TABLE OF CONTENTS

UWC Events You Don’t Want to Miss

President’s Message

UWC Notes

• Membership Update
• Lecture Luncheon for March
• Recap – January Lecture Luncheon
  
• Happy Hour/Tea Time Conversations
  
• Elect Officers – Meet the Candidates
  

Scholarships

• Message from the Chair
  
• Donations
  
• Support for UWC Through Shopping

Did You Know?

Looking Ahead

• Scholarship Luncheon
• Honors Reception

Nominations Sought

• Margaret Willard Award

Member Acknowledgements

Interest Groups

• News
• Information

Executive Board

Calendar for 2025

UWC Events You Don’t Want to Miss!

Lecture Luncheon #4

Ahoy Mateys and Pirates
Register NOW for Opera Brunch 2025

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

In this new year, we come together to be with established and new friends, to learn about a diverse array of subjects (February and March Lecture Luncheons), to enjoy entertainment (Opera Brunch), and to raise funds to support non-traditional students getting their undergraduate degrees (April Scholarship Luncheon).

After all of these wonderful and inspiring events, we come together again for the final and very important UWC event of the year, the Honors Reception on the afternoon of May 13!

WE NEED HELP with the May event! We need greeters! We need help with flowers: Would you be willing to put a Spring bouquet on each table under the tent on the UMC terrace? Maybe you’d prefer to give out roses to each award winner? Most certainly you and your UWC friends will want to meet and get to know our 2025 Margaret Willard Award Winner!

An added bonus awaits you! This May you’ll also meet last year’s recipient, Donna Werner, because she was unable to attend last year to receive her award in person. Margaret Willard Award winners are outstanding women serving our extended community and accomplishing amazing work! Plan on coming to meet them while enjoying the best hors d’oeuvres of Boulder. A musical treat that you won’t want to miss awaits you as well. The Honors Reception is one of the few events included in your dues – no extra cost to you (except parking). Since it is held after graduation, there should be ample parking available.

So, please step up and offer your support by contacting me at 614-256-7328 or at annewshka at gmail dot com. We deserve a celebration as an acknowledgement of all that we are about as an organization impacting the University of Colorado and its broader community!

UWC NOTES

Membership Update

Final Lecture Luncheon – March 11, 10:30-1:00 UMC 235

Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss- CU Law School
Law Schools, Law, and the Legal Historical Moment

Registration Deadline February 22, 2025

How to Attend to UWC Events at University Memorial Center (UMC)

Consider Taking the Bus
Note: All of the RTD busses require exact change.

• RTD Trip Planner. Enter the address from which you are starting, then enter the address at which you want to end (Broadway and Euclid Ave, Boulder) and the time at which you want to arrive. Click “Plan Your Trip” and RTD will figure out your choice of routes including any transfers you have to make.

• Consider using the following bus routes in Boulder: the SKIP, the 204, and the DASH, all stop on Broadway very close to the UMC. Other buses, including the STAMPEDE and the HOP, stop on 18^th Street just behind the UMC.

• Catch the HOP at the 29th Street Mall – The HOP is an easy ride from the mall and runs about every 10 minutes. Catch the clockwise bus on 29^th Street just across from the former Macy’s entrance. It will take you to 18^th Street behind UMC. When you return, take the counter-clockwise bus from the east side of 18^thStreet. The HOP goes in a loop, so either direction will get you there, but it is a shorter route on the south side of the loop.

• Park at the Table Mesa Park-N- Ride – 5170 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Board the DASH toward downtown Boulder. The bus stops on Broadway at Euclid Ave. There is no cost to park at the Table Mesa Park-N-Ride for the first 24 hours. The cost of the bus ride for seniors is only $1.50 round trip for the first 3 hours. If you have a EcoPass, you ride for free.

• Park at the Table Mesa parking lot near Chase Bank and get on the SKIP, which stops on the north side of the Bank and takes you to the UMC.  The cost is the same as the DASH.

Share Rides

Do you need a ride to the UWC Lecture Luncheons? Can you offer a ride to another UWC member to the Lecture Luncheons? The UWC Board is trying an experiment to see if we can facilitate attending the UWC Lecture Luncheons. Sign up here!!!

Drive and Park in Euclid Parking (Parking Garage Next to the UMC)

Options for Payment

• Pay at the Pay-station (Enter your license plate number and pay by cash or credit card.) The price is $2.00/hour for up to 3 hours. You do not need to place the receipt on the car dashboard.
• Download the ParkMobile app on your mobile phone. Enter the Zone Number found on the Pay-station, and select the desired number of hours to park. The duration can be adjusted as needed on your phone. (Link to ParkMobile – App for your phone)

Great news!  The lower levels in the garage are no longer reserved for permit holders. The whole garage is available for visitor parking.

