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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: P2 President's Message | P3 AAUW CA Virtual Meeting | P4 Interest Group Spotlight | P5 Coastside Gives
the
TIDINGS
News of AAUW-Half Moon Bay Volume 53, Issue 8 April 2020
AAUW-HMB Programs: The Year We Were Thwarted by a Virus
Monday, April 20, 2020 • 6:30 p.m.
Online via Zoom
Programs for 2020 were to be will be Monday, April 20, at 6:30
interesting and intriguing. But
because of the aggressive measures
p.m. Prior to this meeting we will do
a test run, enabling us to share
Notice for
to mitigate COVID-19, world and instructions and information with the Interest Groups
local communities have canceled all membership.
events, festivities, conventions, Please watch for an email blast We realize some of you may
religious services, elective surgeries. explaining the steps to download the still want to meet in person. We
It's time to embrace Plan B. Zoom app and join in our new online know you will exercise your best
The presentation and meeting for adventure. judgment, but we ask specifically
March 16 was canceled. But now it And when this is all behind us, that all interest groups and branch-
has a new look: The first-ever think about something special to do sanctioned meetings and activities
AAUW-HMB online meeting via this August to celebrate the 100th comply with county, state and
Zoom. anniversary of the ratification of the federal guidance in place for
Our March presenter, Lisa 19th Amendment. COVID-19.
Petrides, Ph.D., has offered to Be well and go well. Barbara Von Glahn, President
conduct the online meeting, which Peggy Rozhon, VP Programs
President's Message
On Occasion, the World Changes Quickly
Last month's President’s California Governance committee
American Association message mentioned how busy we about how to conduct voting in
of University Women were as a branch. Now quiet these unprecedented times. This
Half Moon Bay Branch prevails in these unprecedented month members will be sent an
P.O. 1414 times. email ballot to which they may
El Granada, CA 94018 You received the email blast (or respond. Those not on email will be
halfmoonbay-ca.aauw.net letter) canceling our March Theater called. Results will be published in
Bash fundraiser and general the May Tidings.
meetings through June. Interest Fortunately, our May Coastside
group chairs should be aware of and Gives fundraiser was always
respect county guidance at the time intended to be online. Fundraising
Email blasts must be approved
by the President. Email preferred. of meetings. is vital to the success our branch’s
We remain an intelligent and programs. Please refer to
creative group. The Theater Bash information on page 5 in this
The TIDINGS is published 10 times
has been postponed until August. newsletter.
a year, September to June, by
AAUW-HMB. Email submissions Our March speaker, rescheduled for Please keep up with credible
to aauw.hmb.newsletter@gmail.com April, has agreed to take her information on the pandemic and
Articles should be pasted into the presentation online and our stay safe. I am particularly
body of the email. Attach any program chair has provided concerned about social isolation
photos as jpg or png files. guidance for conducting our first and individual needs. Be mindful of
Sara R. Hayden, Editor virtual meeting. Please support this other members and reach out to
Betty Lee-Kendall, effort and give it a try. them.
E-mailed Circulation Elections for next year’s officers Mary Sheridan has expressed a
Deadline is the 15th of the month typically would have been willingness to coordinate requests
prior to publication.
conducted during our March for assistance. She prefers contact
Neighborhood Groups general meeting. Because of the through email or her cell phone.
South Half Moon Bay, Central Half cancellation of that meeting that did You can find those in our directory.
Moon Bay, North Half Moon Bay, not occur and there was no clear Stay well and don’t forget to
El Granada/Miramar and Moss alternative in the bylaws. I have smile and laugh!
Beach/Montara. Look for the received guidance from the AAUW Barbara Von Glahn, President
distribution in your directory.
AAUW advances equity for women
and girls through advocacy,
Voting for Branch Officers April 13 to 21
education, philanthropy and On April 13 you will receive an First-ever for our branch.
research.
invitation via email to vote for the If you receive Tidings by mail,
slate of officers for the period July 1, you will receive a phone call to vote.
AAUW Half Moon Bay Branch is a 2020, to June 30, 2021. I’ll call this Please respond to the email or phone
tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation. the “COVID-19 Election Ballot.” call between April 13 and 21.
Your contribution is tax-deductible.
You can stay at home and vote! Barbara Von Glahn, President
Page 2 • Volume 53, Issue 8 The TIDINGS
AAUW California Annual Meeting Going Virtual
In this unprecedented time We'll meet Saturday, April
AAUW California
of the COVID-19 virus, we 18, from 1 to 3 p.m.
