Woman of the Year for the East Kootenay was created by CFUW Cranbrook Club in 1984 to honour an outstanding woman who gives of herself either in paid work and/or as a volunteer in her community, who betters the lives for those around her in her community.

This East Kootenay woman can also be one who not only gives of herself in her own community, but also at the provincial, national and international level. Part of the criteria set out 31 years ago asks for nominations of a woman whose efforts create better opportunities for education, opportunities and/or safety for women and girls in her community at all the levels this woman serves in, yet by doing all this extra work, the nominated woman did not ignore her family’s needs.

It seems like a tall order, yet since 1984, CFUW Cranbrook Club has honoured 37 East Kootenay women. They are:

1984  Julie Roberts

1985  Sophie Pierre

1986  Jan Levang

1987  Roberta T aylor & Harjinder Sheena (Posthumous)

1988  Susan Selby

1989  Anna Mae Gartside

1990  Pat Skordal

1991  Sheilah Moore

1992  Louise Stropky

1993  Pat Townshend

1994  Brenda Paul

1995  Ann Rice

1996  Mary Phillips

1997  Elaine Fawcett, Cathy Fairclough & Mabel Chan

1998  Susan Campbell

1999  Ann Buckman

2000  Daphne Hayden

2001  Ruby Sinclair

2002  Flo Reid

2003  Mila Siquenza

2004  Linda Abbott& Leona Gatsby

2005  Karin Penner

2006  Janyce Bampton

2007  Janice Edwards

2008  Joanne Wilton

2009  Jayne Garner-Garlaneau

2010  Sandy Zeznik

2011  Vicki Dalton & Velma Mckay

2012  Sister Nina Glinski, Cnd

2013  Jenny Humphrey

2014 
 Gail Brown

2015  Leslie Molnar

Those wishing to nominate a member of a woman for Woman of the Year 2016 would be wise to get your candidate selected immediately. It is preferred that the woman being nominated is unaware of her name being put forward.

The club asks that the nomination committee form your nomination statement as to why you think this woman should be selected as Woman of the year 2016 by the CFUW Cranbrook Club.

From there, the nomination committee will work to find friends, family, co-workers, co-volunteers of this woman to write support letters to the nomination of this woman.

Deadline for all nominations is Monday, 12 noon, February 15.

It is the hope of the CFUW Cranbrook Club that we are able to honour Woman of the Year 2016 on International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8.

For further information, please go to our website: www.cfuw-cranbrook.com .

The Cranbrook Club has 12 members locally and is a member of CFUW National, a non- political, voluntary, self-funded, bilingual and non-governmental organization of women university graduates in 110 clubs across Canada that works to improve the status of women and girls, education, peace, justice and human rights. CFUW holds special consultative status at the United Nations (ECOSOC) and belongs to the Sectoral Committee of education of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. CFUW is the largest of 61 national affiliates of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW).

CFUW Cranbrook Club

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