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WORDS
TO THE
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WOMEN IN SEARCH OF EDUCATION AND EQUITY
Volume 19, Issue 7
AAUW of Virginia
AAUW of West Virginia
States Conference
Advancing equity for women and
girls through advocacy, education,
philanthropy, and research.
Winchester, Virginia, Branch
http://aauw-va.aauw.net/branches/winchester
PRESIDENT
MARSHA GOCHENOUR (533-8069)
[email protected]
VICE PRESIDENT - PROGRAM
ROSEMARY GREEN (539-2674)
MARY RUOS (592-3200)
VICE PRESIDENT - MEMBERSHIP
JACKIE RUFF (869-2261)
RECORDING SECRETARY
JACKIE RUFF (869-2261)
FINANCE
MARY FROEHLICH (869-1728)
AAUW FUNDS
MARY FROEHLICH (869-1728)
LEGAL ADVOCACY FUND
JOAN JOHNSON (667-5222)
EDUCATION / LOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS
SUZAN HERSKOWITZ (450-3223)
PAT GOCHENOUR (662-2939)
WORDS TO THE WISE2 EDITOR
MARTHA PRUSCH (667-7991)
BOARD MEETING
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Office of Marsha Gochenour
Fabritek
6:00 p.m. Pizza
Board meetings are open to all members.
There is always plenty of pizza, so don’t
hesitate to join us.
April, 2015
[email protected]. Show your pride
and your hope for the future. Help us
build-a-cake !
You may find further details about
the conference on the AAUWOFVA
website and in the February and March
issues of Words to the WISE2.
Cheaters
April 18-19, 2015
Double Tree by Hilton
990 Hilton Heights Road
Charlottesville, VA
The dates of the conference are
fast approaching! More than 100
members from Virginia and West
Virginia have already registered and
Mary Froehlich has gladly accepted
their money and information. We have
11 attending so far from our branch to
aid in registration and hostessing
duties. If you would also like to attend
contact Marsha as soon as possible to
arrange carpooling.
Can’t make the trip to the state
conference? There is a way for you to
participate: Build-A-Cake! We are
proud and excited to be celebrating 90
years of AAUW of Virginia this year!
Through the decades we have had many
challenges and many successes. But,
there are also many things left to do.
We can’t wait to create an even stronger
future for women and girls. Join the
celebration! What do you wish for the
next 90 years?
We will build–a–cake with your
wishes at the Conference. There are 2
ways to participate: (1) write down your
wish and have a Winchester branch
member take it to conference or (2) send
a wish early by email by April 15 to
[email protected], or
Benefit for AAUW – Winchester
Local Scholarship Fund
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
8:00 p.m.
$25.00 tickets
Winchester Little Theatre
315 West Boscawen Street
Refreshments @ Intermission
Contact Mary Froehlich for reservations
540-869-1728 [email protected]
SAVE THE DATE!
Annual Branch Meeting
and Board Brunch
Saturday May 16, 2015
Home of Marsha Gochenour
201 Crest Circle
Winchester, VA
Don’t miss our annual Branch
Meeting and Board Brunch on Saturday
May 16, at the home of our president,
Marsha Gochenour. Great food will be
provided by board members and we will
discuss our future as a branch and what
kinds of meeting we might like to see.
Complete the Program Evaluation on
page 5, bring it with you to the meeting,
and be prepared to talk about where we
are going as a Branch. If you cannot
attend send the form to Rosemary Green.
President’s Message
Treasurer’s Report
Marsha Gochenour
Thanks to all the members who
helped make the Woman of the Year
reception a great success. Dr. Cheryl
Thompson-Stacy was an enthusiastic
and appreciative honoree. AAUW has
so many ties with both her and Lord
Fairfax Community College it was
destined that she would be recognized
as WOY. A special thanks to member
Liv Heggoy for Dr. Cheryl’s
introduction and taking care of the
news release and press coverage.
Kudos also go to Betty Jo and Myron
Dickerson for spearheading the
refreshment committee.
