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2012 OFFICERS
President
Barbara Jendrysik
1st VP
Beverly Fleming
2nd VP
Trudy Whitney
Treasurer
Barbara Spalding
Recording Secretary
Alice Moerk
Corresponding Secretary
Kathleen McDonald
Parliamentarian
Marge Bennett
CHAIRS
Programs
Ronni Miller
Sylvia Price
Membership
Trudy Whitney
Awards
Alice Moerk
Art
Kathleen McDonald
Barbara Turner-Grace
Letters
Elizabeth Waterson
Ronni Miller
and Dannie Russell
Music
Alice Moerk
Patrons
Halide K. Smith
Newsletter
Caroline McKeon
Publicity
Beverly Fleming
Historian
Pat Davidson
Directory & Photography
Ellen Di Piazza
Art Exhibition
Nell Rude
Hospitality
Barbara Turner-Grace
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About
Sarasota Pen Women are wildly
creative women dedicated to the ARTS. We are made up of
professional ARTISTS, WRITERS, and MUSICAL COMPOSERS and we have
the credentials to back it up! We LOVE what we do, and
love encouraging others along the creative path. Check out
our membership criteria
to see if you might be a good fit for our branch, or contact
Trudy Whitney, our Membership Chair.
Join us for lunch one month and you'll see what we
mean. The food is good, the programs are great,
and mingling among each other is even better.
Check us out!
The National League of American Pen Women,
Inc.
was founded in 1897.
Realizing a need for an organization that would include women of the
press, Marian Longfellow O'Donohue, niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
decided to create such an organization. Along with Margaret Sullivan Burke
and Anna Sanborne Hamilton, she made plans for "bringing together women
journalists, authors and illustrators for mutual benefits and the strength
that comes of union."
On June 26, 1897, the
three women brought together 17 writers, novelists, newspaper women, a
teacher, a poet and an artist for the first meeting. Alice R. Morgan, an
illustrator for New York publishers, designed the League insignia, the
owl, symbolic of wisdom, placed in a triangle formed by a red pen, a blue
pencil and a white brush, colors of the American flag.
The first National
Convention was held in Washington, DC, in April, 1921, and the 300 women
in attendance were received by President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding. Mrs.
Harding was a distinguished member of The League, as was Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt.
In 1978, following its
80th birthday, The League was presented with the Literary Hall of Fame
Award in recognition of its contribution to the cultural life of the
United States Other recipients of the award have included Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, Ariel and Will Durant and Charles Schulz.
The official League
headquarters is the Pen Arts Building, built in 1895 and part of the
Dupont Historical District in Washington, DC. Its most famous occupant was
Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln. This 20 room
mansion was purchased by The League in 1951 and was entered on the
National Register of Historical Sites in 1978.
Membership in The League
is comprised of Active, Associate, International Affiliate, and Honorary
members engaged in creative work in one or more of the three comprehensive
membership classifications: Letters, Art, and Music.
The League offers its
members association with other creative professional women: workshops,
discussion groups and lectures related to the creative process. Writing
and poetry contests, art exhibitions (both juried and judged), and music
composition competitions conducted at local branch, state and national
levels of the organization.
Pen Arts Building
1300 17th St NW
Washington, DC
20036-1973
Email:
info@americanpenwomen.org
National League
of American Pen Women
Florida State
Association
Florida
Web Site
National League of American Pen Women
Sarasota Branch
Local Contact:
Barbara Jendrysik, President
jendrysik@aol.com
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