AAUWFebruary2016 - AAUW Cape May (NJ)

CAPE MAY COUNTY BRANCH
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TWEEN TECH by Craig D. Schenck from the
Upper Township Sentinel published January 13,
2016
Presidents’ Corner
I wish all of our members could have witnessed the
excitement of the 200 6th-8th grade girls on the morning of
Friday, January 8 as they got off their buses to enter the
Campus Center at Stockton University for Tween Tech. As
one student from Linwood told me, "one month ago, when I
heard I was selected for this day, I packed my bag since I
was so excited!". The accompanying teachers raved about
the program selections of 14 workshops in the morning
which were repeated in the afternoon. Many of the
workshop presenters, which included several women from
Professional Women's Night at Tech Trek and Melanie
Collins from the Cape County Advisory Commission on the
Status of Women, approached our registration table to
thank us for the opportunity to teach such receptive
students.
AAUW, Stockton open doors to science,
tech, engineering, math for middle schoolaged girls
Dr. Claudine Keenan, Dean of Stockton University's School
of Education and her staff organized the day to be fun and
productive. Dr. Keenan presented a program for teachers
and chaperones which provided insight into why STEM
programs are important for girls. Staff from Stockton and
Atlantic Cape Community College presented a program for
teachers and chaperones on college admissions processes
and scholarship availability (including NJ Stars).
This effort and those underway for the teentech program
planned for June 2 for 9th-11th grade at the May's Landing
Campus of Atlantic Cape Community College and the July
17-23 week-long Tech Trek camp at Stockton this summer
are proof that we in AAUW really work for Education and
Empowerment for Women and Girls.
Thank you to AAUW volunteers Carolyn Bassett, Connie
Blocher, Gail Davis, Linda Harmon, Marion Ingram, Diana
Intenzo, Barbara Heinrichs, Evelyn Lovitz, Ann Marchesani,
Marga Matheny, Dottie Pearson and Suzanne Pelkaus as
well as volunteers from the Federal Aviation Administration
and Lockheed Martin.
Kristen Kelleher/SENTINEL
Graduate student Hayley Leiva of Metuchen shows Cape
May City Elementary School students Alexandra Bruno
and Naada Moustafa how to put up crime scene tape
during the Murder in the Pines course at Tween Tech on
Friday at Stockton University in Galloway Township.
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP – The British pop band
Spice Girls made the phrase “Girl Power” a cultural
phenomenon in the 1990s, celebrating empowerment
and emphasizing strong and loyal friendships among
females.
On Friday, Jan 8, a “Girl Power” of another sort was
celebrated at Stockton University where more than
200 middle school-age girls gathered for Tween Tech,
a mini-conference designed to develop girls’ interest
and self confidence in STEM (science, technology,
engineering and mathematics).
Marga and Dottie
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Stockton and the American Association of University
Women (AAUW) hosted the event, billed as a “fun,
interactive and inspiring day of girl power.”
Carol Cohen, state president of the AAUW said Tween
Tech is a way to get girls interested in STEM
professions.
“It is important in the middle school to get them excited
about science and math so that when they go into high
school they will continue on that course and hopefully
major in STEM,” Cohen said.
It is also a way to help decrease the pay gap between
men and women.
“If more girls go into STEM professions, the gap would
decrease because it’s a higher-paying field, so we are
pushing that,” she said, adding that both girls and
boys should be going into STEM fields to increase the
knowledge base in the United States. “This is where
we are coming up with new ideas. The only way to be
competitive is to go into STEM.”
counterparts, and to encourage a day where it’s all
girls and there’s not that competition from the boys
gives them the opportunity to experience things that
they may not already be exposed to,” said Schroeder,
who worked last summer at Tech Trek. “The passion
that I see, especially in girls this age, is amazing when
they’re given the opportunity to experience it in an
environment in which they’re comfortable.”
