Our Lunch Bunch young women had a wonderful opportunity on March 20th to hear from our own Arlington AAUW author, Emma Violand Sanchez! Emma shared her personal memoir, Dreams and Shadows, An Immigrant’s Journey. The students were enthralled by her story and engaged in personal dialogue with her. AAUW was able to purchase a copy for each of our young women, and Emma personally signed each book. It was truly a memorable experience.

Another piece of good news regarding our Lunch Bunch is that our board was able to increase our scholarship amount from $1000 to $2000 using some of our contingency funding to better support our students paying college tuition. Since NOVA tuition, for example, is about $6,000 per year, this increase will enable our scholarship winner to better manager her college finances. We will be selecting our scholarship winner in April and celebrating with her at our May 19th meeting.

Mary Beth Pelosky, Meg Tuccillo and Terry Bratt