Women's Health: Topic for AAUW February Meeting

AAUW Abilene Branch invites the public to learn more about women's health at its

February 18 meeting,

Abilene Country Club

10:30 a.m.

Guest speaker, Dr. Sandra Hazelip, will talk about senior health care issues for women. Dr. Hazelip is board certified in both Family and Geriatric Medicine and is the only geriatric physician in this region. She is also a 2011 Women of Outstanding Achievement Honoree, a community award recognition offered through the AAUW Abilene Branch. The program will be held at the Abilene Country Club and begins at 10:30 a.m. with a lunch to follow. Please call Pinnie Smith, AAUW membership co-chairperson at (325) 692-0741 to make your reservations. Branch members can pick up their yearbooks if they haven't already.

On December 2, 1932, 32 women led by Mrs. Dallas Scarborough met to organize a unit of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). They named the unit "The O. H. Cooper Branch", named for pioneer educator, President of Simmons College (later known as Hardin-Simmons University) and subsequent Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Education. In the earliest yearbooks these statements appear: "Organized 1932, Affiliated 1933". The National Comptroller for AAUW noted that "Abilene is the only branch in the nation not known simply by the name of the town in which it is located." This distinction changed in 1951 when the Branch name was changed to the Abilene Branch.

Early in our Branch history, scholarship funds for two schools were initiated. Today, Abilene Branch awards five educational scholarships to women returning to Abilene's local Jr. College and three Universities.