The Breeze The Newsletter of the Wooster, Ohio Branch

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On April 26, at The Wooster Inn, we will celebrate anoer successful year for Branch. Our eme for is annual Spring Luncheon and Meeting is Cherry Blossom Time.

1 The Breeze The Newsletter of e Wooster, Ohio Branch Vol. 88, No. 4 March/April 2014 Co-Presidents Judy Kastelan and Linda Crouch. MESSAGE FROM WOOSTER BRANCH CO-PRESIDENTS Time... what words do you put wi it? Fun time, work time, learning time, sleep time, time table.... Time for us to be togeer again! On April 26, at The Wooster Inn, we will celebrate anoer successful year for Branch. Our eme for is annual Spring Luncheon and Meeting is Cherry Blossom Time. Join e fun as we learn where we have been and where we want to be in e future. Your input is valued! As Linda and Judy end eir ird year as co-presidents, ey wish to ank each of you for e many ways you have touched eir lives. They feel eir time serving, learning, and growing togeer has been memorable. Also, at e Branch Board of Directors and Committee Chairpersons are key to e on-going success of our Branch since WOOSTER AAUW BRANCH SPRING LUNCHEON AND ANNUAL MEETING The invitation to e Branch Spring Luncheon and Annual Meeting is a part of is newsletter. Please complete and return e reservation portion of is form (wi choice of luncheon menu) to Mimi Lewellen, 1760 W. Smiville Western, Wooster, OH by Tuesday, April 22. Don t forget to include your check (made out to AAUW Wooster Branch) for e appropriate amount. Please keep in mind at e $18.00 cost of your lunch includes, beverage, dessert, gratuity, and payment for official AAUW guests as well as your own choice of lunch entree. Cherry Blossom Time PAST AAUW MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS The general meeting was held Tuesday, March 11, at e Wooster United Meodist Church, wi Program VP Clara Ann Fain making e arrangement. Executive Director Laura Neill of e Ohio Light Opera presented a program of e OLO s upcoming 2014 season. Refreshments were served at 6:30 p.m. wi e program following. As we learned e inner details of e OLO talking face-to-face wi Ms. Neill, ose attending became very aware of what a jewel e OLO is to our community. She also stressed at ticket prices are somewhat high (but not nearly up to ose of oer communities like New York City) to cover e costs of using e music for e shows. Their gift each year to e community is e free on-e-square 4 of July concert.

OUT-AND-ABOUT TRIPS Lolly e Trolley Church Tour in Cleveland, Thursday, June 19 Let s get a good-sized group going on is trip to Cleveland to tour six historic churches in e old Ohio City wi a

m. At 12 noon we will have lunch at University Inn, an enic restaurant in e Tremont area before continuing e tour. Returning to e parking lot about 4 p.m. we should arrive back in Wooster about 6 p.m. Cost of e tour and to secure your seat on Lolly e Trolley is $62 (includes lunch) wi an additional $10 - $15 for gas and parking.

2 OUT-AND-ABOUT TRIPS Lolly e Trolley Church Tour in Cleveland, Thursday, June 19 Let s get a good-sized group going on is trip to Cleveland to tour six historic churches in e old Ohio City wi a representative of each church greeting us and sharing e history of e church, about 30 minutes at each stop. We will meet at Odd Lots parking to share rides, departing from Wooster at 7 a.m. and we board Lolly e Trolley at 9 a.m. At 12 noon we will have lunch at University Inn, an enic restaurant in e Tremont area before continuing e tour. Returning to e parking lot about 4 p.m. we should arrive back in Wooster about 6 p.m. Cost of e tour and to secure your seat on Lolly e Trolley is $62 (includes lunch) wi an additional $10 - $15 for gas and parking. Mary Hetrick (a member e Alpha Theta Chapter of DKG who is sponsoring is tour), 1560 Renwood Avenue, Wooster, will be taking reservations (Checks for $62 are to be made out to e Alpha Theta Chapter of DKG.). Anyone can go members, guests, husbands, etc. but 25 reservations are needed by April 26 to secure e trolley and e number attending cannot exceed 38 (first come, first served). BRANCH MEMBERSHIP Remember at dues after March 15 paid by new members will encompass e rest of and all of Need more information? Contact Anita Greene, media@bright.net or LITERARY READING FOR WINTER Letty Nault, facilitator for Wooster Branch Literary, has announced e books to be read rough June All reviews are Tuesdays at 7:15 p.m. unless noted oerwise. April 15 - The Light Between e Oceans by Candice Millard will be reviewed by Julie Mennes at e home of Leslie Breeden. Co- Hostesses: Judy Kastelan and Joyce Burdno. DATES FOR AAUW OHIO CONVENTION AAUW 19 Annual State Equity Day and 90 Annual Convention and Meeting will be e weekend of April 12 and 13, 2014, in Springfield, Ohio, at Courtyard by Marriot. Hotel reservations were to be made by March 17 to guarantee rate of $99/night+tax. Let s plan to have some of our members attend! May 20 - The group s Annual Dinner and Book Selection will be held at e Hunters Chase Clubhouse, 6:30 p.m., wi Sharon Taylor hostessing and Mimi Lewellen co-hostessing. June 17 - The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman will be reviewed by Letty Nault at e home of Bev Crafton. Julie Mennes will serve as Co-Hostess. AAUW ART CONTEST Wooster Member Connie Barnard submitted two entries to e AAUW Art Contest: Magpie Mandala and Purple Callas. How did she do in e voting?

