Woman’s Society Minutes, March 17, 2025, and also the USFWI NE Spring 2025 Newsletter

Present: Dorothy Curtis, President, Nancy Marstaller, Treasurer, Susan Gilbert, Secretary.

Cards: For Friends.

Program and Devotions: We took turns reading the newsletter Marion Baker wrote and sent us from the USFWI Northeast Regional Meeting held February 2, 2025.

Treasurer’s Report: Two hats knitted and donated to WS by Martha Sheldon were sold for $35. We have $85.58 in our account.

Minutes: Susan read the 2.22.2025 minutes.

Tedford Meal: Team D, Dorothy Curtis, and Kim Bolshaw with a contribution from Susan Gilbert brought meat loaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, banana bread, and gingerbread to Tedford House. The April 5 meal will be made by Team E, contact person Nancy Marstaller.  Durham Friends provide dinner for Tedford House on the first Monday of each month. Contributions of prepared food or money for the Team to buy food for Tedford are always welcome.

Other Business: At the 3.16. Meeting For Worship, Dorothy Curtis presented Syretha, Nancy’s  daughter, with a quilt she finished for the birth of her first child, Lulu, which was given and received with tears and joy. The blocks had been embroidered by Clarabel Marstaller, Margaret Wentworth, Bea Douglas, Kitsie Hildebrandt, Sukie Rice, Dorothy Hinshaw, Sue Wood, Nancy Marstaller, Dorothy Curtis, Linda Muller, Harmony Brown, and Deanna Coro. In the thank you card to Dorothy from Syretha, Joe and Lulu, Syretha wrote “Thank you so much for …the gift of the quilt…it means so much to me to have a quilt with squares done by so many people I have known and loved, that they will touch Lulu even though they never got to meet her here on earth.”

Nancy Marstaller brought up the Quaker way of expressing to each other that we are unique and wonderfully made in the image of God. She also commented that for Durham Friends quilt making and giving is important to us as it demonstrates caring.

For St. Patrick’s Day, Dorothy ended the meeting the Irish prayer: 

May the road rise up to meet you, 
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
And rains fall soft upon your fields.

Respectfully Submitted, Susan Gilbert

The USFWI NE Spring 2025 Newsletter