February 2026 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 80 Main Street, Lockport. Our speaker for this program is Erin Strassburg from the Dale Association. Ms. Strassburg is the Travel Coordinator/Program Provider and is planning on talking about the travel opportunities, community engagement and volunteering opportunities offered by the Dale Association. She is a graduate of Buffalo State College with a degree in Communications and Public Relations. She has been creating engaging programs, travel adventures, and special events, together with championing the quality of life for senior citizens and community members alike for the past five years with the Dale Association. The program should be timely and interesting, so please plan on attending. Remember that guests are always welcome to attend, so bring a friend! The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. 

The menu is Panko Parmesan crusted chicken, served with potato and vegetable, rolls and butter. Coffee and tea will be served. The cost of the dinner is $25.00. Hostesses are Gail Marshall and Anna Beth Kinyan. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, February 26, 2026. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling Gail Marshall (716-434-4306). Please do not call Marybeth Wilson as she is away for the winter. Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program. 

The recommendation of the Scholarship Committee was passed at our last meeting. It reads as follows: “At this time, the Scholarship Committee recommends for the year 2026 that we support awards up to $8,000.00 as applications are received and reviewed by the Scholarship Committee. Members of this important committee are: Nancy Fischer, Chair, Daniele Priest, Treasurer, Ann VanDusen, Patricia Kennedy and Ann O’Byrne.

 Dues are now $50.00. If you have not paid your dues, you may do so at the meeting or by mailing them to Anna Beth Kinyon, 7259 Clark View Drive, Lockport, New York 14094. If you would like to receive your Megaphone by electronic mail, please forward your email address to Judy Johnson-Paonessa at jljgesq@aol.com. Remember electronic delivery will save the cost of the postage. 

Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday, March 29, 2026 at the Lockport Town and Country Club. The doors will open at noon, with luncheon served at 1:00 PM. Tickets and other information has been mailed to members and you should have received this information. It is time to be thinking of themes for baskets. The Basket Raffle has been historically successful in raising scholarship funds. Basket are fun to make and are always needed. Members are expected to contribute a basket. Remember that gift cards are always an option and it is helpful to place them in either a small frame or basket. We are in need of volunteers to sell tickets and distribute baskets on the day of the Fundraiser. Please let Patty Russell or any Board member know if you are able to help out. So please consider volunteering. 

Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. Other volunteer opportunities include becoming a member of the Leadership Team that constitutes the Board of Directors. Program Leaders are always needed and are of such importance because they help to find our speakers and topics for meetings. If this is something you may be interested in helping with please let either Patty Russell or any Board Member know of your interest. 

 The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at the home of Patty Russell, 102 Continental Drive, Lockport, NY at 7:00 PM. Call to confirm your attendance

 January 2026 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 5, 2026 at the 80 Main Street, Lockport. Our speaker for this program is Heather Hare, one of our newest members! Heather is the Chief Marketing Officer at Buffalo Toronto Public Media, where she has worked in marketing and communications for more than seven years. BTPM is the local public television and public radio service for the Western New York area. Programming includes our local PBS station, Create and PBS Kids; local public radio provides both NPR, classical and jazz formats. Heather has a Bachelor’s Degree in print journalism from George Washington University. She has served on the Lockport City School District Board in the past and is currently serving on the Boards of Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Mended Little Hearts. She will be sharing the effects of the cuts in Federal funding on public television and radio and giving us an overview of what we can look forward to in current programming. 

 The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The menu is Pork tenderloin with peach chutney, served with mashed potatoes, vegetable and rolls and butter. Coffee and tea will be served. The cost of the dinner is $25.00. Hostesses are Gail Marshall and Leslie Tobin. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, January 29, 2025. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling Gail Marshall (716-434-4306). Please do not call Marybeth Wilson as she is away for the winter. Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program. 

Please make every effort to attend the February meeting as we will also be hearing and voting on the recommendation of the Scholarship Committee with respect to the number of scholarships the Club will be giving this year.

Dues are now $50.00. If you have not paid your dues, you may do so at the meeting or by mailing them to Anna Beth Kinyon, 7259 Clark View Drive, Lockport, New York 14094.

 If you would like to receive your Megaphone by electronic mail, please forward your email address to Judy Johnson-Paonessa at jljgesq@aol.com. Remember electronic delivery will save the cost of the postage.

 Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is being planned with the details to follow soon. The event will be held at the Lockport Town Country Club. We need to thank Patti Russell and Anna Beth Kinyon who are making arrangements with the Lockport Town and Country Club for this wonderful event. It is time to be thinking of themes for baskets. The Basket Raffle has been historically successful in raising scholarship funds. Basket are fun to make and are always needed. Ticket Chair is Daniele Priest. Table Decoration Co-Chairs are Anna Beth Kinyon and Patty Russell. Leslie Tobin, Heather Hare and Karen Young have volunteered to serve as of Basket Raffle Co-Chairs – their duties are setting up and arranging the baskets on the day of the fundraiser. We are in need of volunteers to sell Basket Raffle Tickets on the day of the Fundraiser. Please let Patty Russell or any Board member know if you are able to help out. So please consider volunteering. 

Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. Other volunteer opportunities include becoming a member of the Leadership Team that constitutes the Board of Directors. Program Leaders are always needed and are of such importance because they help to find our speakers and topics for meetings. If this is something you may be interested in helping with please let either Patty Russell or any Board Member know of your interest. 

 The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, February 12, 2026 at the home of Karen Robison, 7256 Clark View Drive, Lockport, NY at 7:00 PM. Call to confirm your attendance.

 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.

