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North West District Awards
Several members attended the North West District Meeting and Dunwoody Woman's Club brought home the following awards.
First Place in the 36 member and over category and Best Overall Silver Award
- Arts and Culture
- Civic Engagement and Outreach
- Education and Libraries
- Environment
- Health and Wellness
Best Overall Silver Award
- Leadership Award
- Legislative Advocacy
- Communications and Public Relations
Best Overall Award
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Thursday, April 17, 10:00 am
General Meeting, Annex
Speaker: Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta
Thursday, April 17, 10:00 am
Coralwood School's musical, "Bugz"
Presented by the 3 year old class
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Wednesday, April 23, 9:45 am
Autrey Mill Nature Preserve Tour
Carpool from St. Luke's at 9:45 am
Lunch to follow at the Forum
Sponsored by: Environment & Civic
Thursday, April 24, 5:45 pm
Animal Shelter Toy Making
Dunwoody United Methodist Church Young Adult Suite
Sponsored by: Evening Division
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Save the Date
Dunwoody Woman's Club Spring Luncheon and Meeting
Dunwoody Country Club
Thursday, May 15, 2025
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Ways and Means
Linda Mote llmote@mindspring.com
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We had a brief Home Tour committee meeting after the April Board Meeting to discuss sponsorships, raffle items and homes for the tour.
We have two homes signed and would like to sign two additional homes for a total of four homes on this year's tour. Please let us know if you have any recommendations for us to contact. We need everyone's help to secure homes.
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Membership Spotlight for April – Be sure to click on the link at the top of the newsletter in the Highlights section titled Member Spotlight of the Month to enjoy reading about Kathy Hanna. Kathy joined the club in 1985 and loves being a part of the Dunwoody Woman’s Club. Thank you, Kathy, for all you do for DWC.
2025 GFWC Convention, June 6-9, 2025 at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta. What a special opportunity to join DWC and be a part of this special event. Members can go to the GFWC-GA website for the GFWC convention page on how you can volunteer to help at the convention. Visit this link 2025 GFWC Convention Sign up to Volunteer
Save the Date:
September 27, 2025 for the 2025 International Day of Service – This year’s event will focus on projects related to awareness and prevention of domestic and sexual violence. Within the United States based on research conducted by the CDC, there are more than 16 million people affected every year. Stay tuned for more details about this initiative and how you can participate.
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Dunwoody Woman's Club Evening Division
Rosemary Watts, wrosemary@hotmail.com
The Evening Division had 17 people in attendance for the Music Bingo Trial Fundraiser at our March meeting. Kudos to Lisa Benson who organized the fun event and created 5 raffle baskets and 4 prize bags filled with items donated by members and local businesses. We had fun guessing and crossing off popular "bar" and "TV show" songs from our bingo cards. We will refine this event and try to make it an official evening division fundraising event in the future.
Thursday, April 24th Evening Division Meeting at 5:45pm. We'll be making toys for an animal shelter led by Kristin Lutch and Angela Neimann in the Dunwoody United Methodist Church Young Adult Suite. Please bring scissors, old t-shirts you don't want, and tennis balls (new or used). Sign up below.
Sign Up Genius
Upcoming Events:
- May 20th (change in date from normal meeting times) Evening Division Meeting to possibly tour Assembly Studios. This event is tentative, details to follow.
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Create Dunwoody and the Dunwoody Woman’s Club will co-host a Murder Mystery Dinner event at Vino Venue on June 19th from 6:30-9:30pm. Tickets are available now for the Dunwoody Woman's Club only until April 18th. The maximum number of tickets for the event is 40. Tickets are $70 and include a buffet dinner. Purchase here:
https://givebutter.com/mmvv
Details about the event and 50s theme can be found here:
https://www.createdunwoody.org/murder-mystery (This webpage is currently neither published publicly nor linked on the Create Dunwoody website.)
For details, please contact Rosemary Watts at rosemary@createdunwoody.org
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Arts and Culture
Joan Smith jsmith30215@gmail.com
Carol Ciepluch carolynjane3@gmail.com
Thursday, April 17 at 10:00 am, Dunwoody Woman's Club is invited to Coralwood School's musical, "Bugz" presented by the 3 year old preschool students. Let the school know if you plan to attend. Coralwood School - 678 874-6002.
