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Medley March 2010 Vol. 5 Issue 3

GLORIOUS SPRINGTIME!

Dear Friends~ MARCH~

Oh, what a glorious February Women’s History Month Sunday afternoon! The sun is shining, the temperature is rising, I dare not March 14, Mothering Sunday (UK) think of tomorrow’s forecast, and ah, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day yes, SPRING will arrive on March 20th! March 20, First Day of Spring March 28, Palm Sunday You are hardy folks, surviving this snowy, cold winter. We have been Born this month: having, what I call, a real or true winter. Marcia E. DeGroft, 1971 All things go in cycles and I feel we are Sandra O’Connor, 1930 doing just that! As you know, I’m a Patricia Nixon, 1912 farm girl, and growing up as one, you Albert Einstein, 1879 learn that Mother Nature has her ways. Robert Frost, 1874 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1800 My dear friends enjoy the light; enjoy the snow: enjoy the flowers as ~tea~ they burst forth and your cup of tea. Thank God for all blessings no matter the size and no matter the form. OUR ANNIVERSARY~

Happy March and Spring! This year, 2010, each of us Mary should gratefully celebrate the endurance of the brave and strong ~tea~ women that so tirelessly worked on our behalf. We should honor them as frequently as our minds will let us RE-RUN~ remember the valiant women, the Women Suffragettes. If you haven’t had a chance to read or missed the March 2007 issue of This year we celebrate the Mary’s Medley, may I suggest that you 90th Anniversary of the ratification of return to that newsletter. I feel it’s the Nineteenth Amendment of the worth reviewing. The particular article US Constitution… I’m referring to is: In the News…and the right to vote for women. Setting the Record Straight. Enjoy a cuppa while reading. ~tea~ ~tea~

Remembering 31 Women~ A Woman for each day this month

These 31 women may not be They have touched me… your first choices but they may be Jacqueline M. Miller: my mother, kind, women you will find interesting. Take a tender hearted, hard working few moments and look-up the persons Diane: my best friend, loyal, steady that may not be familiar to you. No Helen Tunison: never take no as the doubt that you will be amazed by their answer, dispute if you must strength and accomplishments. Jennifer Anne: a strong and generous I suggest you make two lists. daughter, talented, sincere First, make your own list of 31 Marcia E. DeGroft: a brave daughter, influential women. Secondly, make a peacemaker, and conservationist list of women who have touched your Joyce Nickey McDonald: quiet and life and gave you strength to persevere insightful, found the significance and choose the path you walk today. Dorothy Gish: educator, bold, missionary, promoter 31 Influential Women… Dixie Miller: courageous advocate for non-traditional college students Anna, Duchess of Braganza Katherine Graf: think, look ahead, and be more than imagined The 31 Women is merely my 2010 list. I make a new list every March. There are thousands of women, some known to me personally and some known to me only by reading about Emily Post their contributions.

Erma Bombeck There are some women known Eunice Shriver only to me in my imagination. I find comfort in knowing that courageous women exist even though I have no Helen Reddy information about their locations or their names or their gifts to my world. Lena Horne Think of the brave women who Lillian Vernon have chosen to serve in our Armed Lucy Hobbs Taylor Forces. Where would we be without the Margaret Thatcher female visionaries, scientists, inventors, social reformists, educators, Marie Curie photographers, journalists, artists, Marlo Thomas mathematicians, architects, engineers, Martha Washington and every mother, daughter, sister, Mary McLeod Bethune aunt, and grandmother? Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ March is a great month to Phyllis Schlafly celebrate women. March we have, march we will. March springs forth with life as every woman does for our Susan B. Anthony homes, communities, countries, and Susan Hayhurst our world. GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU! You, the reader of this list ~tea~