Dine-and-Discover Meetings and Events
Our meeting date is the last Wednesday of the month. Special event dates will be announced. RSVPs are due by noon on the Monday prior to each meeting as online registration automatically closes at that time. If registration is closed and you find you can attend, please contact Mary Abshier to check on seating availability.
Below is a menu of programs that are sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. Join HFCW’s meetings where lifetime learners gather. Be a part of our long history of sharing wit and wisdom with HFCW members and their guests since 1974.
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First Ladies of the United States of America and Their Cookies
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 @ 11:20 am - 1:00 pm
Chances are that you have never heard of, and have not read about, our First Lady who is a mystery lady. Prepare to be introduced to our third First Lady, Martha Wayles Jefferson, wife of our third President, Thomas Jefferson. How can that be since Jefferson was a widower when he was installed as President?The marriage between Martha and Thomas Jefferson was truly a wonderful love story with an extremely sad ending. Their lives were so intertwined that every aspect of her life became his personal legacy.You will learn about Martha’s childhood, how she grew into a beautiful woman, and her life as The First Lady of Virginia during Jefferson’s term as Governor 1779-1781.In addition, we will explore Jefferson himself as well as the morals of the times. And yes, there’s a twist to this story that is most surprising. It is true as it is written in history.Our program will conclude with a tasting of macarons.
SPEAKER
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Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Carolyn Tucker Myers and her family moved to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan where her father gained employment with General Motors. After five years of snow and ice, he moved the family south. They chose Texas because she had an uncle in Dallas and her parents had friends in Houston. In 1951, her father opened a hardware store in Pasadena where her mother worked too.
Carolyn graduated from Pasadena High School in 1955 and the University of Texas, Austin, in 1959, and married shortly thereafter. The newlyweds were stationed in Morocco where her husband spent two years in the Air Force. They returned to Coleman in central West Texas where she taught elementary school for six years. In 1977, she moved back home with her only child, a son, and joined the family business. After the death of her parents and 60 years later, Tucker Hardware was closed in 2011 and that closed a chapter in the family’s history. Carolyn served as international secretary of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority. She is a past president of Soroptimist International of Pasadena, a service organization. She was honored by the Soroptimist organization as a Woman of Excellence at the 2000 Federation of Houston Professional Women Gala. Her interest in presidential libraries began when she and her mother attended the hardware market in Atlanta, Georgia. With an extra day to sightsee, they toured the Library of President James E. “Jimmy” Carter. Carolyn proudly possesses her mother’s collection of presidential plates. She has also visited these presidential libraries: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. Each is different and intriguing. |
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