GFWC Civic Club Of Oakland Newsletter

Fall/Winter 2013

The Presidents’ Corner As the days grow shorter and the leaves fall, we all gather together with family and friends to prepare for the winter ahead. Part of the fun of this time of year is looking back at all the year has held for us and all that the Civic Club has accomplished. We have participated in some “first time” events this year and we have also continued some long-standing traditions. In April, we participated for the first time in the Garrett County Memorial Hospital’s Health Fair. We had a poster presentation on “Inside Knowledge”, the program of gyne-cological cancer awareness promoted by GFWC. We also had a poster on The Civic Club and how membership in a community organization can promote social health and connectedness among members. In another first time event, we received a generous dona-tion of a week’s vacation in a condo in Ocean City from Dick and Jo Gallagher to use as a raffle. It was a great suc-cess! Many members participated for three months in sell-ing tickets and spreading the word about the raffle. All the details are included in an article in this newsletter. The Civic Club was able to get two tables at the Garrett College Flea Market where we sold many items donated by members and their families. Purses, scarves and jewelry were the big sellers that day. This event was also the ini-tiation of our cookbook sales. While looking through the Civic Club archives Barbara Frantz and I discovered a cookbook from the year 1914. The founding members of the Civic Club of Oakland solic-ited recipes from members and advertising from local stores and businesses and wrote this wonderful slice of Garrett County history. The Republican Newspaper helped us with photocopying the pages and printing the cookbook exactly as it first appeared in 1914. All proceeds from the sale of the cookbook go to augment the Autumn Glory prof-its and will benefit local non-profit agencies.

There is more information about the cookbook in another article in this newsletter. Our traditional fund raising event is the Antique Show and Sale during Autumn Glory. This is coupled with the sale of homemade soups, sandwiches, and baked goods in the Civic Club Kitchen, and the Autumn Glory Quilt Raffle. This year these efforts are also joined by the sale of the Mary-land Cook Book. Many members (and their husbands) worked countless hours to make the Antique Show and the Kitchen such a success. Special Committees are headed up by Betty Ellington and Flo Royer, Jackie Johnson, Anne Horowitz, and Lindy Donahue. They do not work alone! We can only say Thank You! to the many members who volun-teered their time and talents to make this huge event a suc-cess. On the horizon for the rest of the year is our Warm the Chil-dren program in cooperation with the Republican Newspa-per. We need shoppers and thank you note writers to make this effort a special one for many families in Garrett County. We will also be donating gifts to patients in a local nursing home, and meeting there to decorate a Christmas tree for them. Also on the schedule is our Holiday Party on Decem-ber 10, 2013 at Dutch’s. There is never a dull moment in the Civic Club and we welcome everyone to join in any of our activities! The Next One Hundred Years! Sandy Hill and Lindy Donahue 2012-2014 Co-Presidents

GFWC The Civic Club of Oakland, MD is an affiliate of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.

GFWC Jennie Award GFWC Civic Club of Oakland member, Anne G. Forrester, has been named as the GFWC–MD Award honoree that will represent Maryland at the GFWC Southeast Region meeting in early No-vember in Winston-Salem, NC. Anne has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to club, community and family.

The GFWC Jennie Award is named in honor of GFWC’s founder, Jane Cunning-ham Croly, who wrote for national newspa-pers under the pseudonym, “Jennie June.” The award is an occasion to highlight those extraordinary clubwomen who epitomize her spirit of independence, courage and persistence in purpose through their voles as volunteers within their clubs, elsewhere in the community, and as members of a family. Although GFWC has many awards for states and clubs, the GFWC Jennie Award is the only national honor that recognized individual members for personal

excellence. In fact, it is the highest honor bestowed by GFWC. One clubwoman from each of the eight GFWC Regions will be selected for national recognition as a GFWC Jennie Award win-ner. A Medal of Honor and a special certificate will be presented by the GFWC International President and GFWC Jennie Award Chairman at the 2014 Annual International Convention. We wish Anne success as she goes forward in pursuit of the cov-eted GFWC honor. Barbara J. Frantz