The girls took part in workshops such as Solve a
Murder in the Pines, in which they found out what
happens behind the scenes of a murder investigation,
including taking fingerprints, collecting hair samples
and administering a lie-detector test. Other
workshops included Mystery Diagnosis, in which
students worked as part of a medical team
investigating the symptoms of a “patient,” including
listening to breathing sounds, reviewing X-rays,
completing an interview and making a diagnosis.
–author Terry Pratchett
‘If you want to change a
whole people, then you
start with the girls. It stands
to reason: they learn faster,
and they pass on what they
learn to their children.’
The event involved local female teachers, professors
and professional leading hands-on workshops, as well
as college admissions and advising professionals
talking with the girls and their teachers about STEM
majors and information about the 2016 Tech Trek
Summer Camp for rising eighth-graders (See related
story).
Girls from Cape May City Elementary School,
Belhaven Middle School in Linwood, Margaret Mace
School in North Wildwood and Northfield Community
School attended the event, which was limited to 15
students from each school.
Karen Schroeder, who teaches seventh-grade math in
Northfield, said the girls are ripe for this type of
inspiration.
“Girls, when they hit these middle school years –
between hormones and peer pressure and exposure
to different activities – their passion for math and
science dwindles, and a lot of time that light in them
gets extinguished completely because they don’t have
the support either from their peers or their male
Kristen Kelleher/SENTINEL
Stockton professor Mary Padden shows girls
how to use medical equipment during Mystery
Diagnosis.
Ann Griffith, a sixth-grade teacher at Cape May City
Elementary School, said students Alexandra Bruno
and Naada Moustafa used lasers and mirrors to create
a light display during Lissajous Figures.
Alexandra said they learned how to connect wires,
follow diagrams and use laser technology.
Sandy Sandmeyer-Brian, an enrichment educator at
Cape May City Elementary School, said it is especially
important for girls from her area to attend such an
event.
“We want our girls to be exposed to these type of
opportunities. We are down at the end of New Jersey,
and there are not as many opportunities, there’s not
as many diverse activities down there,” she said. “We
don’t have something like that in Cape May County, so
we want them to know about these opportunities and
also get more of a taste of STEM subjects.”
Among the favorites were The Chemistry of Modern
Cuisine, in which girls conducted experiments – and
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got to lick the spoon – and created dishes such as
mango ravioli, coconut air and chocolate Chantilly.
Ella Sher, Northfield Community School seventhgrader, said she learned there is a lot of science
involved with cooking. She planned to take The
Science of Clay in the afternoon session.
“Clay is cool,” she said.
Stockton professor Liz Shobe led the Brain Games
course in which girls played games that behavioral
neuroscience students at Stockton created as part of a
service learning project.
Shobe said the goal of these kinds of projects is for
students to look at something like neuroscience and
think of it as fun and interesting. In one game,
students rolled dice and moved around different parts
of the brain, learning the different parts in each side
and what functions are located there.
Julia Thornton, a sixth-grader at Belhaven Middle
School who was playing one of the games, said she
learned the different parts of a neuron by collecting
cards featuring their names.
Dawn Watkins, a presenter from Stockton, led the
Make a Robotic Hand course in which girls used
cardboard hands, yarn, metal wire, straws and rubber
bands. They glued the straws to the cardboard,
threaded the yarn through the straws and replicated
the joints in the hand to show motion and functionality.
“I want to inspire the girls to look around their house
and use household items to inspire creativity,” Watkins
said.
Meanwhile, chaperones participated in the AAUW
workshop Solving the Equation: The Variable for
Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing, and
another with university academics and admissions
professionals to discuss planning for STEM majors.
Local professionals who volunteered their time for the
event included Stockton presenters Kelly Keenan and
the Chemistry Society, Joshua Duntley, Judith Turk,
Mary Padden, Elizabeth Pollock, Liz Shobe, Joe Trout,
Jennifer McIlvaine, Jennie Koshel and Ariane
Newman.
Michelle Wendt, of the Southern Regional Institute and
Education Technology Training Center at Stockton,
led girls in a class on Little Bits, small electronic
components that can be assembled to create a
machine.
