Canadian Federation of University Women – Parksville / Qualicum
Our Theme this year:
The Power of Advocacy: Inspiration, Self-Awareness and Creativity
May 2017
President: Jacqueline Russell (250-954-1868)
Vice Presidents: Val Gunn (250-468-7536), Betty Price (250-248-8787)
Club Address: Box 113 Qualicum Beach, BC, V9K 1S7 See: http://www.cfuwpq.ca/
May General Meeting: Monday May 8 2017 at the QB Civic Centre, 7PM
Greeters: Betty Price and Lynn Brown
Refreshments: Betty Price, Bonnie Stableford, Shirley Sterlinger, Lynn Brown
To volunteer to bring refreshments to a meeting or to be a greeter, please contact Camille Lawson at
[email protected]
Program: “Mary Anne Lagimodiere: An Amazing Pioneer”
Speaker: Marva Blackmore, storyteller.
What To Look For:
President’s Message and Notice of Informational Meeting
Program Committee
Membership – New Members’ Tea
Global Outreach
Book Box Pick-up Schedule
Out and About
From the Archives
New Discussion Group Forming
Scholarship and Bursary Trust
June Banquet
General Meeting Pictures and List of Recommended Books
President’s Message
Book Clubs, Quotes, Community Event
Posters: Protecting BC’s Water, Eldercollege Lecture
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President’s Message: May 2017
Hello the month of May! In case we have given up with ever seeing a whole
sunny day ever again, here is an uplifting part of a poem about the month of
May:
May's spring days are refreshing and sunny
Trees have new leaves, flowers rapidly bloom
When cool breeze blows through the garden
Young maple leaves rustle and pansies dangle
May brings us, along with those dangling pansies, the BC Council Annual
General Meeting in Kelowna May 26th to 28th with the Theme: Ahead of our
times-the Future is Ours. Saturday’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Mary Jung,
a top woman researcher in health sciences, who is a past recipient of a Scholarship from the CFUW Charitable
Trust Fund. Dr. Jung is addressing the area of self-regulation of health behaviours emphasizing her latest
research on exercise, diet and the role of self-regulator skills intervention along with HIT (high intensity
training). Will I be inspired to dust off my treadmill in the garage and to stop eating so many chocolates? We
must always have hope!
At our CFUW Parksville Qualicum club, the month of May is typically part of the busy season for our
Scholarship and Bursary Trust members. They are collecting and evaluating applications from our District 69
High School students. They will select 3 girls from each high school (KSS & BSS) to provide the short list the
schools require. We look forward to hearing all about the final selection of these amazing young girls.
Our club will be holding a Special Meeting Monday May 15th at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre with the time
frame of 1:30pm till 3pm. This meeting will include a presentation of information regarding the two Proposed
Amendments to the CFUW Articles and Bylaws, along with information about a third motion to increase CFUW
fees (amount intentionally left blank) where all three will be presented at the National AGM in June. A vote
for all CFUW Parksville Qualicum club members regarding these 3 proposals will take place via email after this
Special Club meeting. Please see more detailed information further on in this Newsletter about this special
club meeting being held to assist in providing some clarity around this important point in time with CFUW and
Graduate Women International (GWI). Please review past emails from myself [email protected] keeping
you up to date with National and GWI information.
And finally this May 2017 brings us a Provincial Election. If you have time, try to attend an All Candidates
meeting before Tuesday May 9th BC Election day, to hear the candidates and their party platforms, and to put
forward questions perhaps guided by CFUW policies.
Thank you everyone,
Cheers, Jacqueline
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Notice of: A Special CFUW P/Q Club Informational Meeting
When & Where: Monday May 15th, Qualicum Beach Civic Centre (QBCC)
Time: 1:30 to 3:00
The intent of this Special club meeting is to present information in a more simplified format than has previously been
circulated to members over the last year regarding CFUW & GWI. Acronyms stand for Canadian Federation of
University of Women (CFUW) and Graduate Women’s International (GWI), formerly named International Federation of
Women (IFUW). We hope to increase our understanding of the history, and possible implications, particularly for
Motion #2 and Motion #3 outlined below. Motion #1 is included for your reference while Motion #2 and Motion #3 will
take up most of the meeting. All three motions will be voted on at the National AGM June 22-25 by the club delegate.
