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Our Next Meeting & Program Installation of Officers and New Member Induction A limited number of Vendor tables are available for this meeting. Please let Carolyn Sabol or Susan Daly know if you would like to rent a vendor table at the May meeting. Location: The Stockade Inn, on May 22nd, 2012 Networking starts at 5:30 pm, Dinner 6:00 pm. Dinner $25 members $28 non-members Please remember, if you are a member of Schenectady BPW, your reservation is automatically made for you for each meeting. If you cannot attend this meeting, please notify Susan Daly at 518-428-8830 or Carolyn Sabol at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , by the Friday before the meeting. If you would like to attend this meeting as a guest, please make your reservation by May 18th, 2012 using the contact information listed for Susan Daly and Carolyn Sabol above.
Schenectady BPW is celebrating its 85th Anniversary Please join us for a night of celebration on May 11th, 2012, the actual anniversary of our club. Please download a flyer for more details. All proceeds from this event will be donated to women in the Military through The Guardian House and The Wounded Warrior Fund. How can you support our efforts?? More information about the Guardian House Place and ad or become a corporate sponsor.
BPW Annual Fashion Show & Woman of the Year Celebration Save the date....We will hold this years event on Sunday, November 18th, 2012 at The Glen Sanders Mansion. More information will be posted as it becomes available.
Fashion Show & Woman of the Year Celebration 2011 Thank you to all who supported our event!! We held our largest event yet with 196 attendees. To read the article that was posted in the Gazetteclick here.
Schenectady BPW Woman of the Year
Nominate a Deserving Woman to be our 2012 Woman of the Year !! Do you know a woman who has contributed to her community and others that deserves the honor of being awarded the distinction of being named Schenectady BPW’s Woman of the Year for 2012? Tell us some facts about your nominee and we will honor the best candidate at our 2012 Fashion Show on November 18th, 2012 Click here to download the Woman of the Year 2012 Nomination Form
Our 2011 Woman of the Year Award winner was honored at our Annual Fashion Show and Woman of the Year Celebration on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at the Glen Sanders Mansion. 2011 Woman of the Year Ann Parillo
To read Ann’s complete bio click here Congratulations Ann Youth Leadership The program “taught me to appreciate my mother and how much things cost.” “I didn’t realize how many things people have to consider.” These are some of the comments from the students that participated in the Life Unplugged program, sponsored by Schenectady Business and Professional Women, on March 24th at Schenectady County Community College. The event was aimed at teaching youth ages 14 to19 financial planning skills, goal setting and career planning. Students participated in exercises to determine their most important values, identified their ideal careers, living within a monthly budget and work through critical life choices. Volunteers manned each station simulating a month in the life of the students who were each transformed into a “25 year old” for the program. All choices and decisions had to accommodate their family, career and lifestyle as they “spent” their monthly paycheck. For the first hour and a half students made visits to the bank deposited their paychecks and started making decisions about their monthly expenses. Students quickly realized that their earnings could not support the lifestyles they anticipated. Students’ comment included “I didn’t know it cost so much”. During the luncheon students heard from Supreme Court Justice Ann Crowell. She spoke about her choices that lead her through many different careers and ultimately running for public office and she became the first female Supreme Court Justice in New York State. . Students heard also from Dr. Bullock, President of SCCC. The President welcomed them and encouraged them to seek careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). These careers have low unemployment rates, and the fact that ALL of the NANO Tech students left his college with job commitments. Jane Osterhout, our Schenectady BPW President, spoke about our club and its level of professionalism and commitment to our community and its youths, not only through scholarships but programs like Life-Unplugged. Our entire team of volunteers did a fantastic job. The students were very appreciative of the reception they received from everyone especially their adult guides. The program was a complete success and BPW has once again presented to the community an effective and relevant program. Thank you to our sponsors, the students that participated, the parents, the schools and most of all our volunteers. Miriam and Kim
To preview the newest version of "The Reality Store" go to www.life-unplugged.org/about.php
Visit our resource tab to see the information about the original version of "The Reality Store".
Miriam Cajuste and Jane Osterhout appeared on The Schenectady Today Show with Ann Parillo today, February 28th, 2012 to talk about this program. View the video.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE APRIL 2012
Greetings;
I hope you all had a great Easter and Passover. I love this time of year, especially this year, because of the nice weather we had a few weeks ago. We had flowers and trees blooming for Easter. As usual my husband has the front of our house decorated like Easter Bunny Land. If you have a chance stop by and see it. It's adorable.
April is going to be another busy month. Elena has begun her modules for the Career Development Program. All of the information is on the website if you are interested attending. Elena and her committee have worked very hard to make this program a success, so lets' support her if we can, and attend any of the presentations. Please visit www.schenectadybpw.org for more information.
We will hold our elections this month at the April 24, 2012 Business Meeting at the Stockade Inn. Thank you to Irene Wickham and her Committee for a job well done with the Nominating Committee. Also Bonnie Keller will be inducting the new members at the April Meeting. She will be notifying the members that she plans on inducting, so please let her know if you will be attending the meeting. It will be a very nice ceremony.
Another big event creeping up on us is our 85th Anniversary Celebration at the Riverstone Manor on May 11, 2012. I hope each and every one of you will attend the celebration. We have a wonderful evening planned, and by now you all should have received your invitations, and be sure to bring your spouse or a guest of your choice. We need all of your help getting ads, basket donations, etc.
All of this information is also on the website www.schenectadybpw.org.
Last but not least the first meeting for the Fashion Show Committee will be held in the next few weeks. Cyndie will be sending out the information to all of you very soon. Again this is a club effort and we need all of your help in making this another huge success. Thanks to all of the committee chairs for all of these events for taking the time out of your busy lives to help our club. I appreciate everything you do.
I hope to see you all at the meeting this month and I am looking forward to the rest of my term of office. My term is up in June and I want to thank each and every one of you for making me proud to be President of such a wonderful caring membership. You are all awesome and we could not have had the success that we have experienced this year without all of your help.
Just a little information on Sister Stella. So many of you have been asking how she is and have sent cards to her and she wants you all to know how much she appreciates it. She is almost healed and is going to physical therapy. She should be coming home soon, and she misses all of you and our meetings... I miss her very much, she has lived upstairs form me for 8 years and it is kind of strange not having her here.
My sincere condolences to Kim Bellizzi on the loss of her Dad, and also to her family through this difficult time. Also Get Well Soon to Dixie Aniolek. Dixie broke her hip and I hope she is healing at home. Also a get well to Barbara Tremante who is in the hospital and hope she is feeling better.
Regards,
Jane Osterhout
President
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