Community:
The Spruill Center for the Arts 50th Anniversary Celebration, an Artistic Affair, was a big success. 350 ticketed guests dressed in their best hippie and disco queen outfits attended and $112,000 towards programs including an incredible $18,500 was raised by individual donors towards scholarships for adults and children.
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Civic Engagement and Outreach
Donna Knowlton dfknowlton@comcast.net
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” - William Shakespeare
April Events
- Child Abuse Prevention Month
- National Sexual Violence Awareness Month
- Federation Day – April 24 – On April 24, 1890, the GFWC constitution was ratified, and 63 clubs officially formed the General Federation of Woman’s Clubs. With 3,000 clubs and 60,000 members worldwide, we surely have come a long way since that day 126 years ago.
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Civic Engagement’s April Program will promote Prevent Child Abuse – A pinwheel garden was created in front of the Veterans Memorial next to our Dunwoody Woman’s Club bench at Brook Run Park. Fifty blue pinwheels were planted to draw attention to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Pinwheels are the national symbol for child abuse prevention and the Pinwheels for Prevention campaign focuses on positive efforts to ensure that all children have the safe, stable, nurturing families they deserve.
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Tour of Autrey Mill Nature Center with Environment on April 23. Carpool from St. Luke’s at 9:45 am for the 10:30 tour. Details under Environment.
Thank you all for your generous donations to the Easter Basket Drive for Children’s Restoration Network. We will deliver 90 Easter baskets to CRN on April 11th. Way to go ladies!
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April is National Poetry Month and is a time to celebrate the beauty and importance of poetry, with activities and events taking place across the country.
Sharing a poem from poem-a-day at poets.org by Scottie McKenzie Frasier.
A butterfly dancing in the sunlight,
A bird singing to his mate,
The whispering pines,
The restless sea,
The gigantic mountains,
A stately tree,
The rain upon the roof,
The sun at early dawn,
A boy with rod and hook,
The babble of a shady brook,
A woman with her smiling babe,
A man whose eyes are kind and wise,
Youth that is eager and unafraid—
When all is said, I do love best
A little home where love abides,
And where there’s kindness, peace, and rest.
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DWC members enjoyed a very informative tour of the Scott Candler Water Treatment Plant and were gifted with two tote bags. They will be prizes for the first two people who make a donation to Heifer’s “Clean Water for the 3rd World” at the April General Meeting.
On April 23, Civic and Environment will tour the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Historic Site with their Ex Director, Lizen Hayes, with lunch to follow at Ted's Montana Grill at the Forum. Carpool from St Luke’s at 9:45 for the 10:30 tour.
April Community Events
Brook Run Demo Gardens Programs are the 2nd Saturday of each month at the Greenhouse at 11:00 am. April 12 will be “Care and Feeding Tomatoes” with Tilkie Baker.
Future Meetings:
May 21st meeting will be a lecture and walking tour of Island Ford with a National Park Ranger. Carpool from St Luke’s at 12:15 for the 1:00 tour
June 26th meeting to make shopping bags for Malachi's Storehouse from men's xlarge t-shirts. Participants should bring 3 shirts (either with or without a design) to donate.
Recycling Reminder: Please let us know the number and value of items you cleaned out and recycled...Spring is a great time to clean out closets.
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Health and Wellness
Diane Norris dianenorris@bellsouth.net
Several members toured Peachtree Farms in Norcross where young people were actively engaged in planting vegetables, herbs and flowers. Peachtree Farms mission is to grow produce for metro Atlanta while providing opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Dunwoody Parks and Rec “Step Challenge”
Members are encouraged to take part and this is what you need to do:
- Keep track of your steps for the month of April with a pedometer, fitness tracker, app., etc.
- Email your number of steps to Diane on May 1st.
- Each participant will receive a SWAG bag distributed once the challenge is over.
At the April 17 General Meeting, our featured speaker will be Denise Bjurholm, Executive Director of Backpack Buddies, who will speak about the program. Backpack Buddies provides weekend meals for food-insecure children in Metro-Atlanta. There will be cards for members to color and write encouragement on the back for the children and we will present them along with our check.
