AAUW Buffalo Branch

The Buffalo Branch has completed its merger and is now one entity. The documentation regarding this process will remain for the time being to aid with any questions that may still arise.

The NEW bylaws are now in effect, as well as the Policies which were adopted by the board in December 2010 and then modified in March, June, and December 2011 and again in January 2012..

The new Position Descriptions were also approved in June 2011.

Useful guidelines for action are available in the IRS Publication Compliance Guide for 501(c)(3) Public Charities.

Another useful tool is the voucher for branch expenditures, to be turned in to the appropriate treasurer.

Every spring the budget for the following year is created. Attached here is the budget request form.

BRANCH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NOMINATION Every spring the branch honors an achievement award winner - a woman who has had outstanding achievement in her field,be it community service or her professional field. Please feel free to nominate someone to be our honoree. All nominations will be considered, but the final decision rests with the award committee.

HISTORY - there are several documents which give us the history of AAUW in general and the Buffalo Branch in particular: Other information is available on the AAUW-NYS website history page. Please note - many of these are scanned in from old copies. If you have a clearer version of one of these documents, please contact us.

• There were several mentions of the "Western New York" branch in the early ACA (Association of Collegiate Alumnae) papers.
• Marion Talbot had included information about the Buffalo Branch in her overall history of AAUW in 1931.
• "Achievement On The March" was a play written to help celebrate the first sixty years of the Buffalo Branch in 1950.
• An outline of Buffalo AAUW history was written in 1950, presumably covering the years 1882-1950. The document actually ends with 1944-46 biennium. There is also a second document with the same name, but it ends in 1928 - there are some differences in the text..
• In 1952, E. Grace Gould (who had been branch president 1948-1950) wrote a summary of AAUW's history to that point.
• In 1964 or thereabouts, someone wrote a membership-recruitment speech which covers much of the history up to that point.
• Olga Lindberg wrote a play "From Carriage Block to Launching Pad" for the 75th anniversary celebration in 1965.
• There are a couple of very brief summaries of branch activities from 1960-64 and 1978-80.
• A group of women - Ruthe Sicherman, Lucille Peterson, Lois Dabney,and Carolyn Iadovito updated the "Carriage Block" play, resulting in "Reflections: Ninety Years of Buffalo Branch AAUW" in 1980.
• The program from the 85th anniversary celebration in 1975 also had a small writeup by Olga Lindberg.
• Valerie Harlan Bozarth compiled much information, including the branch history, in the Centennial celebration program-1990.
• Ruthe Sicherman wrote a history of the booksale in the 1990's.
• Judy Weidemann produced a summary of the first 114 years of the branch in 2004

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