Girls combined base kits with random items such as
cardboard, foam and popsicle sticks to “make
something that does something.”
“The push with Little Bits is to get electronics and
circuits into the hands of everybody, not to make it
exclusive to experts,” Wendt said.
Some of the parts have wire-less components,
receivers and transmitters that can communicate with
things in other places.
“They are designing, not just putting things together,”
Wendt said. “There is a lot of failure, but they learn
from it and then they change their design and reevaluate, so it’s all critical thinking and the evaluative
process. Most of them achieve some level of success,
but it’s learning to work through the failures and
changing your prototypes.”
Kristen Kelleher/SENTINEL
Belhaven Middle School seventh-grader Samantha
Richards, left, and Northfield Community School seventhgrader Lucy van den Heuvel design and build a machine
during the Little Bits course at Tween Tech on Friday at
Stockton University in Galloway Township.
Presenters not with Stockton included Robin
Mottershead of Weymouth schools; Melanie Collins, a
business technology teacher at Lacey High School;
Alice Gibson, a Cape May County environmental
engineer and Cape May AAUW member; and
Stockton alumna Meghan Hooper.
Other volunteers included members of AAUW
branches in Atlantic and Cape May counties, the
Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hugh
Technical Center and Lockheed Martin Corp. Dottie
Pearson and Marga Matheny, co-presidents of AAUW
Cape May branch, coordinated all volunteers, which
included AAUW Atlantic County President Diana
Intenzo.
Gina Wenzel, a sixth-grade math teacher at Belhaven
Middle School, is adviser to the STEAM Club at the
school. She said girls need to be exposed to many
different types of careers, not just what they’re
predisposed to for being females.
“It’s important to expose them and give them the
opportunity, to show them that it’s OK to be a girl in a
STEM field,” Wenzel said, calling the day
“empowering” and “needed in the county.”
“This is such a fabulous opportunity and I wish
colleges did more of it because they have the
resources, they have the expertise,” Wenzel said.
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OUR VIEW
From THE OCEAN CITY SENTINEL published
January 13, 2016
Stockton, AAUW help put tween girls
on an important path
The American Association of University Women
and Stockton University should be commended
for their efforts to provide girls exposure to the
study of science, technology, engineering and
math (STEM), and to the women who hold
advanced degrees and positions in those
important fields.
Through their joint efforts, 200 middle school girls
spent a day at Stockton Friday, Jan. 8,
participating in hands-on activities related to those
important and growing fields, and getting a
chance to engage in the activities without the
presence of boys — which, face it, folks, can be a
distraction at that age.
The event involved local female teachers,
professors and professionals leading workshops.
The girls, who came from multiple districts and a
wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, didn’t
know many of the others when they arrived at
Tween Tech, a mini-conference designed to
develop girls’ interest and self-confidence in
STEM billed as a “fun, interactive and inspiring
day of girl power,” but that mattered little when it
came time to form groups and actively participate.
Carol Cohen, state president of the AAUW, said
Tween Tech is a way to get girls interested in
professions involving science, technology,
engineering and math.
“It is important in the middle school to get them
excited about science and math so that when they
go into high school they will continue on that
course and hopefully major in STEM,” Cohen
said.
Karen Schroeder, who teaches seventh-grade
math in Northfield, said the girls are ripe for this
type of inspiration.
“Girls, when they hit these middle school years —
between hormones and peer pressure and
exposure to different activities — their passion for
math and science dwindles, and a lot of time that
light in them gets extinguished completely
because they don’t have the support either from
their peers or their male counterparts, and to
encourage a day where it’s all girls and there’s
not that competition from the boys gives them the
opportunity to experience things that they may not
already be exposed to,” Schroeder said.
The STEM fields are a growing concern and focus
of educators across the state and country, and
not only for girls. But statistics show that far more
men are completing degrees and working in the
fields than women, which is one reason why it is
so important for this event to be geared toward
girls.
The event at Stockton was a preview of the
summer residential camp known as Tech Trek,
which is scheduled this year July 17-23 at
Stockton.