Congratulations to Rosemary
Green who was revealed as our
Named Gift Honoree. Her sparkling
and inquisitive mind has led our
programming for the last two years, as
well as the next two years. She is a
great asset to our branch. See our
program evaluation in this newsletter.
There are a dozen of us heading
to Charlottesville for the state
conference this month. Mary and
Martha have been working on
registrations and name badges
beforehand. The rest of us have been
assigned duties the day of the
conference such as greeters, workshop
guides, meeting aides, etc. If anyone
else has an interest in attending, please
contact me ASAP.
Since we are not having a
Winchester branch meeting in April,
consider joining one of our monthly
special interest groups. The book club
is meeting April 20. You do not have
to have read the book in order to enjoy
the pot luck dinner. Or just come out
to eat at Carrabba’s on April 27. This
is a purely social time to share each
other’s company. And don’t forget our
Winchester Little Theatre fund raiser
on May 6th.
My crocuses are blooming, so –
THINK SPRING!
Marsha
Evening Book Group
Mary Froehlich
As of March 28, 2015:
$ 1,248.53
2,537.35
1,232.70
133.45
90.52
Checking
Savings
Scholarship (local)
AAUW Funds
Legal Advocacy Fund
There has been no activity on our
account in the last month. There will
be a few expenses for the Woman of
the Year program and other
expenses involved with the AAUW
State Convention on April 18.
Nominations
We will vote for the positions
of President and Vice President for
Programs for our branch at the May
meeting. Marsha Gochenour and
Rosemary Green, with the help of
Mary Ruos, have agreed to serve
second terms in their respective
offices. Any other nominations may
be made at the time of the vote.
CLEO
(Classy Ladies Eating Out)
Marsha Gochenour
Monday
April 27, 2015
6:30 p.m.
Carrabba’s Italian Grill
231 Kernstown Commons Blvd
In front of Alamo Theaters
Call Marsha (533-8069) if you plan
to attend so she will have a head
count.
Marsha Gochenour
Monday, April 20, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Office of Suzan Herskowitz
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The insatiably curious Alma Whittaker,
daughter of a scrappy botanical baron,
spends most of her life confined to her
family estate in Philadelphia, yearning
for a life of greater passion and liberty.
She channels her desires into botany,
thrilling to the miniature universe of
moss in the forests surrounding her
house, developing a new taxonomy that
becomes a theory encompassing all
living things, parallel to Darwin’s. Then
she finally turns herself loose on the
world. Beautifully written and imbued
with a reverence for science and for
learning. A rich novel by the author of
Eat, Pray, Love.
Upcoming Book Group Meetings:
Monday, May 18, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Home of Martha Prusch
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
Monday, June 15, 2015
6:00 p.m.
Home of Jackie Ruff
Choose one:
Daring Greatly
by Brene Brown or
Lean In
by Sheryl Sandberg
More details will be found in future
newsletters. Hope to see any and all
of you at these get-togethers for
good food and good discussions.
Cheaters
May 6, 2015 - Don’t Miss It!
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A farcical situation comedy exploring the
“human dilemma” of infidelity at war with
deeper bonds of love created by
commitment to family values. Does this
playwright resolve this issue?
Benefit for AAUW – Winchester, Local Scholarship Fund
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 8:00 p.m.
$25.00 tickets
Winchester Little Theatre
315 West Boscawen Street
Wine and Cheese Refreshments @ Intermission
Contact Mary Froehlich for reservations
540-869-1728 [email protected]
WISE2 Women in Winchester
 Jane Parrish continues to care for her husband, Arthur, who is back in the hospital.
 Congratulations to Rosemary Green as our recipient of the Named Gift for our donation to AAUW Funds
for 2015. Thank you so much for the fine programs and all that you do for our branch.
 A big thank you to all who worked on the Woman of the Year program on March 20. The Winchester Star
had a wonderful article on March 21 about our honoree, Dr. Cheryl Thompson-Stacy. Photos were included
of her with Marsha Gochenour and Liv Heggoy. Mary Froehlich was shown with Rosemary Green and
our distinctive banner.
