Fall 2011 Vol. 79, No. 1

Around the State

Women In History

A re you interested in his-toric women and their achievements?

AAUW-PA‘s branches did sig-nificant studies on them in the 1980s, and AAUW-PA is won-dering if someone is interested in chairing a committee to sum-marize existing resources and support branches interested in creating a program or fund-raiser on historic women. If you‘re interested in a role in this project, please contact mcgrathaauwpa@gmail.com.

AAUW-PA wins Public Policy Impact Grant

A AUW-PA is one of 15 national awardees of impact grants to educate

the public about issues at stake for women and girls, and to mo-bilize women to register and vote. All members interested in participating in some aspect of this project should contact tonisimmersaauw@gmail.com or mcgrathaauwpa@gmail. com.

Volunteer is needed

A AUW-PA is looking for someone to support the website maintained for

us by Louise McLeod . The site uses a Wordpress engine, so a familiarity with Wordpress

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Carol Heintzelman named new Central District Coordinator The Central District has a new coordinator, Carol Heintzelman, and a new branch, Lancaster, which the board recently realigned into the Central District. Please welcome both, and plan to say hi to Carol at the Oct. 1 District meeting at Toftrees in State College.

State board seeks nominees for 2012-14 AAUW-PA is seeking nominations for two po-sitions to fill 2012-2014 terms on the State Board.

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Barrington named state Program VP Janice Barrington, from Fox Chapel Branch, has been named AAUW-PA Program Vice President.

A former Fox Chapel Woman of the Year, Janice has just finished a term as the Fox Chapel Area Branch Program VP, and is the newly elected Development VP.

She earned a Business and Accounting degree as a part-time student at the University of Pittsburgh. She and her husband have lived in Durham, NC and Omaha NE before re-turning to Pittsburgh in 2000.

―When we moved to Pittsburgh in 2000 I joined every-thing I could think of to make new friends and get involved be-cause I missed ‗knowing everyone‘ as my kids put it,‖ she said.

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AAUW-PA

President

Margaret McGrath president@aauwpa.org

Executive Committee

Linda Tozier Membership

Vice President membership@aauwpa.org

Janice Barrington

Program Vice President janicebarrington@comcast.net

Susan Norris

Secretary secretary@aauwpa.org

Leslie Wachob Finance Officer

finance@aauwpa.org

Nancy Weinreb

Administrative Director admindir@aauwpa.org

District Coordinators

Barbara Wheatall,

District Coordinator (West) bawheatall@zoominternet.net

Susan McNamara,

District Coordinator (East) smc8066@yahoo.com

Carol Heintzelman District Coordinator

(Central) Carol.heintzelman@millersville.edu

Claudia Mosso

KEYSTONER Editor keystoner@aauwpa.org

President‘s Message

AAUW’s Forward Momentum

AAUW’s biennial national convention was held in June in

Washington, DC.

Dot McLane was elected a Director at Large; Linda Tozier was

appointed to the Leadership Corps, and Pennsylvania’s branch survival

guide debuted on the national website.

PA members manned tables for Women Graduates, and were

panelists and active participants in the many sessions. Members were

energized and took away good ideas or renewed commitment to mak-

ing things happen.

That forward momentum carried over to the PA Board meeting,

and the board decided to refresh the awards and recognitions program,

and to start a dialogue with members about how to enable participation

by members not physically present at the annual meetings.

A statewide book group is being launched, connecting our PA

AAUW community. York branch members are working on resources

to share on Marcellus Shale, and the PA board also agreed to champion

the national campus SAVE act.

Pennsylvania was awarded a national impact grant for public

policy, so we’ll be planning Facebook ads and other outreach programs

to encourage voter advocacy, registration, and voting.

What’s your place in the forward momentum? You decide, and

move there one step at a time. Contributions by all are welcome,

whether as leader, follower, coordinator, or other contributor. Each of

us makes a difference; together we’ll make a greater impact. Margaret McGrath

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would be preferred. Time commitment is flexible, and is not expected to be more than a few hours a month. If interested, please contact Louise at lmcleod@pil.net.

A AUW-PAs Best Prac-tices for Branch Sur-vival document has

been posted on the national website in the resources wiki at http://wiki.bbvx.org/index.php?title=Governance Resources. Congrats to the 2010 Membership Team.