 September 2025 

Please join us on October 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM at 80 Main Street, Lockport for our first meeting of the year! Our speakers will be William Patti and Leah Sobrieski from the Kenan Center. Mr. Patti is the Executive Director of the Kenan Center and Ms. Sobrieski is the Sports and Recreation Manager at the Kenan. Mr. Patti is a Lewiston native and has a long history with theater and the Arts; he has a BFA in Theater and BA in English from Niagara University and MFA from Kent State. He has served as a teacher, Arts Administrator and Producing Artistic Director for other organizations before returning to Western New York. Before arriving at the Kenan Center, Mr. Patti served as the General Manager at Shea’s in Buffalo. Ms. Sobrieski is a graduate of LHS, SUNY Geneseo and has a Masters Degree from Daemen College. She has served as the Academic and Operations Coach for the Women’s Basketball team at Canisius College. Both are delighted to speak to us about the upcoming construction at what will be the new Kenan Amphitheater and the plans for the future of the Kenan Center and its programming as we move into the future. The meeting will be a dinner meeting with a menu of turkey, mashed potato, vegetable, tea and coffee. The cost is $30.00 and includes coffee, tea and soft drinks together with the room reservation and gratuity. Hostesses are Mary Beth Caswell and Barbara Feidner. Reservations must be made by Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM by calling the telephone committee. Sue Grigg has agreed to continue to take email reservations as well and her email address is smmgrigg@aol.com. 

The Budget will also be presented at this meeting for the approval of the club. 

Treasurer, Anna Beth Kinyon will be accepting payment of Dues at the meeting. Dues are $40.00 and will increase to $50.00 after December. Dues can also be mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 7259 Clarkview Drive , Lockport, New York 14094.  

Please note that Madelene Angelo has a new phone number and is no longer using the land line number in the directory. The new number is – 716-471-3451 

If you have an email address, we would like to send the Megaphone to you through email to save postage. Please provide your email address to Judy Johnson-Paonessa (jljgesq@aol.com) or to any Board member. 

We are in need of volunteers to act as the Co-Chairs of the Spring Fundraiser! Not much work there, but lots of fun – the primary duty is to set the menu for the Luncheon. We are also looking for two people willing to be Co-Chairs for the Basket Raffle - duties to include setting up the baskets on the day of the Luncheon, deciding what to do with the Door Prize raffle tickets, announcing ticket and basket winners and delivering the baskets to the winners. Any Board member would be happy to take your name! 

And speaking of volunteering, there is always room for new volunteers to serve on the Board of Directors. An important job is that of our Program Coordinators. This person or persons considers what programs and speakers would be of interest to the Club. It always is nice to have people willing to work on developing interesting programs for our meetings. 

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for October 9, 2025 at the home of Mary Beth Caswell 5886 Marion Drive, Lockport, New York. Please contact her if you will not be attending.

May 2025 

The Spring Banquet was a wonderful evening where we celebrated our Scholarship winners and honored our 25 and 50 year members. For those who were unable to attend, the Scholarship Committee Chair, Daniele Priest introduced our two winners – Lillian Bushley and Isabella Talluto. Both of our winners have impressive resumes including scores of over 1300 on the SAT’s. Our hearty congratulations go out to both! 

Lillian Bushley ranks seventh in her class with an average of 101.63. She is planning on pursuing a degree in environmental sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology. She hopes to conduct research studies to improve environmental impacts, work for State policy agencies and hopes to eventually create a non-profit to support local environmental efforts. She is active in many school groups and holds several officer positions. She is the Treasurer of WARLOCKS and Student Council. She is the Vice-president of the Wind Ensemble, Advanced Jazz and Latin Club. She is also the President of STEM Club. Lillian is on the Principal’s Advisory Committee, Rotary Club, Mindworks, Recycling Club and Foreign Education Club. 

Lillian is also a student athlete and is Captain of the Varsity Tennis Team and participates in Varsity Bowling and Flag Football. She is an AP Scholar and a Scholar Athlete and a member of the National Honor Society and the Honor Societies for Science, Math, Social Studies and Latin. She is a member of the Tri-M-Honor Society. And, in addition to all of her studies, athletics and club activities, she works part-time at the Lockport Town and Country Club. 

Our second winner, Isabella Talluto, has an equally impressive resume. Isabella ranks eighth in her class with an average of 101.33. She, also, will be attending the Rochester Institute of Technology where she plans on studying Biological Sciences. Her career goal is to work in a research laboratory producing medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases. 

Isabelle has been active in theater at LHS. She has been the Stage Manager for the past two years for the Fall Play and Spring Musical. She has been part of the state crew throughout her high school career and is now with the Paid Stage Crew this year. She has been the Secretary of the Drama Club since her sophomore year. Isabella is also in Concert Choir, Latin Club, Sources of Strength and Page-Turners. She is dancer and has been taking lessons since 2014.  

Isabella has received a number of awards. She is an AP Scholar, Girls State Nominee and is the recipient of the Elmira College Key Award. She is a member of the National Honor Society along with the Science, Latin and Thespian Honor Societies. 

Isabella also works part-time as a banquet server with Lockport Locks and Erie Canal Cruises.

 April 2025 

Please join us on May 1, 2025 for our Annual Scholarship Award and Recognition Dinner to both meet our Scholarship winners and to honor our 25 year members, Therese Lang and Delores Tracy, and our 50 year member, Sonia Werner! The Dinner will be at 80 Main Street, Lockport, New York at 6:00 PM. The doors will open at 5:30 PM. The menu has two selections: Pecan Crusted Chicken for $35.00 or Broiled Scallops with a Thai Chili Lobster Sauce for $40.00. Dinners will include potato, vegetable, coffee, tea, soft drinks and dessert. The cost will cover all gratuities as well. Reservations must be made to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM. Hostesses are Lois Donovan and Darlene Loffredo.

Please note that this will be the Last meeting for this year so please come and meet our Scholarship

Winners, their moms and honor our dedicated 25 and 50 year members. Please give a round of applause and great thanks to all those who have helped with this year’s fundraiser – It was a great success as usual! To date, we have raised over $4,000.00. Thank you to all of our members for their generous support through donations, creating baskets for the raffle, buying tickets and volunteering time! It’s wonderful to see such support for our Scholarship Program!  

