Club News

Martha Washington Questers 1032 met on Aug. 26, at the home of Janet Peterson with Pat Johnson as co-hostess. Ten members and three guests attended. The meeting began with the reading of the Quester?s Invocation. Members then received their new yearbooks and a few corrections were made. They were well done by president Virginia Reighard. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, as was the treasurer?s report.

Virginia then read aloud the jobs of the vice president and the secretary. She also reminded members of the Questers Fall Fling in Denison on Oct. 7-8. They discussed their donation this year, to either the state president?s project or a scholarship. Neither was decided upon. The next meeting will be Sept. 23 at Jane Fehr?s home, with Pat Johnson doing the program on Presidents.

The program was presented by Louise Unkrich and her daughter Trish Woepking on Rosie the Riveter from the World War II era. All women who helped with the war effort are eligible to join the Rosie the Riveter group, as are their children (who are called Rosebuds). Louise actually worked as a riveter in Omaha, building B-29s. She helped to rivet sheet metal in building the plane. While there, she also played on a baseball team called the Bomberettes. She and her daughter attended a Rosie convention in Omaha and had a chance to see the B-29. While there, they heard about the women in North Platte, Nebraska, who did their part in the war effort by making lunches for the many servicemen passing through North Platte on the train. There have been two books published about these women and their war efforts, and a new one is coming out soon and looking for stories about women helping on the home front in World War II. It was an interesting and informative program that had everyone recalling efforts of their own mothers during that war.