Upcoming November 2024 General Meeting
Learn about strategies to deal with sexual abuse and violence against women.
Our guest speaker will be Crystal Lopez from the Women’s Resource Center. The Women’s Resource Center of Oceanside (WRC) has been sheltering survivors of domestic violence since 1974. They provide counseling services to women and their children and provide transitional housing for survivors of domestic violence. The WRC also operates a Thrift Store (3385 Mission Ave., Oceanside CA 92054 (760) 757-3500 x8823), to generate revenue for the Center.
Please invite your daughters and granddaughters as many victims suffer in silence. They may learn strategies that could save their life or help them escape a violent relationship.
Attached is a Wish List of items needed by the residents of the Women’s Resource Center. AAUW will be collecting these needed items at the November and December meetings. Help us make some of their wishes come true! You can find additional items needed at the link https://www.wrcsd.org/wrc-wishlist
• Dry Pasta and Pasta Sauce • Cereal or Instant Oatmeal • Peanut Butter • Jelly Canned Soup • Canned Vegetables
• Canned Fruit • Rice • Dried or Canned Beans Canned Tuna or Chicken • Tuna Helper • Crackers • Granola Bars
• Boxed Juices Other Non-perishable Items appealing to young kids • Shampoo • Conditioner • Soap or Bath Gel
• Toothpaste • Toothbrush Deodorant • Shaving Cream • Razors • Tampons or Maxi-pads • Hair Brush Washcloth or Wipes
Please join us on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 1 – 3 pm.
The meeting will be held at the RB Eastview Community Center; 17520 Drayton Hall Way, San Diego, CA 92128. This is an open meeting. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to: aauwboard@gmail.com.
Reminder: We alternate meeting times between afternoon (1 -3 pm) and evening (6:30 pm – 8:00 pm) hours. All meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of the month, except for our first and last General Meeting of the year. Our meeting location is at Eastview RB Community Center at 17520 Drayton Hall Way, SD 92128, unless stated otherwise.
We were recently notified that the AAUW website’s background theme will be updated by National during the next few weeks. We are expecting that the site may be accessible while the actual update is happening to our site. We were not given an exact schedule, but expect to receive an email just before the update starts and another when it is compete.
Tech Trek Update
The Tech Trek camp at UCSD this year (June23-28) was a huge success. We sent 11 girls from seven middle schools. We received excellent feedback from the families. One of the camper’s Mom was so inspired by the program that she joined our branch and wants to be active in the TT program. Thank you to Karen McGurk for volunteering during camp registration and Sapna Mehta who was an instructor for Engineering and Robotics.
Tech Trek committee leaders Debbie Lewis (far left) and Heidi Dalve (fourth from right) with 8 of the 12 local girls our branch sent to camp t UCSD this year.
If you have never seen the video that demonstrates the diversity of Tech Trek, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3-wTzTZM8
Tech Trek Alumnae Group (TTAG) Update
Exciting news for TTAG! A leadership committee was formed, and they held their first summer social at Summer Movie in the Park in Old Poway on August 10. Our enthusiastic leadership team greeted new 2024 campers with a warm welcome. The young women shared an evening of fun, laughter, and made connections under the stars. We ended our evening watching the classic movie HOOK. Alumni wore their Tech Trek camp shirts and generated a lot of interest from the crowd. What a perfect way to wrap up the summer and begin the school year with new friends. October 2024
TTAG at their first summer social.
*** We are always looking for more youthful, dynamic women in STEM careers to meet our alumni group. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact us.
2024 Women’s Re-entry Scholarships Awarded by Cathy Burciage, Scholarship Chair, photo by Janice Heather
At our lively members’ meeting and brunch on September 14, five deserving young women, accompanied by their friends and families, were awarded college scholarships for scholastic achievement.
Scholarship Committee Chair Cathy Burciaga, in blue, poses with the 5 recipients of this year’s Reentry scholarships awarded by our branch.
The awardees will also receive invitations to join the affiliate as student members. Applications for the new 2025 scholarship season will become available in February.
Member Interest Groups
Happy Healthy Hikers on the bridge walk near Balboa Park
Happy Healthy Hiker’s will walk a 2.8 mile loop at Lake Poway on Nov 8th. Join Travel Group for lunch at Chef Zhu on Nov 23rd in Rancho Bernardo. Bring a friend and sample wine with Grape Expectations at Carruth Cellars in Solana Beach on Nov 15th. Or join one of our Book Clubs to discuss Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney, Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride, and/or The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar.
Great Decisions, is a world affairs policy discussion group assisted by reading material from the Foreign Policy Association, this month’s discussion: Pandemic Preparedness.
We welcome potential members who would like to participate and visit a few of these activities. Please contact us if you are interested. You may reach us via email at aauwboard@gmail.com.
MEMBERSHIP MATTERS – Contact us to get involved!
“Our mission is to advance equity of women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research”
Chartered in 1971, our branch has over 100 members residing in the Poway, Penasquitos and Inland North County communities.
It’s that time of year again to renew your membership. By now you should have received your first notice from national since most of the memberships will expire June 30. You have until then to go to the AAUW website to renew by credit card. This year the membership dues are $115: $72 for National; $20 for CA; and $23 for our affiliate.
The first step is to log into the AAUW website. This year AAUW is requiring everyone to reset their passwords so you’ll have to enter your email address, then request to reset your password, which will be sent through your email account. Once you log in with your new password (remember to write it down and keep it for future use), click membership, and then renew national membership. Locating our affiliate is a bit tricky because they are listed by state, so look for the code CA0159 for Poway-Penasquitos. Once you check the branch, make sure you scroll down to the bottom and click submit. From there it will prompt you to the state, choose CA again, and scroll down to the bottom to submit. Then the process will take you to the payment page where you will enter your credit card info. Bingo, you are renewed for another year!
If you run into any problems, let us know. If you can’t pay on-line, you can send a check to our affiliate’s treasurer. Thank you to those that have already renewed!
Anyone interested to Join Us , please follow the link or contact us at aauwboard@gmail.com. We are happy to invite you to join us at a few meetings and/or activities so you may see why you should Join Us.
Updated: 4 Jul 2024