TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message from the President

Did You Know?

UWC Notes

• Membership
• Lecture Series 2021-2022
• Happy Hour/Tea Time Conversations
• Save the Date – scholarship luncheon

Scholarships

Nominations

Interest Groups

• News
• Information

Support UWC

Photos from the Membership Coffee 

Executive Board

Calendar for 2021-22

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. Henri Nouwen

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. Estonian proverb.

Thanksgiving: A Historical Perspective

Legend has it that a few of the earliest colonists had conducted a hunting expedition for wild turkeys or the easier prey of geese and ducks in preparation for a feast and possibly the long winter months ahead. This effort apparently had not gone unnoticed by the Wampanoag observing from a secluded vantage point. Imagine the colonists’ surprise, however, when a tribe of 90+ Wampanoag natives made an unexpected appearance requesting entrance at the settlement’s gate! The unsuspecting 50 or so colonists must have been unnerved at the sight of such a large group of natives bearing venison, vegetables and fish as contributions to a feast for which they had not been invited. Regardless, Wikipedia states that “Over the next few days the two groups socialized without incident. This unruly affair sealed a treaty between the two groups that lasted until King Philip’s War in 1675.”

This spontaneous gathering of colonists and the Wampanoag became the inspiration for our first Thanksgiving and was later codified by government leaders as they birthed a nation. President George Washington (November 26, 1789) issued a proclamation for ‘a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.’ Later in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln encouraged Americans to recognize the last Thursday of November as ‘a day of Thanksgiving.’ A few years later (1870) Congress passed legislation making Thanksgiving a national holiday. (Excerpted from Britannica and Wikipedia.)

From Colonial Days to Present

Fast forward from the days of isolated settlements to urban sprawl, Thanksgiving traditionally is a joy-filled time to gather with family, friends and welcomed guests to share our abundance. For others who have lost a loved one or who don’t have enough to share, Thanksgiving can be a time of immense pain and sorrow. Let us all be mindful of those who are unable to receive or give ‘thanks’ on this holiday.

So Many Reasons to be Grateful

Indeed there are so many reasons to be grateful for being a part of the University Women’s Club that offers creative ways to connect with other women in a variety of activities and venues. There are over 20 Interest Groups (something for everyone), educational lecture webinars (hoping to meet in person over lunch in 2022) and a shared common value of supporting non-traditional students to complete educations that have been interrupted through life circumstances. (A portion of the dues we pay and all of the donations we make go directly to support UWC scholarships.) May our organization continue to be a source of blessings for many. May we individually find reasons for which to be grateful in all of the little ways that make up our days.

Tamera Van Spiral
UWC President 2021-2022

This Month in Colorado History

Historical Fact: On October 2, 1877 Colorado women’s suffrage lost the first popular vote. It would take another 16 years for equal suffrage to be voted through on November 7, 1893. This was 27 years before the matter was resolved nationally by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1920.

DID YOU KNOW?

• In two new sets of rankings, CU Boulder placed in the top 100 among best universities in the U.S. and worldwide, continuing to hold its position among some of the world’s most highly regarded institutions. Rankings vary within individual disciplines.
• The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is open free of charge to the public and has a variety of exhibitions and lectures. It’s located at 1030 Broadway in the Henderson Building on the CU campus. Hours of operation: Monday- Saturday 9:00a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• University of Colorado Art museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder offers free admission to unique exhibitions. Hours of operation: Tuesday – Saturday 11:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
• The CU School of Music presents Faculty Tuesdays, weekly concerts that are open to the public featuring CU faculty and guests. Price of admission: free or ‘pay what you can.’ For complete information visit cupresents.org/performance.
• It not too early to purchase your tickets for CU Boulder’s Holiday Festival, an annual tradition that’s enchanting for all ages. The decades-old celebration brings together student choirs, bands and orchestras—along with world-class faculty performers—for a concert of holiday favorites and new surprises. Performance dates and times this year: Friday, December 3 through Sunday, December 5.

UWC NOTES

Last Chance to Renew Your UWC Membership…

.…to be included in the November UWC Directory.

if you have not already done so, just click on this link (Membership Renewal Page) and complete the membership form. You can pay dues/make scholarship donations via PayPal or check. *

Membership dues are still $35 and cover the UWC year from September through August. Your $35 dues include a $5 donation to the scholarship fund. And of course, we always welcome larger scholarship donations. Many of our members continue to donate more than the $5 included in the dues. 

