Branch meetings are held in the morning on the third Saturday of the month from September through May at the Aurora History Museum, 15051 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora, Colorado 80012.
Officers 2024 – 2026
| Past President | Mary Jeanne Miller 2024-2026 |
| President |
Maureen Mrizek 2024-2026 |
| President-Elect
Vice President, Programs |
Nancy Todd 2023-2025 |
| Vice President, Membership | Nancy Freed & Judy Levitt 2024-2026 |
| Treasurer | Terry Cambell Caron 2023-2025 |
| Secretary | Jeannie Miller 2024-2026 |
| Newsletter Editor | Anne Katriel 2025-2027 |
| Interest Groups | Joan Brown 2025-2026 |
| Public Policy | Su Ryden 2024-2026 |
| Communications | Debra Parcheta 2024-2026 |
| Historian | Jeannine Villars 2024-2026 |
| Local Scholarships |
Margee Cannon Co-Chair 2025-2026 Monica Perez Jolles Co-Chair |
| Educational Opportunity Fund | Pam Spry 2025-2026 |
| Bylaws | Jeannie Miller |
| Hospitality
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Pat Horton 2024-2025
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Our interest groups are very active and also meet monthly, although presently some are still meeting via ZOOM. The groups include Book discussions, Culture & Cuisine, Hiking, Bridge, Memoirs, Meeting of the Minds, and Great Decisions.
At the national level, we contribute to AAUW’s Greatest Needs Fund and in the past the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund, the Educational Opportunities Fund and the Legal Advocacy Fund.
Locally, we support college scholarships given annually to Aurora residents to complete her/his junior or senior year at a Colorado college or university. We also partner with the Community College of Aurora to sponsor Equal Pay Day, an event that focuses on the issues surrounding equal pay, pay equity, and gender based discrimination.
The National AAUW’s Strategic Plan and the Aurora Branch’s Strategic Plan will help guide us through 2026.
Our Succession Plan will ensure that new ideas and perspectives are included in future leadership.
NerdWallet, a financial literacy site, ranked Aurora, Colorado as the best large city for women to work in the nation. The June 9, 2014 report considered Women’s earnings, Income equality, and Population growth.
Thanks to higher-than-average recent population growth, a low cost of living and a relatively high level of income equality between women and men, Aurora ranks as the best large city for working women. Aerospace, defense, bioscience, renewable energy and transportation are the major industries in our city.
Past Presidents
| Margaret Toppel | 1963–64 |
| Dorothy Gifford | 1964–66 |
| Dorothy Pearson | 1966–68 |
| Annabelle Dunning | 1968–70 |
| Ruth Anne Windmiller | 1970–72 |
| Patricia Farnham | 1972–74 |
| Lucille French | 1974–76 |
| Carole Gilland | 1976–78 |
| Joan Iverson | 1978–80 |
| Miki Gash | 1980–82 |
| Ruth Whitmore | 1982–84 |
| Liz Carder | 1984–86 |
| Rosemary Chojnacki | 1986–88 |
| Suzanne Bodis | 1988–90 |
| Ruth Fountain | 1990–92 |
| Terri Gehler | 1992–94 |
| Alice Lee Main | 1994–96 |
| Artimese Cowan | 1996–98 |
| Joan Peterson | 1998–00 |
| Carol Anderson | 2001–04 |
| Pat Lord | 2004–06 |
| Jean Balint | 2006–08 |
| Ingrid Lindemann | 2008–10 |
| Jane McGrath | 2010–12 |
| Cheryl Wilderman Vanderkooi | 2012-14 |
| Terry Campbell Caron
Pam Jones Joan Brown Bobbie Rubin Jeannie Miller |
2014-16
2016-18 2018-20 2020-22 2022-24 |