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VOLUME 62 No. 5
JANUARY EVENTS
Tuesday January 3
Board Meeting
Sunday January 8
LAF SPEAKER & SEIBC Mtg
Thursday
January 12 BOOK GROUP
See page 4
Saturday January 14 BRANCH MEETING
See page 6
Monday January 16
GREAT DECISIONS See page 4
Wednesday January 18 BRIDGE 1 See page 4
Thursday
January 19 BRIDGE 2 See page 4
Saturday
January 21 LAF Speaker See page 7
Saturday
January 21 LA WOMEN’S
MARCH See page 3
Save the Date
Saturday
February 11 TECH TREK
FUNDRAISER See page 2
American Association of University Women Ontario-Upland-Rancho Branch
JANUARY 2017
OUR REPORT
THE WOMEN OF MANZANAR
Jane Wehrey, a native Californian, was born in Lone Pine and lived in the Owen’s
Valley for many years before relocating with her parents to Arcadia. While
employed by the National Park Service as an Interpretive Ranger/Historian at
Manzanar National Historic Site, Ms. Wehrey created history materials, met with
and provided historical information to visitors, and was the lead writer for outdoor
exhibits.
Jane is the author of three books: The Owens Valley, Manzanar, and Voices From
This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar
Pasts. She has co-authored or contributed to numerous publications and reports
relating to the Manzanar site and has given papers on Manzanar and the Owens
Valley at national and regional history conferences.
Join us to hear fascinating stories and little known facts about those who worked
and lived at the Manzanar internment camp.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Brunch 10 a.m. – noon Cost $18
Pine Haven Café 1191 E Foothill Blvd, Upland
RSVP by January 8, [email protected], 909-241-6900
As always, a reservation made is a reservation paid
Carolann Ford
Sales Associate
Prestige Properties
255 West Foothill Blvd., Suite 100 Upland, California 91786 Business (909) 920-4635 Fax (909) 982-8610 Residence (909) 981-8338 Cell Phone (909) 241-6900 E-mail: [email protected]
Each office is independently owned and operated
MARY KAY
Martha Martin
Independent Beauty Consultant Skin Care, Makeup/Color, Body & Spa
www.marykay.com/mmartin8019 (909) 319-5942
PRESIDENT’S CORNER I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season. It was so nice to see you at the holiday cele-bration at Walters in Claremont. The champagne was delightful, the buzz in the room was energetic, and the food was plentiful. My appreciation to Pro-gram VP Carolann Ford for planning the event, Kay Alexander for handling the finances, and a big "thank you" to all who attended. The New Year provides a sentiment of new begin-nings and AAUW will move forward with the appoint-ment of a Nominating Committee that will develop a slate of officers to be voted on by the membership at the April Annual Meeting. The officers terming-out this year are Program VP, Fund VP, and Secretary. The Committee will be contacting members soon and asking for volunteers to fill the positions. If you are contacted, please say YES. It’s very rewarding with an opportunity to work with a fantastic Board. Carolann Ford has developed a great Program schedule for the year. Next month the program is entitled “Women of Manzanar” and will be presented at Pine Haven Cafe in Upland on Saturday, January 14. The story will talk about the lives of Japanese American women during their internment in Manzanar and I encourage you to attend. In February we will meet at the Mathematics and Science Department at Chaffey College to learn how to “Make Science and Math Come Alive.” Kathy Kinley has arranged for past Tech Trek girls to be there and the program will be very informative for our Tech Trek guests and for our membership as well. This is OUR Branch's fundraiser for Tech Trek and a wonderful opportunity to bring children and grandchildren to learn more about Chaffey College programs while advocating for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). And lastly, on January 8, Aileen Rizo, LAF Fresno Litigant who spoke at the AAUW CA convention & recently won her case, will tell us about her experience at a luncheon aCal Poly, Pomona---Please see your OUR REPORT for details. Linda Strotz, OUR President
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JANUARY Board Meeting will be Tuesday,
January 3, at Linda Strotz’s home
6:30 meeting, 7:30 social Please RSVP to 909 982-8165 or
Tech Trek Provides STEM Opportunities
The Ontario-Upland-Rancho branch’s Tech Trek event will be held February 11, 2017, at Chaffey College starting at 9:30 a.m. with refresh-ments. We will have outstanding presentations by Chaffey College faculty members under the leadership of Dean Ted Younglove. Current students of all ages are invited to attend this event for free to learn more about the STEM fields. If you know of students and/or teachers who might invite their students, please ask them to save the date. Previous Tech Trek participants will also be invited.