A PowerPoint presentation, prepared and presented by Jacqueline Russell, President in collaboration with Val Gunn,
Vice-President, will outline the history of the motions and include information from various sources. Following the
presentation, we will move to a question and answer session that will hopefully improve all our understanding.
Following this meeting, an appropriate date for an emailed vote by club members to give direction to the Club Delegate
attending the National AGM in June will be determined by the Executive, who will be meeting the evening of Tuesday
May 16th.
***At this time of this newsletter these 3 Proposed motions are as follows but be advised that “amendments to the
Amendments” below are allowed up to May 1 to the Proposers, and therefore, as has been stated in one emailed
document from National, the final wording of these motions may not appear until the Club Delegate attends the
National AGM in June.
Links are included here after each motion for your ease of reference. These links provide background information for all
3 motions (all links have been sent out to club members previously).
#1:
Amendment 1: Proposed by the Regional Directors Group
Motion to Amend:
Moved that: strike out “and” and insert “and Regional Directors”
F. Committees
54. The following committees shall be designated Standing Committees of the Board: Advocacy, Articles and Bylaws,
Education, Fellowships, Finance, Governance, International Relations, Nominations, and Resolutions, “and Regional
Directors”.
If adopted, the amended Bylaw would read:
F. Committees
54. The following committees shall be designated Standing Committees of the Board: Advocacy, Articles and Bylaws,
Education, Fellowships, Finance, Governance, International Relations, Nominations, Resolutions, and Regional Directors.
http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8efb82640cb8bc1fd889b4668&id=9225088d76&e=4196fc82f0
#2:
Amendment 2: Proposed by CFUW St. Thomas
Motion to Amend:
Moved that: In Canadian Federation of University Women Articles and Bylaws – Articles, strike out Article 4 Membership in International Federation of University Women (IFUW)
CFUW shall be a member of the IFUW.
http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8efb82640cb8bc1fd889b4668&id=9225088d76&e=4196fc82f0
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#3
Motion to increase CFUW fees to cover GWI Dues, Foreign Exchanges and CFUW Inflationary Costs
Moved: that the CFUW voting body approve a national dues increase of $_____ to cover increases in GWI Dues, foreign
exchange and CFUW Inflationary costs.
Moved by Helen Sami, VP Finance; Seconded by Ruth Mellor, VP B.C.
http://us12.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8efb82640cb8bc1fd889b4668&id=63457edd64&e=4196fc82f0
As we get closer to May 15th I will send out another email with information.
Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting,
Cheers, Jacqueline
Program Committee
At our May meeting we will be entertained by local storyteller Marva
Blackmore. Her topic is “Mary Anne Lagimodiere: An Amazing Pioneer.”
“The position which continues to be vacant is Program Chair for 20172018. Please contact Val Gunn, Betty Price or Perry Perry if you would like to
serve in this position or if you would like to nominate someone for the
position. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to participate in a program
brainstorming meeting at the home of Val Gunn: Tuesday, May 2, 2:00
pm. Program Chair Dianne Anderson reports that at least 20 excellent
suggestions for 2017-2018 programs have been received.”
(Contributed by Dianne Anderson, Program Committee Chair)
Membership – New Members’ Tea
On a cold and gray Sunday afternoon, 15 people attended this year’s New
Members Tea as many of the Executive officially welcomed our new members:
Anne Lihou, Sheri Plummer, and Katharina Rout.
Regrets were received from Tara Sinclair and Catherine Watson. We’ll look
forward to including them next year!
The group enjoyed plentiful white, red and rose wines, along with an assortment
of tea sandwiches, fruit and vegetable platters and a variety of homemade
cookies and squares, all topped off by a beautifully decorated, scrumptious
carrot Welcome cake provided by Camille Lawson. We all had a chance to get
better acquainted. The new members told us a bit about themselves and in turn
learned about the many activities of the local group, along with its relationship to CFUW National. Many cups
of tea and even coffee were enjoyed, possibly a few more glasses of wine were sipped, tales were told and
laughter shared. It was a lovely way to both get know each other and dispel the gloom of a rainy Sunday.
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As Membership Secretary, I would especially like to thank everyone who contributed food, wine and good
humour to the event. Special thanks are due to Sheila Reed and Mary Ellen Campbell for keeping the teapot
warmed and wine glasses filled. Once again, CFUW PQ worked as a group to make this event a success and an
enjoyable time for all.
