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Dunwoody Woman's Club

Serving the community since 1971

https://www.dunwoodywomansclub.com

October 2024

"A book is a gift you can open again and again"

Garrison Keillor

Ways and Means

Terry Kemp tdkemp81@gmail.com

2024 Home Tour

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

10:00 am - 2:00 pm

We are just days away from our 2024 Home Tour, with 3 beautiful houses, the Spruill Gallery Exhibit featuring the art of Kate Burke and Aineki Traverso, and the Dunwoody Gallery, that will feature a Showcase on Fall Entertaining during the day of the Tour. 



 Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the preparation for the Home Tour and those participating on tour day, it truly takes a village.



^Membership

Maria Barnhart mariavbarnhart@gmail.com

At the September General Meeting, Maria Barnhart recognized Marie Drake for her 50 years of service to the Dunwoody Woman's Club. Judy Bertrand spoke of Marie's service and dedication through the years.

Marie was presented with a 50 year pin, letter and certificate from GFWC International, and a gift.

Pictured front row, Marie Drake, Rita Lynch. Back row Linda Mote, Maria Barnhart, Judy Bertrand

Maria encouraged all members to invite guests to attend a meeting or program event to discover DWC and to share their story of "Why" they joined DWC. She shared her story of becoming a member.

My Why:

The reason I joined the Dunwoody Woman’s Club was because a friend from church heard that I was retiring from my job. Her response was “Do I have a plan for you!” She invited me to a DWC meeting and the rest is history. I joined DWC in 2012. After the first year I was asked to serve with Jan Slater as Co-Chairman of Civic Engagement (at the time it was called Public Issues). I have met amazing women that I consider friends, participated in many service projects that I know have made a difference in people’s lives. I know more about flower arranging from Kathy Hanna’s Environment programs. I have benefited from many other CSP programs. I do appreciate the leadership opportunities which has enhanced my personal growth. My mother was very civic minded and I do believe she would be proud of my involvement with the Dunwoody Woman’s Club. I would appreciate you sharing your Why?

Meet and Greet Trolley Tour – Membership Recruitment Event

Here comes the Trolley! Tuesday, October 29th from 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Rosemary Watts has coordinated with Discover Dunwoody and DWC for a Membership Event. This is primarily a membership recruitment event. However, we will need DWC members to mix and mingle with guests. There is limited seating for this trolley tour. If you would like to reserve your place at the event, send a response to: rsvp@dunwoodywomansclub.com

The event is free but we are asking everyone to bring nonperishable food item(s). We will promote this event at the annual home tour.

Please click on the image to enlarge!

Upcoming Holiday Events

November

Annual Flower Power Holiday Bulb Sale

November 1st thru December 1st

December

Dunwoody Woman's Club Holiday Luncheon

Thursday, December 12th (One week before our usual meeting date)

Dunwoody Country Club

Any questions contact:

Joyce Niemann

Awards

We have many esteemed members and new members both in the "day" club and the Evening division. Who is award-worthy? That's for you to decide. We will gather nominations for the following categories:

• Clubwoman of the Year
• Citizen of the Year
• New Member of the Year (joined during this year)

Nominating forms will be distributed and collected at the October and November General Meetings. Awards are announced at our Holiday Luncheon. If you have any questions please contact:

Deborah Gault - dcgault@comcast.net

Marilyn Dalrymple - mgdalrymple@bellsouth.net

Civic Engagement and Outreach

Donna Knowlton dfknowlton@comcast.net

October

October is Crime Prevention Month and Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Wear purple to honor survivors and raise awareness of domestic violence, dating violence and signs of unhealthy relationships.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 10:00 am, a tour of the new Sandy Springs Fire Station No. 5 on Mt. Vernon Road. We will take snacks and drinks to the firefighters, welcoming them to the neighborhood. If you would like to add to our donations, please bring items to the October General meeting or to the fire station that morning. Lunch to follow.

