Corvallis Branch is Number 10 in giving to LAF

…with $777.50 in the branch per capita category in Oregon for the year 2006. It's great to be in the Top Ten! I wonder if we can make it again!

 

We had a very successful LAF book sale at the May luncheon at Corvallis Country Club.

We netted $356.50.

AAUW member sales $292.00

Book Bin sales $53.00

Browsers sales $11.50

Again congratulations to all of the members who generously contributed books and media articles and to those who made purchases at the meeting. The remaining articles were donated to the Friends of the Library for their February book sale.

 

LAF Highlighted at AAUW Convention: 25 Years of Progress and Precedents

The LAF Anniversary Dinner on Sunday, July 1, was very exciting. Laura Leedy Gansler and Clara Bingham received the 2007 Speaking Out for Justice Award. Gansler promised that, following in the footsteps of her mother and aunts, she and Bingham would be AAUW members by the end of the week. LAF-supported plaintiff Claire Shuster followed with a moving yet humorous speech that demonstrated her commitment to Berea College's mission and her passion for equity for all women. It was truly a night to remember and a fitting way to celebrate this benchmark. LAF's movie night featuring "North Country", the film based on the book written by Gansler and Bingham, was shown to a standing-room-only house on June 30.

2007 Progress in Equity Award Winner Announced!

At the 2007 AAUW convention in Phoenix, LAF announced the 2007 Progress in Equity Award winner--the Women in Transition (WIT) program at Charter Oak State College of New Britain, Connecticut. The WIT program provides higher education opportunities for low-income, underemployed single mothers to make the transition from low-paid work to a college degree through distance education without cost or barriers of time and place. The WIT program has enabled underserved women to realize their dream of earning a college degree, empowering them to achieve a goal they had considered unattainable. On a related note, AAUW members were instrumental in the founding of Charter Oak State College. Many years ago AAUW of Connecticut prepared a booklet for nontraditional women students, and members of the Naugatuck Branch helped women who wanted to go back to college. These AAUW members saw that there was a great need for an institution to accommodate such women and undertook an intensive lobbying effort in the state legislature. In 1973, the school's charter was authorized. The WIT program will officially receive the PIE Award at a reception this fall.

 

--Marilyn Roland
Corvallis Branch LAF Liaison