Volume 2, Issue 2 AUGUST Message from the President: BPW Leadership Team

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1 Let Yourself GROW with BPW Volume 2, Issue 2 AUGUST 2009 Message from the President: BPW Leadership Team President Amy Ellis aellis@franklinfavorite.com Pres. Elect Debbie Johnson debwbrown@aol.com Vice President Jill Broderson jbinteriors50@hotmail.com Recording Secretary Sharon Taylor SharonLyrae@aol.com Executive Assistant-Brownie Bennett bbennett@franklinfavorite.com Treasurer Pam Womack pamelab.womack@ky.gov Parliamentarian Cathy Hughes highesj@bellsouth.net We are off to a great year with BPW and I am so excited about the activities we have to look forward to in the upcoming months! Our next meeting is Thursday, Aug. 20 at 5:30 at the Simpson County Health Department. The meal will be catered for $7. Please let Pam Womack know if you plan to attend pamelab.womack@ky.gov. Debbie Lyles and Theresa Hayes will present a program on What Employers Are Looking For! Several members volunteered to help register runners and walkers at the Garden Spot Run/Walk on Aug. 8. Thanks to Debbie Johnson, Brownie Bennett, Cathy Hughes, Katherine McCutchen, Alice Bailey, Kendra Holt and Helen Pearson! Members Jill Broderson and Rachel Cothern participated in the walk! They can be our coaches for our TEAM we want to put in next year! I want to thank our new member Janetta Shanklin for the OUTSTANDING job she did with the Fill the Pack project. I was so happy to see a new member take charge and have a great time while doing so! Hope to see you all on Thursday. If you have any ideas for club activities or meeting topics, just give me a call ! Amy For Everyone with a AUGUST Birthday: Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you! Monthly Meeting AUGUST 20th At the Simpson County Health Department Meeting Room Dinner at 5:30 $7.00 per person Program at 6:00 Speakers Debbie Lyles and Theresa Hayes What Employers are looking for!! Business Meeting 6:30 PLEASE RSVP to Pam by Tuesday August 18th

2 Mark Your Calendar Dates to Remember Aug. 8 Garden Spot Run Aug. 20 Monthly BPW Meeting Aug. 26 Women s Equality Day Sept. 9 BPW EC Meeting Sept. 17 Louisville Orchestra on the Square Sept. 17 Monthly BPW Meeting Sept. 18 Cruise-In on the Square(Live Music by Blue Hwy) Sept. 19 Festival on the Square/Pancake Breakfast Sept. 26 Simpson County Junior Miss Oct. 3 Dancing with the Stars Franklin Oct. 15 Monthly BPW Meeting Oct NBWW(Daily activity list on page 6) Oct. 20 Annual Chamber Banquet Nov. 19 Monthly BPW Meeting Dec. tba Christmas Party Hello All, I am in charge of coordinating refreshments for Jr. Miss this year. We usually have bottled water and some kind of snack. Please keep it light, such as, small packaged chips or cookies, fruit tray, etc. They don t eat a lot. I have the following dates open, if you can help please let me know. Thanks, Pam Womack. Wednesday, Aug 26 th Sunday, September 6 th Sunday, September 13th As we Focus on the FUTURE of BPW Franklin! Dedicated BPW members were out early to work the Garden Spot Run Registration. (L;R) Katherine, Helen, Amy, Cathy, Brownie and Kendra. Debbie Brown Johnson Broker/Owner RE/MAX Community Executives (mobile) We are women helping women. As members you can advertise in the local Newsletter free of charge. You can also advertise in the Cardinal Business Card Size // ¼ Size ½ Size // Full Page Size For your AVON needs contact: Sharon Taylor African American Heritage Center 500 Jefferson St. Open 9 to 4:30 Monday-Friday AAHConline.org Located across from Dunn s BBQ A friendly reminder about The Breast Cancer Site: Help save lives today with the gift of early detection! Simply click the pink button at The Breast Cancer Site to help provide free mammograms to underprivileged women.