Events:

• October 6-12th – Fire Prevention Week – Theme for 2024 is “Smoke Alarms: Make them WORK for you!”
• Thursday, October 24th, 5 - 8pm at Brook Run Park - Eighth Annual “See & Be Seen and Trunk or Treat” event sponsored by the Dunwoody Police Department. Civic Engagement will again donate Halloween candy and decorations to the police department. DPD will be handing out blue flashing safety reflectors for kids to wear while Trick- or-Treating to keep them safe and visible.

Civic Engagement Support

Civic Engagement is proud to support Girl Scout Hasini Edupuganti, Troop 15209, with her Gold Award Project, Crosswalk Safety. Her project is designed to increase pedestrian safety on the corners of Womack Road and Vermack Road. Please check out her video at https://youtu.be/aZ4Vo611Sx0?si=XGFoiM7wKge0Twzn Civic Engagement will help maintain the safety toolkits she has set up on all four stop signs on Womack and Vermack. We will share her video about the project on our Club website. The Gold Award is the highest award for a Girl Scout. We hope to have Hasini attend one of our meetings this fall.

Education and Libraries

Melissa Abbott melissahabbott@gmail.com

At the September General Meeting, Elizabeth Bagley, Director of Library Services at Agnes Scott College was the speaker. She thanked DWC for the gift of a $1000 scholarship to Agnes Scott College, and she gave an interesting talk of the Leila Ross Wilburn collection that is housed at the library

Pictured, Linda Mote, Melissa Abbott, and Elizabeth Bagley

October is National Book Month

This celebration begins on October 1st and runs until October 31st. National Book Month was created by the National Book Foundation in 2003, and they’ve continued to highlight the notable books in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, YA literature, and translated literature.



DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett public libraries have events all month long. Visit your local library or check out their website to learn more.

Environment

Kathy Hanna kak1941@aol.com

Nancy Baldwin nbaldwin@bellsouth.net & Gang

Thursday, October 18, 9:45 am carpool to Island Ford Ranger Station. We will meet at St. Luke's and carpool to Island Ford Ranger Station in Sandy Springs for a lecture by Ranger Jamie Smith, and depending on weather, a walk along the riverside. There is a $5 parking fee and please bring your own beverage, water isn’t available but restrooms are in the lodge. Lunch to follow.

Please email Kathy at kak1941@aol.com if you are interested in attending.

Our September 26 tour at the Brook Run Orchard and Community Gardens with the Master Gardeners was postponed due to inclement weather, but will be rescheduled next year. We gifted all the ladies with Home Tour tickets and donations were made for gardening supplies.

On-going community events:

• On 2nd Saturdays monthly at 11:00 am, the Master Gardeners give talks at the Barn in Brook Run Park. This month's talk will be on "cool season vegetables." Dunwoody High School student's art is on display at the skate board park at Brook Run.
• Animal Shelters are in need of any and all pet supplies, please bring to General Meetings and we will deliver for you.
• DNC is always offering wonderful classes, go to their website, dunwoodynature.org for more info. 
• Lost Corner Preserve is offering great programs and all city parks are open for trail walkers dawn to dusk.
• Chattahoochee Riverkeeper is looking for volunteer Water Warriors.

Health and Wellness

Diane Norris dianenorris@bellsouth.net

Last month, members packed Neonatal Intensive Unit (NICU) Mom Care Packages on behalf of the March of Dimes at the home of Diane Norris. And then toured Backpack Buddies warehouse in Dunwoody during "Hunger Insecurity Awareness" month.

Backpack Buddies provide 2,500 weekend meals to food insecure children in Metro Atlanta to enhance their mental and physical health as well as their ability to learn. This is how it works:

• They acquire food from food banks, retail stores (Costco/Sam’s), and other sources.
• They distribute the food to civic, community, and religious organizations. They are called Community Buddies.
• The Community Buddies pack food into weekend meals.
• Community (Buddies deliver weekend meal bags to schools throughout Atlanta every week. Nice to know that Hightower Elementary School receives weekend meals).
• School counselors discreetly give the participating children the bags filled with six meals for the weekend.

