BPW/USA was founded in 1919
BPW/bs 2009 - 20010 Officers:
President - Jeannine Gallagher
First Vice President - Ann Taylor
Second Vice President - Mary Blancarte
Recording Secretary - Norma Ward
Corresponding Secretary - Lana King
Treasurer - Helen Oelschlaeger
Advisor - Nancy Olson
Past State Preidents of local organization:
1989 - 1990 Jane Hanks
1999 - 2000 Debe Birzer
2001 - 2002 Julie Smith
Kansas Educational BPW Foundation Board Memberof local organization:
Treasurer - Linda Linkugel
Girl Scout Liaison of local organization:
Ann Taylor
BPW Kansas Federation of Business & Professional Women's site:
BPW/Kansas Educational Foundation site:
2008 - 2009 BPW/KANSAS Officers:
President - Barbara Pressgrove - Baldwin City
President-Elect - Helen Norman - Garnett
Vice President - Laura Miller - Ottawa
Secretary - Sherry Benjamin - Garnett
Treasurer - Barb Gibson - Ottawa
Executive Secretary:
Kathy Niehoff - Ottawa
BPW KANSAS HALL OF FAME 2008-09 HONOREES:
BPW Member - Charlotte Shawver - Manhattan
Posthumous - Marge Hampton - Wichita
2009 DATES TO REMEMBER:
OCTOBER:
13 (Tuesday) - DINNER MEETING, 226 Shadyside, Bonner Springs, 6:30
18 - 24 - Kansas BPW Business Women's Week
24 - 25 - Fall Conference / Board - Newton, KS
27 (Tuesday) - BUSINESS MEETING, 226 Shadyside, Bonner Springs, 6:30
2010 DATES TO REMEMBER:
MARCH:
27 - 28 - Spring Conference / Board - Manhattan, KS
JUNE:
4 - 6 - Kansas BPW Convention & State Board - Manhattan, KS
The Collect
Keep us Oh God from pettiness.
Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault finding and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretenses and meet each other face to face,
without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.
Let us make time for all things;
Make to grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences,
That in the big things of life we are at one.
And may we strive to touch and to know the great, common human heart of us all and,
O Lord God, let us forget not to be kind.
Emblem Collect
Give us, Oh God, a realization of what our emblem stands for.
With its standards before us,
May our lives be a little stronger and finer than yesterday.
May we weed out a little more of the selfishness and greed that make our lives petty.
Help us to see the beauty of the golden circle that
binds many, many thousand women to higher ideal in these United States.
And, Oh God of Hosts,
may we forget not the ideals of this symbol, the beauty of art,
the need of knowledge of our responsibility to the business world,
the opportunity to uplift, and the ever increasing need to be kind.