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Take your daughter to work. That may have been a treat last month, but it was more fun to take your daugh ter to dinner Tuesday night at the monthly dinner meeting of the Englewood Business and Professional Women’s Club at the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club. Members, mothers, daughters and special guests were all welcome at a truly extraordinary celebra tion. Life on the seas was cele brated by Donna Caro of the Marine Patrol, who began her career in 1984 and worked for Charlotte County since 1987, when the patrol was known as the Florida Marine Patrol. The FMP has since joined Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), but name changes don’t much affect her work. She still spends her days (and sometimes nights) aboard a 21-ft. Boston Whaler, promot ing boating safety and law enforcement in the Gulf of Mexico, our bays and canals, and helping rescue manatees and people alike. She also dis cussed drug activities at sea (more prevalent on Florida’s east coast) and the most seri ous dangers facing recreation al boaters, inebriated captains and reckless operation of per sonal watercraft. Life in the classroom was celebrated by Scholarship Chairman Karen Maurer, who presented Tori Shirlock with a $500 scholarship from the BPW. Shirlock is a young woman who graduated from Lemon Bay High School and now attends Charlotte Technical Center; she will graduate in December 2002. This enterprising scholar has her future well planned: she fully expects to one day run her own business designing homes — Shirlock Homes. Both small and tall tales were celebrated by bona-fide storytellers after dinner. Patty Cloward and Amy Roberts provided time-honored, fanci ful stories of Americana, pay ing particular attention to Key West and rural Georgia. Some stories were even true. Roberts shared exotic tales from her former home in Key West, and her characters were extraordinary. Her stories involved non-traditional reli gions and ghosts, spirits and dyed-in-the-wool eccentrics; her style was peppered with lilting Spanish accents. In contract, Cloward related reminiscences of small towns and seemingly ordinary peo ple. Her vivid expressions and animated voice brought to life “just folk” and made us want to hear more. Both tale-tellers meet monthly with other story-fans at the Englewood Sports Complex; consult our Calendar for details. Business and Professional Women/USA, founded in 1919, promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. With 30,000 members in more than 1,600 local clubs, its roster includes every age, race, religion, polit ical party and socioeconomic background. Among the first of women’s organizations to endorse the uar Rights Amendment in 1937, BPW/USA has led in promoting and passing legisla tion affecting working women ever since. In addition, BPW educates its members on poli cy issues and encourages them to become directly involved in policy development in their own places of work and in grass-roots efforts at the local, state and federal government levels. BPW/USA also sponsors conferences, events and pro grams that benefit local com munities, aid in the personal and professional development of young women and raise awareness of issues affecting working women. You may e-mail Grace at gracetee @comcast.net President Nina Steinman and Karen Drury greet members and guests Tuesday night. Carolyn Exelby and daughter Jenna, 14, enjoy mom/ daughter dinner. Above, Nina Steinman presents an appreciation certifi cate to speaker, Donna Caro of the Marine Patrol. At night, Patty Cloward tells fascinating stories about rural Georgia and other home-grown tales. Lina Marie Fowler surely takes the cake cops, hat. Kelly Shelton and Jackie Bradley surround mom, Mickey Atchison. Fran Viertec and mom, Irma Granata, are guests of sister Irene Slattery. Storyteller Amy Roberts relates delightful tidbits about Key West characters. Grace Gilbert ae ate At top, Betty Swanson enjoys her girls, Judy Rossato and Karen Keith. Above, Bea Zullo and Billie Suttell have been BPW members more than 30 years. At left, Tori Shirlock receives scholarship funds from chairman Karen Maurer. Sun photos by Grace Gilbert
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Englewood Sun
Englewood, Florida, US
Sun, May 26, 2002
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