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Gilroy AAUW Newsletter for November, 2010
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E q u a l T i m e s
November, 2010
Tech Trek STILL Needs Your Help! President’s Council
Susan Murphey Patereau 981-2799
Recording Secretary
Jeri Allen
607-4067
Treasurer Penny Lockhart 842-4732
Membership Chairs
Arti O’Connor 847-0451 Suzanne Barrett 683-2400
Scholarship
Chair
Carol Smith
848-2475
Public Policy Chair
Lyn Hackett
842-4946
Publicity Chair
Connie Rogers 842-8494
Communications
Chair
Susan Murphey
Patereau
981-2799
International
Studies
Chair
Lyn Hackett
842-4946
AAUW Fund
Chair
Terry Newman 499-5860
Tech Trek
Chairs
Margie Enger
489-1324
Sandy Gaffney
842-7687
OFFICERS
Make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to
Gilroy AAUW’s Tech Trek fund
and make your treat count!
Gilroy AAUW would appreciate it if you
would treat a 7th Grade Girl to a week-long
Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)
Summer Camp.
The tuition for one camper is $800! Every dollar
counts so please donate whatever you can.
Make your check payable to: AAUW CA SPF
Send to: Gilroy AAUW, P O Box 1962, Gilroy CA 95020-1962
Sara Houts was the speaker at the
Fall Membership Lunch.
Fall Membership Lunch Report A small group gathered on
Saturday, October 16th, at the
Westside Grill to network, talk
about AAUW, and hear Sara
Houts talk about her life. The
occasion was the Fall Mem-
bership Lunch.
Sara, originally from Gilroy,
has a B.S. Degree in Aeronau-
tical Engineering and is in a
graduate program at Stanford,
working with the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Insti-
tute to advance AUV
(Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle) technology in Inertial
Navigation. In her spare time
she volunteers with the Stan-
ford Young Astronauts pro-
gram, and plays volleyball.
She was an inspiring speaker,
and everyone present enjoyed
the time to get to know her.
Thanks, Sara!
Page 2 E q u a l T i m e s Gi l roy AAUW
Public Policy
Survey
Holiday Family Shopping 2010
Every two years AAUW
California conducts a
Member Survey that
gives each member an
opportunity to vote on
the AAUW CA’s Public
Policy Priorities. This
year's survey will
guide decisions about
public policy in AAUW
CA for the 2011-2013
period.
For the first time, you
can submit your sur-
vey online. Go to
www.AAUW-CA.org,
and click on the Public
Policy section under
Advocacy.
You can also find
the mail-in form in the
Fall issue of California
PERSPECTIVE.
The Christmas Season brings a
new family to provide gifts to
for Gilroy AAUW. Carol Smith
has contacted Community So-
lutions, as she has for the past
several years, and they are de-
lighted and thankful to hear
from us again this year.
The family we will be buying
gifts for this year includes one
adult woman and her two
teen-age daughters.
In past years the families that
we have provided gifts for
have been very grateful, and
Community Solutions has
expressed continuing grati-
tude for our participation in
this program.
Carol will be collecting mem-
ber donations at the Holiday
Party on Sunday, December
5th, but if you are not able to
attend, you can contact Carol
and make arrangements to get
your donation to her. Carol
can be contacted at 842-2475,
or email her at
Gifts for the family have to be
delivered to Community Solu-
tions early, so don’t put off
calling Carol!
Community Solutions was
founded as a teen drop-in
center in 1972. Since that
time, we have grown in
both depth and breadth of
services as a response to
the growing and changing
needs of our community.
We provide a comprehen-
sive spectrum of preven-
tion, intervention, treat-
ment, and residential ser-
vices to the communities
of South Santa Clara Coun-
ty, South San Jose and San
Benito County. We are
governed by a voluntary
Board of Directors who
live in and represent these
communities. We receive
support from a diverse
funding base including
local, state and federal
government; private foun-
dations; and contributions.
Page 3 E q u a l T i m e s Gi l roy AAUW
Equal Times will be pub-
lished approximately
monthly in 2006-2007.
The sole purpose of this
publication is to convey
the association’s business
to its membership. Only
articles and announce-
ments related to branch
business will be consid-
ered for inclusion.
Submissions, articles and
notices are due by the
15th of each month and
should be e-mailed, post-
ed or hand delivered to
Susan Murphey Patereau,
7470 Crawford Dr., Gilroy
95020, 981-2799,
Equal Times encourages
members to advertise by
purchasing a business
card size ad, available by
contacting Communica-
tions Director, Susan Mur-
phey Patereau.
The Rules
Fall Membership Lunch Report, cont.
Marianne Peoples, Bonnie Colbert
and Carol Smith enjoy the pre-lunch
networking time.
Sara Houts, speaker, with her fan
club—faculty from her alma mater,
Monte Vista High School, Wat-
sonville.
The 2010 Tech Trek girls, who
attended the camp in July, were host-
ed by the branch for lunch and to
hear Sara.
Suzanne Barrett & Arti O’Connor
arranged the speaker and took care
of the details for the lunch.
Jeri Allen, Lyn Hackett and Susan
Valenta take time out to smile for
the camera.
Page 4 E q u a l T i m e s Gi l roy AAUW
BITS Game for
November
November Calendar of Events
California Budget Study
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 VOTE 3 4 5 6 5:00-7:00 Wine
& Whine
Carino's
Target Shopping Center
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS
VETERANS DAY
7:30 Books Group
7:00 Board Meeting
Intero, 790 1st St
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 THANKSGIVING
NO BOOKS!
28 29 30 Notes:
San Jose Branch Leads Study Sessions
The State of California finally
has a budget for fiscal year
2010-2011. Portions of this
budget include drastic cuts in
areas important to AAUW
members. These cuts and the
state‘s ongoing budget prob-
lems affect AAUW‘s public
policy priorities. We encour-
age our members to examine
how our organization can in-
fluence solutions to Califor-
nia‘s ongoing budget crisis.
We can start to make our
voice heard now. San Jose
AAUW is participating in a
CA AAUW statewide Study
of Solutions to the California
Budget Imbalance. Our partic-
ipation will start with three
workshops to be held in No-
vember. The workshops will
focus on education and health
care provisions of the budget,
subjects that are emphasized
in AAUW‘s mission.
At a time when social service
agencies like Second Harvest
Food Bank face a 44% in-
crease in referrals and the state
has declining revenue we need
to influence the budget pro-
cess. All workshops are at
Headquarters from 1pm to
3pm.
Tuesday November 9 CA
State Budget Process
Tuesday November 16 CA
State Budget Spending
Tuesday November 30 CA
State Budget Revenues
You do not have to attend
every workshop but input
from members is important to
the success of San Jose‘s par-
ticipation in this Study. Re-
sults from our workshop will
be part of a report issued by
CA AAUW. Gloria Leonard
and Geri Madden
head the planning for these
meetings. Please contact one
of them if you have questions
or want to participate.
How will anyone know
we support
opportunities for
women in athletics if we
are not there at the
games where we can be
seen and counted? We
need to Be In The Seats
(that‘s BITS). Please
join us in at-tending
Stanford Soccer v.
Oregon on Sunday,
November 7th at 1pm at
Stan-ford‘s Cagan Field.
Wear your AAUW T-shirt
for visibility. We are
joining the Bay Area
Women‘s Sports
Initiative (BAWSI) in
selecting a game each
month featuring the
young women athletes
who work with BAWSI
after-school sports
programs for under-
served girls. We can be
models for these girls
too by getting our Butts
In The Seats (that‘s
also BITS)! Contact
Jean Reed, if you want
to carpool to the game.