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2006 Annual Report
Over the past year, the Women's Commission has accomplished the following things:
We said goodbye to Paula Cole, who moved to NY for a professorship position and to
Penny Vincent, who resigned.
• We welcomed several new members to the commission (x in February and one in
October): Pat Lewis, Tanya McClandish, Shelby Maier, and Jill Walusis.
• Marjorie McTaggart, member of the Senior Advisory Board, has been attending our
meetings as a representative from SAB. Marjorie provides us great information about
what the SAB is doing and ways in which the Women's Commission can piggyback on
their efforts.
We recognized our student writer winners (6) of the Women In Your History essay
contest (grades 7 - 9) at a school board meeting (with their teachers present) and at
the April 4 City Council meeting.
• We recognized our Marcile N. Wood award winner (Dr. Audrey Olson Faulkner) at the
April 4 City Council meeting. She was also introduced at the Education and Life
Training Center's SEE Conference on April 1, 2006.
We participated in the first of what we hope are many radio programs on KRFC. The
show, Random Access, was on September 28, 2006 and its topic was women and
politics. Guest speakers were Jana Ley, PSD School Board President; Karen
Weitkunat, Mayor Pro-Tem; and Marty Tharp, former City Council member and
community activist. We taped one hour of conversation - 1/2 hour was aired that
night and 1/2 hour was to be aired at a later date. Beth Etter, Commission secretary,
co -hosted the program with Elizabeth Bailey (KRFC D.J.).
We attempted to start a quarterly newsletter that will contain information relevant to
women in Fort Collins and will be distributed to local service agencies as well as the
libraries and coffee shops. We have
o identified topics to discuss.
o selected a length of 4 pages.
o sent out requests for writing and graphic design interns at CSU.
Due to lack of interest from interns, we have postponed the newsletter until 2007.