VOLUME 62 No. 7

MARCH EVENTS

Saturday March 4

Branch Meeting

Monday March 6 GREAT

DECISIONS See page 3

Thurssday

March 9 Book Group See page 4

Tuesday March 14

Board Meeting

Wednesday March 15 BRIDGE 1 See page 4

Thursday March 16 BRIDGE 2 See page 4

Thursday March 23

BIRTHDAY BASH See page 3

American Association of University Women Ontario-Upland-Rancho Branch

MARCH2017

OUR REPORT

MARCH IS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH And a Visit with

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

7 Facts You Didn’t Know about

Eleanor Roosevelt & AAUW

AAUW is proud to have called Eleanor Roosevelt a member, supporter, and friend.

She joined AAUW in 1929. Her first speech to an AAUW audience was in 1929.

She attended AAUW branch meetings throughout the country. Her close friend was an AAUW leader in New York. She believed that women were written out of history.

She spoke at the AAUW National Convention in 1959 on the United States as a Democratic Leader.

Eleanor Roosevelt and AAUW were a natural fit from the start.

AAUW OUR Branch Requests your presence for brunch with

Eleanor Roosevelt Saturday, March 4, 2017

From 10 a.m. to noon Pine Haven Café

1191 E. Foothill Blvd., Upland Cost: $18 inclusive

RSVP by March 1 Carolann: 241-6900

or carolan4re@aol.com

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: carolan4re@aol.com

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 Last month’s Tech Trek event was a smashing success. The food was delicious, the two classroom programs were interesting, and it was great to see the Tech Trek girls participating in the classroom activities. I’d like to extend a big THANK YOU to Kathy Kinley for organizing the event. The promotion of increased participation of women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) is an AAUW goal. If you were unable to attend, you can still contribute to the Tech Trek project.

March is National Women’s History Month. As we

remember the legacy of those who came before us,

we must continue our ADVOCACY efforts. With that

in mind, did you know that the practice of human

trafficking first captured widespread public attention in

the early 1990’s, and although the term “human

trafficking” may encompass everything from comer-

cial sex work to housekeeping to agricultural work,

the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines it

as “a form of modern-day slavery that involves the

use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit human

beings for some type of labor or commercial sex

purpose.” The two primary pieces of federal anti-

trafficking legislation in place in the United States are

the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Justice

for Victims of Trafficking Act. But much work needs

to be done at the state level that addresses the

protection of victims, prosecution, and prevention.

And that work entails vigorous ADVOCACY.

Linda Strotz, OUR President

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We Need Leaders for 2017-2019

OUR branch is seeking officers for the 2017-19 term. We are looking for members willing to serve as Vice President-Program, Vice President-AAUW Fund, and Secretary. The Vice President, Program will select speakers, topics, and venues for branch meetings. The Vice President-AAUW Fund will organize fundraising for AAUW Fund which supports scholarship, research and other AAUW priorities. The Secretary will maintain minutes of board and annual meetings.

All officers are members of the branch board which plans and directs the activities of OUR branch. The board meets 10 or 11 times a year, usually on the first Tuesday of the month. The nominees will be announced in March, and the election will be held at the April branch meeting. The installation of officers will be June 10. If you are contacted by a member of the nominating committee, please say YES!

Nominating Committee: Connie Uhalley, Cathy Reeves, and Kathy Kinley (chair)

Scholarship The scholarship letter to the members soliciting donations to the scholarship fund will be mailed in March. Please be generous and send your contributions early. The fundraiser event for scholarship will be on Saturday, April 8, at Harvey Mudd College campus. The speaker is Julia Sushytska. She will talk about the internal strangers who are in-between several different cultures and do not belong to a given society nor are complete strangers to it. Please make an effort to be present and encourage other members and friends to attend.

If you have any questions regarding the scholarship please contact Annie Atiyeh at atiyeh@g.hmc.edu

MARCH Board Meeting Tuesday, March 14,

at Gloria Romero’s home to label dictionaries

6:00 meeting, social after labeling Please RSVP to 909 732-6707 or

gdromero1@roadrunner.com

Birthday Bash

We will celebrate at Café Alegro on 2nd Ave. in Upland, 6:15p.m., Thursday, March. 23 RSVP Carolann by Wed., March 22 at 241-6900.

MARCH BIRTHDAYS Kathy Brindell -- 7

Barbara Hughbanks — 19 Kathy Halloway --21 Connie Uhalley - 21 Diane O’Neal — 24

Pat Kersbergen --25

All are welcome Let us know if we have missed your birthday.

