Visible Woman - a club of action


Mrs. Eileen Dachnowicz
Club Founder
Supervisor of Academic Affairs

The Visible Woman:
Who Are We?
What Are We Doing?
Join Us
Who's Who


Literature:
Failing At Fairness
Schoolgirls
Reviving Ophelia
The Difference

Outstanding Women of Union County:
Cranford - Past
Cranford - Present
Other Towns

Women Support Groups in Union County:
Center for Women & Families
Women's Resource Center
YWCA of Eastern Union County


Written by members of The Visible Woman Club with the guidance of Mrs. Eileen Dachnowicz, club founder and Supervisor of Academic Affairs. A special acknowledgment to Katie McGowan '99, Alisa Becker '99 and Lauren K '99. It is through their efforts that this site, published in 1998, came to be.
Designed and developed by Ms. Joan Puma, Mathematics and Computer Science Department.

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To be a woman is to be life-giving, life-sustaining, life-changing, life-rejoicing.
Cranford High School, 201 West End Place, Cranford, NJ 07016
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We are proud to announce, the Visible Women Club has been recognized as a "Best Practice" Program by the NJ Department of Education in the category of Public Engagement.


What they are saying about us ...
"You have reached a level at seventeen that I didn't get to until I was thirty-seven."
Gloria Steinem, journalist, editor, political activist. Summit Resource Center for Women Address, 1998.

"The organization fosters gender equality in school and the work force and supports local women's groups."
Star-Ledger, "Clubs Give Students What They Want Including a Sense of Belonging." 31 October 1999

Our Awards Attest to What We Are
Four times winner of
Cranford High School's
"Club of the Month"
for extraordinary social commitment

NJ Department of Education
1999 PRIDE Award
for Equity Issues

NJ Department of Education
2000 "Best Pracitice"
for Public Engagement

2000 "Women Who Make a Difference" Award
to Visible Woman President
Lisa Kardos
presented by the Summit Resource Center for Women

New Jersey Equity Hall of Fame
2001 "Best Practice"
for Promoting Gender Equity
Mrs. Eileen Dachnowicz
Ms. Diane Connelly
Ms. Joan Puma

2003 Character Education Partnership
"Promising Practices" Award
 for an initiative worthy of replication nationally

Tensor Foundation Grant to
Ms. Diane Connelly and Ms. Joan Puma
awarded for establishing Technofilles,
training females to develop computer expertise