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a publication of

Soroptimist International

of Greater Bremerton Area

I hope you all had a fantastic summer. I’m so excited about our upcoming club year. Our theme is “Live Our Soroptimist Dream” and it is a call to action. The theme invites us all to think of our dreams for our club and to share these dreams with each other. By sharing, we can identify our common dreams for our club that we can work on together. The theme also encourages our members to act upon these dreams. There are many ways to take action, such as attending club meetings; organizing and attending club events; participating in club committees; and getting “Soroptimized” at area, district, and regional events. In what ways will you choose this year? Thank you for contributing your valuable time and talents. You all make this club the dynamic force of nature that does amazing things for our community. Sincerely,

President Jessica

A Message From President Jessica

September 2012

We are extremely pleased to announce that we

were just awarded a $1,300.00 grant from the

Northwest Coalition Against Trafficking

(NWCAT) for our Anti-Human Trafficking

Initiative here in Kitsap County. The grant funds

will go a long way as we continue our club’s

efforts to educate and raise community

awareness about human trafficking in our

County and the State of Washington.

In 2010, we formed a task force and began

developing an “ever-changing” two-year work plan. And even though we were

working with very limited resources, we we able to accomplish a great deal. Now that

our work plan is complete and we have been awarded this grant, we are kicking it

into high gear. This year, we will, once again, collaborate on “BreakFree Kitsap”. We

will also sponsor informational forums and continue to raise awareness by

distributing rack cards, flyers, brochures and pamphlets at collaborative events. If you

are interested in volunteering or being a member of our task force, please contact

Pat Degracia at [email protected].

By Pat Degracia

STOP Trafficking Initiative In Full Force STOP Trafficking Accomplishments

2010

Anti-Human Trafficking Committee

formed; work plan developed

2011

Two-year work plan is completed

Participated in series of community

awareness and education activities

NWCAT forum at the Kitsap Sun

Women Today Show

2012

Inaugural “Breakfree Kitsap” event

Bremerton Mayor, Patty Lent, pro-

claims January 11, 2012 and each year thereafter “Human Trafficking Awareness Day”

SIGB awarded $1,300 grant from

NWCAT to continue its anti-human trafficking awareness efforts

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SAVE THE DATE

Annual Fall Auction & Dinner Gala

Friday, November 2, 2012 · 5:30 p.m.

Kitsap Golf & Country Club, Bremerton

Committee members are hard at work planning for this event and details will

be provided as they firm up. Please reserve this date and plan to attend. If you

have any questions or can help, contact Angie Krunyawath or Kalissa Fagin.

Service Committee (Board Liaison: Deborah Horn) Identify, implement, and evaluate all service projects Identify, implement, and evaluate all Mission-in-Service projects (collection of

in-kind donations) Promote club grants, review nonprofit applicants, and recommend grantees to the board

Scholarships Committee (Board Liaison: Kathy Nelson) Promote scholarships, recruit applicants, and select winners for scholarships/awards such as the

Women’s Opportunity Award, Vo Tech Scholarship, Ruby Award, and Violet Richardson Award Membership Committee (Board Liaison: Wanda Moore)

Identify, implement, and evaluate strategies to increase and maintain/engage club membership Educate all club members on the heritage, purpose, objectives, policies, and programs of the club

Ways and Means / Fundraising Committee (Board Liaison: Cherie Hart) Organize the Fall Auction Sell Kitsap Cards Identify, implement, and evaluate other fundraising strategies/projects

Finance Committee (Board Liaisons: Janelle Cain and Jenny Elliott) Prepare and submit budgets Ensure audits/reviews are conducted per by-laws

Publicity/Communications Committee (Board Liaison: Sharon Weathers) Send regular news releases to local media to ensure community awareness Submit weekly information to media on upcoming programs Publicize club events, Identify social media and other publicity strategies Work with other committees on their publicity needs

Human Trafficking Committee (Board Liaison: Pat Degracia) Distribute materials at appropriate events. Plan and participate in events to end human trafficking. Attend trainings and/or presentations.

By-Laws Committee (Board Liaison: Jessica Guidry) Review club policies & procedures (including by-laws) & submit proposed

changes to the Board

Club Committees & Volunteer Opportunities

Please lend a hand and share

your knowledge and talents

with us. If you have an interest,

please consider volunteering to

spearhead or be an active

member of one of these com-

mittees. Whatever time you are

able to commit is greatly

appreciated. Thank you!

Send all inquiries to:

[email protected]

Your inquiry will be directed to

the appropriate board liaison!




