BPW To Meet Oct. 6
BPW To Meet Oct. 6
The Business and Professional Womenâs Club of Newtown will hold an evening of networking on Monday, October 6, at The Homesteads at Newtown, 166 Mt Pleasant Road.
The BPW will announce the new board for the year and offer a chance to greet old friends and new ones. A program on early American decorative arts will be presented by Lorraine VanderWende.
Registration begins at 6:15 pm. Dinner will be at 6:30. Reservations should be made by noon on Friday, October 3, to Joan Lavery, 426-0812. The cost of the evening will be $20.
A Newtown resident since 1964, Ms VanderWende is skilled painter, teacher of decorative design techniques, and collector. She is a member of the Charter Oak guild of the Historical Society of Early American Design and also a member of the FairChester guild, which includes residents of Fairfield and Westchester counties.
Recently Ms VanderWende and curator Caroline Stokes created a display of early American decorative arts for the C.H. Booth Library.
The Newtown Business and Professional Womenâs Club (BPW) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the intersts of business and professional women, providing them with an opportunity for networking. The club sponsors scholarships to help women who are changing or advancing their careers. BPW meets the first Monday of each month at 6 pm at various locations.