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  • Remembering Andrea through a Favorite Story
  • Remembering Mary Brady
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  • Resettling Afghan Refugees in Vermont
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  • Schedule of Meetings: March – June 2022
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  • SCHOLARSHIP BACKGROUND
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  • Scholarship Committee Awards Four Scholarships
  • Scholarship Committee Members Lauded
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  • Scholarships for Non-Traditional Women Students
  • Scratchings 3 Available Now
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  • Scratchings for March
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  • Sheila Mullineaux
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  • Silent Angels and Marge Carter Book Award
  • Sojourner Truth – Abolitionist, Civil Rights Activist, and Itinerant Preacher  
  • Solidarity, Intersectionality, and the Disability Movement
  • Some Early Summer Flowers
  • Some Things Considered
  • Songs of the Suffragettes
  • SPRING FLING TEA – March 23
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  • State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Perry
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  • Suffrage in Vermont: Bennington and Beyond
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  • Suzanne Kirkpatrick, our New Branch President
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  • The 19th*: A Newsletter by and for Women
  • The AAUW Public Policy Program
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  • The Book Club Play: Two Staged Readings in Williamstown
  • The Boys in the Boat
  • The Christmas Market in Nürnberg, Germany
  • The Code Girls by Lisa Mundy
  • The First Vermont AAUW Project: The Improvement of Vermont’s Rural Schools
  • The Flip-Side of Suffrage
  • The Gender-Inclusive Vermont Constitution
  • The Good Life: A Conversation with Dr. Robert Waldinger, MD
  • The Light is Returning
  • The Long Road to Pay Equity: After 8 Years Aileen Rizo Finally Wins Her Case in Court 
  • The Marge Carter Book Awards
  • The New Vermont Salary History Law: How does It Fit into This Framework of Court Cases?
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  • The Paris Library
  • The Pink Tax
  • The Play of Pigments
  • The Quad in the Indo-Pacific
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  • The Throwaway Society
  • The Two-Minute Activist
  • The US and China
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Worst New Thing
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  • The Year to Save the Earth
  • There, There
  • This is Assisted Dying 
  • This month’s Diversity Comic
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  • Tony Lu in Concert
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  • Two National AAUW Conventions: 1981 & 2003
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  • Welcome New Members
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  • Welcoming Refugees to Bennington
  • Wendy Lyons: An AAUW Success Story
  • What a Night!
  • WHAT DOES AAUW NATIONAL DO?
  • What is a Graphic Novel?
  • What is International Women’s Day?
  • What We Do
  • When Did the AAUW Bennington Branch Award Its First Scholarships?
  • Who Are The Silent Angels?
  • Will Vermont be the 50th to Send a Woman to Congress?
  • Window Dressers (insulated inserts)
  • Woman’s Journey into Politics
  • Women Face a Concrete Ceiling
  • Women in Politics
  • Women’s Suffrage Centennial
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In Memoriam

In Memoriam


             In Honor of past members

Mary Fuqua (1937 – 2022)
Mary Brady  (1952 – 2021)
Andrea Weisberg (1940 – 2024)
Selma Milchen  (1930 – 2024)
Lea Newman (1926 – 2024)

 

 

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