3 SCHOLARSHIP NEWS Applications for AAUW Wooster Branch scholarships are available at e Wayne County Community Foundation website: Our current scholarship winners tell us at ey heard about e scholarships by word of mou, sometimes from AAUW members. So let s get e word out! If you know a women enrolled in an associate or bachelor degree program after an interruption in her education, please tell her about e scholarships. We work hard on our used book sale every year to provide scholarships of $500-$2500 for tuition and books. The money may be used over a two-year period and recipients may apply for a second award. Applications are due by May 1, The branch committee chooses e scholarship winners on e basis of eir financial need and commitment to learning and e community. Please contact Chair Prue Holtman for more information at or pholtman@wooster.edu. START SMART ($TART $MART) PROGRAM OFFERED AT THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER $tart $mart salary negotiations empower college women who are beginning eir careers to overcome e gender wage gap and teach em to benchmark and negotiate for fair and equitable salaries upon graduation. Negotiating salaries is a challenge for women at all stages of eir careers, since women are less likely an men to ask for what ey deserve. AAUW research shows at one year after graduation young women earn just 82 percent of what eir male counterparts earn and at e gender gap widens over e next ten years. Over e course of her career, a young woman graduating today will earn roughly $1 million less an her male counterpart. A collaboration between AAUW and e WAGE Project, no oer campus program offers such detailed skill building on pay negotiation as $tart $mart. This ree-hour inaugural workshop will be held on The College of Wooster campus from 4-6 p.m., Wednesday, April 16. The fee for e use and development of $tart $mart materials for is workshop is $650, and also requires reimbursement for travel and lodging for a WAGE staff member or $mart $tart facilitator. Marylou LaLonde, Assistant Director, Career Planning in APEX at The College of Wooster Library, will be AAUW s contact person for e workshop. If is first inaugural workshop is a success, subsequent workshops will only cost $350. Anita Greene, branch membership vice president, has worked extensively to see is program brought to Wooster. More an 350 workshops have been presented at 238 college and universities across e country and has a presence in 45 states wi more an 700 facilitators trained to lead ese workshops. This should be a real presence for AAUW Wooster on e COW campus. EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS AAUW Wooster donates time and money to Expanding Your Horizons, is year to be held April 12 on The College of Wooster campus. This all-day workshop, which is geared for female students in grades 5-6, begins at 8 a.m. wi members Leslie Breeden and Mary Hetrick greeting e girls as ey arrive wi eir parent(s). Close to and 6 grade girls from e tri-county area participate in some 16 workshops offered in science and ma and learn at ese activities can be fun! Helping Karen Skubik wi e program is year are AAUW Members Judy Kastelan, Linda Crouch, Judy Mallonn, and Anita Greene.