 Amy Fielder has taken a fall. As active as she wants to be, she would appreciate hearing from you during
her recovery from several broken ribs.
 Rosemary Green, PhD, presented a conference session at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Commons Conference, held March 25-27 in Savannah, GA. Her presentation, Literature Reviewing as
Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning Graduate Literacies, was based on her doctoral research and graduate
teaching experiences. She will present papers at two other conferences in May and June, based also on her
teaching and research. Way to go, Rosemary!
CALENDAR
April 18-19
April 20
April 20
April 27
May 6
May 16
June 24
AAUW VA/WVA States Conference, Charlottesville
Book Group, The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert, office of Suzan Herskowitz,
Pot Luck, 6:00 p.m.
Deadline for May issue of Words to the WISE2
CLEO, Carrabba’s, 6:30 p.m.
Cheaters, Winchester Little Theatre play fundraiser
May Meeting, Annual Branch Meeting and Board Brunch, home of Marsha Gochenour, 10 a.m.
Board Meeting, Fabritek, 6:00 p.m.
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Minutes of Winchester Branch of AAUW Board Meeting
March 11, 2015, 6:00 p.m., Fabritek
Present: Marsha Gochenour, Martha Prusch, Suzan Herskowitz, Mary Ruos, Jackie Ruff, Rosemary Green, Susannah
Godlove, and Mary Froehlich
Marsha Gochenour called the meeting to order. The minutes and treasurer's report were approved as presented in the
last newsletter.
There was no new membership information.
Suzan Herskowitz reported that the $750 Scholarship applications from Lord Fairfax Community College will be due
April 15, 2015. The Scholarship Committee will then choose the recipient. The recipient will be invited to the play
and the May 16 branch meeting.
March 20 will be the Woman of the Year presentation. It will take place at 6:00 p.m. at the Frederick County Board
of Supervisors room. This year we will honor Cheryl Thompson-Stacy, President of Lord Fairfax Community
College. Refreshments will be prepared by the Branch members coordinated by Betty Jo Dickerson and Jody Elson.
Liv Heggoy will introduce our recipient. Our named gift recipient will also be recognized.
May 16 will be our Annual Branch meeting. It will be a brunch prepared by the Board and will begin at 10:00 a.m. at
the home of Marsha Gochenour. We will have elections and a further discussion of the future of the Branch. The cost
will be $10.00 with the money being used for the Woman of the Year fund.
May 6 will be our fundraiser at the Winchester Little Theater. The play is “Cheaters”. The cost is $25.00 per ticket.
Call Mary Froehlich for ticket reservations.
In the next newsletter there will be a brief survey to guide us in planning for future meetings.
April 18 is the Virginia /West Virginia convention. Our branch is in charge of registration and assisting as needed in
the workshop rooms. Registration form and information were in the February newsletter. The Board approved a gift
of $50 each to Conference Co-Chairs Marsha and Sylvia Rodgers for all their work on the convention.
The evening book group meetings are as follows:
March 16 Cut from Strong Cloth by Linda Sittig at Pat Rice's
April 20
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert at Suzan Herskowitz's office
May 18
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer at Martha Prusch's
June 15
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown and/or Lean In by Sheryl Sandburg at Jackie Ruff's
The potluck dinners begin at 6:00 and all are invited.
CLEO will be Monday, March 30, at Winchester Thai, Loudoun Street Mall at 6:30 p.m.
The Valley Business Women's Luncheon will be March 18 at the Winchester Country Club with Jay Foreman
speaking. Contact Marsha Gochenour for further information.
The next branch Board meeting will be Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. at Fabritek. All are invited.
Respectfully submitted,
Jackie Ruff
Secretary
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Winchester Branch
Program Evaluation
Our programs for the past two years have been varied and interesting. Some have been well attended,
while others - not so much. To assist in planning for next year’s programs, please complete the following
evaluation and bring it to the May brunch meeting where we will discuss future programming. If you are
not attending the meeting, please either email it back to Rosemary Green ([email protected]) or mail it to
her at P. O. Box 309, Stephens City, VA 22655. Thank you for helping us make 2015-2016 a great year.
