BRANCH MEETING

Saturday, February 9 @ 10:15 a.m.

At Easttown Library, Berwyn

Title IX Today

Presented by Jen Schillingford

 

At our February meeting we’ll welcome Jen Schillingford, former coach and professor at Ursinus College, champion hockey player, and administrator, who will speak on recent developments regarding Title IX and athletics.  The current administration is considering major changes to Title IX. Jen is a good speaker, knowledgeable and approachable.

Our meeting will begin with delicious refreshments in the library’s meeting room.  Please remember to cover your coffee cup because of the new carpeting.

BRANCH MEETING

Saturday, January 12 @ 10:15 a.m.

At Easttown Library, Berwyn

Let’s Get Organized

Presented by Melanie LeBoeuf

We’ll start the year on a positive note as Melanie LeBoeuf, proprietor of Ducks in a Row, guides us through keeping those New Year’s resolutions, including finally getting organized.  Melanie is expert on whipping our closets, cupboards, attics and offices into shape or helping us to downsize in preparation for moving to a smaller home.  A Worth representative, Melanie excels at weeding out our older and underappreciated garments, with an eye to benefitting thrift shops and rummage sales.  If we wish, she has suggestions from Worth for replacing outworn clothes with durable and timeless fashions.  Please come to the Easttown Library to hear about the many ways in which Melanie can streamline our lives.

Thanks to Anne Odenweller for bringing the January refreshments.

N.B. The library will charge a hefty fee if we spill on the new meeting room carpet, so please use lids on the coffee cups. 

Branch Meeting 

Saturday, November 10th at 10:15 AM
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Easttown Library, Berwyn

CHILDRENS’ BOOKS AND ILLUSTRATION:
ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Presented by Cathy Fennell

 Cathy Fennell, head librarian of Rosemont College, has a wide knowledge of children’s books, and especially their illustrations.  The many colorful examples she will share are certain to inspire your Christmas lists this year, so do come and bring a friend.

 

Valley Forge AAUW Branch Meeting

Saturday, October 13th at 10:15 a.m.

Easttown Library, Berwyn, PA

YOUR VOTE-YOUR VOICE

Presented by Roberta Winters

President, Radnor League of Women Voters

On the 13^th our branch will be privileged to hear Roberta Winters.  The League of Women Voters is known for non-partisan, well researched positions on current political issues.  At this crucial time before the mid-term elections we will receive invaluable information and share concerns with a wonderful knowledgeable guide.

Refreshments will be served at 10:15 a.m. and Roberta will begin her illustrated presentation shortly after 10:30 a.m.  Please do come and bring a friend or potential member.

 

YEAR END BRANCH MEETING

MAIN LINE HISTORY AND LUNCHEON

SATURDAY, MAY 12 10:00 AM

SHANNONDELL, BRADFORD CLUBHOUSE

20000 SHANNONDELL DRIVE, AUDUBON, PA 19403

Dr. Richard Donagher, emeritus professor of history at Rosemont College, will speak to us about the history of the Main Line.   This is one of Professor Donagher’s special interests, so we can look forward to a very interesting presentation.  Our officers for the 2018/2019 program year will be installed after the presentation.

We will then enjoy a delicious luncheon in the same room with quiche, tuna or chicken salad, and dessert.  The cost is $ 20.00 per person. Please send your checks, made out to AAUW Valley Forge Branch, to Erlis Wickersham by May 9^th. Shannondell will need a firm count. Erlis’s address is 770 Holly Rd., Strafford, PA, 19087. Do bring friends or your spouse; guests will surely enjoy this event.

Valley Forge AAUW Branch Meeting

Saturday, April 14th @ 10:15 a.m.

At Easttown Library, Berwyn

PRESIDENTIAL HOMES AND LIBRARIES

Presented by Bill Lynch

 

On April 14 we welcome Bill Lynch, a friend of Lunetta Headley, to the speaker’s podium. Mr. Lynch is a local attorney whose lifetime hobby is visiting presidential homes and libraries.  He has now seen all of them, and he offers us a lively visual tour of some of the most striking photos in his collection.  As we know, there is nothing more compelling than listening to a true enthusiast expanding on his favorite subject.

