ThenThenThenThen and Now

Zonta International’s Mission

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Our club now - 2011

Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland ---- ThenThenThenThen

Cleveland - Now

Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1923 - a rummage sale and card

party

• 1937 scholarship fundraiser features a “boardwalk with brightly colored shops and booths.”

• Card party at the Hotel Cleveland

• 1941 - tickets sold to win a $50 war bond raising $322.55

• Also in 1941, idea for international fair is dropped as the Army has taken over the Auditorium and is a lack of transportation.

• 1952 – “Personalized Fashion Clinic” at WHK Studio – billed as “an event that may change your life” for $1.25 ticket

Hotel Cleveland

Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1950’s-1960’s - Selling items like

“purse secretaries” and plastic raincoats

• Card parties continue through the 1950s to the 1970s.

• Club sells mother of pearl Z pins from the Philippines' Club in 1971

• A “Zonta Zaar” is held in 1973 with each of over 20 committees hosting a booth – raises $1575

• 1974 - $150 is collected for Health Hill on the Christmas party money tree

• 1979 –art auction held at St. Anne’s Church nets $1036.50

Health Hill Hospital

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• 1974 – An “open Zonta meeting” held in Gold Room of Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel to celebrate the club’s gift of $5000 to the community and to publicize the club’s mission. It is planned to send 5-6,000 invitations to get 500 guests. At a later meeting, the event is called an “unqualified success.”

Fundraising - Now

Fundraising - Now

Fundraising - Now

Fundraising - Now

Service Service Service Service ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1930 – Christmas gift bags for “aged and

infirmed” at City Hospital purchased with $2 donation from each member

• 1931 – Contributions to send needy children from Alta Settlement House to summer camp & 3 “needy women” from Benjamin Rose Institute –food to Cleveland Boys’ Home

• 1942 – 2 Readers’ Digest subscriptions purchased for the VA Hospital along with cigarettes for 5 cents a pack (at the hospital’s request)

• 1942 – Donate fabric to Blossom Hill School for Girls so they can make drapes for their Sun Room

• Members encouraged to donate blood, make surgical bandages and volunteer at the USO and VA Hospital

• 1943 – club purchases $500 in bonds to buy jeeps for the Army & donate books to Public Library Victory Book Campaign for the Army and Navy

Service Service Service Service ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1943 – Club purchases $500 in bonds

to buy jeeps for the Army & donate books to Public Library Victory Book Campaign for the Army and Navy

• $200 donated to Greater Cleveland Red Cross & $135 to Blossom Hill for choir robes, yard tools and curtains

• First Cleveland Zontian joins service

• 1945 - $10 each donated to Service Club and Terminal for Sunday food for USO

• 1950 – Gift boxes of food sent to England and Finland

• Club donates TV to Blossom Hill

• 1952 – Club participates in Civilian Defense activities including hosting speaker on “personal action in an emergency,” handing out “It Can’t Happen Here” brochures and enrolling in Red Cross First Aid courses

Service Service Service Service ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1952 – Donation made to Camp Ho Mida Koda and

State Hospital

• Members serve on advisory and study committees for Sunny Acres, Rehabilitation Dept. of State Dept. of Education, Chronic Hospital, City Hospital & Cleveland State Hospital

• 1952 – Fruitcake sent to Zonta Club of London for Christmas; coffee, cocoa & linen hankies sent to Helsinki Club

• 1955 – 100 dictionaries donated to Sunny Acres & $50 to an “investigated” family to purchase a bed for their handicapped child

• 1956 - $50 donated to Rehabilitation Center to purchase an artificial leg for a female diabetic amputee

• 1965 – monthly birthday gifts continue along with visits and donations to Ward D patients of State Hospital

• Donations to Camps and Hospitals continue into the 1980s

• 1971 – Safety Committee distributes medic alert bracelets to qualified people

Camp Ho Mida Koda

Cleveland State Hospital

Service Service Service Service ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1973 –A book on the United

States is sent to the Rotterdam Club – they “prize” it so much, they use it as a raffle it to raise service funds

• 1974 - $500 donated to Woodruff Hospital named in honor of late Cleveland Zontian, Norma Woodruff

• 1978 - $100 donated to Tremont Community Learning Center and $150 to Health Hill Hospital for Children

• 1978 - $200 each to Salvation Army for Camp Neosa for women and Metzenbaum Children’s Home, $400 to Camp Ho Mida Koda, $100 to Appalachian Library & $700 to Vocational Education Program

Norma Woodruff

Service - Now

Service - Now

Mentoring High School Girls

Walk for the Gathering Place

Disability and Age Awareness Centerpieces

Service - Now

Service - Now

Service - Now

Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship ---- ThenThenThenThen• 1943 – Club pays $459.39 “paid of scholarship loans” – No

applications for loans to Francis P. Bolton School of Nursing

• 1971 - $500 awarded to Cleveland State student and $100 to a senior student “for expenses”

• 1973 - $500 to a CSU freshman and $860 to a Baldwin-Wallace senior

• 1978 - $300 for a CSU scholarship

• $300 scholarships offered to the first “VIP class” club sponsored at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School – to be an annual award to graduates of program for up to 4 years per girl

Scholarship - Now

Scholarship - Now

Scholarship - Now

Hosting Major Zonta Events Hosting Major Zonta Events Hosting Major Zonta Events Hosting Major Zonta Events ----ThenThenThenThen

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Hosting Zonta Events - Now

Hosting Zonta Events - Now

Participating in Zonta Events

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Speakers - Now

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Public Relations Public Relations Public Relations Public Relations ---- ThenThenThenThen

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Socializing Socializing Socializing Socializing ---- ThenThenThenThen

Socializing - Now

Socializing - Now

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

• ADRIENNE BAILEY

• OXLEY PHOTOGRAPHY

• SAROJINI RAO

For photos and technical assistance

Thank You to Raffle Prize

Donors:

• Bilfield and Associates

• Cleveland Play House & Julie Gilliland

• Hilton Garden Inn Downtown

• Dr. Maria Pujana & Marise Designs