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NEWS January 28, 2009 We are going to Susie K's Cafe & Tea Room 145 E Main St Ravenna January Birthdays:
January 6 ~  Queen Rita
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Members List:
CEO:
Rita Lane
Queen:
Rita
Vice Queen:
Shirley
Empress:
Kathy
Shop-A-Lot:
Barb
Jester:
Barb
Duchess:
Darlene
Sexy Secertary:
Patti
Lady:
Joanie
Princess:
Millaina 
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RED HAT SOCIETY ROYAL LADIES OF THE ROUNDTABLE JEWELS OF DELITE SASSYKATS - N - RED HATS
How The Red Hat Society Began
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While visiting a friend in Tucson several years ago, Sue Ellen 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?
Photo taken in November 2001
(Top row, left to right) Pat Judson, Jane Farrington, Jeanne McLeod (Middle row) Mary Ellen Lamparter, Cheryl Hertel, Polly McLaughlin, Sandy Santillan, Sue Davis, Sherry Friend, Maureen Burton, Marcia Harline, Vicki Raudabaugh, Susan Powers, Marie Rowden (Bottom row) Chris Carroll, Carol Sibley, "EQM" Sue Ellen Cooper
