COMPES PDC needs your help!
Have
a few hours on Saturday, April 18th,
2015?
Then
considering volunteering for the conference to help with registration or
lunch! Please contact Michelle Pascual (info@compespdc.org) if you are interested!
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
SWE-D Royal Oak Book Club
Event: Royal Oak Book Club
Date: April 19, 2015
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Vinotecca, 417 S Main St,
Royal Oak, MI 48067, United States
Cost: Everyone pays for themselves
Parking: Free on Sunday
Point of contact: Michele Marion michele.marion@swe.org
Other info:
Discussing Yes Please By Amy Poehler
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Past Presidents' Post
Building
a Legacy: Final Year – Almost There!
Past
Presidents Endowed Scholarship Status Update
Status: FY15 Goal - $2,860
out of $2500 – GOAL ACHIEVED!, Overall Goal – ~98% to target!
Still need: ~$560 (includes
supporting administrative costs) to meet final program goal of $27,500 for
endowed scholarship.
We have some EXCITING
NEWS! We achieved our first fundraising goal and are very close to our stretch
goal of $27,500 to support an endowed scholarship and the administrative costs
at SWE Headquarters (HQ). We can still use those contributions! We will be
starting the paperwork to submit for the endowed scholarship and the funds to
SWE HQ. We will have exceeded the plan for the program and maybe able to submit
before the end of FY15 thus providing the potential to award the 1st
scholarship 1 year earlier than anticipated! We will confirm once the paper
work is submitted as the funds need to earn interest for 1 fiscal year before
it can be awarded. As a reminder, the HQ staff support includes verifying that
the recipient is entering into an accredited University and sends the check to
the University in the student’s name.
If you know any of the
past SWE Detroit Presidents, please help us communicate to them. We have found
that they, like many of you, are super busy and can miss the posts and emails. So
if you see them at work or outside, please tell them what you have read on the
blog. Not a past SWE D president? Don’t worry, anyone can donate to the fund
even though our group of section past presidents have come together and taken
the lead. Every little bit helps, so we encourage you to donate if you can.
After this year, you can still designate funds for our endowment and we can put
in a lump sum each year to grow it toward a higher scholarship value.
To donate online go to www.swedetroit.org
and look for the Donate Button on the site for Paypal. After you submit your information and input
your donation amount, you will have the opportunity to designate your donation.
Please input in the text field, “Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship or PP
Scholarship” to allow it to be allocated appropriately.
To donate via check:
mail the check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield,
MI 48037 and place in the memo section “PP Scholarship”.
Thank you Past
Presidents, Members, and friends of SWE Detroit who have donated so far (updated
as of 01/4/15):
Diamond ($1000+)
Miriam Breslauer
Sarah Kirkish
Jessica Mattis
Jennifer Morikawa
Lisa Purvis
Laurie Ramsay
Brooke Voto
Sapphire Level ($500+)
Janice T. Ford
Cathi Kohn
Irene Sharpe
Bond Desk/Tradeweb
(Company Match in honor of Brooke Voto)
Emerald Level ($250+)
Alison (Holmes) Bazil
Anna
Bradford
Alan Cooper
Cindy Hodges
Judy Jbara
Marie (Demos) Kardasis
Silvia Karlsson
Kristin Ramey
Quartz Level
Jennifer (Darnell)
Briggs
Andy Chen (In Honor of
Jennifer Morikawa)
Diana Cernis
Lydia Lazurenko
Stacy (Thayer) Lueneburg
Tina Lonski (In Honor of
Jennifer Darnell)
Kristine Lott
Lauren Thompson
Dawn Tilbury
T. Rowe Price (Company
Match in honor of Janice Ford)
Birgit Sorgenfrei
Special thanks to the
following for pledging to contribute for each year of the program:
Silvia Karlsson
Catherine Kohn
Jennifer Morikawa
Laurie Ramsay
Irene Sharpe
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“Missing”
Past Presidents:
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Years of Service
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Name
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1952 – 1954
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M. Ann Lawrence
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1954 – 1956
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Elise H. McGough
(Passed Away 2005)
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1956 – 1957
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Geneva Van Horn
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1958 - 1960, 1961 - 1962, 1964 - 1965
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Marjorie Easterbrook
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1962 – 1964
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Mary G. Sohler
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1965 - 1968, 1976 - 1977, 1977 - 1978
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Ann O. Fletcher
(Passed Away 2010)
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1968 - 1969, 1969 – 1970
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Stella Berbynuk
(Passed Away 1997)
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1970 - 1971, 1971 – 1972
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Helma Fuhrmann
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1972 – 1973
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Eva Michalski Quinn
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1973 – 1974
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Beverly Bush
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1974 – 1976
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Janet Hall
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Troy Membership Circle Networking Lunch
Troy
Membership Circle Networking Lunch
Work or live
near Troy? Join SWE Detroit for a Networking Lunch!
