Faculty Women's Club in the PRESS

<--At the 2013 FWC Scholarship Dinner 
Honoring our scholarship recipients.
From left: Our Speaker Elissa Hallem, Milos Ercegovac, Zorana Ercegovac, Angela Susak -- Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Bette Billet, Gerry Frank, Ngoc Bui --majoring in biochemistry, & Joy Frank.

Honoring Alyssa Fine -- Nursing, with Andrian and Sonny Harris, 
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, the Nagys and the Spolskys

Emin Menachekanian -- one of our awardee, with Cathy Kersh Millstein,
the Ambosses, and Rapoports

Reliving the Past is the title of an article that has just been published in UCLA's Daily Bruin (March , 2013). Here is its online version for you:
http://dailybruin.com/2013/03/04/faculty-womens-club-compiles-rich-history-through-oral-project/

The Project started back in November 2012 when current FWC President Zorana Ercegovac met with Jillian Beck of the Daily Bruin to propose a possibility to write a story about the Faculty Women's Club. Jillian was excited about our many varied and interesting programs and activities that the Club offers; that was the beginning of this collaborative project.

I want to thank so many of our members who enthusiastically participated in the project in many different ways. In particular, I want to thank Marjorie Friedlander, Pat Hardwick, Glorya Dixon, Sonny Harris, Joanne Knopoff, and Joy Frank who were interviewed by Daily Bruin reporters for the story. The Oral History Project, as described in the Daily Bruin, is one among many new initiatives that we have started to address and embrace during my presidency, 2012-2013. It aims to collect, record, and preserve personal experiences from the FWC members who have been active with various programs and activities since the 1960s -- at the time when they were particularly active. Listen to the stories that are shared by Marjorie and Pat in the video clips that are included in the Daily Bruin story.

UCLA FWC 2013 Scholarship Dinner: 
Honoring our Scholarship awardees

Welcome from your President

A message from your President, Zorana Ercegovac

I am honored to be the 90th President of the UCLA Faculty Women's Club, founded in 1918. I look forward to working with so many talented, dedicated, and resourceful women on the Executive Board and across the entire membership. Your incoming board is eager to offer six General Meetings, all held at the Faculty Center (see below about our speaker on October 16th). A highlight of the year is the Scholarship Dinner Meeting on February 5th honoring our accomplished FWC scholarship recipients.

Our Special Interest Sections are organized around various interests; examples include:

• Athletic activities (e.g., biking, tennis, tai chi)
• Social gatherings (e.g., let's do lunch, birthdays, international cooking, knitting)
• Reading (e.g., book sections, play-reading)
• Languages (e.g., conversation in French, German, Spanish)
• Cultural outings (e.g., galleries and sights)
• Table games (e.g., bridge, mah jongg)

We want to hear from YOU about your interests and those sections you find especially relevant. We do hope you will participate in many sections (and start off new ones).

• UCLA Faculty Women's Club is proud to announce our October General Meeting. Our guest speakers, Barbara J. Natterson-Horowitz, MD and Kathryn Bowers will be speaking about "Zoobiquity: A species-spanning approach to health." The topic describes and discusses a relatively new interdisciplinary approach to medicine that brings together physicians and veterinarians to treat the diseases shared by humans and many similar species. 

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (R) and Kathryn Bowers (L) were the speakers at our first General Meeting

For details on this topic, please visit: http://zoobiquity.com/what-is-zoobiquity

Two books were raffled at the general meeting: by the speakers, another by Ercegovac.

Rochelle Caballero was the recipient of Zorana's book.

Ray Dewey performed on the piano in honor of Daniel Pearl World Music Days. To learn more both about Daniel Pearl and Judea Pearl, please visit the story about the Turing Award Winner Professor Judea Pearl. The photo of the Pearls with Joyce and Zorana was taken at the Symposium celebrating Judea's Award, October 22 at UCLA.

Announcements: President Zorana Ercegovac announced that Professor Lloyd Shapley won a Nobel Prize in economics. His late wife was our Faculty Women's Club member for many years. From the story by D. Romero:
He's the sixth Nobel laureate from the Westwood school, according to UCLA. The 89-year-old shares the prize with Alvin E. Roth of Harvard. Here's why:
Both the winners' research focused on how to best match "agents" -- buyer and seller, say -- in financial and other markets, according to the Nobel folks. Shapley is a noted game theorist and UCLA professor emeritus of economics whose work dates back to the 1950s and '60s.

Mr. Shapley explained how individuals can be paired together in a stable match even when they disagree about what qualities make the right match. The paper focused on designing an ideal, perfectly stable marriage market: that is, how mates find one another in a fair way, so that no one who is already married would want (and be able) to break off and pair up with someone else who is already married.

It was an elegant and simple mathematical model that explained the optimal way to match up men and women, and it was all written in basic English rather than complicated mathematical jargon.

Zorana Ercegovac President, UCLA FWC 2012-2013

A life-LOng Healthy America -- ALOHA

• A life-LOng Healthy America:

Having the best resources for any phase of lifelong learning and development is critical especially now when information is plentiful and available. What are the first best sources? I have decided to include just a handful of these sources that can help us navigate this life-cycle of growing and learning.
- Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-being reports the latest data on the 37 key indicators selected to describe those aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families in the areas of economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care.
- American Geriatrics Society, the organization of experts in older adult care, publishes their Newsletter.
- National Institute of Health (NIH) puts out SeniorHealth. “Built with You in Mind,” this site gives you exercise stories, health videos, and wellness information for older adults on A-Z topics.
- Healthy to 100 is developed by the University of California at Irvine.
Suffering from arthritis pain? Visit the arthritis foundation website. Explore specific sources such as fitness.


