Home Life Presents check to Bluefield Rescue Squad at club meeting
Frances Wayland, chair of the Home Life Department, presented a check to Bluefield Rescue Squad members James Martin, Betty Cundiff, and Terry Sarver at a Trinity Methodist Church gathering. The afternoon featured musical numbers, a poem, welcomes for a new member, birthday songs, and social hour before adjourning until September.
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Bluefield
James Martin
Betty Cundiff
Terry Sarver
Richard Wayland
The
Home Life
Frances Wayland
Bluefield Woman’s Club
Woman's Club hears minister on roles of women
In Bluefield Virginia the Women’s Club program featured Minister Dr. Herbert Hicks discussing the changing role of women in home and society. He noted wage gaps and social pressures while envisioning an America where every child of God can pursue their chosen path. Mrs Hicks led devotions from Romans and shared a poem by her husband.
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Herbert Hicks
Home Life Department
Women's Club
Bluefield
Dr. Hicks
America
God
Quotarians Celebrate Birthdays at June Elks Club Meeting
Bluefield Quota Club held its June fellowship at the Elks Club with guests Mary Lou Brown Trey Richardson Jackie Oblinger June Shott and Dottie Grim. Mary Allen Brown gave the fellowship. Brenda Acken was congratulated for becoming the first woman vice president of the West Virginia Society of CPA and Lynn Badgett was consecrated as a diaconal minister at the West Virginia Conference in Buckhannon. Correspondence was read by Billie Boyd. Laralice Ratcliffe led a program honoring June birthdays: Betty Carte Connie Gammage Hazel Templeton Joan Monaco Harriet Speiden Mary Helen Kirby Patti Goforth Lina Light.
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Bluefield Quota Club
Elks Club
Mary Lou Brown
Trey Richardson
Jackie Oblinger
June Shott
Dottie Grim
Mary Allen Brown
Brenda Acken
West Virginia Society of Cpa
Lynn Badgett
West Virginia
United Methodist Church
Buckhannon
Billie Boyd
Laralice Ratcliffe
Betty Carte
Connie Gammage
Hazel Templeton
Joan Monaco
Harriet Speiden
Mary Helen Kirby
Patti Goforth
Lina Light
Little Zion Church Women's Day Highlights Community Event
The Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Bishop held its first annual Women's Day with Rev. Howard Dews delivering The Need of Christian Women in a Divided World. Laura M. Owens of Union Mills spoke on The New Woman for a New World, with guest soloists Lorna W. Dykes and Elizabeth Lockett. The Missionary Society reported 56.00 raised for the Hill Top project and 98.62 for the Women's Day offering, as many out of town guests attended.
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Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Bishop
Howard Dews
Laura M. Owens
Union Mills
N.C
Lorna W. Dykes
Princeton
Elizabeth Lockett
Pocahontas
Mary Hairs
War
Geraldine Wilson
Wallscrak
Lorraine Taylor
Canebrake
Alex Webb
Mary A. Mason
Boissevain
Bluefield OES Holds Regular Meeting Led by Vermillion and Ward
Worthy Matron Helen Vermillion and Worthy Patron John Vermillion presided at Bluefield OES Chapter 66 meeting. Correspondence included a Mrs Nellie S Ward letter and invite to a Friendship Tea by Rock Chapter 130 at Montcalm Masonic Temple. Rennie Warner reported on decorated soap sales benefiting Heart Project. 40 cookbooks were sold for Cystic Fibrosis Research funds.
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Bluefield
Order of Eastern Star
Helen Vermillion
John Vermillion
Nellie S. Ward
Rock Chapter
Masonic Temple
Montcalm
Rennie Warner
Esther
Heart Project
Rhododendron Club Tours and Garden Luncheon
Rhododendron Garden Club held a meeting led by president Mrs W H Davidson with a garden tour of Mrs Edwin Taylors Bland Road property. A dutch luncheon followed at the Sheraton. Plans included rose garden work at Glenwood Park United Methodist Home and bedding plants for the Municipal Building rectangle along with an anti litter project and a WVU landscape design course.