Backpack Buddies’ warehouse is located in Dunwoody on Jett Ferry Road and we will be volunteering in their Dunwoody Distribution Center on October 18 and November 15 from 11 am to 1 pm. The November shift is filled but we need two additional volunteers on October 18. Please let Diane know if you can help. Club and member checks in the amount of $660 were delivered to Backpack Buddies to help them purchase food. Inspirational cards that were colored at the General Meeting were also delivered.

Lutheran Towers Christmas

It is our tradition to give a Christmas bag to each resident at Lutheran Towers. This year we will be filling bags for 130 women and 80 men. Thanks to everyone who has selected ornaments and purchased items and brought the items to the General Meetings. If you haven’t received an ornament, our current needs are hand lotion and women’s scarves.

A Thank You

Following is an email that was received from Nurse Davy of Dunwoody High School: “On behalf of all our female students here at Dunwoody High School, I would like to express gratitude for the packages of feminine supplies that you delivered.” This is a definite need and will be a continuing project.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and we want to remind everyone to schedule your mammogram.

COLLECTIONS

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH

Tour of new Sandy Springs Firehouse #5: Snacks and drinks can be brought to the October General Meeting for the firefighters.



EDUCATION and LIBRARIES

Retirement Homes: Collecting magazines at monthly meetings

ENVIRONMENT

Animal Shelters: Collecting any and all pet supplies at monthly meetings.

HEALTH and WELLNESS

Lutheran Towers: Pick up an ornament to purchase items for Christmas bags. Hand lotion and women's scarves can be brought to the October General Meeting.

STANDING COMMITTEES

GFWC Clubwoman

Lynn Wright 

 As November 5 approaches, we should reflect back on the founding women of our Federation. They did not have a vote, but they had loud voices. Those voices were used to advocate for enacting the Child Labor Law, the Minimum Wage Tax Bill, the establishment of traveling libraries, the introduction of kindergarten in public schools, and a reduction of the acceptable limit for Blood Alcohol. All of these initiatives started as grassroot efforts.

Women now have a vote, and it has enabled us to be even more effective in supporting bills that impact women. In the early 1990s, GFWC partnered with other women’s organizations to create new legislation and support for the Violence Against Women Act. The Success for Survivors Scholarship is another way we support victims of domestic violence.

GFWC has always been political, but not partisan. Our voices are heard and our actions are seen. We are proud of this legacy and continue to encourage members that TOGETHER we advocate for all those in need. Make your voice heard this November!

Legislative

Dottie D'Angelo DottieAtlanta@gmail.com

Important 2024 Election Dates

October 7, 2024

Last day to register for November election

Now to October 24

Absentee Ballot Requests

October 15 - November 1

Early Voting

November 5

Election Day

Ella F. White Endowment Fund

Pam King pking9188@gmail.com

There are two ways that DWC members can help support the GFWC State Office. One is the Ella F. White Memorial Endowment Fund, which was established to ensure that the GFWC Georgia State Office is well equipped and funded. Ella White served as the President of GFWC Georgia, and the groundwork for the fund was laid during her administration. Please give your check—made out to GFWC-Georgia with Ella F. White in the memo line—to Pam King so she can mail it to the state office.

The second way is that you can contribute to the Lipscomb Society to help preserve the Mary Ann Lipscomb Cottage on the campus of the Tallulah Falls School, which serves as the state headquarters for the GFWC-Georgia. Please make your check out to The Lipscomb Society (not GFWC or DWC) and give your check to Pam to mail. Thank you in advance for your support!

Stage Door Theatre

Sharon Clark sharon-clark@comcast.net

October 12 thru October 27

Thu-Sat at 7:30pm - Sun at 2:30pm

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been described as “one of her most ingenious detective plays.”

