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Making a Difference in Our Community Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Following the establishment of our local club in 1912, it quickly became apparent that the women of the community had strong leadership abilities as well as a great amount of influence. Their objectives were simple: promotion through organized efforts of the ethical, intellectual, and social culture of their members and to further all measures for the betterment of the community. Membership recruitment and retention was a priority. Our Club's table decorations, door prizes, top quality programming, excellent publicity, happy spirited officers, brief business meetings, revised Newsletters, dues coupon & envelope for mailing, follow-up dues reminders, and many other policies have strengthened our club and make belonging to our club an enjoyable experience. For 2003-2004, our club added 24 new members (as of April 2004). New Member Tea - - Welcome & Orientation held at Gallery of Gifts, April 27, 2004. 50/50 Raffles, Christmas No-Bake Sale, Used Jewelry, Mustard Sale, Grocery Store Receipt redemptions, Adopt-a-Girl Sponsorships, Miscellaneous Donations, May 2nd - Fun Fashions, Flowers Style Show. Projects: Museum Booster Project: GFWC-MI Ed Foundation: Our member is District /State Representative; club made numerous Ed foundation gifts. GFWC-MI Girls town Donation; GFWC 1734 Society Donation Libraries 2000 & Beyond: $50 to school libraries for Memorial Books. $25 to Dickinson County Library for Children's Summer Reading Program Bay Cliff $200 donation, Caring House $100 donation, Council for the Arts $100 donation Senior Girls Tea: $1200 and many committee volunteer hours Litter Pickup Project; Community Schools Rep; downtown Development Association Rep. GFWC-Michigan State Convention at Traverse City in April. Five club delegates attended. Our Club won awards in Membership, Conservation. Club of Year, and Gold Ribbon, 100 points on Scrapbook. THE IRON MOUNTAIN-KINGSFORD WOMEN'S CLUB
President: Pam Edens , 774-7044 First Vice President: Sandy Soltis , 774-8566 stephensoltis29@att.net Second Vice President: Dianne Redmond, 906-875-6054 redmonds@maggielakes.com Recording Secretary: Shirley Nelson, 779-1213 mandsnelson@charter.net Corresponding Secretary: Laurie Furlow, 774-9204 sfurlow@chartermi.net Treasurer: Maria Caviani, 779-9904 mcav37@charter.net Assistant Treasurer: Joanne Berutti, 715-696-3457 jberutti@chartermi.net
OCTOBER 23, 2009 PINE MOUNTAIN LODGE IN IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN The District V GFWC convention will be at the Pine Mountain Lodge in Iron Mountain, MI, October 23, 2009. The theme is "Literate and Artistic Ladies of the Club". It is based on the book written by Helen Hooven Santmyer ". . . and the Ladies of the Club". This book took 50 years to write and sold two (2) million copies. It ís still in print and is a classic in Victorian literature. A lengthy but great read!! Besides reports from our state officers, we will have workshops on how we can become involved in "GFWC's Focus on Literacy" presented by Pat Krah, State Chairperson. "Prescription Drug Abuse" presented by Pat Boes, State Chairperson and "Buddy for Life" presented by Denise Jacobs, District Chairperson. All projects are chaired by Upper Peninsula GFWC members. Our keynote speaker will be Gail Galotta, author, playwright, and columnist from the Iron Mountain Kingsford club. She will tell us of her career and adventures in jurnalism. She won 1st price in the GFWC short story contest and has written the book "On Angelís Wings" based on the WW11 glider project of the hosting club. We will be entertained by Shirley Nelson at our Luncheon. She will present a book review on ". . . and the Ladies of the Club". We will also be entertained by Judy Magnuson, a concert pianist and past Interlochen winner. The ladies of the Iron Mountain/Kingsford club will have their artistic and literary talents on display. Among the GFWC prize winning artists: Norma Dyert - oil and water colors; Karen Larson - ceramic and copper artist; Mary Baker - art works in many forms; Terry Sovey - Costumed porcelain dolls of the featured book by Terry Sovey. Gail Galotta will have her book on display to autograph. If you have artists in your club that would like to display their work, please bring the artists and art or literature to the convention. Our project to raise money for Bay Cliff's "Suds and Duds "building will be a gently used book sale. It would be much appreciated if your clubs will collect books in good shape for this. Please bring them the evening before. Denis Jacobs denise@jacobsth.com is the chairperson for the District V Convention. Any questions, ideas or comments, please send them to Denise or to teysoy2@aol.com
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