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Cary Woman’s Club Newsletter ♣ March 2017 1

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March 2017 ”Serving Our Community ! Sharing Our Time and Talents”

President’s Message ! Mary Derrick

Well, here we are heading into March! I think that the luck of the Irish is holding out. I am so tickled at our District winners for club awards and for the Arts Festival (see following articles). I’m especially happy at our member participation. As my father once said to me, “You can’t win if you don’t enter.” No truer words were every spoken. I hope that we have even more artwork entered next year—and having our clubwork recognized at the District level as well! I know that this month also celebrates a

number of events, but having a background in education, I couldn’t think of a better choice than to focus on Read Across America and Dr. Seuss’s birthday. NEA's Read Across America Day is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually on March 2—Dr. Seuss's birthday. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can, too. Recently I’ve been reading The Sneetches to my grandsons (over and over), and they never seem to tire of it. I’m so glad that the works of Dr. Seuss are timeless. Reading is fundamental, and I’m so very glad that our club has developed such a strong relationship with Kingswood Elementary School. I know that I, along with all of our members, am so happy that we were able to furnish 50 books to its media center to replace outdated books. And, some of our club members also volunteer as tutors at Kingswood, as well as other after-school programs. Our club knows the importance of reading! As I look back now, I realize that my children, Michael and Elizabeth, may not have had a lot of expensive things growing up, but I made certain that books were always available, whether purchased or from the library. To achieve in life, you must have a good education—and for that reading is a necessity. I believe that the best present you can give a child is a book. My wish for this month (and for always) is for the gift of reading for each child. To me, every moment spent reading with a child is a moment well spent. For more information on Read Across America, please go to the following websites: www. seussville.com/Educators/educatorReadAcrossAmerica.php or nea.org/readacross

March Meeting: Thursday, March 9, 2017

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9:30 a.m. (Coffee & Social) 9:45 a.m. Program & Business Meeting MEETING LOCATION: Page-Walker Arts & History Center 119 Ambassador Loop, 1st Floor, Downtown Cary, NC 27511 #################################### From the Guest Editor You will see that I took some personal liberties in the organization and presentation of the newsletter’s standard content, as well as adding some whim and whimsy. I trust you will find this edition interesting and enjoyable. Happy reading and if I may, I will tip my hand with this Irish verse seemingly meant as a Spring blessing: May brooks, trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you. #########################

The March Program A Home Life Community Service Presentation Just in time to help us prepare for the dreaded April 15th Tax Day comes Sandy Clark , a career Financial Advisor and daughter of our beloved, late member Jeannette Martins, to help us learn all about the new tax laws, how they affect our financial planning and our soon-‐due State and Federal tax bills. We can only hope that she will leave us with wide smiles like our February Operation Smiles volunteer nurse speaker did as she shared her unforgettable experiences with Operation Smile. Kudos to Linda Turovlin for bringing to us an outstanding International Outreach Community Service program. Smiles, like handshakes and greetings, were going both ways as our speaker received the dozen handmade, no-‐sew, children’s blankets from our crafty group of volunteer ‘sewers.’ Cathy Clark, Home Life community Service Chairman #######################



It’s hard to know to whom the first ‘tip of the hat’ should go: to the Community Service Program (CSP) Award winners, or the District 6 Arts Festival winners. Since the Program Award citations represent not only outstanding Chair leadership, but also committee and general membership support and contributions, let’s report them out first, followed by our Individual Award-wining Arts Festival members! Thank you for this celebratory information, Mary Derrick – president extraordinary… The club submitted award entries for all of our CSP programs, as well as several award entries in other categories. The Cary Woman’s Club received eight 1st Place Awards, and four Runner-up Awards in the Small Club category. Our Community Service Program Winners were: * Arts CSP Projects – Runner-up Conservation CSP Projects – Runner-up

* Conservation GFWC Partnerships – Winner * Education CSP Projects – Winner * Home Life CSP Projects – Runner-up * Home Life CFWC Partnerships – Winner * International Outreach CSP Projects – Winner * Public Issues CSP Projects – Runner-up * Public Issues CFWC Partnerships – Runner-up * GFWC Signature Project Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention – Winner * Newsletter Award – Winner * Membership Brochure- Winner

And our District 6 Individual Arts Festival Winners were…

Congratulations



Diana Johnson – Oil Painting – 1st Place Award Lois Nixon – Nature Crafts – 1st Place Award Lillian Smith – Jewelry – 2nd Place Award Willa Brigham – Poetry/Lyric – 1st Place Award Mary Derrick – Poetry/Narrative – 1st Place Award

The 1st Place Award winners will now advance to the State Arts Festival at Campbell University on March 4. We’re hoping that we’ll have some State winners as well! ~ Willa Brigham, Arts CSP Chair ####################

