Newsletter

Program…Ken Schieck

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Our speaker for June is one of our members, Margaret Schieck. A retired ESL teacher from Mission College, Margaret is currently secretary of the Access Advisors to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the DeYoung and the Legion of Honor) as well as our chapter’s secretary. An Advisors member for the last six years, Margaret is also vice-chair elect. She will inform our group about special programs and upcoming exhibits at the museums.

Meeting Reminder

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June 21 10:00 a.m.

Social Time 9:30 a.m.

Campbell Community Center Room Q80

Please bring books to share. Leave clean clothing and bedding and canned food for Sacred Heart outside the meeting room on the bench. Please do not bring garage sale type items for Sacred Heart. Put new and used greeting cards in the box on the troop table. Bring your items for the GI’s into the meeting area.

Lunch after meeting:

Best Taste Chinese Restaurant

2360 S. Bascom Ave, Campbell 408-377-7666

Program:

Margaret Schieck

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Community Service…Sheila Gold

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We are knee deep in election brochures, heated discussions on important issues, and plain old mudslinging. Our country has many pressing issues before us and we need to be as good consumers of words as we are the products we clean our homes with and what we put in our bodies. But being average Americans we often say “Tsk, tsk, that’s so sad” and then return to our cornflakes. This year I urge you to read the brochures concerning the different office seekers and propositions, see who is providing the funding, and to take all the rhetoric with many grains of salt. After all, how we vote now will impact those we love the most — ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.

President…Marlene Hruby

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Now is your chance to really get involved with your chapter. The Nominating Committee is now looking for new board and committee members. You know your strengths better than we do, so won’t you step up and offer your services? Many of the current positions have been held by the same people for many years and they would love to step down. New “blood” would give new life to the group. For instance, we need a new publicity chair who could inform more seniors of our wonderful group. Just call any member of the Nominating Committee listed on page 4.

Cyber Security

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Cybersecurity – Stop. Think. Connect™…Rick Loek

Stop. Think. Connect is a program that was launched in October of 2010. The program was created by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG) and The U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They have created a website with many resources.  There is a tips and advice section https:// www.stopthinkconnect.org/tips-advice that contains useful advice in various languages and a variety of topics.

Topics such as:

  • Keep a Clean Machine
  • Be Web Wise
  • Protect Your Personal Information
  • Be a Good Online Citizen
  • Connect With Care
  • Own Your Online Presence

Usernames are something I’ve not given much thought to until my Wells Fargo account kept getting locked down. It seems some other website was compromised and my generic user-id was being entered on Wells Fargo secure site. I found that unique user IDs on banking websites are also needed.  This happened a couple of years ago.  I was using a simple user-id.  Not only do passwords need to be carefully distinguished, so do user-ids.  For example, davesmith as a user-id on generic website might be okay.  For banking and the like consider davesmith182 or dave182smith.  Some variant that can’t be guessed. https://www.lockdownyourlogin.com/  Look at http://CampbellAARP.org for more useful posts and resources.