Winnetka Women's Golf Club Spring Banquet & a few Mother's Day factoids

On Tuesday, May 4th the Winnetka Women's Golf Club kicked-off their new 2010 Season with spectacular weather to play golf during the day followed with an evening banquet at Hackney's.



A good time was had by all 50 people in attendance (including the male 'crasher' who near the end of the festivities attempted to serenade the room of women). The WWGC was offered the same contest (as WMGC) to name the golf course and hole number used on this blogs profile page. Upon seeing the photo, in a near chorus of a response many said Torrey Pines Golf Course. Now all we need for a winner to the coveted prize of a totally free round of golf for a guest is to name the hole number. For the enormous amount of new WWGC blog followers here is a clue: Back nine only. Not Hole #18.


MOTHERS DAY Factoid/History:
First attempts to establish a "Mother's Day" in the U.S. was mostly marked by a group of mothers whose sons had fought or died on opposite sides of the American Civil War. There were several local celebrations in the 1870s and the 1880s, but none achieved resonance beyond the local level.

In 1868 Ann Jarvis created a committee to establish a "Mother's Friendship Day" whose purpose was "to reunite families that had been divided during the Civil War", and she wanted to expand it into an annual memorial for mothers, but she died in 1905 before the celebration became popular.

Holiday establishment
In its present form, Mother's Day was established by Anna Marie Jarvis, following the death of her mother Ann Jarvis on May 9, 1905, with the help of a Philadelphia merchant called John Wanamaker. A small service was held in May 12, 1907 in the Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where Anna's mother had been teaching Sunday school. But the first "official" service was in May 10, 1908 in the same church.

The holiday was declared officially by the state of West Virginia in 1910, and the rest of states followed quickly. On May 8, 1914, the U.S. Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and requesting a proclamation. On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation, declaring the first national Mother's Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war.

In 1934, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a stamp commemorating the holiday.

Carnations
Carnations have come to represent Mother's Day, since Anna Jarvis delivered 500 of them at its first celebration in 1908.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all!