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Dine and Discover What You Never Knew About the White House China
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 @ 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
PROGRAM
This is a remarkable story spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries. It features a fascinating show and tell. You will see White House salad plates from our speaker’s collection.
We have a First Lady to thank for the reason the china of previous Presidents still exists today. Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of our 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, was blessed with considerable artistic talent and especially enjoyed painting on china. This led her to become engrossed in the history of the White House and its china. She was the First Lady to see that the china used by the leaders of our country was preserved. The popular Caroline, also lent her prestige as First Lady to the founding of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). She served as the first President General.
The program will pay special attention to the Abraham Lincoln china and its three surviving sets, and will conclude with a First Ladies Presidential sweet treat.
SPEAKER
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Carolyn Tucker Myers is originally from Memphis, Tennessee. Her family moved to a suburb of Detroit, Michigan where her father worked with General Motors. After five years of snow and ice, he moved the family to Houston. In 1951, her parents opened a hardware store in Pasadena, where they both worked Carolyn graduated from Pasadena High School in 1955 and the University of Texas, Austin, in 1959, and married shortly thereafter. The couple 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 to Pasadena with her only child, a son. She joined the family business where she worked for 34 years. After the death of her parents and 60 years later, Tucker Hardware was closed in 2011. A previous member and international secretary of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Sorority, Carolyn also served as president of Soroptimist International of Pasadena, a service organization. She was recognized as a Woman of Excellence at the 2000 Federation of Houston Professional Women Gala. She feels honored to be recently accepted into the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lady Washington Houston chapter. Carolyn became interested in presidential libraries when she attended the annual hardware market in Atlanta, Georgia with her mother. They toured the library of President James E. “Jimmy” Carter. Thus began her mother’s collection of presidential plates, which Carolyn now proudly possesses. The other presidential libraries she has visited include: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush and found each different and intriguing. |
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