Organization for Campus Women
Steering Committee Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Noon to 12:55 pm
Cartwright 263
Present: Carmen Boortz, Jenifer Holman, Michele Strange, Galadriel Chilton, Becky Yoshizumi, Maureen
Wilson, Diane Dobbs, Bev Kratt
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Introductions and Welcome – Carmen reviewed committee membership as outlined below.
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Committee Officers/Chairs
A classified, two academic and two faculty representatives are still needed as well as a president elect,
(which will be an academic staff appointment), and a social chairperson. Jaralee has expressed interest in
the academic staff representative opening. Krista Shulka has expressed an interest in the vacant
classified position. Carmen will look into a campus connection article asking for volunteers to fill positions.
President:
Past President:
President Elect:
Treasurer:
Membership/Elections:
Secretary:
Programs:
Social:
Newsletter:
YWCA Tribute:
Honors/Scholarships:
OCW Website
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Carmen Boortz
Galadriel Chilton
Vacant (academic staff appt.)
Jo Ann Kuester
Diane Dobbs
Jenifer Holman
Becky Yoshizumi/Jaralee Richter
Vacant
Bev Kratt
Susan Butterfield
Maureen Wilson/Sharie Brunk
Galadriel Chilton
New Business
A. 07/08 Meeting Schedule (Carmen)
As Wednesdays did not work as a good meeting time for many people, we will be meeting in Cartwright
263, Tuesdays from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. Below is a tentative schedule of meetings for the year.
Fall
September 5
Winter
December 11
Spring
March 18
October 16
January 15
April 15
November 13
February 12
May 13
B. OCW Symposium (Carmen)
Carmen received a referral from Maureen Wilson for a potential speaker for either a spring symposium, or
an alternative guest speaker for a program event.
Loung Ung is a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the author of two award-winning,
internationally bestselling memoirs. She's the spokesperson for The Cambodia Fund and a noted landmine and
human rights activist. Loung has spoken in front of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), The Million Dollar
Round Table Plenary, Linkage Inc, Crowe Chizek and Company LLP, SONY, multiple UN conferences, and
dozens of other organizations, schools, and corporate venues.
This speaker would be very expensive – over $7500. Symposium dates will in part be determined by
facilities available, and speaker scheduling – sometime in March or April. Diane is going to see if a local
speaker could address a similar topic. Diane announced that we have $1365 to spend for the symposium.
C. Lee National Denim Day registration is open. I received the information from Kari Heilman prior to her
departure from UWL as she used to promote this for UWL. The information follows:
Join us on October 5th and wear your jeans in exchange for a $5 donation to the Women's Cancer
Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). Your donations will fund groundbreaking
early detection and treatment research and support community education services nationwide in the
fight against breast cancer. We have received the 2007 participation kit. Our ID number and company
name: ID#: B20017, Company: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. Team pages are coming soon.
New this year, a feature will allow you to add a photo, tell your story and sign up team members online.
Carmen asked if anyone would want to volunteer to coordinate denim day. Maybe Susan Butterfield could
help us with this as she manages the regular Jean’s Day contributions?
E. Community Service Ideas?
Rotary Lights – Maureen shared more information – they would need 6 to 10 volunteers. A rep from
OCW would be required to go to a planning meeting in October. We have to commit by September
20. We are interested but cannot meet the commitment of 6 to 10 volunteers. In the future we will
look to partner with another organization.
Continuation of support for the campus student food drive (it would be great to announce in the
newsletter that OCW will have boxes out across campus from Monday, October 30 – Friday,
November 16. Galadriel will add new dates to the sign and get them out to offices.
F. Brainstorm
How to fill the open positions and how to do a membership drive. (Also see Newsletter under Committee
Reports below. We have asked for volunteers in the campus connection before. Jo Ann has sent out
emails to all women on campus. Diane will help coordinate sending out email by October 19 for
membership and elections.
Committee Reports:
Program Committee
OCW Book Club (Jaralee) – the book club has been going well.
1. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, September 12, 2007 @ Noon in Murphy’s Mug
2. An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ Noon in
Murphy’s Mug
Social (Vacant) – We will need to start reserving for the December get-together. Bev will reserve PortO-Call for Thursday, December 6, 11:30-1:00 p.m.
Newsletter (Bev Kratt)
Bev asked for submissions for the newsletter. Carmen is working on a welcome letter. Bev and
Carmen have already discussed an article about recruitment for the steering committee for this fall.
Deadline for the first newsletter is the first week of October. Spring scholarship winners should be
announced in this newsletter.
YWCA Tribute (Susan) – Nominations are out so we should be hearing more soon.
Honors/Scholarship (Maureen /Sharie) - nothing to report until spring.
Website (Galadriel) -- Due to the campus website redesign project, the OCW website may be changed
in the near future.
Officer Reports:
Treasurer: (Jo Ann) – not present. No report.
Membership/Elections (Diane) – no change since last year.
Old Business
1. Follow up on Symposium Survey Results (Jennifer/Galadriel) from March 2007 symposium – Galadriel
has the survey results and will send them out to the steering committee. Responses were positive.
2. Approximately 7 people attended the social event held at Huck Finns in late June. Fun was had by all.
3. Book club discussions held recently:
May 10 was Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
June 12 was The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
July 31 was The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jenifer Holman
September 7, 2007