Canadian Federation of University Women – Parksville / Qualicum
Our Theme this year:
The Power of Advocacy: Inspiration, Self-Awareness and Creativity
September 2016
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/
September General Meeting September 12, 2016 at the QB Civic Centre, 7PM
Greeters: Perry Perry and Lynn Brown
Refreshments: provided by executive members
To volunteer to bring refreshments to a meeting, please contact Camille Lawson at [email protected] .
To volunteer as a greeter, please contact Marjorie Allen.
Program: Welcome Back Reception & Overview of Our Club Activities
What To Look For:
President’s Message
Articles and Bylaws Working Group Report
Scholarship and Bursary Trust Report
Out and About Update
Quotes of the Month
35th Anniversary Celebration
Appy AGM
Greetings from a Former Member
Had you Noticed? – Members in the News
Scholarship and Bursary Trust Donation Form
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President’s Message
Welcome to our first meeting of the year: Monday, September 12, 7:00 PM,
at the Qualicum Beach Civic Centre. It is a time to renew your membership,
make a donation to Scholarship and Bursary Trust, volunteer for the Book
Sale, sign up for Out N About and much, much more. It is also a time to enjoy
the refreshments and to catch up with friends and newcomers!
Our club has an exciting Program outlined this year that will include
interesting local and regional speakers who will be sharing their knowledge
and skills with you. Our club is also starting to plan for the CFUW’s 100 th
Anniversary in 2019 and we look forward to formulating ideas and putting those ideas into action to celebrate.
Our annual book sale fundraiser is scheduled for October 21,22 and 23, 9-5 daily at the Morning Star Golf
Course Pavilion and we look forward to being able, once again, to support educational projects in our
community.
One issue percolating regionally is an invitation to clubs to participate in an Advocacy Project supporting the
CFUW BC Council Policy on Youth Aging Out of Foster Care in BC. Our BC Council is urging clubs to participate
in a pilot project using a study circles model. BC Council, in partnership with First Call, is looking for 7-8 clubs
for this pilot project. This would start in September and end in December if our club decides to participate.
Nationally, CFUW has held its annual general meeting in June in St. Catherines with our report from our
representative being posted on our website. The International Graduate Women’s International (GWI) is
holding its 32nd Triennial conference Aug 24-26 in Cape Town, South Africa. The GWI Conference in Cape
Town will draw on the wealth of skills and experience represented in GWI’s global membership though its
affiliated federations and associations (NFAs).
Don’t forget to save September 12 at 7pm to kick start our very exciting 2016/17 year.
Check out our Calendar and more on our website at: www.cfuwpq.ca and check regularly in the Members
only section on our website for more updated information.
Looking forward to seeing you all September 12,
Cheers, Jacqueline Russell
Articles and bylaws working group
The working group, formed in June by the executive committee, has met three times over the summer. It
consist of Perry Perry, past president; Betty Price, co-vice president (advocacy); and Bonnie Stableford,
membership secretary, with Jacqueline Russell, President, attending whenever possible. The group has met
three times over the summer to consider process, which will be open, participatory and transparent.
The first priority has been identified as consideration of mission statement and purpose. Planned is a
gathering at 2 pm on Monday, September 19, to consider the mission statement. Each member is encouraged
to participate on September 19. If you are unable to do so, your input is invited by email or phone call to a
member of the working group. This meeting is a first step, with further steps to be announced. The location of
the September 19 gathering will be announced at our general meeting September 12.
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In the meantime, the working group is gathering helpful information from other cfuw clubs.
Respectfully submitted, Perry Perry, working group chair
Scholarship and Bursary Trust Annual Report to CFUW/PQ
August 2016
Thanks to the diligence of the members of the Trust and to the CFUW/PQ club, we are proud to
acknowledge that the lives of eleven young women in our community will change significantly. This
year, trustees Noreen Ballantyne, Maureen Dawson, Janet Farooq, Leslie Horsman, Lorna Miller, Shirley
LeDrew and Edie Ross brought team spirit as well as smart and creative solutions to address changing
needs.
