Centennial Celebration Committee

The Committee has been working for one year and we have an exciting series of events planned. Come and join the fun! There is much more to do.

Susan Colangelo Co-Chair	szcola113@gmail.com
Sylvia Silver Co-Chair	sarks317@sbcglobal.net

Woman's Club Centennial Products

Click here for the tea pot order form, or the order form for additional items. Order forms are also available at major Club events.

The Woman's Club of Washington University Celebrating 100 Years!

Commemorative Centennial Book

Pre-order this fall for delivery at the January, 2010 Honoring-the-Past Luncheon

Ceramics by Yael Shomroni: Featured Centennial Artist

Available by pre-order or at major Club events.
A portion of the purchase price supports the Woman's Club Centennial.

Special Collector's Edition Teapots have a Woman's Club Centennial logo stamped on the bottom of the pot in black glaze.

Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden Commemorative Notecards

A portion of the purchase price supports the Woman's Club Centennial. Available Fall 2010.

Members

Assimo Azariadis
Marcia Bernstein
Carole Bever
Susan Block
Ruth Chen
Jean Davis
Pam Dempski
Charlotte Eldredge
Ellen Feinstein
Lynn Giardina
Lorraine Gnecco
Becky Hanrahan
Rita Horwitz
Jacki Huber
Margaret Israel
Jen Jensen
Petie Karsh
Alki Lappas-Case
Gini Lappas
Jackie Lipsitz
Ellen Livingston
Gloria Lubowitz
Jennifer Luner
Tedi Macias
Manal Mawla
Judy McKelvey
Ingrid Neuefeind
Candace O'Connor
Pat Owens
Pat Sarantites
Carol Uetake-Shapiro
Molly Smith
Magdalin Szabo
Nancy Thompson
Lori Turner
Phyllis Weidenbaum

Centennial Book Committee

Centennial book cover Project Coordinators: Susan Colangelo and Candace O'Connor

The creation of the 100-year commemorative book has been a wonderful experience for the women of the Centennial Book Committee. We worked as a team to compile our history, collect memories and stories, and delve into the work of creating the book. Our thanks go to Magdalin Szabo who donated countless hours over many years to write our history from the Club's minutes and reports. Susan, Pat Sarantites, Jean Davis, and Gloria Lubowitz supplied many additional photographs. Thanks to John LaRue, Jessica Colangelo, and Charles Sharpless for their wonderful design work.

We thank Mary Ellen Benson, our copy editor, for the generous gift of her time and expertise.

We express thanks to the 2008-09 and 2009-10 Boards of The Woman's Club under the leadership of Assimo Azariadis, Lorraine Gnecco, and Margaret Israel for their support of this project.

Special thanks to Sonya Rooney, University Archivist, who patiently taught us how to access both our Club's archives and the related University archives and photographs.

A heartfelt thank you to the hundreds of Woman's Club members, and former members, and their friends and families, whose support has made the production of this book possible - telling the story of members past, present, and future.

Centennial Book Committee members:

Marcia Bernstein
Jean Davis
Pam Dempski
Charlotte Eldredge
Ellen Feinstein
Lorraine Gnecco
Margaret Israel
Jen Jensen
Gloria Lubowitz
Ingrid Neuefeind
Pat Owens
Pat Sarantites
Carol Uetake-Shapiro
Molly Smith
Sylvia Silver
Magdalin Szabo
Lori Turner

Centennial Celebration Subcommittees

NOTECARDS: Co-Chairs: Pat Owens and Jean Davis
CERAMICS: Co-Chairs: Nancy Thompson, Susan Colangelo, and Jennifer Luner
HONORING THE PAST - NOT JUST LUNCH: Co-Chairs: Sylvia Silver and Ellen Livingston; January 29, 2010, 11:30 a.m.
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UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES SPECIAL LIBRARY EXHIBITION: Chair: Charlotte Eldredge; April 7, 2010, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
CELEBRATION OF WOMEN AND DIVERSITY: Chair: Susan Colangelo; April 5-10, 2010
GALA DINNER AND PERFORMANCE: Co-Chairs: Susan Colangelo and Sylvia Silver; April 10TH, 2010
100TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AND HISTORIC FASHION SHOW: Co-Chairs: Manal Mawla, Carol Bever, and Pat Sarantites; November 13, 2010
CENTENNIAL COMMEMMORATIVE BOOK: Co-Chairs: Susan Colangelo and Candace O'Connor
BUTTERFLY GARDEN COMMEMORATION: Co-Chairs: Jean Davis, Tedi Macias, Marlene O'Brien; September 29, 2010, 12:00 p.m.
WOMEN AND THE KEMPER ART MUSEUM EXPANSION: Chair: Susan Colangelo; Kick-off February 2010

Click here for Magdalin M. Szabo's history of The Woman's Club and click here for Betty Hinchey's history.

Woman's Club Centennial Scholarship

In honor of the Club's centennial year, the Woman's Club of Washington University is committed to establishing an endowed scholarship for students attending University College.

Our goal is to raise $50,000, which provides a $2,500 annual scholarship to a student enrolled in University College at Washington University. Members of the Woman's Club are impressed with former scholarship recipients who have received annual awards from the Club. These students have held jobs, met family responsibilities, and have maintained good grades while attending University College. Over 60 percent of students attending Washington University receive financial aid. It is our mission to make Washington University a financial reality for students. Scholarships lessen the financial obligation while also helping attract the best and brightest students. Permanently endowed scholarships live in perpetuity-providing ongoing financial assistance each year to a deserving student.

"The generosity of donors enables University College to offer merit and need-based scholarships to adult students in the St. Louis area, many of them first-generation college or the children of recent immigrants. These scholarships, and the education they make possible, are often transformative in the lives of individuals and families, and help to build up our city and region-much as the founders of the university envisioned more than 150 years ago." - Robert Wiltenburg, Dean of University College

If you are interested in making a gift to the Washington University Woman's Club Centennial Scholarship please contact:

Becky Hanrahan at 314-935-3609, becky.hanrahan@wustl.edu or mail your gift to Woman's Club of Washington University, Campus Box 1202, St. Louis, MO 63130. Click here to print a form.