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Minutes of the
Branch Meeting of October 7, 2004
The American Association of University Women, Lock Haven
Branch met on October 7, 2004 at Great Island Presbyterian
Church with 15 members in attendance.
Laura Long welcomed everyone and called the
meeting to order.
Reports of Officers:
Secretary:
The minutes of the September meeting were approved as issued in the
Lockletter.
Treasurer:
The Treasurer’s report was accepted as issued in the Lockletter.
Amy Carroll reported that the 2003-2004 Budget was inadvertently
printed in the mailed version of the Lockletter instead of
the 2004-2005 Budget. The correct budget was printed in the
online version of the
Lockletter.
Amy reported the following change made at the September board
meeting to the 2004-2005 Budget. In the budget, as it was
presented at the September meeting (9/2/04), the contingency fund
held $1320.98. At the September board meeting (9/16/04) the
board agreed that $1,000.00 should be moved from the contingency
fund to the scholarship fund leaving $320.98 in contingency. A
motion was made and seconded to approve this change. The
motion carried.
Program
Chair:
Andie
Bennett
reported
that the November meeting will consist of the community concert on
November 21st at 3:00 pm at the Price Auditorium, Lock Haven
University immediately followed by a wine and cheese tasting party
at Schaefer’s Winery and Tasting Room, 70 Woodward Avenue in
Dunnstown. The December meeting will be dinner at Ichiban
Japanese Restaurant, 1800 East Third Street, Williamsport, on
December 2, 2004 at 6:30.
Membership:
No report.
Reports of Committees:
Diversity:
No report. Laboni Begum has agreed to serve along with JoAnn
Marcinkevage on this committee.
Education Foundation:
No report.
Legal Advocacy Fund:
Madeleine Davis
reported
that $76,277.00 was raised through the Diamond Donor Campaign for
the Legal Advocacy Fund. However, each member is still asked
to donate $6.00/year to the fund. Madeleine passed around the
envelope for donations.
Book
Sale:
Nell Carnein reported
that Covenant United Methodist Church approved our proposed
dates for the book sale. Therefore our 2005 book sale
will be held on April 14th, 15th and 16th. Nell stated that
the “price and sorts” will begin in January in preparation
for the sale.
Lockletter:
The deadline for articles or reports to be included in the
November Lockletter is October 24, 2004.
Yearbook:
Nell reported that she has a few yearbooks in reserve for
those members who have not yet paid their
2004 – 2005 dues.
Publicity:
Betty
Nelson and JoAnn Marcinkevage
have agreed to do our publicity. Betty was thanked for
writing the newspaper article announcing our October
program.
Public
Policy:
No
report.
Laura stated we have no Public Policy Chair and asked that
members consider volunteering to fill this slot.
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Parliamentary Advisor:
No
report.
Hostess:
Pat Burd will be soliciting donations of snacks from the members for
the wine and cheese tasting party on November 21, 2004.
Historian:
No report.
Old Business:
Cheer
Policy:
Pat Burd and Betty Nelson have agreed to serve as the Cheer
Committee. Pat delivered a check to the Ross Library for a
book to be given in memory of Victoria Romeo.
Visionary Club:
Although a collection was not taken at this meeting, we have
an outstanding commitment of $250.00 for the year to the
Visionary Club of Millbrook Playhouse.
New Business:
Membership Dialogues:
Due to the absence of Jayne Arnone the membership dialogue
concerning the AAUW membership requirements was tabled until
a future meeting.
Book
Review:
Betty
Nelson announced that, at the April meeting, she will lead a
discussion of Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. D.
Dashem Books in Lock Haven will order the book for those interested
in reading the book prior to the discussion.
Projects: Pat Burd announced that she has
started preparing for the Write Read Write Project for this
year and that she would like to work with two fifth grade
classes at the Dickey school. Further information will
be forthcoming.
We will again sponsor a blood drive on Wednesday, June 29,
2005. Please mark your calendars.
Announcements:
The
following announcements were made:
The October Board meeting will be held on October 21, 2004
at 7:30 at the home of Amy Carroll, Sagamore Hills,
Woolrich.
UN Day
will be held in Scranton on October 21, 2004. Anyone interested in
attending should obtain the information from Laura.
As there
was no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Submitted by
Carol Hildebrand, Secretary
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