Celebration of Anne Bodenheimer's 100th birthday

Grand Centennial Celebration for the grand Lady: Anne Bodenheimer turns 100 !

Anne Bodenheimer (1914- ) treated her colleagues and friends at the UCLAs Faculty Center
for her very special Birthday

Zorana interviewed Anne in October 2012 as a part of the Oral History Program

UCLA music school students performed Handel's sections from one of his Oratorio: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Il Moderato

Alexys, Danielle, Terrence, Gregory, Terri with Paul Floyd

Zorana with UCLA students performing Handel's Oratorio

Please visit our newly formed MUSIC SECTION for details on programs, events, and scheduling. More is coming, so check the music section blog periodically. All FWC members are welcome including spouses and partners. 

The UCLA FWC Scholarship Program and Dinner, February 2014

The UCLA Faculty Women's Club is proud to award scholarships to eight outstanding UCLA students--scholarships made possible by generous donations from our members and many friends.

THE UCLA FWC Scholarship recipients: Manjot, Danielle, Ona, Carly, Kimberly, Joshue, and Shadi
with Bette Billet, President 2013-2014, and Scholarship Chair Joy Frank

Our featured speaker Dr. Linda Liau with Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and
one of the FWC Scholarship recipients Manjot Bagri

India Carney is pursuing a BA in music-voice performance and plans a singing and acting career

Carly and Ona chat and sip with the FWC past Scholarship Chair Dianne Homsher

The Ercegovac and the Ho families at the Scholarship event

The UCLA FWC members celebrate the 2014 Scholarship recipients

Franco and Carol Betti (FWC hospitality chair) 

Zorana Ercegovac, FWC President 2012-2013 with Milos

Marjorie Friedlander (left) during the reception

Dr. Linda Liau getting ready for her presentation on Neurosurgery at UCLA

Anne Bodenheimer has special reasons to be happy: she is celebrating her 100th birthday next month!

Special time to chat with old friends and colleagues

Rochelle Caballero at the helm (AGAIN)

UCLA Faculty Women's Club : Spring Luncheon, may 21st 2013

FWC Spring Luncheon, May 21st 2013, was a great success, well attended, and superbly organized. Our featured speaker, Dr. Linda Sarna, professor and Lulu Wolf Hassenplug Endowed Chair at the UCLA School of Nursing, explained her work in her presentation, "Making UCLA Tobacco-Free: We've Come a Long Way, Baby!" Mrs. Carol Block, our Chancellor's wife was also in the attendance. 

Zorana Ercegovac, UCLA FWC President 2012-2013, was presented with a beautiful gift from the FWC Executive Board members.
Description: It is a hand painted lacquer jewelry box with the lid made of an abalone shell with a seascape at the sunset and sail-ship (inside). Two mermaids grace the outer cover of the box. The box is paper-mache with multi-layer varnish and polish. As you will see in the attached photos, the gift is truly beautiful in shape, design, colors, and quality.
Symbolically, the sail-ship will luckily take me to Germany and St. Petersburg next week, and mermaids promise a short but rich White Nights to celebrate and enjoy.
THANK YOU! have a wonderful summer. Looking forward to working with you again ~

The UCLA FWC Spring Luncheon, May 21st 2013, is the opportunity to meet and greet, recognize our numerous accomplishments, honor our past presidents and the long tradition (since 1918), take photos of our attendees, and much more.

Below is a sample of our Luncheon members and guests; more will be uploaded and streamed as we have them available :-)

Linda Sarna, Bette Billet, Zorana Ercegovac, Carol Block, Sonny Harris, Milos, Anne Bodenheimer

Beautiful ladies: Geraldine, Debby, Joyce, Claudia, Madonna, Rochelle, Sofia

Glorya, Louisa, Sandy, Geraldine, Dianne, Elaine, Mary Lou

Joy, Helen, Shirley, Jo, Ida, Barbara, with Shirley's guest

The intimate theater scene in Los Angeles

UCLA Faculty Women's Club invited Mr. Simon Levy and Mr. Brian Kite as presenters at the April 16th General Meeting. Mr. Levy is a playwright and producing director for the Fountain Theater in Hollywood, named "one of this country's best intimate regional houses" by the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Levy was interviewed regarding the state of theater arts in Los Angeles by Mr. Brian Kite, visiting associate professor, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Here are several photos from today's meeting, held at the UCLA's Faculty Center.

Simon Levy at the UCLA's Faculty Center

Brian Kite of UCLA's TFT

Zorana Ercegovac, President 2012-2013 and Betty Billet, President elect

Welcome and introductions to the General Meeting, April 16th 2013

Simon, Betty, Brian

Here is our May/June 2013 UPDATE

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