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Volume 48, Number 9 May 2016

Saturday, May 14, 201611:15 am - 1:30 pmat the Immanuel Lutheran Church (located at144103 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga)

California State AAUW President Kathleen Dotywill be our guest speaker as we wind up this veryspecial year for the Los Gatos-Saratoga branch ofAAUW. We will honor those who have guided usthrough the past 75 years and install the newofficers who will lead us next year. We will alsoannounce our Named Gift Honorees and ournewest Honorary Life Members.

Please bring your favorite salad, tasty appetizer orinteresting cold dish to share. The branch willfurnish rolls, beverages, and a birthday cake fordessert, of course.

Help Us Celebrate Our 75th Anniversary

May 2016 Annual Spring Potluck

Saturday, May 21, 2016; 10:00 am to 12 noonCommunity Room, Bascom Library (located at 1000 Bascom Ave, San Jose)

Zahra Billoo of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) andMaha Elgenaidi of the Islamic Network Group (ING) will lead a discus-sion concerning the lives of Muslim women in America. The Council onAmerican-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the nation’s largest Muslim civilliberties and advocacy organization.

Questions? Contact Janice Robbins (San Jose – AAUW) at 408-269-4620.

San Jose – AAUW Branch invites you to attend

Getting to Know Muslim Women in America Today

Questions? Contact Virginia Turner: vaturner@sbcglobal.net or phone (408) 866-4234.

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Branch Leadership Team

It’s membership renewal time. We willbe mailing you the 2016-2017 renewalforms early in May. Dues remain thesame as last year: $49 for national dues,$20 for California state dues and $20 forLos Gatos-Saratoga branch dues plus$10 if you wish to receive the Grapevineby mail. Life members do not paynational dues; and Dual members payonly the Los Gatos-Saratoga branchdues because they pay their nationaland state dues through their primarybranch. Your membership will remainactive through June 30, 2017.

Here are some of the benefits that yourmembership offers you:• At the national level your dues

support research that results in suchreports as Barriers and Bias: The Statusof Women in Leadership“ as well aslegislative advocacy efforts on payequity, reproductive choice, civilrights and educational opportunities.

• At the state level your dues support

Renew Your Membership by June 30, 2016branch leadership training,monthly emails with links tohelpful resources, personal andprofessional developmentopportunities and social mediaand networking.

• At the branch level your duessupport the monthly Grapevine,general programs, our website,and coordination with otherlocal AAUW branches to shareprograms and put on eventssuch as the Ice Cream Social forTech Trek campers.

Consider joining a new committeeor interest group this year – agreat way to meet other memberswho share your interests. Take afew minutes to complete theinterest form to indicate yourwillingness to help or participatein various branch activities.

Please return your renewal formsby June 30, 2016 to ensure you are

listed in our Directory and branchdatabase. After June 30 there is a $2late fee for renewals.

Our branch is always seeking newmembers. Encourage your friendsand neighbors to take a look atAAUW; guests are welcome toattend an interest group once ortwice to “test drive” AAUW beforethey join. I would be happy to mailan information packet to prospectivemembers at any time or they canfind the information and forms onour branch website.

–Virginia Turner, Membership V.P.,408-866-4234 orvaturner@sbcglobal.net

Again this year our branch hosted aninformation table at the BlossomFestival on March 19, produced bythe Saratoga Historical Foundationto celebrate the beauty of the or-chards and the good life they pro-vided. Taking place in the HeritageOrchard next to the Saratoga Library,the Festival originated in 1900 andcommemorates and preserves the

AAUW member Kay Duffy wasone of many local artists whoexhibited their work at the Festival.There were antique automobilesand machinery from decades longpast on display, talks about localhistory, and many musical groups,one of which performed near ourtable amid the flowering appletrees. Even the weather cooperatedand gave us bright sunshine!Our thanks to Gail Pedersen whostaffed the table for several hoursand provided membership materi-als and extra copies of the Grape-vine; and to Sumi Tanabe who alsostaffed the table for several hours.Virginia Turner was our liaisonwith the Historical Foundation.

memory of Saratoga’s agricul-tural and community-focusedlife.

