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NEXT MEETING IS:

Monday, Nov. 2, 2015

5:30 p.m. social time

6:00 p.m. dinner, speaker,

and meeting

at Cortland Elks on Groton

Ave. in Cortland

Cost is $15 each.

Please RSVP to Dottie

Fowler at 756-6698 or

dfowler13045@verizon.net

by Thursday Oct. 29.

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

5Upcoming meetings 1

Future events 2

Committee News 3

Branch News 4

News continued 5

Cortland Branch

November, 2015

NEWSLETTER

December 7th meeting format for

Philanthropy Phun

The feedback from last year’s Trivia Night was so positive that we are bring-

ing it back! This month we are raising

funds for our YWCA summer camp

scholarship for children.

Cost: $30 This covers both our regular $15 for food (heavy holiday hors

d’oeuvres) AND a $15 donation. Cash bar available.

You can join a table and play the Trivia game or watch the fun– your choice,

but the cost is the same– it is Philanthropy Phun. Bring friends!

Prizes will be awarded for each of the winning team members for each round.

Karen Hempson is creating the questions, and she says study up on your

women’s history facts as one of the three rounds is all about women’s issues.

There will also be a book sale to benefit our upcoming Tech Savvy confer-

ence. Questions? Ask Sara Earl at forrestandsara@gmail.com.

Nov. 2 Meeting at the Cortland Elks

Speaker Fran Pizzola will discuss “Ages and stages of a woman with a disability”

The menu includes Caesar salad, chicken picata, baked haddock, rice pilaf,

green peas and pearl onions, and a chocolate dessert. Also rolls, butter, coffee

or tea. Reservations need to be made NO LATER than Thursday, October

29th by phone 756 6698 or email dfowler13045@verizon.net.

The cost of the dinner is $15.00.

Hostesses are Dorothea Fowler, Kim Allen and Sally Dear-Healey.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, April 9, 2016 TC3.

AAUW national awarded the Cortland and Ithaca branches of

AAUW a $5000 grant to offer a Tech Savvy conference, an all

day event to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering

and math) fields for girls in grades 6-9.

Please check the Tech Savvy link on the Cortland AAUW web-

site for updates and for opportunities to donate as well as volun-

teer to help organize the conference and to help out on the day

of the conference. Contact Sheila Cohen for more information.

The Hunting Ground

Thursday, November 5, 2015

7 p.m.

SUNY Cortland -Sperry Room 105

The Hunting Ground (2015) is a critically acclaimed documentary written and di-

rected by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering, the makers of The Invisible War

(2012). The Hunting Ground premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The film of-

fers “an exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and

the devastating toll they take on students and their families” (IMDB). Rated PG-13 for dis-

turbing thematic material involving sexual assault, and for language.

YWCA Bridges for Kids program will be asking for donations of

children’s books this holiday season. Donated books, new socks,

underwear and PJs will be distributed to all 100 families.

Donations appreciated. Contact Sara Earl at the YW 753-9651

for more information.

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Holiday Inn

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P age Committee News

FROM THE PROGAMS CHAIR:

For those who are responsible for monthly speakers,

please remember to send your speaker a reminder of

the time and place of our AAUW dinner and find out

if they will be showing a power point.. Please con-

tact Jan Dempsey at 756-4636 or

dempseyj1@verizon.net. To reserve a screen and

projector.

From the Newsletter Chair:

Newsletters are sent out one week

prior to our meetings. Please

submit any Committee news or up-

coming events for the Newsletter

to Sara Earl at

forrestandsara@gmail.com two weeks

before our monthly AAUW

meeting.

From the Hostesses:

HOW DOES THIS DINNER RESERVATION THING WORK?

News for new members and a reminder to all members :

If you sign up to attend a meeting, you are responsible for paying for that

dinner meeting unless you call to cancel the reservation by the deadline. Our

branch gives the Elks Club the number of reservations and they cook enough

food for that number. They will charge our AAUW branch for the number of

reservations made, not the number in attendance. Checks for unused

reservations should be sent to Mary Ellen Bloodgood as soon as possible.

