November Meeting of Lockport College Women’s Club
Our November meeting of College Club will be held on Thursday,
November 6, 2025 at 80 Main. The doors will open at 5:30 for registration
and socializing. There will be a cash bar and soft drinks are free of charge
as they are included in the price of dinner. Our dinner will be served at
6pm. The dinner includes chicken and biscuits, vegetable, rolls and butter,
coffee, tea and soft drinks with assorted cookies for dessert. The cost of
dinner is $25.00. Please make your reservation with the telephone
committee or Marybeth Wilson by Thursday, October 30, 2025 before 7PM.
Our hostesses will be Judy Cummings and Darlene Loffredo. Sue Grigg
will take email reservations and her email address is smmgrigg@aol.com.
Dues of $40.00 can be paid at the November meeting or mailed to our
treasurer Anna Beth Kinyon,7259 Clarkview Drive, Lockport, New York
14094. Dues increase to $50.00 if paid after December.
During this year of celebrating the history of Lockport, we are pleased to
welcome Ann Marie Linnabery who serves as the Assistant Director and
Education Coordinator at the History Center of Niagara as our November
speaker. Ms. Linnabery has an M.A. in American History from SUNY
Buffalo and has worked for 30 years at museums in Buffalo, Lewiston and
Lockport. She also writes a weekly Niagara County history column for the
Lockport Union Sun and Journal. Her topic is “Mr. Kenan’s Neighborhood”.
She will share the fascinating life and legacy of William Rand Kenan Jr.
who went to Niagara Falls after graduating from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill to work at what later became Union Carbide. He
and his wife moved into the Kenan House on Locust Street in 1913 after
renovating the home. One of his many interests was his herd of Jersey
cows kept behind their home! Come and learn more about the many and
varied interests of William Rand Kenan Jr., his neighborhood in Lockport,
and how his home became a cultural facility for the community we now
know as the Kenan Center.
At the October meeting, the College Club budget for 2025-2026 as
presented by Treasurer Anna Beth Kinyon was accepted by members
present. Leslie Tobin introduced two new members to College Club. We
were pleased to meet Karen Young and Heather Hare and look forward to
seeing them at future meetings. We also enjoyed the correspondence
shared by Scholarship Committee treasurer Daniele Priest from a number
of our scholarship winners. We currently have eight bright young women
receiving $1000 a year from College Club as they earn their college
degree. We also enjoyed the program about the construction of the new
Kenan Community Center and programming available there as presented
by an enthusiastic Mr. William Patti, Executive Director of the Kenan
Center.
A heartfelt thank you goes out to members and friends of Lockport College
Women’s Club for the generous and thoughtful donations to our
Scholarship Fund in memory of longtime member Rae Greco and my late
husband Bob Russell. A combined $875.00 was donated to our
Scholarship Fund including $200.00 from the Grigg Lewis Foundation in
memory of Rae who is the mother of Grigg Lewis Foundation board
member Joan Aul.
Our Annual Scholarship Fundraiser takes place in April. We are looking for
volunteers to serve as Co-Chairmen for the event. The basic format is in
place. The co-chairmen would choose the date at the Country Club and
decide on the menu. We also need a committee to help set-up the Basket
Raffle the day of the fundraiser. Working on a small committee is a fun way
to get to know other members of College Club! Please call Patty if you
would like to help out.
Members of the board would welcome anyone in College Club interested in
becoming more involved in College Club. Call us and consider joining us at
a board meeting to find out more about ways you can help. We enjoy
dessert and coffee and set up our meetings and speakers.
Our thanks to Ann VanDusen for maintaining our blogspot. The email
address is : lockportcwc.blogspot.com.
BRING A BOOK AND TAKE A BOOK! We are all readers in College
Club. We would like to encourage everyone to bring a book they are
finished with to our November meeting and take a new book home.
Look for the sign on the front tables at 80 Main in November!
See you at our November meeting. Make your reservation by October 30th.
We do not have meetings in December or January. The next Megaphone
comes out in January with all the news about our meeting on February 5,
2026.
Our next Board of Directors meeting will be on January 8, 2026. It will be
hosted by Anna Beth Kinyon. The meeting will begin at 2pm. Please let
Anna Beth know if you are unable to attend.
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