Let us also recognize the hard work of our Scholarship Committee – Chairman, Daniele Priest, and committee members, Anne O’Bryne, Nancy Fischer, Ann Van Dusen and Patricia Kennedy.  

We have several new members!! Great news for the Club. They are as follows: Barbara Feidner, 7252 Clarkview Drive, Lockport NY (607-661-0327), Heather Hare, 35 Coolidge Drive, Lockport NY (585-729-4005), Karen Young, 135 Willow Street, Lockport, NY (716-946-8198), Robin Pettipiece, 230 Continental Drive, Lockport, NY (716-940-7175) and Nicole Zugelder, 13 Kingston Circle, Lockport, NY (716-982-5368).

If anyone is interested in receiving the Megaphone electronically and isn’t already receiving it that way, please send an email to Judy Johnson to be added to the email list. Her email is jljlgesq@aol.com. 

The next and last Board of Directors meeting for this year will be on May 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM at the home of Patty Russell, 102 Continental Drive, Lockport. Please note the change as to location. Please contact her if you will not be attending. 

See everyone on May 1, 2025 at the Banquet!

 February 2025

Please join us for our meeting of this year. The meeting will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 80 Main. Doors will open at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 6 pm. The menu is sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, vegetable, rolls and butter. The cost will be $26.00. Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available. A cash bar will be available as well. Please make your reservations with the Telephone Committee by Thursday, February 27, 2025 before 7 pm. You may also call Gail Marshall with your reservation. (716-434-4306). Hostesses will be Stacy Giansante and Mary Beth Caswell.

Our program will be timely and interesting as we are hosting two staff members from the Save the Michaels of the World Branch located in Lockport. Emily Buteyn is the Recovery Center Program Director and Amy Webster is a Substance Abuse Counselor and Recovery Peer Advocate. Save the Michaels of the World began as a grassroots effort to bring attention and awareness of the opioid crisis of addiction in this country, including the over-prescribing of addictive medications by the medical profession. The local chapter is located on Main Street here in Lockport and provides resources for families during their loved one’s journey through addiction and into remission. The Community Resources would be grateful for donations at their drop-in center and suggests packaged snacks, Solo cups, paper plates, plastic silverware or any new or used clothing for men and women.

At our February meeting, the recommendation of the Scholarship Committee was received and passed for 2025. It reads as follows: “At this time, the Scholarship Committee recommends for the year 2025 that we support awards up to $8,000.00 as applications from young women at Lockport High School planning on attending a two and/or four year college are received and reviewed by the Scholarship Committee.” Just a reminder that this total is paid out at the rate of $1,000.00 per year, per winner. Thank you to the Committee for all of its hard work – Daniele Priest, Ann O’Byrne, Ann Van Dusen, Nancy Fischer and Patricia Kennedy. We look forward to meeting the winners at the May Banquet.

We want to wish best of luck to our two winners who are graduating this spring - Sara McIntyre will be graduating from SUNY Potsdam and Katherine Miner will be graduating from MIT. We are proud of their hard work and dedication.

Remember that every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We have two new members join this year – Barbara Feidner and Jennifer Yotter. Please welcome them.

Our annual Scholarship Fundraiser - “Sunday for Scholarship” will be held on Sunday, March 30, 2025, at the Lockport Town and Country Club. Tickets and information will be arriving by mail soon. We are in need of two or three volunteers willing to sell raffle tickets for about an hour prior to start of the event. Please call one of our chairpersons if interested – Lucille Cannata, Shirley Frombgen or Daniele Priest. The Basket Raffle is an important source of revenue at the event. Please create a basket or purchase a gift card (please place it in a simple frame) to help out. Completed baskets and gift cards can be brought to the March meeting.

The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for March 13, 2025 at the home of Patty Russell, 102 Continental Drive, Lockport, NY. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Please let Patty know if you are unable to attend.

Remember that we will be continuing the Bring a Book, Take a Book at the upcoming meeting! So please bring a book with you to 80 Main Street and browse and share either before or after the meeting.

I would like to encourage all of you to visit the wonderful exhibit at the Kenan Center – “Secret Weapons of World War II – Women, Books & Music”. The exhibit runs until March 31, 2025. It is sponsored by the Lockport Public Arts Council. It is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and this Exhibit provides an opportunity to remember members of the Lockport community who served and honors the significant impact of women during World War II. What a great way to celebrate Women’s History Month!!

 January 2025 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 6, 2025 at the 80 Main Street, Lockport. This promises to be another exciting program as we welcome John Montague from the Buffalo Maritime Center. Mr. Montague will be talking about his work with the Maritime Center and the planning and construction of the Seneca Chief. The construction of this historic reproduction has been made to commemorate the historic opening of the Erie Canal. As you may recall, this year is the Bicentennial of the opening of the Erie Canal this fall. Mr. Montague will also be talking about launch and ‘sea trials’ made in preparation of this fall’s “Wedding of the Waters” trip. He has also written Volume 1 of the Maritime Center’s book, The Erie Canal: Perspectives at 200. He will be bringing copies for purchase if interested. He is in the process of completing Volume 2. Mr. Montague is a Professor Emeritus at Buffalo State where he set up the design history program at the College. Mr. Montague is one of the Co-founders of the Buffalo Maritime Center and has been active with the redevelopment of Buffalo’s waterfront. It will be an interesting and informative program. 

 The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The menu is Pork Flat-iron topped with apple-cashew compote served with mashed potatoes, vegetable and rolls and butter. Coffee and tea will be served. The cost of the dinner is $26.00. Hostesses are Gail Marshall and Judy Johnson Paonessa. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, January 30, 2025. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling Gail Marshall (716-434-4306). Please do not call Marybeth Wilson as she is away for the winter. Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program.

