{"id":16266,"date":"2024-05-12T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/?p=16266"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:55:38","slug":"scrapbook-spring-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/scrapbook-spring-24\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road Again (and Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although such visits have helped presidents of the Society of Women Engineers closely connect to and engage with members, in the early years presidents often could scarcely afford the time away from their typewriters.<\/p>\n
Just a month after assuming the presidency and responsibility for a young organization in financial and structural disarray, Miriam \u201cMickey\u201d Gerla feared coming home to a large stack of SWE mail after a four-day tour of SWE sections in New England in December 1956. She optimistically embraced the opportunity for strategizing en route, writing in a Dec. 8, 1956, letter to recording secretary Virginia Tucker: \u201cFortunately I love writing and thinking on trains or planes, and at this time I carry my work with me where I go.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1692734371359{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1643229446072{padding-top: 18px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”16216″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1705700398246{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1692734741942{padding-bottom: 18px !important;}”][vc_column_text]\n
\u201cI believe we are making significant progress,\u201d she reported to the Council of Section Representatives in a June 8, 1962, letter, \u201cbut I must leave many things undone \u2014 things that are important, perhaps even essential.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, SWE\u2019s presidents have often made concerted efforts to visit as many sections as possible each year, a goal that became increasingly difficult as the number of student sections rapidly expanded in the 1970s. \u201cIf there is one thing travel teaches me it\u2019s that I\u2019m not as young as I \u2018used to was\u2019,\u201d Arminta Harness lamented a few months after assuming the presidency in an Oct. 6, 1976, letter to the executive committee.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1692734371359{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1643229446072{padding-top: 18px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”16217″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1705700411108{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1692734741942{padding-bottom: 18px !important;}”][vc_column_text]\n
Despite the concurrent challenges of time, workload, energy, and funding, SWE presidents have often looked back on their time on the road with fondness as they closed out their terms. \u201cThe most pleasurable part of this year has to have been my travels to visit SWE members,\u201d Sharon Loeffler reflected in her final report to the membership in June 1981. \u201cI managed to get to all four corners of the U.S. and many points in between. Each trip gave me renewed strength and enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n
SWE\u2019s growing international presence in the past 20 years has expanded presidents\u2019 travels, reflected in FY23 President Dayna Johnson\u2019s theme for that year, \u201cA World of Opportunity Awaits.\u201d And current SWE President Alexis McKittrick, Ph.D., reflects on the common themes that emerged from her travels to WE Local events in her column here<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1715537715421{padding-top: 20px !important;}”]By Troy Eller English, SWE Archivist[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1692734371359{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1643229446072{padding-top: 18px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”16215″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_shadow”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1705700369192{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1692734741942{padding-bottom: 18px !important;}”][vc_column_text] President Naomi McAfee (on left) stands with university faculty and administrators as Deborah Winbush (center) holds the North Carolina A&T Student Section charter certificate at a 1973 banquet. \u201cMy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,200],"tags":[453,450],"thb-sponsors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16417,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16266"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.swe.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=16266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}