Please join us in welcoming our new members:
Lauren, Laurie, and Melissa
AND
our new Executive Board:
Co-Presidents: Eryn Cavelli and Melissa Mixer
Vice President: Sarah Vasquez
Recording Secretary: Connie Boyle
Co-Treasurers: Evelyn Wigmore and Gerri Roberts
Please stay tuned for 2 new holiday events this year.
12 days of Christmas featuring local crafters and artists from our fair
wreath making kits
We will be posting more information about both of these events shortly.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday September 22, 2020. We will meet via zoom at 7pm. We welcome anyone who is interested in joining to attend this meeting. Please email us for the zoom link.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Dedham Junior Women's Club is regretfully cancelling this year's annual Craft Fair that was scheduled for November 21st, 2020 at the Dedham Middle School. We are saddened to have to do this after 39 years of hosting such a wonderful event for so many talented crafters, but our main concern is for the safety and wellbeing of all involved. We look forward to seeing all of our loyal crafters and shoppers in 2021.
To Our Friends and Neighbors in Dedham,
After careful deliberation, the Dedham Junior Women’s Club Arts at Endicott Committee has decided to cancel the 2020 summer concert series.
Although we had been hoping the concerts might proceed on a modified schedule, it is now clear that any large summer gathering will be inconsistent with recommended state and local public health guidelines, and related precautions necessary to reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmission in Massachusetts. The health and well-being of concert attendees, performers, and committee members are our top priority. While we will miss organizing the concert series, we want to do our part to ensure the safety of our community in these challenging times.
Our Committee would like to acknowledge the generous sponsors who had already pledged their support for the 2020 concert series: Dedham Savings Bank, Norfolk and Dedham, Wegmans, and the Dedham Cultural Council. And of course, many thanks to the Endicott Estate for hosting this well-loved event for more than 30 years.
DJWC is working with Dedham TV to rebroadcast past A@E concerts on Wednesday evenings this summer. Information about those virtual concerts will be available on the DJWC website and our Arts at Endicott Facebook page.
Although we won’t be gathering on the lawn this summer, we hope to see many of you in the months to come.
Sincerely,
The DJWC Arts at Endicott Committee
The Club is structured into Committees, each addressing issues of interest and concern to its members. Members may join multiple committees if they choose, but committee work can be busy and time consuming so many are content to be active in only one committee. Club officers and committee chairwomen are also on the Board adding another layer of opportunity and commitment. So, for one member to be on multiple committees and an officer would be, well, exhausting! Yet sometimes someone may stretch way beyond what the rest of us do.
It has happened this year and we are so pleased to see our colleague and friend, Jodi Rand, honored by the Greater Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) of MA as the Martha Michalewich Clubwoman of the Year! As you will read below this award honors a recipient who “routinely goes above and beyond the call of duty” as Jodi certainly does.
Jodi is a member of the DJWC Executive Board. She is the corresponding secretary which means that, among other things, she is responsible for organizing and assembling the online publication of the Club’s monthly newsletter.
She is a member of the Arts Committee and co-chair of the International Committee. Are you getting tired? Not Jodi! She was the project lead for the winner of the Overall Award for Arts, the DJWC photo project, Industrious Women. Jodi took an idea offered by the Arts Committee and transformed it into a club wide contest honoring the variety and depth of work done by women in our society—and she made it a lot of fun for all!
Jodi also co-led the International Committee’s Community Refugee Support project which achieved a Special Recognition Award! This project involved providing Mylar blankets to Catholic Charities for distribution to refugees along the border. To further extend our welcome to these new arrivals Jodi provided the Club with postcards, at a general meeting, which members then completed in both Spanish and English with words of encouragement for distribution with the blankets.
Jodi is a very valued member of our Club not only because of her creativity and her ability to pleasantly get projects over the finish line but also because of the wonderful woman she is—always bringing kindness, intelligence, and a smile along to share!
Barbara Baker Tray Award: received by DJWC for achieving excellence in every award category
Martha Michalewich Clubwoman of the Year: Jodi Rand
This award honors a clubwoman who routinely goes above and beyond the call of duty, someone who both leads and supports the work of the club, and, is always willing to offer a smile and a helping hand.
Overall Award for Arts: Industrious Women Photo Contest
Overall Award for Conservation: Bring Monarchs Back to Dedham
Overall Award for Public Issues: Dedham Debate Night
Overall Award for Legislation & Public Policy: Advocating for Safety (Domestic Violence)
Overall Award for Women’s History & Resource Center: Suffragettes Remembrance
Special Recognition: Community Refugee Support
Special Recognition Fundraising: Dedham Craft Fair
Special Recognition Leadership: Priority Setting Meeting
Our scholarship application deadline has been extended to May 5, 2020. Please submit all documentation either by email (education@djwc.org) or mail to
Dedham Jr. Women's Club
PO Box 1368
Dedham, MA 02027
