At our 2019-2020 Annual Meeting held in April on Zoom, Kathy Shaginaw announced the winners of the year’s Branch Awards.

The Outstanding Woman Award went to Kathy Quinn, board member, finance officer and communications coordinator for her many contributions to the continuing functioning of the branch. Kathy was pleased to accept the award, which demonstrates the Branch’s recognition of her activities, “recognition that it is always great to receive, especially from the many accomplished women of this branch.”

The Member Making a Difference Award went to Francine Block, who continues to serve the branch in many quiet ways including serving on the Bucks County Women’s History Month Award Committee and organizing the kitchen crew at the annual Girls’ Recognition Reception. She had this to say about the award:

I would like to sincerely thank our branch for the very unexpected honor of receiving the Branch Service Award. I am so proud of what our AAUW accomplishes. We are a great example of small but mighty. We obviously are not a large branch but those who volunteer certainly make a difference from encouraging reading–so important for life and success, celebrating young women’s accomplishments and doing special programming to tweak their continued interests hoping they will continue their math and science pursuits, and then helping others by awarding scholarships to recent high school graduates as well as women continuing their road to a college degree in our local community college. This branch is so amazing, I am humbled and so appreciative to have been honored, thank you.”