This year, the substantial contributions of our CFUW Club members as well as generous donations
from the members of the general public allowed us to give eleven awards, two more than last year. A
student from each of the three secondary schools won a scholarship of $1000, increased from $750. With
the support of the Reid family and the approval of our club, we increased the JC Reid Scholarship to
$3000, aligning it more with the other post-secondary scholarships. Three Memorial scholarships of
$2000 were awarded to undergraduates along with two Post-Graduate scholarships of $1750 and two
Return- to-School bursaries of $2000. In total, due to your hard work and generosity, we awarded
$19,500, a new record for our club.
Lorna Miller and Shirley LeDrew coordinated smoothly with the counselors of the three
secondary schools in District 69. The counselors inform and assist secondary students with applications.
Maureen Dawson, Lorna Miller and Edie Ross promoted post-secondary publicity through the local
newspaper, radio, at our MLA’s office, and through correspondence with many post-secondary
institutions in BC where information is posted on websites. Twenty-seven students applied for three
scholarships.
This year the Trust took on four major tasks. To inform members and the public about the Trust,
we ensured that current scholarship information and application forms were available on our new
CFUW/PQ website. Next, we hosted two teas in January for members to learn more about the Trust and
its operations. Third, our treasurer Janet Farooq created a brochure and gave an informative
presentation about Legacy Giving at our CFUW January meeting. Finally, the Trust changed the allocation
of funds from the JC Reid scholarship after consultation with the family.
The Trust continues to raise funds in three ways: donations from the CFUW Parksville-Qualicum
club members and the general public enable scholarships and bursaries to be a continuing priority.
Members may donate funds at any time, especially when signing up for their annual membership when a
Scholarship Trust donation form is readily available. Because the Scholarship and Bursary Trust is a
registered Canadian charity, all donations are tax-deductible. Secondly, if club members obtain a
Thrifty’s Smile card from our Janet Farooq or Leslie Horsman, each time they shop at Thrifty’s with it,
members contribute to the fund. This year Thrifty’s has contributed $1000 to the Trust. Lastly, your book
donations to our well-anticipated and efficiently run book sale make a critical difference. Profits from the
book sale greatly determine the amount that the club is able to grant to the Trust. We rely upon your
support.
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Noreen Ballantyne and Maureen Dawson leave the Trust this year. We thank both of them for four
years of capable contribution to the Trust. In addition, Noreen’s conscientious minutes and Maureen’s
publicity work have provided vital help to our work. We welcome two new trustees: Margaret Sanou and
Shirley LeDrew. With the skillful help of the Scholarship and Bursary Trust, I look forward to working
hard this year to support the efforts of our club to enable present and past students of District 69 meet
their goals.
Yours truly,
Jackie Worboys, Chair, Scholarship Trust 2015-16
Save time at the meeting – print and use the donation form on the last page of this newsletter!
*Do not forget that donations are tax deductible.
Out ‘n About
Out and About ......There are so many ideas for fun and interesting outings this year! October we are booked at
the Olive store in Qualicum Beach. I'm working on a Tea at Milner Gardens as close to the Christmas lights as I
can arrange. Also, how about a day making Soap? I'm checking that out too.
If anybody has an idea as to what they may like to do just let me know.
Camille Lawson.
Quotes of the Month
Children are not like us. They are beings apart; impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world
but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood – we imagine it. We search
for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was.
And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from
elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule.
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (1987)
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things,” the epigraph to Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse
Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not
comprehend.
Nicolaus Steno, quoted in Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace
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Our 35th Anniversary, Celebrated with Style and Enjoyed by All Who Attended
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In May, CFUW PQ celebrated its 35th anniversary with a gala afternoon tea held at the Vancouver Island
University’s Deep Bay Marine Station. Past and Present Presidents were honoured, as were two of our
founding members, and a special guest speaker was invited - Susan Murphy, the first CFUW president from
Vancouver Island. Also honoured (but sending messages when it was not possible to attend), were: Dianne
Spearing (our first president) and Bev Walls (the first Regional Director from our club).
(Thank you to Shirley Sterlinger for the photographs.)
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Appy AGM – 2016
On June 6, a fun social event also accomplished the serious business of our AGM. An array of appetizers
was attractively presented and wine (for those who wished it) was offered. Large round tables at the
Qualicum Beach Civic Centre allowed lots of scope for lively conversation.
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(Thanks to Maureen Dawson and Shirley Sterlinger for the pictures.)