 Please make every effort to attend the February meeting as we will also be hearing and voting on the recommendation of the Scholarship Committee with respect to the number of scholarships the Club will be giving this year. 

 There are a couple of changes to the Directory – the first is that the spelling of Paula Sattelberg’s name is Sattelberg. Gail Niparts has resigned from the Club. Charlotte Lasher has a new address: Amberleigh #229, 2330 Maple Road, Williamsville, NY 14221. Her phone number is 716-276-3449. Nancy Smith has passed away and a book has been donated to the Lockport Public Library in her memory. 

 Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for March 30, 2025 at the Lockport Town Country Club. We have Tri-Chairs for the event - Lucille Cannata, Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen. Ticket Co-Chairs are Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen. Table Decoration Co-Chairs are Anna Beth Kinyon and Patty Russell. We still are in need of Basket Raffle Co-Chairs – duties are setting up and arranging the baskets on the day of the fundraiser. We have two volunteers to sell split club tickets – Mary Beth Caswell and Delores Tracy. We are in need of volunteers to sell Basket Raffle Tickets on the day of the Fundraiser. Please let Patty Russell or any Board member know if you are able to help out.are in need of two Co-chairs! The work is easy and delicious choosing the menu! So please consider volunteering. 

 Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. 

 Other volunteer opportunities include becoming a member of the Scholarship Committee. Members serve for a term of five years. The Committee will normally begin to meeting in mid-January to early February to review applications and interview the candidates before making a selection of a winner or winners. This is an important role if interested since the primary function of the Club is to promote education for the young women of Lockport. 

 The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, February 13, 2025 at the home of Mary Beth Caswell at 7:00 PM. Call to confirm your attendance

 OCTOBER 2024

The next meeting of the Lockport College Women’s Club will be on November 7, 2024.

The meeting will be held at 80 Main Street, Lockport. Our speaker is Marina Goody who is

both a florist and the owner of Goody Girl Flower Farm. This is an organic flower farm that

opened in Niagara County in May 2021. Ms. Goody has an inspiring story of how she

turned the loss of her employment during the pandemic into an opportunity to start her own

business based upon a final project from a business class. She creates floral arrangements

for special occasions as well has hosting flower arranging workshops at the farm. She is a

recipient of a Small business Association Award in 2024 for her work. 

The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM . We will be having a dinner of Panko Parmesan Chicken, roasted

 red potatoes, green beans and rolls and butter. Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available. The

cost is $26.00, which includes our meal, room rental and gratuity. Please call in your

reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 7:00 PM.

Remember, guests are always welcome, so bring your friends!

Our last meeting was both informative and impressive with the presentation of Dr. Calvin,

Superintendent of the Lockport City School District. We are looking forward to another

interesting program.

Hostesses for this meeting are Ann O’Byrne and Mary Beth Caswell.

They will arrive at 5:30 to check people in and take payment. Please consider signing up to

be a hostess at a future meeting. It’s a great way to meet members.

If interested, please try and remember to “Bring a book and take a book.” This is a way for

members to exchange books that they have read for new reading material.

You can bring your annual dues to the meeting. Remember that dues at $40.00 through

December and will be $50.00 after that. Dues can also be mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon,

7259 Clarkview Drive, Lockport, New York 14094. This is a new address for Anna Beth.

Remember, it’s really easy to be a member in good standing! The only necessity is to

remember to pay your dues and support our annual Fundraiser. Of course, we love to have

everyone attend meetings regularly. It’s a great way to meet people and hear an interesting

program about things in and around Lockport and Niagara County.

Our Annual Scholarship Fundraiser will be held in April with a specific date to be

determined. We have Tri-Chairpersons for the Scholarship Fundraiser!!! Thank you to

Lucille Cannata, Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen for volunteering. Ticket Co-Chairs

are Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen. Table Decoration Co-Chairs are Anna Beth

Kinyon and Patty Russell. We are still in need of volunteers for Chairperson positions for

the Basket Raffle and to help set up the day of the Fundraiser and we need volunteers to

help sell Basket Raffle tickets at the Fundraiser. Volunteering is a great way to meet other

members and to help make the Fundraiser a success.

New Directories have been printed. Thank you to all who have picked up their copy.

Directories will be available at the November meeting. If anyone is interested in a digital

Directory, please let Patty Russell know so that she can provide a copy digitally.

Darlene Loffredo is our new Sunshine Chairperson. If you know of a member who is in

need of a card, please let her know. Thank you, Darlene!

We are always looking for new volunteers for our Standing Committees or to serve on the

Board of Directors. One Committee you may be interested in is the Social Committee.

Currently, Mary Beth Caswell and Ann O’Byrne serve on this Committee. Duties include

arranging for each meeting, including the menu. Currently, our meetings take place at 80

Main and we have six meetings per year. This does not include the Scholarship Fundraiser

which is a separate event. Other duties include recruiting hostesses, getting the reservation

number from the Telephone Committee and calling in the head count to 80 Main.

Attendance at Board meetings is needed by at least one of the co-Chairs. Please let Patty

Russell or any Board Member know if you are interested in helping out.

Lockport College Women’s Club is going to have a Facebook page to help get the word out

about our group. Leslie Tobin has offered to create the Facebook page. Thank you, Leslie!!

We have news from the Scholarship Committee. Our winners for 2024 are Alexia Kilroy

who is attending Colgate University and Alexis Runfola who is attending SUNY Buffalo.

We have two new members of the Committee – Ann VanDusen and Patricia Kennedy.

Other members are Daniele Priest, Ann O’Byrne and Nancy Fischer.

The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, October 10, 20204 at the home

of Marybeth Wilson, 7 Berkley Drive, Lockport, New York. The meeting is at 7:00 PM.