We handed out brochures forour three local programs – LocalScholarships, Tech Trek and theCommittee on Homeless Womenand Children – and generalinformation about AAUW.Saratoga Mayor Howard Wilsonstopped at our table to thank usfor all we do in the local com-munity. Dozens of other com-munity organizations are in-volved with the Blossom Festi-val which provides a beautifulsetting in which to talk with thethousands of people of all ageswho attend the event.

AAUW enjoys the Saratoga Blossom Festival

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Marilyn Fuller. As a Northern California native, Ideveloped early a love of the Spanish language. Aftergraduation from Tamalpais HS in Mill Valley I wenton to earn my BAs in Spanish and Psychology fromUC Berkeley. One highlight of my university experi-ence was my junior year in the UC Education AbroadProgram, living and studying in Spanish, in Madrid,Spain. After graduation here, I went back to teachEnglish at Berlitz in Madrid for a year, before return-ing to earn my teaching credentials at UC SantaBarbara. My teaching career, as an elementary andmiddle school bilingual teacher, took me from SantaMaria School District, to Alum Rock in San Jose, andthen Campbell. Now retired, I miss interacting withstudents, so I volunteer in a weekly middle schoolSTEM Maker Space.

My husband, Dave, and I enjoy life in the house webuilt in the Santa Cruz Mountains, but we also liketraveling, and spending time with our friends andfamily. In my free time I enjoy reading, hiking, knitting,crocheting, and rubber stamping.

As a co-chair of the Local Scholarship Committee, I amcommitted to helping worthy young women fulfilltheir educational goals. I also believe strongly in FairTrade, to help raise the living conditions of peoplearound the world, including giving educational oppor-tunities to their daughters, so I have been active on theteam of volunteers who make possible the annualInternational Gift Faire (internationalgiftfaire.com)each October in San Jose.

Meet the Branch Leadership Team

Sumi Taniguchi Tanabe is theLocal Scholarship Co-Chair. Bornin Long Beach, CA, on ColumbusDay, 1937, her family worked hardto make a living out of the harshsoil along with six other JapaneseAmerican families. Just whenthings were getting better, PearlHarbor happened. The FBI agenttold her father that he had less thantwo weeks to pack what they couldcarry. He learned later aboutExecutive Order 9066 signed byPresident Roosevelt to send allJapanese, citizens or not, to teninternment camps. The Taniguchisasked to be sent to the FresnoAssembly Center so that all thesiblings and parents could betogether. They lived in the horses’stalls, and Sumi still remembers thestench. Later, they arrived inJerome, Arkansas, where her sisterwas born. Afterwards they weremoved to another internmentcamp on the Indian reservation inGila, Arizona. Sumi learned yearslater, it was because the govern-ment was bringing in GermanPOWs to Jerome. When the war

Meet the Branch Leadership Team

ended, the Taniguchis lost every-thing in Long Beach and came toFowler, a small town near Fresno.Two siblings were added to thefamily. Many years later Sumiworked diligently for redress andreparations so that no other groupsof people would be imprisonedbased solely on race and wartimehysteria.

Sumi attended schools in Fowler,and received her A.S. from FresnoCity College. Her father told herthat money for college educationhad to go to her brothers. She finallyreceived her B.S. from the Univer-sity of San Francisco. She marriedArt Tanabe in 1964. Sumi spent themajority of her life working at allthe CA public higher educationincluding community colleges, statecolleges and the U.C. system. Sheworked for 29 years at West Valley,the Chancellor’s Office and MissionCollege. She was one of the firstemployees of Mission College, andshe retired in 2002. She was in-volved with many boards includingnational ones where she was theonly woman. She was the first

woman president of the SJ BuddhistChurch, Fuji Towers (housing for lowincome seniors) and president ofFBWA, national organization forBuddhist women. Volunteer workwas a way of life for her as sheparticipated in Stanford HospitalSpiritual Care program and othernon-profits. Urged by SharonKelkenberg, she joined AAUW in2002 and has been actively involvedwith the Homeless Committee, LocalScholarship, Legal Advocacy andGreat Decisions. Widowed in 2012,she has three daughters living inMaryland, Berkeley and Campbell.She adores her grandson in Mary-land and granddaughter inCampbell.

