AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. In principle and practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, or class.
October 2013
Volume 12, Issue 2
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Please e-mail newsletter contributions
by the 20 th of the month to Mairéad
Hartmann: fabnewsletter@yahoo.com
1 Message from the
Presidential Council
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LAF Fundraiser
Tribute to Mary Wilkinson
AAUW Funds
Geva Event
Special Interest Groups
Dates to Remember
Fairport Area AAUW
FairportAAUW2@yahoo.com
www.aauw-nys.org/branches/fairport.htm
Association website: www.aauw.org
NYS AAUW website: www.aauw-nys.org
I hope that you all will be able to participate in the three AAUW events that we have planned for
October. We are having our annual AAUW executive board meeting on Thursday, October
16 th , the district conference is on
Saturday, October 19 th , and our
AAUW Fund Raiser is on October
26 th .
The first event is our annual
AAUW executive board meeting on Thursday, October 16 th , at the home of Carol Richardson, 78
Selborne Chase, Fairport, at 7:30 p.m. The agenda will be sent to all members of the executive board and all members of the branch are welcome to attend the meeting. Please contact Sandy
Hahn (shahn@hselaw.com) to let her know that you are attending the meeting and she will send you an agenda. The presidential council, Sandra Hahn, Nancy
Shadd, and I, would like to thank all of our members who have volunteered to be branch officers this year. and all have done research in this area. Each branch is sponsoring two colleges for an afternoon panel and the students from the
FAB branch are from RIT. The conference is from 9:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m. Registration is $23 and you will have a continental breakfast and a soup/salad lunch.
Treasurer- Fran McDowell
Program Vice President – Eileen (Carol.Richardson@rit.edu) if you
Hartmann
FAB Webmaster – Patricia Sulouff would like to carpool to the event and meet in the Wegman’s parking lot at 7:30 a.m. I can also resend the flyer and registration
Communications Vice President -
Corinne Coon
Newsletter Editor
– Mairead
Hartmann
Hospitality Chair
– Betty
Schirmuhly
Great Decisions Chair – Judy
DuPre
Sunshine – Fran McDowell
Membership Vice President – information to you.
The last event is AAUW FUNDS fundraiser on Saturday, October
26 th . Please see the article in this newsletter for information on the event.
Karen Ashbaugh
Recording Secretary – Marty Ey
AAUW Funds Vice Presidents –
Please remember that October
10 th is the deadline for your contribution for the Mary Wilkinson
Nancy Petersen and Kela Wilson AAUW Scholarship which was
Lunch Group Chairs – Janice described in the September
Story Walk Coordinators – Judy your home.
Lohr and Marty Ey
Open Position: Book Group Chair
The second event is the AAUW
District 2 Conference at Hobart
and William Smith Colleges in
Geneva, New York. The theme for the conference is “Violence
Against Women on College
Campuses”. You should have each received a flyer with the list of speakers and a registration form in your email (see materials below, immediately following newsletter). The speakers for this conference are from local colleges
"New York's Bounty" is the name of our AAUW Funds Fundraiser on
Saturday, October 26, at
Georgetown Commons clubhouse in Fairport. This is a "locavore" event where we highlight New
York grown wines, cheeses and foods.
We begin at 4:00 p.m. with light
The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination.

