GOP Women schedule meeting

Edmond Life & Leisure • August 13, 2020 • Page 19

Edmond Genealogical Society The next meeting of the Edmond Republican GOP women’s club to meet to look at suffrage movement Womens Club will Monday, Aug. 17, at 10 a.m. at the large pavilion in Mitch Park on Covell in Edmond. The pavilion is on the north side of the In our voting world today, every female citizen in the United States takes for granted the right to vote. Meeting is Aug. 17 whatever you might like. Also feel free to bring a friend and you are welcome to wear a mask if you However, it took decades of struggle and protest by suffragists across the country fighting for approval of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, giving women the right to vote. To learn more about the movement and the amazing amount of work that went into the amendment, you’re invited to attend the Aug. 17 meeting of the Edmond Genealogical Society. Our program entitled “Well Done, Sister Suffragist! ... The History of Women’s Right to Vote in America” will be presented by our president Jan Beattie. month at the Edmond Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 1315 E. 33rd Street, Edmond, OK. Enter through the doors at the rear (north side) of the building. The church offers plenty of parking and is fully handicap accessible, with social distance seating at the meeting. Masks are required for all attendees. For more information on EGS, go to: www.rootsweb.com/~okegs, or visit us on Facebook at Edmond Genealogical Society. The September 21, 2020 program will be “Making Sense of the Census” presented by Nancy Calhoun. feel more comfortable doing so. Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Charlie Meadows who is co-founder of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) , now in it's 28th year. Charlie operated a window cleaning business for 44 years until his retirement in June of 2018. After returning from a three month trip to Western Canada and Alaska, our speaker started a personal services business DBA/Charlie Meadows Enterprises.Hhe will share a few thoughts about the condition of Oklahoma's Republican Party.

Professionally, Jan is a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the Southwestern Society of Clinical Microbiologists and spent her career at the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Oklahoma City. She was also an adjunct professor at the OU College of Medicine and Health Sciences Center for more than 16 years.

Now retired from the medical field, Jan has time for her genealogy hobby of which she is most passionate. She is involved in several genealogy and lineage-based societies and loves to share her knowledge with others. She has made numerous presentations, seminars and workshops across the state on topics relating to genealogy and family history.

Meetings are free and open to the public. Programs start at 6:30 p.m. Edmond Genealogical Society meetings are held the third Monday of the YMCA. Please fell free to bring coffee, juice, or

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