ABOUT US
CFUW Southport Present and Past
CFUW Southport Club was founded in 1989 in the municipality of Saugeen Shores, Ontario (Port Elgin, Southampton and surrounding areas). CFUW Southport currently has nearly 100 active members and new members are always welcome (no degree or diploma required).
CFUW Southport offers opportunities for our members to learn and socialize through:
• Program: monthly membership meetings which include guest speakers;
• Interest Groups: including book clubs, dinner club and more;
• Advocacy Committee: focussing on issues of local, national and global concern, such as environmental protection and climate change, improving long-term care and addressing food insecurity;
• Other Activities keeping members engaged including annual events such as the:
• December 6th Vigil Against Violence Against Women, now in it’s 32 year ,
• strengthening relationships with our Saugeen First Nations neighbours through actions to address the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;
• Scholarships supporting female students, women and non-binary individuals to reach their educational goals.
Our History
Founding President Carolyn Day and CFUW Southport’s Beginnings in 1989
CFUW Southport is now over 30 years and counting
In 2014/2015 CFUW Southport celebrated its 25th Year Anniversary. Read the Biography by clicking here.
CFUW Southport Executive 2024 – 2025
Top row – Odette Bartnicki and Marcia Hesse
Second Row – Dee Schilling, Heather Conlin, Lorraine Boucher, Colleen Morgenroth, Kathryn Forsyth,
Bottom Row – Pat Dobec, Sandie Primeau, Pat Sanagan with Pauline Harley on Zoom.
Missing – Photographer Catherine Tolton, Gabrielle DiFrancisco, Cheryl Kryzaniwsky, Jane Pritchard-Bowers, Lee Johnson
President – Odette Bartnicki
Vice President – Brenda Greenwood Vernem
Past President – Sandie Primeau
Secretarial Team – Marcia Hesse, Pat Sanagan, Judy Moir and Jane Pritchard Bowers
Treasurer – Dorothy (Dee) Schilling
Membership Chair – Lesley James
Communications – Open
Program – Lorraine Boucher & Lee Anne Johnston
Advocacy – Judy Moir
Archives –
Scholarship – Frances Barrick
Ad Hoc – Catherine Tolton , Jane Azzopardi, Stephanie Campbell, Heather Conlin (Liaison to Ontario Council and National)
CFUW Provincial & National
CFUW Ontario
CFUW Ontario Council is a voluntary, self-funded, non-profit, non-partisan organization for women and those who identify as women.
Members seek to provide life-long learning, improve public policy, and advocate for gender equality and the rights of women and girls.
CFUW National
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) is a national non-partisan, self-funded organization with over 100 clubs across Canada. Since its founding in 1919, CFUW has advocated to improve the status of women and non-binary individuals, and to promote human rights, public education, social justice and peace. To read more about the history of the Canadian Federation of University Women go to the CFUW National Centennial Webpage.
Our vision:
CFUW’s vision is of a strong national organization working to ensure that all girls and women have equal opportunities and equal access
to quality education within a peaceful and secure environment where their human rights are respected.
Our vision includes a world where poverty is reduced, discrimination eliminated, where there are equal opportunities for leadership, employment, income, education, careers and the ability to maximize potential.
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LAND AND WATER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We meet on the traditional territories (which includes lands and waters) of the Anishinabek (An-nish-nah-bek) Nation: The People of the Three Fires known as Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottawatomie (Pot-aw-wot-a-mi) Nations, whose historical boundaries include Goderich in the south, the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in the north and the Nottawasaga River in the east. We support the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and will work with the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation to fulfill these recommendations.
We also recognize the contributions of the Métis Nation of Ontario, whose history and people are well represented in Saugeen Shores.
CFUW Southport asks Council to declare gender-based violence an epidemic.
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"Each year on December 6th, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Southport, holds a Vigil at Coulter Parkette in Port Elgin to remember the 14 women students of École Polytechnique in Montreal, who were killed in a mass murder simply because they were women, and also to raise awareness of violence against women today.
On November 11th (2024), CFUW President Odette Bartnicki, made a presentation to Saugeen Shores Town Council, following a letter on November 4th (2024) that was sent to Mayor and Council.
In the letter, Bartnicki laid out the reasons for her delegation, and the fact that Councillor Cheryl Grace has brought a Notice of Motion to Council to declare that intimate partner violence (IPV) is now an epidemic."
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