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Los Gatos-Saratoga AAUW: The 2010s

Memories of the 2010’s• California population in 2010 -

37.3 million (and estimated to be38.7 million in 2015)

• Japanese earthquake andtsunami

• “Arab spring” protests• Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve• Loaf of bread - $2.49• Gallon of gas - $3.52

Popular Culture• Best-selling books: The Help;

Three Cups of Tea; Fifty Shades ofGray; Still Alice; & Lean In

• Oscar-winning movies: “TheKing’s Speech”; “Argo”; & “12Years a Slave”

• On Broadway: “War Horse”• Emmy Awards: Modern

Family; The Big Bang Theory;& Breaking Bad

• Popular songs: “When I WasYour Man” Bruno Mars;“Rolling in the Deep” &“Hello” Adele; “What’s MyName” Rihanna; & “Glory”John Legend

We pioneered another form oforganization early in the decadewith rotating Chairwomen of theMonth where various committeestook responsibility for the Boardmeeting agenda and monthlyprograms. A comprehensive guidewas developed which we thenshared with other AAUW branchesthat had difficulty filling all theirleadership positions.

Lavonne Marafino and GailPedersen began collecting recipesfor our own AAUW cookbook –Beginnings and Endings. It includesmembers shared appetizers anddesserts recipes.

We enjoyed programs about WestValley College, women’s strategicrole in addressing global issues, andwomen’s ways of leading. Welearned about the Los Gatos andSaratoga Railway, an electric inter-urban railroad built at the begin-ning of the 20th century, and weheard Larry Gerston discuss hisbook Restoring the Luster to the OnceGolden State. When the America’sCup sailing race came to SanFrancisco we were well prepared,and we recognized the 150th anni-versary of Lincoln’s GettysburgAddress. We got an update onresearch relating to Alzheimer’sdisease and heard about efforts toexonerate those wrongfully con-

victed of a serious crime.

When the AAUW California con-vention was held in Santa Clara in2012, our branch provided severalvolunteers to act as greeters. TheHomeless Committee, having heldthe English Tea for 23 years, de-cided to try a spring garden party in2012, but with disappointing resultsdecided to reinvigorate the EnglishTea in 2013 and then celebrated the25th “Silver” English Tea in 2014.

Our Tech Trek girls inspired us allwith their enthusiastic response totheir week of math and sciencecamp at Stanford University. Localscholarship recipients representedvaried countries of origin —Mexico, Iran, Vietnam, the formerSoviet Union—and an equally widerange of majors – physics, mechani-cal engineering, molecular biologyand mathematics. AAUW certainlysupports women in the science,technology, engineering and math-ematics (STEM) fields through ourlocal, statewide and national efforts.

What does a nickel mean in thescheme of things in today’sworld? When you add up 69, 460nickels, it means $3,478.30. Giftsfor Teens received this amountfrom Whole Foods Market Blos-som Hill as part of their Nickels

Nickels Add Up for Gifts for Teensfor Non-Profits program lastquarter. A big thank you goes outto Whole Foods Market BlossomHill for their continued involve-ment in the community and to allthe shoppers who donated theirnickels. Gifts for Teens thanks youfor your support!

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July 2015 Tech Trek Campers – Part 2 (see last month for Part 1)

5 6Stanford UniversityJuly 9, 2015

Dear Saratoga/Los Gatos AAUW,

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to attend Tech Trek.It took a couple of days to settle in, but now I love it here! My room-mates and I have gotten really close. They’re become like a secondfamily. Tech Trek camp have given me an unforgettable experience.

