UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

Upcoming meetings include:

• RESCHEDULED TO Thursday, April 25, 7:00 pm, on Zoom only: “Brown Legs are Beautiful Too!” Deportistas and the Chicana/o Youth Movement in Texas,” Dr. Paulina Serrano, 2022-23 AAUW American Fellowship winner and postdoctoral teaching fellow in history at the Pennsylvania State University.
• May 7, 7:00-8:30 pm,  Juniata College, room TBD, Reception for High School and Juniata College AAUW Award Winners and Branch Annual Meeting

PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS (2023-24)

The AAUW Huntingdon Branch sponsors many types of activities each year for its members and for the Huntingdon community. We host an annual awards reception for the winners of our high school and Juniata College awards, and we have period book club meetings throughout the program year (August-May). We also sponsor stimulating presentations and discussions on a variety of mission-related topics. Here below is a small sampling of past programs:

Huntingdon Oktoberfest Voter Education Tabling, providing voter registration information and voter education on making voting plans, student loan debt forgiveness, and voting rights.

Tuesday, October 17th, at 6 pm, Ellis Ballroom at Juniata College: Juniata’s Office for the Prevention of Interpersonal Violence is offering In Their Shoes, an interactive program on domestic violence and social support systems. The program will be conducted by Emily Freed, Staff Attorney at Family Services, Inc. and the FSI Justice Project.

Tuesday, October 17 and Thursday, October 29, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Juniata College’s Ellis Hall: Voter Registration Tabling 

Tuesday, October 24, 7:00 pm, Juniata Brewing Company (outdoor seating): Banned Books Book Club Discussion of Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle. 2017.

Monday, October 30, 6:30-8:00 pm, Neff Auditorium (Juniata College, 1098 von Liebig Center for Science): Candidate Forum: Huntingdon County Commissioners. Open to the public–everyone is welcome.

Saturday, November 12, 2:00 pm, contact us for location: Branch Social

Tuesday, November 28, 7:00 pm, contact us for location: Banned Books Book Club Discussion of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. 1987.

Wednesday, November 29, 7:00-8:00 pm, Juniata College, Brumbaugh Academic Center C116: Women & Sports: The Importance of Title IX: Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in most American educational institutions and has been particularly important to women student athletes since the 1970s–a discussion on college athletics and the past, present, and future of Title IX.

Tuesday, January 2, 7:00 pm, contact us for location: Banned Books Book Club Discussion of Jodi Picoult’s Nineteen Minutes: A Novel. 2007.

Tuesday, February 6, 7:00 pm, contact us for location: Banned Books Book Club Discussion of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1927.

Monday, February 26, 6:00 pm, Juniata College, Statton Learning Commons, Living Room. “How Elections Work in Huntingdon County.” Panelists are Heather Fellman, Huntingdon County Elections Director; Connie Kough Pittenger, former Huntingdon County Elections Board member; and Jeff Thomas, Huntingdon County Commissioner.

• Tuesday, March 12, 7:00 pm. Contact us for location: Banned Books Book Club Discussion of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. 1962.
• Monday, March 18, 7:00 pm, Juniata College, Statton Learning Commons, Living Room. “Book Banning: Why Are People Afraid of Books?” Panelists include Lauren Everett-Hayes, Juniata Collections Librarian; Monica Gingerich, MLIS, Coordinator for Student Experience & Engagement, Penn State University Libraries; and Jen Powell, Director at Tyrone-Snyder Township Public Library.

PREVIOUS NOTABLE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

Gender Equity in Cameroon, Dr. Josiane Banini, Assistant Professor of French, Juniata College AND Work-Life Balance in the Lives of Taiwanese Women with Higher Education, Jou Li, Chinese Instructor, Juniata College (Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023).

Huntingdon Oktoberfest Voter Education Tabling, providing voter registration information and voter education on making voting plans, student loan debt forgiveness, and voting rights (Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022).

Celebration of the 95th Anniversary of AAUW Huntingdon Branch (October 12, 2021).

Black Women and the Ballot (October 21, 2020). The event featured three short radio dramas from Black Women and the Ballot produced by The American Slavery Project: A Theatrical Response. Students Kayla Blackstock and Serene Goetz (below from left) served as discussants following the screenings.

Insider Views of the 2019 NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR COLLEGE WOMEN STUDENT LEADERS (NCCWSL) and Networking Made Easy. Speakers: Tra Bui and Madison Miller, two Juniata College students who attended NCCWSL 2019, and Tammy Stuber, Assistant Director of Career Services, Juniata College.

Auntie Dorrie: Huntingdon’s Suffragist (December 05, 2019).

Equal Pay Day Bake Sales (2009-2019).

The Women’s March on Washington: What We Experienced and Where We Go From Here. Panelists: AAUW Juniata Student Organization President Rose Amrhein and AAUW Huntingdon Branch members Charlotte Ridge, Pat Kepple, and Amy Frazier-Yoder (February 22, 2017).

Running for Office: Women’s Perspectives and the Importance of Voting. Panelists: MaryAnn Buckley, Republication Party representative; Connie Kough Pittenger, Democratic Party representative; Rebecca Anglemyer, Juniata College Student Government Allocations Board; and Madeline Bennetti, Juniata Student Government President (October 18, 2016).

Women in the Arts. Panelists: Ilona Ballreich, Kathryn Blake, Kelly Kozora, Monika Malewska, and Karen Rosell (September 19, 2016).

Sister-to-Sister Summits for middle-school girls across Huntingdon County to talk about issues that are not part of the school curriculum but that affect their lives (1998, 2001, 2010, 2012-16, 2019-20, 2021-23).

Deb Roney, Amanda Page, Becky Weldon, and Trisha Staab (pictured left to right) attend the Deeper in Debt panel, hosted by AAUW State College Branch at Penn State.