Conference for Women set

The Pennsylvania Conference for Women will be held Oct. 24 and 25 in Philadelphia.

The 8th annual event will include keynote speakers Gloria Steinem, Marion Jones, Dr. Helene Gayle, Mar-tha Beck and America Ferrera and ses-sions ranging from personal finance to health and wellness and career ad-vancement.

Skill building workshops, re-sume critiquing, a mentor match and vendors and service providers will be featured on the 25th. A Small Business Boot Camp will precede the conference on Oct. 24. Tory Johnson will lead the camp lineup of small business pros.

For more information or to regis-ter, visit PAConferenceForWomen.org

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District meetings planned for October

Western District meeting set Oct. 29 The Western District of AAUW will feature a presentation on gender bias

and discrimination at its Oct. 29 district meeting at Butler County Community Col-lege.

Dr. Lu-in Wang, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, and author of Discrimi-nation by Default: How Racism Becomes Routine will speak and address discrimination as it relates to the AAUW report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engi-neering, and Mathematics (STEM).

STEM initiatives under way in Western Pennsylvania will also be discussed. AAUW-PA President Margaret McGrath will also speak, presenting updates from the AAUW National Convention including the new AAUW-PA voting procedures under con-sideration. AAUW-PA Facebook pages and information on public policy initiatives will also be presented.

Also speaking will be Linda Tozier, AAUW-PA Membership Vice President and Janice Barrington, AAUW-PA Program Vice President. Janice will outline plans for next year‘s AAUW-PA Convention, to be held at the Radisson Hotel in Pittsburgh. She will also outline opportunities western branches will have to participate. Participants are also asked to share and celebrate their branches‘ individual suc-cess stories.

Butler Community College, at Cranberry Center, 250 Executive Dr. Cranberry Township, will host the event from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

District East meeting to be held Oct. 22

The Eastern District will meet Saturday, Oct. 22 at Northampton Community Col-lege to hear State Senator Lisa Boscola and others discuss issues surrounding the ex-traction of natural gas and oil from Marcellus shale rock formations. Hospitality begins at 9:15 a.m., followed by the program from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The college is located at 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem. The issue of Marcellus Shale is one that affects all. Panelists include State Senator Lisa Boscola and AAUW members living and working in heart of drilling territory. Participants will enjoy networking over lunch and talk about plans for branch shar-ing of the powerful film, ―Miss-representation‖ shown at the National Convention. Get the latest word on AAUW-PA Facebook and…more. Much more! Take advantage of the Early-bird pre-registration fee of $13, which includes lunch and register by Sept. 30. For additional information contact Susan P. Mc Namara, AAUW-PA, District East Coordinator at: 610-861-8066 or at smc8066@yahoo.com.

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Basics of Facebook Privacy and Security Submitted by Lisa Frikker-Gruss

Social Media Coordinator

W elcome to Web 2.0- the World Wide Web of social media interaction! Social networking adds a brand new personality to what we have known as the Internet, where people can connect and share ideas. As AAUW Pennsylvania‘s Social Media Coordinator, I commit to enhancing the

communication across the state with the AAUW members, branches, college / university partners and with organizations that share a similar mission with AAUW.

U nderstandably there is much concern over privacy and security risks in sharing information and utilizing these websites. My goal is to help you increase your comfort level in utilizing these tools by bringing awareness to the risks, while experiencing how powerful the communication tools are.

To get you started, here are a few basic pointers for Facebook:

1. Before you set up an account, decide what your main purpose will be. If you intend to network across many circuits, consider the information that you publicly release, such as family details and pictures. If you have already created a network, you can edit your profile accordingly.

2. Make sure that the ―Info‖ tab of your profile contains only the information you want to publish. Email addresses, phone numbers, and your birth date may have been published to your page without your knowledge. You can edit/ hide all of these features.

3. Select the Privacy Settings that fit your networking needs. · Click on ―Account‖ and ―Privacy Preferences‖ to see what your current settings are. · ―View Settings‖ and ―Customize Settings‖ will help you drill down your options and edit/

save the settings you choose. · Click on ―Apps and Websites‖, scroll to the bottom and click on ―Edit Settings‖ next to

―Public Search‖. If ―Enable Public Search‖ is checked, your profile will be searchable on Google and Bing. Choose to disable or enable, based on your needs.

