Get on Board and please join us for our open house luncheon, which is our inaugural OPEN HOUSE!

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1 GTF Women s Club Upcoming Events: Sept. 21 Open House Sept. 28 Community Service: Open Hand Oct. 5 Atlanta Botanical Gardens Chihuly Oct. 19 Bowling Social/ The Painted Pin Oct. 26 Community Service: Historic Fourth Ward Park Conservancy Nov. 8 Community Service: Get out the Vote Nov. 12 Wine Tasting Marietta Wine Market Nov. 17 Delta Flight Museum Dec. 14 Holiday Party The Viewpoint, Club Room S e p t e m b e r Get on Board and please join us for our open house luncheon, which is our inaugural event of the year (see below). We will gather rain or shine, at the Community Smith Restaurant s rooftop terrace (shine) or in the restaurant (rain). Catch up with old friends and make new ones, enjoy lunch with a view, sip a glass of bubbly, and learn about this year s events, community service projects, and interest groups. We hope to see you there! DIRECTIONS TO COMMUNITY SMITH RESTAURANT: Located in Midtown at 866 W Peachtree Street NW Atlanta 30308, Community Smith Restaurant is adjacent to the Renaissance Hotel and across the street from the GT Historic Academy of Medicine. AN INVITATION FOR MEMBERS AND PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS TO OUR ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE! When: Wednesday, September 21 11:30 am 1:30 pm Where: Rooftop Terrace Community Smith Restaurant Renaissance Hotel 866 W Peachtree Street NW Atlanta FREE 2 hour VALET PARKING! GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 1

2 President s Corner Dear GTFWC, I hope you had a great summer and are excited about reuniting with the Club! As many of you may know, I m sad to say that Marie Johnson and her partner, Henrik Christensen, are in the process of moving to San Diego. Henrik has secured a great opportunity to work at The University of California at San Diego in Contextual Robotics. We will miss Marie and wish them both the very best! In Marie s absence, I ll be filling in as President of GTFWC. I m looking forward to working with the Board and I m very excited about our upcoming year. Particularly, I d like to ask each of you to consider three things: 1. Please pay your membership dues (form attached) early, so things will be much easier and fun for our Treasurer, Carol Griffin, at the Open House. 2. Please consider donating to the Scholarship Endowment Fund (form also attached). Last year we raised about $7800 and I know we can break the $8,000 mark this year with your ongoing generosity! 3. Please call up and invite a wife/partner of a new faculty/administrator to Georgia Tech or a woman faculty/administrator, and bring her to the Open House lunch. There is nothing like that personal touch and we ll expand our circle of friends. We are trying something new this year for the Open House Luncheon, since the Student Success Center was booked. The Open House Luncheon will be at the Rooftop Terrace of Community Smith Restaurant of the Renaissance Hotel Midtown, on Wednesday, September 21st, 11:30am1:30pm. The rooftop has a nice view, from which we ll toast the upcoming year with a glass of bubbly, and Val Peterson will give us an update on the most recent Georgia Tech happenings. For your convenience, there are 2-hours of complimentary valet parking or you can, of course, walk the few blocks from Georgia Tech Square. I hope to see you there, and perhaps we ll have a surprise guest appearance! OFFICERS, President & 1st Vice President Sylvia Mallarino Bras 2nd Vice President Elaine Horton Recording Secretary Courtney Ervin Corresp. Secretary Connie Sholl Treasurer Carol Griffin STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS Membership Friendship Historian Interest Groups Newcomers Community Service Online Presence Scholarship Beth Finn Paula Kaminski Rosa Arriaga Marcy Fortnow Lynne Wepfer Sylvia Romeijn Gador Manzano Jennifer Lux Please remember to Come to Open House to receive your Yearbook! View the new GTFWC Scrapbook at Open House! Read the GTFWC Newsletter & e-notes for details on upcoming events and friendship notes! View our Website for facts, updates, forms and photos! Cheers, Sylvia GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 2