A source based out of UC San Francisco to explore hot topics and trends in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: GeriPal

Consider UCLA events, LA Weekly ArtScene, and VisualArtSource

Zorana is 90th President of the UCLA's Faculty Women's Club

Write back and suggest other sites and ideas, we'd like to hear from you.ENJOY !
Check our web page regularly for announcements


Summer Reading?
Check the titles I’m recommending in my 

CATALOG and explore other titles while you are there. 
More to come, so check periodically !Acknowledgment goes to Una E. Makris, M.D. for some of the sources in the ALOHA section.

Top from left to right: Marjorie, Dagmar, Zorana, Joy, Feli, Rochelle, Phyllis, Geraldine, Patti, Myra
Bottom from left to right (seated): Bette, Shirley, Helen, Mychaelyn, Glorya, MaryLou, Sandy

Top left to right: Rochelle, Marjorie, Feli, Ellen, Zorana, Dagmar, Susan, Pat, Bette, Dianne, Shirley
Bottom left to right: Louisa, MaryAnn, Michaelyn, Glorya, MaryLou

Created and updated by Zorana Ercegovac

UCLA Faculty Women's Club: Annual Spring Luncheon

Our Annual Spring Luncheon
honoring past UCLA FWC Presidents is HERE

When: May 15, 2012

Where: Hacienda Room, Faculty Center at UCLA
Time: 11:30 am

Lunch: 12 Noon
Program: 1 pm
A CONVERSATION about New Trends in Hotels and Restaurants in LA
Our special guests include:
Stephane Bombet Managing Partner, co-owner of Picca Peruvian restaurant and
Sam Jagger General Manager of Mr. C. Hotel.

Meet FWC past presidents, the Board, find old friends, introduce yourself, enjoy the luncheon and conversation with the guests.

Learn about the HISTORY of the UCLA Faculty Women's Club, our SCHOLARSHIP Program, SPECIAL INTEREST SECTIONS, and more !!

Consider carpooling

Spring Luncheon 2012 (Zorana & Rochelle)

Bette, Marjorie, Glorya & Michaelyn

Susan at the Spring Luncheon

Dr. Fonkalsrud, President of EAB, toasting to creativity 

The Future of the UCLA Faculty Center

William McDonald, President, and Joseph Nagy, President-Elect of the Board of Governors of the UCLA Faculty Center will speak on Tuesday, April 17 at 1:30 PM at UCLA Faculty Center.

Daily Bruin has published an article, "Center proposal faces another setback," outlining major concerns both by the UC Board of Regents and by the UCLA students. Here's the link of the full article for you to read before we hear the speakers and subsequent QA. Bring lots of questions. It should be timely, informative and lively discussion.

Why I personally like the UCLA Faculty Center? A few photos capture the spirit of the Center that I have known for the past 37 years. It has been an intellectual AGORA for the UCLA. For an Athenian citizens, Agora meant a single place in polis where they democratically debated political, societal, commercial, judicial, ethical, and other issues of the day ! Don't we?

The only place on campus that is certified to sell alcoholic beverage

The lounge serves espresso in a wi-fi space

California native plants grace the entire facility

zorana ercegovac, ph.d.

historian/archivist UCLA FWC 2010-2012

President-Elect UCLA FWC 2012-2013

(aka LibraryViolets)

Free library collection and pool are in the wi-fi space;
members borrow the collections of books and periodicals

Conference room: California Room
well attended, AV is provided as well as food

Dining hall and the outside patio are typically full;
an adjacent lounge serves beverage, coffee, tea, and alcohol

Wendy Greuel & Alice Walton talk with UCLA FWC members

Read The City Maven about LA politics and policies.

Wonderful conversation about "Women's Issues in Los Angeles" by our today's panelists, Wendy Greuel (UCLA bruin) and Alice Walton, with FWC attendees.

Wendy Greuel is City Controller of Los Angeles, the second woman to be elected to a citywide office in the City's history.

Wendy defined a leader in terms of the following attributes:

a) to set goals and meet them; b) to not be afraid that some people will be angry with your decisions (cannot please everyone); c) to champion those issues you feel strongly about.

The March 20th general meeting concluded with an annual business meeting that included election of the executive board officers and recognition of Section Chairs.

The elected UCLA FWC 2012-2013 officers are:

President: Zorana Ercegovac

Vice-president, Programs: Bette Billet

Vice-president, Sections: Dagmar Lestrel

Recording Secreatry: Helen Nefkens

Corresponding Secretary: Phyllis Amboss

Treasurer: Geraldine Walter

Historian: Debby Wagger

NEW MEMBERS

This post includes bits of information about new members!

Joy S. Frank, Ph.D., Prof. Emerita

Department of Medicine and Physiology, former Senior Associate Dean for research, UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

Joy Frank joins our Executive Board and will be our Scholarship Chair 2012-2013

Myra Porter

Myra will be joining our Executive Board, 2012-2013

CONGRATULATIONS !!