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“Enriching Lives and Benefiting Our Community”
January 2018 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: Mary Anne Robinson Corresponding Secretary: Cigdem Sheffield Past President /Advisor: Karen Mullen Appointed Newcomer Team: Barbara Bowman Kathy Matter Chicago Bus Trips: Jeanna Jones Jacky Ralph 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 Liaison: Erin Britton Website Administrator: Ann McCracken Eventbrite Administrator: Sandy Komasinski
The Holiday Luncheon brought out the best in our Purdue Women’s Club Mem-bers! On Friday, December 8th at the Lafa-yette Golf and Country Club. PWC’s own Kathy McGraw with PWC's popular pianist, Jeff Goodspeed, and Eric Rody, Civic Theatre percussionist, entertained us as everyone joined in for a costumed sing along; think The Snowflake Fairy, Marching Nutcrackers, Strolling Carolers and Elf and Reindeer San-ta’s Helpers as well as Santa Himself … played by Kathy’s kind husband, John.
PWC Knitting Friends and PWC New-comers modeled 15 handmade unique and vibrant scarves made at a recent combined meeting of Knitting Friends and Newcomers. The scarves all sold and the proceeds went to Span Plan.
The Lafayette Country Club tables were-beautifully set and the food was delicious. The staff did such a good job of providing the many menu options needed for dietary requirements.
After the meal and a grand sing along the last hurrah was a fast-paced, exciting gift exchange. Santa’s Helpers dashed around all the tables distributing the wrapped treasures placed in big bags in the entryway by each attendee as they arrived. Kathy then read a Christmas story that required everyone to make quick gift passes around the table to the left or right depending on the wording of the story. After several hilarious minutes eve-ryone ended up with a surprise gift to take home. A perfect ending! Thanks to Kathy for all her time and energy
putting us into the holiday spirit!
“Let Joy and Peace Reign”
The PWC Holiday Luncheon Was Delicious, Joyful, Very Musical and
Exciting to the Very Last Minute!
Story and photos by Rene Ferguson
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IN MEMORIAM
Purdue Women’s Club Member Rosemary Greenkorn passed away on September 29, 2017. Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, she graduated from Oshkosh High School and later from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with her B. A. in English. She married Robert Greenkorn in1952 and they lived in Madison, Wisconsin until Robert graduated from university. They then took time to travel through Europe and lived in Norway for a year. Returning to the United States they took up residence in Tulsa, Oklahoma where Robert worked in oil research for five years. Moving back to Milwaukee, Robert began teaching at Marquette before coming to Pur-due and West Lafayette in 1965. In recent years that have spent six months of each year in Santa Rosa, Florida.
In addition to becoming a PWC member and serving on its board, Rosemary was a diligent volunteer at the West Lafayette Public Library and served on it’s board. Church of the Blessed Sacrament in West Lafayette and St. Rita’s in Santa Rosa were both blessed with her mem-bership and involvement in the parish. Rosemary’s favorite pastimes were gardening, reading, playing bridge and knitting.
Knitting Friends and Newcomers Work Together for Span Plan on October 18
It was a busy afternoon at the Klondike Branch of the Tippe-canoe Country Library on Wednesday, October 18 when the PWC Knitting Friends Interest Group hosted a joint meeting with a group of Newcomers for a grand total of 25 ladies.
Rather than simply joining in a circle to knit, compare and discuss projects or learn a new technique and chat which is usual at regular meetings, each person spent time carefully choosing 20 to 30 coordinating 90” strands for a yarn strand scarf. Kristin Wei-denaar brought the technique to the group from a scarf found in New Mexico at an art fair.
Many Knitting Friends members came early and brought beautiful and unique yarns, helped cut them and then carefully-spread them across the selection tables for people to pick up. There were ribbon yarns, fluffy yarns, yarns that looked like mini feather boas and many different sizes, weights and colors of more usual kinds used. Also welcomed were the remains of yarns from other projects. As long as it was possible to cut a 90” piece of yarn all pieces were welcomed.