I’ve learned a lot of new things. My core class was Cyber Sleuthing.This was a new class at camp, and as one of the “alpha testers”, Iwould definitely say that it was amazing! In the first days of the class,we did the least exciting activities, like programming, but now I realizethat those were the basic guideline to becoming a successful hacker.Lately, we have been doing really interesting activities such as encrypt-ing code and taking computers apart and putting them back together. Iam now thinking of becoming a cryptologist when I grow up due tothis fun experience.

I would like to thank you again for this wonderful week. I will comeback as junior counselor, senior counselor, and possibly even as a dormmom.

I am very glad that girls my age have the opportunity to be introducedto so many more things then they ever even though of as possiblecareers. Without your help, girls couldn’t even image doing math andscience for the rest of their lives.

Thank you for an opportunity to attend a whole week of amazing andlife-expanding math and science activities that were available duringthis awesome Tech Trek camp. Now, so many Tech Trekkers, like me,will definitely remember this week, and will hold the experience intheir heart forever.–Aneesha Nama

Stanford UniversityJuly 9, 2015

Dear Saratoga/Los Gatos AAUW,

Thank you for giving me thiswonderful opportunity to attendand to participate in Tech Trekcamp. This has been one of thebest weeks of my entire life. Itwas so much fun!

Something that I really enjoyedwas being able to experience awhole week like a college student– in the dorm rooms, in thecafeteria, and in the classes.

My core class, EngineeringDesign, was something I reallyenjoyed. I got to build cars androckets every day! It was awe-some.

I am really proud to have beenpart of Tech Trek 2015. This hasbeen an extraordinary weekbecause I did so many things Iwouldn’t ever be able to doanywhere else.

Thank you for sending me to this“best science and math campever”, Tech Trek rocks.

–Macarena Novoa-Delfin

Help Recruit New Members!

Who Can Join the Branch?Capitalize on your relationships and reachout to friends, co-workers, and members ofother local organizations. Bring a prospec-tive member to an interest group, generalmeeting or one of our fundraisers.

Qualification of MembershipAnyone holding an associate, baccalaureate, graduate degree orthe equivalent, or nursing school diploma or business schoolassociate degree from an accredited institution is eligible formembership. AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership.

Pass Along

a Little Bit

of Sunshine!

Do you knowanyone who is ill orin need of support?Did a member receive recognition?Please send her information to LavonneMarafino, our Sunshine Chair.

Contact Lavonne, (408) 867-1964;lnmarafino@att.net

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Photos of Our Local Authorsfrom the January 2016Author’s LuncheonPictured top left, Keith Raffel (latest book – Temple Mount); picturedbottom left, Donia Bijan, (her book – Maman’s Homesick Pie: PersianHeart in an American Kitchen) and Margaret Bard; pictured bottom right,Pamela C. Spahr (her eBook – Caregiver’s Survival Toolkit: Go fromSurviving to Thriving) and Terri Reynaud.

Pictured above, AAUW – Santa Cruz guestand Claire Campodonico; Photo to the right,the lovely centerpieces and (left to right)Gladys Bernyk, Eleanor Yick and PattyWeber enjoying a conversation.

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May 2016 AAUW Calendar2 Monday Board Meeting. Meets 3:00 pm (Permanent Time Change) Saratoga Fire Station, Community

Room (corner of Saratoga Ave & Saratoga/Los Gatos Rd.) All Members are Welcome!3 Tuesday Conversations in Spanish. Meets 1:30-3:00 pm at Nancy Anderson’s home (13561 Lomond Ct,

Saratoga). Join us to develop, maintain, or improve your conversational skills. RSVP to NancyAnderson, (408) 867-4383. Chair: Sharon Kelkenberg, (650) 962-1656. New Members andVisitors are Welcome.