During the weeklong camp, girls meet women
who serve as role models. Campers learn how
science, technology, engineering and math solve
the world’s biggest problems and discover
careers that align with their passions.
Julianna DiVentura, an eighth-grader at Belhaven
Middle School in Linwood who attended Tech
Trek last year, called it a “once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.”
“I love math and science, and it opened up a lot of
doors for me and proved that women are just as
strong as men in the science and math fields,”
Julianna said.
This year 60 girls from as many as eight counties
will be attending, so the selection process is very
competitive. In the coming weeks, teachers will be
nominating girls to participate, which is just the
first step in the process.
Claudine Keenan, dean of the School of
Education at Stockton, said the camp is an
opportunity for girls to sit one on one with real
women in the STEM field.
“They meet with women who are engineers,
science teachers, math teachers, people who
work in civil engineering field, bee keepers,
wildlife conservationists, you name it,” Keenan
said.
The cost to each camper is only $50, with waivers
available to those who express financial need. So
if there is a young girl in your life who shows a
budding interest in a STEM field that you would
like to see nurtured, make sure you notify her
teacher that she would like to attend the camp.
More information is available at the web
site techtrek-nj.aauw.net.
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We encourage local school districts, many that
already make STEM a priority, to encourage their
young female students to apply.
Beyond Tween Tech and Tech Trek, we
encourage the young women of our communities
to look to science, technology, engineering and
math for their careers.
Female professionals in so many fields have been
fighting for generations to break through the glass
ceiling. We believe the youth of today should not
have to worry about those ceilings when the time
comes.
Carolyn Bassett
Tween Tech meeting room at Stockton
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Tech Trek journey of discovery for
middle school girls by Craig D. Schenck from
the Upper Township Sentinel published January
13, 2016
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Last year’s Tech Trek
residential summer camp was so successful that
coordinators have doubled its size this year, opening it
up to 60 girls from eight counties.
Presented by the American Association of University
Women and Stockton University, Tech Trek will be
held July 17-23.
During the weeklong camp, girls meet women in
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)
fields who serve as role models. Campers learn how
STEM fields solve the world’s biggest problems and
discover careers that align with their passions.
Affiliated with AAUW, the first Tech Trek camp in New
Jersey was started by the Atlantic and Cape May
County branches last year.
Karen Schroeder, a seventh-grade math teacher at
Northfield Community School, created a curriculum in
which she taught chemical engineering through the
creation of lip gloss at last year’s camp.
“The experience that they had … I don’t know if it’s
something that can be recreated for them. I know that
they really, really embraced it and enjoyed all of the
exposure that they had to different STEM fields,” she
said of the girls.
Julianna DiVentura, an eighth-grader at Belhaven
Middle School in Linwood, attended Tech Trek last
year.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I thought it
was a great experience because I love math and
science, and it opened up a lot of doors for me and
proved that women are just as strong as men in the
science and math fields,” Julianna said.
She said it was rough at some times to spend a week
away from her family.
“I am proud that I stayed because it was such a great
opportunity,” she said.
Last year each teacher could nominate three to five
students but this year, due to its broader scope, each
school in the counties from where volunteers are
located can send a maximum of two students.
“It’s going to be even more selective and more difficult
to get into the program,” said Raquel Law, a seventhgrade science teacher at Belhaven. “All three of my
students came back after the summer telling me what
a wonderful time they had, how much they learned. It
was good for them.”
Tech Trek New Jersey follows national AAUW
guidelines for recruiting campers. The 2016 camp is
open to girls in counties where AAUW members have
volunteered to participate: Atlantic, Camden, Cape
May, Cumberland, Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and
Passaic.
Teachers of rising eighth-grade girls may nominate
prospective campers no later than Feb. 19. Teachers
should let the nominees know that they have been
nominated and ask them to complete an application
form and write an essay.
Camp volunteers on the selection committee will
review all applications and invite more than 60 girls for
an interview. Selection committee interviews may be
scheduled at the nominee’s school or at a public
library or nearby campus location. Parents/guardians
should plan to participate in the interviews with their
nominee during mid-March through mid-April.
