GFWC Clubs in the News

Wenonah Women's Club - Now and Then

Around Our Towns, South Jersey Life, 2/26/08

New and long time members of the Wenonah Woman's Club were recently celebrated.

President Joan Tice pins a gold 50-year member pin on Marge Lentz. The pins are a special gift from the General Federation of Women's Clubs headquartered in Washington, D.C. and governs clubs in the USA and around the world.

Other 50-year members who received their pins this year are Jean Geston, MaryAlyce Shroeder and Virginia Smith. As a special feature at a recent meeting, Catherine Ayars presented a very organized program entitled "De-Stress the Mess", instructing members how to get rid of their "stuff" and their stress. Each member brought a bag of "stuff" and gave it to Ms. Ayars who donates these items to local charities.

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Women Helping Women - Generous Heart

Westlake Village Junior Women's Club members, left, Marlene Schwartz and right, Roselle Wolfe present a basket filled with $500 worth of gift cards to Brenda Coleman of the Thousand Oaks Teen Center. The nonprofit women's club is open to all women from the greater Conejo Valley area who are interested in community service. The group has donated more than $17,000 over the past year to various worthwhile organizations throughout the Conejo Valley.

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Silver Tea

by Dorothy Huffey, Las Vegas ReviewJournal

The Mesquite Club, a member of the General Federation of Women's Clubs that has served the Las Vegas Valley since 1911, honored their past presidents at a Silver Tea at the Mesquite Clubhouse on St. Louis Street on Friday.

The tea's chairwomen, Jeanne Greenawalt and Laurie Porter-Hartig, planned a lovely afternoon amid table and ceiling decorations of red hearts with bouquets of red roses and white hydrangeas on the tea tables. Porter-Hartig introduced the past presidents (the club's sweethearts) in attendance, and GFWC Nevada State President Connie Macauley distributed pins to longtime members.

Attending the tea and given special recognition were Luciana LaGrange, 50 years; Eleanore Jolly, 45 years; Ruth Vogiotti, 40 years; Mary Longley, Virginia Longley and Agnes Phillips for 35 years; Joan Doubrava, Mary Ellen Gallagher and Evelyn Phelps for 30 years; Margaret Black, Barbara Hunter and Grace Smith for 25 years; Marion Kohler, Sandra Sheets and Barbara Goodwin for 20 years.

A walk down memory lane was experienced when the ladies viewed a video of the past presidents and their accomplishments.

Scrapbooks and photographs were on display for the ladies to peruse.

Silver Tea committee members were Bette Ault, Dianna Bassett, Peggy Broxterman, June Clark, Elaine Fish, Geraldine Jennings, Mary Longley and Jan Medchill.

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