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GGRWHC Board of Directors
Mary Seeger,
Jo Ellyn Clarey,
Co-Presidents
Ruth VanStee,
Secretary
Connie Ingham
Treasurer
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Susan Coombes
Kristin Du Mez
Sharon Hanks
Connie Ingham
Kyle Irwin
Mary Seeger
Ruth Stevens
Amy Dunham Strand
Julie Tabberer
Ruth Van Stee
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Looking Ahead
Women at the Midwestern History Conference
June 1, 2016
Hauenstein Center
at Grand Valley State University
Papers at the second annual meeting of the new Midwestern History Association will focus on all aspects regional history. Among them will be a presentation by
Deirdre Toeller-Novak and
Jo Ellyn Clarey representing the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council.
Going Glocal: Shifting Master Narratives with Grand Rapids Women's History will highlight area history and resources to illustrate how local history experts can enhance the work of professional historians and promote important exchanges in the field. They will use examples of specific historical resources that professional historians would have difficulty finding, even in this digital age, without its volunteer colleagues.
Created in the fall of 2014, the
Midwestern History Association is dedicated to rebuilding the field of midwestern history, which has been neglected in comparison to academic attention paid the South and West, in particular.
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Gert, Grace, and the Berkey & Gay Girls:
Women, War, & Work in 1910s
(March 1 Re-do)
Thursday, June 2, 2016,
7 p.m.
Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Library auditorium
Co-Sponsored with the Grand Rapids Pubic Library
About 25 intrepid souls braved the snow storm on that March 1 evening to attend this program. It's being replayed on Thursday, June 2. For full description, click here.
Grand Rapids Public Library local history experts Julie Tabberer, Heather Edwards, and Drew Damron will each highlight the work of women during World War I.
 Women at work in the furniture industry, particularly at the Berkey and Gay Company.
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Grace, second from the left, and the
League of Women Voters campaign.
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Grace Van Hoesen and her role on the Woman's Committee of the Council on National Defense and, after the war, the League of Women Voters.
Cartoonist and illustrator Gertrude Van Houten, or Gert, who spent some time in Washington D.C. during the war, sending back her cartoons to the Grand Rapids Press.
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