Mark your calendars for our Saturday, September 7 meeting. It will be a Farewell Potluck at Diana Bauer’s home at 11:30 a.m. The Tech Trek girls and their parents will be invited to share their camp experiences.

We dedicate this web site as a thank you to our president: Linda Pinder

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Nyah White is working towards a BA in Fine Arts accompanied by a minor in Business Administration. Her goal is to start her own post-production company with a humanitarian goal as her focus. Nyah will be attending San Jose State College this fall. We wish her all the best in her career goals and future efforts to unify the voiceless thru the arts.
Sarrah Jessa is working toward a BA in Business Administration with the goal of becoming a Certified Public Account. She is a single parent to her 8-year-old daughter and hopes to prove to her daughter that woman can be resilient even through the most difficult of life experiences. Sarrah has maintained a 4.0 GPA
and plans on attending Cal State East Bay in the Fall.
We at American Association of University Women of Clayton honor our two Scholarship Recipients and wish them the best in their future careers. Elena Noble Scholarships.
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Tech Trek

As we told you in March, our Tech Trek team interviewed 5 young
outstanding young women at Diablo View on March 7, and
selected three worthy candidates to attend Tech Trek this
summer, and one alternate. For the first time that I can recall,
one of our selected campers was not able to attend at the last
minute, and we were very happy that our alternate, Katie Scullin
was able to step in at short notice to join Raegan and Alexis. We
are sorry that Amari Pickett had to cancel and hope she is doing
well.
Based on this picture below, it looks like they had a great time at
camp. Please read their thoughtful thank you letters that follow.

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AAUW President’s Message – Linda Pinder   
This will be the last newsletter for the Clayton Branch of AAUW. As you will remember, we did survey the membership about the viability of continuing this branch and the majority voted to disband. We can all be proud of the work we have accomplished over the past 50 years and the many young women we have sent to
Tech Trek Camp and the college scholarships that we have awarded.
At the June board meeting, we voted on what to do with the funds remaining after disbursement of our Teck Trek and Scholarship obligations. According to the Disbandment form for AAUW, any funds remaining are to be sent to AAUW National. We decided that we would rather spend our funds locally. We had selected 2 scholarship winners at $1,000 each and decided to increase their awards by $500 each. We also voted to give $500 to the Clayton Historical Society and another $500 to the Clayton Valley Woman’s Club. That leaves us with less than $100 that we will hold on to for any costs that come up as we close down this branch.
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This is a portion of an e-mail we received on June 2nd from AAUW National.

The AAUW National office is in receipt of your request for the disbandment of CA0165 Clayton which will be approved this week.

First we’d like to say thank you to the volunteer leaders and members of the branch for 50 years of service to AAUW and the local community.
Members of the branch are invited to continue their individual memberships in AAUW either through other branch affiliations or nationally only. We’re happy to help with this.
Thank you,
Angie
Angela M. Cooper | Sr. Manager, Connect and the Advancement & Partnerships Department
1310 L St NW Suite 1000 Washington DC 20005
202.785.7782 | coopera@aauw.org | www.aauw.org

2023 Tech Trek Girls

Welcome! American Association of University Women (AAUW) is a charitable membership organization with a nationwide network of more than 170,000 members and donors whose mission is to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education.  AAUW has been a champion of women’s rights for over 100 years! We believe in the future, we believe in education, and in STEM fields and we continue to support education for girls and women.

Branch members enjoy the opportunity to participate with other professional women in meetings and gatherings focused on:
1. Programs meant to influence public policy as part of AAUW’s powerful voice on behalf of women and girls.
2. Organizing and participating in programs/events to raise money to support local scholarships and Tech Trek camperships.
3. Individual interests such as book clubs, bridge games, and movie groups.

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Slate of Officers 2022-2023

President:  Linda Pinder
Vice President Membership: Lola Rohrs
Vice President Program: Joanne Casper and Alice Ponti
Vice President Funds: Jan Hester and Diana Bauer
Secretary: Joan Chesterman
Treasurer: Carol Wolfe
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