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GGRWHC Board of Directors
Mary Seeger,
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Co-Presidents
Susan Coombes
Vice-president
Connie Ingham
Treasurer
Ruth VanStee
Secretary
Newsletter editor
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Kyle Irwin
Mary Seeger
Ruth Stevens
Amy Dunham Strand
Julie Tabberer
Kate van Liere
Ruth Van Stee
Deirdre Toeller-Novak
Webmistress
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Looking Back to Spring Ahead
At its annual reception and program, the
Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council looks for models from our past to spring us ahead. Meet some on March 29
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Early members of the Mary Free Bed Guild, honored in 2016 in the
Michigan Women's Hall of Fame.
Before and Beyond the Bricks and Mortar:
The 1908 Blodgett Home for Children and the Programs It Has Housed
by Cindy Laug & Diana Barrett
Wednesday, March 29th, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
ICCF Assembly Hall, 920 Cherry Street SE
Free admission and free parking. Directions below.
Reserve at 616-574-7307 or [email protected]
Please join GGRWHC on March 29th
for a short reception
at 5:00 pm, preceding the world's shortest annual meeting and a program honoring nineteenth-century women who organized the children's programs behind the 1908 construction of the Blodgett Home for Children-currently the ICCF, our host building for the day.
Early children's programs proliferated into the twentieth century when Mary Free Bed took over the building for its rehabilitation projects. Appropriately, the GGRWHC event offers an opportunity to visit a building beautifully rehabilitated itself-and we will toast the recent 125th anniversary of the Mary Free Bed Guild, whose founding and current members were inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2016.
In the room originally designed as an assembly hall for children in residence, Cindy Laug will introduce us to the women's organization that developed the Blodgett Home for Children, and Diana Barrett will remind us of the early Mary Free Bed history in this space, as well as a brief account of the fall and recent rebirth of the building itself.
Join us for a heart-warming spring evening with GGRWHC friends, old and new, with Cindy Laug (also Grand Valley State University & Coopersville Historical Society) and Diana Barrett, (also Grand Rapids Historical Commission).
Please join us, but please reserve: 616-574-7307 or
[email protected]. Free admission.
Directions:
The ICCF Assembly Hall is on the third floor of the current Inner City Christian Federation at 920 Cherry Street SE in Grand Rapids, west of Diamond. Parking is free on the street or at the side and back of the building. Enter either through the grand front door on the north side of the building or the back door on the south, where there is also a handicapped entrance and elevator. If necessary, call 336-9333 for help or send someone to the information desk on the second floor.
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