We will continue volunteering at the Backpack Buddies Distribution Center on Fridays from 11 am to 1 pm. On May 2nd we need one more volunteer and on May 16th we need 4 volunteers.
Coming in May:
Meet at Diane's house on May 8 at 10:00 am to assemble, "Hugs in a Mug" for teachers at Hightower and Neonatal bags for The March of Dimes.
A request:
Anchor Place Respite is collecting all colors of bottle caps for a project. Diane has completed her training and is signed up to be a volunteer on April 7.
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EDUCATION and LIBRARIES
Retirement Homes: Collecting magazines at monthly meetings.
ENVIRONMENT
Animal Shelters: Blankets any size, dog or cat toys, animal treats, newspapers, paper towels, food and monetary donations. They are in need of animal food. Please bring to the General Meetings and we will deliver for you.
HEALTH and WELLNESS
Anchor Place: Collecting all colors of bottle caps.
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Leadership
Deborah Gault - dcgault@comcast.net
SALVATION ARMY ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL CORPS. – Clothing Donation Procedures:
- Someone is generally attending the door between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Monday through Friday. There are also clothing bins in the corner of the parking lot. The address is:
Salvation Army-Georgia Division Atlanta International Corps
3771 Central Avenue
Doraville, GA 30340
- The Doraville office is on a side street, almost directly across from the Doraville MARTA station. The attended door is on the back side of the church building.
Clothing donations can also be brought to the April General Meeting and Linda Mote will deliver them to the Atlanta International Corps. location in Doraville.
Questions? Contact:
Deborah Gault, 404-304-5234
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Legislative
Dottie D'Angelo DottieAtlanta@gmail.com
Signature Program: Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness and Prevention VAWA Appropriations:
GFWC urges Congress to provide increased federal funding for FY 2025 and FY 2026 to provide safety, access to services, and justice for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Survivors rely on federally funded direct services such as shelter, rape crisis response, legal assistance, and counseling. Communities rely on prevention programs, available 24-hour hotlines, and trauma-informed training for law enforcement.
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Stage Door Theatre
Sharon Clark sharon-clark@comcast.net
A Stage Door Theatre Joint Venture
with Agnes Scott College
Agnes Scott College - Winter Theatre
April 10-20
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Tallulah Falls School
Linda Mote lmmote@mindspring.com
We will be sending over 90 cards to the graduating Seniors as part of the Green Envelope project. The cards will be at the April General meeting for you to help sign and add a note of encouragement.
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Women in History
Suzanne Bentz
Oveta Culp Hobby
First US Secretary of Health,
Education & Welfare
General Dwight D. Eisenhower was so impressed with the women who reduced in record time the backlog of mail to and from our soldiers fighting in the European Theatre during WWII, that he appealed to Washington for more women to fill in the gaps in the Army left by the shortage of men. Many of the new recruits put boots to the ground in North Africa where Allies battled Vichy French forces. Oveta Culp Hobby was on hand to see it all play out and had a hand in shaping the new Women’s Army Corps.
Oveta was born in 1905 in Killeen, Texas. She studied law in college but did not take degrees from the several colleges she attended. Instead, she took up a career in journalism at age 26. During WWII, Oveta headed the Women’s Interest Section in the War Department’s Bureau of Public Relations … then became director of what would become the Women’s Army Corps. She was commissioned a colonel in the US Army in July 1943.
Oveta worked tirelessly to integrate the WACs within our military and strengthen the Corps image. She raised standards and, using her public relations skills, “created a Code of Conduct specific to the WAC to create a tightly regulated, organization that portrayed women’s corps in good light.” Oveta achieved the rank of colonel and received the Distinguished Service Medal for her war efforts. “She was the first woman in the Army to receive this award.”
Oveta joined the Eisenhower administration after the war and became the first secretary and first woman of the new Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on April 11, 1953. “Among other decisions and actions at HEW, she made the decision to approve Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine.” After meeting strong resistance attempting to restructure Social Security payroll taxes (some things never change in D.C.), Oveta quit and went back to Texas to help run the “Houston Post” as president and editor for her ailing husband.
Oveta died of a stroke in 1995 in Houston. In 1996, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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