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Thursday, May 24, 6:45pm NOTE DATE CHANGE! West Deptford Library Refreshments Bring your appetites—it's inger sandwiches and desserts! Beverage: Jo S., April M, Karen Desserts: Chris T., Vicki C, Peg S Finger Sandwiches: Sherry W, Jeannette W, Nancy (tuna), Joan, Elaine, Kim May Birthdays 6—Doris E. 16—Jeannette 9—Patti P. 24—Denise H. 15—Carol M.

May 2018 — Vol. 25 Issue 12 Monthly Newsletter of the GFWC Woman’s Club of West Deptford • PO Box 381 • Thorofare, New Jersey 08086 • www.wdwomen.org

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Carol Frisby & Louise Avery Hi, ladies, April showers bring our May lower sale. For those members who purchased the lowers, I hope you enjoyed them. Spring Conference was a fun day. Nine club members attended the luncheon at the Pennsauken Country Club: Dorothy, Tannis, Joan, Debbie, Sandy, Linda, Carol, Cynthia and myself. It was quite a display of the entries from various categories. Our club had thirteen entries. They were so creative! Hopefully, next year we will have even more entries. The 2018-2020 Women’s Club Executive Board was elected and installed in April: Corresponding Secretary – Sandy; Recording Secretary – Doris; Federation Secretary – Joan; Treasurer Operating – Patty W.; Treasurer Raf le – Carol M.; Membership – Kim; First VP – April; Co-Presidents – Louise and Carol. Wel-come new board member April! Your new Board, below, is ready to serve. Thank you to the new CSPs that have signed up to chair their position for

COLLECTIONS ♥ Aluminum can tabs for Ronald McDonald House ♥ Education Committee: knitted or crocheted baby hats & baby bibs ♥ Carol F: Cotton socks, men’s or women’s, for homeless program ♥ Clara: Old cell phones, wallets, tools, keys, credit cards/used gift cards, bags & suitcases for K-9 training ♥ Louise: Sports bras for SERV ♥ Carla: Boxtops for Education ♥ Joan or Dorothy: Feminine hygiene products & coupons for feminine products for Greater Woodbury Area Cooperative Ministries Woman’s Club of West Dep ord Member of General Federa on of Woman’s Clubs (GFWC), New Jersey State Federa on of Woman’s Clubs (NJSFWC), Garden District of NJSFWC. Presidents: Carol Frisby & Louise Avery; Membership: Kim VanZoeren-Czoch; Info: 856-848-8585 or membership@wdwomen.org

2018-2020, Public Issues – Robin Evans; Scholarship – Karen Dickel; and Home Life – Deb Hinkle. Also a big thank you to the CSPs who remained in their posi-tions and are willing to serve again. Our club, along with the Juniors are hosting the 2018 Garden District Girls’ Career Institute Reception on May 17, 6:30 p.m. at the West Deptford High School. Very interesting night to hear from the Director of GCI and a few housemothers about the experience that the girls are going to have. The 124th Annual Convention of the N.J. State Federation of Women’s Clubs of GFWC will take place on May 7-9 at The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City. Debbie, Louise, Denise H. and myself plan on at-tending. Joan, Carol M., Sandy and Kim will join us on Wednesday for the busi-ness session, and of course, lunch after-wards. Denise Hosier will be installed as the NJSFWC Webmaster for the state of New Jersey. Congrats, Denise! In Federation Friendship & Love, Louise & Carol

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ARTS CREATIVE Linda Jones Spring Conference Nine club members enjoyed the Garden District Spring Conference & Achieve-ment Day at the Pennsauken Country Club in April. WOW!! We had winners! They are as follows: Grandprizegoldstartopwinners:Dorothy - photography - 2 winning pho-tos, one for scenes and one for living things - going to convention in May. April - painting - water color picture - going to convention. Firstplacebluestarwinners:April - painting- acrylic still life. Dorothy - photography - photo, still life. Linda J - holiday - Valentine heart. Linda J - paper art - Mother's Day card. Debbie - photography - photo scenes. Debbie - photography - living things. Cynthia - photography - black/white scenes. Cynthia - photography - photo scenes. Secondplacegreenstar:Robin - adult coloring picture. CONGRATULATIONSto all of our talent-ed winners! Good luck to those going on to the state level!

RIGHT: Dorothy & her two Grand Prizes.

Bookmarks Seven club members prepared "MAKE & TAKE" origami bookmark packets for chil-dren to construct at the WD Library Book Festival in May. The girls were busy cut-ting out animal faces and embellishments for over one hundred corner page book-marks. Children attending the fair will construct and keep their bookmark. Many thanks to everyone who donated materi-als and/or volunteered to help make these cute bookmarks. The art department ap-preciates your help and interest in this service project for our West Deptford community.