When: April 10, 2015
Where:
Buffalo Wild Wings, 1873 East Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI 48083
Time: 12pm-1pm
RSVP to Ashley
Prescott (ashley.prescott@gmail.com) by April 9thso
we know how big of table to reserve.
Outreach: Volunteers Needed
For the 1st year ever, Rochester High School
will be hosting a STEAM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts and Math) careers event for middle
and high schoolers on Saturday, May 2. We are
interested in establishing a presence at this event for SWE Detroit, and we are
looking for a volunteer to lead this initiative.
There are two different options for ways you can volunteer:
(1) Individual Presenters who will engage
students at an assigned table discussing their industry/career
(2) Workshop Presenters who will create and
lead a 30-45 minute hands-on workshop for 30 or so students
The flyer below gives more details of the event and the volunteer
opportunities. If you are interested in coordinating this event for SWE
Detroit or if you just want to volunteer with us, please contact me at anne.dancy@fcagroup.comor 214-244-2875.
COMPES Professional Development Conference: REGISTER TODAY!
COMPES
(Coalition of Minority Professional
Engineering Societies)
Professional Development Conference
Saturday, April 18th, 2015
Valeo
150 Stephenson Highway, Troy, MI 48083
"Driving Innovation and Diversity"
Registration deadline is April 6th for
online, April 3rd for mail ins.
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Outreach Metric Tool
As a SWE member, you are part of an
amazing and supportive group of individuals who make a difference in our local
Detroit communities everyday through our hard work, service, and
leadership. Many of you have been a part of our local Outreach projects,
like our most recent event GEE where we taught ~100 inner city Detroit girls
about engineering and science through a full day of activities, experiments,
and fun. Furthermore, the national organization of SWE is able to host
events like this and more all over the country to help engage and teach the
next generation about our professions. I wanted to share with you, some
of the Outreach efforts of National SWE since the beginning of the year. So far
there have been 128 outreach events serving 4852 girls and 1380 SWE Volunteers
this year alone (and it’s only March!). SWE Detroit’s outreach metrics
are wrapped up into this summer, so know that YOU really do make a difference
locally and nationally! Please see the attachment for the National SWE Outreach
report. And thanks for volunteering with right here in our home of
Detroit!
Membership Appreciation Event
SWE Detroit would like
to invite you to our Membership Appreciation Event to thank you for being a
member! You can meet your fellow SWE members, enjoy a free lunch, and get a
professional headshot photo
taken for corporate, networking and personal use! Non-SWE members are welcome
as well. Here are the details:
SWE Membership
Appreciation Event: Headshot Photographs and Lunch
Date: Saturday,
May 9th; 12:00-3:00 pm
Buffet lunch will be
served 12:30-1:30, Photographs will be on-going throughout the afternoon.
Location:
Sacred Heart Banquet
and Conference Center
29125 Six Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48152
Cost: Free for SWE
Members; $20 for Non-Members
RSVP by Friday, April
24th at http://formsmarts.com/form/1kmn
Contact: Rosa Bushkuhl
(rosa.bushkuhl@gmail.com)
We look forward to
seeing you there!
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