February Letter from Pam Kendrick, President Cocoa Beach Woman's Club

Happy Valentines Day!

What a great January we are having! You ladies make me so proud to be a small part of the Cocoa Beach Woman's Club. About 1/3 of our members submitted detailed reports on hours to me and I want to say thank you to each of you. Special thanks go to Jean Carey, Claudia Davis and Julia George for major help with writing the state reports. Without these members, the work would not be so well done. We are truly submitting reports that are a joint effort and this is exactly as it should be.

Also, I could not be more proud of how the fashion show is "shaping up". We need to find seating for 158 ladies -- what a delightful chore! And what a show we are going to have! There has been so much behind the scenes planning going on - starting with Jean Carey getting our fashions and myself getting our caterer last spring.

Both Julia George and Sheryle Schaefer, (our Chair) have done tremendous amounts of work in the past few weeks. We have so upgraded our food, fashions, gifts, etc. that we have also purchased new plates and cutlery for our event. Thank you all for your great job in selling tickets. I am so looking forward to this party.

I have received the official call for our district arts / crafts festival. Please remember that our local contest will be at our Feb 4 meeting and only winners from this showing will then go on to district. We did an outstanding job last year and hope to continue our winning streak this year.

I sincerely want to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has been so generous with their time -- not just this month but all this past year. It has made all the difference!

A reminder that we need to sell those Ocean Landings tickets for scholarship money. The drawing will be at our Gala on Feb. 20th and the free week is in April. Also availlable for sale are our beautiful book covers and the CBWC pens that we have been giving to our guests.
A final special thank you to Marilyn Grigsby for her excellent Treasurer's report without which I could not have done the state's statistics.
It is again necessary for me to report that several of our members are having health difficulties. Our thoughts to Jean Carey, Barbara Holden, Anne Herrington, Pauline Contakos, Lucy Tolson, and Betty Rokes. My sincere apologies if I have omitted any ladies.

My quote is to be in conjunction with the Breast Cancer awareness "Artful Bra" project which we "support".
"Friends are like bras. Close to your heart and all about support".
Pam Kendrick