3 Page 3 Although America is in a recession, the generosity of residents in Simpson County hasn't faltered. A substantial amount of school supplies were delivered to three elementary schools Thursday by the Franklin Business and Professional Women's Club. "The community support was overwhelming." said BPW President Amy Ellis. "We collected a generous amount of supplies and two local organizations gave us significant donations to support the project. We want to thank everyone in the community who gave."the Franklin-Simpson Educational Excellence Foundation donated $500 to the project and BPW purchased 60 backpacks with the donation. The Franklin-Simpson Human Rights Commission donated $300 in supplies, boxed them up and delivered them to the club to distribute to the schools. In addition to these items notebooks, scissors, crayons, folders, glue sticks and many other items were dropped off at local banks to be given to the students. "This community has been very generous." said Project Chairman Janetta Shanklin. "We were still receiving supplies the day after the project ended. I want to thank everyone who donated and helped the students start the year off with the things they need to go to school." The Fill the Pack project was started by the Franklin BPW Club eight years ago and continues to grow each year. Franklin, Simpson and Lincoln elementary schools received the supplies that were collected.

4 Page 4 Kentucky Federation : 14 KY members attended the celebration in St. Louis. She Bakes Cakes donated the birthday cake for this 90th celebration. (A mother-daughter business specializing in Wedding Cakes and Reception Goodies. They also do Custom Casual & Special Event Cakes! The 2010 National Get together will be held in Illinois Dates and Details will be available September 1.

5 August 26, EQUALITY DAY Votes for women were first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott. One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to cast her vote. Eighty-one years old, she cast her vote proudly. Some battles for woman suffrage were won state-by-state by the early 20th century. Alice Paul and the National Women's Party began using more radical tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution: picketing the White House, staging large suffrage marches and demonstrations, going to jail. Thousands of ordinary women took part in these -- a family legend is that my grandmother was one of a number of women who chained themselves to a courthouse door in Minneapolis during this period. In 1913, Paul led a march of eight thousand participants on President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration day. (Half a million spectators watched; two hundred were injured in the violence that broke out.) During Wilson's second inaugural in 1917, Paul led a march around the White House. Opposed by a well-organized and well-funded anti-suffrage movement which argued that most women really didn't want the vote, and they were probably not qualified to exercise it anyway, women also used humor as a tactic. In 1915, writer Alice Duer Miller wrote, Why We Don't Want Men to Vote Because man's place is in the army. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting about it. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms, uniforms, and drums. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them unfit for government During World War I, when women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars. After the war, even the more restrained National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took many opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. In a speech on September 18, 1918, he said, We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right? Less than a year later, the House of Representatives passed, in a 304 to 90 vote, a proposed Amendment to the Constitution : The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any States on Account of sex. The Congress shall have the power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article. On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate also endorsed the Amendment, voting 56 to 25, and sending the amendment to the states. Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan were the first states to pass the law; Georgia and Alabama rushed to pass rejections. The anti-suffrage forces, which included both men & women, were well-organized, and passage of the amendment was not easy. When thirty-five of the necessary thirty-six states had ratified the amendment, the battle came to Nashville, Tennessee. Anti-suffrage and pro-suffrage forces from around the nation descended on the town. And on August 18, 1920, the final vote was scheduled. One young legislator, 24 year old Harry Burn, had voted with the anti-suffrage forces to that time. But his mother had urged that he vote for the amendment and for suffrage. When he saw that the vote was very close, and with his anti-suffrage vote would be tied 48 to 48, he decided to vote as his mother had urged him: for the right of women to vote. And so on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state to ratify. Except that the anti-suffrage forces used parliamentary maneuvers to delay, trying to convert some of the prosuffrage votes to their side. But eventually their tactics failed, and the governor sent the required notification of the ratification to Washington, D.C. And so on August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election.

6 Blessing, Prayers and Get Well Wishes of quick recovery goes out to: ***Maxine Mumford who has been ill National Business Women s Week October 18 thru 23 Tentative Schedule Sunday Prayer Breakfast Monday Awards Banquet Tuesday Chamber Annual Dinner(Table Decorations) Wednesday Church at Pleasant View Thursday Women s Self Defense Friday Women s Luncheon Friday Night Members Fun Night FranklinBPW.org MEMBERSHIP : As of August 1st our membership total was members. Franklin BPW P.O. Box 155 Franklin, KY 42135