Summer 2024 Newsletter
Aloha WCC Members and friends,
We begin with gratitude for your support for the Women’s Campus Club’s commitment to UH community service, the Leora Parmalee Dean Endowment, to which we added $5,000 toward scholarships in 2023, and the Thrift Shop, which awarded $12,500 in Grants in 2023. We are currently accepting grant applications for 2024.
The Women’s Campus Club Endowed Scholarship in Honor of Leora Parmalee Dean 2023-2024 recipient is our first mature student, Lea Iwamoto, a Hawaiian Studies Junior, whose hobbies include spending time with her grandson, sewing, and researching her Hawaiian geneology.
We would like to honor the memories of some recent losses of devoted WCC members. If you know of other members who have recently passed, please let us know. Some of our recent losses include (alphabetically):
Betty Bhagavan
Norma Carr
Cappy Friedman
Tomi Haehnlen
Lenore Johnson
Ann Reed
Christobel Sanders
Emiko Shinoda
Elsie Tuttle
“Ann Reed worked hard reading for kids on the windward side and was part of a group of Women’s Campus Club members who used to remind us that we could have some of our events far far far away on the Windward side. When I was WCC president…centuries ago, we did make the drive over several times even in the evening.”
-Mary Piette
The Thrift Shop continues to do well in the Hemenway Hall 101 location, near Campus Center, Bale and the Beer Bar, with student, staff and community traffic. We receive wonderful donations during our hours of operation, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 12-2PM. We maintain shortened pandemic hours because we lack WCC volunteers, so we have expanded our volunteer core to include scholarship student volunteers referred by Liane Akana, Office of Civic and Community Engagement. We have also added a wonderful volunteer webmaster, Isaac Pomper.
WCC hosted a get-together in the courtyard at the Thrift Shop, on a Sunday in September 2023, where an ukulele group, headed by Delcy Saito, plays every Sunday. It inspired us to host the Annual Fall Tea at College Hill this year, on Saturday, September 21st, 12-2PM. Sodexo is catering, Elite is providing valet service. President Lassner has kindly offered to cover facilities costs.
Sodexo needs an approximate attendance count for the event, so WCC volunteer Connell Watkins has offered to call members. We will be mailing a Fall Tea Invitation, along with membership forms, in August.
We are also grateful to Lynette Wageman for the work she provides at the Thrift Shop and as Membership Chair and, most recently, as our Treasurer. She also volunteers at Friends of the Library. She was featured in Hawaii Business Magazine as a kupuna, who, after a successful career as a librarian at UH, continues to support the community with her volunteer work.
hawaiibusiness.com
Thank you for your continued commitment and for hanging in there while we volunteers grow older and WCC contemplates adjustments to the club.
Please feel free to reply to our email, offer any feedback, or to call either of us. For information on The Exchange and Grants please visit our website at hawaii.edu/wcc.
Mahalo,
Elizabeth Williams
Lynette Wageman
Co-Presidents