June, 2025

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ADMINISTRATOR’S MESSAGE 

From Celia:
Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 19, from noon to 4 pm (although we’ll probably finish earlier) for our planning meeting for the 2025-26 AAUW year.  We will meet at our usual place, the auditorium at the ABC Adult School site at Cabrillo Lane School.  Lunch will be provided.  Closer to the meeting, I will send a reminder and ask for an RSVP so that we know how much food to buy.

From Marilyn:
Updated information on our 2025-26 California dues increase vote announced in mid May –  CA state dues changed and will go up $10, which will be in effect starting next year.

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Meeting & Program

Thursday, June 15
Noon -4:00 Meeting
Cabrillo Lane Adult School

Lunch will be served.  Full information above.

Please remember to mingle with our guests.  Volunteer as greeters at the door.

Board and general meetings are in-person with due respect to members who cannot attend in-person.  Those members may choose to easily attend and participate in meetings by connecting via phone to another member in attendance.

Please welcome and support your new officers.  Remember that their job is to lead and encourage other members.  Please offer to help them when they ask.

Future meetings will be:
Place: Cabrillo Lane Adult School Auditorium
20122 Cabrillo Lane, Cerritos
Select HERE for map

AAUW Fund

Thank you for supporting our Fund Raiser at The Big Bear Diner in Buena Park.
Those who went really liked their simple tasty food.  $152.53 raised to AAUW Fund .  Also about $300 earned from the short cruise.

Please try to participate in our restaurant fundraisers.  You will have a tasty lunch or dinner out with friends and while you pay the normal price, we get 20-25% back for AAUW Fund . What could be easier?!

Academic Achievement  Award

The La Palma-Cerritos Branch celebrated its Thirty-Second Annual Recognition and Awards Program at their meeting on Thursday, May 15, 2025, at the ABCUSD Adult School Auditorium in Cerritos. The Branch presented two Cerritos College women students with Academic Achievement Awards, they are: Ashley Ramirez and Lisamarie Lara.

Ashley Ramirez was introduced by Committee member Thea Siegel.  Her Academic Achievements  included having a 3.85 GPA while enrolling in honors classes with her major in Computer Science and Information Science. She excelled in STEM classes. She joined the Mathematics Engineering Science Program (MESA) at Cerritos College successfully completing three missions of the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars Program (NASC). Ashley started the “Sending Sunshine” as Chapter President. The campus organization creates greeting cards which are sent to seniors in care facilities. Ashley is a first-generation person in her family to attend college. She plans to attend UC Irvine in the Fall of 2025 and eventually work for a Ph. D at Stanford University to eventually become a professor who can help students pursue their higher education goals.

Lisamarie Lara s  a 23-year-old student who has overcome many obstacles in her own life including financial stress, homelessness at age 16, and managing mental health issues such as anxiety and ADHD. She overcame her obstacles and achieved a 3.66 GPA at Cerritos College with a major in Elementary School Education. She joined the Teacher’s Track Program and Grow Your Own Teacher Pathway Program (GYOTP) at Cerritos College. She was selected as one of twenty-five students to participate in the US Department of Education Grant Program. She has extended her teaching experiences with children by volunteering  and interning in classrooms in various nearby school districts. She also volunteered time helping the Downey Kiwanis with community service activities such Food Drives and Relays for Life. Lisamarie works at two part-time jobs but needs financial aid because she is her family’s breadwinner. She is an outstanding role-model for female Hispanic students that she interfaces with and helps at Cerritos College. Lisamarie has already been accepted at CSU Dominguez Hills in the Fall of 2025.

Each AAA recipient will receive a scholarship in the amount of $1500 (or more. Donations will be accepted through the end of June for 2025.)

AAA Committee volunteers included Dorothy Edwards, Joan Flax, Gail Ross, Edna Ethington, Thea Siegel and Chair Joan Pylman.