Delaware State Federation of Women’s Clubs marks 125 years

The Basic Federation of Girls’s Golf equipment Delaware State Federation of Girls’s Golf equipment held its annual conference and one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary celebration on the Hyatt Place Dewey Seashore Might 17-19.  Celebrating Our Previous, Forging Our Future was this 12 months’s theme.

Welcoming attendees to a full schedule of conferences, workshops, awards and set up of the 2022-24 administration was Linda King, appearing president and Sussex County vp, filling in for President Rita Hollada who was absent attributable to sickness.

City Supervisor Invoice Zolper and City Clerk Ashleigh Sanders welcomed the group to Dewey Seashore.

Lt. Gov. Bethany Corridor-Lengthy, Rep. Richard Collins, R-Millsboro, and Rehoboth Seashore Mayor Stan Mills attended the one hundred and twenty fifth celebration Vogue, Music and Achievements Via the A long time and dinner.  Members of the manager committee got here wearing interval costumes from every of the group’s 12 many years, from the primary conference, held Might 5, 1898, to the current day.

Corridor-Lengthy learn a proclamation from the Delaware Senate honoring GFWC Delaware for the contributions it has made throughout the previous 125 years. Dr. Anne Boylan, professor emerita of historical past and ladies and gender research on the College of Delaware, was the keynote speaker.

GFWC Previous President Babs Condon put in the 2022-24 administration Might 19. Trish Rodriguez was put in as the brand new president who will lead GFWC Delaware for the following two years. In her acceptance speech, Rodriguez outlined the initiatives and objectives for her administration. A reception adopted the shut of conference.