your Photos

Please remember to send photos from club

events to jangaylord@gmail.com. She may

use them in the annual club Photo Album.

Thank you, we need your pictures for the yearbook!

Be sure to come

to the Spring

Luncheon!

The speaker at this year's spring luncheon is Jenny

"Souper Jenny" Levinson. It should be a very interest-

ing key note speech. In honor of the soup theme,

we are asking members to submit their favor-

ite soup or stew recipes. We will share these reci-

pes with our fellow members at the Spring lunch-

eon. We would like to receive at least 20-30 recipes

by March 30th in order to produce the booklet in

time. Any stories behind the recipes would be an

added bonus. Please submit your recipes to:

Marie Johnson at mejdev@yahoo.com.

Remember to send in your Recipes!!