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WG-USA Board Elections 2010
Application 2010 [Word]WG-USA Board Elections 2010
Candidates for ElectionElections will take place online WG-USA members in good standing will receive an invitation WG-USA Annual General Meeting Information will be sent via e-mail to all members in good standing. |
Candidate for Secretary
Diane Haney has served as the convener of the Governance Committee for Women Graduates. She has more than twenty years experience as a teacher and taught at middle, elementary and college levels. Her primary experience was as an elementary special education teacher. She has served as New York state president of AAUW among other positions and will serve as co-branch president next year. She has a BA from Albion College and MA from Northwestern University.
She has traveled extensively visiting all seven continents. She has attended two meetings of the Commission of the Status of Women at the UN and the Ottawa and Mexico City meetings of IFUW.
Diane has used the computer for email, word processing, business cards and flyers, simple photo processing and power point presentations. She has also used the internet to set committee meetings, send documents, used Google.docs, organized a blog and set conference calls
She looks forward to working with the Board to keep Women Graduates moving forward and increase member participation and will do her best to perform the duties of Secretary in a timely and efficient manner.
Candidate for Membership Convener
Carolyn Cowgill has just completed a term as Secretary, WG-USA. She has worked for thirty years in public education and served as an administrator for special education programs and as a supervisor for the ESL program. She has a BS, MA and certification in the field of learning disabilities. She has also taught as a volunteer in a number of programs and continues activity in AAUW (immediate past branch president), church choir and Art Goes to School, among other activities.
Internationally she has lived and studied in Mexico City for a year, tutored a young woman from Burma, and worked professionally with students, parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals from over 40 countries. Work with international organizations includes attending IFUW conferences, Commission on the Status of Women meetings at the UN and serving on the board of directors of Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund.
She has extensive computer experience as an administrator and as a WG board member.
Her goals as Membership Convener are to move the organization forward so that women we know and meet in our travels will want to become part of this exciting organization which is learning more about women in other countries and how we can extend the hand of friendship, provide resources on our website, and advocate for the well-being and education of all women and girls. Action steps include setting up an annual calendar of responsibilities with the Membership Committee, updating the membership brochure, working with the treasurer to provide a monthly member count, and contacting non-renewing members.
Candidates for Member-at-Large [ One to be elected]
Jackie Shahzadi
Jackie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund for nine years. She has been an active member of the La Palma-Cerritos (CA) AAUW for over 25 years. She has been on the Program Committee of Women Graduates—USA for two years, and was present at the inception of this organization in Phoenix and in Manchester. Jackie is very active in international groups such as Servas, an international peace and friendship organization; and People to People Ambassador Programs, for whom she has led delegations to Cuba (2001), South Africa (2003), New Zealand, and Australia (2004). She has attended the last six triennial conferences of the International Federation of University Women.
Jackie is currently employed as Campus College Chair of the College of Humanities and faculty member for the Southern California Campus of the University of Phoenix. Jackie holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Southern California, M.S.Ed. from USC, M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, and B.A. in Sociology from Drew University in Madison, NJ.
Jackie’s interest in international affairs began with her 12-year residence in pre-revolutionary Iran. She is co-author with her husband of a book about their life in Iran, Goldoon and Professor: Memoirs and Reflections of a Bicultural Marriage.
Jackie's goals for the office of Member at Large are to raise awareness of WG and its mission among potential members who are as concerned with women and children globally as we are. She will join with the Board to further initiatives which strengthen our bonds with IFUW and with individual IFUW members worldwide, to promote our common goals.
Norma Coret
Norma has taught at the secondary and college level, served on grant screening and college/university evaluation committees and been an art educator. She has completed her eighth year as an adjunct at Iowa Western Community College and established the art department at the Woodbine Community School. She has a PhD from the University of Nebraska, an MA from the University of Iowa and a BA from Iowa State University as well as extensive other studies. She has served at both the branch and state level in AAUW.
She has traveled extensively with the Virgilian Society of America plus individual extensions to Italy, Greece, Sicily, Crete, and other Aegean islands, France, Germany, England, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Macedonia, Corinth, Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. For her Master’s degree, she studied Giotto in Padua, Italy.
She has been active in local politics and has run for County Supervisor.
She has used the computer to process grant applications and to create a blog.
Her goals include equity for women as a major concern. She states, “I remember being especially interested in the progress Hillary Clinton made when she addressed the International Women’s Conference and the experience of having a female tour-guide in Greece at one point—her comments as inequity affected her.”