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“Enriching Lives and Benefiting Our Community”
May 2017 Edition
THE PURDUE WOMEN’S CLUB NEWSLETTER
2017-2018 PWC Board
Elected President: Emily Blue President-Elect: Linda Dolby Vice President Interest Groups: Mary Gayle Hartzell Vice President Newcomers: Marchell Baker Treasurer: Carol Rosborg Membership Secretary: Sarah Wassgren Recording Secretary: Gretchen Bertolet Corresponding Secretary: Cigdem Sheffield Past President /Advisor: Karen Mullen Appointed Newcomer Team: Barbara Bowman Kathy Matter Chicago Bus Trips: Jeanna Jones Educational Excursions: Connie Davis Esther Madren Debby Sherman Email Secretary: Sue Peters Friendship Secretary: Sara Harlan Let’s Do Lunch: Kathy McGraw Luncheon Coordinator: Jeanne McCoy Newsletter Team Rene Ferguson, Editor Cherry Delaney Kimba Dunsmore Dorothy Hughes Nominating Committee: Patty Jischke Lisa Hoverman Sarah Wassgren PWC 20|30
Young Members Circle: Lisa Hoverman Publicity: Ronda Walsh-Schwab Social Media Administrator: Danielle Cohen Span Plan Liason: Erin Britton Website Administrator: Ann McCracken Eventbrite Administrator: Sandy Komasinski
A Letter from PWC President Emily Blue
Serving as your president this past year has been a complete honor. Before serving on the board the past two years, I admit that I lived in the “bubble” of the 20|30 Interest Group, not fully understanding the expansiveness of the club and the amazing women who are members. As president-elect, and now president, I have attended more all-club events such as the Fall Educational Excursion trip to Columbus, Indiana and several Let’s Do Lunch outings, including the Holiday Party. I am so glad that I was able to connect with more of our members and learn their unique stories. We are truly blessed to have the finest women in Greater Lafayette as a part of PWC.
I am humbled that you chose me to serve a second term as President of the Purdue Women’s Club. Our constitution states that President and President-Elect may serve two con-secutive terms in the same office, but the last two-term President was Mrs. Eleanor B. Shreve from 1938-40. Serving another term will afford me additional time to implement my theme, “Enriching Lives and Benefiting Our Community.” The term “community” not only encompasses PWC, but Purdue and Greater Lafayette, as our members have many gifts and talents that have enhanced the community.
While we were founded as a social club, all of the philanthropic acts included as part of PWC and our Interest Groups never ceases to amaze me. I hope to continue to strengthen our relationship with the Purdue Community, especially Span Plan for Non-Traditional Students which PWC has long-time supported. We continue to support the students of the Entrepreneur-ship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities program through the Krannert School of Manage-ment. We also recently connected with Krannert’s Jane Brock Wilson Women in Management Center and I see that relationship growing in the future as our members mentor young women to lead and excel in a diverse and changing workforce.
I know that many of you are connected to other community organizations that might benefit from the support and resources that PWC has to offer. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you come across an opportunity you think aligns with PWC and any aspect of our mission. You’ll see two of those highlighted in this issue.
I’d like to wish everyone a great year ahead with PWC, and I look forward to meeting many of you at our upcoming events!