It sounds like a simple process and technically speaking it was. However keeping 20 to 30 of the 90” pieces of yarn under control and making the selection interesting and colorful proved to be challenging- especially if someone decided that one or two of the yarns needed to be exchanged for others. There was a decided amount of de-tangling going on!
Once the yarn selection was done there were a number of different knotting techniques one could use to make the finished product and then the scarves could be taken home or contributed to the sale at The PWC Holiday Luncheon. Fifteen scarves went up for sale at the luncheon, were modeled by Knitting Friends mem-bers at the luncheon and sold very quickly! The proceeds of the sale are being sent to Span Plan.
Story and photos by Rene Ferguson
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Muna Oto, 2017 Purdue Program Director for EBV and her assistant.
Purdue Women’s Club Supports the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) for the Fifth Year
Photos by Sarah Wassgren
Five years ago during a speech at a PWC luncheon, Melis sa Evans from The Krannert Business School asked if PWC could support providing welcome bags for the veterans coming to the EBV program. PWC members leaped in and have been doing it ever since with different members leading the project from year to year.
For her second year Sarah Wassgren coordinated the effort and on October 26 delivered the Goodie Bags for the Entrepre-neurial Boot camp to Muna Oto, the Purdue Program Director for the 2017 EBV.
PWC has been supporting this program for five years and each year PWC members have come through with ‘goodie bags’ containing wonderful snacks, drinks and gifts. The bags are placed in the hotel room of each attendee as a ‘Thank you for your service.’ recognition.
EBV offers world-class, experiential training in entrepre-neurship and small business management to post-9/11 soldiers, sailors, aviators, and marines with disabilities resulting from their ser-vice to our country. EBV is designed to provide this training without any cost whatsoever to the veteran.
The firm belief is that our veterans have al-ready earned the price
of admission, as a consequence of their military service.
Many thanks to all those PWC members who contributed items and time to this worthy endeavor!
Have You Ever Wanted To Try This? Here’s Your Chance! Fun and Fashion Go Together for a Fund Raiser!
The Art League of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is seeking models of all shapes, sizes and ethnicities
for its major fundraiser:
Dress Yourself: Be Chic or Sassy and Have Fun!
A Luncheon and Fashion Show on Saturday, April 14, 2018
at Four Points Sheraton West Lafayette.
Chair of the event, Jeanne Verville, a PWC member, is
looking for models from three organizations that enrich the
Lafayette community: The Art League, PWC, and the Lafa-
yette Symphony Guild.
Attendees should come away with a better understanding of
which styles look best for their figures and how accessories can
make an outfit. Heathcliff Boutique in Crawfordsville is providing
the clothing for the show and will sell current styles and accesso-
ries at the event. Models will receive a 20% discount on the
clothes they model from the Boutique.
Please contact Jeanne if you’d like to join in the fun and ex-
citement! [email protected] or (765) 838-3031.
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Tea Time and Theater in Carmel for Explore Indiana in November
On a beautiful fall day in November, 16 Explore Indiana members enjoyed an English tea experience at Tina’s Tradi-tional Old English Kitchen in Carmel, Indiana. After selecting three individual tea options, teapots were placed on the dining tables to steep to perfection using hour glass timers. While the teas were steeping, finger sandwiches of traditional English Cu-cumber, cream cheese and dill; chicken salad; egg salad, and English cheddar with green tomato chutney; and turkey with dried cranberries were served. Conversation swirled around the tast-ing of the individual teas and sandwiches and, while additional pots of tea steeped, scones with clotted cream and jam were served for desert.
Following lunch the group toured The Palladium, the mag-nificent centerpiece of the performing arts movement in Carmel. Opened in 2011 and seating 1,600, it hosts the Indianapolis Sym-phony Orchestra, as well as orchestras from other US cities and other countries, vocalists and ensemble groups, instrumentalists, choirs, ballet performances, and much more.