“Hello!” from a former member
Greetings to you all, from Cathy Stewart. A former member of our club,
Cathy is now a member of Abbotsford CFUW, and recently visited
Qualicum.
(Forwarded by Perry Perry.)
Had you noticed . . . ?
In the Parksville Qualicum Beach News of August 2, there was a story about
Robin and Sandy Robinson’s efforts with The Friends of French Creek
Conservation Society and their ten years of work on salmonid enhancement in
the sadly degraded French Creek watershed. The article is accessible online at:
http://www.pqbnews.com/news/388964581.html?mobile=true
In the Times-Colonist of August 5, there was a story about Katharina
Rout’s new course at VIU on refugee writing, complete with a picture
of her holding some of the course materials. The article is accessible
online at: http://www.timescolonist.com/new-vancouver-islanduniversity-course-looks-at-refugee-writing-1.2317021
(This picture was supplied by Vancouver Island University to the
Times-Colonist newspaper. It was copied from that source and
cropped for this newsletter.)
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VIU Explores Refugee Crisis in Literature Course
Today, one in every 113 people, or more than sixty-five million people, has been forced to flee from home
as a result of war, persecution, and the effects of climate change: a population greater than all of France.
Some 25-30 refugee families have found a new home in the mid-Vancouver Island region. This fall,
Vancouver Island University will offer an English course on literature by and about refugees to which the
public is invited. “It will give us an opportunity to learn about our new neighbours,” says Dr. Katharina
Rout, who will teach the course. “This crisis affects each one of us, and it will change us.”
Writers have always told stories of escape, exile and migration, says Dr. Rout, but the two World Wars
have given rise to a new social and legal understanding of refugees and to new literary expressions and
concerns. Today writers from many countries—many refugees themselves—tell of perilous journeys out of
Afghanistan or Syria, across the Sahara or the Mediterranean, of fragile nation-states, newly fortified
borders, and traffickers organized in corporation-like structures. These stories are about life and death, and
they reshape notions of identity not just for the people who no longer have a place to call “home,” but
also for people who have never had to move but see their society changing around them as a result of
large-scale migration.
The course, called “Topics in International Literature” (ENGL 327-F16N01), will explore fiction, memoir, a
graphic novel, and poetry about refugees from Europe, Africa, and Asia, and in particular from the Middle
East. Because the war in Syria has contributed so dramatically to the refugee crisis, part of the course will
focus on current literature from Syria. All texts originally written in foreign languages will be read in
English translation.
In 2015, the instructor, a literary translator, won a Provost Award for Excellence for her innovative teaching.
“I love diversity in the classroom,” says Dr. Rout. “The more different our perspectives, the better.”
Community members who simply enjoy learning and do not need the grade or credit are encouraged to
enroll under VIU’s “Love of Learning” program, at only $99 per course. Students 65 years or older will have
their tuition waived.
For more information about ENGL 327, contact the instructor at [email protected]. For more
information on how to register, call 250-740-6400 or email [email protected].
(Forwarded by Perry Perry, from other people also interested in refugee support and learning.)
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CFUWPQ SCHOLARSHIP and BURSARY TRUST
Education is a top priority for CFUW, from the national to the local club. Since our funds are
raised locally, all of our awards are given to women from School District 69. The Trust gives one
scholarship to each of the secondary schools. This is awarded to a young woman entering a
Canadian University. We also offer undergraduate and post-graduate scholarships to those
continuing at university. In addition, women wishing to return to their education after a lapse of at
least 2 years are eligible to apply for a bursary.
We recognize that we are asking you to donate to the Scholarship and Bursary Trust at the time you
pay your CFUW annual dues. If you’d prefer to submit postdate cheques, we’d be pleased to receive
them. We depend upon your generosity to support these awards.
Yours truly,
Jackie Worboys,
Chair, Scholarship Trust 2016-17,
on behalf of trust members Janet Farooq, Leslie Horsman ,Shirley Ledrew, Lorna Miller, Julia Murrell,
Edie Ross and Margaret Sanou
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Scholarship and Bursary Trust Donation Form
Name__________________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________________
Postal Code___________________________________________________
Donation Enclosed_____________________________________________________
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Make cheques payable to: Scholarship Trust, CFUW Parksville/Qualicum
NB: Please make separate cheques for Membership and Scholarship Trust forms.