The actual cost of this year’s camp is unknown at this time, but it is likely to be higher than last year. Donations will be requested from members and non-student adults at the February event. If you cannot attend the event, donations are still welcome. We want to thank Evelyn Cloyd for her family’s generous donation which will sponsor one student. Tech Trek is a science and math camp designed to develop interest, excitement, and self-confidence in young women who will enter eighth grade in the fall. It features hands-on activities in math, science, and related fields. All sleeping, eating, instructional, and recreational facilities are located on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus where camps are held. We will be making the selections of the eight 2017 Tech Trekkers in March. Kathy Kinley, Tech Trek Chair
JANUARY Board Meeting Tuesday, January 3,
at Linda Strotz’s home
6:30 meeting, 7:30 social Please RSVP to 909 982-8165 or
Birthday Bash
In January we have a lot of birthdays to celebrate…. November, December & January! We will celebrate at Nuno’s Bistro & Bar, (Portuguese/Spanish cuisine), 2440 W Arrow Rt., Upland, 6:15p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26 RSVP Carolann by Wed., Jan. 25, 241-6900.
All are welcome
JANUARY BIRTHDAYS Carolann Ford — 4 Sally Rivera — 13
Sally McDonald — 20 Jane Bedford -- 23
Kay Alexander — 31 Let us know if we have missed your birthday.
Carolann Ford, Birthday Bash Chair
GREAT DECISIONS
CUBA AND THE U.S. Should the U.S. lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Should the U.S. return Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Cuba? Why are Americans more open to ending the embargo than in the past?
I WILL BE ORDERING THE NEW 2017 BOOKLETS BY JANUARY 3. NEW TOPICS ARE: The Future of Europe, Trade and Politics, Conflict in the South China Sea, Saudi Arabia in Transition, U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum, Latin America’s Political Pendulum, Prospects for Afghanistan and Pakistan Nuclear Security We are meeting Monday, January 16 at 6 p.m at Annie Atiyeh’s home, Please call Annie 982-0577 or email [email protected] your RSVP, for directions, and for menu. All members & guests are welcome to attend and join our interest group. New booklets are $25+ shipping. Carolann Ford, Great Decisions Chair, 909-241-6900
MEMBERSHIP
Last month we highlighted some of our new members and we are excited to give a little information about a few more. Cherry Dobbs is a returning member and wasn't sure
why she hadn’t always been a member! We’re glad to have her back. Cherry was born in Phoenix, Arizona and grew up in San Diego where she also attended San Diego State College. She has had a long career in education as teacher, a principal, a placement coordinator and a supervisor of SBST student teachers. Cherry loves to fish, travel, read, be at home, and volun-teer. She loves to be busy and organize where needed. She has two children and six stepchildren, lives in Rancho Cucamonga and is making a speedy recovery from surgery. She is looking forward to helping with dictionary distributions this year. Virginia Kelsen is another welcome addition to OUR membership. She was born in Denver, Colorado but has lived in California in Whittier, and Davis. She attended Azusa Pacific where she earned her BA and masters degrees the went on to Claremont Graduate School where she received her PhD in educational Urban Leadership. Virginia enjoys reading, especially history or current events, and enjoys the outdoors where she runs (and recently completed a marathon), cycles, and hikes. She loves the beach, travel, theatre and art history. She is married to Casey (whom you may have met at the October Dictionary Wine Tasting Fundraiser) and has an English bulldog, named Mia. Aside from education, her other interesting jobs include retail manager and bartender, (we could use her skills at the wine tasting). She looks forward to our guest speaker in January who will discuss Manzanar. Welcome to these interesting ladies. There will be more to read about next month. Connie Uhalley, Membership VP
LA WOMEN'S MARCH Please join in solidarity with AAUW national and state, as LACIC walks on behalf of women's issues at the LA WOMEN'S MARCH on January 21, 2017. NOTE THIS IS NOT A PROTEST; it is a walk to ensure women's rights continue to be addressed. Information on the March is below; please contact Susan Negrete at [email protected] by 1/19/2017 if you would like to join us to walk with the AAUW banner.
https://womensmarchla.org
The march is open to everyone who stands for human rights, civil liberties, and compassion for our shared humanity.
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OUR Report is published September through June
Advertising copy is accepted at the discretion of the editor. Listings do not imply endorsement. OUR rates are $45 for 10 issues with a business card size ad. To place an ad in OUR Report, call Carolann 241-6900
OUR OFFICERS
President: Linda Strotz, 909 982-8165 Secretary: Diane Webster, 818-515-3946
VP Membership: Connie Uhalley 909 987-1455 Treasurer : Kay Alexander, 909 989-5321 VP Program: Carolann Ford, 909 241-6900
AAUW Funds: Diane O’Neal 909 261-3146
Please have all material to the editor by the 15th of each month.
