Ladies,

Please sign up for the Welcome Desk via the Sign-Up Genius app. We will use only this on-line volunteer form and not the paper form, as it caused some confusion when both were instituted in prior years.

Volunteering twice a year for the Welcome Desk is part of our IWC membership requirement. It involves coming in early on either a Wednesday or Thursday to assist a board member with setting up (involves making coffees, hot water, setting out treats, paperwork in community room and welcome desk), and closing up at noon.

Above all, you get to be the welcoming friendly face for returning and new members at the Welcome Desk. You will get to meet other members that you otherwise would not normally meet! Remember how nice it was to be greeted warmly on your first visit.

PLEASE SIGN UP

Contact Carol at cgrafferty@hotmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.

Our selection this month is

  THE WHALE

a 2022 American Movie

Synopsis: A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

This movie is available on Amazon Prime and NCC library.

Our discussion will be on Thursday, January 18, 2024.

If you are interested, please send an email to Brigitte Gauthier at brigittemaraisgauthier@gmail.com

Thursday, January 25, at 11:15 am

The book club will discuss

Hello Beautiful

 by Ann Napolitano  

"An emotionally layered and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?" Please note this book was switched with The Violin Conspiracy, the NCC Reads 2024 book of which I will order ~ 15 free copies.

February's selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. 

Please contact Carol Rafferty at cgrafferty@hotmail.com if you have any questions.

Friday, January 26, 2024

at 10:15am

IWC Private Guided Tour at the DE Art Museum of the current exhibit

“The Rossettis”

Ending with lunch in the Museum Café (optional).

$27.50.- per IWC member: includes regular museum admission ($14.-), private tour guide ($2.50) and additional charge for the special exhibition ($11.-).

DE Art Museum members only pay $13.50 ($11.- and $2.50 for our guide). 

Meeting point and time: 10:15am in the lobby of the museum, to meet our guide for our 10:30am tour.

Address:

2301 Kentmere Parkway

Wilmington, DE 19806

Note: Parking is in back of the museum; just follow the signs.

As always, we are staying close to home in January. We have booked a private guided tour for our group at the DE Art Museum:

The work of Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti; his wife, artist Elizabeth Siddal; and his siblings writers Christina and William Michael Rossetti are the subject of this major international exhibition, organized in partnership with the Tate Britain (Museum) in London, UK. This unique exhibition marks the first time that major early and late Rossetti paintings will be presented and displayed in the United States, among contextualized masterpieces from the Tate’s collection. Pieces from public and private collections, as well as watercolors, drawings, photographs and major drawings by Siddal, are also included.

It was on view at the Tate Britain from April to September 2023, before traveling to the DE Art Museum.

Lunch will be at the museum café immediately after the tour. The museum café is offering us a choice of boxed lunches. If you’d like to join us, please check the sign-up sheet for the lunch and include your check.

Plan to see some of the highlights of the regular DE Art Museum collection after lunch, plus visit the museum gift shop.

For answers to your questions, please call

Anneliese Strube (610) 347-0629,

Sheridan Kingsberry (302) 528-0850, or

Margie Jones (484) 467-6951.

Birthday Celebration

We will have information in the next edition.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Lilianne Angeli at lilicross@hotmail.com or

Angela Meron-Casey at angela_meron_casey@yahoo.com