Carolann Ford, Birthday Bash Chair

GREAT DECISIONS

Conflict in the South China Sea, Ch. 3 The South China Sea is a locus of competing territorial claims, and China its most vocal claimant. Beijing’s interest has intensified disputes with other countries in the region in recent years, especially since China has increased its naval presence. Despite rising inter-national pressure, including an unfavorable ruling by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, China staunchly defends its policies in the region. Preventing tensions from boiling over is a matter of careful diplomacy. We are meeting Monday, March 6 at 6 p.m at Carolann Ford’s home, Please call Carolann, 241-6900 or carolan4re@aol.com with your RSVP, for directions, and for menu. All members & guests are welcome to attend and join our interest group. Carolann Ford, Great Decisions Chair

MEMBERSHIP HAPPENINGS

Once again it is my pleasure to introduce you to two more new OUR members. Gloria J . Hailes holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a concentration in Health Science Administration

and an Executive MBA from Howard University, Washington, D.C. She is an Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, in San Bernardino, CA. In support of her community, Gloria provides low cost real estate support to recovering veterans. During her spare time, Gloria loves to read, walk, and watch her son's basketball games. She enjoyed our membership breakfast and hearing the young Tech Trek girls share their experiences. She enjoys talking about world events and thought Great decisions would be a fun group to join. Oh, she will be celebrating a birthday this month, so please join the birthday group for dinner.

Another new member is Cheryl Ellis Taylor. She's a very busy and dedicated student who is currently working on her PhD. She said in her interview that she is in search of grants. Good luck to you!! Cheryl has had her own consulting company for nine years and has three grown sons. She currently lives in Rancho Cucamonga, but comes from Baltimore. Busy though you are, we'd love to see you at some of our upcoming events. Welcome, Cheryl. Membership in AAUW is a fantastic bargain with so many opportunities for both volunteering and social activities such as distributing dictionaries, providing financial scholarship assistance, and sending tech trek girls to UCSB for a week-long of STEM loaded experiences, discussions at Great Decisions, book or movie groups, bridge, birthday celebrations, and listening to speakers on a variety of topics of interest. WOW!! all for the price of less than $100!! A year. (Not to mention the wonderful comradery with intelligent, gifted ladies) SO...let's round up some long time friends, acquaintances and neighbors to join the branch. If you don't ask, they won't know what a great opportunity they are missing. Connie Uhalley, Membership VP Evelyn Cloyd writes: We continue to enjoy our life here, however, I have to admit that for the first time since we moved to Oregon the weather is living up to its wet/cold/windy reputation. Aside from getting more decrepit and crotchety, we are doing pretty well. Take care of yourself and relay my greetings to AAUW friends!

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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 Fund: Diane O’Neal 909 261-3146

Please have all material to the editor by the 15th of each month.

Carolann Ford E-mail : carolan4re@aol.com

Phone: 909-241-6900 (c)

OUR BRANCH AAUW PO Box 1173. Upland, CA 91785

BRIDGE I

The next Bridge 1 group will play on Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at 7 p.m. at Carolann Ford’s home. Please contact Carolann. 241-6900 if you want to play. We are always seeking new players.

BRIDGE II We will meet at Patty Dunkin’s home on Thursday, March 16, 1 p.m. Please call Patty, 985-8594 Please call Leslie May at 909-989-7378 for further information about the group. We welcome new players.

DICTIONARIES

I am sorry to inform you that this will be the last year that OUR Branch will deliver dictionaries to the Ontario Montclair School District third graders. The District is not focusing on library skills as they are not a part of Core Requirements and they are slowly transitioning to computers. We will continue to deliver dictionaries for the remainder of this year. So here's the good news, you still have time to volunteer to distribute the dictionaries. We have about twelve schools left to schedule. So the next time I ask for volunteers, remember this will be the last times you will be able to have the joy of seeing those cute, adorable, appreciative third graders. To me, it seems like the passing of an era. Thank you for your continued support. Gloria Romero, Dictionary Chair

BOOK GROUP

The next meeting of the Book Group will be on Thursday, March 9, 3 p.m. at the home of Carolann Ford. The title of OUR new book is Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler. It is inspired by Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Vinegar Girl is a Pulitzer Price Winner. It is short and well worth the time. Please call Carolann, 241-6900 to let her know you are coming & for directions. Other books discussed for possible future reads include Saving Hamlet by Molly Booth, Shakespeare’s Secret Belise Broach, A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Bachman, Commonwealth by Anne Tyler, State of Wonder by Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, The Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalie Holt, and Citizens of London by Lynne Olson

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, April 12, at the home

of Patti Lloyd so save the date on your calendar.

