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Volume
1, Issue 8
Winter 2002
HIGHLIGHTS
in this Issue:
Della Discusses
eGFWC
HOBY
Karen’s Koiner
Lana’s Letter
Legislative Day
Mary Love Coley on
Reporting
SER
Susan Speaks
Club news:
GFWC Bellevue
GFWC Johnson City
Monday Club
GFWC Jr. Chilhowee
GFWC Knoxville
GFWC Lenoir City
GFWC Ossoli Circle
GFWC Stones River
GFWC Tiptonville W.C.
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LANA’S LETTER
LANA ROBINSON—GFWC of TN President Elect
“Lana’s Letter”
 Happy
New Year to each of you, my fellow club women and friends. I trust
your Holiday season was merry and bright and blessed as mine was.
I know the blessings seemed mighty easy to count this year, given
all that has happened to our Nation.
The last weekend in November I attend
the GFWC Orientation meeting in Washington, (actually we stayed across
the river in Alexandria, Virginia). It was very exciting to hear GFWC
President-elect, Judith Lutz tell of her plans for the 2002-2004 administration.
We will be seeing some very positive changes and some exciting new
programs. I was especially pleased to find that many of my plans coincide
with her programs. You will be hearing more about both sets at the
appropriate time. I will tell you, however, that the best news is
a major change in REPORTING: a change which will make it so easy,
it will be almost impossible for a club not to report.
I was especially delighted to travel
to and from Washington with your Director-elect of Junior Clubs, Carla
Goff. The trip afforded us the opportunity to share our plans for
the next administration and to become better acquainted with each
other. It is going to be such a pleasure for me to work with Carla
for the two years I am serving you.
Speaking of plans, I am extremely busy
filling board positions, securing locations for meetings and doing
all the other things that must be done before taking office. I must
say a special “thank you” to your President, Susan, for
her help and cooperation in doing so. I also hope each of you will
make plans now to attend the spring convention in Nashville in April.
Margaret and Susan have done a great job planning for that and I look
forward to a wonderful installation. GFWC 2nd. Vice President, Jacquelyn
Pierce will be here to install the officers, and I know you will love
meeting her.
My thanks to all of you who have agreed
to serve as board members for 2002-2004 and those who will agree in
the very near future.
In Federation Love, Lana
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
— Helen Keller
DELLA DISCUSSES— Della Gowan,
GFWC of TN Director of Junior Clubs
It’s hard to believe reports have
been written and convention is just around the corner. From the bottom
of my heart —THANK YOU for all each GFWC of Tennessee clubwoman
does to improve the quality of life for a child. We are true Advocates
for Children. I would like to share the following poem given to me
in a book from a special friend, Patty Cato. As you read this poem,
I hope you are challenged to continue to be genuine Advocates for
Children. May your hearts be filled with love for children everywhere!
A PRAYER FOR
REPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN
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We pray for children:
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Who put chocolate fingers
everywhere,
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Who like to be tickled,
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Who stomp in puddles and ruin
their new pants,
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Who erase holes in their math
workbooks,
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Who can never find their shoes.
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And we pray for those:
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Who stare at photographers
behind barbed wire,
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Who can’t bound down
the streets in a new pair of sneakers,
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Who never “counted potatoes”,
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Who were born in places we
wouldn’t be caught dead,
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Who never go to the circus,
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Who live in an X-rated world.
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We pray for children:
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Who bring us sticky kisses
and fistfuls of dandelions,
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Who sleep with the dogs and
bury the goldfish,
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Who hug us in a hurry and
forget their lunch money,
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Who cover themselves with
band-aids and sing off key,
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Who squeeze toothpaste all
over the sink,
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Who slurp their soup.
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And we pray for those:
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Who never get dessert,
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Who never have a safe blanket
to drag behind them,
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Who watch their parents watch
them die,
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Who can’t find any bread
to steal,
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Who don’t have any rooms
to clean up,
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Whose pictures aren’t
on anybody’s dresser,
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Whose monsters are real.
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We pray for children:
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Who spend all of their allowance
before Tuesday,
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Who throw tantrums in the
grocery store and pick at their food,
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Who like ghost stories,
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Who shove dirty clothes under
the bed, and never rinse out the tub,
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Who get visits from the tooth
fairy,
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Who don’t like to be
kissed in front of the car pool,
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Who squirm in church or temple
or scream in the phone,
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Whose tears we sometimes laugh
at,
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Whose smiles can make us cry.
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And we pray for children:
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Whose nightmares come in the
daytime,
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Who will eat anything,
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Who have never been to a dentist,
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Who aren’t spoiled by
anyone,
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Who go to bed hungry and cry
themselves to sleep,
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Who live and move but have
no being.
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We pray for children:
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Who want to be carried and
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For those who must,
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For those who never give up
and
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For those who don’t get
a second chance,
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For those we smother and for
those
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Who will grab the hand of
anyone kind enough to offer.
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