· If you are unsure and would like to know what information you are publicly releasing, con-tact me. I can look at your page through the eyes of an outsider and advise accordingly.

4. Remember that each person has incorporated his or her own privacy settings. What may be pri-vate on your page, may not be private on someone else‘s. If you Like or Comment on a status on a Like page, keep in mind that this action will most likely be searchable on Google (even if your profile is not). Organizations use Like pages as a means of marketing. There are no privacy set-tings on Like pages.

5. Build a solid comfort level in using Facebook on a computer before moving to a mobile device. Cell phones pose additional security and privacy risks, such as GPS locators and tagging, ―checking in‖, and publishing phone numbers.

6. Be cautious when using games, applications, chat, quizzes, places to check in and clicking on links that ―sound to good to be true‖. These areas are most susceptible to security risks and transferring viruses.

7. When you complete a session, always remember to Log Out. You can accomplish this by Clicking on the Account tab in the upper right corner and Moving the Cursor down to Log Out. If you do not unclick the ―Keep me logged in‖ button on the home page and do not Log Out, then the page will remain active, leaving an open portal for foul play.

P lease Friend ―AAUW Pennsylvania‖ and Like ―AAUW-PA‖.

· The ―AAUW Pennsylvania‖ profile consists of members of AAUW Pennsylvania and neighboring states. All persons are screened for an AAUW affiliation. This page has in-corporated privacy settings and is not published to Google. Feel free Share Event post-ings, engage in conversation and network with AAUW sisters.

· ―AAUW-PA‖ is a Like page. It is a public profile that is released to Google. The purpose is to share ideas about the AAUW mission and to recruit new members. Organizations with Like pages also have the capability to Like AAUW-PA and share our postings.

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ii. ―AAUWPA‖ on Twitter automatically receives feeds from the Like page and publishes the postings to all of the followers. Twitter has no privacy settings and all information entered about a user is searchable on Google. AAUW has a significant social media presence across many websites. Feel free to explore the various options available and don‘t hesitate to ask me questions about any of the privacy and security risks. I am a newly appointed member of the AAUW Social Media Committee. I am also pursuing my Master‘s Degree in Eco-nomic Crime Management and am researching the privacy and financial crime risks pre-sent on social media websites. Add me as a Friend ―Lisa Frikker-Gruss‖ or email me at lisafg823@gmail.com.

Reading Across Pennsylvania or One State, One Book

Do you love to read and discuss books? Do you have problems getting to a local book discussion group? Would you like to meet new people to discuss books with? Plans are well underway to establish a statewide book group online or using free conference call technology or both. Branch Presidents have enthusiastically shared infor-mation about their book groups allowing for planning to begin. If you are interested in be-

ing part of this new group, think about the following de-tails that still need to be ironed out: · Number of members in the group · Number of groups · Preferred method of communication · How often should the group meet (monthly, quar terly…) · Meeting dates and times · How books are chosen The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon has been chosen as the first book. Amazon.com de-

scribes the book as follows: ―In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children. The Roman Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells a disturbing and dramatic tale that illuminates the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border.‖ Contact Toni Hoffman at tsh44@ptd.net or 610-252-7020 to join.

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We Are … AAUW It‘s September - Time to rev up AAUW enthusiasm as branches resume monthly meetings. I‘m still revved up from all the excitement generated at our national convention. Three Pennsylvania AAUW members and seventeen branches were recognized for membership achievement in the initial phase of AAUW‘s 130th Anniversary Membership Campaign. Congratulations to individual recruiters Jennifer Jones (North Hills-McKnight), Anne McFeely (York) and Jean Quickel (York). And kudos to the Beaver Valley, Bradford, Butler, Doylestown, Easton, Erie, Fayette County, Fox Chapel Area, Gettysburg, Harrisburg, Johns-town, Murrysville Area, North Hills-McKnight, Philadelphia, Inc., State College, Washington and West Chester-Chester County Branches for increasing their membership between Nov. 1, 2010 to May, 2011. Great News! AAUW‘s 130th Membership Campaign (originally scheduled to run from November 2010 to November, 2011) has been extended to June 30, 2012. Branches and members will have the entire branch year to participate. Remember that during this cam-paign, graduate students can join at the special introductory rate of $18.81 and new col-leges and universities can be recruited to join as C/U partners at the introductory rate of $130. It was great to hear (and watch) Cynthia D‘Armour generate excitement during her ―Lead, Laugh or Get out of the Way‖ presentation at convention. If you are not familiar with the Chapter Leaders Playground, you should be. D‘Armour offers webinars on many topics relevant to challenges that leaders in every organizations must face. AAUW members can register for free from our national website. Archived webinars can be accessed for 45 days. Last spring when I was asked to run for a third time as your state membership vice president, I listened to a webinar on how to attract more potential members to the branch. I laughed, I cried and I learned a lot. If you want to find out more about ways to cheer for AAUW, please talk to your branch membership chair. The AAUW Annual Starter Kits were mailed to branch and state MVPs on Aug. 15th. These kits really do contain everything needed to promote AAUW branch membership. Need an elevator speech? Try using this acronym: REAP with AAUW. AAUW sup-ports equity for women and girls through Research, Education, Advocacy and Philanthropy.

