equal times october 2010

E q u a l T i m e s

October, 2010

Annual Luncheon Planned 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

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

Scholarship Chair

Carol Smith 848-2475

OFFICERS

E q u a l T i m e s Gi l roy AAUW

Support Equal PLAY

SAVE THE DATE!

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

Play Like A Girl

See how the Stanford women play field hockey

on Friday September 3rd at 7pm. Student

athletes volunteer through the Bay Area

Women‘s Sports Initia-tive (BAWSI) to guide

young girls toward healthy life choices

through after school sports programs at un-

derserved schools.

Show your support for these student athletes

by attending their games. Contact Jean

Reed at jjkreed@ comcast.net if you

would like to attend as part of a group.

Christmas Party Sunday December 5 4:00 - 7:00

Quilt Show 2011 Saturday May 7 11:00 - 2:00

Spring Membership Lunch Saturday April 16 11:30 - 2:00

Help Wanted Gilroy AAUW is looking to fill several vital positions. In our branch You are probably the perfect candidate for all of them, but just choose one and ask a friend to join you.

Christmas Party Coordina-tor—make the arrangements and work with Evelia Rosso on the Christmas Party. Many hands make light work so co-coordinators are welcome!

Newsletter contributor—write articles about events and group meetings and submit to newsletter editor by the 25th of every month for inclusion in the next month’s edition. If you have a digital camera (everyone one has one on their cell phone!) you can send a picture too.

Program Coordinator—arrange for a speaker and loca-

tion for ONE program during this AAUW year. 2 positions available.

Other positions are available. Please email Susan Murphey Patereau at spatereau @charter.net. If you say you are interested you are auto-matically given the job! You start right away, and you will be guaranteed to have fun while you work.


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, [email protected].

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

Proposed Budget 2010-11

Meet AAUW National Staff Holly Kearl from The Fund and Claudia Richards from Membership at AAUW Na-tional Headquarters in Wash-ington, D. C., will be in San Jose on Saturday, October

GENERAL FUND BUDGET

JULY 1, 2010 ‐ June 30, 2011

Account Income Expense Net

Dues Income, 50 Members 3,950 3,250 700

Quilt Show 3,000 500 2,500

Tech Trek Fundraising 800

Tech Trek Dona ons 1,600

Tech Trek Tui on 2,400

Socials 500 500

Administra ve 250 (250)

Affilia ons ‐ Interbranch 20 (20)

The Fund Dona on 1,000 (1,000)

Insurance 121 (121)

Membership 200 (200)

Miscellaneous 200 (200)

Newsle er & Postage 100 (100)

Program 200 (200)

Scholarships

Gavilan Re‐entry Woman 1,000 (1,000)

GUSD Senior Girl 1,000 (1,000)

Sunshine 100 (100)

9,850 10,841

Net Expenses over Revenues (991)

Funds contributed from 991

Branch Retained Earnings

Budget Balance ‐0‐

This proposed budget has been developed by Treasurer Penny Lockhart and the Board of Direc-tors. Approval of this budget is required at a general meeting of the membership. All members will get a chance to vote on it at the Fall Membership Lunch on October 16. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this budget before the 16th, please contact Susan Murphey Patereau at 408-981-2799, [email protected], or Penny Lockhart at 842-4732, plockhartgilroy@ gmail.com.

9th. They will be at San Jose AAUW Headquarters at 1:30. The address is 1165 Minneso-ta Avenue, San Jose, in the heart of Willow Glen.

This is your chance to get to

know our national staff. RSVP to Virginia Beck at beck_ [email protected] if you will be attending, and let her know how many in your group.


Movie Showing

October Calendar of Events Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Wine & Whine 5:00 – 7:00 Tasso’s Restaurant 838 First St.

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9 Symphony Group 7:30 Gavilan Col-lege Theater

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12 Books Group 7:30 Betsy Werner 7060 Valley Forge 847-6330

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14 Board of Directors 7:00 Intero Real Estate 790 First St.

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16 FALL MEMBERSHIP LUNCH 11:30 – 2:30 Westside Grill Arti O’Connor 847-0451

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28 Books Group 7:30 Sabra Dupree 1409 Casa Blanca Circle 842-8787

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31 Halloween

Notes: Fall Membership Lunch – RSVP required! Call Arti @ 847-0451

The San Jose Branch of AAUW invites you to a free showing of the movie “Iron Jawed Angels”.

This film tells the true story of a

group of passion-ate and

dynamic women who put their

lives on the line to fight tor Amer-

ican women’s right to vote.

Saturday, Oct. 9

10:15-12:30

Cambrian Library Community Room

1780 Hillsdale Avenue

San Jose 95124

by Jean Reed, San Jose AAUW In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help explain this puzzle. Why So Few? Women in Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering, and Math-ematics presents in-depth, yet accessible, profiles of eight key research findings that

point to environmental and social barriers that continue to block women‘s participation and progress in STEM fields.

The report also includes up-to-date statistics on girls' and women's achievement and participation in these areas and offers new ideas for what each of us can do to more fully open scientific and engi-neering fields to girls and women.

For example, one finding is that bias, often unconscious,

limits women‘s progress in these fields. We can raise awareness about bias against women and create clear crite-ria for success. Do you have an unconscious bias? Try Gender-Science Implicit As-sociation Test at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/. The test introduction cautions that you may not like the results!

Take 45 minutes to watch a webinar for a good overview of the report at http://www. livestream.com/aauw.

Why So Few?

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