• President (1-year term) - Pamela Bobay
• Vice-President (1-year term) – Chantel Bethea
• Treasurer (2-year term) – Patricia L. Jones, CPA
• Steering Committee (3-year term) - Judy Freedman Fask (1st term), Selina Gallo-Cruz (1st term), Barbara Ingrassia (2nd term), Pamela Bobay (2nd term)
• Nominating Committee (1-year term) - Chantel Bethea, Barbara Ingrassia, Heather-Lyn Haley, Louise Gleason

Our Lynne McKenney Lydick will be one of two re-enactors at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Kingston, New York, on October 22, 2017. Lynne portrays Abby Kelley Foster. G. Angela Henry of Kingston will portray Sojourner Truth.

Lynne is scheduling performances of YFH-A in Framingham, Gardner, Middleborough, Newton, Wellesley Hills, Worcester and in Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Malcolm Halliday, renowned musician and artistic director of the Master Singers of Worcester, dazzled a wide-eyed crowd during an April 1 concert held at Mechanics Hall in Worcester. Around the World in Forty Years commemorated the 40th year anniversary of the advanced choral group while serving as a farewell to a Kentucky-born musician who once begged his parents to help break a rule so that he could sing for the Louisville children’s choir at the age of seven - an age one year shy of the church’s eight-year-old requirement. The choir director let him in. 

The Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle, Maine, hosted its 9th Annual Garden Party and awards ceremony at the Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark on Sunday, August 13. The event marked the 82nd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, one of Perkins’ major accomplishments.

In May of 1829 a little red-haired girl was born to a young slave living on the Fleming estate in Virginia. She was named “Mary Jane” after members of the Fleming family and “Lee” for Robert E. Lee, owner of the adjacent plantation and the man reported to be the father of the new-born baby. 

The 14th annual WOMEN IN PRINT was held in the Saxe Room of the Worcester Public Library on March 29, 2017. The three local authors featured this year were: Thea Aschkenase, Sharon Healy-Yang, Ph.D. and Stacy Amaral. 

Students from Dr. Selina Gallo-Cruz’s Women and Nonviolence Seminar gathered for a presentation of their interviews with 15 women peace activists. The students focused on women’s contributions to nonviolent social change as well as how Worcester women are waging peace and embracing nonviolent methods of community building. Those 15 interviews will become part of the WWOHP permanent archive at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.

You are cordially invited to join us on December 5 at 5:30 p.m. in the Saxe Room of the Worcester Public Library to hear Immigrant and Refugee Stories of Worcester Women, this year’s annual event of the Worcester Women’s Oral History (WWOHP). While WWOHP has collected, preserved, and shared the stories of several immigrants who have lived in Worcester for many years, this program will focus on women who have recently emigrated from a variety of countries, including Colombia, Algeria, Ghana, Brazil, China, and Burma.