Our tour guide led us through this beautiful concert hall and gave us opportunities to view the venue from every available seating opportunity. His suggestion was seating in the balcony—“you can see everything and the perfect acoustics in the hall make those seats some of the best in the house.”
The Palladium has an education center with outreach pro-grams, one providing musical therapy to dementia patients. It is home to a museum housing the Michael Feinstein Foundation which contains memorabilia and manuscripts of The Great Ameri-can Songbook Collection, music created during the first half of the 20th century representing the golden age of American popular music. The Palladium is impressive and a must see!
An Important Request from President Emily Blue
We are looking for a volunteer with accounting or bookkeeping experience to conduct the next annual audit of the PWC financial records.
Please contact Emily at 543-9498 or [email protected]
LET’S HEAR FROM YOUR INTEREST GROUP! The next issue of the PWC Newsletter will be the February edition. The submission deadline for the February edition is January 10. Further deadlines through to the May Edition will be the 10th of the prior month.
Please send all stories, notices and photos to [email protected] and [email protected]
Story and Photos by Melinda Bain
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Coming Up in January for PWC Members
INTO NATURE Headed to Crow’s Grove in Warren County on Friday, November 17
Into Nature Interest Group met on Friday, November 17 to travel to visit the NICHES property, Crow's Grove, in Warren
County. Nancy Grenard, Into Nature Co-Chair reported “It was one of our best outings to date. Weather was almost per-fect. Julie, from NICHES, was delightful!” Into Nature may revisit this location in the Spring to check out the wildflowers. Into Nature will start the new year with a meeting on January 19 at 1:30 at Clegg Gardens to plan our 2018 schedule. All are welcome with ideas for places to visit and programs in 2018. With questions or to join the email list please contact: Patty Jischke at [email protected] or Nancy Grenard at [email protected] or 765-404-0835 (c)
A Wonderful PWC Holiday Bus Trip to Chicago!
The bus was full as we rode up to Chicago in the early morning on Wednesday, November 29. Some of us went to Macy’s (which used to be Mar-shall Fields) and enjoyed the decorated windows and ate lunch with family in The Walnut Room. We had coffee and cake pops that was a wonderful treat before heading off to the Christkindle Markt in Daley Plaza for German decorations, hot
spiced wine, Wiener schnitzel and potato pancakes. Others enjoyed ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ at the Oriental Theater and some delighted in ’White Christmas’ at The Music Box Thea-ter. Eataly was a favorite spot too. There were lots of packag-es stowed in the cargo spaces as we drove home!
Jeanna Jones and Jacky Ralph did a great job of facilitating the trip right down to providing drinks and snacks for the bus rides and making absolutely sure we all knew where and when to gather back for the ride home. As we drove south on Michi-gan Avenue the lights and decorations were just magical!
Think about joining us for the Spring Chicago Trip 5/23/18!
The Health and Wellness Interest Group Wants to Know What’s On Your Mind!
On January 18 at 2:00 at the Daniel Turf Center we are having a planning get together. Everyone is invited. We thought it would be good for all of us to be able to share our ideas and concerns, and ask our women friends questions about whatever is on our minds and hearts that we might address in our meetings in this coming year. Hope to see you on the 18th!
For questions or further information please contact Debbie Zachman at [email protected]
Gr8 Gals@Technology Have Great Plans! At The Daniel Turf Center, 1340 Cherry Lane, West Lafayette 1:30 to 3:00pm
Tuesday, February 20 What tech item did you get for the holidays that you don’t know how to use, or use to it’s optimum. What can tech items do for you? Email: make the most of the platform. Presenter: Scott Ksander
Tuesday, March 20 The Google family….meet all the members Presenter: Scott Ksander
Tuesday, April 17 Mac/PC: are there still compatibility issues, Android vs iPhone., How to make and use a PDF. Who are they: Alexa vs Siri vs Google Presenter: Scott Ksander
Monday, May 21 Home Security….Scott & Jacky show. A practical approach to home security. Presenters: Scott Ksander & Jacky Ralph
June (Date TBD) Learn all about the Webinar (or can this be a way to hold a family meeting?) How to stream Presenter: Scott Ksander
July (Date TBD) This month, the presentation will be through a webinar. Scott will pick some items that will work well in this format and will present from his home, and you can pick up the webinar at your location.
