Jennifer Jobe received a phone call from Teresa Lee, then GFWC-NC President, asking her thoughts on reorganizing a junior chapter of the Winston-Salem Woman’s Club.  Plans started in the fall of 2001, and with most projects, it was a slow start. Teresa continued to work on events on the state side of the organization and Jennifer began talking with possible new members.

Several planning meetings were held at Susan Stockton’s house about how the group would be organized. There were not formal agendas, discussions stemmed around dates, time, locations, etc for when meetings would be held.

Plans progressed and by GFWC-NC Convention 2002, held in Winston-Salem, the Winston-Salem Junior Woman’s Club received their charter dated April 25, 2002.  Jennifer Jobe and Laura Harrell received the charter from Teresa Lee on behalf of the club. The charting, active members were: Jennifer Jobe, Laura Harrell, Julie Sizemore, Lori Fowler, and Kelly Miller. There were a total of 10 chartering members, although some were never active.

2002 marked the date of the first formal meeting of the membership. During the first few meetings, bylaws were finalized and officers were elected as follows:

Jennifer Jobe, President

Laura Harrell, Secretary

Julie Sizemore, Treasurer

During this time, the club met at the home of Lori Fowler. As the club grew, we moved our meetings to one of the Panera Bread locations in Winston-Salem.  The club focused most of their time and energy learning about the Federation and how things were to run. They familiarized themselves on Roberts Rules of Order, Standards and Procedures, and other items that would benefit the club for the future. Some time was spent looking at ways to grow the club and raise funds. Small projects were started such as the Operation Christmas Child.

January 2004 started off with a bang as we worked diligently to report of our activities from the previous year to our State Federation. In February 2004, we assisted the Old Town Woman’s Club in hosting the District 4 Arts Festival and most of us served as pages. In April, the GFWC-NC Convention was held in Charlotte and we had a few members serve as pages at this meeting. Having witnessed the previous year all the excitement around winning silver for various projects, we anxiously waited, since this was our first time reporting.

We continued with the fund raising, projects, and membership…our meetings were relocated to Knollwood Baptist church, as we had now grown out of Panera Bread. It was also decided, despite our growth, that until our club grew larger, we would just have the following slate of officers: President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer.

2004 – 2006 Administration

This club year was focused on the GFWC-NC Junior Special’s Project – EMSC. We purchased 15 bags total for Forsyth County. We had a new project working with the Children’s Home where we did a scavenger hunt and held an ice cream social. We also made four scrapbooks for each of the children’s homes. The fundraiser this administration was to sell candles. In February 2008, we co-hosted with the Old Town Woman’s Club, the District Four Arts Festival.