League of Women Voters of Teaneck: Calendar 2012

strong>June 4. 2012 Annual Meeting.Celebration of 60th Anniversary.

June 8-12 LWV US Convention, Washington DC, Hilton Hotel Theme “Power the Vote.”Doris Thurber will represent LWV Teaneck.



LWV Teaneck Candidate's Forum (Story) Past Events May 8: Elections: Teaneck Town Council.

April 25-Privatization Consensus Meeting. Introduction by Arlene Gartenberg was followed by informational presentations by Ellen Busteed (Prisons), Naomi Cramer (Military Privatization and Pat Libutti (Education Privatization,based on the Consensus Papers.Consensus.

April 23: Candidates Forum: Primaries, Town Council. The Teaneck
LWV has scheduled a Candidates' Forum for Monday, April 23rd at Teaneck High School, 7:30 PM. Barbara King moderated for us.

April 10. Riveredge Town Hall. Audrey Mayor (Park Ridge), Pat Libutti (Teaneck), Ellen Busteed (River Edge) and Anne Wolfe (Mahwah) led the panel presentation of county, federal, state, education and correctional facilities privatization efforts.Pictured, left to right: Patty, Anne, Lucy, Audrey, Pat, Ellen.

March 5th: Women's History Discussion 8 PM Janet Austin's house. Remembering "When: The Way it Was and Is Not Now" We discussed progress that has been made on women's issues.Have they been resolved ---or not? What remains to be legislated, done, moved forward with, abolished? Look at old issues of Ms. Magazine (available on March 5th)to refresh your memory. Check Ms.Magazine's recent issues for the issues being discussed now.

March 4: ILO Women's History Celebration Sunday, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM at the Celebration of Women's History in Park Ridge.

LWV History: Sixty Years of a Great Idea!

Sixty Years of a Grand Idea 1952-2012

It was April 1952 in Teaneck. A small group of women, determined to “make a difference in government,” formed the League of Women Voters in Teaneck. The Teaneck League is now celebrating its sixtieth anniversary as a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to encourage the informed and active participation of citizens in government. Members, men and women, look back to sixty years and more of active involvement and advocacy.

Many things have changed since these early days, when few members worked outside the home. Today, most members combine jobs, family, volunteer work, and family. As the organization has grown and adapted to the changing role of women in our society, its members have continued to “make a difference in government’ through its involvement in public policy issues.

The League is best known for its public service work, which includes stations set up outside supermarkets and in schools to register voters. Voters depend upon the League to provide unbiased information in both print and in public forums.

Prominent due to press coverage recently are the Candidates’ Forums, moderated by a professionally trained moderator. The Forums are held before both Board of Education and Town Council elections each year. The Forums are accompanied by Voter’s Guides, in which each candidate answers questions prepared by the League. Less well known are the discussion groups and informational meetings held on policy ideas.


Members of the Teaneck League, like League members throughout the country are at the same time participating members of the League of Women of the United States and their individual state and county Once the League reaches consensus, or membership agreement-on an issue, the organization seeks to affect governmental action through lobbying its legislators. To enact or oppose relevant legislation. The League has occasionally gone to court in the public interest. In Teaneck, the League has long been involved in education, planning, and zoning, community relations, township budget and recreation issues.

In the past, Know Your Town and Know Your School, have been published and disseminated throughout the community. The League has sponsored discussion groups to further good intergroup relations. League members have consistently served as observers at Board of Education and Town council meetings. The League has held a number of forums to inform the public on education issues such as school reorganization and the impact of the state’s “thorough and efficient education” law. It has brought in experts to discuss the non partisan form of government. In its support for good planning and zoning,

 The Teaneck League has studied the town’s Master Plan and made recommendations for the Planning Board and Council. The organization has encouraged development that balances the need for housing and revenue with the preservation of open space and parks. The League strongly supports affordable housing for seniors for senior citizens and families.

Louise Wiilliams, Moderator, Debate, Rochelle Park Teaneck League members have joined their counterparts; elsewhere in New Jersey on studies of such issues as the administration of justice, including support of a Family Court, transportation, land use, fiscal policy, education (charter schools, 2000), , immigration (2009) and other issues. Click here to see a list and explanation of New Jersey studies done by LWV. LWV NJ positions can be found here.