For more information and added to the email list please contact Sandy Komasinski at [email protected]
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Let’s Do Lunch Friday, January 19 at The Broken Egg Cafe
Coming Up in January for PWC Members
Great News for Doc Martin Attendees! Season 8 DVDs Have Arrived!
Doc Martin will start up in 2018 with it’s first meeting on Wednesday, January 24 at a new location better suited to the growing group of Doc Martin fans-The West Lafayette Public Library (WLPL) where there will be plenty of seating for all. Please be in your seats by 1:15 so there will be time for the two episodes planned to be shown.
There is excellent parking right across the street from the library in the WLPL parking garage. You may also park in the Morton School parking lot just to the east of the library.
Please RSVP to Temple Pearson at [email protected] if you are planning to come on the 24th.
YEAH! HURRAY! Breakfast All Day! Broken Egg Cafe!
I have already reserved Friday, January 19, 2018, for our day at the Broken Egg Cafe. Join us at Noon for such a variety and combination of egg dishes and brunch sandwiches. Broken Egg Café is on the ground/commercial floor of the new Wang Hall on Purdue's campus on the west side of Northwestern one building south of Stadium. The address is 516 Northwestern Avenue. Parking is behind the building.
Note that only Purdue employees can park in the Northwestern Garage on the south side of Wang Hall but there are often spots along the residential streets to the east and north side of Wang and McDonalds. You can enter the building from the Northwest-ern side or from the parking lot in the back.
RSVP to Kathy McGraw if you plan to come [email protected] or (765) 617-1496.
The International Friendship Group Visits The Canadian Maritimes Presented by Susan Paarlberg
Monday January 22, 2018
Join us on January 22nd to hear about a September trip to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Bruns-wick. Susan Paarlberg will present pho-tos of beautiful Atlantic coastal Cana-da. From picturesque lighthouses, UNESCO seaside village of St Andrew, Ann of Green Gables house, the Bay of Fundy, Alexander Graham Bell’s estate & Museum, to an historic fort, there are plenty of wonderful places to visit.
Take a trip to Canada with us as we capture the warmer days of fall way up north! Canadian PWC member Patty Useem promises to help fill us in with a little music from the Maritimes that school-children learn!
Held at the Purdue Turfgrass Diagon-ostic Center, 1340 Cherry Lane. Refresh-ments at 9:30 followed by program at 10am. Contact Debby Sherman, IFG chair, for more information: [email protected] or phone/text: 765-418-8540
Story and Photos by Debbie Sherman
The Anne of Green Gables House
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Explore Indiana Tours Two Fascinating Sites on The Purdue Campus, Thursday, January 25!
Explore Indiana will visit the central campus of Purdue University on January 25 to visit the campus nuclear reactor and the brand new classroom/library building - The Wilmeth Active Learning Center. Purdue is home to the only nuclear reactor in Indiana, located three stories beneath the Electrical Engineering Building. It became operational in 1962 and is licensed to produce up to one kilowatt of thermal power, compa-rable to the energy demand of a hair dryer. Its primary purpose is training students in the principles of reactor physics and is used as a source for neutrons for research in nuclear engi-neering, health science, chemistry, pharmacy, agriculture, biology and nanotechnology.
After lunch a tour is planned for the new hot-spot on campus, the Wilmeth Active Learning Center. It is estimated that 5,000 students use this facility daily. The 164,000-square-foot facility houses the Library of Engineering and Science and 27 classrooms designed for active learning. Throughout the building, study and collaborative spaces are interspersed with the classrooms, creating highly efficient use of space. Melinda Bain will facilitate this experience and you may contact her at [email protected] if you wish to participate or have questions.