A fundraising we will go: Dining for Dollars Mercedes Auger, 3rd VP, Fundraising

While City BarBeQue, 1305 Kildare Farm Road, Cary NC, 27511 will serve as our destination for what would be our standard ‘lunching bunch’, following our morning meeting, on this March 9, our usual lunch gathering will be part of a full-day of “dining for dollars” fundraiser for CWC at City BarBeQue! If you can’t make lunch, there’s always supper or dinner- whenever your taste buds call - for the length of the entire day the fundraising is applicable! Call ahead @ 919-439-5191 or order online @ www.citybbq.com. This “dining for dollars” fundraising event is City BarBeQue’s second fundraising event on our behalf. Last year was the first, and we are hoping to be one of their non-profit partners for a long time to come. Their corporate generosity and sense of community ‘give back’ is quite helpful to our bottom line! 25% of each food ticket sold to one of our members or supporters (verified by a guest flyer or a click of your ‘smart phone’ with a copy of the flyer code installed on it) will be donated to our club coffers. Think ahead. Such a non-guilty, quick thaw, no-cooking supper for some later day- if you buy and freeze a lb or two on our fundraising day- can be a double-your-pleasure donation! ######################### Conservation Reports… “St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming wintery dreams into summer magic.” Anonymous



Spring seems to have arrived early. We will be coordinating with the Cary Garden Club and the Friends of the Page-‐Walker to plan our spring planting day of the Pollinator Garden at the Page-‐Walker entrance. The spring cleanup and planting will be in late March or early April. We will send out a notice of the date. More volunteers are welcome, so please let me know of your interest. There are currently 8 CWC gardeners: Dorothy Schmelzeis, Lillian Smith, Mary Derrick, Silvia Barba, Philomina Vaidya, Priscilla Keating, Nancy Martin, and me. I’d love to add you to the list. You don’t need to be an expert, or even novice gardener—we provide on-‐the-‐job training! And a sneak peek—our April meeting Conservation CSP speaker will be giving you ideas for YOUR Conservation CSP Newsletter Article backyard…

Exciting News: SAVE THE DATE, June 2, 10:00 am for a personalized tour of the Chatham Mills Pollinator Garden in Pittsboro, which you have heard me rave about. Our tour will be conducted by the garden designer and maintenance chief, Debbie Roos. This stunning garden is a 33-‐minute carpool ride from Cary! Following the tour, we have reservations at Oakleaf, the restaurant inside the historic mill. Oakleaf was recently recognized by restaurant critic, Greg Cox, in his best of the Triangle article. More details later…but you can check out the menu here: https://www.oakleafnc.com/daily-‐menu. I plan to order all the desserts!

~Lois Nixon, Conservation CSP Chair

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Education Community Service Program

Feeding Friends at Kingswood Elementary Food Drive

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Any food that you can purchase from the list below would be greatly appreciated.

12 cans meat 12 cans beans 12 boxes pasta

12 cans pasta sauce 12 boxes mac’n cheese

12 cans fruit

48 packets oatmeal(individual) 12 salty snacks 12 sweet snacks

(These quantities represent one week of food for one family)

Donations are also accepted at the school anytime during normal school hours. Upon entering the school, simply let the administrator at the desk know that you are dropping off donations for Feeding Friends. Many thanks. Deborah Lynch, Education Community Service Program Chairman PS: Remember to save those educational coupons from your Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Land of Lakes, Scott products and reams of copy paper, to mention a few for redeemable monies to Kingswood Elementary school, as well. Turn them in as you pick up your nametag at each monthly meeting! “Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant and interesting.” Aldous Huxley



“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin ###################### Membership "100,000 Welcomes", as the Irish are want to say. I am happy to announce that we have 4 new members this month!! They are excited to become involved in the Cary Woman’s Club’s many projects and be participative. Please continue to bring guests to our meetings and be eligible to win a prize! New members are:

Janette Dickinson Carol A. French Dorothy Hill Karen Russell I will be passing around a sign-up sheet for magnetic name tags, for those of you who do not have them, at our next meeting. Please bring $5.00 if you are interested or contact me by email or phone. Priscilla Keating-Membership Chairman May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. ############################## . “The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.” E. B. White And, we set the clocks ahead on their own day… This year time recalibrates on Sunday, March 12, which also happens to be the night of the March full moon, 3 days before the ‘Ides of March’ – Beware!?! Regardless, March brings “Madness” in many forms, now the least of which for us in the ACC world of college sports, is 'Hoops Fever'. For others, March can mean: American Red Cross Month Youth Art Month National Music in Our Schools Month

National Women's History Month Read Across America Month

National Consumer Protection Week – 1st full week of March



2 - Read Across America Day, Birthday of Dr. Seuss

8 - International Woman's Day

21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

22 - World Water Day

24 - World TB Day and Sharing Day

27 – Education and Sharing Day

On the April Horizon:

Thing One & Thing Two : From the Files of Gerry Ritter, 1st Vice-President, Reports & Programs (a la Dr. Seuss)

Thing One

April Fool’s Day is almost here - the day of our Dillard’s Fashion Show now scheduled to be at Cary’s historic Matthews House! A flyer with all the details should be in your e-mail box before our March meeting.

I am thanking in advance ALL who are putting Raffle Baskets together and offering this gentle, but very important reminder: in addition to all the goodies in each basket, a $25 dollar gift certificate is to be included. Also, remember to shop Dorcas for ‘cheap’ baskets and possible buried treasurers.