 SEPTEMBER 2024 

 The next meeting of the Lockport College Women’s Club will be on October 3, 2024. The meeting will be held at 80 Main Street, Lockport. We will be having an exciting meeting with Dr. Mathis Calvin III, Superintendent of the Lockport City School District. Dr. Calvin has been with the District for the past year and will be speaking as to his tenure and where he sees the District moving. As some of you may know, Dr. Calvin came to Lockport from the Oswego City School District. He has served in this capacity at both the Wayne and Stockbridge school districts here in New York. He has leadership awards from the University of Rochester, St. John Fisher University and the Rochester City School District. We help to promote higher education for the students at the high school so this will be a timely and informative meeting. 

 The meeting will begin at 6:00 PM . We will be having a dinner of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes , green beans and rolls and butter. Coffee, tea and soft drinks will be available. The cost is $26.00, which includes our meal, room rental and gratuity. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM. Remember, guests are always welcome, so bring your friends! Hostesses for this meeting are Darlene Loffredo and Judy Cummings. 

 If interested, please try and remember to “Bring a book and take a book.” This is a way for members to exchange books that they have read for new reading material. 

 You can bring your annual dues to the meeting. Remember that dues at $40.00 through December and will be $50.00 after that. Dues can also be mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 7259 Clarkview Drive, Lockport, New York 14094. Remember, it’s really easy to be a member in good standing! The only necessity is to remember to pay your dues and support our annual Fundraiser. Of course, we love to have everyone attend meetings regularly. It’s a great way to meet people and hear an interesting program about things in and around Lockport and Niagara County. 

 Our Annual Scholarship Fundraiser will be held in April with a specific date to be determined. Volunteers are needed to help with this event to make it the success that it has been in the past. We are looking for Co-Chairpersons whose main duty is to select the menu for the luncheon, Co-Chairpersons for the Basket Raffle to help set up the day of the Fundraiser and volunteers to help sell Basket Raffle tickets at the Fundraiser. Volunteering is a great way to meet other members and to help make the Fundraiser a success. 

 Plans are underway for a new Directory to be printed and distributed this year. If you have any changes to addresses or phone numbers, please contact Patty Russell (716-433-9342) to give her the information. Also, if you have a change to your email address, please make sure that Judy Johnson-Paonessa has the information ( jljgesq@icloud.com or 716-481 9129.)

 We are always looking for new volunteers for our Standing Committees or to serve on the Board of Directors. One Committee you may be interested in is the Social Committee. Currently, Mary Beth Caswell and Ann O’Byrne serve on this Committee. Duties include arranging for each meeting, including the menu. 

 Currently, our meetings take place at 80 Main and we have six meetings per year. This does not include the Scholarship Fundraiser which is a separate event. Other duties include recruiting hostesses, getting the reservation number from the Telephone Committee and calling in the head count to 80 Main. Attendance at Board meetings is needed by at least one of the co-Chairs. Please let Patty Russell or any Board Member know if you are interested in helping out. 

 The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, October 10, 20204 at the home of Marybeth Wilson, 7 Berkley Drive, Lockport, New York. The meeting is at 7:00 PM. Please call Marybeth if you are unable to attend.

 June 2024

 Please join us for the final meeting of this year!! The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 80 Main. Doors will open at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 6 pm. We will be having a buffet including a variety of sandwiches and salads. The cost will be $25.00. Please make your reservations with the Telephone Committee by Thursday, May 30, 2024 before 7 pm. Hostesses will be Stacy Giansante and Anna Beth Kinyon. 

 Our speaker in June is Stacey Neri, a Recovery Coach with the Save the Michaels of the World Branch located in Lockport. Save the Michaels of the World began as a grassroots effort to bring attention and awareness of the opioid crisis of addiction in this country, including the over-prescribing of addictive medications by the medical profession. The local chapter is located on Main Street here in Lockport and provides resources for families during their loved one’s journey through addiction and into remission. 

 The Community Resources would be grateful for donations at their drop-in center and suggests packaged snacks, Solo cups, paper plates, plastic silverware or any new or used clothing for men and women. 

 Our Scholarship fundraiser “Sunday for Scholarship” was a big success! It was a baskets were amazing!! Thank you to everyone who contributed baskets and gift cards. The profit from the Basket Raffle was $1,225.00. Donations from members totaled $ 2,591.00. The overall profit from the Fundraiser is $4,382.00. Our Scholarship has benefited from the support of members, family and friends of College Club, local businesses and charitable organizations. Thank you to Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen for being Ticket Co-chairs and to AnnaBeth Kinyon for her help with the Basket Raffle and work as treasurer!! 

 At our May Banquet, we met our two Scholarship winners – Alexia Kilroy and Alexis Runfola. Alexia is planning to pursue pre-med with a future goal of oncology. She is the Valedictorian of this year’s LHS class. Due to the issues with the FAFSA application, she has not yet determined where she will be attending college. Alexis has plans to attend the State University at Buffalo to major in exercise science. Best of luck to both of our winners. Thank you once again to the members of the Scholarship Committee – Daniele Priest, Megan Menges, Ann O’Byrne, Nancy Fischer and Val Hamluk for all of their hard work. 

We also celebrated with three 50 year members – Gail Marshall, Lucille Cannata and Patricia Russell. The Club is grateful for their contributions over these many years. 

 The Board of Directors is looking for new members to step into Board and Standing Committee positions. If interested, please let Patty Russell or any other Board member know. Volunteering is a great way to meet new people and to help with our fundraising efforts. There are positions with the Directory Committee, The Scholarship Fundraiser and the Basket Raffle. Thank you to Darlene Loffredo who has volunteered to take over the Sunshine Committee responsibilities. If you know of anyone who could use a card, please contact Darlene. 

 The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for June 13, 2024 at the home of Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Please let Anna Beth know if you are unable to attend. Thank you to Patty Russell as always who has been our tireless leader for yet another successful year. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the June meeting.

Unfortunately this meeting was cancelled.

