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ENCINITAS: Women support next generation with yearly luncheon
By RUTH MARVIN WEBSTER - Staff Writer | ∞
ENCINITAS --- Since the creation of the American Association of University Women in 1881, the plight and presence of women in the work place and higher education has undoubtedly improved, but members of the local branch say there is still much more to be done.
The Del Mar-Leucadia branch gives out between $5,000 and $6,000 a year in scholarships and aid, said Donna Lilly, former president of the branch, which was founded in 1954. It also sponsors a handful of eighth-grade girls to attend an AAUW science, math and technology camp on the campus of UC San Diego each summer.
Those eighth-graders and Carlsbad City Council candidate Farrah Douglas will speak at the branch's annual membership luncheon to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the San Dieguito Methodist Church in Encinitas.
Lilly said the annual luncheon helps to recruit members and brings attention to students who have been honored throughout the year, because they either have received a scholarship or attended AAUW Tech Camp.
"We've done some wonderful things with our little branch of only 200 or so members," said Lilly, for whom a scholarship was recently created in her name.
Mitzi Dominguez, president of an electronics company in Carmel Valley, has been a member of the Del Mar-Leucadia branch for about five years. She has worked primarily with the branch's Tech Camp program.
"Each year middle school teachers nominate girls who are interested in science, math and technology, and we select six," said Dominguez. "The whole program is put together by women. The teachers are women, and they have dorm moms when they live on campus for a week to attend science and math classes. There is a lot of hands-on activities. It is not doing homework or taking tests, they actually go into the science labs and do a project."
Dominguez said she thinks that, particularly given the economic climate today, lobbying for women's rights and equal education is more important than ever.
"We try to expose girls to math and science so that they can see that they are fields for women," she said. "When we introduce them to professional women in that environment, they see that is not just a man's world."
Contact staff writer Ruth Marvin Webster at (760) 901-4074 or rwebster@nctimes.com.
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