The Spring Luncheon and our Inspiring Guest Speaker: Kathy Nimmer - with her Guide Dog ‘Nacho’
Emily Blue Purdue Women’s Club President
2017-2018
Newcomer Team: Newcomer Team: Email Secretary: Chicago Bus Trips: Friendship Secretary: Barbara Bowman+ Kathy Matter+ Sue Peters* Jeanna Jones* Sara Harlan~
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Educational Educational Educational Let’s Do Lunch Luncheon Excursions: Excursions & Excursions: Coordinator: Coordinator: Connie Davis^ Esther Madren^ Debby Sherman^ Kathy McGraw* Jeannie McCoy *
The Elected Board
The Appointed Board
President: President–Elect: Vice President Vice President Treasurer: Emily Blue * Linda Dolby* Interest Groups: Newcomers: Carol Rosborg # MaryGayle Hartzell* Marchell Baker*
Meet Your New 2017-2018 PWC Board Elected and Appointed at The PWC Annual Meeting on April 13, 2017
Membership Recording Corresponding Past President Secretary: Secretary: Secretary: & Advisor: Sarah Wassgren* Gretchen Bertolet* Cigdem Sheffield # Karen Mullen*
Newsletter Editor Newsletter Team: Newsletter Team: Newsletter Team: Span Plan Liaison: Rene Ferguson* Cherry Delaney* Dorothy Hughes* Kimba Dunsmore* Erin Britton^
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The Appointed Board (continued)
Publicity: Social Media Website Eventbrite Ronda Administrator: Administrator: Administrator: Walsh-Schwab* Danielle Cohen* Ann McCracken* Sandy Komasinski+
Nominating Nominating Nominating Committee Committee & Committee
Chairperson PWC 20l30 Sarah Wassgren>
Patty Jischke* Young Members Circle Rep Lisa Hoverman*
* Continuing on the board in the same position
~ Continuing on the board in a new position
+ Returning to the board in a new position
^ New to the board
# New Member of PWC and new to the board
> Taking on an additional board position
A Story of “Back in the Day”
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Sometimes good stories seem to come out of nowhere and this is one of them! Recently an email from PWC Member Marylin Howland-Ross popped up in my inbox. In it she asked if the story of her association with a Purdue Women’s Club ‘Theatre Arts Sec-tion’ in the 1970’s might be of interest. We met for a long lunch and here is her story of the great productions that were put on by ‘Epsilon of Tri Kappa and the Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette and The Theatre Arts Section of the Purdue Women’s Club’.
“I am a recent member of the PWC and a little while ago I hap-pened to be talking to another Wine Diva interest group member about how I had gotten involved with PWC way back in 1970. This was actually before I would have been accepted as a PWC member because my husband was not working for Purdue!”
“The reason I got involved was because there was a group of ladies who were members of the PWC Theater Arts Section and they needed more women who liked theater. We did plays for children and produced one show a year in the late winter at Sunny-side Middle School or Jeff High school. The whole purpose was to present a play that lasted one hour, no intermission and had lots of action! There was not much entertainment like that available for children then.”
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Marylin and her family moved to the area in 1969. Her young children were growing up so it was a good fit for her to volunteer to help with these productions. Marylin first became involved with the PWC group in 1970 through connections from her involvement with the Civic Theatre. She began her association with the Purdue Women’s Club Theatre Section ladies by working with 10 other women on costuming the 31 women and girls -and 2 men- for a rousing, action packed production of ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.’ As always with any kind of theatre production there was a sizeable technical crew of 40 doing costumes, sets, makeup, sound, music etc. 38 women - and one man!
Over the next years the productions continued with great adaptations of stories like Puss in Boots (1971), The Emperor’s New Clothes (1972), The Muffin Man (1973), The Snow Queen (1974), The Pied Piper of Hamlin (1975), Hansel And Gretel (1976) and finishing with The Red Shoes in 1977.
Through all those plays Marylin not only worked on costum-ing but sets, makeup and even special effects. All that was in addition to speaking, singing and/or dancing roles in many of the plays. Her parts ranged from one of band of gypsies, a member of a group of lords and ladies and on up to the Burgomaster in The Red Shoes and the Lord Mayor in the Pied Piper. She spent countless wonderful and busy hours and days working with many PWC wom-en to make these productions happen for local children.
As times changed the group began to lose members as young women began to go back to work. Eventually Marylin too returned to work in nursing at Home Hospital. She worked part and then full time in Pediatrics including teaching new mothers how to care for their newborns and then at PUSH after retiring. Obviously a busy lady, Marylin joined PWC in 2014 and keeps active now with the Symphony Guild, The Art League … and PWC!
Story by Marylin Howland-Ross & Rene Ferguson
A Leader newspaper photo advertising
The Red Shoes Production in 1977
A costume fitting & success!
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Marylin Howland-Ross and some of her carefully saved scrapbook items.
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PWC Members Helping Others in Different Places
THE HEALTH HUT on 2nd Thursdays at First Baptist Church
In 2013 Karen Michler, past president of PWC, saw a need in the community for people on Food Stamps/SNAP. She realized that health and beauty as well as clean-ing products are not allowed to be purchased under the government program. So the mission of Health Hut was begun to be a resource to assist these families with products such as toilet paper, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, bath soap, laundry soap, dish soap and other necessary basics. Karen appealed to the members of University Church to donate items or cash, and she also canvassed businesses to donate these items. She located the "Hut" in University Church in West Lafayette.
