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Vol. MMXVIII – Number 4 The Newsletter of the Sarasota Branch of the AAUW DECEMBER 2018 1 ANNUAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018 – 11:30 A.M. LOCATION: Prestancia Country Club 4409 TPC Drive, Sarasota, FL 34238 DIRECTIONS: https://www.tpcprestancia.com/contact-us/map-directions/ MUSICAL PROGRAM: Lee Dougherty Ross Please join us for our annual holiday luncheon at the Prestancia Country Club. Headlining our Musical Program is Lee Dougherty Ross, a multi-talented musical artist and the dedicated co-founder and artistic director of the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota. She is not only a renowned musical artist but, also, a respected musical entrepreneur. She will be accompanied by Michelle Giglio, musical vocalist. A detailed article about Lee Dougherty Ross can be found on the front page of our November Synthesis. The registration form for the luncheon was distributed by email to our AAUW membership on Nov. 11 th and at the monthly branch meeting on the 15 th . Please fill it out with your personal information and menu choice, and send it, along with your $35 check payable to AAUW Sarasota, to Carol Bernasconi, 5645 Cape Layte Dr., Sarasota, FL 34242. The deadline is November 30, 20018. Looking forward to enjoying the holiday season with all of you. Roz Lurie Synthesis
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ANNUAL HOLIDAY LUNCHEON
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2018 – 11:30 A.M.
LOCATION: Prestancia Country Club
4409 TPC Drive, Sarasota, FL 34238
DIRECTIONS: https://www.tpcprestancia.com/contact-us/map-directions/
MUSICAL PROGRAM: Lee Dougherty Ross
Please join us for our annual holiday luncheon at the Prestancia Country Club. Headlining our Musical Program is Lee Dougherty Ross, a multi-talented musical artist and the dedicated co-founder and artistic director of the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota. She is not only a renowned musical artist but, also, a respected musical entrepreneur. She will be accompanied by Michelle Giglio, musical vocalist.
A detailed article about Lee Dougherty Ross can be found on the front page of our November Synthesis.
The registration form for the luncheon was distributed by email to our AAUW membership on Nov. 11th and at the monthly branch meeting on the 15th. Please fill it out with your personal information and menu choice, and
send it, along with your $35 check payable to AAUW Sarasota, to Carol Bernasconi, 5645 Cape Layte Dr., Sarasota, FL 34242. The deadline is November 30, 20018.
Looking forward to enjoying the holiday season with all of you.
Roz Lurie
Synthesis
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER December, 2018
By now you will have received, and, I hope, mailed in, your reservation for the annual Holiday Luncheon on December 8 (the deadline for reservations is Nov 30). Our November speaker, Lee Dougherty Ross, will be providing the music, along with vocalist Michelle Giglio, so it will be a lovely way to begin the holiday season.
Below is a link to the opinion piece published by the Sarasota Herald Tribune on October 31. A Halloween gremlin got to it, however, and the names of the guest columnists, who were supposed to be me, along with the Presidents of the other three local AAUWs, got mixed up, and the President of the Bradenton branch was listed as the President of the Sarasota branch. The important thing, however, was that the letter appeared under the aegis of the AAUW, and that the Sarasota branch was credited.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20181031/aauw-in-voting-weigh-womens-issues
In the new year, I will be asking you to think about what you would like our branch to be doing for the next 3-5 years. What would you like to see accomplished? Are you happy with what we do now? Are we addressing the AAUW mission ‘to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education and advocacy’?.
I wish you all a very happy, safe, and festive season! Diana Sells, President
PUBLIC POLICY
NATIONAL AAUW PUBLIC POLICY PRIORITIES
The Public Policy Priorities underscore AAUW’s mission of advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research, and speaking to women’s needs, aspirations, and concerns across the life span.
Please see Mary Muller or me if you would like to have a copy of 2017—19 Biennial Action Priorities brochure of our National AAUW. (Officers and new members have been given one of these brochures.) Priorities are:
1. To support a strong system of public education that promotes gender fairness, equity, and diversity. 6 points are made about how this can be done. I wrote an article in the October Synthesis on how AAUW advocates for this and Constitutional Amendment 8 was removed from the ballot.
2. To achieve economic self-sufficiency for all women, AAUW advocates for pay equity and fairness in compensation and benefits—and 5 other ideas are given to explain this.
3. To guarantee equality, individual rights, and social justice for a diverse society. 7 bullet points are given for how they (and we) advocate for this.
