HLDW welcomes Sue Barrick

Sue Barrick, Former President of Texas Democratic Women will speak at the May 23rd meeting of Highland Lakes Democratic Women in Meadowlakes Hidden Falls Bistro.  The meeting begins at 11:30am with registration at 11:15.
 
Please RSVP to [email protected]m

Lunch will be served at a cost of $20

               MENU: Pizza Buffet with Salad

Sue Barrick was born and raised in rural eastern Iowa literally on the banks of the Mississippi River. Those beautiful natural surroundings and the rhythm of the farming year in the fields around imbued her with a sense of awe and wonder that would lead her to study geology at the University of Iowa. Riding the bus to attend Davenport public schools, she became aware at an early age of the injustices of income inequality among her classmates.

She absorbed meeting etiquette, Roberts Rules of order, and a lasting sense of civic responsibility and efficacy during her nine years as a 4-H member. She volunteered in the district office of her local congressman in Davenport and later went all in for the Mo Udall campaign as a student at Iowa. She and husband Jim married in the summer of the nation’s bicentennial, 1976. By 1981 they were the parents of two growing boys and living in Lubbock where he was teaching at Texas Tech University. While mothering and home making were her primary occupations, she worked in an interesting variety of part time jobs and volunteer settings, and pursued postgraduate education, finding her calling as a research editor fairly late in life.
 
The excellent women of the League of Women Voters of Lubbock claimed Sue when she first moved to Texas and humored her for the years it took to overcome her absolute terror of public speaking and serve the group as a board member and officer, and LWV-TX as natural resources chair. When Republican Party interference in the Florida recount put George W. Bush into office in 2000, however, she vowed to be nonpartisan no more. She has since served as a Democratic Party precinct chair, county chair, and SDEC committee member, as well as a founding member and officer of TDW of the South Plains, and as a TDW board member at large, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and President.
 
ART TO BE AUCTIONED AT THE MEETING
This butterfly picture will be auctioned:

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REMINDER
We will have a social gathering after the meeting in the bar at Hidden Falls Grill with cookies, beverages and fellowship. Hope you can join in!

Please RSVP to Connie Stein