UCLA Faculty Women's Club, Announcements

A MESSAGE FROM FWC’S 86^TH PRESIDENT: MARJORIE FRIEDLANDER

Welcome all! If you’re a member, you already know about the variety and extent of activities of the UCLA Faculty Women’s Club. If you are reading this message and aren’t yet a member, join up now! This year we have a new category, Golden Members, who’ve reached their 85th birthday. Golden Members who join pay no dues. Our members are bright, thoughtful and interesting people who’d love to meet you.

As the year begins, we have 23 activity sections, all of which will welcome you warmly. Details of meetings are given in each issue of the FWC UPDATE published five times annually. Please also see “Sections Are the Backbone of FWC” by Vice President/Sections Joyce Glantz below.

In addition, we’ll have six general meetings at the Faculty Center, three during the day and three more at night, with programs organized by Glorya Dixon, starting October 21 with Dr. Judith Orloff, a psychiatrist at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neurosicence and Human Behavior. Don’t miss this meeting where, in addition to our speaker, you’ll have a chance to meet representatives from all our sections and sign up. Guests and spouses are welcome at all General Meetings. One of FWC’s most important activities is the Scholarship Program. Our donations fund the program, and UCLA’s students are the beneficiaries. On February 3, at our annual scholarship dinner, you’ll meet this year’s winners.

Many thanks for giving me this opportunity to serve as your president.

Marjorie Friedlander

Marjorie Friedlander’s connection with UCLA began in 1978 when her husband Sheldon joined the faculty of the UCLA Chemical Engineering Department, but it wasn’t until she retired from the practice of law in 1996 that she was able to participate in activities of the Faculty Women’s Club.

Marge & Shel were married in 1958. They had four children. The youngest was three months old when Sheldon accepted a professorship at Caltech in Pasadena in 1964. In Pasadena, Marjorie was active in the League of Women Voters, and the children attended a cooperative nursery school where Marjorie served a term as president. In 1969 the family spent a sabbatical year in France, and all four children attended the local public school in Paris, becoming fluent in French. Returning to Pasadena in 1970, Marjorie was hired as a provisional teacher for the Pasadena School district, which projected an increase in enrollment. Instead, with racial integration newly mandated in the school district, and the introduction of “the pill” six years earlier, enrollment dropped sharply, and six weeks later Marjorie became a substitute teacher. The family objected to the 6 a.m. phone calls, so she retired from the school district and applied to law school in 1973.

She received a J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in 1976, and went to work until 1993 at a Los Angeles firm whose clients were community redevelopment agencies, and then in a solo practice

until 1996. The family moved from Pasadena to Pacific Palisades in 1978 when Shel decided the commute from Pasadena to UCLA was too tedious. She recalls vividly getting downtown before work to swim at the Ambassador Hotel or the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and having dinner parties at home in the Palisades for friends and visitors, arriving home from downtown at 7:00, receiving guests at 7:30 and serving dinner at 8.

Following retirement, her first FWC activity was Book Group A, a lively and literate group. She has served the FWC previously as treasurer, Update editor, and Vice-President for sections. Together with Shel, she traveled to France, the Netherlands, Hungary, India, Greece, Austria, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. On her own, she visited England, China, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and Peru, bringing back souvenirs for the couple’s eight grandchildren, ages 8-17, all of whom live in southern California. She’s a devoted member of Palisades Beautiful, which plants parkway trees in residential neighborhoods. She’s also enrolled in Emeritus classes offered by Santa Monica College.

Shel did not retire, but continued as a member of the active faculty until his unexpected death in February 2007. Marjorie is deeply grateful to have her family and friends nearby, and enjoys the kindness, warmth, energy and enthusiasm of her colleagues in the Faculty Women’s Club.