After the University Church was sold, Karen located a new home for the Health Hut at the First Baptist Church downtown. Here was the perfect space located in a good central spot in Lafayette. The Health Hut is open from 11:00am-1:00 on the second Thursday of the month.
No proof of need is required, no questions asked, items are given to anyone who comes for supplies. It is run by faithful volunteers, lead by Gail Baugh and PWC
Members: Mary Enos and Temple Pearson. In March 2017, the Health Hut served 55 families which totaled 229 people. Health Hut is supported by donations from First Baptist Church, "The Gather-ing" at Happy Hollow School, PWC members, Meijers, and Walmart and The Buttery Shelf which provides a free and nutritious lunch for the Health Hut guests every month.
To contribute or volunteer at Health Hut please contact: Temple Pearson at [email protected]
Looking for a new shopping venue?
Try THE FLEA MARKET at Westminster Village - Fridays 9 to Noon
PWC Member Marian Oberholtzer writes: “If you are looking for an interesting and little-known place to shop, come to the Flea Market in the basement of Westmin-ster Village, 2741 N. Salisbury St., WL. Open every Friday from 9 am to noon, there is a continually changing inventory of great clothing, shoes, household items, furniture, jewelery etc, available at reasonable prices.
“Items are all donated from current residents and people downsizing to move into Westminster. Proceeds benefit the Westminster Resident Council and Westminster Foundation. Periodically, larger sales are held inside Westminster apartments/cottages. You can request to be on the "call" list for notification of these sales.”
Three PWC members (above) Marian Oberholtzer, Mary Hood, and Ruth Oliver, are among the Westminster residents who volunteer at the Flea Market. Marion is the manager and between the three of them they put in many hours each week sorting and pricing and staffing the Friday sales. All of them do it ‘to keep busy’ and it’s easy to see why.
Before retiring in 2003 Marian was a County and State Welfare Supervisor for 35 years, a PWC member since 2013 and has been a Westminster Village resident since 2016. She connected with Ruth and Mary by looking through her PWC directory to see who were also Westminster residents.
Mary joined PWC in 1957 and is a 50 year member. She loves to be busy too - even after 26 years teaching 1st Grade, 6 years of pre-school and 17 years of ESL at Klondike and a CASA volunteer for 20 years. At Westminster she hosts evening activities, represents other members at officers meetings and pitches in at The Flea Market to ‘do whatever needs to be done’ in addition to staffing the Friday sales.
Ruth was a dietitian at Purdue, residence hall food service manager and then Assistant Director of all the residence halls. After she retired she joined the Peace Corps for 2 years and was based in Jamaica. She joined PWC in1970 and Westminster 6 years ago.
It’s true: “If you want to get something done, ask a busy woman to do it!” Story by Marian Oberholtzer & Rene Ferguson
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Quilting Connection Shines at Reception & Exhibit
April 21 at T.A.F. !
On Friday, April 21 from 6 to 8 pm artists in three different mediums hosted a lovely wine, cheese and hors d’oeuvres reception at The Wells Community Cultural Center -Tippecanoe Arts Federation (TAF).
The 21 members of the PWC Quilting Connection filled one of the three exhibit spaces with a wide and beautiful range of detailed quilts. The other two exhibit spaces were filled by Wa-bash Valley Potters and Frances Shoemaker Art.
The members of the Quilting Connection - some longtime quilters, some new to the art- were: Gretchen Bertolet, Margaret Blevins, Mary Bunte, Suzanne Collins, Debbie Donnelly, Ei-leen Drennen, Rebecca Fischer, Bonnie Hiatt, Kathy Hicks, Nan-cy Kildsig, Elaine Lucas, Jean Macy, Kathryn Matter, Shirley Ol-son, Pam Pflum, Ann Pickett, Barb Robinson, Annelies van Geld-er, Gwen Wallace, Barbara Whiteside, Beverly Zeider. The show was curated by Sarah Louise Kerney
The exhibit is open from 9 am to 5pm through Friday, May 12 and admission is free. Well worth a visit!!
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Spring Educational Excursion Trip
To Terre Haute: From Baking Soda to Llamas (with art and faith in between)
Baking Powder Delivery Anyone?
The Spring Educational Excursions group of thirty-six enthusiastic PWC Members spent April 21 in Terre Haute, and environs. You too may want to plan a trip to check these out!
