ACTION
American Association of University Women
October 2014
Number 344
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Oct. 18th – Branch Meeting held at Palomar UU Fellowship, Vista:
Common Core Standards – How They Change California Education
Last May, in the wake of wildfires and the smoke they brought to the area,
our key speaker, Glenda Cuevas, could not address us because she had
lost her voice. But her intended message was one that should be of
interest to all, and the program committee has again asked her to come
and enlighten our membership on the new California-mandated standards
for elementary through high school math and English education. Glenda is
currently principal of Mission Elementary School in Oceanside. Previously
she rose in the system from elementary to middle school educator to district Principal Glenda Cuevas
Instruction Coordinator. She has been involved with curriculum revisions as
they have developed. Again, as we expected in May, her talk should engender a lively discussion.
COV Dates at a Glance
(Details given on pages 4-6)
COV Branch Meeting Sat. Oct. 18:
TIMES: 9:30 am. Gathering on patio for
coffee and refreshments
10 am. Business meeting, followed
by speaker and discussion
Lunch Bunch:…………………………..Fri. Oct.
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New
Prospective Member Brunch Set for October
Mystery Books:………………………...Mon. Oct. 6
Drama Divas:…………………………, Thurs. Oct.9
New Member Brunch:………………Fri. Oct. 9
PLACE: Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,
Scrabble:………………………………….Tues. Oct. 14
1600 Buena Vista Drive, Vista
(turn off S. Melrose across from Albertsons)
International Relations:…………..Wed. Oct. 15
REFRESHMENTS: courtesy of Exploring California
On the Go: Wreaths.………………….Wed. Oct. 15
NO CHARGE – invite your friends
Branch Meeting:...................................Sat. Oct. 18
Exploring CA:……………………………Mon. Oct. 20
Martha S. Dropouts:……………….... Sun. Oct. 26
Mostly Books:…………………………....Tues. Oct. 28
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New & Prospective Member Brunch Set for October 10
MISSION STATEMENT
AAUW Mission is to advance equity for
women and girls through Advocacy,
Education, Philanthropy and Research.
AAUW DIVERSITY STATEMENT
In principle and practice, AAUW values
and seeks a diverse membership. There
shall be no barriers to full participation in this
organization on the basis of gender, r a c e ,
creed, age, sexual orientation, national
origin, disability or class.
Sally Cummins, Membership Vice President, will hold a Brunch for new
and prospective members at her home, 2015 Rue de la Montagne,
Oceanside, on Friday, October 10th at 10 am. Current board members
will be present to meet and greet our newest members and prospects.
They will explain the various offices and programs of the Carlsbad Oceanside-Vista Branch of AAUW and answer any questions guests
may have.
Who among your friends and associates would benefit from being
an active member of our branch? Please give their names to Sally or
plan to bring them to the brunch. RSVP Sally at 760-722-1604.
EDUCATIONAL FUNDS-(EF) The
AAUW Educational Funds provide grants to
advance education, research and selfdevelopment for women and to foster equity
and positive societal change.
LEGAL ADVOCACY FUND-(LAF)
The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides
funding and a support system for plaintiffs
seeking judicial redress for sexual
discrimination.
CARLSBAD-OCEANSIDE-VISTA BRANCH
Co-Presidents:
SANDY BROWN 760-433-3362
ELE LAVENDER 760-804-1366
Treasurer: Ruth Plotkin
Membership Treasurer: Sue Mitchell
Communications Dir.: Adrianne Hakes
Action Editor: Jan Boysen
Webmaster: Charlene Williamson
Website: aauw-cov.org
State Website: aauw-ca.org
National Website: aauw.org
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Next Board Meeting will be 9:30 am
Monday, Oct. 13 at Lynda Daniels’,
4547 Picadilly Ct. Carlsbad, CA 92010.
Her phone number is 760-542-6631.
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A Few Words from Your Co-Presidents:
This month most of the interest groups will start their yearly
programs. We encourage you to join a group and make new friends.
Put their meeting dates on your calendar plus our monthly meetings
on the third Saturday of each month. We still need volunteers for
committees and some Board Positions. (We particularly need a
second Membership VP.) Think about the ONE THING you can do for
us this year. That’s all we ask…ONE project, one committee or one
interest group. Be a part of our vibrant group!!
The National AAUW Convention will be held in San Diego from
June 18-21st, 2015.
Put the dates in your calendar now and plan to volunteer and stay
for at least one day.
It will excite you about being an AAUW member and you will learn
something about this wonderful organization.
…Ele and Sandy
TREASURES TABLE to benefit the branch treasury will be available at the October Branch Meeting. Ele Lavender
is looking for gently-used gift items, as well as good quality hardback books that would interest our members.
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SARA PEREZ HONORED WITH JEANNE GRUENWALD SCHOLARSHIP AT SEPT. MEETING
Sara Perez graciously accepted her
designation as the $1,500 Jeanne
Gruenwald Scholarship winner for 2014
at the September COV Branch meeting.