Are you subscribed to the AAUW Action Network and Two-Minute Activist Tool? This is the cornerstone of AAUW’s e-advocacy efforts. It takes no time to contact your legislators and make your voice heard. Anyone with an email address can subscribe by visiting www.aauw.org/actionnetwork
Ora Jean Henry, Co-Director for Public Policy
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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
If any of the information in the Yearbook becomes inaccurate, please let someone from the Membership Committee know so we can get that information out to everyone in the Synthesis. Be on the lookout for them in each issue. Thanks.
Membership Committee Sue McGowan, Nancy Brennan, Anne Salamone, Joann Flanigan
ADDENDUM: Please make these changes in your new 2018-19 Yearbook: Barb Kerwin: contact person (pg. 4) – North County Neighborhood Group Roz Lurie: address and phone – Sarasota; 773-218-1005 Sue McGowan: e-mail – [email protected] Anne A. Miller: address and phone --727 Hudson Ave., Apt. 213, Sarasota, FL 34236; 941-316-7841 Joan Nasser: telephone --- 941-554-6669 Charlene Sessions: telephone: 941-556-3839
ADD THE FOLLOWING: Barbara Heistand 8400 Vamo Road #333 Sarasota, FL 34231 941-966-8699 [email protected] Laura Pardee 8400 Vamo Road #663 Sarasota, FL 34231 941-966-8270 [email protected] Mary Stephenson 4920 Tivoli Run Lakewood Ranch, FL 34211 704-200-3458 [email protected] St. Norbert College
Susan Stewart 800 No. Tamiami Tr. #902 Sarasota, FL 34236 941-350-0452 [email protected] University of Cincinnati Susan Margaret Teel 8225 Miramar Way #103 Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 425-640-8686 [email protected]
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NEW MEMBER INFO Miriam (Mimi) Welch Mimi was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and lived in Texas, California, Virginia, and Tennessee before landing in Florida eighteen years ago. She graduated from Vanderbilt (BS, Physics) and attended American and George Mason Universities for graduate work in nuclear energy and related energy disciplines. Mimi worked as consultant to Department of Energy for twenty-five plus years, retiring from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1997. On retirement, she and her husband, Brad Welles USNA 58, lived aboard their 44' DeFever trawler and traveled from Longboat Key Moorings around Florida. Mimi became a widow in 2003. Mimi has two daughters, both medical professionals; she is grandmother to two granddaughters, both recent graduates of University of Tennessee. Hobbies include lots of duplicate bridge, working with AAUW in support of our mission for women and girls, Socrates Cafe’ facilitator for nine years; has worked in the costume shop at Sarasota Opera for sixteen years, and enjoys movies, and reading. She is also the Florida AAUW State Parliamentarian, as
well as holding that position for the Sarasota and Venice branches, where she has dual memberships.
Mimi’s contact information can be found in the new 2018 – 2019 yearbook. Elizabeth Smith
OTHER NEWS
A FEW NOTES ON OUR OCTOBER SPEAKER Wasn't it so special to have Sonia Pressman Fuentes serve as our season opener celebrating "Women Making a Difference in our Community"! Her story reminded us how important the Women's Movement was at its inception and, more so, continues to be today. Sonia educated, entertained and inspired us. She is a remarkable lady. Sonia had a limited number of her book titled, "Eat First-- You Never Know What They'll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter" available for purchase at our meeting. However, she does still have copies for anyone wishing to order. Any member interested needs to send me a check in the amount of $22.99 and made out to Sonia P. Fuentes. Please note a desired inscription that Sonia will add as she autographs. I will forward all orders to her and will pick up and bring to our December 8th Holiday Luncheon. Hope to see you all on December 8th. Carol Bernasconi, Program Director
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COORDINATOR NEEDED:
We have an immediate need for a coordinator for Write-Read-Write - a reading/writing program for 3rd graders.
The position involves contacting and following-up with the school department and teachers via email, getting information out to our membership relative to purchasing books, coordinating the collection and distribution of the books to the classrooms. The teachers were contacted last spring and expressed interest in continuing the program in 2019.
Please contact Virginia Waring or Diana Sells if you are interested. Talk to us at a meeting or via email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Attention: Once Again
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
TECH TREK SUPPORTERS/INTERVIEWERS
Student interviews for the 2019 Tech Trek camp will take place on two Saturdays in February 2019:
February 9 and February 16; time and location to be announced. Sign-up sheets will be available in December and January.