September 2012

10 - Board Meeting, 12:30 pm United Way Office

11 - Program Meeting, 11:30 am Family Pancake House

25 - Membership Meeting, 5:30 pm Ambrosia

October 2012



Georgia’s House, Leanne Weaver

19 - District 1 Meeting kicks off at Great Wolf Lodge,

Grand Mound, WA - through 10/21/2012


Lia Sophia Jewelry, Jean Strickland, Member

30 - Mission in Service, 11:30 am Family Pancake House

November 2012

2 - Annual Fall Auction & Dinner Gala



Scarlet Road, Rosie Ludlow


Dove Chocolate Discoveries, Jennifer Brantley

Club Calendar March 17, 1927 to August 27, 2012

Patricia Ann Beatty Caldwell

Pat Caldwell received her

angel wings on

August 27, 2012.

She was born on March 17, 1927 to Leo and Katherine Kirwan in Peoria, IL, where she was raised and educated.

In 1949, she relocated to Japan to work at the American School, where she met and later married her husband, Vern M. Beatty. They settled in Bremerton to raise their family.

Pat was a Civil Service employee with the Department of Defense and, notably, was the first female EEO officer at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She retired in April, 1987.

Pat was instrumental in the publishing of the book "Nipsic to Nimitz.", a Centennial History of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and a member of the Centennial Book Committee. She was a member of Bremerton Garden Club, Naval Undersea Warfare Keyport Museum, Puget Sound Navy Museum and many other community organizations.

Most of us, however, know and remember Pat as a long-time mem-ber of Soroptimist International of Greater Bremerton Area and for her many years of service and commitment to our club and its projects. She joined our club in February, 1974 and has been an active mem-ber since. During the club year that ended in 2011, she co-chaired our mission-in-service projects committee. Her daughter, Mary, said Pat had only great things to say about Soroptimist.

She is survived by daughters, Mary Morin (Martin), Ann Iverson; granddaughters Lynn Giannotti (Scott Metzger), Amy Alexander (Brad) and great-grandchildren, Kyle, Sydney and Tucker; sister, Kathryn Hamilton of West Monroe, LA and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Vern M. Beatty and William Floyd Caldwell; sister Dorothy VonTobel and brother, William Kirwan.

Services were held on Saturday, September 1 at Our Lady of Star of the Sea Catholic Church. Club members were on hand to perform the Soroptimist Yellow Rose Ceremony in her memory.

The family requests all memorial donations be made to Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic School.

In Memory of Pat Caldwell

September 2012

1-3 - Blackberry Festival, Downtown Bremerton

8 - YWCA “Take a Walk in Her Shoes” Walk and Auction

5 p.m., Walk on Pacific Street, starting at Amy

Burnett Gallery, Auction at Admiral Theatre

15 - AIDS Walk Kitsap 2012, 10 a.m. at the Bremerton

Boardwalk; still time to register online

22 - Freedom 5K Human Trafficking Awareness Walk/

Run organized by Scarlet Road, starts at

10 a.m. on Bainbridge Island

22 - Bremerton Foodline Annual Empty Bowl Dinner

22 - Habitat for Humanity Raise the Roof Event

6 p.m. at the Kitsap Conference Center

22 - Walk to End Alzheimer’s, 8:30 a.m. Evergreen Park

Community Calendar

Are We Connected Yet?

If not, simply click on any of the

links below to connect with us!


https://www.facebook.com/SoroptimistGreaterBremerton

https://twitter.com/SIGBtweets


http://www.bremertonsoroptimist.org/

Soroptimist District 1 Meeting

Violet Richardson Award

Applications Due: DECEMBER 1, 2012

Must be a young woman 14-17 years old as of December 1, 2012.

Applicant must be involved in volunteer activities.

Soroptimists, Soroptimist employees and immediate family mem-

bers of both are ineligible. Immediate family is defined as parents, siblings and children by adoption, blood or marriage.

Previous winners of the award are also ineligible.

Ruby Award; For Women Helping Women


A woman in the community who is improving the lives of women or

girls through her professional or personal life.

By identifying and focusing on a need of women and girls, this

woman has contributed to the improvement of their lives.

Although clubs may honor a woman for a lifetime of good work, the

majority of the work should have occurred within the past two years.

Women’s Opportunity Award


Applicants must be women with primary financial responsibility for

family members other than themselves (either single or married, with dependents, which can include children, a spouse and/or par-ents).

They must be attending, or have been accepted to, an undergradu-

ate degree or vocational skills training program.

They must demonstrate financial need.

If you know of any individual who may be eligible, please have them contact our Scholarship & Awards Programs liaison, Kathy Nelson, at [email protected] or email [email protected].