Carolann Ford E-mail : [email protected]
Phone: 909-241-6900 (c)
OUR BRANCH AAUW PO Box 1173. Upland, CA 91785
BRIDGE I
We are meeting Wednesday, January 18, 7 p.m. at the home of Carolann Ford. Please call 909-241-6900 We are always seeking new players.
BRIDGE II We will meet at Carolann Ford’s home on Thursday, January 19, 1 p.m. Please call Carolann, 241-6900. Please call Leslie May at 909-989-7378 for further information about the group. We welcome new players.
LAF LITIGANT AT Cal Poly SEIBC MEETING
Aileen Rizo, the LAF litigant who successfully sued Fresno County over “pay equity” issues is speaking on January 8 at Cal Poly. A dynamic speaker, Aileen was featured at the AAUWCA Convention in San Mateo in April 2016. This is our opportunity to hear her locally. Luncheon begins at 11a.m. with a SEIBC meeting at 10 a.m. in the same location. Reservation deadline has been extended to Dec. 30. Luncheon is $25. For more information, please open the flyer attached to this Newsletter email.
BOOK GROUP
Our next Book Group meeting will be Thursday, January 12, 3 p.m. at Kaqthy Kinley’s home. Please call Kathy at 909 986-4697 to RSVP and for directions. The book we have chosen is Dead Wake by Eric Larsen. It is the non-fiction story of the sinking of the Lusitania from the viewpoints of the captains of the U Boat and the Lusitania and how little changes can make great differences such as a World War. Hope you can join us at 3 p.m. on Thursday, January 12 Cathy Reaves, Book Group Chair
Movie Group The movie group now meets on the second
Wednesday of every other month at 7:00 p.m. Our
next meeting is Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m. at
the home of Carolann Ford, 241-6900. Since we
did not meet in December we will be discussing new
movies that strike your fancy plus those from Dec.
Movies to see are:
Queen of Katwe A Man Called Ove
The Accountant Moonlight
The Birth of a Nation Loving
The Girl on the Train Hidden Figures
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Manchester By The Sea Nocturnal Animals
The Eagle Huntress Inferno
Lion Jackie
La La Land Elle Arrival
Allied American Pastoral
The Age of Shadows Denial
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
Hacksaw Ridge Certain Women
Also if there are other movies you think the group would enjoy, please notify Leslie and we can add them to the list. Join us for a delightful evening! We welcome all movie buffs!
For additional information, please call Leslie, 989-
7378 .
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Pictures of Holiday Party at Walter’s December 11,Courtesy of Bob Mattus
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AAUW FUND 2016 was action packed for AAUW’s advocacy efforts, from the White House to Congress to statehouses across the country. As 2016 comes to a close, AAUW – both at the National and Branch levels – would like to thank Members for helping to carry out the mission to empower all women and girls. Make a New Year’s Resolution to continue to help ‘grow’ the important work set out by AAUW . . . this can be accomplished by becoming a “Two-Minute Activist” for AAUW . . . share the following facts:
More than 200,000 messages went out to State and Federal Legislators
6 States passed new equal pay laws in 2016 714 resource guides were delivered to Title IX
Coordinators in 29 States AAUW collected 2,200 signatures on AAUW’s
petition urging Anheuser-Busch to sign the White House Equal Pay Pledge
AAUW celebrated 44 ye3ars of Title IX with Senator Harry Reid
Members organized more than 900 get-out-the-vote events in 46 States
19 AAUW Members were elected to State Legislatures
12 AAUW Delegates attended the White House United State of Women Summit
The AAUW in the Statehouse newsletter launched with 1,767 subscribers
Members hosted more than 200 Equal Pay Day events nationwide
AAUW was 1 of 55 industry-wide Power of A Award winners
2,786 Lobby Corps meetings were held with congressional staff
AAUW co-hosted 2 congressional briefings AAUW testified in support of salary transparency
for 63 million workers AAUW broke the news that 91% of colleges likely
underreported incidents of campus rape in 2014.
AAUW leaders in 18 States helped demand better data on harassment in schools
AAUW tracked 120 pieces of legislation in Congress and more than 1,050 bills at the State level
8,896 comments were submitted to the Federal Government for better regulations on issues such as pay, data collection and civil rights in K-12 schools
Become the inspired AAUW Member to shout from the roof tops what it means to be an AAUW Member!
Best holiday wishes and all the BEST in the coming 2017 Year!
Diane O’Neal, Fund V.P.