Campers are notified of acceptance (or waiting list
positions) and sent registration information via email
during April.
Forms are available at the web site techtreknj.aauw.net.
“The whole camp revolves around volunteers,” said
Claudine Keenan, dean of the School of Education at
Stockton. “AAUW solicits teachers to nominate girls
who are interested in STEM, then they interview every
applicant. They screen girls who are going to thrive at
camp.”
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Keenan said parents drop off the girls on Sunday and
they stay until Saturday, sleeping in dorms and eating
in the cafeteria just like residential university students.
Keenan said Stockton’s School of Education is a
primary supporter and the campus waives all of the
rental fees, feeds the girls and volunteers for a week
and provides the dorm rooms.
Keenan described a day at the camp.
She said the girls wake up about 6 a.m., shower in the
dorms, have breakfast in the cafeteria, attend a
morning meeting with their dorm monitor — who are
AAUW volunteers trained and screened to work with
minors — then go to their first class.
“Girls will have a choice of classes this year. Last year
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
sponsored a course in which girls learned how to code
and create apps in computer class and transferred
them to tablets purchased through a grant from
Verizon. In another class, girls learned to create lip
gloss. They had to measure all of the chemicals for lip
gloss for consistency, for color, for flavor. All of that
chemistry and mathematics was a lot of fun,” she said.
The girls then have lunch in the cafeteria before
attending workshops such as a geodome, robot
soldering, bismuth crystals, slimes or tie-dying.
Dinner is also served in the cafeteria. Then, in the
evening, they go back to the dorms and make crafts.
Keenan said one of the crafts is making paper the girls
use to write thank you letters to all of the sponsors,
donors and volunteers.
The camp also involves a field trip to the Federal
Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical
Center, Atlantic Cape Community College’s new
STEM building and the Nacote Creek Research
Station of the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife
Most dinners are in the cafeteria, but women in STEM
professions are invited to a formal sit-down plated
dinner one evening.
“They meet with women who are engineers, science
teachers, math teachers, people who work in civil
engineering field, bee keepers, wildlife
conservationists, you name it,” Keenan said. “They
have a terrific opportunity to sit one on one with real
women in the STEM field.”
Keenan said the event is a collaboration of different
organizations, funding sources and “a squadron of
volunteers.”
Michelle Douglass, an attorney with a private practice
in Somers Point who serves as coordinator for Tech
Trek, wrote the original grant for $10,000 from the
national office of AAUW.
“Lots of private philanthropy helps us to buy soldering
kits so the girls can make robots, and underwater
flashlights,” Keenan said. “All of the exciting things
they do cost money, so we buy that with private
donations. AAUW does fundraising, we got a grant
from Lockheed Martin because the FAA tech center.”
Girls who attended Tech Trek last summer served as
mentors this year during Tween Tech and will return
as ambassadors for the camp kick-off.
Keenan said the camp is also a great way for girls to
connect and stay connected. The cost to each camper
is only $50, with waivers available to those who
express financial need. The fee (plus many donors’
contributions and grants) covers each camper for the
entire week of dorm stay, all meals, materials,
workshops and field trips.
“We want them to meet new girls from all around the
state and we want them to stay a support system for
each other,” she said.
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Cape May County Advisory Commission on
the Status of Women
Marion Ingram, Marga Matheny and Dottie
Pearson attended the January 7 meeting of the
CMC Advisory Commission on the Status of
Women. The main agenda item was support
of AAUW STEM programs. We reported on
Tween Tech, which was to be held on January 8,
the following day, at Stockton University where
Commission member Melanie Collins would
present morning and afternoon workshops on
Infamous/Instfamous--How You Present Yourself
on Social Media. Teentech, scheduled for June
2, will be the primary beneficiary of a breakfast
scheduled March 12 to celebrate Women's
History Month. Lieutenant Governor Kim
Guadagno will be the speaker. The location is
still being determined.
