Club History
The Slatington Womans Club was founded in 1938 with 93 charter
members. The club joined the General
Federation of Womens Clubs in May of 1938.
GFWC is one of the worlds largest and oldest womens
volunteer service organizations. For more information, Click
Here.
The General Federation of Womens Clubs was founded in 1890 and
promotes local volunteer service in more than 6000 clubs throughout the United States and
the world.
The object of our club is to develop the educational, civic and
social interests of our members, to advance the welfare of the community, and to promote
the progress and work of the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women. Since 1938, our club has contributed over $50,000
and over 50,000 hours of volunteer work to various organizations in and out of our
community. Our club supports the arts,
conservation of natural resources, skill improvement and education, involvement and
interest in public and international affairs, as well as home life and womens health
issues.
- Our club supports the arts financially and through involving members and our local
schools in an arts contest where submissions are judged on the local, county, district,
state and national levels.
- We have programs on conservation and natural resources and contribute financially and
through volunteering at local conservation sites.
- We learn new skills through our programs and volunteering.
- We have programs concerning public and international affairs. One of our state recent projects was supporting
the heifer project which sends live animals to help third world countries or less
fortunate areas in our country. For the last
two years we have been learning about and supporting Habitat for Humanity.
- Recently we have learned about and supported organ donorship. For the next two years we
will be focusing on giving aid to women and children in shelters through our Hugs &
Kisses State presidents project. For more Pennsylvania GFWC State information,
Click Here.
GFWCs motto, Unity in Diversity was taken
from a speech at the first GFWC conference . . .We look for unity, but unity in
diversity. We hope that your will enrich us
by your varied experiences . . . Those
same goals of bringing interesting ideas, speakers, diverse experiences and friendship to
our womens club meetings, as well as unity to volunteer service to make our
community a better place, are still what our own club is about.
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