Hopkinsville Business and Professional Women s Club PO Box 227 Hopkinsville, KY 42241 Volume 54 October 2017 Issue 4 2017 2018 Officers President Diane Croney Turner President Elect Dorothy Tolliver Vice President Peggy Stricklin Recording Secretary Janice Cayce Treasurer Lena Wann Execu ve Assistant Martha Marcum Parliamentarian Karen Hunter President s Message October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Your health is important, make sure you have had or have scheduled your mammogram for 2017 In this issues, note the October activities for KPWW month and State Interim Board Meeting. We need as many members to attend all activities as possible and will need everyone to help with hosting Interim Board this month. We will discuss plans at the meeting on Thursday, October 19th. Also at the October meeting we will announce the Business Promotion Women and Woman of Achievement Awards. Congratulations to Karen Lamb who is one of three partners with Calhoun & Company, PLLC Certified Public Accountants Firm. In this issues, we are dedicating to Ms. Naomi Breashears who has been a member of the Hopkinsville Club for 50 years. Reminder, bring cards to be mailed; bingo donations (quarters, white socks, t-shirts, small bottles of lotion, soap) for the nursing home; and snacks for the hospital and EC Green Cancer center. If you like you can deliver your snacks and just let Peggy know when delivered. If anyone need labels for the snacks, just let me know. OCTOBER MEETING Thursday, October 19, 2017 5:30 p.m. Pioneers Memorial Complex Pledge: Deanie Meriwether Collect: Dorothy Tolliver Invocation: Peggy Stricklin Program: Kentucky Professional Women s Week Committee Speaker: Carolyn Price MENU: Meat Loaf, Cabbage, Green Beans, Scallop Potatoes, Corn Bread/Rolls, Dessert, Coffee and Tea Be sure to log your daily steps and volunteer hours. Have a blessed month. Diane Croney-Turner Diane Croney-Turner President
Membership Committee Anna Lee Lackman Chair 2017 2018 Members Please remember the following members and their family in your thoughts and prayers. Naomi Brashears Butch & Karen Hunter Sue & Don Mock Sue Mock sisters, Nell Fowler & Lou Butts Glynn Ward Jewell Long Paula Knight Karen Drennan s father, Richard Burnett Ann Boseman - broke her wrist and is in a cast If you know of a member or their family who is ill and in need of our prayers, please contact Diane Croney -Turner or Anna Lee Lackman. Ann Boseman Diane Boyd Naomi Brashears Rita Brown Gertrude Bullock Janice Cayce Diane Croney-Turner Karen Drennan Debbie Dunn Etta Walker Flegle Mary Fletcher Karen Hunter Paula Knight Anna Lee Lackman Total 28 Karen Lamb Jewell Long Martha Marcum Willedean Meriwether Sue Mock Carolyn Price Frances Quarles Ana Sanchez Tamara Standard Peggy Stricklin Dorothy Tolliver Jean Tuitele Lena Wann Glynn Ward Telephone Committee Martha Marcum Chair If you need a reservation and have not been called by the Sunday before the meeting, call your caller or Martha at 270-719-9371. If a member makes a reservation and fail to attend or cancel with Martha by noon Monday prior to the meeting, you will be responsible for paying for the meal if the club incurs an expense for the meal. BIRTHDAY October Rita Brown....22nd Guests We are allowed guests each month for prospective members. The cost of their meal will be paid by the club. If you have a potential member, please contact Telephone chair, Martha Marcum, so arrangements can be made.