There are vacancies on the Commission and
women are encouraged to apply for appointment
by contacting the Commission Chair, Bridget
O'Brien at [email protected]. Meetings are held the first Thursday of
the month at 5:30 in the conference room at Crest
Haven. The next meeting will be on February
4. Meetings are open to the public.
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COLLEGE CONNECTIONS
[email protected]
The February AAUW College Connections
Program at the ACCC/Cape May Campus will be
a program on Human Trafficking. The speaker will
be Detective Paul Vanaman from the South
Jersey Child Exploitation Task Force. He does
bring his program right down to cases in Cape
May and Atlantic Counties. This hour and a half
program will be held at 11:00AM on February 25
in the main floor cafeteria. The entire college
student body, both the Cape May and Atlantic
County AAUW Branches and Cape May County
school counselors are invited. Human Trafficking
and Sexual Assault on Campuses are major
missions of AAUW/NJ. Please come out and
support your AAUW Branch and our Community
College Connections program.
College Connections is a partnership between
AAUW and local colleges throughout the entire
United States. The college pays an annual
membership to national AAUW and all students
attending the college are eligible for free AAUW
e-student memberships. We now have over 300
student AAUW members on the three campuses
of Atlantic Cape Community College. This is our
second year of having events on campus. So far
this year we have had sign-up tables during the
September Welcome Back Week, had a Student
Voter Registration day, a table at the October
Campus 10th Year Celebration, an October
Sexual Assault on Campus table display and a
second $tart $mart Salary Negotiations Workshop
in November.
Plans for this second semester including the
February 25th Human Trafficking Program, a
Panel of Women Leaders in Cape May County in
March for Women's History Month, and staffed
tables in April for Equal Pay Day. National AAUW
also has a National Conference for College
Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) at the
University of Maryland in June each year.
Students may apply for some scholarships to this
on [email protected] or pay their own way or
be sponsored by local AAUW Branches. PLEASE
CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING FOR ANY OF
THESE EVENTS AT OUR COLLEGE.
Women of Wonder League Gathering
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Time: 4-7 PM
Location: The Reeds at Shelter Haven, 9601
Third Ave., Stone Harbor, NJ 08427
Ticket Price: $40 per person
WOW food: WOW super heroes will enjoy hors d'
oeuvres, wine, beer, soft drinks and DESSERTS!
2016 Woman of Wonder: Cape May County
Freeholder, E. Marie Hayes
(E. Marie Hayes—Cape May County Board of
Chosen Freeholders, retired Captain of
Detectives for Cape May County Prosecutor’s
Office, FBI National Academy graduate, Atlantic
Cape Community College alumna and adjunct
professor and Ocean City resident.)
Attire: Super Hero Costume PREFERRED
Purpose: To raise funds in support of the
WOMEN OF WONDER LEAGUE tuition
assistance program for at risk youth attending
Atlantic Cape Community College. WOW
assistance has provided 25 academically
promising Cape Educational COMPACT High
School students the opportunity to experience
college. More than 60% of our WOW Scholars
have enrolled in college after graduating from
COMPACT.
For tickets or more information, visit the WOW
web site at www.atlantic.edu/wow or contact:
Maria Kellett, (609) 463-3670 or
[email protected]
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We want to welcome new member:
Daytime Book Group
Linda Harmon
31 Jill Avenue
Marmora, NJ 08223
Tel 609-204-8596
Email: [email protected]
Linda is our newest dual member. She is
a primary member of Atlantic County
AAUW.
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January Book Group
Photo of our January 19 book group after a
discussion of Carol Brill’s Peace by Piece at the
home of Helene Bertino.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
We will meet on Tuesday, February 16, at the home of
Kathy Flynn at noon. Please contact Kathy by phone
(609) 889-1590 or e-mail [email protected] to
let her know you are coming. Bring your lunch and a
beverage.
If you have items for our Cape May County AAUW
baskets for the Women’s Resource Fund Luncheon,
please bring them. These items are needed by the
end of March.