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Edwin Taylor
Bland Road
Sheraton
W. H. Davidson
Glenwood Park United Methodist Home
West Virginia University
Club Calendar of Meetings and Gatherings
A Tuesday through Saturday schedule lists Kiwanis at Matoaka United Methodist. Girl Scouts at Princeton Presbyterian. Old Guard and Presbyterian Women meetings at Trinity and First Presbyterian churches. Trinity United Methodist Women. WMU luncheon and meeting. Bluefield Quota Club. Westminster Presbyterian Women. Hill Avenue Garden Club. Women of the Moose Bluefield Chapter 565. Bluefield Garden Club. Ridgecrest Duplicate Club. Golden Age Club. Westminster Elderberries luncheon. YWCA Duplicate Club.
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Matoaka
Princeton Girl Scout Service
Princeton Presbyterian Church
Old Guard
Trinity United Methodist Church
First Presbyterian
Trinity United Methodist
United Methodist Women’s Room
College Avenue Baptist Church Circle
WMU
Quota Club of
Bluefield
Elks Club
Westminster Presbyttian Women of the Church
Hill Avenue Garden Club
Tiffany Manor
Women of the Moose
Moose Home
Bluefield Garden Club
Bluefield Country Club
Ridgecrest
Golden Age Club
College Avenue
Westminster Elderberries
Women United Methodist Women Meet For May Session
Virginia Avenue UMW circles gathered at the church for the May unit meeting. Mary McGuire group led by Pauline Spence presented Make a Difference with your Talents. Prayer, scripture on the parable of the talents, and discussions on using gifts to impact lives followed. Attendance awards, reports, and a film on Holston Conference women’s work were shown. A separate Yards-Nemours UMW meeting planned summer camp for two youths, with a recognition event and a worship lead. Birth announced: Brandon Lee White on May 28 at Princeton Community Hospital to Janet Bates and David White. grandparents Homer and Beulah Bates and T. R. White.
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Virginia Avenue
United Methodist
Mary McGuire
Pauline Spence
Ewilda Whitenack
Ralph Brown
UMW
Holston Conference
Ott Belcher
al Werner
Lillian Copley
Norma David
Evelyn Canterbury
Mary Cox
Hazel Kelly
Ruby
David White
Princeton
Brandon Lee
Princeton Community Hospital
Janet Lee Bates
Homer Bates
Smithville, Tenn
Beulah White
T. R. White
St Ann's Altar Society Holds Luncheon Meeting
The St Ann's Altar Society of Sacred Heart Church met in the church lounge with President Virginia Smith presiding. Reports covered a successful flea market, upcoming reception after the Anointing of the Sick, bake sale donations, a May 24 First Communion Breakfast, a Children's Choir performance, a carry in dinner invitation, a Concord College retreat report, and hosting duties for the Fall DCCW Deanery meeting on Oct 18. A devotional by Juanita Mullins closed the gathering attended by 28 members and one guest.
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St. Ann's Altar Society
Sacred Heart Church
Virginia Smith
Anna Catsonis
Commission On Aging
St. Monica’s Guild
Concord College
DCCW
Juanita Mullins
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W. K. Bourne
C. H. Mustard
Harry E. Tabor
R. A. Walk
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Cora Lee Philpott
Susan Kessler
Graham High School
James Kerrigan
State Board
Blacksburg
Abingdon
Martha Washington Inn
Barter Theatre
Sam Brookshire
Vance Wells
Clara Whitley
Margaret de Rouse
Walter Neel
Little Zion Church
Bluefield Oes
Taylor Garden
YWCA
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A. C. Davidson
Grace Woodridge
Wilma Harman
Tazewell
Edna Turner
Sam Cundiff
Jamraget Jean Cromer
Camp Laurel
Agnes Murphy
M. M. Butt
Juanita Watson
School of Christian Mission
Tennessee Wesleyan College
Creasy Fellowship Hall
James Warden
St. Ann's Society
St. Ann's
Fran Derenge
ST. Ann
E. J. McQuail Jr
St. Ann’s Guild
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