Membership: Join our Branch!

We welcome new members!

To join the Muncie Branch, contact:
Judy Schroeder, Vice-President for Membership
jeshes5509@aol.com
Phone: 765-282-1843.

DUES:
Annual Dues: $57.00
(Branch $11.00, State $7.00, Association $39.00)

Life Members pay Association dues one time only (20 X $39)

• Membership in AAUW is open to all graduates who possess a bachelor's degree from a fully accredited college or university.
• Each member of AAUW is automatically a member of the International Federation of University Women which has its headquarters in London.
• Privileges of branch membership include the annual yearbook and a newsletter, which is published six to eight times a year.
• Monthly meetings and study groups keep members informed on a variety of topics. Should a member move, membership in this branch transfers to the new branch.
• Privileges of national membership include the following:
  • Resource material on current issues of special concern to women.
  • Worldwide travel opportunities tailored to the educated woman.
  • An official observer at the United Nations.
  • Hospital and life insurance plans designed specifically for women.
  • Professional critiques for personal art and written works.
  • Up to twenty-five percent off publishers' prices on adult and children's books.
  • Membership in the International Federation of University Women and introductions to IFUW colleagues abroad.
  • Friendship of college-educated women and men.

• Action for Girls and Women, co-chairs Rebecca Pierce and Cheryll Adams
• Meet-N-Eat, chair Dorothy Adalis
• Literary Group, chair Idamae Waid

• Effectively holding an elected office or an appointment
• Fulfilling responsibilities on committees
• Participating in study groups and/or special projects

Past recipients of this award are:

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION PROGRAMS

The AAUW Educational Foundation is the philanthropic organization through which the American Association of University Women carries out charitable, educationa, and public service endeavors. As stated in the charter of the Foundation, these purposes include:

• carrying out research projects
• developing a library
• awarding fellowships to female scholars for advanced study

Major areas of AAUW Educational Foundation activities are:

• graduate fellowships and awards to members for research
• demonstration and pilot projects
• basic studies
• publications.

The AAUW Achievement Award has been presented annually since 1943 to an American woman in recognition of distinguished scholarly or professional accomplishment. Recipients of this $3,000 award have come from many fields, including education, law, literature, science, anthropology, engineering, mathematics, social work, psychology, and government.

The AAUW Recognition Award for Young Scholars was established in 1972. The award of $1,000 cites a woman under thirty-five years of age, who by early accomplishment in her discipline, shows promise of future distinction.

The AAUW Fellowship Program is the largest and oldest such program exclusively for women. To date, more than 7,000 women have been selected as AAUW Fellows to receive either American or International Fellowships in professional fields of law, dentistry, medicine, architecture, environmental design, urban planning, engineering, business, veterinary medicine, and nursing.

Optional donations by each member to the EFP are encouraged, and may be made at any time during the year. As one International Chairman said some years ago, "From its beginning, the strength of our programs has rested on the fact that it has been supported by our members because they believed in it, not from any sense of compulsion. This is a precious heritage and its continuation means continued strength."

NAMED FELLOWSHIPS: MUNCIE BRANCH

Gifts, bequests, contributions, and proceeds from branch money-making projects are sent to the Indiana State Educational Foundation Programs and earmarked for endowment, current stipends, or undesignated funds. If the amount is $500 or more, the money may bear a name.

Each year, our branch holds an auction in October to raise funds for the Educational Foundation. The branch sincerely thanks the donors for this year's auction. Based on those funds, we sponsor named fellowships in the amount of $500 The following members have been honored by these named fellowships:

1963-64 Grace Dehority
1969-70 Eleanor Smith
1970-71 Anna Schneib
1971-72 Lucille Knofts, Mary Beeman, Evelyn Hoke
1972-73 Margaret Reynard, Elizabeth Meloy, Marthann Alexander
1973-74 Uva Janney, Glossie Wagoner, Wanita White
1974-75 Mae King, Ruth Loats, Phyllis Perry
1975-76 Margaret K. Hosey, Hannah Taylor, Betty Memmott
1976-77 Blanche Earl, Betty Freeman
1977-78 Virginia Leavell
1978-79 Martha Hill, Ruth Oren
1979-80 Helen Cross, Virginia James, Lucille Royalty
1980-81 Paula F. Smith, Dorothy Wells
1981-82 Lillian Gibson, Juanita Smith
1982-83 Frances Griffin, Judith Schroeder
1983-84 Ellen Nicholson, Linda Arment
1984-85 Eleanor Spurgeon
1986-86 Mayro P. Porter, Anne Tutoli
1986-87 Lee Ann Brown, Betty Rybolt
1987-88 Idamae E. Waid, Alice Thomas
1988-89 Kumiko Brunson, Mary Louise Myers, Needlecrafters Group
1989-90 Judy Houlette, Hannah Stanley, Susan Trout
1990-91 Rose Marie Higgins, Gladys Richardson, Nancy Turner, Carla Wheeldon
1991-92 Bridge Interest Group, Newsletter Advertising Team
1992-93 Phyllis Harland
1993-94 Frances Griffin, Leanne Hillery
1994-95 Hilde Calvert, Ruth Oren, Lynn Ranieri, Idamae Waid
1995-96 Laurie Habich, Diane Hill, Sandra Worthen
1996-97 Janis Hendrix, Arline Johnstone, Alice Thomas, Bernadette Perham (posthumously)
1997-98 Rebecca Pierce, Jane Allerton, Linda Baker, Delores Frischkorn
1998-99 Action for Girls and Women Study Group, Jean Amman, Lynn Ranieri
1999-00 Betty Brinn, Dixie Dugan, Adelaide Petrucco, Jane Allerton, Diane Hill
2000-01 Phyllis Harland, Betty Rybolt, Bea Sousa, Alice Thomas
2001-02 Adaline Eastman, Rose Marie Higgins, Ruth Hostetler (posthumous), Alice Thomas
2002-03 Dixie Dugan, Adaline Eastman, & Paula Smith