Submitted by: Bonnie Stableford
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Katharina Rout, Anne Lihou, and Sheri Plummer cut the cake shown in picture 2, a laden refreshment table.
(Photographs contributed by Mary Ellen Campbell.)
Global Outreach – Letter from Mariamu
Endasak Secondary School,
P.O. Box 145,
Katesh – Hanang,
4th January, 2017
Dear CFUW Parksville Qualicum Club,
I hope you fine. I am fine too. I hope you have early seen the good year and hope you enjoyed. I would
like to tell you about my birthday date. I was born on 28th April, 2002 in Katesh Tumain Manyara.
I would like to tell you some interesting facts about our country. It is located among the countries of
East Africa. It is 1,945,000 sq. km. Also in our country there are many tribes like Chagga, Pare, Sukuma etc .
Those tribes are 120. The size of our country is bigger than other countries in East Africa.
In our country there are many resources like forest, mineral eg. Gold, Copper, Iron and Tanzanite.
The geographical features are like mountains eg. Mount Kilimanjaro, rivers eg. Nile, valleys eg. Rift
Valley and the population is 49, 000,000 .
The crops grown which are found in our country are millet, maize, beans, coffee, tea, fingermillet,
sunflower, rice etc. Also there are two types of crops grown which are cash crops and food crops.
In our country there are leaders who control our country. Those leaders are J.K. Nyerere, Alu H.
Mwinyi, W. G. Mkapa, J. M. Kikwere, and now is John P. Magufuli. Our country got independence at 1961,
years ago [from] the British governor known as Ronald Cameron.
In our country there are national parks eg. Ngogongoro National Park, Serengeti National Park,
Tarangire National Park, Mihumi National Park.
In our country there are many challenges like disease eg. HIV/AIDS, lack of water, lack of rainfall.
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In my school there are many things which are found in our environment which are garden flowers,
vegetables and pay ground. I study nine subjects. There are Physics, Civics, Biology, Chemistry, Geography,
History, Mathematics, English and Kiswahili. I like it because I can become an engineer. In general our
school is good for academic performance because every month there are tests and our teachers are teaching very
good and by heart.
Usually after closing school [when school is out] I attend an English Immersion programme. I like
English Immersion because I am understanding well contractions, negative, possessives, plural, measurement5,
un countable nouns, countable nouns, comparative and superlative, conjunctions, etc.
I would like to ask one question.
How about your country?
Thanks for your helping me. God bless you. I hope you have another vacation you will enjoy it. I wish
you good health and long long life.
Thank you
Your [loving] friend
Mariam Omary Issa
Subject Marks in % and Placement
Civics 58 Geography 49 History 50 Kiswahili 57
Biology 40 B/Mathematics 51
Agriculture (105 girls in her ‘grade’)
English 52 Phyics 35 Chemistry 68
Total 460
Ave 51
Position 18/105
“Work Habits” all B’s.
(Contributed by Wendy Reimer.)
Book Box Pick Up
As reported at our April general meeting, we are entering the final 26 weeks of book
pick up prior to our sale. Here’s the book box schedule for the remaining weeks. This
is our first year of picking up the books for a one week interval rather than two weeks
and it seems the one week is working well. There is lots of flexibility within this
schedule; please email me at [email protected] if you are unable to pick up the
books on your assigned week. Please note that there are vacant weeks that may be
more suitable for you to pick up the books. I will send a reminder to you prior to your
week and bring the two keys (book box + storage unit)
Our club thanks you and I thank you for continuing to ensure our book sale is a
success.
