Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Women’s club celebrates 50-year anniversary
POCOPSON » Fifty years is a long time to keep a tradition alive, but that’s just what’s happened for the Chadds Ford Women’s Club.
The organization was founded in 1967 by several women who wanted to get together on a regular basis and hear about current issues.
Through the years it has grown to the point where women are joining from as far away as Kennedyville, Md., Glen Mills and Garnet Valley.
It’s more than a social club, however. It’s a chance to hear in-depth reports on various topics of interest presented by experts.
Next month, for instance, Austin Conley of the Delaware Natural History Museum will talk about bats, and in November Kevin Arnold from London Grove Friends Meeting will discuss “Quakerism: England to America.”
Sometimes the meetings depart from the scholarly to more entertainment, such as March 2018s offering of “Hadley and Friends,” a country music band.
President Charlotte Paulson led last week’s luncheon at the Northbrook Marketplace, which one member described as an event that was free to all the members because the membership coffers were solidly in the black.
The restaurant, which sits atop the familiar produce market on Route 842, was decorated with green and yellow balloons — the signature colors of the club. Each of the four remaining founding members, Judy Murtagh, Cally Conner, Jackie Givens and Helen Sipala, was presented with a green and yellow corsage. There are 42 members of the group, most of whom were present at the anniversary party.