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Owatonna Branch

President 1: Mary Cronin email 507-455-4114
President 2: Maren DeLaitsch    email     507-451-7599
September 2010 Newsletter

OWATONNA

 The mission of AAUW plays a major role in the Owatonna branch’s programs, which this year included Women in the Outdoors, WomenInc, and Women in High Places. We also celebrated Black History Month with a speaker detailing his family’s journey in the South. The programs all touched on equity in some form. Women in the Outdoors is an organization that provides opportunities for women to become comfortable and familiar with aspects of the outdoors that have typically been male dominated. WomenInc is a magazine run by women and written for a female audience, providing readers opportunities to network. It features stories that inspire and empower women. Kay Sauck, the president and editor of WomenInc, presented the program about the magazine, and was very impressive. For Women’s History Month, we hosted Catherine Allan, senior executive producer at Twin Cities Public Television. This program is co-sponsored with three other groups and the Owatonna Arts Center, which allows us to invite the public and create more publicity.

Each year our branch is able to fund a $500 scholarship for a college woman and a $300 campership for a middle school girl. We also give a major portion of our fundraising dollars to EF and LAF. At budget time, we have a formula that calculates the amount we need for EF and LAF and the remainder goes to programming.

Our current visibility chair, Melanie Nelson, is wonderfully capable at promoting our branch through feature articles relating to our programs. We also create visibility through advertising for scholarships. We have had a wonderful year so far with many dedicated members doing more than their share to enable our branch to be successful. We are very happy to be able to host the State Convention. This opportunity has been a two-year journey for member Kay Oberle and I couldn’t ask for a more capable and detailed person to coordinate this huge undertaking. She is a true asset to our group.

If you are in Owatonna anytime after the State Convention please look us up and join us for a program.