JUDI SCHIFF 2013 WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Congratulations to our Civic Club “Woman of the Year,” Judith (Judi) Schiff. She has been an active Volunteer in Garrett County since 2002 when she joined GFWC Civic Club of Oakland. Judi has en-joyed Book Clubs and serves currently as co-chair of the Craft Group. We recognize her beautiful cal-ligraphy work within our 1st place GFWC award Publicity Book of 2011, and as the letter writer for special gifts donated to the Warm the Children pro-gram. She ably served as Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee in 2010-2012. In Garrett County, Judi really shines. Judi is a vol-unteer with the HART; Discovery Center; and she mentors 2 girl students within the Garrett Mentor Program. At the June Highland Festival, Judi is in charge of procuring Vendors. At Garrett College she has organized a stress release class for stu-dents. For Garrett Mentors' Barn Dance fundraiser, Judi co-chairs the popular and successful Silent Auction. At Garrett College, Judi is Secretary of the new GILL Program (Garrett Institute for Lifelong Learning.) Judi’s outstanding volunteer service to the commu-nity has been with her Therapy Dogs that have In-ternational Certification. Maggie, aged 8, has been certified for 6 years. McKenzie is new to the house-hold and is in training. She takes the dogs to the Accident Library and Accident Elementary Reading Program. She also visits with residents at Oakland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Cherry Hill As-sisted Living Nursing Home in Accident; as well as with patients in the Sub-Acute Program at Garrett County Memorial Hospital. Judi was born in Philadelphia and has lived in Vir-ginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Italy, Iceland and Florida. She is a retired elemen-tary school teacher (3rd grade) and dreamed of summers on Deep Creek Lake. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan; Master degree from Gallaudet University, which specializes in the career development and education of the deaf and hearing impaired students, located in Washington D.C.

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Special Awards

Judi is married to Rick, a retired attorney with the US Navy JAG program. They have two children and three grandchildren. She enjoys swimming which she does every morning at Wisp. For lots of fun, she plays Mahjong games with friends. Judi enjoys reading, needlework, boating, biking and snowshoeing in winter. She attends yoga classes and loves walking with her dogs, usually twice a day.

The Woman of the Year committee is Loretta Bailie, Jo Gallagher and Barbara Frantz. We are pleased to add Judith Schiff to the list of outstanding Civic Club Woman of the Year members. This GFWC Civic Club of Oakland, Inc. designation originated in 1992.

New Members Welcomed!!! This group of beaming ladies includes “old” board members and “new” members of the Civic Club at a welcome dinner hosted by Co-President Sandy Hill and other board members on October 26, 2013. The Civic Club is proud to say we have accepted 13 new members in the last 2 club years. In the back row, left to right: Linda Herdering, Bev Maynard, Linda Sebastian, Robin McGill, Sandy Hill, Ellen Fritz, and Suzanne Harle. In the front row are Anne Horowitz, Barbara Frantz, Jean Bailey, Jean Tumbarello and Sandy Smith. These ladies shared a potluck dinner, deli-cious desserts, and the warm friendship of like-minded women. We all had such a good time that we are considering other purely social event for Civic Club mem-bers in the future! Additional opportunities to get together with other members in fun settings include the Craft Group and the Book Club. Watch for information about other opportunities next spring.

Win a Trip! The Civic Club received a very generous donation from Jo and Dick Gallagher of a week in a condo in Ocean City, MD. Their beautiful condo has 2 bedrooms and sleeps 6 people. It is fully furnished and is only ½ block from the ocean in the quiet area of 135th Street. The week they offered was August 9-16, 2013. This week long vacation is valued at more than $1600.00!

The Civic Club held numerous ticket-selling opportunities for mem-bers of the community to enter the raffle for this prize trip. The raf-fle began April 13 at the Health Fair and concluded on July 4th with the drawing of the winning ticket at the Lakeside Creamery.

Picture: Bill Meagher, owner Lakeside Creamery and Mercy Moo picked the winning ticket.

