NewsJune 6, 2010
Club news 6-6
The Town & Country FCE Club met Thursday evening May 13 for dinner at the home of Doris Wilkinson. She served barbeque and all the trimmings. After dinner, Carolyn Thompson called the meeting to order. We recited the pledges to the United States of America and Missouri Flags, as well as recited the National FCE Creed and Club Collect...
Town & Country FCE
The Town & Country FCE Club met Thursday evening May 13 for dinner at the home of Doris Wilkinson. She served barbeque and all the trimmings.
After dinner, Carolyn Thompson called the meeting to order. We recited the pledges to the United States of America and Missouri Flags, as well as recited the National FCE Creed and Club Collect.
Thank-you notes were read from the Lutheran Home and Cottonwood Treatment Center.
Members are to bring items for the Safe House for Women to the June meeting and each member received a list of needed items. The items will be delivered at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Sue Jones will prepare an application for a MFFCE grant again this year for books to be given to newborns. Books were given to newborns at Southeast Missouri Hospital in observance of National Day of the Family which was May 15.
Mary Klaproth received word from Betty Mayo, the State International Chairman, that her Cape Girardeau County's Notebook on International won second place and she will be presented with an award at the State Conference to be held in St. Louis in September.
Klaproth gave each member a revised copy of the club's bylaws. She also reported on the ACWW meeting she attended in Hot Springs, Ark. She explained the procedure for choosing meeting programs.
Darlene McCain gave a program on gardening and also used "Hearthfire Series #24 Polishing their Social P's and Q's."
The club presented a card to Lois Seabaugh in honor of her 50th wedding anniversary.
The next meeting will be Thursday and is the anniversary party.
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Kage FCE
Judie Herbst was hostess for members of the Kage FCE Club when they met for a luncheon and their monthly meeting. Guests attending were June Landgraf, Dorothy Lichtenegger, Nell Starzinger, and Marge Reisenbichler, former members of the Wonderworkers FCE; Marge Swan, Member at Large; Ramona Brinkopf and Marian Kremer.
Dortha Strack, president, presided over the meeting.
The tip of the day, the "M?N?O," was taken from the "Show Me Book of Missouri."
Several members reported that they had attended the workshop to help with the weighted blankets for autism being made as a county project. Another workshop will be held on June 14.
Books for newborns were taken to Saint Francis Medical Center.
The State Conference in St. Louis on Sept. 23 and 24 was discussed. The theme for the conference will be "Tune up your life with FCE."
Sharon Aldridge and Strack gave a report on the district meeting that they attended on May 6 in Doniphan, Mo.
The program on Nigeria was presented by Barbara Marshall.
Marshall will be hostess for the next meeting on Thursday.
-- From staff reports
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