AAUW - Bethlehem honoree

The Board of Directors of AAUW-Bethlehem acknowledged Randi Blauth, outgoing two-year term branch president. She was instrumental in expanding the organization's community outreach with projects including a voter-registration initiative in the fall of 2012, a series of town meetings emphasizing diversity and domestic violence, and violence against women on college campuses. She was the first diversity first diversity chair for Lehigh Valley AAUW branches.. The new branch president is Ruth Skoglund. Cathy Kotanchik is the president-elect. For information, visit Bethlehem-pa.aauw.net.

Book fair scholarships awarded

AAUW-Bethlehem awarded $41,010 in scholarships to 33 high school seniors, and two women who are returning to college following an interruption in their education.

The awards, local recipients and institute of higher education are, from Liberty HS: Senior Women's Club of Bethlehem Scholarship, Victoria Ricles (Lehigh University), Jessica Alderiso (Gettysburg College), Elizabeth Buss (American University), Emily Collins (Boston University), Jenna DeVivo (University of Pittsburgh), Brianna Gubich (Delaware Valley College), Mirelle Hassler (Penn State University), Nicole Iasiello (Arcadia University), Emma Illick-Frank (Brown University), Camila Kauer (University of Pittsburgh), Lauren Marhefka (Louisiana State University), Laura Parks (Lehigh University), Prakuti Patel (Boston University), Alyssa Patterson (University of Pittsburgh), Rachel Rider (Lehigh University), Elizabeth Ritter (Lycoming College), Jesly Rodriguez (Cedar Crest College), Kallie Rogers (Drexel University), and Kalie Shumock (Boston University); from Freedom HS: Kaitlyn Blair (West Chester University), Jennifer Boecker (Lehigh University), Marissa Briggs (University of Pittsburgh), Courtney Donah (Messiah College), Rachel Hemphill (Penn State University), Priyanka Koti (George Washington University), Ellen Lee (Boston University), Velisa Li (Carnegie Mellon University), Samantha Randall (Lehigh University), Natalie Rold (Penn State University), Antonia Spadafora (Moravian College) and Julie Volkert (University of Pittsburgh); from Saucon Valley High School: Amanda Hillegass (University of Miami); and from Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts:Brianna Vega (Boston University).

The two women who are returning to college are Monica Green (DeSales University) and Melissa Kaye (DeSales University).

WLC honors Hesselbein

Several members of the Women's Leadership Council (WLC) of the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley traveled to New York City July 7 to formally thank Frances Hesselbein for her support of the Women's Leadership Council and for donating the Frances Hesselbein Scholarship to a deserving local recipient for the past several years.

Hesselbein was the leader of the Girls Scouts USA, Peter E. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management, later named to Leader to Leader Institute and in January 2012, the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. She was the first woman to serve on the PPL Board of Directors. At the Lehigh Valley Women's Summit, every year, a video is shown that that highlights her life.

WLC representatives - Bevin Theodore, Kim Perry, Kathy Leber, Anne Baum, Marcy McKinney, Frances Hesselbein, Carrie Ward, Fusun Bubernack and Stephanie Hnatiw - treated Frances to lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant. After lunch, the group was invited to Frances's office, on Park Avenue, where she shared highlights of her life and the issues she is passionate about.

Bucknell honor society inductee

Meg Wightman of Bethlehem, daughter of Glenn and Lauren Wightman, is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society at Bucknell University.

Steel photos at Library of Congress

Bethlehem professional photographer Peter Treiber's images of the local Bethlehem Steel plant while it was operational have been accepted into the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. The photos are included in the book, "Inside Bethlehem Steel: The Final Quarter Century", which depicts the full range of the company's operations.

Treiber was an employee of Bethlehem Steel's photographic services division and is a self-employed proprietor whose photographs were used in corporate and marketing communications.

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