Other ticket sales locations included the Garrett College Flea Market, The Lakeside Creamery on Rt. 219, May and June membership meetings, Gregg’s Pharmacy, and Traders Coffee Shop. Tickets were $5.00 each or 5 tickets for $20.00. Members also took tickets to sell to friends and relatives, and purchased them to give as gifts. In all, the Win a Trip raffle earned $ 960.00! The winner of this vacation week was Sherry Grant from Mt. Lake Park. She and her family were very excited and were already making plans to take advantage of their good fortune. Thank you to all members who helped sell tickets, and to the various venues that allowed us to use their shops for ticket sales. All money earned from this raffle goes directly to the Civic Club’s support of various Garrett County non-profit organizations.

Special Events

Linda Herdering was born near Buffalo, NY, and grew up in Silver Spring, MD & DC. She earned a BS in Business and owned/operated a photography business in DC. She and her hus-band, Mike, retired to

Garrett County in 2004 to open Husky Power Dogsledding. Cherie Krug is the Ex-ecutive Director of the Garrett College Foun-dation. She was born in Glastonbury, CT. She is currently a Commissioner with the Governor’s Com-mission on Service and Volunteerism and represents both Allegany and Garrett Counties. Cherie and her husband Ron reside in Grantsville.

Marilyn Ruymann was born in Washington, DC and MD and gradu-ated from the Univer-sity of MD. She has worked as a teacher, speech-language pa-thologist and excep-tional student specialist in the Broward County

FL Public Schools. She and her husband retired in 2012 and moved full-time to Garrett County.

Linda Sebastian was born in Kentucky. She and husband, Bruce, have one child and two grandchildren. Linda en-joys walking, crafts and “thrifting.” Linda move to Garrett County for a new experience.

Sandra Curey Smith was born in Scran-ton, PA, and lived most of her adult life in Washington, DC, and Falls Church, VA. After high school , Sandra worked as a secre-tary at the State De-partment and ended her career as a reg-istrar for the Arts in the Embassies Pro-gram.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Bring a Friend!

In an effort to recruit new members the Civic Club is offering one year of free membership! How do you qualify for this great prize? Beginning with the March 2014 membership meeting, we will be keeping track of how many guests each member brings to the 10 general membership meetings. The one member who brings the most guests over the course of the year will receive their 2015 dues for free! In case of a tie, those names will be put in a drawing and one name will be selected. Let all of your friends know how much fun the Civic Club is and what great work we do in our community. Bring a Friend!

Jean and her daughter, Jenny Schwartz, also a club member, came to the Southern Outreach Center (the old “Armory” building) as soon as she was contacted that Sunday to pick it up. Two years ago, club member Agnes Dzendzel was our winner, and in 2006 it was Bobbie Anderson. So keep buying those tickets, ladies – you CAN win. The winning ticket was drawn by long-

time Antique Show ven-dor Betty Klug (in pic-ture) of Sew and Saw Crafts Company, in Fre-derick, MD. Sadly (for us) Betty and her hus-band are retiring, so they may not return to our show in 2014. Thank you, Betty and Dick, for

being with us for so many years. Our club wishes you well in your future endeavors and will miss you both. I personally want to thank the club members who vol-unteered their time to sell tickets both at Arrowhead and at the Armory. We all had fun, laughter, and good conversation – though it was cold in September at Ar-rowhead and also in October sitting so close to the front door at the Armory. Lastly, thank you to members who donated items to sell for the benefit of our club. Vendor Diane Bedwell, who happens to be my daughter, reported that $20 was re-ceived for a pitcher shaped vase which she donated and $8 for an antique pair of campfire pie irons donated by a member to sell at June’s Flea Market. Since the pie irons didn’t sell then, we raised the asking price and exhibited it at the Antique Show, where it did sell. Thank you all. Items donated by other members will be held until next year’s Antique Show and Sale. Please contact me if you want to make other arrangements or donate additional item for next year. I have been your Quilt Raffle Chairwoman since 2006, and these eight years have gone by quickly. In that time, our quilt ticket sales have earned just over $20,136 for our club. Now it is time for someone else to take the helm. In addition to being the club’s Re-cording Secretary, I will be serving on the new Fund Raising Committee, whose task will be to think up new and interesting ways of earning money to benefit our local nonprofit organizations. Please think of volun-teering to be the new Quilt Raffle Chairwoman. I will be available at any time to help you plan and to sell raffle tickets each year. It really is a fun job. Anne Horowitz, Quilt Raffle Chair