University Woman’s Club offers so many benefits:

• September Membership Coffee/Tea
• Monthly lecture events beginning in October
• Over 25 Interest Groups- only paid UWC members can participate
• Opera Event
• Scholarship Luncheon
• Honors Reception and Margaret Willard Award
• UWC Membership Directory
• MESSAGES newsletter- to keep you informed of all our activities
• Or check the UWC website https://boulderuwc.org

If you have any questions regarding your UWC Membership, please email Arlene Gerwin, Membership Chair at uwcmembershipchair@gmail.com

* Or print out this form and mail with your check to:
UWC Membership
PO Box 18844
Boulder CO 80308-18844         

Lecture Series for 2021-2022!

We hope you’ll attend the stimulating lectures we’ve scheduled for the 2021-2022 academic year.  Please register now to attend the November 9th lecture that will be conducted on Zoom at no cost to members or guests.  We hope to conduct the January, February and March 2022 lecture luncheons in-person in the University Memorial Center on campus.  However, we will conduct these lectures virtually if the pandemic makes it unsafe for us to convene in person.

November 9, 2021: Stories of Colorado Women: The Famous, the Infamous, and the Ones You Have Never Heard Of – Rae Wiseman from History Colorado

Throughout Colorado’s history, there have been women who have had a lasting impact on our lives and the rights that we enjoy today.  Native Americans and pioneer settlers to health providers, educators, and writers, women from a variety of backgrounds have risen to tremendous heights in their fields, despite adversity and social barriers.  Many of them were true pioneers.  We are indebted to these women, as you will see in this fascinating and informative lecture.

*** Register Now – Click Here***      11:00-12:30 on ZOOM

January 11, 2022 – Famous Women in Science: Navigating a Man’s World – Barbara T. Zimmerman, PhD, Founder of Biomedical Communication and Consulting

Women scientists have often been stereotyped as “geeks” or “nerds” who may be brilliant but not really feminine according to the standards of the dominant males of their generation. Dr. Zimmerman will talk about some famous women in science and highlight their accomplishments as well as unique obstacles and challenges they faced in becoming scientists. She will also discuss alternative fields that are attracting them and her own experience in the biomedical field.

Register Here

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 – Why Watching Modern Dance is So Hard: 10  Hot Tips to Make It Easier – Erika Randall, Chair of the CU Department of Theatre and Dance

In this pithy, physical, and playful talk, Randall will unpack dance moves like “the hinge,” the confounding history of running in concert dance, and how to notice and negotiate our biases when watching bodies in motion.  This historical and “how-to” lecture will prepare you for better dance consumption, particularly of the 2021-2022 CU Theatre & Dance and Artist Series Season.

Register Here

Wednesday March 9, 2022 – Shifting Narratives: How Journalism’s Coverage of Mass Shootings Has Evolved – Elizabeth Skewes,  CU, Journalism Department Chair

Please join us as CU’s Chair of the Journalism Department shares preliminary findings from her new research on media coverage of mass shootings and school shootings from the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas in Austin to the shooting last year at the Table Mesa King Soopers in our own community. She will discuss how coverage has changed since the mid-1960s and how journalists try to balance the duty to inform the public with the need to treat victims and survivors with an ethic of care.

Register here

Happy Hour/Tea Time Conversations via ZOOM

We’d love to have you join one of our Happy Hour/Tea Time conversations. It is a great way to get to know new UWC members, and a great way get to know old friends better. We meet twice a month, the first and third Tuesday at 4:00. Contact Kathy Randall (katherineran at gmail dot com) to reserve a spot for one or both conversations or to sign up for automatic inclusion for the rest of the UWC year.

November 2: What is some activity that you have tried that you’ll never, ever try again, and the story behind this.

November 16: If you could only eat three things plus one dessert for the rest of your life, what would they be and what is the story behind these choices.

SAVE THE DATE !

Boulder University Women’s Club Scholarship Luncheon

will be held on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at the Boulder Country Club.  We are looking forward to seeing you there!  Mark your calendars now so you don’t miss this important event.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Message from the Scholarship Chair

As fall brings us cool days and likely more time inside,  I want to encourage members to visit our website (boulderuwc.org), and take some time to read or re-read the short bios of the UWC 2021 Scholarship recipients and listen to the interviews with them conducted by Scholarship Committee members.   These interviews will give you a new appreciation of how immensely important your donations are.   You will see that our 2021 Scholarship recipients are highly diverse in the range of their interests and professional aspirations.  However, what they all have in common is a commitment to helping others. These efforts range from those who at young ages took on major responsibilities for helping their families when they were in difficult circumstances to those who plan to dedicate time and talent to assist others less fortunate than themselves as they move into their professional careers.   Members should realize that their donations thus get multiplied many times over as they enable these dedicated young people not only to pursue their own dreams, but also to help many others along the way and in the future.