Recap: Pictures from the Third Lecture Luncheon

SCHOLARSHIPS

Message from the Scholarship Chair

Support Scholarships Through Your Grocery Shopping!

Information taken from Susan Orlean’s book, The Library Book. 

“Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society we are, and what we know. Destroying a culture’s books ruptures the continuity between the past and the future.”

War is the greatest slayer of libraries. 

• World War II destroyed more books and libraries than any event in human history. The Nazis alone destroyed an estimated hundred million books during their twelve years in power. 
• Italy lost twenty major libraries containing two million books; France lost a million more books. The National Assembly in Paris burned destroying rare eleventh and thirteenth-century manuscripts.
• During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Tse-tung ordered a purge of books that espoused old ideas and customs and sent the Red Guard to ‘cleanse’ the libraries of Tibet. 

Libraries burn during peacetime

• There are about two hundred library fires a year in the United States caused by accidents: short circuits, overheated fans, lightening strikes, faulty wiring, vandalism.
• The Harvard Library was destroyed in 1764 when flames from a fireplace spread throughout the library. 

The Los Angeles Public Library: Consumed by Fire on April 29, 1986

• The library’s fire prevention consisted of smoke detectors and handheld fire extinguishers. At the time of the fire there were twenty fire code violations waiting to be resolved. 
• The contents of the library were valued, for insurance purposes, at roughly $69 million and housed a Shakespeare folio and countless rare books and manuscripts from as early as the 1500s.
• At a few minutes before eleven o’clock on April 29, 1986, a smoke detector set off an alarm. Four hundred patrons and staff exited the building in just eight minutes.
• By six thirty p.m. on April 29, the fire had raged for seven hours and thirty-eight minutes, had reached temperatures of 2500 degrees Fahrenheit, and the water used to fight the fire waterlogged many of the books that hadn’t burned. 
• In the aftermath volunteers packed over fifty thousand boxes of books retrieved from the library. The wet and smoke-damaged books were taken in refrigerated trucks to a food warehouse and stored at temperatures 70 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
• As soon as the fire was extinguished, the fire department began investigating. The assumption was that the fire had been caused by human intervention: casual vandalism that had gotten out of hand. 
• In the end, a young man was arrested on suspicion of arson, but was released three days later due to the lack of concrete evidence. 
• The exact origin of the fire remains a mystery to this day. 

Happy Birthday, Susan B. Anthony!

February 15, 1820 

Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony’s work helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The amendment was known as the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” to honor her work on behalf of women’s rights, and on July 2, 1979, she became the first woman to be featured on a circulating coin from the U.S. mint.

It wasn’t until June 4, 1919 – 13 years after her death on March 13, 1906- that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was approved by Congress giving all adult women the right to vote. 

LOOKING AHEAD

UWC Annual Scholarship Luncheon

The University Women’s Club Annual Scholarship Luncheon will be held on
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Boulder Country Club.
Join University Women’s Club friends as we honor the 2025 scholarship recipients with the theme, “On the Path to Your Future”

Honors Reception

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Margaret Willard Award

Membership Courtesy

INTEREST GROUPS

Interest Group News

Photos from Interest Group Activities

Hiking Group

The Hiking Group on Doudy Draw on December 20, 2024.   Left to right:  Ruel Page, Frieda Holley, Char Rasmussen, Jean Nelson, Shirley Harkess, and Judy Winkel.  Marie Darcy took the picture.

Sunday Afternoon at the Movies

On Sunday, January 5, the UWC Sunday Afternoon at the Movies group went to see Mad About the Boy: the Noel Coward Story at the Dairy Art Center, followed by a discussion at Aloy Thai. Left to Right: Karen Haimes, Dorothy Coltrin, Lorraine Sexton, Marge Riddle, Sherry Woodruff, Kathleen Newton, and Carmen Caver.

Book Club: Bookies

Out to Lunch

At the Bohemian Biergarten in Boulder

Right Side: Kathleen Newton, Jyotsna Raj, Lois Anderson, Jean Rohrschneider, Phyllis Schwartz, Jane Etzel.
Left side: Linda Nordberg, Tam Van Spriell, Jane Massie, Carmen Carver, and Nancy Helmut