“I am fortunate to have been chosen for
this honor,” she stated. “The
scholarship has taken a weight off my
shoulders.” She went on to tell about
her family, including parents from two
parts of Mexico, each speaking a
different dialect, and neither knowing
Spanish or English.
When her father obtained his visa to
come to the U.S., he brought the family,
and they have been living a very frugal
life in Oceanside.
“One of my dreams has been to get a higher
education,” Sara continued, “but at times it seemed only a dream.” She has four younger siblings, and often has to take
them to school and be their surrogate parent.
“I am the first in my family to try to get a degree,” she states. This spring Sara obtained her A.A. in sociology at Mira
Costa, and this fall is enrolled at Cal State San Marcos. She is a unit leader at her job at Legoland, and finds time for
community service, volunteering with Support Urban Projects (SUN) at three sites, and Project Reach with the Navy
League. “I want to help my community – those that are the least fortunate.” She already seems to be doing just that.
(Photo above shows Sara, center, with Ellie Burton, Jeanne Gruenwald and Pat Haxall. As a student at an AAUWassociated college, Sara will also be eligible for an electronic membership in our organization.)
‘PLEDGE TO REG’
Don’t want to pay for AAUW’s 2015 Convention in San Diego? ‘Pledge to Reg’ today!
What’s better than attending the 2015 AAUW National Convention in San Diego June 18-21,
2015?
Answer: Coming free of charge.
There’s a strong possibility of you not paying a dime for your registration. If you ‘Pledge to Reg’
(meaning to pledge to register delegates) the AAUW Board of Directors will send you a reminder
e-mail when registration opens on October 1. Then, if you complete your registration before
January 1, you will be entered to have your registration fees refunded. So ‘Pledge to Reg’ right
away, and tell your friends and fellow members to join the wave, too!
Have questions as to what is required? Connect2AAUW is your staff resource to answer your
queries and/or help you connect with the right person within AAUW. Call us at 1-800-326-2289,
Monday through Friday, 10 am – 5 pm EST, or e-mail [email protected].
With the National Convention right in our back yard, you may never again have such an opportunity!
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DRAMA DIVAS We are back in business for another year.
Chavez Middle School AVID Students Display
Dictionaries – Courtesy of our Branch Donors
Our first meeting is Thurs. Oct. 9 at 1 pm. Our hostess is
Kay Riley, 4024 Crescent Pt. Rd., Carlsbad. RSVP 760-7292193. Our play is “As Is” by William Hoffman. Fee for the
year is $10. Come join us; it is always fun. Jean
Mandelbaum, chair.
EXPLORING CALIFORNIA meets at 9:30 am, Mon. Oct. 20
at the home of Jean Mandelbaum, 3890-8 Vista Compaña
S. (N St.) Oceanside. (Call her if you are coming: 760-4390460.) Sue Mitchell will co-host. Year’s theme: “The ‘90s.”
The Coast of Dreams report is by Wanda Fuller. Gloria
Millikin will speak on “The Politics of No Child Left Behind,”
and Renny Dowling will explain “Children’s Literature of
the ‘90s.” Jan Boysen, chair, 760-631-7055;
[email protected].
Happy faces all, these AVID 7th graders in Oceanside
were recent recipients of our COV Branch Dictionary
giveaway, as were similar classes in all Oceanside,
Carlsbad and Vista public schools, thanks to our
members’ generosity. (AVID is an acronymn for
Achievement Via Individual Determination. Students
are selected for their recognized academic potential.)
Adrianne Hakes heads this project, and wants to
thank the volunteers who helped label the dictionaries
and distribute them to the individual schools, and
especially thank the members who submitted
monetary donations with their annual memberships.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS will meet on Wed. Oct.
15th. If you have any questions, e-mail Annemarie
Whalen, chair, [email protected].
LUNCH BUNCH We will meet Fri., Oct. 3rd, at 11:30 at
the Oceanside Broiler, formerly the Monterey Bay
Cannery. The restaurant, which is at 1325 N. Harbor Dr.
along the Oceanside Harbor, opened this summer after
renovation. For reservations contact Pat Fore at 760- 7041280 or [email protected]. All members are
welcome and encouraged to join us.
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MARTHA STEWART DROPOUTS The Dropouts will be
meeting on Sat. Oct. 26th at 4 pm at the home of Jean and
Art Mandelbaum, #8 on N St. in Oceana. We are going
Hawaiian. Bring a dish to go with pineapple chicken. Start
practicing your hula; wear your ‘grass skirt’ and come have
fun. Jean Mandelbaum, chair.
[email protected].
MOSTLY BOOKS Our next meeting is 1 pm on Tues. Oct.
Interest Groups
28 at the home of Jean Van Housen, 1819 Timber Trail,
Vista, 760-598-1536. The book is not chosen, but Marie will
call or email regular participants absent at the Sept.
meeting. Mark your calendar to save the fourth Tuesday
afternoon of each month. We’ll choose books as we go, so
bring suggestions. – Marie Townley, chair, 760-727-5006.