I also want to offer another sincere thank you to all the members who stepped up so generously in this last pandemic year, which allowed UWC to continue its long-standing mission of providing scholarships to these non-traditional students.  Since significant effects of the pandemic remain with us, our wonderful, upcoming November Lecture Event will also be virtual, and thus free to members!   So when you register for this event, please consider allocating to the UWC Scholarship Fund some or all of the funds you may have budgeted in the past for the UWC Lecture Luncheons.   Just take a minute while you are at the website and make a donation on-line to keep the UWC Scholarship tradition going strong!  Also look for the “Support UWC “ section and  sign up for the King Soopers and Amazon Smile charitable rewards programs, which enable automatic donations to UWC, so you have an additional donation at NO cost to you!

Marge Riddle
Scholarship Committee Chair

September Donations

Karen Bell
Janet H. Brewer
Sherry Bruff
Georgianne Campbell
Sue  Collard
Dorothy Coltrin
Marge DeFries
Karen Diamond
Alice Doyle
Kitty Edwards
Inge Peate Engdahl
Janet Evans
Sharon Gabriel
Arlene S. Gerwin
Helen Goldman
Linda Groth
Jill  Grubb
Val Havlick
Kimberly Hills

Frieda Holley
Louise Hutchings
Pat Irwin
Karon Johnson
Caryl F. Kassoy
Joan Knaub
Jonette Lucia
Heidi Lynch
Diana Maiden
Jane Massie
Ann McBryan
Barbara R. Miller
Mollie Sue Morton
Gail Moyes
Marcy Munson
Karen Neff
Linda Nordberg
Becky Palmer
Marilyn Peltzer
Mary Pierce
Carol Ponton

Kathy Randall
Beth  Rauch
Judy Reid
Marge Riddle
Virginia Ross
Kathleen Salzberg
Carol Saunders
Donna J. Seaman
Boyce Sher
Zdenka Smith
Pamela Swenerton
Berry Todd
Linda Warfield
Maxene Wilson
Nurit Wolf
Barbara Zable

In Memoriam

Joyce Spencer, in memorium for Joel Salzberg

INTEREST GROUPS

Interest Group News

Think Snow – Join the UWC Snowshoeing Group!

Looking for Members

Interest Groups Information

Bicycling – Meets weekly from May through October. Resuming in the spring; Chairs: Betsy Barrett, 602-677-4627; Gail Smith 303-960-5004
Bicycling – Easy Riders – Will resume riding in the spring.  Contact chair for details.  Chair: Dorothy Coltrin 720-527-4704, Becky Palmer 303-449-0884
Book Group – Afternoon – Fourth Tuesday at 1:30 pm at members’ homes.  Chair:  Carol Saunders 303-499-3731, Lois Linsky 303-499-2689
Book Group – Biographies – Third Friday at 3:00 pm – ZOOM. Chair:  Zdenka Smith 303-444-8547
Book Group – Formerly Evening – second Thursday 3:30 pm. Chairs: Judy Thompson 608-469-6883; Marge Riddle 303-378-0605
Book Group Small – Fiction and Non-fiction – Fourth Tuesday at 1:30 pm at members’ homes. Chair:  Joyce Bograd  303-444-5304
Bridge Group – first Wednesday at 1:00 pm. Chair:  Ginnie Ross, 303-442-5014
French Conversation – All Speaking Levels – 2nd and 4th Tuesday 9:00 – 10:30 am on ZOOM. Chair: Beth Karpf 303- 862-7335
Garden Group – resuming in the spring. Chairs: Jyotsna Raj  303-447-8831; Jean Rohrschneider 720-542-9788
Golfing – For the casual golfer, 1:00 pm every Thursday at various golf courses, new members welcome. Chair: Susan Planck 303-499-3916
Hiking – Every Friday 9:00 am September -May; 8:30 am June-August in person. Meet at east edge of parking lot on north side of  Macy’s lot – Chairs:  Joan (Joanie) Cardone, 303-263-7823; Frieda Holley 303-499-3733
Italian Conversation – Wednesday, 1:30-2:30 pm on Zoom.  Chair: Maxine Wilson, 303-530-4619
On the Road Again – taking virtual road trips until in-person meetings can be resumed. Chair: Kathy Randall 303-746-4528
Out to Lunch – Fourth Wednesday, at noon at various local restaurants. Chairs: Jean Rohrschneider 720-542-9788; Jyotsna Raj 303-447-8831
Reader’s Theater 2 – Third Monday 4:00 p.m. on Zoom. Patty Ludke  303-817-1020; Kathy Randall 303-746-4528
Snowshoeing – Wednesday when snow is good. Chairs:  Arlene Gerwin 303-494-1307; Joan (Joanie) Cardone 303-263-7823
Spanish Conversation Advanced – Contact chair for details.  Chair: Diana King  303-530-1860
Sunday Afternoon at the Movies – 2nd Sunday,  meeting at Boulder Theater, Chair:  Kathleen Newton, 720-548-8661

