GENERAL CLUB INFORMATION
Club address:
P.O. Box 10015
Bedford, NH 03110
Meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of the month, unless otherwise indicated. We meet at the Bedford Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Bring your name tag and calendar to all meetings.
All active members (except Officers and Board of Directors) are required to serve on one monthly luncheon committee. Officers and Board of Directors are responsible for the New Members' Coffee. If a member is unable to serve in her scheduled month, she should try to trade with someone in another month OR pay $30.00 to the monthly luncheon chair one week prior to the luncheon. The month a member will serve is listed in this yearbook. The monthly hostess is the contact person
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How to Join
If you would like to join our group, please write,or email for details.
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1905 - Bedford Women's Club - Present
The Bedford Women's Club was founded in 1905 as the Child Study Circle and joined the Federation of Women in 1926 as the Home Study Club. During the early years, the club ladies met in the "little green house" in Bedford Center. The meetings were primarily social, but with an interest towards community charities. This was Bedford's society and the fashionable ladies wore hats and gloves to their "teas" where coffee was made over the wood burning stove. The original founder was Mrs. Gordon Woodbury.
Our scholarship committee was initiated in the early forties and proudly presented $25.00 to a female student from Bedford. The money was raised by selling baked goods and home items at the local fair held in the fields in the center of town. Eventually, the women were able to provide scholarships from $25.00 to $50.00 and then $100.00.
In 1949 the Club's name was changed to the Bedford Woman's Club. For many years the BWC ladies participated in and supported the Well Child Clinic at our Town Hall. This clinic provided immunization shots to the children of Bedford.
Fashion Shows were popular in more recent history, along with dances at McKelvie School and October Fest Dances at the Bedford Village Inn. While part of the Federation, the BWC participated in the Show Homes in cooperation with other area Women's Clubs. We became independent of the Federation in 1993 and our name officially became The Bedford Women's Club in 1994.
Our cookbook, Tasteful Treasures, was published in 1995. The substantial trust fund from the sale of this cookbook has provided the BWC with an annual income from the interest, to supplement our scholarship and community contributions. The Memory Tree fundraiser was started in 1996 when a fir tree was planted in front of the Bedford Library. The tree is lighted during the month of December in honor of Friendship, Inspiration, and Recognition of special people.
Today we enjoy a long history of many delightful women offering their time, talents, and energy toward the continuation of this organization and to benefit our Bedford community.
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