GFWC BELLEVUE Woman’s Club—
POETRY WINNERS
Recently, the GFWC Bellevue Woman’s Club honored the winners of a poetry and short story contest sponsored by the club for all area school children. Entries were received from many schools, including Brookmeade, Westmeade, and Hillwood High Schools.
One of the club winners, Jenna Katherine Martin, also won first place in the State Contest. Her poem about a Thanksgiving mishap was titled “This Fine Thanksgiving Day.” Other club entries won honorable mention in the state contest.
All winners read their entries at the honors program at the GFWC Bellevue Woman’s Club meeting. A reception for the winners, their parents and teachers followed the meeting.
Submitted by Mary Berryhill
GFWC Coytee Woman’s Club
GFWC Coytee Woman’s Club International Affairs Dept. presented a program with special guest Momir Azenovich (MoMo) for their last meeting of the summer. MoMo is a 44-year-old Bosnian Christian. His wife is Dunja and they have two children, son Nino and daughter Ina. The family is from Tuzla, Bosnia, which used to be Yugoslavia. While he was an interrupter for Bradley Redmond in Lenora City, he was able to come to the US on a work visa. Momir is a chemical engineer.
He told about how his family lived and how hard it had been for them. He explained briefly how Serbs, Croatians and Kurds didn’t get along and haven’t for years. The good part is that he and his family are now in the United States. They arrived in Atlanta Dec. 7, 2002. The children began school in January 2003. A friend donated a mobile home and different groups and churches have helped with furniture, food and a van. MoMo has his drivers license now. He wrote a computer program to teach his wife and children English. The children are doing real well in school, and the family cannot believe how friendly, nice and helpful everyone has been to them. They love everything about America, he said. They thank God every day for the privilege of being in America.
Other special guests at the meeting included Mable Westbrook, Jim Tucker and Gale Hooker.
Pictured L to R: Mary Ann Williamson, Hilda Lee, Ann Stewart, Kathleen
Linginfelter, Momir Azenovich (MoMo), Jim Tucker, Faye Shults, Gale
Hooker, Club president Helen Williams, and Neva Sexton