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WRC
looks back at 30 years
By Christine Shin
On-line Forty-Niner
It's not the 30
years the Women's Resource Center has been serving the Cal
State Long Beach community, it's the milestones.
Or so the theme of the 30th anniversary celebration states
anyway.
The three decades will be celebrated Thursday at a fund-raising
event for the WRC with a dinner, silent auction and special
program honoring a trio of women in the community.
"We are honoring three women who really have exemplified
and advanced the status of women," said Marcela Chavez,
the center's director since 1991.
The event, "It's Not the Years, It's the Milestones,"
will pay tribute to Elahe Amani, Diane Creel and Wilma Powell.
Amani is the current chair of the Coalition of Women from
Asia and the Middle East. The coalition is a grass roots organization
that has created shelters, counseling services and legal assistance
for immigrant women.
Creel, the CEO and president of Earth Tech, is the first woman
to hold the CEO position of a publicly-held engineering firm
in the United States.
Powell is the director of Trade and Maritime Services for
the Port of Long Beach.
"We're celebrating our growth," said Assistant Director
Lynne Coenen. "So much has changed."
Back in 1972, the WRC consisted of only a desk in the University
Student Union and volunteers who provided peer advising and
a friendly face for women.
Today, the center serves some 9,000 men and women each semester,
providing everything from a computer lab and advocacy for
women to a library and a nap time room. The WRC also works
as a network that refers students to the appropriate resource
or department and a support group with various programs and
workshops in collaboration with other campus groups, sexual
harassment information and sexual assault prevention education
programs.
"We want to become more self-sufficient," said Chavez.
"The fund-raising effort will go to the facelift of the
WRC, including programming, new furniture and scholarships."
The event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Petroleum Club
of Long Beach at 3636 Linden Ave. The cost for the dinner
is $100 per person or $1,000 per table of 10.
"We're celebrating
for a whole year," said Chavez. "We're celebrating
women, it's a way of getting the campus and community involved.
Thirty years is a lot."
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