Movies to see are:

A Dog’s Purpose A Monster Calls Allied I Am Not Your Negro Patterson Silence Twentieth Century Women Split Tanna Table Nineteen The Red Turtle The Founder The Salesman The United Kingdom 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 .

Leslie May, Movie Group Chair

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AAUW Takes a Tech Trek to Chaffey College

First, I want to thank all of OUR members who helped make the February 11 event a success. The donations, signs, and food were much appreciated. Hannah Seidler enlightened us with her “Knot Theory: DNA and Shoelaces” which illustrated that mathematical theory can be proven in ways unforeseen at the time it is developed. Students and adults enjoyed the “Thermal You-seeing your own body heat with cameras. It made for some interesting selfies! Dean Ted Younglove and his assistant Nichole Gores were wonderful in making the arrangements.

It was great to see Alice Hill again and have guests from the Redlands branch. One of the highlights of the Tech Trek event is hearing from Tech Trek alumni. Here is an excerpt from the RSVP sent by Kathy Martinez who brought her robots to the event:

“Tech Trek was such an incredible experience that I still brag about to this day. That being said, it certainly shaped me and my path to proceeding STEM. I was inspired at such a young age that I could make a powerful difference in the face of technology.

As of right now, I'm one of the first students in my school taking a Robotics class (and one of only a few girls, let me tell you), and it is fun! I've been learning a whole bunch about creating circuits and robots, and every day I improve my skills in coding.

Aside from that, I'm an officer of the engineering club and I do my part in teaching the younger class-men how to code. I even take it upon myself to do the difficult work, such as repairing the arcade machine (I erased the old corrupted code and started from scratch).

Most importantly, however, I'm a part of an engineering internship. I put my experience about Tech Trek in the essay to the application, and right now I'm the only student in my school who is a part of that internship!

I guess in the grand scheme of things, Tech Trek influenced my later decisions in life. I'd like to think it's what motivated me into taking 3D designing classes, or the Robotics class. I even study at home more penetration-testing software and coding -- and I'm even familiarizing myself with Metasploit and other cyber-security software. “

Kathy Kinley, Tech Trek Chair (sent from Barcelona)

AAUW Fund News

Our Ontario-Upland-Rancho Cucamonga Branch is congratu-lated for the generosity of its Members who contributed a total of $6,798.75 to the AAUW Fund for 2016. This demonstrates the Membership’s commitment to AAUW’s Value Promise which states “By joining AAUW, you belong to a community

that breaks through educational and economic barriers so that ALL women and girls have a fair chance.” In addition to our Branch efforts, California AAUW is once again number one in giving and 17 California branches are in the top 50 for donations. This is absolutely fantastic and all of California AAUW should be very proud. The Fund luncheons that were held in October 2016 were a huge success with over 250 members hearing 14 fellowship and grant recipients speak in Seal Beach & No. Calif and, of course, the fellowship was out-standing. These respective fellowship and grant recipients are working on various projects and studies that include methodologies and manufacturing in developing worlds, computational astrophysics, development of drought tolerant plants and gender gap impacts of the War on Terror on second generation Muslims growing up in the United States. The phenomenal efforts by these young, dedicated women lift all of us up in our efforts to continue the very important efforts of AAUW. It is very rewarding to know that these women set such inspirational examples and helps each of them pursue their dreams. As your Branch Fund/VP, I encourage each of you to

please feel free to reach out to me at any time with

your ideas and suggestions to continue to improve our

important fundraising efforts.

Diane O’Neal, Fund VP

WINE TASTING

By popular request, the WINE TASTING will con-

tinue to be held every year. This year the event

will be held in support of the Scholarships. The

Board will be discussing the idea of rotating the

fundraiser from project to project or to start a new

project. Your input and your support are

invaluable. Thank you again for your support.

Gloria Romero

About OUR March Speaker

Donna Mertens. OUR speaker who will be

portraying Eleanor Roosevelt is a member of

the Victor Valley Branch and our current AAUW

CA President. If you have not met her before,

you will enjoy talking with her. She will be happy

to answer your questions about AAUW CA and

about the workings of AAUW National. This is a

great opportunity to bring your friends and poten-

tial new members to learn about our state

programs and benefits.

MARCH 2017 Ontario-Upland-Rancho Branch P.O. Box 1173 Upland, CA 91785

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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.