On the national level, Teaneck League members have participated in a study of individual liberties during the McCarthy era, a study leading to support of china’s entry into the United Nations, and studies on disarmament, statehood of Washington, DC, and many issues affecting the environment, civil rights and human needs, and the health care financing and delivery system.

Most recently (2012) The Federal Role in Public Education and Privatization of Government Services have been examined and developed into consensus, or member agreement. Click here for a list and positions of the LWV US.

Within the League itself, the Teaneck League began the process that led the League of Women Voters of the United States to adopt a policy in support of women’s reproductive rights. It also encouraged the national, state, and county leagues to enter as amicus curiae, the Fair Housing Council’s law suit against racial steering.

The League of women Voters of Teaneck is now a thriving, multi-issue organization of women and men whose ages span several generations. Its members are united by the strong belief that the individual citizen can make a difference in government and that each of us has the right and responsibility to learn the issues and make their views known to elected officials. It is an idea that is as important today as it was in 1952. ---Prepared and updated using the 1992, May 6 article in The Suburbanite

LWV Teaneck Album One

Anne Finger Leading Auction

Miriam Vogelman, LWV T Auction

Auction crowd

Fran Kaufmann, former LWV T President

Jackie Kates addresses the Auction crowd

Gene Popkin at the Auction

Miriam, Arlene Gartenberg: Voter Registration

Shirley Sosland

Marty & Joyce

LWV Teaneck Album Two

Voter Registration, Arlene Gartenberg

Voter registration, Barbara Ostroth.

Voter Registration, Shirley Sosland

April 10, 2012 ILO Presentation: Privatization. This article was posted to the LWV-US site on April 11, 2012 under AdvocacyPrivatization

Participation in the LV-US study on The Role of the Federal Government in Public Education, with Pat Libutti on the LWV US team and support (presentations, summarizing responses) from the LWV-T. from the rest.

Annual Meeting 2008

Candidate's Forum Board of Education April 23, 2012

LWV Teaneck Album Three: Papers

About the League of Women Voters of Teaneck

Pictured: Members, LWV-Teaneck, Sen.Loretta Weinberg (at podium) and Mayor Hameedudin. Proclamation of 90th Anniversary Women's Equality Day and LWV-Teaneck's contributions to the town, Town Council meeting, Sept. 28th, 2010.

Are you interested in public policy issues? Do you want to help others be informed? Want to meet others who have these interests?

Come and join us!

We have been in the USA since Feb. 14, 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was passed, and are the proud descendants of the suffragists.

And we’ve been in Teaneck since April,1952.

The League of Women Voters Teaneck (LWV Teaneck), a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding all major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

LWV Teaneck’s members organize and run an Observer Corps, Candidate Forums for the Board of Education and Town Council elections and Voter Registration Drives.

LWV members look at current issues with resources from local, regional, state and national levels.

Topics are studied to provide positions for local, state and national levels and have included:
• In-State Tuition for Unauthorized Immigrants (2010),
• Health Care Reform (2009),
• National Popular Vote Compact(2009)
• Health Care Reform
• and Federal Role in Public Education. [ 2011-12.]
and privatization (2011-12)

2011: 91th Anniversary of the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
2012: 92nd Anniversary of the LWV of the United States
2012: The year you join the League?
Come be a part of it.

Join. Think. Act.

LWV Teaneck Contact Information

League of Women Voters of Teaneck Contact teh Board by :lwvteaneck@gmail.com Board:

Officers
Arlene Gartenberg: Vice President, Program

Shirley Sosland & Barbara Ostroth: Vice Presidents Voter Services

Joyce Jacobs: Secretary

Louise Williams: Treasurer

Directors Janet Austin: Women's History

Naomi Cramer: League Lines assistant editor

Doris Long Thurber: editor, League Lines: doris@thurbz.com or 201-357-569l

League Contact Information

InterLeague Organization

LWV New Jersey

League of Women Voters, US