By Kathy Nelson

Scholarships & Awards Program

Our 2011-2012 Scholarship & Awards Recipients (from L-R) Kathy Brorson,

Michelle Ross, President Wanda Moore, Brandy Bennett & her daughter)

Soroptimist District 1 Meeting, themed “Treasures to Behold,” will take place from October 19-21 at the Great Wolf Lodge in Centralia. This is an excellent opportunity for members to meet their Soroptimist sisters within our District (Alaska and Western Washington) and to attend professional development sessions. Session topics include team development, social media, and much more. Attendees are also invited to collect monetary and/or in-kind donations for Pope’s Kids Place, this year’s District 1 service project. For more information, please contact Jessica Guidry at [email protected] or visit www.soroptimistnwr.org.

By Jessica Guidry

President - Jessica Guidry

(pictured above far right just after being installed as

president with outgoing president Wanda Moore and

Lynnette Zimmerman from SI Port Orchard)

President Elect - Pat Degracia

Recording Secretary - Sharon Weathers

Corresponding Secretary - Kathy Nelson

Treasurer - Janelle Cain

Interim Assistant Treasurer - Jenny Elliott

Immediate Past President - Wanda Moore

Director - Deborah Horn

Director - Cherie Hart

2012-2013 Officers & Board of Directors





http://www.soroptimistnwr.org

Ways & Means, 74%

Dues & Fees, 25%

Other Revenue,

1%

TOTAL REVENUE

Club Year 2011-2012 Accomplishments At-a-Glance

55%

17%

15%

5%

4%

2%

1%

Program Services (below)

Federation & Region Dues

Meetings & Conferences

Public Awareness

Program Speakers & Guests

Miscellaneous

Member Activities

TOTAL EXPENDITURES

Community Service Awards

The Salvation Army, Bremerton Summer Camp Scholarships

Kitsap Community Resources Housing Solutions Center

Bremerton Beyond Accessible Play Buy a Square Foot Campaign

Girls Scouts of Western Washington Peninsula Regional Office

Kitsap Domestic Violence Task Force RESPECT Kitsap Youth Program

YWCA of Kitsap County Alive Family Services Program

Scholarships & Program Awards

Brandy Bennett & Jamie Johnson Women’s Opportunity Award

Michelle Ross Violet Richardson Award

Kathy Brorson Ruby (Women Helping Women) Award

New Members - 7/1/11 to 6/30/12

Kristi Croswaite Kalissa Fagin Crystal Hart Linda

“Lin” Krell Angie Krunyawath Donald Novey Jean

Strickland Patricia Thomas Kathy Thompson

Collaborative Efforts

BreakFree Kitsap - Anti Human Trafficking

Scarlet Road - Anti Human Trafficking Not for Sale Kitsap - Anti Human Trafficking

“Free the Girls” SI Region Project Kitsap Sun Women Today Show SI Germany, Grant of Friendship

Program Meetings

Bremerton Beyond Accessible Play

Bremerton Foodline Click Consultants (Generational Issues & Volunteerism)

Dan Weedin, Motivational Speaker (delivering our Soroptimist message) Crown Hill Elementary Tutoring Program

Kitsap Human Rights Council

Mission-In-Service Projects

Students In Need Group (SING) at Olympic College Annual Panty Party for the benefit YWCA Alive Shelter

Kitsap County Food Bank (NK Fishline) Kitsap Foster Care Association

Homeless Women Living in Cars Program

Scholarships & Program Awards

34%Anti-Human Trafficking Initiative

4%Federation Programs

10%

Community Service Awards

52%

Program Service Expenditures55% of Total Expenditures


Making a Difference Founded in 1921, Soroptimist is an international organiza-

tion for business and professional women who provide vol-

unteer service to their communities. Almost 100,000 Sorop-

timists in about 120 countries and territories contribute time

and financial support to community-based and international

projects benefiting women and girls.

Soroptimist International of Greater Bremerton Area was

chartered by the Soroptimist International of Seattle and

Soroptimist International of Tacoma on June 1, 1944 as an

organization of business and professional women working

to improve the lives of women and girls in the Bremerton

and Central Kitsap communities. There were 26 charter

members.

Soroptimist International of Greater Bremerton Area be-

came the 185th Club in the American Federation and the

25th Club in the Northwest Region. A special dinner com-

memorating the club's charter and installation of its first offi-

cers was held June 30, 1944 at Raus Chicken Dinner Inn in

Downtown Bremerton.

The name, Soroptimist, means "best for women," and that's

what the organization strives to achieve. Soroptimists are

women at their best working to help other women to be their

best.

Soroptimist International of Greater Bremerton Area

Mailing Address:

P. O. Box 311

Bremerton, WA 98337

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

www.bremertonsoroptimist.org

We are always looking for business and

professional women to join us in our

efforts to improve the lives of women

and girls in the Bremerton and Central

Kitsap communities. Please contact us

for more information about membership

or volunteer opportunities.

Community Service Award Recipients June 2012 Induction of New Members June 2012

Area Meeting

March 2012


http://www.bremertonsoroptimist.org

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