Women's League of Rutgers University
Established 1932
Fall 2024 Events
September 5th, Thursday
WELCOME RECEPTION/COFFEE
Place: 38 Hillcrest Drive, Pisca Register: Janet Potenza, j2potenza@optonline.net
Please join us! Invite folks you know who might be interested in learning more about WLRU. This reception is an opportunity to gather in an informal setting, enjoy home baked treats, get to know our new members and also meet potential WLRU members. This is a perfect occasion to encourage women you know, who wonder about who we are and what we do, to meet us and enjoy a social evening. All are welcome.
September 14th and 15th, Saturday and Sunday
ANNUAL GARAGE SALE
Place: 420 Lincoln Avenue, Highland Park, NJ Save your “stuff”! The treasures you find in your attics, closets, and hidden corners for inclusion in our sale will support WLRU Scholarship Awards. Items donated for the sale will be accepted at 420 Lincoln Avenue, Highland Park, NJ after 3 PM on Friday, September 13th. We also need your help with set up (Friday), sales (Saturday and Sunday), and cleanup (Sunday afternoon). It is a social time for volunteers with food provided. This is a significant fund raising event for our scholarships. Remarkably, last year’s sale earned close to $5000. Hope to see you there. Contact Sylvia with any questions or offers to help out. sylpsuty@gmail.com or 732-238-1443
October: TBA! trip to Zimmerli Art Museum for tour of Smoke and Mirrors, a major special exhibition focused on issues of accessibility and featuring the work of artists with disabilities.
November 15, Friday
WLRU ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION
Place: Winants Hall, College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Contact: Muffin Lord, mlivlord0@gmail.com
Our 2024 WLRU scholarship recipients are invited to participate in this event as we introduce them and acknowledge their accomplishments to an audience of their friends, family and members of WLRU. All are welcome.
December 17th, Tuesday
HOLIDAY LUNCHEON with GUEST SPEAKER, Shawna Hudson, Professor, and vice chancellor at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Resources as well as vice chair of research and Henry Rutgers Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health.
Place: The Rutgers Club on Livingston Campus in Piscataway, NJ
Time: Noon
Cost: $50
Register: Susan Hughes sghughes924@aol.com Send a check payable to WLRU to Susan Hughes, 1213 Huron Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902 or use Zelle (see below) .
To pay:
Zelle to womensleagueru@gmail.com or
Send a check payable to WLRU and mailed as directed for the specific event.
In both cases indicate the name of the program. Always include an email address .
Spring 2025 Events
Wednesday, February 19, Zoom
3rd Annual “Conversations with Past Scholarship Recipients”
Our panel participants:
--A 2015 graduate of Rutgers College with a BA in Cell Biology and Neuroscience; she earned her MD from Harvard Medical School and is currently a rheumatology fellow at NYU.
--A 2004 graduate of Douglass College who earned her Ph.D. at Princeton and is now Associate Professor of History and in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke.
--A 2013 graduate of SEBS with a BS in Nutritional Science; she earned a Masters in Public Affairs at the University of Texas and is currently working in agricultural policy at the National Young Farmers Coalition.
--A 1996 graduate of Douglass College with a BA in political science and a certificate in urban planning. She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School and is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
-- A 2009 graduate of Rutgers College with a BA in English and minors in Theater Arts and Art History and is currently an Assistant Researcher in Internet Culture and an Adjunct Professor in the Game Design and Interactive Media major at the University of California, Irvine.
Sunday, February 23
Elijah’s Promise Culinary School in New Brunswick
Brunch Class with Chef Chrissy and Chef Merdel. To consist of a cooking demonstration and samples of breakfast frittatas and fresh bread.
To register, please email Evelyn Sedehi at esedehi@gmail.com.
Payment can be via check or Zelle.
Send checks to Evelyn Sedehi, 66 Harrison Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904
For online banking use Zelle with user ID womensleagueru@gmail.com.
In both cases, please indicate “Elijah’s Promise Brunch Class.”
March, Date TBD:
A visit to the Zimmerli Art Museum for a self-guided tour of Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always,
with a gathering afterwards at a member’s home; check back for details.
Rutgers Day: Saturday, April 26
Tabling on the College Avenue Campus (Voorhees Mall). We hope you will stop and see us!
Wednesday, May 7
End of the Year Luncheon, Rutgers Club, with a talk by
Dean Laura Lawson, Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Professor of Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS).