4 NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTED POSITIONS Wooster Branch s Nominating Committee (Chair Sally Bernhardt and members Letty Nault and Sarah Miles) has submitted e following names for e open positions of President and Secretary for e two-year terms : Alough only a two-year member of Wooster Branch, Carol McKiernan brings excellent administrative skills to e position of President. Receiving her B.S.N. from Ashland University, Carol worked eight years as a nurse wi Hospice, advancing to e position of Director of LifeCare Hospice. Moving to Wooster 37 years ago from Los Angeles, Carol and her husband Ed have raised ree children all grown and living out of state (Atlanta, St. Louis, and Seattle). Carol Gates, daughter of long-time branch member Celia Gates, has agreed if elected to serve as Wooster Branch s Secretary. Carol attended The College of Wooster where she received her BA in history; and later her MS in Library Science from e University of Illinois. After working 30 years in Chicago as a corporate librarian she returned to Wooster in e fall of 2013 to help her moer, but has continued to work remotely part time for an investment bank in Chicago. As wi Carol McKiernan she brings excellent working skills to e position of branch secretary. CALENDAR OF MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES Saturday, April 12 Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13 Tuesday, April 15 Monday, April 21 Saturday, April 26 Monday, May 20 Tuesday, May 20 Thursday, June 12 Tuesday, June 17 Expanding Your Horizons at The College of Wooster AAUW Ohio s Equity Day and Annual Convention/ Meeting to be held in Springfield, Ohio, at e Courtyard by Marriot. Literary meets at e home of Leslie Breeden, 7:15 p.m. Social Bridge meets at The Hilton Garden Inn at 11:30 a.m. Carolyn Kearney is hostess. Annual Meeting and Spring Luncheon, The Wooster Inn, 11:30 a.m. Social Bridge will be held at 12:30 p.m. at e home of Mary Ann Merchant Literary s Annual Dinner and Book Selection will be held at e Hunters Chase Clubhouse at 6:30 p.m. Combined board meeting (old and new members) at e Wayne County Public Library, 6:30 p.m. (refreshments) wi meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. Literary meets at e home of Bev Crafton. Co-Hostess is Julie Mennes. AAUW BYLAW CHANGES DUE IN MAY Our branch bylaws wi mandated changes required by AAUW to bring em in line have been submitted by Mary Ann Merchant to AAUW National. Since ese changes are mandated, no vote of e membership is required. Did you know at AAUW s first research study in 1885 disproved e belief at higher education for women would impair eir physical heal since studying drew e nourishing blood from a fetus to e brain, us bringing for a malformed offspring??

6 WOOSTER AAUW 2014 SPRING LUNCHEON Saturday, April 26 11:30 a.m., Lunch at Noon The Wooster Inn We are excited to have Wendy Bartlett, Collection Development Manager at e Cuyahoga County Library, as our guest speaker. She will give an entertaining and informative presentation entitled Best Bets for Great Reads. The program also includes lunch, our annual business meeting, installation of officers, and introduction of scholarship winners, Cost of e luncheon is $18.00 and reservations must be received by Tuesday, April 22. Guests and prospective members are welcome. Checks, made payable to AAUW Wooster Branch, and meal choices are to be sent to Mimi Lewellen, 1760 W. Smiville Western, Wooster, OH Questions? Call Mimi at Please complete and return is portion by April 22, Name: Choice: Guest(s): Choice: Choice: Choice A Choice B Choice C Shrimp & Spinach Salad: Green Apple, Citrus and Avocado, wi Cranberry-Citrus Dressing Soup & Half Sandwich: Cup of Tomato-Basil Bisque on plate wi Half an Oven Roasted Turkey Sandwich: White Meat, Sliced and Layered on Toasted Whole Grain Honey Wheat Bread wi Swiss Cheese, Pecan Cranberry-Apple Slaw, and Wooster Inn Chips Marinated & Grilled Portabella: Vegan Spinach and Artichoke Filling wi Red Lentil Salad *Non-alcoholic beverage and dessert included.

7 Mary Ann Merchant Newsletter Editor Wooster Branch AAUW P.O. Box 1191 Wooster, OH 44691

The Breeze. The Newsletter of the Wooster, Ohio, Branch

The Breeze. The Newsletter of the Wooster, Ohio, Branch The Breeze The Newsletter of the Wooster, Ohio, Branch Vol. 91, No. 4 March-April 2018 MESSAGE FROM WOOSTER BRANCH AAUW PRESIDENT Are we ever going to have Spring? I, for one, am more than ready! Susan