♦ Linda and Bill Jones are proud of grand-son Tyler Cobb’s football skills and being chosen by the South Jersey Football Coaches Association to play in the Adam Taliaferro All-Star Football Classic game in June at Rowan University. Teammates are chosen from all different high schools throughout South Jersey. ♦ Great news! The Taylor twins, grandsons of Chris & Charlie, are home from the hospital. They will need medicine twice daily and weekly blood tests, but they are thriving! Please keep these tiny boys, KC and Cal, and parents Matt and Theresa in your thoughts and prayers.

THANKS to all the volunteers who put together bookmark kits for children to assemble at the WD Library Book Festival. Cynthia, Tannis, Isabella, Elaine, Debbie, and Dorothy helped Linda J.

A HUGE THANK YOU to Linda J. for not only leading art projects but also for taking many of the photos in this newsle er!

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SPECIAL CLUB PROJECT: FAMILY PROMISE Jeannette Wood We collected $45.00 at our April meet-ing. I will purchase more duf le bags with this money. We are making a difference for the homeless families in our community. We will continue to collect NEWDuf leBagsfor these homeless families. If you do not want to shop, bring your mone-tary donation to our meeting and I will do the shopping and delivery. There will be a cardboard house-shaped box on the back table for your donations.

Thankyousomuchforyourcontinuedsupporttohelpthehomelessinourcommunity!

FEDERATION NEWS Joan Baur Spring Conference & Achievement Day Report One hundred and ifteen clubwomen gath-ered at the Pennsauken Country Club for the Spring Conference & Achievement Day on April 19. Dorothy, Joan, Carol F., Deb-bie, Cynthia, Linda J., Sandy, Carol M., and Tannis represented our club at the meet-ing. Co-President Carol reported on our club activities during the past year. NJSFWC President Jean Revis was the Key-note Speaker. President Revis spoke about eight interesting and innovative women. The attendees voted on three Project Run-way creations. The out its were made of reusable cloth bags and recycled materi-als. The winning dress will be displayed at the convention along with the winners from the other state districts. Conservation and Arts Creative projects were judged. The gold, blue, red, and green winners will receive certi icates and ribbons. Linda Jones, the Arts Crea-tive CSP Chairman, announced the club’s award winners. NJSFWC Convention Service Project Update Thank you to the club members who do-nated to the convention service project. We donated $90 in gift cards, 15 puzzle

books, 1 coloring book, and a box of den-ture tablets. These items will be taken to the convention. The gifts will be distrib-uted to the three veterans’ homes in New Jersey. Upcoming Events GCIReception– May 17 – WD High School JuneCouncil– June 21 – Mantua Com-munity Center. Details coming soon.

SPRING CONFERENCE & ACHIEVEMENT DAY: We were well represented by 9 members.

ABOVE: April’s Gold Place watercolor. BELOW: Dorothy’s Gold Place photo.

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WOMEN’S HISTORY Joan Baur Mother’s Day Many of our club members celebrate Mother’s Day as Mothers, Grandmothers, or Daughters. In the United States Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Austral-ia, and Belgium also celebrate Mother’s Day on this day. During World War II American servicemen brought our cus-tom of Mother’s Day to Great Britain. Now Mother’s Day/Mothering Sunday is celebrated there on the fourth Sunday of Lent. The earliest American Mother’s Day or Mother’s Work Day began in 1858 in West Virginia. Ann Reeves Jarvis wanted to work to improve sanitary conditions in her town. In 1872 Julia Ward Howe be-gan promoting the idea of a “Mother’s Day for Peace” to be a celebrated on June 2, honoring peace, motherhood and womanhood. This idea faded out when Julia became more involved with working for peace and women’s rights in other ways. Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeve

Jarvis, worked on establishing an of icial Mother’s Day. Anna started by writing letters to politicians, clergy members, business leaders, women’s clubs and any-one else she thought might have some in luence. The U.S. Congress passed a Joint Resolution in 1914, and President Woodrow Wilson signed it, establishing Mother’s Day, which emphasized wom-en’s role in the family. Through the years the con-cept of giving lowers at Mother’s Day has grown. Are you giv-ing lowers to someone on Mother’s Day? Don’t forget the club’s Spring Flower Sale!!