Arriving at the Clabber Girl Museum the group enjoyed the tour and learning about the connection between the Hulman family owners and their ownership of the Indianapolis Speed-way. A cooking demonstration/sampling of two appetizers was followed by a good lunch in the Rex Roasting Co. Room where we saw its artisan roaster. We learned about coffee beans and the history of the Rex brand and left with a sample pack of Rex Coffee each! https://www.clabbergirl.com/
Stopping next at The Sheldon Swope Art Museum we toured the galleries. The museum celebrates the best in Ameri-can Art in its extraordinary collection of nearly 2,500 pieces in-cluding paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the 19th century to the present. https://www.swope.org/
At the beautiful St. Mary-of-the-Woods campus stop we heard the history of the Sisters of Providence and Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, visiting her shrine. We enjoyed time in the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Blessed Sacrament Chapel and had a bit of time for shopping in the lovely Linden Leaf Gift shop. As we drove off campus, we stopped for a look at the resident llama herd freshly shorn and looking trim for spring! https://spsmw.org/providence-center/
As always the day finished up with a relaxing and safe bus ride home with supper at The Beef House on the way. The group was very pleased with their introduction to the area!
Story & Photos by Rene Ferguson
The Church of the Immaculate Conception
Spring Llamas
Story & Photos by Sandy Komasinski
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Gr8Gals@Technology
Upcoming Meeting Date:
Tuesday, May 16
At the Daniel Turf Center on Cherry Lane, West Lafayette. Meeting time is promptly 1:30 P.M.
Topic:
“Basic Computer Maintenance” With Scott Ksander
If you have questions or would like to join Gr8Gals@Technology, please send an email to [email protected]
Information is also available at The Gr8Gals PWC web page. http://www.purduewomensclub.org/gr8-galstechnology.html
PWC Summer Newsletter Submission Dates!
Be Sure To Send in YOUR Interest Group’s Information for these two issues which provide up to date information for members and many potential new
members who will be moving to the Greater Lafayette area over the summer!
June/July Issue Monday, May 8 by 8 pm
Includes information on groups continuing to meet over the summer.
August Issue Monday, July 10 by 8 pm
Interest Group Leaders please send in your first meeting dates if they are in August or September for the All Interest Group Round Up Issue
Looking forward to receiving lots of group information at both addresses: [email protected] [email protected]
UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION for your PWC Yearbook
As always, PWC members receiving the newsletter online will receive a separate secure email containing the details for the listing below.
New Members: Susan Budd Elsa Janie Marlene Kraieski Sharon Waxkirsh Karen Weatherwax
Returning Members (not in the current yearbook): Maralee Baumgardner Rosina Hall Elizabeth Stoddart Sue Svensson Hsiao-Ming Tong Andrea Williams
Changes in Contact Information: Karen Byrd (new email) Christine King (new phone) Karen Mills (new phone) Susan Peters (new phone) Nancy Peterson new phone) Laura (Williams) Werts (new address)
Please note: New and revised members information and changes in contact information received after the newsletter deadline will be published in the following month’s
newsletter. Contact the Membership Secretary, Sarah
Wassgren, with any contact changes you wish to share at:
Our Newest Members, Returning Members & Changes in Contact Information!
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Explore Indiana Stays Home—and you won’t want to miss it! Health and Wellness Group
Calling all outdoors people and gardeners and their friends!
On May 4 Dr. Kimberly Lentz will talk to us about Lyme Disease and other tick related diseases and the symptoms of these diseases and their treatments.
Have you been diagnosed with fibromyal-gia or chronic fatigue? You may actually have Lyme Disease or another disease re-lated to ticks. Diagnosed with fibromyalgia first it was discovered I had Chronic Lyme Disease and after treatment I feel wonderful again.
Please come to listen to Dr. Lentz on
May 4 at 7:00 pm in the Daniel Turf Center.
It could make a huge difference in your life
or someone else you know! See you there!
Questions to Debbie Zachman, CoChairman of Health and Wellness Group
at:
The Unseen City, a self-guided peek at special places in Lafayette, is scheduled for Thursday, May 18, starting at 4:30. This adventure will cost $5.
Tickets are on sale at Northside Music Co, Vons Bookstore, Interior Objects, East End Grill, and Kathy's Kandies.
As with past tours, the exact stops will not be revealed until the start of the tour, but past participants have not been disappointed. Plan now to see places in Lafayette that may surprise and delight you.
For information about participating as a group or any questions please contact Mary Anne Robinson at [email protected]
PWC
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West Lafayette, Indiana 47996-2073
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