Twentieth Century Club meets

by Lana Sue Jones
The Twentieth Century Club met March 14, with Georgia Detwiler serving as hostess and Sue Jones as c0-hostess.
The minutes were read and approved. The treasurer report was given and filed for audit. The yearbook committee passed around the sign-up sheet to finish filling positions. Sharyl Henry will send card to several of our members who are unable to attend to remember them. The membership committee is still seeking new members. There was no entertainment. Unfinished business was an update on the new library and a suggestion was made that we inquire if the members could help pack or unpack books. Old business is to decide what will be our plans for our May meeting.
The opinion was presented by Jean Wernel. She started her presentation giving a background on the book titled “Inside the O’Brien’s,” which was about a husband and father who finds out he has Huntington, a neurodegenerative disease with no treatment. The children have a 50% possibility of inheriting their father’s disease. Her question to the members was should the children be told about the disease or not. The majority of the group said they would tell a child.
Kay Sewell presented the program on camp songs. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, national parks were established which provided places for people to camp and this helped to bring about songs to be sung around the camp fire. In the early 1950’s, church camps and revivals were available for people to attend and the song “Kum Bah Yah” was best known to be sang at these camps. Folk songs were composed and sung around fires by soldiers of the Civil War, cowboys and pioneers on the trail. Camp songs can be spiritual, fun, harmonious, inspiring, patriotic and “catchy,” something easy to remember. Kay had the members pretend that we were around a camp fire and she led us in singing several songs. Meeting adjourned for refreshments.