ACADEMIC OLYMPIC SUPPORTERS
Academic Olympic games will take place: January 15, 22, 29, and Feb 5. The final will be February 9.
They will need our members to be moderators, timers, and scorekeepers. New members encouraged to help in this fun high school event!
Sign-up sheets will be available in December and January or contact Eloise Malinsky. Virginia Waring
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES EXHIBIT UPDATE
The 2019 Embracing Our Differences Annual Outdoor Art Exhibit will be on display January 19 through March 15.
The Annual Luncheon is at Michael's on East, January 23, 2019.
Audrey Laue
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AAUW Sarasota Branch Officers and Directors 2018 - 2019
Officers President Diana Sells Vice President vacant
Secretary Lois Fisch Treasurer Susan Serling
Directors Program
Carol Bernasconi
Membership Sue McGowan Public Policy Jean Henry
Mary Muller Communications Dorothy Okray
Sue Casey Education Programs Virginia Waring Nominations Past President
Anne Salamone Delores Forsyth Ellen Roche
Parliamentarian Mimi Welch Synthesis Editor Roz Lurie
Facebook at
www.facebook.com/AAUWSarasota
Visit the national AAUW website: www.aauw.org to find out more about AAUW, blogging, tweeting, and
follow the link to AAUW’s Facebook page
Synthesis is published monthly September through May by the American Association
of University Women Sarasota Branch
P.O. Box 3554, Sarasota, FL 34230
Access the Florida AAUW website: http://aauw-fl.aauw.net
And the Sarasota branch website: https://sarasota-fl.aauw.net/
Branch email address: [email protected]
Deadline
December 10th is the deadline for the January issue of the Synthesis. Please submit either an email or attached Word document to me, Roz Lurie. Photos are appreciated. I cannot edit a PDF file.
Roz Lurie, [email protected]
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CALENDAR
December 2018 To place items in the Calendar, get in touch with Diana Sells by the 10th of December for the January
newsletter: [email protected] or 941-879-2294 North County Neighborhood Group Nov 30 – Friday – Daytrip to Bradenton’s Village of the Arts. We will meet for lunch at 11:30 at the 5 star Italian restaurant, Arte Cafe, 930 12th St W, Bradenton, FL 34205, where food is the art. After lunch we will stroll through the Village of the Arts, visiting a variety of galleries. RSVP: [email protected] or 941-706-1655 by Monday, Nov. 26th,
Please click on the following map for directions: (Arte Café is no 9). https://www.villageofthearts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/VotaMap-for-website-0918-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf
AAUW Board Meeting Dec 4 – Tuesday at 10 am. The AAUW Sarasota Board will meet at the Community Foundation at 2635 Fruitville Rd. All members are welcome! Plan to join us for lunch afterwards. First Wednesday Bridge Dec 5 - First Wednesday Bridge at 1:00 – Social bridge on the first Wednesday of the month. We meet in homes and welcome new members at all levels of play. Contact Maureen Firth at 941- 358-6451 or [email protected]. Christmas Lunch Dec 8 – Saturday at 11:30. Reservations must be received by November 30. Contact Carol Bernasconi at [email protected] Gulf Gate Book Group Dec 11 – Tuesday at 11:30. The Gulf Gate Book Group will meet at the Gulf Gate Library. All branch members, wherever they live, are invited to join the discussion, with optional lunch after the meeting. This month’s book is One Amazing Thing by Chitra Divakaruni led by Kathy Shoenhals. Contact Sylvia Rosenfeld at [email protected] or Kathy Schoenhals at [email protected] or Audrey Laue at [email protected] Play Reading Dec 12 - Wednesday – 1:00. Contact Nancy Brennan at [email protected] Film Group Dec 13 – Thursday at 11am – Meet at the Selby Library to discuss the chosen film, with optional lunch to follow. Contact Sylvia Rosenfeld at [email protected]. Movies on the Cheap Dec 14 – Friday at noon. Movies on the Cheap at 11:55 am at the Parkway 8 Cinema (University and Lockwood Ridge) and lunch at Peaches' Restaurant, a few doors down. Contact me for a count and questions: [email protected] by that morning.
The North County Book Club Dec 18 – Tuesday at 11am. The North County Book Group will meet at the North Sarasota Library to select books for next year. Optional lunch after the meeting. Contact Lois Fisch. Call or text: 315-542-8720 or [email protected].