Welcome to Monkswell Manor, where murder is included free of charge. Seven strangers find themselves snowed in at a remote countryside guesthouse as news spreads of a murder in nearby London. When the police arrive, the guests discover that one of them is the killer! But which one and will they be found before they kill again? This classic Agatha Christie whodunit mixes thrilling intrigue, a dash of English silliness, and plenty of surprising twists into a show you won’t want to miss.

Tallulah Falls School

Linda Mote lmmote@mindspring.com

Two of our club members Kathy Hanna and Diane Norris are serving on the Tallulah Falls School Board. They will report on activities at the school at our board and general meetings.

Students are engaged in trips during their Mid-mester . One group in Costa Rica has been quite adventurous! They took a tour of Vida Campesina, an organic farm where they learned about sustainable agricultural practices, flew over the jungle canopy on a zipline adventure, and took a hike near the Arenal volcano, where they learned about Costa Rica's ecosystem.

Women in History

Suzanne Bentz

 Mary Golda Ross

First Native American Female Engineer

Reinhardt University hosted a weekend program in September led by the Cherokee Nation and the Oklahoma Historical Society. The program offered lessons about Cherokee history, language and culture. While there are some 2,400 Cherokee Nation citizens living here in Georgia today, most Cherokee now reside in Oklahoma, with some scattered across each of our 50 states. 

In the 1830’s their ancestors were forcefully evicted from their Georgia homes by our federal government, marched across the country, and resettled in Oklahoma. John Ross, son of a Cherokee mother and a Scottish father, led the Cherokee people on that tragic journey, now known as The Trail of Tears.

Mary Golda Ross was the great-great-granddaughter of John Ross. She was born in August 1908 in Park Hill, Oklahoma, to Cherokee Nation citizens, the second of five children. So that Mary could attend school, her parents sent her to live with her grandparents in Tahlequah, Ok. In both primary school and high school, Mary excelled in math and science. She would go on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, teach in public schools for a decade, do a stint with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., and advise girls at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico.

The outbreak of World War II, brought Mary into national prominence. Having relocated to California, Mary was hired by Lockheed in 1942 “as a mathematician, where she concentrated on improving the design — and, specifically, the aerodynamics — of the P-38 Lightning, a fighter plane used throughout the war.” After WWII, Lockheed helped Mary obtain certification and registration in aeronautical engineering from UCLA. “By many accounts, that made Mary the first Native woman to become an engineer.”

Continuing her work at Lockheed, Mary helped found the company’s Advanced Development Program, known as Skunk Works. (The name is derived from the Skonk Oil factory in the comic strip Li’l Abner.) While the work Mary did is still hush-hush, we do know “some of her work included creating design concepts for interplanetary travel, developing operational guidelines for spacecraft and orbiting satellites, and theorizing about the logistics of potential space travel to Mars and Venus.”

Mary died at age 99 in April 2008, leaving behind a significant endowment to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. “to continue her legacy of support and celebration for Native Americans.” In 2019, Mary was featured on a commemorative U.S. dollar.

When you look to the night skies and spot the U.S. Space Station, think of Mary Golda Ross. And maybe recall the refrain of Paul Revere and the Raiders’ Indian Reservation (Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian): “Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe. So proud to live, so proud to die.”

DWC - EVENING DIVISION

Dunwoody Woman's Club Evening Division

Rosemary Watts, Chairman

DWC Evening Division September

Meeting moved to October 3

We rescheduled our September meeting due to the hurricane to Thursday, October 3rd. Here is the new sign up link.  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44A4A72FA75-51761774-dwcevening

We'll meet at the Dunwoody Nature Center for a guided walk tour. Please bring a food item to donate. Our monthly evening meetings begin at 5:45pm social/food and 6pm meeting start. We'll discuss our future meeting plans at the Thursday meeting.

We will not have an October evening meeting, but we encourage members to attend the Oct 9th Home Tour and Oct 29th Membership Drive Trolley Tour.



Please let me know if you have questions or comments. We look forward to a fabulous DWC evening division with hopes to meet and make new friends and grow the group!

Rosemary Watts

Chair – DWC Evening Division

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