Virtual Annual Meeting – April 18
must look for creative ways to To join by computer click
Agenda (subject to change)
stay connected with family, here. If prompted, click Open
friends and fellow AAUW Zoom Meeting. When
Welcome
members. prompted, enter the meeting
g
We will be able to celebrate ID: 414 976 6806. To join by
our successes with you, but phone dial 301-715-8592. Hats off to our leaders
we'll do it virtually. We are When prompted, enter the • Introductions of past presidents and
creating an online event to meeting ID: 414 976 6806. state board directors
share some of the important For more information • Thank you and acknowledgment of the
activities that would have about joining a Zoom meeting Convention Committee
occurred at the annual click here. g
meeting. You can still be there We are excited about Branch Buzz
without leaving home! finding this new way for our • Branch anniversaries and Five Star branches
It’s easy to participate. You members, branch leaders and • Branch recognition awards
can join by phone (audio only) the state board to stay in touch. g
or by computer. Meeting We look forward to your Business as usual
materials will be posted here participation! Annual Business Meeting
prior to the meeting so that Board of Directors, AAUW • Minutes of Annual Meeting 2019
you can follow along. California • Committee reports
• Project grants
• State Named Gift Honoree and
branch fund awards
Author Janet Dawson Visits HMB • Speech Trek award announcement
Thank you to everyone It was very nice to see so g
who supported our branch many members – some from Looking to the future
and attended the author talk a distance, such as Greta • Introduction of new board members
with Janet Dawson on McElroy-White and Nancy g
March 7. And thank you for Struck, who has taken two Q&A
buying so many of her train trips with the author. g
books! Katie Murdock Closing Comments
The TIDINGS Volume 53, Issue 8 • Page 3
Interest Group Spotlight
Janus Cooks up a Good Time
Janus is our lunch group and Attendees bring a potluck dish luncheons for at least the next three
one of the longest continuously to serve at least eight and $3 for the months. Our next possible meeting
running hostess to will be the picnic in July.
interest defray costs.
groups in The hostess
our branch. supplies the
It had been wine, non-
going for alcoholic
some time drinks and
before I the table
joined in settings.
1990. People bring
The group was started by a few whatever dish they wish –
members who didn’t want to drive appetizers, main course or
to meetings at night. dessert. It usually works.
In the We have
beginning, never
they met at had an
one all-
another’s dessert lunch, but
homes and some of us keep
occasionally hoping! For the
went out to a past few years, If you would like more
restaurant. We still meet in member our July lunch has been a picnic in information or wish to be on our
homes on the fourth Wednesday of Henrik Ibsen Park on Skyline.
the month, All members and
with a few occasional guests
exceptions, are welcome.
usually Good food,
around the conversation and
holidays. much laughter
abound.
Following the mailing list, please contact me at
shelter-in-place order maalice_hmb@comast.net or call
by San Mateo County, I me at 650- 726-3441.
am canceling Janus Mary Alice Pearce, Chair
Page 4 • Volume 53, Issue 8 The TIDINGS
Coastside Gives: Your Help Crucial to Supporting AAUW Fund
We will not have the White your donation? • Make your online donation
Elephant Sale or Theater Bash to • You can make your donation and ask family and friends to give
raise money to support local online by visiting as well.
scholarships, Tech Trek, local coastsidegives.org/aauwhmb. • You can make your donation
STEM camp, Speech Trek and the • Make a donation by writing a online on May 7
national AAUW Fund this spring. check or through your donor- by visiting coastsidegives.org/
As a result, we face aauwhmb.
the possibility of Help Us Close the Gap! Volunteer to help
losing up to $7,000 make Coastside
compared to our 2019 We need to raise $10,000 for Gives a Success
other opportunities.
A successful
local programs and the AAUW Fund. • Volunteer to
make follow-up
Coastside Gives A $4,000 matching gift will phone calls to
fundraiser is members.
necessary to close the double your donation, • Volunteer to
gap created from the dollar for dollar. make calls on May 7
loss of these to remind people to
fundraisers. help earn prizes.
We are incredibly fortunate to advised fund or IRA. Send your Carol L. Joyce, AAUW Funds
be able to raise funds online check to AAUW-HMB, P.O. Box Vice President
through Coastside Gives during 1414, El Granada, CA 94018, with
this challenging time. Please help the memo: Coastside Gives 2020.
the branch make the most of this Help Us Earn Prizes
opportunity to meet and hopefully • In addition to making your
exceed our goal of $10,000 and donation, you can help us earn
close the pending $7,000 gap. prizes. Watch for an email in mid-
Here are ways you can help April for more details.
make the difference: Donate on May 7 from
Can’t wait until May 7 to make Midnight to 11:59 pm
The TIDINGS Volume 53, Issue 8 • Page 5
Nomination News AAUW and the Impact of the Coronavirus
The Nominating Committee is On Tuesday, March 24, AAUW The staff is working remotely, but
CEO Kimberly Churches invited us keeping in touch with each other
very happy to announce that we
to join a Zoom webinar. The national through web meetings and emails. The
have a full slate of officers for office staff are deeply concerned about toll-free customer service number and
2020-2021. our AAUW members and the broader email are still operational to answer
We are pleased to present the community during this crisis and questions or direct you where to go.
wanted to connect with as many of you You can call 800-326-2289 from 7
following slate to the Membership: as possible. Kim shared the national a.m. to 2 p.m. PST, or email
President: office’s plans to continue our critical connect@aauw.org.