6 Friday Armchair Travel Adventures. Meets 7:30 pm at The Terraces (800 Blossom Hill Rd., Los Gatos).Adventures in the Amazon Jungle – Photographer Joan Sparks – Invited to photographwildlife with some National Geographic photographers for a two week visit to a remote area inthe Amazon Jungle. “We hiked everywhere, discovered plants, avian and reptiles common to the area.It was a challenging trip at best hiking with all your photo gear trudging through knee high mud, bugsgalore-colorful and poisonous to watch out for, beautiful birds that were candy to your eyes and monkeys. . . ” Chair: JoAn Lambert, (408) 867-6237. Everyone is Welcome to This Year’s Last Program!

10 Tuesday Committee for Homeless Women and Children. (Corrected) Meets 7:00 pm at NancyAnderson’s home (13561 Lomond Ct, Saratoga). Speaker from the Garment Project. (Programhelps to provide “going home” clothes for victims of rape since their clothing is taken intoevidence.) RSVP: Chair, Nancy Anderson, (408) 867-4383. RSVP to Hear this Interesting GuestSpeaker! Visitors are Welcome.

12 Thursday Scenic Hikes and Walks – Point Lobos – On our last visit to this spectacular spot just south ofCarmel we were treated to a fabulous display of wild flowers, friendly deer, a plethora of birdsand, of course, the beautiful wild coast. We will hike 5-7 miles on the Cypress Grove Trail,rated as one of the “top 10” in California. Plan for a longer day. Meet promptly! 9:00 am at theLos Gatos “Free Parking - Northside Lot” behind Starbucks. Questions? Jane Bishop, (408) 356-7796; Kay Duffy, (408) 867-0508. New Hikers Welcome!

14 Saturday Celebrating 75 Years – Annual Spring Potluck Luncheon. 11:15 am – 1:30 pm in the Commu-nity Room, Immanuel Lutheran Church (14103 Saratoga Ave, Saratoga). Guest speaker isKathleen Doty, AAUW-CA President. Branch will provide beverages and an anniversary cake.See front page for details. Help Us Celebrate Our 75th Anniversary!

17 Tuesday PM Book Group. Meets 7:30 pm at Saratoga Retirement Community (14500 Fruitvale Ave,Saratoga). Book: “The Children’s Crusade” by Ann Packard. RSVP: Marilyn Lenormand, (408)741-7820. Chairs: Pat Khan, (408) 741-1616; Marlene Lamb, (408) 497-1555.

18 Wednesday Let’s Do Lunch. (New Date) Meet 12:30 pm at Mia Vicino (14441 Big Basin Way, Saratoga).RSVP to Shirley Cancellieri (408) 741-5586. Chair Joanna Yates, (408) 395-2950. Friendly Group,Open to Everyone.

20 Friday AM Book Review. Meets at 9:30 am. Bring a book (good or bad) you would like to talk about.For meeting location, contact chair Margaret Bard (408) 377-6625 or margaretbard@gmail.com.Come and Find Your Next Great Read!

24 Tuesday Conversations in Spanish. Meets 1:30-3:00 pm at Nancy Anderson’s home (13561 Lomond Ct,Saratoga). Join us to develop, maintain, or improve your conversational skills. RSVP to NancyAnderson, (408) 867-4383. Chair: Sharon Kelkenberg, (650) 962-1656. Visitors are Welcome.

26 Thursday Back by Noon Hike. Exercise 5 miles on nearby trails + coffee or lunch. Meet promptly! 9:00am in Saratoga at Argonaut Center, (way out in front of CVS). Questions? Jane Bishop, (408) 356-7796; Kay Duffy, (408) 867-0508. New Hikers Welcome!

31 Tuesday Film Buffs. (Change of Date & Time) Meet at 1:30 pm. The place to be announced. Call forinformation about location. Co-Chairs: Mary Ellen Madden, (408) 264-4488; Marlene Lamb,(408) 497-1555. All Movie Lovers Welcome!

Calendar in the Next Grapevine issue lists the Interest Groups that meet in June, July & August 2016! Stay intouch with your Los Gatos-Saratoga friends during the summer by attending.

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