Groups that are on hiatus:

• Music – Unable to organize due to COVID
• Needlecraft – Chair:  Ginnie Ross, 303-442-5014
• Theater Goers, New chair needed

Groups that are at capacity:

• Book Group – The Bookies, Kathy Randall
• Book Group – Second Monday, Janet Evans
• French Conversation, Dot Thompson
• Readers’ Theatre 1, Jeannette Hillery

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: Linda Nordberg, Interest Group Coordinator, 978-314-9987).
To form a new book group, contact Kathy Randall, 303-746-4528.

NOMINATIONS SOUGHT

Do You Know an Outstanding Woman in the Boulder Community? 

Reminder:
Support UWC Through Shopping

Look at this!
You can raise funds for UWC at NO COST TO YOU!

King Soopers and Amazon both have programs that will donate a percentage of your qualifying purchases to UWC at no cost to you whatsoever!  Even better, once you’re set up, everything happens automatically.  It’s “easy peasy!”  University Women’s Club hopes that as many members as possible will enroll in these programs and designate UWC as the recipient of these donations.  And to make it happen, we’re here to help you get enrolled.

King Soopers shoppers can join their Community Awards Program and Amazon customers can join the Amazon Smile Program.  The vast majority of our members frequent both companies on a regular basis and should join both programs.  For that matter, let’s also get our spouses, children, and adult grandchildren to join these programs to help us raise funds.

The decision to participate is truly a no-brainer!

Support UWC When Shopping at King Soopers

With the King Soopers Community Rewards program, you can support UWC with every purchase.  You’ll simply need to create an online account and then register your Loyalty (“Shoppers”) Card to link it to UWC.  Purchases at King Soopers would generate an annual gift of approximately $115 for a single-occupant household and $230 for a two-person household.

Please click here for instructions on how to do this.

Designate UWC in the Amazon Smile Program

With AmazonSmile, you’ll automatically help UWC every time you shop, with no cost to you of either time or money.  You can link your Amazon account to the University Women’s Club through the AmazonSmile Program.  Then just shop using the AmazonSmile website (smile.amazon.com) and UWC will earn a percentage of your qualifying purchases.  Tens of millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations.

Please click here for instructions on how to do this.

Thank you!

THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING in this program to help UWC raise needed funds.

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Officers
President – Tamera VanSpriell
President Elect – Norma Portnoy
Past President – Janet Brewer
Secretary & Secy Elect – Karen Bell
Treasurer  – Kathy Herder
Treasurer-Elect – Frieda Holley
Board Members
Communications – Berry Todd
Directory – Diana King
Email / Email Monitoring – Berry Todd
Historian/Yearbook – Vacant
Honors Reception – Karen Johnson
Interest Groups – Linda Nordberg
Lecture Registration – Lynne Barnett

Margaret Willard Award – Patty Ludke
Membership – Arlene Gerwin
MESSAGES – Merry Bullock
New Members – Janet Brewer
Nominating Committee – Kathy Randall
Opera Brunch – Sandy Johnson
Parliamentarian – Frieda Holley
Program Chair – Norma Portnoy
Program Co-Chair – Sharon Nehls
Repository – Diana King
Scholarship Committee – Marge Riddle
Scholarship Luncheon – Jonette Lucia
Telephone Tree – Open
Website – Joyce Spencer

CALENDAR

UWC Calendar 2021-2022