SOCIAL/ENTERTAINMENT Cynthia Holmes-Butler, April Maska Several club members braved the wind, cold and rain to see Beauty and the Beast ballet at the Scottish Rite Auditori-um in Collingswood on April 15. It was a great show- very well done! We all really enjoyed the ballet. Afterwards we stopped at the Metro for a late lunch and some socializing! Coming up on May 6, 22 members have signed up for the Colonial Tea at the Whiteall House at Red Bank Battle ield. There are no more openings. We will be attending the 3 p.m. seating. Please be there by 2:45 p.m. We can watch them cooking and visit the museum before the tea! It should be a great time! A luncheon will be held in June at Scot-land Run again this year. We are looking at possibly Tuesday, June 19. The date will be set soon. ABOVE & RIGHT: Beauty and the Beast, with lunch at the Metro. BELOW RIGHT: Two First Place photos by Cynthia. BOTTOM RIGHT: First Place photo by Debbie.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS Louise Avery & Linda Marple Enough is Enough! GFWC joined national women’s organiza-tions gathered on Capitol Hill for the Enough Is Enough Summit & Congres-sional Brie ing during Sexual Assault Awareness Month to address sexual har-assment and assault in the workplace (Title 7) and schools (Title 9). Panelists included representatives from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, National Women’s Law Center, National Organization for Wom-en, American Association of University Women, End Rape on Campus, Legal Mo-mentum, Feminist Majority, National Do-mestic Workers Alliance, ERA Coalition, National Council of Jewish Women, Na-tional Congress of Black Women, and the National Farmworker Women’s Alliance. Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), Carolyn Maloney (CA), Jackie Speier (CA), and Lois Frankel (FL) summarized legislative efforts to date and the oppor-tunity to build momentum created by the #MeToo movement.

In preparation for re-authorization of the Vio-lence Against Women Act (VAWA), the focus of this summit was to educate law-makers about the necessity to extend sexual harassment laws to all women, especial-ly domestic workers and farm workers, so that every woman is protected—no loopholes and no exclusions. Info&photofromGFWCNews&Notes.

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FLOWER SALE Louise Avery, Sandy Mastrangelo Just a reminder that we have an ongoing spring lower sale going on. If you haven't already placed your order for lats $12, geraniums $2.50 or hanging baskets $15, please send your order to Sandy and give her your money by Saturday, May 5. Attached is a copy of the voucher, order form, and information sheet. The at-tached voucher must be presented in or-der to pick up your lowers at Michael William Florist and Greenhouse. Please let Louise know if you have any questions by emailing or calling her. BINGO Donna Blocher, Carol M., Elaine Rudolf Mark your calendars! October 19 will be our major fundraiser this year. If you can help see one of our overall chairs, Donna B., Elaine R., and Carol M. BELOW: BAGS purchased for our Fall fundraiser were shown by Elaine R.

Our 2017 Bingo Sponsors

Patron♦ Solvay Solexis Inc.

BingoDesignerBagSponsors♦ Egret Lane Properties: Keller Williams Realty, Gayle Henefer ♦ J Cobb Insurance Group ♦ Goodeal Transmission ♦ Elements Design Build LLC ♦ Mount Royal Inn ♦ Ace Ford ♦ River Winds Computing ♦ Main Street Hair Salon ♦ H. A. DeHart & Son ♦ Hoffman & DiMuzio Law Of ice ♦ Campbell Comfort Systems

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is the chief sponsor dra ing the House VAWA bill, expected to be introduced soon.

WELCOME to four guests at our April mee ng. Membership Chair Kim VZC (center) pre-sented each with a spring flower. Ladies, we hope you will join us!

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DEAR SECRET PAL To my Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the knitting goodies—this should keep my hands busy for a while. The small caddy will be just what I need when taking a pro-ject on the road. The yarns are great also. I will try to remember (that in it-self is a tough one) to take photos of the projects that I make with the yarn. You may even be the recipient of something made from this yarn. The needles are also welcome and the reusable bag is just adorable. Thanks again for helping to keep me “off the streets and out of the bingo halls.” —HUGS, Debbie Dear Secret Pal. What a great idea for a gift! A hanging basket from Michael William Florist. I got a lovely gift and the club bene its from the sale!!! Very clever on your part. I will probably steal it for next year!! Thank you so much. —Joanne. 😘 Hi Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the beautiful and unique gifts. First I loved the bag, the al-mond wine, wine glasses, caramel candy and caramel candle and monogrammed hand towels. Simply amazing! —Ty xo Carol F.

Here is an update on our progress with this project: To date, our pro it is $148.96. So far, 18 members have participated in this fund raiser. Remember, from here on, all monies taken in are clear pro it as the cards and postage have been paid for. As a refresher, if you need a card sent for any occasion, just send me an email with the recipient's name, address and reason for the card and I will send it out for you. If you have a special sentiment that you would like written in the card, please include that too. A donation to our club of $20.00 will buy 5 (FIVE) all occasion cards for you. To date, 29 cards have been mailed out. If you have any questions, please feel free to call 845-8896.