3 I'd like to invite all our members to become even more active this year and participate in at least one of the community service events that are planned. Our first event will be within one week of the open house on September 28 with a limited number of spots available at Open Hand, sign up during the open house or at sylvia.romeijn@gmail.com. SEPTEMBER COMMUNITY SERVICE Open Hand Date: Wednesday, September 28, :00 am 12:00 pm Place: Open Hand, 181 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA Hostess: Sylvia Romeijn, Community Service Chair Cost: Your free time! Optional Lunch: Sufi s Kitchen, 1814 Peachtree. Please join us preparing and sorting meals that will be delivered to needy families. We ll be doing something worthwhile and having fun at the same time! To learn more about this organization: To sign up, please send Sylvia an at sylvia.romeijn@gmail.com FRIENDSHIP NOTES The GTF Women s Club extends best wishes to our former President Marie Johnson as she moves to San Diego, California! We will certainly miss her! Many thanks go to Sylvia Mallarino-Bras for stepping up from her 1 st Vice President position to assume Marie s role! There is always a silver lining! Please be sure to contact our new Friendship Chair this year, Paula Kaminski, with any news of births or any other happy occasion, illnesses, or deaths of our members to share in our Newsletters or E- notes. Paula will send an appropriate card or note on behalf of GTFWC. GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 3

4 GEORGIA TECH FACULTY WOMEN S CLUB MEMBERSHIP FORM Please send this form and membership dues check of $35 payable to GT FACULTY WOMEN S CLUB. If you d like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Scholarship Program, please make a separate and second check payable to GT FOUNDATION, and note in the memo GTFWC SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND # Please mail check(s) and this form to: Carol Griffin, 6019 Queens River Drive, Mableton, GA NAME ADDRESS LINE 1 ADDRESS LINE 2 CITY, STATE, ZIP ADDRESS PREFERRED PHONE GEORGIA TECH DEPARTMENT PARTNER OR FACULTY RETIREE OR ACTIVE Above information will be included in the GTFWC annual yearbook. If you would like to add a few sentences of personal information about yourself in the yearbook, please write it on the back of this form. Also, if you prefer not to have photos of yourself posted to GTFWC social media or publications, please check box below. Enclosed is a second separate check in the tax-deductible amount of $ payable to GT Foundation, for the GTFWC Scholarship Endowment Fund # and to be acknowledged by the GT Foundation. I do not want my personal photo posted on GTFWC social media & publications. Thanks for taking the first step to Get on Board! GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 4

5 OCTOBER CHIHULY NIGHTS! Member Mingle Date: Place: Hostesses: Wednesday, October 5, pm - 8:30 pm Atlanta Botanical Garden 1345 Piedmont Ave NE Atlanta, GA Bonnie Daneker , bbdaneker@gmail.com Lynne Wepfer , lmwepfer@bellsouth.net Please RSVP to Lynne by Wednesday, September 28th Cost: $20 Group Discount Rate (Food to purchase individually) $15.95 Garden Members Introduce someone to GTFWC when you come with a prospective member you EACH get in for 10$ and you get a complimentary drink! Don t miss this spectacular exhibit of Dale Chihuly s masterpiece glass artwork, in the beautiful setting of the Atlanta Botanical Garden. This event is especially for new and current members to mingle and get to know each other. We will meet at the Garden entrance, before the tour starts. Carpooling is strongly encouraged! OCTOBER BOWLING SOCIAL THE PAINTED PIN! Date: Wednesday, October 19, pm - 8 pm Place: The Painted Pin Address: 737 Miami Circle NE Atlanta, GA Hostess: Cissa Fleming Cost: $20 members, $25 guests Join us for a unique night of fun and frivolity at The Painted Pin. It is an upscale boutique bowling and entertainment venue in an industrial warehouse space in the heart of Buckhead s Miami Circle. Besides upscale bowling, also available will be beer, cocktails, snacks, desserts, bocce, ping-pong and skee-ball. The strawberry shortcake is rumored to be particularly delicious! GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 5

6 OCTOBER COMMUNIT Y SERVICE PROJECT Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Place Lunch: Hostess: Chair, RSVP: 9am-12pm Historic Fourth Ward Park Historic Fourth Ward Park, Atlanta Bantam Pub on Ralph McGill Blvd. Sylvia Romeijn, Community Service By Wednesday, October 19th at Sylvia.Romeijn@gmail.com Please join us in helping the Historic Fourth Ward Park Conservancy maintain and improve Fourth Ward Park. We will be weeding, cleaning up, and installing mulch. Tools and gloves will be provided, but you may bring your own. To learn more: h4wpc.org Hope you were on board this issue and saw me and my trolley on each page! I m looking forward to a great year with GTFWC! -Buzz Thank you for taking the time to read our Fall Newsletter for Georgia Tech Faculty Women s Club! We hope you have a great autumn and we look forward to seeing you at our events. GTFWC Fall Newsletter September 2016 Page 6