Fall has officially started and AAUW NC Branches are off to a great start with get togethers, fundraisers, and pot-lucks. Your AAUW NC Board has been busy, too.
The arrangements for the locale of the AAUW NC Annual Meeting are completed. It will be held on March 31 and April 1, 2017 at the Downtown Marriott in Greensboro. The keynote speaker for the 2017 Annual Meeting will be Melissa Johnson, AAUW NC’s representative from AAUW. She will be speaking on “Reproductive Justice”, a topic that is extremely relevant in today’s world.
The Ann Chipley Fund is growing slowly, but we expect to complete it by the end of the year. Remember to designate all your branch gifts to AAUW Fellowship Funds to the Ann Chipley Fund #4051. Ask your individual members to do the same. We need approximately $6,000 to complete the fund. Check the thermometer, set up by Nancy Shoemaker, on the website aauwnc.org to see how we are progressing.
One goal of last year’s annual meeting was to improve communications between the board and branches. The board, as an outcome of this goal, has assigned a board member, Board-Branch Liaison, to each branch. The goal is for the Board-Branch Liaison to be an additional way for the board to communicate with branches. The Board-Branch Liaison role is new and will develop as we go through the year. The assignments are listed below.
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Micki Bare | Blind Fairy: Zahra of the Uwharries |
| 2022 | Micki Bare | Society of the Sentinelia: Zahra of the Uwharries |
| 2021 | Halli Gomez | List of Ten |
| 2020 | Meg Cannistra | The Trouble with Shooting Stars |
| 2019 | Kelly Starling Lyons | Going Down Home with Daddy |
| 2018 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Shomberg: The Man Who Built a Library |
| 2017 | Ali Standish | The Ethan I Was Before |
| 2016 | Sheila Turnage | The Odds of Getting Even |
| 2015 | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Anybody Shining |
| 2014 | Joan Holub | Little Red Writing |
| 2013 | Kelly Starling Lyons | Tea Cakes for Tosh |
| 2012 | John Claude Bemis | The White City |
| 2011 | Gloria Houston | Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile |
| 2010 | John Claude Bemis | The Nine Pound Hammer |
| 2009 | Clay Carmichael | Wild Things |
| 2008 | Cathryn Sill | About Habitats: Wetlands |
| 2007 | Eleanora E. Tate | Celeste's Harlem Renaissance |
| 2006 | Joyce Moyer Hostetter | Blue |
| 2005 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins |
| 2004 | Blonnie Bunn Wyche | The Anchor: P. Moore Proprietor |
| 2003 | Michelle Groce | Jasper |
| 2002 | Carole Boston Weatherford | Remember the Bridge |
| 2001 | Reynolds Price | A Perfect Friend |
| 2000 | Lisa Williams Kline | Eleanor Hill |
| 1999 | Gloria Houston | Bright Freedom's Song: A Story of the UndergroundRailroad |
| 1998 | Jacqueline K. Ogburn | Jukebox Man |
| 1997 | Gloria Houston | Littlejim's Dreams: An Appalachian Christmas Story |
| 1996 | William Hooks | Freedom's Fruit |
| 1995 | Joanne and Kenn Compton | Sody Sallyratus |
| 1994 | Joanne Compton | Ashpet: An Appalachian Tale |
| 1993 | Christina Askounis | The Dream of the Stone |
| 1992 | Bill Brittain | Wings |
| 1991 | Suzanne Newton | Where Are You When I Need You? |
| 1990 | Lila Hopkins | Talking Turkey |
| 1989 | Belinda Hurmence | The Nightwalker |
| 1988 | Lila Hopkins | Eating Crow |
| 1987 | Sue Ellen Bridgers | Permanent Connections |
| 1986 | Nancy Tilly | Golden Girl |
| 1985 | Catherine Petroski | The Summer That Lasted Forever |
| 1984 | Belinda Hurmence | Tancy |
| 1983 | Glen Rounds | Wild Appaloosa |
| 1982 | Suzanne Newton | M. V. Sexton Speaking |
| 1981 | No award | |
| 1980 | Caroline B. Cooney | Safe As the Grave |
| 1979 | Suzanne Newton | Reubella and the Old Focus Home |
| 1978 | Suzanne Newton | What Are You Up To, William Thomas? |
| 1977 | Ruth White Miller | The City Rose |
| 1976 | Glen Rounds | Mr. Yowder and the Lion Roar Capsules |
| 1975 | Alexander Key | The Magic Meadow |
| 1974 | Suzanne Newton | C/O Arnold's Corners |
| 1973 | Barbara M. Parramore | The People of North Carolina |
| 1972 | No award | |
| 1971 | Suzanne Newton | Purro and the Prattleberries |
| 1970 | Mebane Holoman Burgwyn | The Crackajack Pony |
| 1969 | Mary Lina Bledsoe Gillet | Bugles at the Border |
| 1968 | Neal F. Austin | A Biography of Thomas Wolfe |
| 1967 | Glen Rounds | The Snake Tree |
| 1966 | Richard Walser and Julia Montgomery Street | North Carolina Parade: Stories of History and People |
| 1965 | Alexander Key | The Forgotten Door |
| 1964 | Randall Jarrell | The Bat-Poet |
| 1963 | Julia Montgomery Street | Dulcie's Whale |
| 1962 | Manly Wade Wellman | Rifles at Ramsour's Mill |
| 1961 | Glen Rounds | Beaver Business |
| 1960 | Jonathan Daniels | Stonewall Jackson |
| 1959 | Thelma Harrington Bell | Captain Ghost |
| 1958 | Ina B. Forbus | The Secret Circle |
| 1957 | Nell Wise Wechter | Taffy of Torpedo Junction |
| 1956 | Julia Montgomery Street | Fiddler's Fancy |
| 1955 | Ruth and Latrobe Carroll | Digby, the Only Dog |
| 1954 | Mebane Holoman Burgwyn | Penny Rose |
| 1953 | Ruth and Latrobe Carroll | Peanut |
Note that this information is also listed on the branch contacts page, and contact information for all board members can be found on the state contacts page.
By now, each branch president has received information about updating your branch ByLaws. In the email from Sandy Camillo, instructions and Model ByLaws were attached. Jean D’Addario will be in contact with you giving you additional information as needed.
Last, but not least, let’s help in any way we can to get out the vote.
– Sandra McLaurin, Co-President
Upcoming events
- Mark your calendars for 3/31-4/1/2017 NC Annual Meeting. It will be at the Greensboro Downtown Marriott.
- AAUW 2017 Convention: June 14-17 in DC
Contact information:
- State board members
- Branch contacts
- This site’s Member Center (which will be fully updated for 2016-2017 later this summer) also has
- full info on 2016-2017 branch officers (as reported to AAUW)
- 2016-2017 AAUW fellows and grantees in NC