I’m A Clubwoman

oh yah I bought a new car!

Have you ever watched a BumbleBee hovering up and down and around, always moving at a slow steady pace doing what they need to do?…that’s me

My club sponsors an absolutely amazing project each year. It is a Student Art Festival held at one of the local high schools every spring. Hundreds of students from all the feeder junior highs and from the two high schools enter their art creations.

I just made my reservations for the GFWC National Convention in Cleveland and look forward to meeting many of you there! This is my first GFWC convention and I’d appreciate any tips you “old-timers” might have.

In GFWC Illinois District 10, we hold “Reciprocity” luncheons every other year. My club does a pot luck. We invite the club president and president-elect of each of the other clubs in our district and all our members. The members in our club brings a dish to pass. The attendance is very good for that meeting, and we have a huge club.

The NUSA [Neighborhoods USA] conference is coming to Spokane May 20-23.  The “big event” of the conference is the Best Neighborhood of the Year award, which is, wonderfully, not all about trimmed bushes and flowers all in a row.  The Woman’s Club of Spokane clubhouse will be a destination of one 13 scheduled PrideTours which [...]

Every year Junior Woman’s Club of Columbia hosts an annual fundraiser for Palmetto Place Children’s Shelter.  Our annual event for the last few years has been “Baubles and Bubbles”.  Held at the Hilton Hotel, it includes catered food from Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, a silent auction and a champagne diamond drop.  It is such a terrifically [...]

It has been a long time since I’ve blogged for “I’m a Clubwoman”.  Right after we started this blog, and the week before my Club’s big fundraiser, I fell and broke my finger.  I am right-handed and it has really been a rough few months.  The day after our fundraiser I had surgery, which my [...]