Check the top three programs you enjoyed the most or wanted to attend:
(1) _____ Project HOPE – Pat Bacuros
(2) _____ Not Just Women’s Center – Amy Sarch
(3) _____ Cat Tail Run Bookbinding – Jill Deiss
(4) _____ The Role of Local Media in Community Health Literacy – Cee Ann Davis
(5) _____ Midwifery Programs at SU – Juliana Fehr
(6) _____ India Impact Initiative – Camrynn Genda
(7) _____ STEM in schools – Adeela Al-Khalili
(8) _____ Women in the U.S. Military – Nancy Braswell, Laura Braithwaite
(9) _____ Strong Women in History – Linda Sittig
(10) _____ Winchester City Manager – Eden Freeman
(11) _____ Love Your Winchester Branch – Members
Check all of the events that you have attended or are likely to attend:
(1) _____ Candidates’ Forum
(2) _____ Woman of the Year
(3) _____ Annual Meeting and Board Brunch
(4) _____ Evening Book Group
(5) _____ Day Book Group (To be developed)
(6) _____ CLEO (Classy Ladies Eating Out)
(7) _____ Play fundraiser
(8) _____ Other fundraiser __________________________
(9) _____ NW District meeting
(10) _____ AAUW-VA state convention
Why do you continue as an AAUW member?
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Suggestions for meeting topics and/or speakers:
(1) ____________________________________________________________________________
(2) ____________________________________________________________________________
(3) ____________________________________________________________________________
Suggestions for meeting rooms or restaurants:
(1) ____________________________________________________________________________
(2) ____________________________________________________________________________
(3) ____________________________________________________________________________
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Voter Guide
This is the fourth year for AAUW of Virginia’s One Member/One Vote initiative. It is very important
that members participate because we need a quorum of 7 percent for the election. Please take the time to
vote as a responsible AAUW of Virginia member. This year you will be voting on candidates for state
office. The Voter Guide is available on the state website (http://aauwva.aauw.net/).
Verify your email and mailing address in your AAUW national profile
Voting will be made available online to all AAUW of Virginia members with email addresses. The email
address that AAUW National has in your profile in the Member Services Database (MSD) will be the
address used to notify you to vote. New members who have joined by April 1 will be eligible to vote in
the 2015 elections.
Requesting paper ballots - Deadline is April 21
In order to save money, we have instituted an opt-in rather than an opt-out process for receiving a paper
ballot. Members may request a paper ballot between February 2 and April 21 by calling Mary K. Johnson
at 703/913-9490, emailing to [email protected], or writing to her at 7703 Griffin Pond Court,
Springfield, VA 22153. She will need each member’s AAUW ID number, branch, and address. Member
ID numbers are printed in the Winchester yearbook.
Watch for your voting instructions in late April and early May
Do not ignore emails and mailings in April and May! The instructions provided to you at that time will
include the deadlines for voting. All votes will be returned to and tallied by AAUW National so they will
not be seen by AAUW of Virginia members. Questions concerning the process of voting can be directed
to the AAUW of Virginia Voting and Elections Committee (V&EC) at [email protected].
10th Annual Adult Spelling Bee
Literacy Volunteers
Winchester Area
Dues are Due
Thursday, April 16, 2015
This year the Dues Sheet will appear in
your mailbox in a separate mailing.
First Presbyterian Church
116 South Loudoun Street
When it comes use the enclosed envelope
promptly to send your check to Mary
Froehlich.
Doors Open 5:30
Bee Starts 6:30
We all know how things can be lost and
forgotten if not taken care of right away!
Food Provided
Come One, Come All
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Rosemary Green
Named Gift Honoree
The Winchester Branch is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2015 Named Gift is Rosemary
Green.