ANTIQUE SHOW 2013

A special thanks to those who made all the goodies for the ven-dors in the morning. They all said how much they enjoyed them. They were delicious. The number of vendors were about the same. We lost some to illness and personal problems but the closeness of the dealers, we come up with new ones and so still did well in filling our spaces. Thirty-one to be exact.

With Columbus Day on Monday there seemed to be a larger crowd Friday and Saturday. The 3 day ticket helped to bring out a few more people on Sunday to see if what they wanted was still available. Some were and some were not . You win some and you lose some. In talking with the vendors, most of them were very satisfied with their sale. High end items, maybe because of the economy, etc, those sales were down but more small items were sold and they were happy with the results of the Show. Maybe this is a sign of the times of what’s in the future for the Antique Show.

I have had several notes and comments from dealers that this is their favorite show and how much they enjoy the people here and how pleasant everyone is to them. There are shows in the area that are discontinuing because of a lack of vendors. We haven’t had that problem.

Jackie Johnson, Antique Show Chair

QUILT RAFFLE

Now that November is here the annual Autumn Glory Festi-val and our club’s big fund raising efforts are completed. The Quilt Raffle is only one part of our biggest annual fund raiser. The money to fund our annual distributions to non-profits comes from the total raised in October from the ven-dors fees, the door receipts, the kitchen food sale, the quilt raffle. The total we received from our 2013 quilt raffle was a bit disappointing, at least to me. Our gross amount of $2279.72 was less than last year’s total of $2570. I heard many comments from folks attending our Antique Show that there were a lot of quilts for sale this year, all of which competed with ours. Also, we had far fewer ticket sales than in previous years at Arrowhead, where I noticed the pedestrian traffic seemed slower than it was last year. While we have been raffling quilts annually for many years now, perhaps it is time to think about expanding into an-other area. But the good news is that the 2013 quilt was won by long-time Civic Club member Jean Gosnell. Technically, Jean herself did not win because she bought the winning ticket, number 835, in the name of her granddaughter, Jessica Griffen, who lives in Oregon.

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FUND RAISING AUTUMN GLORY 2013

KITCHEN Again this year the big ticket items were purchased at SAM's Club, other kitchen items were picked up from lo-cal stores. Club members prepared the beef vegetable and chicken barley soup, the sloppy joes, and the pulled pork, in St. Pauls United Methodist Church kitchen. Tina Buckle, the MD Health Inspector, issued a temporary kitchen permit to the Civic Club to sell food at our Antique Show. Tina for the most part was very complimentary; however, she did point out some minor changes that next year's kitchen staff will have to implement.

Members donated $414.00 for the purchase of food; we spent $632.00 for food and paper products. The total kitchen profit was $2855.80. Leftover food was donated to the Lighthouse; most of which was baked goods.

Thanks to our many volunteers our AG bakery and the kitchen cafe was a great success. A special thanks to all the members, spouses, and friends who baked many cakes, pies, bread, cookies, and to the many volunteers who cut, priced, and set out the baked goods. Our com-pliments to the many cooks who prepared the food. Hats off to those members who worked long hours in kitchen serving up our food items and to those remarkable volun-teers who kept the kitchen clean. As with any business we could not have run it without our cashiers.

Again thank you wonderful volunteers.