Thing Two

Each member needs to be mindful of keeping her personal service hours recorded from now until the end of our calendar year (March, April May), for proper club tallying and filing.

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And a General “Heads Up” for late April:

The State GFWC CONVENTION. APRIL 21-23 – Details Soon!

Visit GFWC of NC on Facebook to monitor convention plans.



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Public Issues News

Two significant events are being reported on out of the Public Issues Community Service Committee. The first is a program update from the Committee Chairman, Karen Fiumara and the second is a special article and Club honor in response to March as Women’s History Month.

First,

On February 21, Jane Suppa, Diane Andersen, and Karen Fiumara, represented CWC as the hostesses for the meeting of the Chrysalis Club at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.

We were joined by Cindy Bross of Healthy By Design, and her assistant Carol Frey, who demonstrated strength training exercises that can be performed in small spaces. Cindy gave each member of the club a copy of the exercises that included pictures and easy to follow directions.

The women were very engaged, taking notes, asking pertinent questions, and performing many of the exercises. We even had a push-up competition! (Don’t ask who won!?!)

Money from Pubic Issues was used to provide snacks and drinks. We especially enjoyed the time to interact with the inmates and hear their stories.

And second,

Women’s History Month

A Special Salute

To One of Our Own History-Makers

Celebrating our 2017 Clubwoman with Heart

Dorothy Schmelzeis



Dorothy has been our club President 4 times, in 4 different decades! She was interviewed in May 2016 by Peggy van Scoyoc for our Oral History project. Here are some excerpts from her interview about the history of the Cary Woman’s Club. The full interviews will be posted later on the CWC website. Dorothy joined the Cary Woman’s Club in 1973 because “someone asked her and told her she should join”, and because it is non-sectarian and works on projects for everyone in the community. Dorothy’s favorite memory of her early years in the club is that she enjoyed meeting some of the “older Southern ladies” in the club and hearing their stories! After 3 years in the club, Dorothy’s family moved to Tokyo for 5 years, where she was President of the Tokyo Woman’s Club composed predominately of Japanese women, and not connected to GFWC. Like many of us, Dorothy was an avid school volunteer there, and learned about and came to enjoy fundraising! Maybe she is the ONLY one who enjoys fundraising! Her expertise still shows! On returning to Cary, Dorothy was instrumental in organizing the Cary Anniversary Ball, which funded the CWC scholarships. Dorothy’s special joy and inspiration in that project was meeting the student scholarship recipients. Interacting with students is still one of her favorite things about the club. Dorothy also credits her involvement with the Cary Woman’s Club for the opportunity to meet Cary leaders and mayors, and work with them to benefit the community. “I’ve enjoyed being with like-minded people. I enjoy people who want to get together and socialize, but also want to be part of the community and recognize where there are needs and do what they can to help. I think that’s a very positive feeling to be with people like that.” And Dorothy, we love your positive can-do attitude, and admire your “hat lady” trademark, which perfectly suits your elegance and charm. (Of Dorothy, one might say: " Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal," or "The secret of success is to constancy to purpose." ) If you can suggest an oral history interview of a current or emeritus CWC member to conduct, please contact Lois Nixon. #########################

Member Matters "Member Matters" is a new section of the newsletter. It is to be a section devoted to news about the health an welfare – or as the Irish might say, 'the tears and laughter' events of our lives. The news shared in the article is meant as an opportunity for us to extend and deepen the bonds of friendship through a thought, word or deed to/with each other, as we experiences the joys and sorrows that are part of our human experience....Notices should be sent to the club Secretary who will forward them to the newsletter editor. A wise sage once said it best:



Cary Woman’s Club Newsletter P.O. Box 918 ▪ Cary, NC 27512-0918

Club Years: 2016-2017 President: Mary Derrick 1st VP (Programs & Reports): Gerry Ritter 2nd VP (Membership): Priscilla Keating 3rd VP (Ways & Means): Mercedes Auger Treasurer: Maryanne Olsen Corresponding Secretary: Mary-Mel Kroeger Recording Secretary & Yearbook: Silvia Barba Newsletter Publication Deadline: 24th of each month: Guest editor for March: Pat Sweeney Website Liaison: Susan Abbott Website: www.carywomansclub.com

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." The section will be a concise listing/announcement of members and their family 'under the weather' (sick at home), in the hospital, or experiencing loss and grief. As well, we look to include notices of marriage and new births. Sadly, in our first printing, there is only news of loss and grief to be shared. Early or later in our and their lives, loss of loved ones gives us pause and sadness...During February one member suffered an early, unexpected loss of an adult child, and one member said good-by to a centennial parent... Willa Bingham lost her youngest son, Jarett Charles Bingham at the tender age of 31. Diana Johnson lost her mother, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, at the age of 102! "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." William Blake ######################### For easy printing and saving, please see the attachments for the BarBeQue promotion coupon in this e-mail, as well as a flyer for the upcoming April 1, 2017 Fashion Show.



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