 April 2024

Please join us on May 2, 2024 for our Annual Banquet to both meet our Scholarship winners

and to honor our 50 year members, Patty Russell, Gail Marshall and Lucille Cannata! The

Dinner will be at 80 Main Street, Lockport, New York at 6:00 PM. The Doors will open at 5:30

PM. The menu has two selections: Chicken Cordon Bleu with poulet sauce for $35.00 or

Stuffed Shrimp with lump blue crab meat for $40.00. Dinners will include coffee, tea, soft

drinks and dessert. The cost will cover all gratuities as well. Reservations must be made to the

Telephone Committee by Thursday, April 25, 2023 at 7:00 PM. Hostesses are Judy

Cummings and Paula Sattleberg.

Please give a round of applause and great thanks to all those who have helped with this year’s

fundraiser – It was a great success as usual! Please make sure and give a big thank you to

Patty Russell who really helped to put this together with lots of help from volunteers.

Let us also recognize the hard work of our Scholarship Committee – Chairman, Daniele Priest,

and committee members, Anne O’Bryne, Nancy Fischer, Val Hamluk and Megan Menges.

There will be a brief business meeting at the Scholarship Dinner to report on the success of

our Spring Scholarship Fundraiser.

This Megaphone is short! Just a reminder to please make plans to join us for dinner to meet

our Scholarship Winners. That is what it is all about!!

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for May 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM at the home of AnnaBeth

Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport. Please contact her if you will not be attending.

 February 2024 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 7, 2024 at the 80 Main Street, Lockport. We will be welcoming Leonard Peterson who is the Niagara County Street Outreach Supervisor for Pinnacle Community Services and Larissa Bachman who is the Chief Operating Officer with Pinnacle Community Services. This organization was formerly known as Family and Children’s Services of Niagara. They will be presenting a program that describes the drop in services offered in Lockport to the homeless youth population. Pinnacle Community Services has a center located at the First Presbyterian Church. 

Homelessness has become a problem for more and more individuals. We are pleased to present this timely program on such an issue.  

In addition to the program, Pinnacle will be accepting donations of needed items that include non-perishable food, toiletries, socks and underwear. The population that is served at the drop-in center ranges in age from 12 to 24. So items that individuals need are appreciated. Please feel free to bring donations to the meeting.  

The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM.  The menu will be panko crusted chicken, mashed potatoes and vegetables, served with coffee and tea. Cookies will be available tableside for dessert. The cost of the dinner is $25.00. Hostesses are Kim Meal and Michelle Gilbert  Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, February 29, 2024. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling Gail Marshall (716-434-4306). We need to make sure we have an accurate count for the restaurant of those planning on attending. Please do not call Marybeth Wilson as she is out of town. Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program. 

The recommendation of the Scholarship Committee was passed at the last meeting. It read as follows: “At this time, the Scholarship Committee recommends for the year 2024 that we support awards up to $8,000.00 as applications are received and reviewed by the Scholarship Committee. Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for April 14, 2024 at the Lockport Town Country Club. We are in need of two Co-chairs! The work is easy and delicious – choosing the menu! So please consider volunteering. It is a great way to make new friends and to help with the mission of the club. Nancy Fisher and Shirley Wagner have volunteered to sell tickets during the Fundraiser!  We can always use more volunteers. 

It’s a great time of year to start thing about the theme of a basket to make for the basket raffle or to find a donation of a restaurant or vendor gift certificate. Information on the drop-off for completed baskets will be forthcoming. Dues can be paid at the next meeting or mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport, NY 14094. Dues are now $50.00. Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. 

Next year will see a new Directory so if there are any changes to be made to your listing, please let Patty Russell or any other Board Member know. The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at the home of Patty Russell, 102 Continental Drive, Lockport at 7:00 PM. Call to confirm your attendance. 

Please note that longtime member, Kathy Newman, passed away recently. A

book has been donated to the library in her memory. We are also saddened to report that Pat Kennedy, another long time member, recently lost her husband.  Prayers for these families are appreciated.

 January 2024 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 1, 2024 at the 80 Main Street, Lockport. This promises to be another exciting program as we welcome David Kinyon who will be presenting an exciting program on the preparations being made to celebrate the Bicentennial of the Erie Canal. The original canal opened to navigation on November 26, 1825 and the final section to be completed was Lockport’s Flight of Five Locks and the deep cut which comprised a seven mile section from Lockport to Tonawanda Creek. The Flight of Five was considered an engineering marvel of the early 19th Century. Mr. Kinyon will also discuss the successive evolution of the Lockport Locks from the original “Clinton’s Ditch” lock system to the Englarged Erie Locks ending with the what we now know as the Erie Barge Canal Locks. Mr. Kinyon has worked tirelessly on the preservation and restoration of the historic Flight of Five and the Lock Tenders Tribute Project. He will be talking about these projects as well. Lastly, Mr. Kinyon will share plans for a documentary to be called America’s Stairway, which is intended for national distribution and will explain the Canal’s role in the western expansion of the nation in the 19th century and the modern impacts of the canal today. Our region will be hosting the 2025 World Canals Conference in Buffalo and Mr. Kinyon will be telling us about that, too. It promised to be an entertaining and informative program. 

The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM.  The menu will be a sandwich and salad, served with coffee and tea. Cookies will be available tableside for dessert. The cost of the dinner is $25.00.  Hostesses are Shirley Wagner and Margo Covell Gail Marshall and MaryBeth Wilson. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, January 25, 2024. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling Gail Marshall (716-434-4306). We need to make sure we have an accurate count for the restaurant of those planning on attending. Please do not call Marybeth Wilson as she is out of town. Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program. 

Attendance at this meeting is important because the Scholarship Committee will be making it’s recommendation to the club on the number of scholarships that we hope to award this year. It is an important vote, so please attend the meeting.

Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for April 14, 2024 at the Lockport Town Country Club. We are in need of two Co-chairs! The work is easy and delicious – choosing the menu! So please consider volunteering. It is a great way to make new friends and to help with the mission of the club. It’s a great time of year to start thing about the theme of a basket to make for the basket raffle or to find a donation of a restaurant or vendor gift certificate. 

Dues can be paid at the next meeting or mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport, NY 14094. Dues are now $50.00. Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. 

Next year will see a new Directory so if there are any changes to be made to your listing, please let Patty Russell or any other Board Member know. The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at the home of Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport at 7:00 PM.  Call to confirm your attendance.

 

Looking forward to seeing everyone in the new year. Marybeth Wilson recently

underwent successful open heart surgery. Cards can be sent to her at: 60 South Beachview Drive, Jekyll Island, Georgia 31527

 November 2023 

Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 2, 2023 at the 80 Main Street, Lockport. This promises to be another exciting program as we welcome Claudia Carballda. She serves as the Manager of Community Engagement for the new Buffalo AKG Museum, previously known as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. She will share with us all about the new buildings, art work, programs and community activities that are now available at the campus of the AKG Museum. The museum has completed a $230 million dollar capital campaign, transforming the original museum. According to the New York Times, the Buffalo AKG Museum remains “one of the strongest collections of modern and contemporary art in the United States.” 

The doors will open at 5:30 PM for registration. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The menu is sliced turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans. Coffee and tea will be served. The cost of the dinner is $25.00. Hostesses are Gail Marshall and MaryBeth Wilson. Please call in your reservation to the Telephone Committee by Thursday, October 26, 2023. You may also make an email reservation with Susan Grigg at smmgrigg@aol.com. Reservations may also be made by calling either Gail Marshall (716-434-4306) or Marybeth Wilson (716-434-1462). Every meeting is a guest meeting, so bring a friend. We had a great turnout at the last meeting so let’s do it again!! It sounds like an interesting program. 

We met two new members at the last meeting! Paula Sattleburg lives at 109 Corinthia Street, Lockport and is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo. Trina Schiavetti lives at 57 Lindhurst Drive, Lockport and is a graduate of SUC at Buffalo. Welcome to Paula and Trina. 

Our College Scholarship Fundraiser is scheduled for April 14, 2024 at the Lockport Town Country Club. We are in need of two Co-chairs! The work is easy and delicious – choosing the menu! So please consider volunteering. 

Dues can be paid at the next meeting or mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport, NY 14094. Dues will be $40.00 and will increase to $50.00 after December 2023. 

Thank you for continuing to support the College Club with your attendance at meetings and support of the annual Fundraiser. 

The next Board of Directors meeting will be held on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at the home of Mary Beth Caswell at 7:00 PM. Call to confirm your attendance. Remember that we will not be having a meeting in December or January. See you in February!!

 September 2023

SPECIAL EDITION....PLEASE NOTE THIS VERY IMPORTANT

INFORMATION.

Our next meeting is scheduled on October 5, 2023 at the Lockport Town andCountry Club. The program is important and vital to the community as it will be informational about the new hospital and the services that will be available to our community.

The Lockport Town and Country Club has asked us to provide a head count to them for the dinner earlier than we expected. We have to give them the numbers by September 29, 2023. We are asking you to call in your reservation to the telephone committee by Thursday, September 28, 2023! If you know of a member who does not receive the Megaphone by email, please pass this information along.

This change will only be effective for this meeting!!!

 September 2023

Please join us on October 5, 2023, at 6:00 PM at The Lockport Town and Country Club for our first meeting of the year! Please note this change from our usual meetings that have been held at 80 Main Street. The program is one of importance to the community of Lockport. Soplease invite friends and family to this meeting. 

 Our speaker will be CJ Urlaub from Catholic Health. His assistance has provided the following as a description of his talk for the evening:“Catholic Health’s newly constructed Lockport Memorial Campus of Mount St. Mary’s Hospital is designed as a ‘Neighborhood Hospital.’ Mr. Urlaub will discuss in detail what this concept means, how it will benefit the region now and well into the future, as well as how the Catholic Health System has facilitated the construction of this modern, state-of-the-art hospital in record time. He will explain what services will be provided at the new facility and discuss how the hospital, scheduled to open on October 10th, fits into healthcare for the future.”

The Board urges members to attend this meeting and to bring a guest! This information is vital to the entire Lockport Community. The meeting will be a dinner meeting with a menu ofchicken piccata, garlic mashed potatoes, vegetable d’jour with a dessert of strawberry shortcake sheetcake. The doors will open at 5:30 PM and dinner will be at 6:00 PM. The cost is $40.00 and includes coffee, tea and soft drinks together with the room reservation and grauity. Hostesses are Mary Beth Caswell and Ann O’Byrne. Reservations must be made by Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM by calling the telephone committee. 

Please note that Nancy Coons is no longer on the telephone committee and has been replaced by Michelle Gilbert (433-6739). Sue Grigg has agreed to continue to take email reservations as well and her email address is smmgrigg@aol.com.

We will be returning to 80 Main, Lockport for the remainder of our regular meetings.

Treasurer, Anna Beth Kinyon will be accepting payment of Dues at the meeting. Dues are  $40.00 and will increase to $50.00 after December. Dues can also be mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Road, Lockport, New York 14094. 

We will not be printing new directories this year as they were just handed out last year. We have had two new members join last June. Please add their information to your copy of the Directory. There are: Dr. Martha Kershaw, 111 Morrow Avenue, Lockport, NY; 716-940-7160 and she graduated from Niagara University and Leslie Tobin, 6990 Northview Drive, Lockport, NY; 716-807-1223.

Please note that Anna Beth Kinyon has a new phone number – 716-725-2059

If you have an email address, we would like to send the Megaphone to you through email to save postage. Please provide your email address to Judy Johnson-Paonessa (jljgesq@aol.com) or to any Board member.