hors d'oeuvres and mingling. Holly
Howell returns to give us notes and stories about her pairings of
New York wines and cheeses.
And while we are having fun visiting and tasting, let's not forget that this is our annual fundraiser for the AAUW Development
Funds. There are five program areas to which you can direct contributions: Legal Advocacy,
Educational Opportunities, Public
Policy, Eleanor Roosevelt
(research) and Leadership
Programs. There are 18 individual funds set up so you choose how you want to direct your donation.
You may choose to fund all programs or choose more specific projects all of which help AAUW advance equity for women and girls.
Bring your spouse/significant other and friends. There will be a suggested minimum donation of
$10 per person (including guests) or $15 per person if you want to cover your full cost. You will be getting an invitation in the mail with more details on location and the funds to which you may donate. As in the past, we ask you to write two checks - one written to the Fairport Area Branch to cover program costs and another check for whatever donation you make
(see the invitations for the specifics there). The deadline for paid RSVPs will be October 18.
We hope to see you there!
Mail checks to:
Nancy Peterson
32 Sky Ridge Drive
Rochester NY 14625
If you have questions, contact
Nancy: frjo2001@yahoo.com (personal email)
585.766.8592 (cell, leave a message)
The Mary Wilkinson AAUW
Scholarship Fund is still accepting donations. The scholarship will be awarded in the spring to a graduating senior who is planning to specialize in art or music at the college level.
The fund is a meaningful tribute to our beloved Mary, who served us all so well as an AAUW member and leader, and as a warm and caring friend for so many years.
Let’s make this scholarship reflect her impact on our branch and in our lives.
Mail your tax-deductible donation today, payable to Fairport-Perinton
Chapter of Dollars for Scholars, with “Mary Wilkinson AAUW
Scholarship Fund” on the memo line. Mail it to:
Fairport-Perinton Chapter of
Dollars for Scholars
144 Village Landing, Suite 198
Fairport, NY 14450
The deadline for donations is
October 10 th . Thank you.
Huge thanks go out to branch members Judy DuPre and Marilyn
Monkelbaan for their ideas, actions, and communications that brought together the panelists for the September program on
Common Core. It was a wellattended and informative community event providing an overview of educational benefits of
Common Core and the implementation of it in math and
ELA curriculum. One source recommended by the panelists for additional information about
Common Core is the EngageNY website.
Happy 32 Years, Legal
Advocacy Fund! Thanks for
Making a Case for Women
In 1978, five female professors brought a class action lawsuit against their employer, Cornell
University, citing violations of Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title IX of the Education
Amendments of 1972. Claiming they were denied tenure and passed over for less-qualified candidates, the named plaintiffs were Donna Zahorik, Jacqueline
Livingston, Antonia Glasse,
Charlotte Farris, and Judith Long-
Laws. They numbered five, but they represented a larger group of
11 female professors and coaches who had officially submitted sex discrimination complaints against the university. The lengthy case remained in court for several years and received much national publicity. In 1984, the Cornell 11 as they were called, received a settlement payment from the university amounting to $250,000.
Nearly 30 years after Zahorik, et al. v. Cornell University was settled, the case still occupies an irrevocable place in AAUW’s institutional memory.
When the case first came to court, members of the AAUW Ithaca
(NY) Branch were concerned that

legal costs and loss of professional status and income would be insurmountable for the plaintiffs. The branch established a support and fundraising group called the Friends of the Cornell
11. The group included some
Ithaca (NY) Branch members and also former AAUW Presidents
Marjorie Bell Chambers and Mary
Grefe. Recognizing AAUW’s commitment to equity for women in academia, the branch reached out to the national office to help raise and handle funds to support the case. At the time, however, the budget did not have a line item for this type of work. So in June 1981, the association sprang into action at the AAUW centennial convention held in Boston.
There, in a perfect example of branch and national teamwork,
AAUW created the Legal
Advocacy Fund to support cases of sex discrimination in academia.
It was initially created as a twoyear pilot program, and the Cornell
11 became its first plaintiffs.
Katherine (Kappy) Eaton served as the first president of the fund.
She wrote on the need for the fund in the July/August 1982 issue of
AAUW’s journal Graduate
Woman: “Until very recently, most sex discrimination claims against higher education were unsuccessful. … Courts have been reluctant to interfere in academic decisions. Litigation is extremely expensive and time consuming and may be detrimental to the future careers of the women involved.” In total, the
LAF donated $22,500 to the
Cornell 11 but d idn’t stop there; the fund continues to support scores of similar sex discrimination lawsuits in the workplace today.
Sadly, 2013 marked the passing of two of the Cornell 11 plaintiffs:
Donn Zahorik and Jacqueline
Livingston. Zahorik passed away in February; Livingston in June.
After the settlement in 1984,
Livingston reflected on the hardships and the triumphs of the case. Without the support of the
Friends of the Cornell 11 group and the establishment of the LAF, she sai d, the plaintiffs “would not have had any chance at all.” In another Graduate Woman piece, she painted a much better picture of women’s workplace rights in
1985 than had existed before
1981:
“Today, a professional person in an institution of higher learning who feels that she has been a victim of sex discrimination in her field or at her institution will be directed toward a lawyer who is a specialist in Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act. There will be a local
AAUW support group, part of a national network of university women and the LAF, who will help her emotionally, financially, and legally.
”
Today, we thank AAUW leaders for their vision in realizing the need for the Legal Advocacy
Fund. We also thank Donna
Zahorik, Jacqueline Livingston, and all of the Cornell 11 plaintiffs who paved the way for so many others fighting gender discrimination. We honor their commitment and bravery.
Need a good laugh in December?
Join us for a late afternoon performance at the NextStage at
Geva Theatre Center. We will attend the play "Sister's Revenge:
Late Nite Catechism 2" at the 4
The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination. p.m. performance in reserved seats. The date is Saturday,
December 7th. Tickets are $33.00 each. This is not part of the Geva subscription series; rather it is an afternoon of fun with "the nun" who has inspired many laughs in the past two seasons and who is returning to share wit and wisdom on "newer" topics of note.
Share soup and sandwiches with the attending group after the play.
Interested? Contact Eileen
Hartmann at eshartmann5@gmail.com or
704.4876 by November 1.
Fairport Area AAUW Lunch
Bunch meets monthly (on the 1st
Wednesday) for a social outing with fun, good company, and delicious food. If you would like to join us, please email Janice Volpe
(jvolpem@YAHOO.com) or phone her (264-0022) or respond to the
EVITE invitation.
OCTOBER LUNCH BUNCH
MEETING
Where: The Erie Grill
When: Wednesday, October 2
Time: 1:00 p.m.
November 6 th we will meet at
Restorante Lucano on East
Avenue
We hope that you will be able to join us.