We will also be electing our officers for the 2018-19 year at this meeting. 

Please join us for refreshments at 10:15 (this is a new time) and do consider bringing a friend.

Valley Forge AAUW Branch Meeting

Saturday, March 10th @ 10:00 a.m.

At Easttown Library, Berwyn

The Providence Center Story

Presented by David Chiles

Our speaker for the March branch meeting is David Chiles from the Providence Center in North Philadelphia. This critically important charity, sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, offers after-school programs and leadership opportunities for children who are endangered simply by the neighborhoods in which they live.  Since the Providence Center opened, an impressive number (almost 100%) have gone on to college and successful lives.                     

Come and listen to David discuss the transformative ways in which the staff and board of Providence Center are engaging families and saving lives in this drug and crime ridden urban environment. You can help this worthwhile charity by bringing a gift card in any denomination

Valley Forge AAUW Branch Meeting

On February 10th, 2018 @ 10:00 a.m.

At Easttown Library, 720 First Avenue, Berwyn

 

LOVE STORIES IN FACT, FICTION AND FOLKLORE

Presented by Eleanor Erskine

 

 

It is a great pleasure to have our own Eleanor Erskine as the featured speaker for February.  Eleanor, a retired librarian, is an experienced storyteller.  She is a member of the Garden State Story League and the National Story League.  She is ready to tell us love stories, appropriate for February with its celebration of Valentine's Day.  We have returned to our usual meeting room at Easttown Library, so bring your friends and listen to some seasonal examples of the storyteller's art.  Please be aware that the library does not open before 10 a.m. on Saturdays; therefore, refreshments will be served shortly thereafter.  Also, branch meetings at the library are always open to the public. 

•  What are GMOS and why should we avoid them?
• Which weight loss plan is best, the South Beach, Atkins, Mediterranean, or other? 
• Which danger is greater, the danger from excessive fats or too much salt?
• What are the various kinds of vegetarianism and what dangers do they pose?

Valley Forge AAUW Branch Meeting

Saturday, September 9, 2017 @ 10:00 a.m.

At Gertrude Kistler Memorial Library, Rosemont College

Cheddar and Red: 19^th Century Pennsylvania German Quilts

Presented by Cathy Fennell

Cathy Fennell, Executive Director of Library Services at Rosemont College and an amateur quilter, will revisit thirteen 19^th Century Pennsylvania German quilts that have been exhibited in the Kistler Library and share her researched information about the quilts, the quilt makers and their color choices.  Interspersed in the talk will be examples of some of Cathy’s quilts and her journey as a quilter.

Here is some easy information about parking on the Rosemont College campus: the closest lot to the library is behind Kaul Hall.  Enter the campus from Wendover Road, situated off Montgomery Avenue.  The first possible left will be the road leading to the parking lot. Proceed to the right all the way behind the building.  If you enter from Montgomery Avenue keep going left around the Main Building until you come to a sign for parking behind Kaul Hall.  Turn right into the parking area, and look for Erlis Wickersham who will show us the way to the library entrance. 

There is a map of the campus on the Rosemont College website.

We hope to see many of you at our first meeting of the 2017-2018 year.

 

"Gerrymandering: The Partisan Manipulation of

Electoral Districts for Political Gain"

Presented by Lawrence Husick, on behalf of Fair Districts PA

Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 10:15 a.m.

Easttown Library

720 First Avenue, Berwyn, PA

Pennsylvania is one of the most gerrymandered states in our nation.  For 200 years, politicians have picked their voters by drawing and re-drawing the electoral maps to keep themselves safely in office. Fair Districts PA is working hard to fight for redistricting that will keep our political process transparent, impartial and fair.  Our speaker, Lawrence Husick, will explore all the problems and issues associated with gerrymandering and will bring us up-to-date on proposed solutions.

Please join us on Saturday, April 8, at Easttown Public Library for this pertinent and informative program.   Guests are always welcome, and refreshments will be served.  Hope to see you there!