Mary Ellen
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2017 BOOK BOX PICK UP SCHEDULE
April 30th
BARBARA BAKER
May 7th
MAUREEN DAWSON
May 14th
CAROL GEMGEMBRE
May 21st
KERSTIN FREDRIKSSON
May 28th
LINDA FULLALOVE
June 4th
VACANCY
June 11th
JEANETTE HAWKES
June 18th
WENDY HEUBERGER
June 25th
LESLIE HORSMAN
July 2nd
PATTI HUGHES
July 9th
ANN KULLMAN
July 23rd
VACANCY
July 30 th
DEIRDRE LAFOREST
August 6th
CLAIRE LIGHTFOOT
August 13th
SAM MASON
August 20th
MARIE RANDALL
August 27th
CAROLYN REDL
September 3rd
VACANCY
September 10th
ROBIN ROBINSON
September 17th
EDIE ROSS
September 24th
DOLORES SAULTER
October 1st
LISE SINCLAIR
October 8th
JACKIE WORBOYS
October 15th
VACANCY
October 22nd
MAUREEN WOOD
(Contributed by Mary Ellen Campbell)
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Out and About
The Pirates of Penzance matinee performance April 30 and dinner at the Shady Rest wind up the activities for
the year. If anyone wants to just come to the Shady Rest call Camille Lawson and we will welcome you.
We look forward to next year and some new events to attend and have fellowship with one another.
Have a Happy Sunny Summer.......Camille
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Can you remember what you were doing in 1994/95? We can tell you what was happening in CFUW P/Q that
year. Catherine Khan was President and Bev Walls the Regional Director; there were 50 club members who
paid annual dues of $52. Two major fundraising efforts were held: the Bridge Luncheon raised $1589.45 and
the Book Sale $1324.85, the money going to the Scholarship and Bursary Trust. The Trust awarded two high
school scholarships of $500 each, and four bursaries, two of $1,000 and two of $500. And what an interesting
and eclectic programme: Genetics, Growing Apples as a Home Industry, a film, “The Human Race: Dying
Patriarchy” followed by a discussion, History of Vancouver Island, Physical and Mental Well-Being, Travel
Business and Travel Trends, and The Rights of Children. The Arrowsmith Singers sang carols at the Christmas
dinner, held at Sand Pebbles Inn, and Highland Dancers performed at the June potluck dinner and AGM.
Interest Groups included a Book Club, Bridge Group, and The Magic Carpet where slides of interesting travels
were shown – Africa, The Queen Charlotte Islands, New Mexico, Turkey among other places. Jaunters and Out
to Lunch apparently had a quiet year after a very busy one the previous year; a new group, Plain Talk, was
formed for discussions with no specific focus.
And you might be interested to know that this was the year our banner was completed thanks to some hard
work by Eva Hilborn, Liz Eyre and Audrey Rutledge.
How do we know all this? Because someone handed over the records to the Historians to place in the
Archives. So, you can see how important it is to look through your papers for anything before June 2015 and
pass them over to Noreen or Maggie at the May or June meetings.
Noreen Ballantyne and Maggie Hawes, Historians
CBC IDEAS Discussion & Dessert Club
Similar to a book club, the new CBC “IDEAS” Discussion & Dessert Club requires only a 1-2 hour
commitment to prepare for a fun, friendly and thought-provoking monthly discussion while enjoying a yummy
dessert!
6-8 participants over the year share hosting and choosing a CBC “IDEAS” podcast for participants to listen to
prior to the meeting. Our IDEAS podcast and dessert group will meet the fourth Monday 7-9 pm of each
month (except July, August).
Our first meeting will be Monday May 22 7-9 pm.
Interested? Please contact Catherine MacFarlane 250-594-2260 [email protected]
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Scholarship and Bursary Trust
The members of the Scholarship and Bursary Trust are busy assessing the applications for scholarships and
bursaries, but Lorna Miller says: "....And we really do want lots of applications by June 1!!"
June Banquet Plans
CFUW PQ AGM JUNE 12, 2017 5pm
Morningstar Golf Pavilion
Appetizer
Iced Shrimp Cocktail
Dinner
Garden Salad
Sundried Tomato Chicken Supreme
Served with Honey Chateau Potatoes
And Market Vegetables
Dessert
Plated in house made Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter
Cheese cake served with Bailey’s Cream and Fresh Berries
Tea and Coffee
$35.00 a plate which includes gratuity
For tickets, see or contact Sheila Reed.
(Contributed by Sheila Reed)
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General Meeting April 10, 2017
Claire Lightfoot, Barbara Bond, Linda Fullalove; Barbara Day Sort, Edie Ross
Gail Smith, Dolores Saulter, Vicky Burton; Lorna Miller
Barbara Baker; assembled members and guests
(Photography by Shirley Sterlinger and Dolores Saulter.)