BRIDGE GROUPS operate all year. If you are interested in
joining any of these groups, contact co-chair Wanda
Downer, [email protected] or 760-941-2841.
COUPLES GOURMET met in late September at the
home of Bev Nickerson and determined groups and
themes for 2014-2015. If you and another person are
interested in substituting or joining the activities this year,
contact [email protected].
MYSTERY BOOKS The Mystery Group will meet at
1 pm on Oct. 6 at Sing Baker’s home, 866 Violet Court,
Carlsbad. If you’ve never been there before, email
[email protected] for for an excellent map that she
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Her extended family of course also includes brother Bill and Lynn
Rego. “Bill keeps our family centered,” Marguerite explains. “He
is the center.” When the Rego’s daughter from the East came to
visit recently, Marguerite was invited over to a real New England
clambake, “something I had not attended for more than twenty
years!” (Any of our COV members who know Bill Rego from
Couples Gourmet, Martha Stewart Dropouts, or from his civic
work in Oceanside, will attest that he definitely keeps a party
lively!) And now we have his sister among us, too.
has drawn to get you there. The book is Dragon Bones,
part of a mystery trilogy by Lisa See, quite different from
any of her other books. This story is set in contemporary
China as the Three Gorges Dam project is nearing
completion. In November, we will be discussing a recent
best seller from John Grisham, Sycamore Row. I hope new
members will choose to attend one of these meetings.
For more information contact Ann Appleton at
[email protected] or at 760-643-1277.
ON THE GO 1 pm Oct. 15th is a Wreath-Making Party. See
details on page 6. [email protected]
SCRABBLE The next Scrabble game is 1 pm Tues. Oct. 14 at
Lynda Daniels’, 4547 Picadilly Ct., Carlsbad. Prizes are
awarded to the highest and lowest scores!
Contact [email protected] or 760-542-6631.
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Meet Marguerite Nims, new COV member
Marguerite Nims is no stranger to AAUW. For more than 20
years she was a member of the Escondido-San Marcos branch.
But as a birthday gift this year, Lynn and Bill Rego gave her a
membership in our Carlsbad-Oceanside-Vista Branch. And that’s
because Marguerite is Bill’s sister. She is looking forward to
meeting more of us. An avid bridge player, she has substituted in
at least one COV game, and from that knows Jeanne Gruenwald
and Jane Cheadle…and as a San Elijo resident, she is well
acquainted with Faye Capps. In the Escondido-San Marcos
Branch, she worked on Tech Trek for four years. “And then I
started a local scholarship fund for women going back to school,”
she reports. Lately, however, she has slowed her activities to
accommodate frequent trips to see an ailing daughter in
Camarillo. “But I still like to play bridge two or three times a
week,” she says.
Marguerite has always been an active lady. A nurse, born into a
family of eight on a small farm on Newport Island, Rhode Island,
she married William Nims and moved with him to Indiana. But
Marguerite had visited California, and knew that was where she
would like to live. So she found her husband a job teaching at
Grossmont High in La Mesa, and fifty-five years ago the family
came West. Her Bill acquired an engineering degree and later
became the owner of a heavy equipment dealership. When his
four girls from a previous marriage reached their teens, they
joined the Nims and their four children – two boys and two girls
-- in La Mesa. “We had a fabulous life,” she recalls. “We opened
up our house to all their friends, and many times had 24 persons
for dinner.” They lived on a large property along a golf course.
Their acreage had room for horses, and the family went on many
hikes. Marguerite especially enjoyed ballroom dancing, square
dancing and snow skiing at Mammoth. Marguerite moved to her
present home two years ago, where she lives near one of her
daughters. Her husband died in 1988.
Marguerite Nims at home.
FALL AAUW FUNDS LUNCHEON
Sun. Oct. 19 from Noon to 3 pm
Old Ranch Country Club, Seal Beach
Honoring Funds Fellows and Grant
Recipients
$40 per person; RSVP Deadline OCT. 8
Register at www.aauw-ca.org
Here is your chance to mingle with AAUW
colleagues from across the state and hear
from AAUW National Fellowship winners.
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ANNUAL POSTOFFICE CIRCULATION STATEMENT
Wreath Making
1 pm Wed. Oct. 15
Come and make a
Seasonal or Holiday
Wreath
6146 Citracado Circle,
Carlsbad
Limited to the first 8 persons
who register. Cost is $5, plus
a basic wood or straw base.
Contact Ele Lavender to register.
[email protected]
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Changes to your AAUW-COV 2014-15 Directory:
ADELA CAYOUS B’DAY 8/8
1975 CALLE SINALOA
VISTA, CA 92084
Univ. of Alaska BA Secondary Education
760-305-7126 EMAIL: [email protected]
FAYE CAPPS NEW EMAIL: [email protected]
SALLY ROBINSON EMAIL: [email protected]
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