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Dunwoody Woman's Club

Serving the community since 1971

https://www.dunwoodywomansclub.com

January 2025

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

Garrison Keillor

Ways and Means

Terry Kemp tdkemp81@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Flower Power Holiday Bulb Sale. Our net proceeds were $274.00

^Membership

Maria Barnhart mariavbarnhart@gmail.com

Congratulations to our newest members who were inducted into membership by Cathy Jones, GFWC-Georgia President at the December 12th Holiday Luncheon.

New Members

Welcome to our new members: Kerry Arias, Nancy Buterbaugh, Abbi Greer Campagno, Carol Ciepluch, Keenan Lofton, and Laura Neff. We encourage each of you to actively participate in club activities and programs.



Membership is the responsibility of all members. This is a reminder to invite friends, relatives or neighbors to a club program or meeting. The best endorsement is an invitation from you.



Membership Dues

Dunwoody Woman’s Club dues for 2025 should be paid by the end of January as they are considered past due February 1, 2025

• Active Members, $85.00
• Associate Members $100.00
• Sustaining Members $110.00.

There are three convenient ways to pay your dues.

• Online on the DWC website, Dunwoodywomansclub.com
• Checks made out to DWC and mailed to Maria Barnhart, 5005 Wickford Way, Dunwoody, GA 30338
• Checks made out to DWC and brought to a club meeting and given to Maria Barnhart, Membership Chairman

Remember to make your check to Dunwoody Woman’s Club. Membership dues provide the funds for the club operations budget. DWC is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization and your dues qualify as a charitable contribution as permitted by law.

Arts and Culture

Jo Ann Kostkan jokostkan@gmail.com

Arts and Culture is looking forward to our guest speaker for the January 16 General Meeting. It is Justin Ball, Executive Director of Stage Door Theatre. Please come and hear him give us exciting information on their season, community engagement programs, and, of course, the Academy!

Friday, January 31, 10:00 am in the Georgetown Conference Room at Dunwoody City Hall, Arts and Culture will partner with Environment and will feature Rosemary Watts, Executive Director who will speak about "Create "Dunwoody". This event will also feature a presentation by Rachel Waldron, Director of Dunwoody Parks and Recreation, details under Environment.

Civic Engagement and Outreach

Donna Knowlton dfknowlton@comcast.net

Ten members gathered on December 13 to decorate trees for Christmas for Kids at Dunwoody City Hall.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, January 20, 2025

• Volunteers are encouraged to register for the City of Dunwoody’s 9th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. Volunteer registration links for the MLK, Jr. Day of Service can be found at www.dunwoodyga.gov/MLKday.

• Dunwoody Parks and Recreation will partner with the Dunwoody Atlanta Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. to recognize the national MLK, Jr. Day holiday with volunteer service projects, a community food drive and blood drive.

• The community is invited to drop off non-perishable food donations for Malachi’s Storehouse. Bins will be available on Jan. 20 from 9 am to noon inside the Brook Run Park next to the LifeSouth Blood Mobile, in the parking lot at the intersection of DeKalb Drive and Georgia Way South.

Coming in February:

Wednesday, February 5, Valentine Workshop from 10:00 am to 12:00 at the North Shallowford Annex, Room 2. Civic Engagement will team up with Arts and Culture. Sign up at the January General meeting.



Education and Libraries

Melissa Abbott melissahabbott@gmail.com

Reading to Kindergarten Students

DWC is continuing the program to read to High Tower kindergarten students each Friday. Arrive at 9:00 am and sign in at the school office. Volunteers will read the same story as they rotate to the four different classrooms. The four readings will take approximately one hour. Please check your calendar and let Diane know when you can read.

Available dates in February include:

February 7

February 14



Community News:

This year marks a monumental milestone as DeKalb County Public Library celebrates its 100th anniversary! We invite everyone to join us in a year-long celebration filled with fun events and programs for all ages and interests.

Get the Party Started with the 100 Years, 100 Books Challenge!

The 100 Years, 100 Books Read­ing Chal­lenge invites read­ers to explore 100 unique cat­e­gories, read a book matched to each cat­e­go­ry, and dis­cov­er new authors, gen­res and sto­ries. By participating, you will join a com­mu­ni­ty of read­ers, earn prizes for every 25 books read, and stay inspired with librar­i­an-curat­ed book lists. It’s the per­fect way to challenge your­self and expand­ your read­ing horizons. Sign up using Beanstack, the library’s web and mobile app for tracking reading progress.

Environment

Kathy Hanna kak1941@aol.com

Nancy Baldwin nbaldwin@bellsouth.net & Gang

Friday, January 31 at 10:00 am, we will meet at Dunwoody City Hall in the Georgetown Conference Room for a talk by Rachel Waldron, Parks and Recreation Director for the City of Dunwoody. She will speak about our National Parks which is a subject our GFWC GA has asked us to emphasize. We will partner with Arts and Culture and Rosemary Watts will be speaking on Create Dunwoody, details under Arts and Culture. Sign up at the January General Meeting or contact Kathy.