Our Speaker 

Lawrence A. Husick’s experience as a technology consultant, computer system designer, and software author, as well as his career as an attorney give him a unique perspective on the mechanics of electoral politics, particularly the new science of political map-drawing. He is a graduate of the NCPAC Campaign Academy, and has served as a communications consultant to many candidates seeking political office. He also serves as a co-director of the FPRI Wachman Center Program on Teaching Innovation, and as the co-chair of FPRI’s Center for the Study of Terrorism.

Mr. Husick holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Environmental Chemistry from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where he also did graduate work in microprocessor systems design.

He is a partner in Lipton, Weinberger & Husick, an intellectual property law firm in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University in the Whiting Graduate School of Engineering, and in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Program in Biotechnology. He is a founder of several entrepreneurial ventures, including Infonautics Inc., PocketDoctor.com and Cloud Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He serves on the Boards of the Clear Vision Foundation, is counsel to the American Helicopter Museum and Eduation Center, and is the past chair of the Board of Visitors of the Samson College of Health Sciences at University of the Sciences. Mr. Husick is the founding director of Quantum Cures Foundation, a nonprofit building a cooperative computing environment to design novel molecules for use as vaccines, treatments, and cures for orphan, rare and neglected diseases. He served for seven years as the Senior Legal Fellow at Apple, Inc. and is a past president and chairman of the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center, a pioneering facility for auditory-verbal education of the hearing impaired.  

Questions?: Contact Sharon Gurak (610) 585-0432

From the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 to the aftermath of World War II, artists and intellectuals in Mexico were at the center of a great debate about their country’s destiny. Join us as Sal Caltabiano, docent of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, walks us through the recent exhibition of this exhilarating period. Through a remarkable range of images, from masterpieces by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo to transfixing works by their contemporaries Dr. Atl, María Izquierdo, Roberto Montenegro, Carlos Mérida, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and many others, Mr. Caltabiano offers a deep look at the forces that shaped modern art in Mexico, the progress of which was closely watched around the world.

            Paint the Revolution takes its name from an impassioned essay by American novelist John Dos Passos, who saw Mexico’s revolutionary murals during a visit to Mexico City in 1926–27. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness “an extraordinary moment in the history of modern art, one fueled by cultural and political revolution.”

"What Shall We Do with the Body?

A History of Burials in America from Colonial Times through the Space Age"

Marilyn Toole, Genealogist and AAUW Member

We in the U.S. have been burying our loved ones for as long as we have inhabited this country, but the beliefs, customs, traditions, and feelings about those burials have changed drastically over the past 250 years. Learn about how these aspects of the last phase of life have changed over the generations and the future of these customs from AAUW member and speaker Marilyn Toole. Marilyn is an experienced genealogist and speaker with over 25 years experience in the field and has injected humor into this talk, a favorite of groups in the Delaware Valley.

 

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Saturday, January 9, 2015 at 10:15 AM (Easttown Library):

THIS IS WHAT WE DO BEST:  WORKING FOR WOMEN

Valley Forge Branch, AAUW 2015-2016 Scholarship Winners

Once again, our chapter is proud to be able to sponsor scholarships for non-traditional female college students. This year, we had enough money to award scholarships to three very deserving Delaware County Community College women students.

Pictured, right, with AAUW Valley Forge Members Susan Norris and Norma Winther, far right, are two of the three scholarship winners. The taller student has an undergraduate degree in Health Policy and Administration from Penn State University. She now is working toward a nursing degree with great determination and dedication.

The other recipient, pictured with her daughter, tells us she is pursuing her dream career. "i am," she told us, "currently at DCCC to gain my associates in liberal studies, so that I can attain a degree in Mortuary Science. Hard times will not tear me away from my passion."

Our third winner, not shown, is in her mid-twenties and suffers from clinical depression. She has had to drop out of school in the past but is determined to succeed this time. "I am trying every day; it isn't easy but I am here!"

What an honor for us to be able to help these women as they struggle to meet their goals. Thank you to all of the AAUW Valley Forge branch members who helped make these scholarships possible through support of our annual Book Sale and with direct contributions.

Norma Winther

Scholarship Chair