The 15th annual WOMEN IN PRINT was held in the Saxe Room at the Worcester Public Library on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. The three local authors featured this year were Maria Salomao-Schmidt, Maria M. Vazquez and Venice R. Garner-Moore.

Thank you to Regina Edmonds for donating a much needed bookcase and even delivering and setting it up with her husband.  If you would like a listing of the 300 books or would like to check them out, email info@wwhp.org.  We hope you will take advantage of this wonderful resource.

Charlene L. Martin and Maureen Ryan Doyle, Co-Chairpersons of the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project (WWOHP), presented a session entitled Community Engagement through Oral History, at the Massachusetts History Conference on June 4 at the College of the Holy Cross. Their talk focused on developing and sustaining an oral history project featuring community involvement.

The guest speaker at this year’s annual event of  the Worcester Women’s Oral History Project will be Dr. Selina Gallo-Cruz, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Gallo-Cruz will present a program on Worcester Women Activists on December 5th. The event is free of charge and open to the public. Please check WWHP’s website soon for details on time and place.

This presentation is part of WWHP’s ongoing commitment to serving the Worcester community.

The Speakers' Bureau is now receiving requests for presentations. have only two presentations available at the present time: Clara Barton and Mary Cassatt.

you have a presentation or would like to prepare a presentation that the Worcester Women's History Project could add to our list. Steering Committee went on record to suggest that we attempt to educate our public regarding the contributions of American women, especially those of the Worcester area, to our culture and growth.

Young people should vote because they make half the population of the country, yet older Americans are more likely to vote. Young people should have a voice because voting allows them to shape their own future. If you don’t vote when you can, it is more likely that you will not vote in the future. In addition, young people should vote because elected people are more likely to address the problems of young adults if they see a higher percentage of votes from them. That is why young adults should vote.

- Jolie Thorsen, Girl Scout Troop 76161, Carlisle MA USA

Awards

• P member Anh Vu Sawyer received the 2018 Worcester Women of Consequence Award on March 8.  She is executive director of the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts.
• P member MA Senator Harriette L. Chandler received the Katharine F. Erskine Lifetime Achievement Award on April 30 from the YWCA of Central Massachusetts. She served as the 94th President of the Massachusetts Senate from December 4, 2017, to July 26, 2018.

On August 11 and 12 of 2018 the Town of West Brookfield, Massachusetts, honored the 200th anniversary of the birth of its favorite daughter, Lucy Stone, by hosting six wonderful celebratory events. The first event began at 8:30 on Saturday morning and involved a tour of Stone’s birthplace on Coy Hill and the nearby Rock House Reservation where it is said Lucy and her siblings often played.