We are so fortunate that Rosemary has blessed the Winchester Branch by providing leadership for
exemplary programs for the past two years. She has also agreed to serve as Co-Vice President for
Programs for another two years! Her engaging personality and her spirit of inquiry have secured many
interesting speakers and provided the Winchester Area with two excellent Political Forums for the
November elections.
Rosemary Green was born and raised in Blacksburg, Virginia, a university town of the highest order.
Many generations of Rosemary’s immediate and extended family attended what was then VPI. They have
all gone on to contribute greatly to the culture and quality of life on campus and in the greater
community, making contributions in education, the sciences, and of course, in agricultural engineering
and foremost in citizenship and community service.
Rosemary also attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and earned a Bachelor of Arts
as an English major, but all who know her recognize an unlimited interest in all subjects, academic or
otherwise. Her interests cover all aspects of learning and understanding—the grand educational
experiment in general.
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She received a Master of Science in Library Science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Library Science was a natural fit for graduate studies embracing the enormous wealth of human
understanding. Rosemary did find time to focus on a special interest in musicology and dance—passions
of a lifetime.
Leaving academia, Rosemary contributed to the shared search for knowledge in several hospital and
community libraries including the Handley Regional Library. However, the call to teaching brought her
back to the campus of Shenandoah University where she is currently on the faculty as a Librarian with
the Graduate Studies program. She is uniquely qualified for this position having received her PhD from
Deakin University in Victoria, Australia.
Rosemary’s contributions to learning make a very long but quite interesting list. Her papers and
publications support new and proven methods of learning while her application of her own research
touches on an endless variety of topics and focused student interest. She is truly a ‘renaissance professor
of education.’ Her writings encompass digital information literacy, faculty-librarian collaboration,
research anxiety, and distance education.
She shares a custom built “Craftsman Style” home in Stephens City with her husband Ron Heath, also an
artist. She also shares her home with three wonderful cats, some who insist on helping her at the
computer when grading or writing papers. What skills the kittens lack in typing, they more than make up
for in social and therapeutic attention to this woman who does so much for others.
Congratulations, Rosemary!
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Opening Remarks
AAUW Woman of the Year 2015
Welcome to the 32nd annual Woman of the Year Reception
We are the Winchester Branch of the American Association of University Women.
Previous winners attending tonight: June Wilmot, Helen Zebarth, and Rhoda Kriz
Here is a little bit about AAUW and WOY with one commercial interruption.
The American Association of University Women is a local, state, and national nonprofit, nonpartisan
organization that has been a leading voice for equity for women and girls since 1881. Our programs
include:
Education: We support public education that promotes gender equity, fairness, and diversity,
particularly in STEM fields.
Advocacy: In 2014 our Lobby corps volunteers made over 1,200 visits to congressional offices to lobby
on bills and issues such as paycheck fairness act, sexual assault in the military, and the healthy families
act.
Research: We analyze gender equity issues in education and the workplace with topics including
Women in Community College, and Sexual Harassment at Schools.
Leadership: We provide leadership development opportunities for members through workshops and
conferences. In April 2015 the Winchester branch is co-hosting, with the Harrisonburg branch, the VA
state conference in Charlottesville. For college women, we co-host NCCWSL – National Conference for
College Women Student Leaders.
Philanthropy: AAUW is one of the largest sources of funding for graduate and post-graduate women.
National and international awards of $3.7 million dollars were made in the 2014-2015 academic year.
Locally, we award a scholarship to a Lord Fairfax Community College student who is returning to school
for a degree, or to improve her workplace skills.
*** COMMERCIAL ***
Our Winchester Little Theatre fund raiser will occur on May 6th, 2015. All are encouraged to attend and
bring a friend, or two, or three.
WOY history:
The Winchester Business and Professional Women (BPW) started the Woman of the Year program in
1983. When the local club folded, several of us that were members of both organizations wanted to keep
the WOY going. BPW endorsed AAUW taking over in 2009. We moved the reception to March for
National Women’s History Month and have been strong ever since.
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