Meet OUR January Speaker, Jane Wehrey
Jane Wehrey is a native of Eastern California's Owens Valley, born in Lone Pine. Her family's pres-ence in the region dates to the early 20th century and is entwined with the multiple histories of human occu-pation at the area now known as Manzanar, as well as the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and the region's tourism and recreation industry. Ms. Wehrey attended public schools in Indepen-dence, Lone Pine, and Arcadia, California. She holds a BA in English from Occidental College and an MA in History, Public History Emphasis, from California State University Fullerton (CSUF), For her MA thesis on oral history, Manzanar, and the Owens Valley, she receiv-ed the first Outstanding Project Prize awarded by the National Council on Public History at Lowell, MA. As a Research Associate at the CSUF Center for Oral and Public History (1993-2004), Ms. Wehrey headed a series of research and oral history contract projects for the National Park Service (NPS) during the early development of the former Manzanar War Relo-cation Center as a national historic site. Additionally, she assisted the NPS in conceptual and editorial aspects of Visitor Center Exhibit production, and she was an advisor to NPS and filmmaker Signature Communications on the award-winning documentary film, "Remembering Manzanar" shown at Manzanar's Visitor Center. While employed as an NPS Interpretive Ranger/Historian at Manzanar National Historic Site (2004-2008), Ms. Wehrey created history materials, met with and provided historical information to visitors, and was the lead writer for outdoor exhibits. Jane Wehrey is the author of three books: The Owens Valley (Arcadia Publishing, 2013); Manzanar (Arcadia Publishing, 2008); Voices From This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar Pasts (Palgrave Studies in Oral History, Palgrave Macmillian, 2006). She has co-authored or contributed to numerous publications and reports relating to the Manzanar site and has given papers on Manzanar and the Owens Valley at national and regional history conferences. Additionally, she has lectured extensively and presented programs to civic, library, and history groups throughout the Eastern Sierra and in Southern California. Ms. Wehrey and her husband have two grown children and divide their time between homes in the Owens Valley and Hacienda Heights, CA
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Nathalie Gosset
THE LAF IMPACT – TESTIMONY FROM NATHALIE GOSSET, THE 2016 LAF
LITIGANT Nathalie Gosset, BSEE, MS, MBA is the Legal Advocacy Fund 2016 Litigant. She was selected unanimously by the LAF Committee because the facts in her case, if true, are egregious and truly violate Title VII. She will share with the audience the impact LAF and AAUW have brought to her life. Nathalie’s professional life represents a remarkable professional trajectory in the male-dominated industry of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. (STEM). She has worked all her life on the cutting edge of discoveries. This exemplary track record in a male-dominated field, has heightened the importance of LAF moral support to Nathalie in the case Gosset v Latch, Cooper, Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California. Gosset is currently in arbitration hearings, claiming a hostile work environment and wrongful termination as well as sexual discrimination, harassment, and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. Clubhouse 7 — 24111 Moulton Parkway, Laguna Woods, CA 92637 Directions: From Interstate 5, exit at El Toro Road and proceed west (towards the ocean) about one mile. Turn right at Moulton Parkway and then at the next light, turn left into the parking lot across from Gate 12. From the 405 South, exit at Irvine Center Drive, then turn right and continue past Santa Maria. At the next light, turn right into the parking lot. The Reservation Desk will open at 11:00 a.m. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.
Legal Advocacy Fund Luncheon
January 21, 2017 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Laguna Woods Village Clubhouse 7 Sponsored by the
American Association of University Women
Laguna Hills Branch and
Orange County Interbranch Council
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS WITH YOUR BRANCH AAUW FUNDS CHAIR by: January 9, 2017
Cut off and mail with check to:
Carolann Ford, 1850 Kelly Ave., Upland CA 91784
Phone: 909 241-6900 Email [email protected]
Name ______________________________________________________ Phone _______________
Branch________ _________________________________________________
Cost: $25.00 per person Please make checks payable to: AAUW – LAF
Check luncheon choice:
____ Chicken Cordon Bleu ____ Salmon with lemon ____ Eggplant Parmesan.
Dessert: Strawberry Sundae in Waffle Cup
JANUARY 2017 Ontario-Upland-Rancho Branch P.O. Box 1173 Upland, CA 91785
Address Correction Requested Time Dated Material http://our-ca.aauw.net/ aauw_ca.org aauw.org
American Association of University Women Mission Statement: AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. California AAUW Image Statement: AAUW is California’s most active and diverse organization for women offering action for equity, personal and professional growth, community leadership and friendship. Diversity Statement: In principle and in practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership.