• Suzanne Mau work during this challenging period The newly revised website, which
and shared best practices for branches they promise is more understandable,
Program Vice President:
and state organizations as we navigate will launch on April 6. There will be
• Peggy Rozhon these difficult times together as a another webinar with instructions.
Membership Vice President: community. There was a survey for The national elections in April will
branches to let them know what we are be by email.
• Kathleen Freitas
doing. Barbara Von Glahn, President
AAUW Funds Vice President:
• Carol Joyce
Recording Secretary: Glimmer of Hope for Tech Trek in July
• Lisa Lopez In early March, 12 seventh-grade deadline for naming five campers is
Treasurer: girls received letters of May 1, and we hope that camp at
congratulations on being chosen as Stanford in July is still possible.
• Christine Green
semifinalists in our Tech Trek Many thanks to committee
On April 13 you will receive an selection process. Unfortunately, members Pauline Shue, Jane
email invitation to vote for this COVID-19 has delayed the process. Bonvallet, Gladys Picht and Mary
slate of officers. AAUW-CA has moved the deadlines Wynne for reading all the
for naming winners, and we will adjust applications. It takes many hours to
Respectfully submitted by the to the current situation with possible pore over all the girls' essays, and it's
Nominating Committee: Lee Ellis, virtual interviews in the near future, greatly appreciated.
Jan Grierson, Carol Joyce and once we know that all the candidates Julie Gerth, Tech Trek
have computer access. Our new
Katie Murdock
Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
History Tidbit The Chamber of Commerce March 3 meeting, where there was a
1976 – The Branch stitchery Teacher Appreciation Night was presentation by the Half Moon Bay
group made two-sided dolls for Feb. 27. Many organizations and High School career education teacher
the AAUW-CA state convention businesses donated to teachers, who from the agriculture and natural
fundraiser. Micky Hinthorn, were given bags of donated supplies resources program. This program is
then president of the San Mateo for their classroom. Every teacher 75 years old and has been updated for
branch before moving to Half there also received a $100 bill. This jobs in the current market. The
Moon Bay, was the happy year, I was honored to hand one from program collaborates closely with
recipient of one of them. AAUW to Jim Ward. relevant businesses on the coastside.
Barbara Von Glahn attended the Mary Alice Pearce, Representative
Page 6 • Volume 53, Issue 8 The TIDINGS
News from Membership
We have postponed our March and attended San Francisco State Save the Date
happy hour until further notice. But we University.
are very excited to host a record Margot Lowry is rejoining. She April 13–21
number of new and prospective lives in Montara and attended SFSU
members! and Indiana University. Voting for
Please welcome the following new Margaret (Peggy) Pearlson lives Branch Officers
members: in Montara and attended Rutgers
Juliet Bolding lives in Half Moon University and Hunter College.
Bay and attended San Jose State We look forward to rescheduling
April 18
University. this event soon!
Linda Frisch lives in Half Moon Kathleen Freitas and Sheila AAUW California
Bay and attended Humboldt State Spieller, Co-Vice Presidents for Virtual Annual Meeting
University. Membership
Lisa Lopez lives in Half Moon Bay
April 20
Theater Bash canceled Branch meeting
We had to cancel our Theater Bash another option. via Zoom
for March 26 because of the In the meantime, a number of you
coronavirus. As it turned out, Coastal have purchased tickets. Vivian
Repertory Theater canceled its Costello has stepped up to handle all May 7
production of "Into the Woods" a few ticket sales issues. Please contact her at
days later. Things keep changing on an aauwhmbtreasurer@gmail.com or
Coastside Gives
hourly basis, so who knows what the call or text her at 650-622-2472 to
story will be by the time this edition of arrange a refund.
the Tidings reaches you? Finally, because we are uncertain Please check the calendars
We are still hoping that we can whether we will be able to move ahead on the AAUW-HMB,
salvage this critical fundraiser this year this year with a theater bash event at all,
AAUW-CA and AAUW
and, to that end, we are considering two we urge you to give generously on May
possibilities. CRT may try to present 7 to AAUW’s Coastside Gives event as
websites for updates,
"Into the Woods" later this year. this could turn out to be our only additional events and
Otherwise, we will consider their significant fundraiser this year. announcements.
production of "Spamalot" in August as Paulette Eisen
The TIDINGS Volume 53, Issue 8 • Page 7
First Outdoor Suffrage Monument Bill Passes House
Every Word We Utter, a
commemorative sculpture created by
Jane DeDecker, honors the
suffragists who secured for women
the rights and privileges afforded
citizens of the United States.
Earlier this year, the House voted
to pass H.R. 473, a bill that authorizes
the installation of the first outdoor
monument in Washington, D.C., to
honor the 19th Amendment and the
women’s suffrage movement.
Rep. Jackie Speier said, "I was
proud to vote in favor of this bill,
which passed the House by a voice
vote. It is outrageous that we do not
have an outdoor monument
dedicated to the hard work of the
Studio of Jane DeDecker suffragists. ... They deserve
A studio version of "Every Word We Utter" near the final sculpture, still in recognition and for future
production. generations to learn about this
important history." The bill is
awaiting passage by the Senate.
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