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President, Margaret Otis, called the meeting to order at
12:45 p.m. after a lovelytea hosted by the Tea Committee. Jo Molnar lead the club in
the pledge of allegiance.
Secretary’s and Treasurer’s reports were accepted. Margaret reminded everyone
that dues are due by June 15.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, Sharon Oudermool,
sent the following cards thispast month: Sympathy card to the family of
Cynthia Hodgson following her death in May. Cynthia was a former member
and treasurer for two years.
Get well cards were
sent to Joyce O’Neil and Nancy
O’Connell on their recent surgery. A thinking of you card to
Mavis Wiard.
MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN, Carrie Wailgum,
introduced her committee and the following new members were
welcomed into the club and presented a plant, a gift and their
membership book: Mary
Frances Sawyer, Carol Powers, Pat Hirtle, Connie Doherty and
Eileen Wyatt. Ruth Munroe was to be presented a corsage in honor of her
becoming a Life Memberfor her 25 years in the garden club. However Ruth was not present
so Margaret will deliver this to Ruth.
BUS
TRIP: Jeanne
Tassinari announced that there are 3 openings for the bus trip to
New Bedford
tomorrow, June 4th.
CIVIC
BEAUTIFICATION:
Chairman, Irene Mitchell, thanked all her committee
forkeeping up the parks and gardens.Hydrangas were being planted at
Brooks Park with great difficulty. Landscaper, Bob Kingsbury,
has volunteered to plant these for the club.
Police Chief Mason
has thanked the club for all our efforts. Doane
Park has been
cleaned up. Irene put
out a plea for more volunteers especially to our new members.Irene
presented thank you gifts to the following people for their
continued help:
Carol
Donohoe for the W. Harwich Post Office; Doris Wigren
for the Millenium Park and
Albro Park ; and Jo Molnar for the
Fire Station.
BLOOMING BARRELS: The merchants in Harwich
Port gave $200 toward
someadditional barrels and plants. Kaye Grua is retiring from
Blooming Barrels and CoChairman, Shade Cronin presented her with a
plant for all her hard work.
PLANT SALE
:
Chairman, Gerie Schumann gave a summary of the sale. Total raised including the
bake table, raffle, and white elephant table was
$7046.60. Geri presented Barbara Smith with a
gift for the use of her home for plant drop off and also the potting
project. Margaret
presented Geri with a gift certificate to the Sea Grille for all her
work on the very successful plant
sale.
RAFFLE:
Chairman, Jo Molnar, announced the winners of the
raffle: lst prize, the
oil painting was won by Barbara Bower; 2nd prize, the
potting table made by Tom Dillon was won by one of our member’s,
Linda Felice; 3rd prize was the bandstand lawn
ornament made by Alan Atkinson and won by Dr. John Roche
Top
ticket sellers of 7 books each was Geri Schumann and Kathy
Dillon. Total raffle
sales was $1897.00.
FASHION SHOW: Jeanne Tassinari thanked all
who attended. The
Claire Murray rug raffle was won by Nancy Atkinson. Total receipts on the raffle
was $929.00.
BRIDGE LUNCHEON: Mimi Foster announced the
bridge luncheon will be Wednesday,October 22 at the Alan Harbor
Yacht Club. Help will
be needed.
CHRISTMAS STROLL: Kathy Dillon stated the
stroll will be December 5 and we hope to have the same store front
on Main
Street in Harwich
Port.
YEARBOOK Information is needed by June
15th.
NEWSLETTER Information is needed
by August lst.
Next general meeting will be Tuesday,
September 9, the week after Labor Day.
OLD BUSINESS: Lee Clark brought us up to
date on the Wild Flower situation on Route 6 and the “Do Not Mow”
signs.
Margaret brought everyone’s
attention to the “What Next” handout that lists activities from June
through September.
Business meeting adjourned at
1:25.
Jeanne Tassinari introduced our speaker, Bill Graham,
who gave a very entertaining program on the “Little Black Dress” and
made several lovely floral arrangements that were raffled off at the
end of the program.
Respectfully submitted,
Priscilla Davis
Secretary Pro Tem
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