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February - 2014
Soroptimist International - Ashland Page 1
CALENDARW, Feb 512-1 pm*
Business Meeting
Th, Feb 6 Lunch Buddy wk1
W, Feb 1212-1 pm*
Risa Buck, Ashland Recology
Th, Feb 13 Lunch Buddy wk2
W, Feb 1912 - 1 pm*
Joanne Lewis, Baby massage
Th, Feb 20 Lunch Buddy wk3
Tu, Feb 255:30 pm
Board MeetingYMCA
W, Feb 26 tbd
* La Casa del Pueblo
Looking Ahead:NWRegional Conference:
Apr 24-27, 2014, Portland
SIA Federation Biennial Confer-
enceJuly 23-26, 2014Vancouver, BC
BESTfor Women
Our Club hosted the Josephine-Jackson Area Meeting on Saturday, February 1 at the Ashland Community Center from 8:30am to 1:30pm. A total of 51 Soroptimist members and three guests were in attendance, with eight members from Medford, thirteen members from River Valley (Grants Pass), four members from Sunrise, six members from North Valley, and twenty-one members from our Ashland club. On Friday night, a no host dinner attended by Area Club Presidents and Area Representatives was held at the Rogue Valley Country Club to welcome Marti Crooks, District 2 Director from McMinnville.
The meeting began Saturday morning with coffee and networking. After the welcome and introductions, Judy Taylor from River Valley did a lovely inspiration about all that would have been lost to the world if we were not here and involved (see poem p4, transcribed by Sue Kurth)– we are making a difference! Since Northwestern Regional Governor Kathy King was not able to attend, Marti delivered her report about upcoming Soroptimist conferences, including the Northwestern Regional Conference, April 24-27, 2014 in Portland and Soroptimist International of the Americas (Federation) 43rd Biennial Conference in Vancouver, BC, July 23-26, 2014. She also spoke about some changes in our awards program, including SIA’s New Girl Program that will be launched at the Federation meeting (see related article on next page).
In addition, Marti conducted a training and roundtable session to solicit feedback and suggestions regarding our District and Regional conferences and the NW regional website. Following an excellent lunch, Comedian Kris Vandehey entertained us with some fast-paced humor about a variety of women’s issues and concerns.
Congratulations to Signa Fischer, our SI Ashland Area Representative, and her assistant Georgina Holderness for planning and hosting a lovely meeting, with the support of many of our members and those wonderful SOU Women’s Soccer Team members coached by Jenni Rosenberg, who made fast work of our early morning setup.
Best, Joy
Note: Joy’s report to Area Meeting is posted on our website, Members Only: http://www.soroptimistrv.org/siamembersonlyinfo/siamembersonlyinfo.html
SOROPTIMISTINTERNATIONAL OF ASHLAND
La Casa Lunch:1 week $8.752 weeks 17.503 weeks 26.254 weeks 35.00
A Cup of Tea with Joy!
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Condensed from SI of the Americas Website by Joy Dobson Way
Why a new girl program? As the SIA board continues to discuss the future of SIA, they have “identified the need for SIA programs to provide sustainable, measurable change in the lives of women and girls to grow our collective impact…Education (has been identified) as the organization’s core value or way by which women and girls shall take control of their lives and live their dreams.”
“SIA has supported the Violet Richardson Award for the past ten years. The goal of Violet is to encourage girls to be life-long volunteers. The board felt there was more Soroptimist could do to ensure girls were socially and economically empowered…The past year was spent researching what girls need and what Soroptimist is best equipped to provide.”
What issue will the new girl program address? The draft goal of the program is “girls will have the resources they need to pursue their career goals.” This will include providing girls with information on available careers, goal setting, pursuing goals and overcoming setbacks. In addition to providing guidance, financial support will be available at the region and federation level for girls to pursue their educational and career goals.
What does this mean for the Violet Richardson Award? “Approximately half of SIA clubs participate in the Violet Richardson Award… These clubs are welcome to continue their participation…however, the federation will no longer financially support the region and federation awards…after 2013-2014 club year.”
Susan Hollandsworth has graciously agreed to represent our club on the new Federation (SIA) level Girl Program Advisory Group, which will be coordinated by Lori Blair, SIA Senior Director of Program Services. “Additional information will continue to be made available to clubs and members throughout the next year to support your adoption of SIA’s new girl program during 2014-2015 club year.”