Thanks for your consideration.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Holiday Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army

Bring your date book to the meeting and

Dottie Fowler will pass the sign up sheet for

Community Service bell ringing. We will be

INDOORS at TOPS on Saturday, November

14th.

The Meyer’s Flyers committee is seeking AAUW members with a passion for education

to continue this innovative 5th grade recognition. Kathy Jacobsen will explain the award at the

meeting and ask for interested volunteers.

TOPS CARDS

Tops Gift Card Sales were down in October. We made

a profit of $45.00. Please think of ordering gift cards

which can be used to buy gift cards for many different

stores/vendors. Christmas, and Hanukkah are coming!

Cortland Branch participated in the planning and execution of the Ash for Trash forum lead by LWV of Cortland held at the County Office Building on October 13th. Of note, teachers and students from McGraw School attended and participated with questions and comments.

News of the Month

THE MASK YOU LIVE IN was shown on October

20.at the YWCA of Cortland. This documentary

discusses the community's pressure on boys and

men to be macho, violent, and to quash their feel-

ings with respect to human relationships. See

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc45-ptHMxo for a

preview of the film.

AAUW Cortland Branch hosted a HANY Roundtable event on October 15th. Two representatives from

this organization met with representatives of Homer Schools, and St. Mary's School. Cortland Schools

superintendent was invited, but did not attend. Discussion focused on the common core, and ways to

improve it. Many ideas were put forth, and will be forwarded by HANY to those working to improve this

system. Thank you to SUNY Cortland liaison member Ginny Levine for assisting us in our use of a class-

room in the Beard Building.

AAUW Cortland Branch Update- Meet Sally Dear-Healey

Sally Dear-Healey, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology and Anthropology and Coor-dinator of Women’s Studies at SUNY Cortland. She has also taught at Jefferson Community College, Binghamton University, SUNY Oneonta and Syracuse University. Sally is a long-time women’s and family health, family violence, and health-care rights activist. Her more recent work focuses on the erosion of individual and family health-care rights, informed deviance, and the criminalization of women’s bodies. After being awarded the 2010 Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for “her courageous defense of academic integrity in collegiate sports,” she has become active in issues related to academic integrity and freedom and currently serves as the Vice President of the NYS American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Chair of the NYS AAUP Committee on the Status of Women in the Academic Profession, and is an elected representative of District VIII and sits on Committee W (Women) at AAUP National. She is also on the Advisory Council and an elected Member-At-Large on the Board of Directors of The Drake Group and serves as a Community Mediator for Accord; A Center for Dispute Resolution.

The District 3 Conference was held Saturday, October 24th at The Museum of the Earth in Ithaca.

The Ithaca branch put together an interesting array of speakers discussing science education “From Mud

Pies to Dinosaur Bones.” One of the messages was to beware of “Brogrammar” such as this gender biased

Target sign. See little Riley’s honest and entertaining

view of “princess vs. super heroes” marketing at this

link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU040Hqbas

Women’s Equality Act Update

New York lawmakers passed nine out of ten bills in the Women’s Equality Act. Cuomo first introduced the package back in January 2013, and after failing to pass it, made it a keystone of his 2014 re-election campaign. The 10-point legislative plan includes strengthening equal pay laws, outlawing discrimination against par-ents and pregnant women in the workplace, increasing protections for victims of domestic violence, strengthening laws against human trafficking, and safeguarding reproductive health by codifying Roe v. Wade into New York State law. It was the “abortion plank” that proved to be a sticking point with Senate republicans. “Although this legislation is a significant advance for gender equality in the state, paid family leave is still on the table,” reports NY AAUW Public Policy Chair, Donna Seymour.

Speaker Illa Burbank displays the public notion of a NERD and

she declares she is proud of her nerdiness. “Talk Science with

kids,” she says, “What a beautiful rainbow, see how the light is

refracted by the raindrops?”