http://wunc.org/post/group-mission-train-women-become-better-salary-negotiators#stream/0
Greensboro AAUW WorkSmart workshop on March 19 at the Greensboro Public Library was covered by local WUNC and broadcast on Friday May 11, 2018. Link to this website gives photos, audio streaming, and printed article which features Janice Imgrund, AAUW Winston Salem board member, who facilitated the workshop.
AAUW Greensboro Branch May NOTES 2018
Tuesday May 15, 2018
Branch Board meetings are held on the second Tuesday at the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, conference room, starting at 1:30 and usually adjourned by 3:00.
Members are encouraged to come to observe and participate. Please contact Libby Haile if you have a special topic for the agenda.
May 7, 2018 Shen, Ann, “Bad Girls Throughout History” (NF-B)
This book is known for its illustrations as well as its information.
http://www.printmag.com/illustration/ann-shen-bad-girls/
Bad Girls Throughout History includes the stories of Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer (not just the first female programmer, but the first ever); Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Novel Prize; Joan Jett, the godmother of punk; and, Shen’s favorite, Harriet Tubman, who “escaped slavery, [became] the first women to lead a charge in the Civil War, made over a dozen trips in the Underground Railroad to free slaves, spoke in support of women’s suffrage and donated her home to become a hospice for elderly African Americans.”
(Cherrie Wheaton, leader)
http://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/gary-kenton-the-polarization-of-country-isn-t-based-on/article_c2ca5c19-4f02-5335-95e0-3a53280252be.html
AAUW Greensboro is thrilled to announce that local artist Julie Dameron’s painting “Beach Friends” is one of 6 paintings chosen to be printed on cards and distributed all over the United States. There were 392 entries in this online AAUW Art Contest 2018. https://www.aauw.org/contests/ Julie shares, “Alice, Phyllis and Betty, your heads and hats will be shown all over the country.”
Each year, the AAUW Art Contest mails the winning entries on note cards to all 170,000 members with a donation request to support barrier-breaking work. Because the selected artwork is from members, the contest is a wonderful way for them to donate their talents to AAUW. And what talented members we have!
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls. Since its founding in 1881, AAUW members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political.
AAUW Greensboro Branch is fulfilling its mission of supporting gender equity and opportunity by offering education and outreach programs in science, technology, engineering and math for girls, as well as salary negotiations skills training for women. The Branch works closely with local colleges and universities as well other collaborative partners throughout the community. https://greensboro-nc.aauw.net/
Of the six cards, Greensboro members most love Julie’s Beach Friends.
Thank you, Julie for putting us in the national spot light.
Saturday, April 14, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Guilford College United Methodist Church
1205 Fleming Road, Greensboro
The NC Council of Churches’ 2018 Critical Issues Seminar will focus on women. The theme will cover topics such as the Equal Rights Amendments, sexual harassment and work place policy, elected office, health care, and public education. Be sure to check out ERA workshop!!
The seminar will begin with opening worship led by the Rev. Dr. Donna Coletrane Battle. Donna is a native of Yanceyville, NC and currently serves as the chaplain at Meredith College. Following worship, Anita Earls will deliver this year’s keynote address. Anita is a civil rights attorney with 30 years’ experience litigating voting rights and other civil rights cases in partnership with community-based organizations. She was the founder and Executive Director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, but recently left that position to run for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
There is an excellent exhibit at the Greensboro History Museum entitled “Teachers on the Frontline of School Desegregation”. It will be there only until Sunday, April 8 so this is its last week! This display was developed by Greensboro’s Ever Achieving Retired Teachers Club. Our own Everlena Diggs was instrumental in putting this exhibit together as was Lena Murrill-Chapman. The museum brochure describes the exhibit in this way “This sheds light on the lives and work of educators during desegregation. On the front lines of these changes, African American teachers in Guilford County (and that included our own AAUW members) faced racially mixed classrooms, suspicious parents and distrustful administrators. Their struggle against that fear and doubt is a story that needs to be heard.” There are pictures from that period including ones of Everlena and Lena. If you’re able to get out to see the exhibit before it closes, you’ll be very glad you did.
The Teachers on the Frontline of School Desegregation Exhibit features artifacts, photos and video interviews that illustrate how educators worked to win students’ trust, demanded respect from parents and school administration, and built their own network of mutual support in the Black Educators Caucus, established in 1975.
Some of the Ever Achieving Retired Teachers will also be participating in Lifted Voices: African American History on Saturday, February 17, from 1 to 4 pm. Lifted Voices is a free, family-friendly living history program where costumed interpreters bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s past.
The Community Voices space in the museum lobby hosts rotating displays developed and produced by local organizations to highlight significant, sometimes unknown, events in our city’s history. Teachers on the Frontline of School Desegregation is on view in this space through Sunday, April 8.
The Greensboro History Museum, 130 Summit Ave., is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 2-5 pm. For more information about this and other programs, visit our www.GreensboroHistory.org.