You can learn more about this program at the SI-Americas website:http://www.soroptimist.org/members/program/soroptimistgirlprogram.html
SI-America’s New Girl Program Will Launch at Van-couver Convention in July 2014
Marti Crooks District 2 Director
http://www.soroptimist.org/members/meetings/Vancouver2014.html
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Jo-Jack Area Meeting
Back Row: Georgina Holderness, Adrienne Trunnell, Patti Lane, Joy Dobson Way, Collleen Cham-bers, Signa Fischer, Gail Rosenberg, Alex ZaremskaMiddle Row: Robbin Pearce, Julie Reeder, Laurie Schaaf, Mavis Cloutier, Mel Bailey, Sue KurthFront Row: Linda Anderson, Kathy Garrett Canape, Judy Faulkner, Carol Page
IF NOT FOR YOU
If not for you, there would be a place of empti-ness in the world.
If not for you, all the good that you have done would still need to be done.
If not for you, the spark of ideas would not have üúāüćø÷ ô Űąø üā ĂćûøąĆÁ
If not for you, the key role you have played in ÿüùøŧĆ ÷ąôĀô ĊĂĈÿ÷ ąøĀôüā ĈāŰÿÿø÷Á
If not for you, at least one person would not have awakened to their dreams.
If not for you, another would have suffered in your place.
If not for you, someone who needed love would not have received it.
If not for you, the song of life would have missed a beat.
If not for you, your gifts would have remained ungiven.
If not for you, there would be one less smile, one less laugh, and one less hug.
If not for you, an animal might be homeless and a garden left unplanted.
You have always made a difference. Who you are is important every day. You are a face and a heart and a soul to many. You made a difference, and you are valuable.
Area Reps: Georgina Holderness & Signa Fische
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Noble Women: Janet Yellen the first female Federal Reserve Chair Personby Sue Kurth, Human Rights and Status of Women Committee
On Feb 1, Janet Yellen will become the first female to Chair the Federal Reserve, serving a four year term. Some believe the Federal Chairperson is the second most important job in Wash-ington.
The Washington Post said, “She’d be the most qualified Federal Reserve chair in memory.” Yellen graduated summa cum laude from Pembroke College (Brown University) with a degree in economics in 1967, and received her Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1971.
Yellen is concerned with human lives. She is more concerned with unemployment than with inflation. The Washington Post stated, “We desperately need a Fed chair who is serious about combating unemployment, rather than one itching to get the Fed back to its traditional role as a quiet, technocratic inflation fighter. In recent years, Yellen has been the Fed’s strongest and most per-sistent voice in favor of doing more to fight unemployment. Ap-pointing her would be a signal to the markets — and everyone else — that the Fed isn’t simply going to accept the status quo as America’s new normal.”
Yellen wants a higher minimum wage. Although in her position as Fed Chair she cannot shape legislation, she can influence it. On Monday, January 13, 2014, while being interviewed on the Today Show, Maria Shriver stated 2/3 of all minimum wage jobs are held by women. These jobs have no sick days.”
Per Gillian Tett, the Financial Times, only 10% of the bank gover-nors are women. Tett believes Yellen will be a “new face in eco-nomics. She will help to change the course of economics for the next generation, possibly getting more women to enter the field of economics.”
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by Sara Brown
“Careers,” the winter session of the after-school program, is a focal point of SSGSW. The girls go on field trips to businesses or organizations to meet women doing jobs the girls may never have dreamed of for themselves.
This year we’re emphasizing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs because these skills are needed for the future, and women are under-represented in these fields.
Two or three club members are encouraged to join us for each session, particularly if we have a large group of girls to maneuver. Here is the lineup of visits. Each one lasts from about 3:15 to 4:15. Which one would you like to volunteer for?
Date Site Subject Presenter2/4 Helman How to ask good
questions. Christy Lewis, TV anchor, Channel 12
2/11 Helman library Hands-on coding skills training
“An Hour of Code” Linda Anderson
2/18 SOU Engineering, ROTC
Paula Brown, former Dir. Public Works City of Ashland, Naval Reserve/Engineer and Erin Smith, SOU ROTC
2/25 ScienceWorks Hands on demonstrations of science projects
Summer Brandon, Education Manager,
3/4 Schneider Museum/ SOU Computer Science
Photography and museum management
Erika Leppmann, director Schneider Art Museum, SOU
3/11 Helman Job of meterologist
Alyssa Caroprese meteorologist for Channel 12
3/18 Blackstone Audio How STEM skills are used in this business
Megan Wahrenbrock
Soroptimist Strong Girls Strong Women
Strong Girlstrong Women
in partnership withHelman Elementary School
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SSGSW Community Dinner - Jan 26, 2014
Strong Girlstrong Women
in partnership withHelman Elementary School
Soroptimist members - Mothers - Grandmothers - Lunch Buddies - Mentors (Soroptimist, AAUW, and community) - Jeff Golden - Sara Brown - Malinda Wood - Women’s Soccer Team - After School Program girls and their testa-monials - lots of Girl Power in one room!
