AAUW MARIN JULY 2022

RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP NOW

It’s time to renew your membership for the 2022-2023 year that starts July 1. Don’t miss out on all that AAUW has to offer, from the interesting National webinars to our Zoom and in-person monthly branch meetings. Dues are $107 for branch members ($67 for National, $64 of it tax-deductible, $20 for California and $20 for Marin.) Honorary Lifetime Members pay nothing and Lifetime Members pay only $40 for California and Marin dues. 

You can access the Dues Renewal Form from the branch website or contact Membership Chair, Chris O’Neill, at coneill514@comcast.net or 415-847-0002 and she’ll email the renewal form that you can print, complete and send along with a check to our branch Treasurer, Sue Torres, 256 Marinda Dr., Fairfax, CA 94930. Don’t delay and get your renewal in today!

New Member Spotlight

SAY HELLO TO MARJORIE HENNESSY!

Our newest member is Marjorie Hennessy.  She came to us through membership in the Booklovers interest group. Marjorie grew up in Berkeley. She ventured East to Stephens College, majoring in fashion design. When she came back to Berkeley, she attended UC Berkeley, stopping her education for a few years to get married and start a family, but eventually completing her BA in social sciences. Marjorie and her then-husband decided to move to Hawaii for a few years, which turned into 40 years. She loved living there and working as a manufacturer’s representative for cardiovascular products and she still maintains a home in Hawaii, spending a few months a year there. She relocated to the Bay Area to be closer to children and grandchildren, as so many of our members do. She is interested in checking out many of the other interest groups and we hope she’ll have an opportunity to get to know many of you. 

GROUP ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The AAUW Marin Art Interest Group will have a tour of the Guo Pei collection at the Legion of Honor Museum  on Wednesday, July 27th. We will meet at the Strawberry parking lot at 9:30 for car pooling to the Legion. Purchase your museum entrance tickets ahead of time for a 10:15 showing.  We will have lunch at the museum cafe around 12:00. If you plan to attend, please notify Gerrie Young by text at 415/ 497-1247 or email gerrieyoung0@gmail.com.

The New Yorker Reading Group. This month we are reading articles on a wide variety of topics, including: the French obsession with thermal spas, shipping containers lost at sea, a family’s abortion story, gangs in the LA sheriff’s department, and others. We will send you the links if you would like to read or listen to the articles online. You can also read The New Yorker free through the library with the Libby app. If you would like to be on the email list and receive the list of articles we are reading and discussing at the Monday, July 11, meeting, please email either co-leader for the list and the Zoom link: Phyllis Kuehn phyllisk@sonic.net or Olivia Ruel oliviacelello@icloud.com . The New Yorker reading group meets on the second Monday of the month at 1:00 via Zoom.

The Nonfiction Reading Group. We are meeting on July 25 at 1:00 on Zoom to discuss Nomadland by Jessica Bruder.  If you would like to be on the group’s email list and join us, please email either co-leader for the Zoom link: Phyllis Kuehn phyllisk@sonic.net or Olivia Ruel oliviacelello@icloud.com . The nonfiction reading group meets on the 4th Monday of the month at 1:00 via Zoom and discusses nonfiction books selected by the group members.  

The Mah Jongg Interest Group is taking a break for the summer and not meeting in July and August. If you’re interested in joining us when we resume in September, contact the group leader, Chris O’Neill,

at coneill514@comcast.net for more information or to get on the email list.

AAUW Statement Strongly Condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s Opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

See the full statement here

On Thursday, July 7th at 7:00 pm,

AAUW California will present a webinar that will discuss:

• What the opinion does - and does not – say
• What the opinion means for California
• What the post-Dobbs landscape looks like for women
• What can – and can’t – be done to counter the effects of this onerous opinion