Naomi Brashears Ms. Naomi joined Hopkinsville BPW in August 1977. Ms. Naomi wore many hats in BPW from being president in 1986-1987, Woman of the Year in 1983, chairing committees, serving each office, to participating with club activities, selling and purchasing pecans. Ms. Naomi has also been active in the community serving as President of Widowed Persons Services and Knot Just Quilters to volunteering at Jennie Stuart Medical Center as a Pink Lady. She is a member of Edgewood Baptist Church where in earlier years, she taught Sunday School, Sunbeams & Girls Auxiliary and sang in the choir. She loves reading and quilting. When Ms. Naomi was able, she loved traveling and has been in every state at some time in her travels, and has traveled overseas to Europe three times. She has three children, Renee, Cheryl, and Gary; six grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren, two step grandchildren, and three step great grandchildren. Ms. Naomi will celebrate her 89th birthday on November 12th. We love and miss you attending the monthly meeting. Hopkinsville BPW members attending the Meet and Greet Reception honoring Dr. Alissa Young, incoming President of Hopkinsville Community College on Wednesday, September 17th. Pictured: Peggy Stricklin, Dorothy Tolliver, Dr. Alissa Young, Diane Croney-Turner, and Lena Wann
Announcements Mayor s Unity Breakfast - 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 26th at Christian Co. Senior Center Interim Board will be held Friday, October 27, 2017 at Holiday Inn and Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Virginia Street Baptist Church, Hopkinsville, KY. We will need all members to participate and help with hosting the meeting. Christian Co. Literacy Council, Inc. 26th Community Read Day will be held on Friday, November 3rd. Contact Janice Cayce for more information. Christian Co. Literacy Council has reprint of popular Literally Delicious! Cookbook for $15.00. Available at Books on Main, Planters Bank, and Gracious Me! KFBPW Website - www.bpw-ky.org Dates to Remember October 9th - Columbus Day October 9th - 13th School Fall Break October 13th - 6:00 p.m. Educational Forum, Hopkinsville Municipal Center October is KPWW Week or Month all locals are asked to do at least seven days of projects. October 9th - Columbus Day October 12th - Mayor s Office, Proclamation for KPWW Month - 11:00 a.m. (All members are invited to attend. We will take a group picture with the Mayor and County Judge Executive). Information will be sent to Kentucky New Era. October 13th - Deadline for early registration for Interim Board October 19th - Regular Meeting - 5:30 p.m. Pioneers Memorial Complex followed by Board Meeting Bring Snacks for JSMC & EC Green Cancer Center (Club Project) Members come prepared to take a group picture. October 20th - Bingo at Pennyrile Nursing Home - (Members are ask to bring quarters, white diabetic socks, regular white socks, small bottles of lotion, or soap) Members are asked to get quarters to Ann Boseman - Bingo Chair before Monday, October 16th in order to get them in gift packages for the residents. October 22nd - Virginia St. Baptist Church 10:45 a.m. Church with the President (Lunch will be served after morning worship) October 26th - Mayor s Unity Breakfast - 7:30 a.m. Christian Co. Senior Center, for $10.00 ticket call (270) 887-4010 October 26th - Hopkinsville will hosts Interim Board. Members are asked to bring items for the gift bags and help put them together on Thursday, October 26th at Virginia Street Baptist Church. Time will be discussed at the October meeting. October 27th - 28th - KFBPW Interim Board (Members will need to work on Friday and Saturday. Will have sign-up sheet at October meeting.) October 31st - Halloween
Hopkinsville Business & Professional Women s Club Thursday, October 19, 2017 Regular Meeting Agenda 5:30 p.m. 1. Call Meeting To Order 2. Welcome 3. Pledge - Deanie Meriwether 4. Collect - Dorothy Tolliver 5. Minutes - August 17, 2017 (Printed in September Newsletter) 6. Treasurer s Report 7. Correspondences 8. Unfinished Business A. Get Stepping KFBPW B. Volunteer recording sheet C. KPWW Week Activities D. KFBPW Interim Board E. Other 9. New Business 10. Committees A. Membership 1. Birthdays 2. Happy Dollar 3. Other B. KPWW C. Other 11. Invocation - Peggy Stricklin 12. Meal 13. Speaker - Carolyn Price 14. Awards 15. Continue Business Meeting if needed 16. Adjourn Board Meeting Agenda 1. Call Meeting To Order 3. Unfinished Business 2. November Meeting 4. New Business A. Pledge 5. Adjourn - Emblem Benediction B. Collect C. Invocation D. Menu E. Program
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