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COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Bunco party - Feb 15Egg decoratingAshland walking tourWildflower walk - May 3Mushroom huntTaco/margarita partyBBQ party
—Fundraising Committee
PorP Crab Feed
by Mel Bailey
Linda and Sara threw another wonderfully crabby dinner on Jan 26th. Linda and Al picked up fresh crab over in Brookings, tore back to Ashland
(well, after a good night’s sleep), and together with Sara and Paul, put on a Party of Parties crab feed. There was all the salad and bread you could want, and later on a fun ice cream and cranberry dessert, but the Main Event was cracking and picking and getting all the crab down. There were 15 of us at the table, and did we ever make some noise with all our conversation—I decided that the reason it got noisier rather than quieter when we sat down to eat was that the time needed to crack the crab gave a person time to talk! Either that or all the wine. Whatever it was, we had a very fun, delicious, and festive meal. If this gets repeated next year, don’t pass it up!
Mel’s Wildflower Walk
by Mel Bailey
Our Wildflower Walk (aka the Wild Walk!) will be on Saturday, May 3. I know it’s a ways away, but I know how MY calendar tends to fill up so I want to give plenty of notice to get “first dibs” for the date.
I have two possible destinations in mind - both out in the Applegate area. We may repeat our walk from last year, which went on the Payette Trail along the edge of Applegate Lake. While the trail has little ups and downs, it contours along the lakeshore and is relatively mellow. We’ll walk from the Squaw Arm bridge out to the Tipsu Tyee campground to see (hopefully) a wonderful meadow of yellow violets - at least that’s the hope! Last year the darn things had finished blooming by the time we got there, but there are plenty of other beautiful spring flowers to see along the way. Then we’ll retrace our steps so the roundtrip is about 3 miles and we do STROLL.
The other possibility is the Sterling Mine Ditch trail, which is in the Little Applegate drainage, and, as the name says, is a trail along a historic mining ditch. A local group has been hard at work reclaiming the trail for recreation, and it is really fun—I’ve been out there a couple of times. The ditch trail is very nearly level, and provides fun views into the Sterling Creek area and the Little Applegate valley. I’ll scope it out a week or so before and decide which trail looks better for wildflowers.
Both hikes will have us in reach of Jackson Campground so that we can have a nice picnic after our walk. With travel time to and from Ashland, our 3ish mile walk, and picnic, you’ll need to plan on most of the day. We’ll leave Ashland at 9AM, and probably not return until about 3:30PM. $22 will get you a place on the list!
Yvonne & John Chilcoat, Mel Bailey and Jim LeMay, Missy Rhodes, Linda & Allan Anderson, Mavis Cloutier, Alex Za-remska w John, Carlyle & Barbara Stout, Sara Brown (not shown: Barbara Hetland & Paul Steinle, photographer)
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from AAUW
“Negotiation Skills for Everyday Life”February 8, 2014
10:00 to 12:00 noonMasonic Center, 570 Clover Lane, Ashland
Please join us for this Forum and invite your friends and neighbors includ-ing college students and working women you know. Negotiations are not confined to business situations or major purchases like buying a car. Many of us enter into negotiations every day through our various activities – serving on boards, deciding with our partners where to go to dinner, etc. Any situation where two or more people are involved in a decision and desires are not perfectly aligned creates a situation that needs to be negotiated. In this Forum, we will learn some basic negotiation principles and strategies that apply to all negotiation situations. Our goal is to answer the question: how can we ethically negotiate and reach agree-ments that benefit everyone involved? Plan to have fun as we engage in two hands-on negotiation exercises and learn what works and what doesn’t.
AAUW Community Forum
Ainslee PresslyJanuary
New Member: Ainslee Pressly
Hello! My name is Ainslee Pressly. I work at Umpqua Bank as a Universal As-sociate. I moved to the Rogue Valley about 6 months ago with my husband, and we love it! I grew up in a little town in the Willamette Valley with 17 siblings.
New Website
by Linda Anderson
Check out the new SoroptimistRV website--more polished, professional, with consistency when navigating page-to-page. It is not completed yet, but will be soon. If you see pages needing improvement, do not hesitate to let me know.
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Box Tops 4 Helman
Janet Leifur continues to collect Box Tops for Education for HELMAN SCHOOL. Look for these coupons on Avery, Betty Crocker, General Mills, Hefty, Pillsbury, Ziploc, and more. It is a small way for us to support the Soroptimist Strong Girls Strong Women at Helman!
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