Book Group will meet at Eileen
Hartmann’s house, 25 Founders
Green, Pittsford, at 7:30 p.m. on
Monday, October 28, 2013 to discuss Mayflower: A Story of
Courage, Community and War by
Nathaniel Philbrick. Please let
Eileen know if you plan to attend by Friday, October 25, 2013 so she can plan refreshments (email to eshartmann5@gmail.com). swarming settlers clashes with their own. Mary Rutherford was shot while holding her infant, survived a stint as a slave to her
Indian captors, and lived to write an account of her ordeal.
We hope to see many of you there as we consider our nation’s earliest days. Our next meeting will be December 2 nd , so October will be our “Thanksgiving” for
AAUW Book Group! Trivia note:
Canadian Thanksgiving will be celebrated October 14, 2013.
About the book: This pre-
Thanksgiving selection won the
Massachusetts Award for 2007. It is a readable real-life thriller timed to help us focus on the struggles the Puritans encountered in order to establish their religion in a strange new wilderness. The author clarifies many reasons why the early accommodations between the Native Americans and European settlers deteriorated into the brutal and bloody “King
Philip’s War” not frequently mentioned in high school history survey courses. Benjamin Church advocated personal relationships with many Indians, while Governor
Josiah Winslow seemed to believe the only good Indian was a dead one. Massasoit and his son
Wamsutta are faced with unexpected dilemmas in leading their people through difficult times as European culture of the
Great Decisions kicked off its fall season with a thoughtful discussion on US-Iran relations dating back to 1900, the impact of this history on their mutual distrust, and the implications for the future. The group also decided to move our starting time back to the original 7:30 p.m. Our next meeting will be October 14, 2012 at the home of Sandie Hahn, 23
Watchet Lane, Fairport. The focus will be Reading # 3, NATO.
Please let Sandie know whether or not you will be attending at 223-
6123 or shahn@hselaw.com
Ordering information for the 2014 materials should be available in
October and members will be notified as soon as possible. For further information about Great
Decisions, contact Judy DuPre at
223-0276 or jadupre6@gmail.com.
October 2 – Lunch Bunch
Note new location: The Erie Grill
October 10 – deadline for Mary
Wilkinson scholarship contributions
October 14 – Great Decisions
October 19 – District Two
Conference
October 26 – LAF Fundraiser
October 28 – Book Group
November 12 – Branch Program
Charter School Principal
December 7 – Geva play

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2013, 9 A.M.
—3 P.M.
Please plan to attend this important conference on the everyday persistence of racism and sexism in
America, particularly on college campuses. Speakers include:
Dr. Catherine Cerulli , Director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership, Univ. of
Rochester; Dr. Barbara LeSavoy , Director, Women and Gender Studies, SUNY Brockport; Angela Clark-
Taylor , Program Manager, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, Univ. of
Rochester; and Dr. Hannah Dickinson, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges.
Details:
$23/pp, includes continental breakfast & soup/salad lunch
College students invited by AAUW, no charge
Conference location: HWS Faculty Dining Room, Scandling
Center, 300 Pulteney St., Geneva, NY (Park in Medberry Lot)
See map at http://www.hws.edu/about/campus_maps.aspx
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED (DEADLINE OCT. 12)
Mail check, payable to Yates Branch AAUW, to
Ruth Benedict, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 300 Pulteney St., Geneva, NY 14456
Phone: 315-781-3779
E-mail: benedict@hws.edu
The AAUW Educational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research, and self-development for women and to foster equity and positive societal change.
The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sex discrimination.

Yes, I am planning to attend this year’s AAUW District 2 Conference.
The conference will be held at the Faculty
Dining Room in the Scandling Center at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, in Geneva, NY, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Please enclose payment ($23 per person), which includes a continental breakfast and soup/salad lunch.
Please make checks payable to AAUW District 2 Conference.
Name of Attendee AAUW Branch Email
My check is enclosed (add a check mark. Thanks!)
Please mail this form and payment to:
Ruth Benedict, Office of Advancement, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 300 Pulteney St., Geneva, NY 14456.
Registration deadline is Saturday, Oct. 12.