Topics include:

• Reminder to report your branch officers
• Reminder to send in your state dues
• Check the information on the fall meeting and plan to attend
• Info to watch for as AAUW NC interviewers prepare to call all the branches

Karla and Lill want to know that the branch presidents have received this message and they’ve asked everyone to confirm receipt. If you know your branch president is away for an extended period, please do let Karla/Lill know that.

Click here to download July 2010 Letter to Branch Presidents

Registration: $15.

Registration form for AAUW NC Fall Meeting:

• Printable form (PDF)
• Online form (accepts online payment or you can print this and send a check)

Questions: Contact Lill Van Order or Karla Atkinson (contact info).

Location

Hampton Inn Greensboro-Airport
7803 National Service Road, Greensboro, North Carolina 27409
336-605-5500, Fax: 336-605-0686
Room Rate: $69 + tax Hot breakfast is included with the room.

Check in time: 3 pm/Check out time: 12 Noon
They are holding 10 rooms for Friday, September 24. You must identify AAUW North Carolina when making your reservation. Reservation deadline is 9/15/10.

Directions

From I-40: Take Exit 210 to Hwy 68 South; right on Thorndike Road for one block, then right onto National Service Road. The hotel is the last one on the left. Please note that none of the Blue Hotel Signs on the highway have the Hampton Inn listed. (When exiting I-40 — from either east or west — make sure that you are in the far right hand lane. This will position you for your entrance onto Hwy 68 south.)

Meals

Friday Night: Dinner will be “on your own,” though we are encouraging everyone to eat as a group together at the Moose Cafe, about five minutes from the Hampton Inn at the Piedmont/Triad Farmer’s Market. Close by restaurants for Friday night include FATZ, Ruby Tuesdays, and McAllisters.
At the Moose Cafe the meals start with sandwiches at about $3 and go to their meals that are $8.99. There are a couple of vegetarian choices on the menu. We might get them to do their shrimp on the grill.

Saturday Breakfast: Pastry, fruit and juice will be provided for those not staying at the hotel.
Saturday Lunch: Lunch is included with registration and will be catered (probably box lunch).

View Larger Map

A: Hampton Inn, B: Moose Cafe. See the larger map to get personalized directions or to zoom in on either location.

•  Summer 2010 Tar Heel News (pdf)

It includes information on the September 24/25 AAUW NC meeting, branch news, convention recap, and more.

Some issues from last year’s 2009 Women’s Agenda (presented  by NC Women United at its 2009 Advocacy Day) are still pending. Use NCWU’s virtual advocacy system to write to your legislator — particularly on one of the issues that AAUW NC endorsed (see www.aauwnc.org/advocacy for the status of those issues and links to talking points).

• Write your NC legislators via NCWU virtual advocacy system

Greetings! We will be meeting at Duck’s Grille and Bar on Sunday, May 16 at 3 p.m. This is our annual meeting and installation of officers. Please remember that guests, family and friends are welcome at this meeting.

The new membership year begins July 1 and Katharyn Thayer, our treasurer, will be at the meeting to collect dues for 2010-2011. Dues are $49 for the Association, $11 for the state and $11 for our branch.

Evelyn Lynge has volunteered to serve as Membership VP for the coming year. I am still looking for someone to assist me with branch programming and meeting planning.

Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

JoAnn

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THN Editor-in-Chief “retires”: Our own Connie Gamble Ochse has served as Communications Team Leader for AAUW NC for the last three years. As such, she also served as editor-in-chief of the Tar Heel News, our state newsletter. Connie will be stepping down on June 30. If you or anyone you know would like to take a more active part on the state level of our organization, this is a wonderful place to start. Please contact Connie - 910-346-8223 or cgo@ec.rr.com if you have questions.

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Our next meeting: May 16, 3:00 p.m. (Sunday) at Duck’s Grille and Bar, 1207 Gum Branch Rd., Jacksonville. This will be our annual dinner and installation of officers. Spouses, significant others and friends are welcome to attend.

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Dues are due: You may pay your dues of $71 at our annual meeting on May 16th, or mail them to Katharyn Thayer, 203 Hodges St., Morehead City, NC 28557 no later than June 1.

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Our Branch in the News: Seven of our members attended the Women’s History Luncheon hosted by the Onslow County Council for Women at the Onslow County Museum in Richlands. The group was pictured in the Neighbors section of the The Jacksonville Daily News on May 9.

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CALENDAR

May Annual Dinner and Installation - Sunday, May 16, 3 p.m. at Duck’s Grille & Bar, 1207 Gum Branch Rd., Jacksonville. Spouses/significant others, friends and neighbors are welcome to attend.

June and July - No regular branch meetings.

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*Advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.*

•  AAUW NC Contributions to AAUW: 2009

In particular, kudos to Brevard for the highest total contribution ($5780) and to Statesville for the highest per capita contribution ($49).

Reminder: AAUW changed its structure as of July 1. The AAUW Educational Foundation funds are now part of the AAUW funds, and, in particular the “Educational Opportunities Fund” includes the fellowships and grants program. Contributions to the Association before July 1 and undesignated contributions to AAUW after July 1 are both listed as “AAUW” in this report even though the former was to the 501(c)(4) and the latter is to the 501(c)(3).

AAUW NC 2010 Convention Evaluation.

If you left Charlotte without returning the form, please do print it out and return it to the address on the form. If it’s more convenient you may also send your comments in e-mail to Karla Atkinson (see contact list).

With a vote on April 16, the board recommended a minor change to the wording in the noticed language — changing “Each voting member in good standing” to “Each member in good standing”. This modified language was what was presented for a vote, and the minutes will show that it was approved by the necessary 2/3 of those voting (under the old rules).

This replaced the language in Article XII, Section 2, paragraph (a) with new language, made paragraph (b) of that section redundant, and led to an editorial change in paragraph (c): changing “delegate” to “member” and renumbering paragraph (c) as Section 3.

The AAUW governance committee had made comments on the earlier version, and where their comments were purely editorial, they were incorporated in this version of the bylaws. The administration committee is presenting this document for review and concurrence. If you have any questions, comments or corrections, please contact info@aauwnc.org.

• October 2009 bylaws
• Difference document showing changes to October 2009 bylaws
• Proposed April 2010 bylaws 

• Revisit references to IFUW
• Clarify recording of interim votes
• Revisit how dues for national members joining the state are set
• Document the staggered terms of the officers (Secretary, Membership VP in even years; President-elect, Treasurer, Program VP in odd years; with President-elect assuming the presidency after a one-year term)
• Revisit the definition of a quorum of the board
• Revisit the language describing how branch presidents and officers may designate a replacement at the board meeting
• Revisit the section on indemnification for conformance to state law and best practice.

Since some of these changes will be moot given other changes that may be considered, there is no urgency to include them at this time.

AAUW NC President, Millie Hoffler-Foushee, speakers Beth Dehghan and Courtney Scott, AAUW NC co-vp of programs, Karla Atkinson.

Beth Dehghan, founder of WomenNC, and Courtney Scott, one of the students that WomenNC supported in attendance at the 2010 UN Council on the Status of Women, presented a workshop about the new organization, Women for North Carolina, and its efforts to get  Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) passed, and to connect the international meeting of the Council on the Status of Women to grassroots efforts here in NC.

For much of the information presented at the workshop, see this page of their website: http://womennc.org/2010CSW/Info.html

Millie Hoffler-Foushee took off her hat as president of AAUW NC and addressed the convention in her role as a national board member, AAUW Finance VP.

Here are her slides:

Slides with news from AAUW

Handouts of slides