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Annual Reception

Celebrate Our 30th with Us & Honor Remarkable Women from Our Past!

Join the party at GGRWHC’s annual reception! State Representative Winnie Brinks will be on hand with a legislative tribute honoring our 30th anniversary, and we will honor a GGRWHC founder who gave her name to our evening's host group, Aquinas College’s Jane Hibbard Idema Women’s Studies Center.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018 5 p.m. Wine & hors d’oeuvres 5:40 p.m. Welcome to 30th Anniversary & Celebratory Program  John F. Donnelly Conference Center at Aquinas College Free admission & free parking. Directions below. Let us know you’re coming! 616-574-7307 or info@ggrwhc.org

Who Was a Single Woman? Complicating the Concept! This year we step off Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation to elaborate notions about past "single ladies"—who they were and what “single” might have meant in terms of personal histories, various support networks, age, race, divorce, and widowhood.

There will be cameo presentations of a world-class botanist/real estate speculator, a renowned cultural historian, a WWII Red Cross volunteer/second-wave feminist activist, a businesswoman/first-wave suffragist/politician, an educator/club woman, and a little-known nineteenth-century African American women's club, both staid and radical! Honoring this sampling of Grand Rapids women, we also honor our researchers and will lift a glass to all for their contributions to our area history!

Directions Donnelly Conference Center, 157 Woodward Lane SE, just north of Robinson Road. Turn west off Woodward Lane into an Aquinas parking lot where a one-way sign points you in. Turn right up the hill to the Donnelly Center, where there is some parking; but you may need to park in the lower lot just off Woodward.

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Hats off to the historical women who've shaped West Michigan!

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