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Queen Mother:
Cheryl Larson
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Debra Carle
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Kate Lewis Brown
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Pat Maslin
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>Founded March 2002 .
The Red Hat TeasHers of Germantown Maryland was chartered in March 2002 by a group of friends who got together for tea. We opened our membership to new members and quickly became a chapter of 60. We try to keep the membership to that number. We plan a number of events each year including 4 major events and 4 teas in member's homes. Our outings have been mostly planned as afternoon teas but we are always open to new ideas. Our annual dues is $25. If you're interested in joining or would like more information please fill out the contact box below.
Queen Mum Cheryl Larson
September 2003
While visiting a friend in Tucson several years ago, Sue Ellen Cooper impulsively bought a bright red fedora at a thrift shop, for no other reason than that it was cheap and, she thought, quite dashing. A year or two later she read the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph, which depicts an older woman in purple clothing with a red hat. Sue Ellen felt an immediate kinship with Ms. Joseph. She decided that her birthday gift to her dear friend, Linda Murphy, would be a vintage red hat and a copy of the poem. She has always enjoyed whimsical decorating ideas, so she thought the hat would look nice hanging on a hook next to the framed poem. Linda got so much enjoyment out of the hat and the poem that Sue Ellen gave the same gift to another friend, then another, then another. One day it occurred to these friends that they were becoming a sort of "Red Hat Society" and that perhaps they should go out to tea... in full regalia. They decided they would find purple dresses which didn't go with their red hats to complete the poem's image. The tea was a smashing success.
Soon, each of them thought of another woman or two she wanted to include, and they bought more red hats. Their group swelled to 18, and they began to encourage other interested people to start their own chapters (18 women don't fit well around a tea table). One of their members passed along the idea to a friend of hers in Florida, and their first "sibling" group was born. Sue Ellen's fondest hope is that these societies will proliferate far and wide. We have now held three successful Red Hat Society conventions — entire hotels filled with women of a certain age wearing red hats and purple outfits! Could world domination be far behind?
Warning
Jenny Joseph (1932-)
The Poem Begins -
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter...