Betty Ellington and Flo Royer

BAKE SALE The “bakery” was a great success this year. Thanks to our talented members we had a great many delicious items donated and they sold well. We were lucky to have a good variety this year and the number of pies donated meant we had to purchase only two fruit pies in addition to the pumpkin, which we cannot accept from members. Friday morning was fun as well as productive. Thanks to everyone who helped we were able to get the job done in a few hours so the bakery was set for the weekend. We cut, packaged and priced cookies, brownies, cakes and some of the pies. It’s a challenging task, working with plastic wrap and bags with gloves on, but many hands make light work and all went well. Many, many thanks to Jeannie Bailey, Loretta Bailie, Ellen Fritz, BJ Gallagher, Anne Horowitz and granddaughter, Lily, Bev Maynard, Judi Merriman, Pat Mullinix, Anne Rebele, and Hazel Sherwood. Lindy Donahue

MARYLAND COOK BOOK 1914

Reprint of the Original Maryland Recipe Book GFWC The Civic Club of Oakland

In the year 1911 twenty-two ladies from Oakland, Maryland gathered in the center of town to beautify their community. They borrowed wagons and horses and hauled out 39 loads of dirt, trash and weeds. Then they went home and cooked dinner! These ladies established The Women’s Civic Club of Oakland and what has become a long tradition of community service, fund-raising efforts for worthy local causes, and good home cooking often shared with the community as well as family and friends.

In 1914, these ladies published The Maryland Cookbook as a fund raising project. They solicited advertising from local businesses and recipes from their members. The most famous recipe was submitted by Mrs. F.W. Sum-ner and is called “How to Cook a Husband”! Then these ladies sold copies of their book to community members, donating all the funds back to local charities. In honor of the 100th anniversary of The Maryland Cookbook, we are offering a reprint exactly as it was first published in 1914. As the estab-lished tradition of the Civic Club of Oakland, all proceeds from the sale of this reprint will be donated to local non-profit organizations. Cookbooks were sold at the Antique Show, and are also available from Civic Club members, at Bear Creek Traders, Penn Alps Country Store, School House Earth, and the Book Mark’t in Oakland. Please enjoy this slice of Garrett County history!

Fund Raising Autumn Glory 2013 Other Fund Raising in 2013

MORE CLUB ACTIVITES

CRAFT CLUB I’m writing this article looking out my window at the first snowfall! Hard to believe snow is here already. The Craft Club is prepared though. We’ve already finished our Thanksgiving project to be delivered to our 275 recipients just before Thanksgiving. Hallow-een will be delivered next week. What a project that one was! They were different and pretty but I don’t think we’ll be using cup-cake holders in any projects for a long while! It’s important for the club to make project decisions early so 2014

has already begun! We start working on the Valentine’s Day project as soon as we finish Christmas. There’s a break between Easter and the 4th of July, but with summer per-sonal activities, getting started early on the fall/winter projects is essen-tial. One month between Halloween, Thanksgiving, our donation to the

Festival of Trees (Dove Center), and Christmas, doesn’t leave us a lot of time to craft around! Our theme for the tree we’re donating to the Festival of Trees this year is entitled “Pure Country!” I’ve said this before and will probably say it in every newsletter, we’re a fun group but we sure could use your help! We meet the first and third Tuesday of each month from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and, if you’re available, we adjourn for lunch at Denny’s after-wards.

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We are only closed if schools are de-layed two hours or are closed all day. We’re really good company, carry on great conversations, and have lots of fun while we work on our projects. You don’t have to be crafty, just willing to share ideas, learn, and do. Come join us! Jeannie Bailey & Judi Schiff

BOOK CLUB Prior to our meeting of November 2013, our top-rated books have been: 5.0 CLEOPATRA, A Life by Stacy Schiff. Historical non-fiction) Recently updated account that tries to dispel myths and outright lies through thorough research. 5.0 THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L. Stedman. Fiction with morality questions. New author 4.5 ORANGES AND SUNSHINE by Margaret Humphreys. His-torical Non-fiction. Great Britain’s schemes to emigrate children to other countries w/o parental knowledge. Fall is fundraising time and holidays so our November/December book is:DEFENDING JACOB, Wm Landray, a fiction novel. Andy Barber, Massachusetts ass’t DA -son Jacob, 14 yrs. Accused of killing his classmate BEN RIFKIN –wife/mom’s name is Laurie. People refer to the “murder gene” as a figure of speech, not a scientific term –hereditary “violence” tendencies. ANDY, is aware of his family history containing vio-lent men (but not himself). Andy was 5 when his dad was impris-oned and so he never knew him and never told anyone anything other than he “didn’t know who his father was.” So his wife didn’t know either, much less his son. The meeting of the third Friday in January is to discuss and vote on which books we find of interest for 2014. Book Club meets at NOON every third Friday of the month at Dutch’s at Silver Tree. For lunch reservations, please call SHERRY BRADSHAW 301 746 8117 or email sherbrad@verizon.net