Evening PLLC Book Group
The New Colossus by Marshall
Goldberg
Front row left to right Helene Bertino, Carol Brill and
Beverly Linn. Second row Cat Cronin, Barbara Golla,
Dottie Pearson. Back row Sue Laufer, Kathy Flynn,
Barb Heinrichs, Mary Jane Slugg, Kathy Maroney,
Connie Blocher and Mary Ann Montemurro.
We will meet on Wednesday, February 24 at 6 pm
somewhere. It’s uncertain whether Mulligan’s will be
open after their winter break. Please contact Mary
Jane Slugg at 609-884-7041 or [email protected]
to let her know you are coming. She will announce
the chosen restaurant later in February.
Also please note our March PLLC book has been
changed to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by
Gertrude Stein.
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USED BOOK SALE FEB 25-28
Save the Date
The Wilmington (Delaware) branch is looking for
publicity for its 47th annual used book sale to raise
money for college scholarships. It will be held
February 25-28 at the Concord Mall, north of
Wilmington, Delaware.
Women's Resource Fund Luncheon
This year's Women's Resource Fund Luncheon
will be held on Sunday, May 22. This is a
wonderful spring event where we will enjoy a
delicious luncheon with friends from a variety of
women's groups and enjoy the raffle of baskets
contributed by CMC AAUW as well as other
groups. Proceeds from the lunch and raffle
support our Scholarship Fund as well as the
League of Women Voters and the Women’s
Resource Fund. Please mark your calendars to
attend.
You can shop 40,000 or more books tax-free! For
further information or if you have any questions,
please contact Ken Mammarella
[email protected].
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Save the Date
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Our 4 annual joint luncheon with Atlantic County
AAUW will be Wednesday, May 4, at Careme’s, the
restaurant of the Academy of Culinary Arts at Atlantic
Cape Community College in Mays Landing.
In August 2015, Careme's revised their format to
support a local farm to table curriculum. The lunch
menu will be a bistro style selection highlighting the
bountiful harvest in the Garden State and its
neighboring resources within a one hundred and fifty
mile radius.
If you have items to be packed in our Cape May
County AAUW baskets, please bring them to
Kathy Flynn at the daytime book club meeting on
February 16. Or alternatively contact Kathy Flynn
or Karen Weis to make arrangements to drop
them off. These items are needed by the end of
March.
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Tributes
Gifts to our Tribute Scholarship Fund are a
thoughtful way to recognize an anniversary or
remember a friend, member or relative while
providing support to our scholarship recipients.
Presidents
Marga Matheny
Dottie Pearson
An acknowledgement is sent to you and to the
individual recognized. Your name will be made
known, but not the amount of the gift.
Secretary
Peggy Long
Treasurer
Barbara Heinrichs
Please send your gift to Barbara Heinrichs, 503
Whildam Ave., North Cape May, NJ 08204.
Book Groups
Mary Jane Slugg
Connie Blocher
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Feb 4
Feb 16
Feb 24
Feb 25
CMC Advisory Commission
March 2
March 12
March 15
March 23
Women of Wonder
Women’s History breakfast
Daytime Book Group
Evening Book Group
April 19
April 27
Daytime Book Group
Evening Book Group
Daytime Book Group
Evening Book Group
Human Trafficking
College Connections
Marion Ingram
Fund Raising
Pat Ford-Roegner
Historian
Karen Weis
Membership
Mary Jane Slugg
Chris Rohrman
http://capemay-nj.aauw.net
Newsletter
Barbara Heinrichs
KEEP OUR WEB ADDRESS HANDY
Events, meetings, book discussion dates, and
more!
You can always find up-to-date information here.
Book lists and dates for both groups are posted.
A calendar of events is handy.
A complete membership list with contact
information is available.
To access the information for Members Only call:
Mary Jane Slugg - 884-7041
Barbara Heinrichs - 889-1647
and we will give you the password!
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Programs
Marga Matheny, interim
Public Policy
Suzanne Pelkaus
Public Relations
Mona Moore
Scholarship
Sandy Harmon-Weiss