Winter Tips

• Time of year to plant your spring gardens
• Winterize your outside pipes to prevent bursting and if you see water running down the street, call 404-546-0311 as it is probably a broken pipe.
• Don't pour grease down your drain, you will save your pipes and water quality.

Upcoming Events

• Dunwoody Nature Center is always offering wonderful classes, go to dunwoodynature.org for more info. 
• On the 2nd Saturdays of each month at 11:00 am, the Master Gardeners give a talk at the Barn in Brook Run.
• Chattahoochee River Keepers is looking for volunteer Water Warriors.
• If you had a live tree for the Holidays plant it afterwards, recycle your cut tree in lakes and ponds for shelter for the fish, or look for Home Depot announcements for their recycling weekend.
• Lost Corners Preserve is offering great programs and all city parks are open for trail walkers dawn to dusk.
• Local Animal shelters are always looking for volunteers and supplies. Animal supplies can be dropped off at any local facility or brought to General Meetings and we will deliver the items.



Health and Wellness

Diane Norris dianenorris@bellsouth.net

We wish to thank everyone for purchasing items for the gift bags for residents at Lutheran Towers. Eighteen members met and assembled 220 bags that were delivered for the residents to enjoy.

Backpack Buddies ~ We will continue with the project of volunteering at the Backpack Buddies warehouse on Fridays. We are scheduled to volunteer on February 21st from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please sign up at the General Meeting to help.

January Events

• Thyroid Awareness Month
• National Glaucoma Awareness Month
• National Birth Defect Prevention Month
• Cervical Health Awareness Month
• National Blood Donors Month
• Radon Awareness Month
• Maternal Health Awareness Day January 28

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction." Germany Kent



COLLECTIONS

EDUCATION and LIBRARIES

Retirement Homes: Collecting magazines at monthly meetings.

ENVIRONMENT

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

Our animal shelters are always looking for volunteers and supplies and can be dropped off at any local facility. Remember us pushing our legislators and getting the local news to report on shelter overcrowding, it worked. DeKalb County is building a big addition to the Chamblee location.. Thanks for making a difference.

STANDING COMMITTEES

GFWC Clubwoman

Lynn Wright 

No Report

Leadership

Deborah Gault - dcgault@comcast.net

No Report

Legislative

Dottie D'Angelo DottieAtlanta@gmail.com

Food Insecurity



In the FY 2024 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, Congress enacted full funding for nutrition programs, including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Child Nutrition Program which includes the school lunch program, school breakfast program, and the Summer EBT program to ensure schools can continue to serve healthy meals to all eligible children.

Utilizing our GFWC Legislative Action Center GFWC urged Congress to strengthen these programs in the Farm Bill and provide full funding.

Tallulah Falls School

Linda Mote lmmote@mindspring.com

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Women in History

Suzanne Bentz

Eos, Titan Goddess of the Dawn

With each new day, Eos sweeps across the sky “in a chariot drawn by winged horses.” She comes from the East to announce the start of day, followed by her siblings, Helios the sun, then Selene the moon. 

From our homes in Dunwoody, we can watch Eos paint the tops of majestic oaks, tulip poplars, and longleaf pines, using her rosy fingers to illuminate them in hues of gold, saffron and pink as she crosses the sky. Eos also drops tears of joy each morning upon Earth’s flora, teasing plants to display their magical blooms with the dew of life.

According to myth, Eos was “born to Titans Hyperion, the god of light, and Theia, the goddess of sight.” She was quite the captivating young woman, sharing her many favors with both mortal and immortal young men. Those dalliances, including marriage to the god of dusk, and abduction of a mortal Trojan prince, produced a few fabled kids, but also incited Aphrodite to curse her out of jealousy.

Stories about Eos span many cultures throughout Europe and India. They are wide-ranging, varied and diverse, but they always signify “hope, rebirth, and the cyclical nature of existence. The stories of her loves and losses reflect the transient beauty of life and the inevitability of change.”

In our corner of the world, day broke across Dunwoody on January 1, 2025 with the arrival of Eos banishing the weekend’s rain. She illuminated our trees and plants so that we might see clearly tiny buds sprouting on tree branches, the tips of iris poking up from the ground. The cycle of her work begins anew. 

Eos reminds us that we, too, have entered a new year with a whole new cycle of work to be done each day. Throughout 2025, we will reach out to our community with strong, giving and loving volunteer hands to feed the hungry, comfort the sick, guide our youth, share our knack for gardening, build bridges of trust, and nurture our love of theater and the arts. Like Eos, we will paint our community so that it shines its very brightest. 

DWC - EVENING DIVISION

Dunwoody Woman's Club Evening Division

Rosemary Watts, Chairman

January Meeting

Thursday, January 23, 5:45 pm, Corners Outreach located at Crossroads Church of Dunwoody, 4805 Tilly Mill Rd, Dunwoody, GA 30360. 

We'll learn about the Corners Outreach organization, visit a classroom to see how the after school academy (1 of their 4 major programs) works, and possibly do a small project for them. 

Please bring individually wrapped snacks: cookies, crackers, granola bars, gummies, etc. as donations for use at their academy. Look forward to seeing you there!

Please sign up here to RSVP. 

Signup Genius

Chair – Rosemary Watts

DWC Evening Division

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