Dear Secret Pal, Once again, you have found the perfect gift for me and brought a smile to my face. Thank you for such thoughtfulness; it is appreciated! —Clara Dear Secret Pal, Thank you so much for the gifts. —Robin Dear Secret Pal, Thank you for the slippers. I love them! Perfect for the summer. I always wear slippers year round. Happy Mother's Day! —Sherry W. Dear Secret Pal, Oh my goodness...thank you does not seem to be enough! I love, love, love my leprechaun and bunnies! You know me so well!! I truly love these types of crafts. I still have my bunnies in my foyer. I just can't put them away yet! You certainly know how to make my day! Thank you so much for your thoughtful gifts. You are awesome! —April

THANK YOU to our incoming District Vice President (DVP) Patricia Dahl (center) for doing our installa on of officers in April.

DONOR CARD PROGRAM Debbie Hinkle National Skin Cancer Awareness Month May is the month to raise awareness about the most com-mon cancer in the United States: skin cancer. While it is the most common, it is also the most preventable! That means with proper education, it can be avoided. Protect your skin! For more info: Skin Cancer Foundation.

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The meeting was called to order at 7:06 by Co-Presidents Carol and Louise. Jean-ette led the Collect for Club Women fol-lowed by the lag salute. April birthdays were recognized. Roll Call: Louise, Carol, Nancy, Joan, Don-na, Clara, Anne, Karen D., Doris, Debbie, Cynthia, Denise H., Linda J., Joanne, Linda M., April, Sandy, Carol M., Mary, Elaine, Ellie, Ellen, Jo, Chris, Kimberly, Sherry, Jeannette, and Patty. Guests were: Peg Shirey, Nancy Miller, Monica Shivers Brown, Vicky Campezi, Rita Casey and Patricia Dahl. The following two motions were voted on and both passed. 1. Article IV, Section 6, pg. 22, Operating Account – Treasurer. The motion was to add one sentence to the above Article IV...."In exceptional circumstances, any of icer may serve a third term (total of six years) upon a vote of two-thirds of the club membership." The rationale: to conform to proposed by-law change; to allow Operating Account Treasurer one additional term. 2. The second motion was to spend $100 annually for an update on our club web-site. Initial start-up cost is approximately $200, with $50-60 for the template. The rationale: To have our club website ap-pear more contemporary, no ads, and easier to manage for our website Chair. The March minutes were accepted as written in Tidbits and will be iled. Patty gave the treasurer’s report for the Operating account. Carol’s report was for the Games of Chance account. As Co-President, Carol’s report included a thank you to the CSPs, a welcome to Ellie, thoughts for Agnes, Chris’s grand-child, and Donna’s brother-in-law and all who are dealing with health issues. Sandy received a thank you for the Club donation to Angel’s Community Out-reach.

GFWCWOMAN’SCLUBOFWESTDEPTFORDMINUTES:Tuesday,April10,2018WestDeptfordPublicLibrary Jeannette reported that a total of 337 ba-by hats and $2190 will be sent to NJSFWC as part of the Special State Pro-ject. Also, money donated for Family Promise duf le bags will continue. High School Scholarship applications will be read soon by the Committee. Clara read a fact sheet about GCI which is in its 72nd year. The GCI reception is May 17 at West Deptford High School. Members were encouraged to keep track of work service hours. Cynthia stated 25 ladies signed up for the Colonial Tea on May 6 at the Whitall House. Linda J. spoke about Achievement Day on April 19. The Book Festival is May 5 and supplies for 200 bookmarks were donat-ed. Ongoing collections are on the back ta-ble. Upcoming events were listed on the agenda. Nancy Miller was the drawing winner. The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 PM and Secret Pal gifts were distributed. Submitted by Doris

Joan’s Federation report was about Tid-bits, NJSFWC Almanac, Yearbook and website. 8 members have registered for Convention which is May 7-9 at the Gold-en Nugget. 9 members will attend Achievement Day on April 19. June Dis-trict Council is June 21 at the Mantua Community Center. Using a roses theme, Patricia Dahl, In-coming Garden District DVP, installed the Of icers for a two year term. Carol re-ceived her scrapbook album covering her irst term as Co-President and Louise re-ceived her album last December before she moved. Louise and Carol will be on the Honor Roll at Convention. Desserts will be sold as a fundraiser on West Deptford Day. The irst Bingo coordinators meeting was April 9. Donna read trivia about Bingo and gave an overview of the coordinators tasks. Purchased bags were shown. There will be 5 Super baskets this year. The door prizes will be similar to last year. Chris said there are April and May slots open to read to Oakview students Rita Casey will take over as Education Chair.

CONGRATULATIONS to our two honorees for Conven on this year. Louise Avery is named to the Honor Roll and Carol Frisby is awarded the Order of the Lily. Thanks, ladies!