Upcoming  Interest Group Activities

Interest Groups Information

Bicycling – The weekly Thursdays meetings will resume in May 2025. New Chairs needed. Please contact Interest Groups Chair Lois Linsky if interested (303-499-2689).
Bicycling – Easy Riders –Chair Rebecca Batizy 303-601-9956 or Rebeccabatizy at gmail dot com. Contact chair for current information about meeting dates and times. New members welcome.
Book Group – Afternoon – Fourth Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. mostly at members’ homes or on ZOOM.  Vaccinations required. Chairs: Mary Anna Dunn 720-355-8174; Lois Linsky 303-499-2689.
Book Group – Biographies – Third Friday at 3:00 p.m., in person. Chair: Mary Pierce 303-360-0157.
Book Group – The Original Book Group – Formerly Evening – Second Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Meetings held in members’ homes. Chairs: Judy Thompson 608-469-6883; Judy Reid 303-746-2983. This group has been meeting continuously since the 1950’s.
Bridge Group – First Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Chair: Karen Neff 303-494-0467.
French Conversation – All Speaking Levels – Dates and times to be determined. Chair: Zdenka Smith 303-330-2856.
Games Group – It’s Anyone’s Game – Board and card games. Third Tuesday from 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. at home of Chair in Louisville. Contact chair to join. Chair: Kathleen Newton 720-548-8661.
Garden Group –  Third Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. Chairs: Jyotsna Raj  303-447-8831; Jean Rohrschneider 720-542-9788.
Golfing – For the Casual Golfer – 1:00 p.m. every Thursday at various golf courses, new members welcome. Chair: Susan Planck 303-499-3916.
Hikers and Slow Hikers – Every Friday at 9:00 am, September to May; 8:30 June to August. Meet at southern end of the east side of covered parking lot opposite the lower-level east entrance to the former Macy’s. Chairs: Joan (Joanie) Cardone 303-263-7823; Frieda Holley 303-499-3733. Please note: Dogs are not allowed on UWC hikes.
Italian Conversation – Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on Zoom. Chair: Maxene Wilson 303-530-4619.
Music – Second Monday afternoon of most months in members’ homes, providing a venue for musical performers to meet and share their love of music in an intimate setting. Chairs: Berry Todd 303-442-9083; Tula Roberge 303-443-2509.
On the Road Again — Occasional in-person road trips.  Chair:  Kathy Randall  303-746-4528.
Out to Lunch – Usually Fourth Wednesday, at noon at various local restaurants. Chairs: Jean Rohrschneider 720-542-9788; Jyotsna Raj 303-447-8831.
Readers’ Theater 2 – Third Monday 4:00 p.m. at the Boulder Library. Chairs: Patty Ludke 303-817-1020; Kathy Randall 303-746-4528.
Spanish Conversation Advanced – Contact chair for details. Chair: Diana King 303-803-4583.
Sunday Afternoon at the Movies – Usually second Sunday,  to see movies at a theater in Boulder or nearby theater. Chairs: Sharon Nehls 303-494-5778; Carmen Caver 803-606-5619.
Theater Goers – Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company matinees. Acting Chair, Cindy Meyer 713-256-9185.

Groups that are at capacity

• Book Group – The Bookies – Kathy Randall 303-746-4528.
• Book Group Small – Fiction and Non-Fiction, Joyce Bograd.
• Book Group – Second Monday, Janet Evans.
• Book Group – Mysteries, Betty Barnes.
• Bridge Group Intermediate level – First Wednesday Chair:  Karen Neff

To start a new interest group requires at least five members including a chairperson.
If you are interested in starting a new group please contact the Interest Group Coordinator for more information: Lois Linsky Interest Group Coordinator, 303-499-2689.
To form a new book group, contact Kathy Randall, 303-746-4528.

Suggested New Groups
Any interest? Remember to start a new group there must be a leader and five participants.

• Tatting
• Antiques

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Officers
President – Anne Hudson
Past President and President Elect – Andie Kutinsky
Secretary and Secretary Elect – Sharon Nehls
Treasurer and Treasurer Elect – Frieda Holley

Board Members
Acknowledgements: Donations made “in honor of” – Joyce Spencer
Advisory/Parliamentarian – Frieda Holley
Honors Reception – TBD
Interest Groups Chair – Lois Linsky
Margaret Willard Award Chair – Andie Kutinsky
Membership Chair – Merry Bullock
Membership Coffee – Lynne Barnett
MESSAGES Co Chairs

Editor – Tam Van Spriell
Copy Editor – Kathleen Salzberg
Technical Editor – Merry Bullock

New Members – Shirley Harkess
Nominating Committee – Kathy Randall
Opera Brunch – Sandy Johnson
Programs

Chair – Norma Portnoy
UMC Liaison – Tam Van Spriell
Registration – Lynne Barnett

Scholarship Committee Chair – Jean Manifesto
Scholarship Luncheon – Jonette Lucia
Website – Joyce Spencer
Zoom Masters – Merry Bullock, Lynne Barnett
Non-Board Positions
Document Repository – Frieda Holley
Email Communications – Diana King, Coordinator
Archives/Historian – Karen Neff
Photographer Coordinator – Berry Todd

CALENDAR

UWC Calendar 2025