WARM THE CHILDREN The GFWC Civic Club of Oakland and the The Republican News-paper’s Warm the Children (WTC) campaign is under way for the 16th year, it is an effort to raise money to help local children who are in need of winter clothing. For new members who are not fa-miliar with the program it is, in a nutshell, a method of spending up to $125 per child on coats, hats, boots, pajamas, or any other warm clothing. Because it is operated through the newspaper and the Civic Club, every penny donated goes toward the pur-chase of these items for Garrett County children. The newspaper does all of the advertising, prints all the stationary and WTC forms, and shares the cost postage with the civic for mailing out the thank you notes. All donations are received by WTC Republican Newspaper. All WTC applications are approved by the Department of Social Services. The Civic is responsible for the following: Ellen Fritz assigns volunteers to write hand written personal thank you notes to every person who gives a donation to WTC. She also ensures that each writer has the necessary supplies (note cards, envelopes, and stamps) to write and send the thank you notes. Last year 19 members wrote a total of 325 thank you notes. Beverly Maynard receives donations from the newspaper, depos-its all donations and keeps the Volunteer Shopper Chairman, Betty Ellington informed of all deposits. Betty then assigns

shoppers, tracks funds, and signs off on Walmart bill for payment. Last year we shopped for 132 families, to provide warm clothing

for 332 children. If you are interested in writing thank you notes please call or email Ellen Fritz. All our shopping is done in the local Walmart Store. The shopping will start around the middle of No-vember through mid December, if you are inter-ested in shopping with a WTC family please call Betty or email.

HOLIDAY GIFTS FOR ONRC RESIDENTS

Peggy Nelson organized the donation of holiday gifts for 20 residents at the Oakland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center who might not have received gifts otherwise. Peggy asked that members put the gifts in a bag and mark it with the number on the slip received. That way staff will know for which resident your gift is intended. Further she asked everyone to take the gifts to the November 26 Club meeting or to the nursing home. The deadline to take them to the nursing home is Sun., Dec. 1th. Those taking gifts to the nursing home should mark on the gift that it is from a member of the Civic Club of Oakland. Peggy thanks those who participated in this project. Contact Peggy at 301-387-3033

2013-2014 Yearbook Chgs/Corrections since Aug, 27, 2013 Gail Herman is no longer a member Ellen Fritz - Phone number correction - 301-387-2157 Nancy Helbig is deceased as of 8/29/13 Jean Grant -new address and phone: Fairhaven, 7200 Third Ave - A303, Sykesville, MD 21784, phone: 443-609-3058 Marilyn Ruymann - Additional phone number - 301-387-5374 Kathy Brady - Remove incorrect part of zip code Linda Sebastian not in alpha order

EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to all the individuals who contributed articles and photos for this publication. Suzanne Harle, Newsletter Editor

MORE CLUB ACTIVITES

HOLIDAY LUNCHEON DATE: December 10, 2013 TIME: 11:30 - Cash Bar & Appetizers LUNCH: 12:30 PLACE: Dutch's at Silver Tree 567 Glendale Road, Swanton MENU: TBD PRICE: $18.00 per person which includes gratuity. Club members, spouses and guests are invited. All reservations must be prepaid and received by Dec. 1, 2013. Make checks payable to: GFWC The Civic Club of Oak-land, Inc. Send to: Peggy Nelson 2882 Mayhew Inn Road Oakland, MD 21550ues-tions (301.387.0033)

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