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Our Very Own Book Brag: In Which We Learned About a Variety of Books That Our
Members Found Worthy of Your Attention
Sheri Plummer suggests: Mohamed Fahmy’s The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison
to Freedom (2016) which will help in our understanding of recent events and continuing tensions in the Middle
East with a Canadian aspect.
Linda Fullalove suggests: The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2015), which involves a judge faced with
determining what is best for a child’s welfare and is relevant to the separation of church and state.
Sam Mason suggests: Gail Tsukiyama’s The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007) which follows one Japanese
family from the closing months of the Second World War into the 1960s.
Louise Sosa suggests: Laine Moriarty’s The Hypnotist’s Love Story (2011) in which a hypnotherapist’s
romantic life is entangled with her professional life.
Lorna Miller suggests: Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for
Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (2014) which follows a rowing team’s struggle to be accepted into world
competition.
Catherine Redl suggests: Alexandra Fuller’s Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (2004) which
takes place in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.
Katharina Rout suggests: Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here (1935), a novel that shows how easily
democracy can become fascism.
Eva Hilborn suggests: Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her
Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet (2015) which focusses on the life of an environmental and human
rights activist.
Bonnie Stableford suggests: Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s Wind Sand and Stars which is a lyrical and
philosophical examination of flight.
Val Gunn suggests: Peggy Guggenheim’s Out of this Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim
(2015) and Dawn Tripp’s Georgia: A Novel of Georgia OKeeffe (2017), especially for those interested in art
and art history.
Lise Sinclair suggests: Lauri Larson’s The Mountain Story in which three generations of women spend time
together hiking in the mountains.
Vivien Sears suggests: Graham Simsion’s The Rosie Project (2013) in which a geneticist tries to find a wife the
scientific way.
Dolores Moss suggests: Helen Simonson’s Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (2010) in which an older couple find
and try to hold onto a loving friendship while dealing with family and societal expectations.
Sheila Reed suggests: Eric Larson’s Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2016) which sets the
disastrous sinking in the context of the time.
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Barbara Bond suggests: Kent Haruf’s Plainsong (1999) which takes place in small-town Colorado and follows
the difficulties and connections of some of the townsfolk and ranchers.
Shirley Sterlinger suggests: Mayank Bhatt’s Belief (2016) and Upstream Medicine: Doctors for a Healthy
Society (2017) edited by: Andrew Bresnahn, Mahli Brindamour, Christopher Charles, and Ryan Meili.
Book Club News
The Tuesday Afternoon book club read The Illegal by Lawrence Hill in April and will read All the Light We
Cannot See by Anthony Doell in May. The Thursday Morning book club read The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
in April and will read The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George for May.
(Contributed by Wendy Heuberger and Bev Walls. Images provided by Mulberry Bush Bookstore.)
Quote of the Month
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift
His Grace! impossible! what, dead!
Of old age too, and in his bed!
And could that mighty warrior fall,
And so inglorious, after all?
Well, since he's gone, no matter how,
The last loud trump must wake him now;
And, trust me, as the noise grows stronger,
He'd wish to sleep a little longer.
And could he be indeed so old
As by the newspapers we're told?
Threescore, I think, is pretty high;
'Twas time in conscience he should die!
This world he cumber'd long enough;
He burnt his candle to the snuff;
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And that's the reason, some folks think,
He left behind so great a s----k.
Behold his funeral appears.
Nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears,
Wont at such times each heart to pierce,
Attend the progress of his hearse.
But what of that? his friends may say,
He had those honours in his day.
True to his profit and his pride,
He made them weep before he died
Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of kings;
Who float upon the tide of state;
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing's a duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
Partially quoted in Louise Penny’s A Great Reckoning (2016)
Suicide in the Trenches (by Siegfried Sassoon)
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced
Who cheer when
Sneak home and
The hell where
crowds with kindling eye
soldier lads march by,
pray you'll never know
youth and laughter go.
Partially quoted in Louise Penny’s A Great Reckoning (2016)
Ah, fill the Cup – what means it to repeat
How Time is slipping underneath our feet
Unborn to-morrow, and dead yesterday
Why fret about them if to-day be sweet.
From Hakim Omar Khayyám’s (1048-1122) The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám as quoted in That Went By Fast: My First Hundred Years by
Frank White (2014); Picture taken from the New York Public Library
Digital Collections.)
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Community Events
The poster that follows about an event in our community was contributed by Perry Perry.