President’s Bookshelf Recommendations
AAUW State College established the Presidents’ Bookshelf at the Schlow Centre Region Library to recognize the service of former branch presidents. In collaboration with the outgoing president and using funds donated from our Branch, Schlow selects and purchases a book in her area of interest for its collection.
Be sure to borrow these selections honoring our past presidents from Schlow Library.
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2019 – 2021 – Linda Friend:Â The Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir by interplanetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton
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2021 – 2021 – Sally Kalin:Â All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
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2019 – 2021 – Cindy Hall: Woman of No Importance, the Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WW2’s Most Dangerous Spy by Sonia Purnell
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2017 – 2019 – Victoria Sanchez: Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo (Her memoir/autobiography), and Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community ed. by Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe, Words like Thunder by Lois Beardslee
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2015 – 2017 – Alison Franklin: Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by Catherine Thinmesh
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2013 – 2017 – Billie Willits: She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
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2011 – 2015 – Charlene Harrison:  The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack
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2010 – 2013 – Candace Davison: Rocket girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan
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2007 – 2011 – Talat Azhar: The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at home, war abroad by Tariq Ali
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2005 – 2009 – Jeanne Bullers Weber: A History of Fashion and Costume. Early America, vol. 4 by Paige Weber
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2001 – 2003 –Â Chriss Alynda Schultz:Â Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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2001 – 2022 – Beth Ann Christopolous: Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber
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1999 – 2001 –Â Dr. Anne Kusener Nelsen: What Every Successful Woman Knows by Janice Reals Ellig
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1999 – 2001 Suzanne McCrae Kerlin: The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian
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1997 – 1999 –Â Cynthia Sue Ingold & Jacqueline Reisert Esposito: Betty Friedan and The Making of The Feminine Mystique by Daniel Horowitz
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1993 – 1997 –Â Suzanne McCrae Kerlin:Â Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military by Linda Francke
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1993 – 1995 –Â Nellie Girvin Boyle:Â Enigma by Robert Harris
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1991 – 1993 –Â Sarah Wayman Kalin:Â The Pennsylvania Barn by Robert F. Ensminger
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1991 – 1992 – Vonna McMillen Jansma: Lives of Career Women by Frances M. Carp
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1990 – 1991 –Â Gail Alberini-Emmett:Â Sister’s Choice by Elaine Showalter
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1989 – 1991 –Â Jean Brown Forster:Â Judevine by David Budbill
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1987 – 1989 – Dr. Mary M. Dupuis: S.O.S. by Patricia Albjerg Graham
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1985 – 1987 –Â Nancy Lewis Strother:Â The Great Book of Post Impressionism by Diane Kelder
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1983 – 1985 –Â Dr. Linda C. Higginson:Â Grand Obsession by Rosalynd Pflaum
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1981 – 1983 –Â Dr. Linda C. Higginson:Â Women of Academe by Nadya Aisenberg
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1979 – 1981 –Â Jane McCormick Lewis: Our Hidden Heritage: Pennsylvania Women in History
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1977 – 1979 –Â Elizabeth Kevin Vogely:Â How to Be Your Own Lawyer (Sometimes) by Walker L. Kantrowitz
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1975 – 1977 – Sarah Ratcliff Godbey: Recreation, Park and Leisure Services by Geoffrey Godbey
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1973 – 1975 –Â Trudy Foner Levine:Â Elana Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia 1646-1684 by Nicola Fusco
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1971 – 1973 – Ingrid Pearson Holtzman: Cities of Destiny by Arnold Toynbee, editor
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1969 – 1971 – Marjorie Weick Dunaway: Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1967 – 1969 –Â Dr. Marian B. Davison:Â Harrison Gray Otis: The Urbane Federalist by Samuel Eliot Morison
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1965 – 1967 –Â Evelyn Chostner Marboe:Â Living with Sex by Richard Hettlinger
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1963 – 1965 – Ann Graybill Cook: The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison
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1961 – 1963 – Louise Young Tukey: The American College edited by Nevitt Sanford
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1959 – 1961 – Dr. E-tu Zen Sun: The Insecurity of Nations by Charles Yost
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1957 – 1959 – Dr. Dorothy H. Veon:Â The Discipline of Power by George Ball
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1955 – 1957 – Adelaide Hagerty Kendig: The Comprehensive High School by James B. Conant
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1953 – 1955 –Â Evelyn M. Hensel:Â Disraeli by Robert Blake
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1951 – 1953 –Â Dr. Pearl H. Guest:Â The Human Dimension by Hadley Cantril
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1949 – 1951 – Mary Alice Zarger O’Brien: Games People Play by Dr. Eric Berne
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1947 – 1949 –Â Edith Huntington Anderson:Â The Family by Margaret Mead and Ken Hyman
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1945 – 1947 –Â Laura Mansfield Davis:Â George Bellows: Painter of America by Charles Hill Morgan
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1943 – 1945 – Mabel E. Kirk: The Harding Era by Robert K. Murray
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1941 – 1943 – Abbie Henby Cromer: The American People and China by A.T. Steele
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1939 – 1941 – Helen Kalbfus Frear: New York Proclaimed by Victor Sawdon Pritchett
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1937 – 1939 – Anna Fox Martin: The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
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1935 – 1937 –Â Helen Karns Champlin:Â Merchants and Masterpieces by Calvin Tompkins
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1933 – 1935 –Â Winifred Toles Hurrell:Â Before Mark Twain by John Francis McDermott
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1931 – 1933 – Dr. Jean Downey Amberson: New York Proclaimed by Victor Sawdon Pritchett
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1929 – 1931 – Mary Drumond Dengler: The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison
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1927 – 1929 – Dr. Lucretia V. T. Simmons: Story of Education by Carrol Atkinson
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1925 – 1927 Marguerite Heeman Newman: Clarification of the Monetary Standard by Will E. Matson
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1922 – 1925 –Â Louise B. Moss:Â Prize Stories of 1968: The O. Henry Awards by William Abrahams
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1921 – 1922 – Viola M. Tomhave: Richard Wagner by Robert Gutman
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1919 – 1921 – Dr. Helen Duess Hill: Academic Women by Jesse Bernard
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1918 – 1919 – Carolyn Buckhout Edwards: The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw by Warren S. Smith
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1917 – 1918 – Emma Yarnell Vorse: Rum, Religion, and Votes: 12938 Reexamined by Ruth G. Silva
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1916 – 1917 –Â Harriet Lyndon Cowell:Â Human Revolution by Ashley MontaguÂ