The Annual Scholarship Fundraiser has been scheduled for Sunday, April 14, 2024 at the Town and Country Club. We are in need of two volunteers to be Co-chairpersons of this event. Don’t let the designation intimidate you!! This event pretty much runs itself. The of the Co-chairs are to set the menu and to make sure that Micrographics is on board with any printing needs.

Speaking of volunteering, many hands make little work. It would be helpful to have some volunteers to sell raffle tickets at the Fundraiser as well. This would simply mean about one hour to sell tickets at your table. Just let any Board member know if you are willing to help out. It will save Patty countless hours making phone calls!!

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for October 12, 2023 at the home of Mary Beth Wilson, 7 Berkley Drive, Lockport, New York. Please contact her if you will not be attending

 June 2023 

Please join us to celebrate the 100th year of Lockport College Women’s Club at our final meeting of this year on Thursday, June 1, 2023. We will enjoy dinner, a historical proclamation recognizing College Club, and a program about a part of Lockport history.  

Our meeting will be held at 80 Main. Doors will open at 5:30 and dinner will be served at 6 pm. Menu choices are: Pork Tenderloin with fire-roasted peach chutney OR Panko Parmesan-Crusted Chicken with white wine feta cream sauce. Dinners include bread and butter, potatoes and vegetables, coffee, tea and any soft drink ordered from the bar. The Club will provide a piece of our celebratory anniversary cake for everyone! 

Please make your reservations with the Telephone Committee by Sunday, May 28, 2023 before 7 pm. Hostesses will be Judy Cummings and Anna Beth Kinyon. 

Our speaker in June is Megan Cassidy Hall, the author of “Sutherland”. She will share how she came to write her book of historical fiction based on the lives of the Seven Sutherland Sisters. Her story details the Sutherland Sisters early life of poverty to becoming one of the most celebrated acts in Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth. They were known both for their singing and their 7foot long hair. Megan Cassidy Hall grew up in Lockport and is a Professor of English at SUNY Schenectady. Please come and hear one of Lockport’s own share her story of writing about the historical Southerland Sisters who were also from Lockport, New York.  

In addition to our program, we will also read a proclamation from Mayor Michelle Roman recognizing the 100th Year of Lockport College Women’s Club and its presence in this community since 1922.  

Two new members will be introduced at our June meeting. They are Dr. Martha Kershaw and Leslie Tobin. We look forward to meeting them both and welcoming them into College Club. 

Our Scholarship fundraiser “Sunday for Scholarship” was a big success! Thank you to all our members and friends for their support. 

Thank you to Madeline Angelo and Ida Quade for co-chairing the event. Thank you also to Daniele Priest and Shirley Frombgen for co-chairing the ticket committee. Thank you to Anna Beth Kinyon and Peg D’Amato for their help setting up the Basket Raffle. Thank you to the members for all the baskets, donations, great ticket sales, successful basket raffle, and help selling tickets at the fundraiser. 

Donations to the fundraiser totaled an astounding $2,735.00. 

Proceeds from Basket Raffle, Special Raffle and Split Club were $1815.00. Proceeds from 86 luncheon tickets sold (profit of $10.00 each) was $860. After expenses, the profit from the fundraiser was ***$4,896.00***. At our fundraiser, Kim Meal proposed a “$100.00 Challenge” in honor of our 100th Year! The challenge has taken off because of the generosity of our members and our shared belief in the importance of women and education. Thank you, Kim for your great idea, your presentation of it at the fundraiser, and the benefit to our scholarship award winners. 

The $100.00 Challenge has raised $2,011.00 to date with the proceeds going to our Scholarship Fund. Thank you to the following members who contributed $100.00: Kim Meal, Lorraine Sparks, Lucille Cannata, Mary Beth Wilson, Val

Hamluk, Gail Marshall, Isabelle Murphy, Anna Beth Kinyon, and Patricia Russell. Paula Falsioni contributed $1,111.00 in memory of her parents Daniel and Victoria Falsioni, and deceased members Dee Morotchie, and Donna Bergman. Thank you all for accepting the $100.00 Challenge.  

At our May Scholarship and Recognition Dinner, Mary Beth Gammack was recognized for reaching the milestone of 50 years of membership in College Club. Congratulations, Mary Beth. 

We were privileged to meet our two scholarship award winners also. This year the Scholarship Committee chose Camryn Schiavitti who will be attending Nazareth College to pursue a degree in physical therapy. Camryn attended with her mother and gave a wonderful thank you to the group. She shared her plans to study at Nazareth and be a part of their women’s soccer team. Her determination and hard work led to success and we wish her well at Nazareth. 

The second award winner was Camryn Becken. Camryn will be attending NCCC and then a four- year school. Camryn thanked the group via Zoom and impressed us with her poise as she shared her academic plans and the work ethic that brought her to graduating from high school in three years. We also wish Camryn well at NCCC and look forward to hearing from both of them. Thank you to Margo Covell who chaired the Scholarship Committee this year and is stepping down. Thank you also to Kim Meal who has chaired in the past and served many years on Scholarship Committee. Kim is also stepping down. The two new members of Scholarship Committee are Ann O’Byrne and Nancy Fisher. Volunteers are needed! Please let me know if you would be interested in working on Programs as Vice-President. Co-chairing with a friend has been successful. We have lots of program ideas already so please let me know if you would like to be more involved. 

We also need co-chairmen for next year’s fundraiser. Many aspects are already in place. Please call me for details. 

In April, we lost long-time member Cathie Tobin. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family. She was on the Board with Patty Russell when she wrote the Megaphone with Marcia Jacobi. A memorial book has been arranged at Lockport Public Library from the members of Lockport College Women’s Club. Please note in your directory that Anna Beth Kinyon’s phone number is now 716- 725-2059. 

The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for June 8, 2023 at the home of Anna Beth Kinyon. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Please let Anna Beth know if you are unable to attend. 

Thank you to Patty Russell as always who has been our tireless leader for yet another successful year. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the June meeting.