by Linda Tozier, Membership VP

State Officers sought for 2012-14

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The offices sought are those of: President: The official spokesperson and representative for the state, responsible for directing, coordinating, and overseeing the work of the state, facilitating the work of the branches, working with the national board and staff, and communicating national initiatives to branches. Program Vice-President: Responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing statewide programs, for reporting mission-based programming activities, and for building connections be-tween the components of AAUW programming. The state board currently meets four times annually: in July, October, January, and at the State Convention or Annual Meeting. Board expenses for attendance at meetings are paid by AAUW-PA. Those interested in serving on the state board in either of these capacities should please complete the Candidate Form, which is posted online at aauwpa.org and return it, along with a photo, to Susan P. Mc Namara, 2060 15

th Street, Bethlehem, PA, 18020 by Oct. 1, 2011. To get a

copy of the form or for more information contact Susan at (h) 610-861-8066 or (c) 610-216-4905.

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AAUW Funds News from Convention

AAUW-PA was recognized at the AAUW National Convention for the following donations in 2009 – 2010:

Second Place in Total State Giving to AAUW Funds

Sixth Place in Total State Giving to the AAUW Action Fund

Eighth Place in Total State Giving to the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund

The Allentown Branch, the State College Branch, and the Philadelphia Branch were recognized to be in the top ten in branch contributions to AAUW Funds, the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund, and AAUW Action Fund, respectively.

Are you looking for new ways to raise money for AAUW Funds? Some interesting fund-raising ideas were discussed at the AAUW Funds Workshop at Convention:

Bottle auction – Members bring in bottles filled with something (mustard, wine, money, …). The bottles are placed in bags so that their contents are unknown. Bottles are auctioned off.

Antique Appraisal – Do you know someone who can appraise antiques? Members and the public can bring their items and have them appraised for $10. Contact Milwaukee, WI Branch, Bonita Clark, (414)762-4303 or jclark101@wi.rr.com for more info.

Non-Event Event – Invite your members to the ―non-event‖. Ask members to write a check to their favorite AAUW Fund instead of spending money on an event. Contact Dearfield Area Branch, IL, Marla Kim Benzinger at marlakim2@aol.com.

Purse Sale – Ask members to bring a gently used purse to a meeting and buy a new purse.

Princeton Review (AAUW affinity partner) – Organize a review session for college-bound women in your area. This is a Program in a Box. Visit http://www.princetonreview.com/aauw for more info.

VirtuArte (AAUW affinity partner) – VirtuArte's mission is to create an awareness of these beautifully handcrafted items and promote them to an international clien-tele while helping artisans from various countries to generate a sustainable income that will support their families, improve the quality of their lives, continue their tradi-tional craftsmanship and share their skills with the next generation. Visit http://www.virtuarte.com, or call Debbie Meyers at (866) 228-3497 for more info. This fundraiser will be part of the Eastern District meeting in October.

World Medical Card (AAUW affinity partner) – Your medical information — safe, secure and available anytime, anywhere. Watch an informative video that explains why this card is so important and how to get your card. Visit http://start.wmc-card.com/go?id=29?emc=lm&m= 39141&l=1&v=527219 for more info.

Campus Calm – Hold a program on your local C/U partner campus. Visit http://www.campuscalm.com/ for more info.

Please keep AAUW Funds in mind as you plan your next program year. Let‘s continue to grow AAUW Funds in 2011.

, Kathy Thrush Shaginaw

AAUW-PA AAUW Funds Chair

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