Louise Lulack honored for service
<p>Louise Lulack laughs at her husband, Jack's story-telling at the Plains Woman's Club meeting Friday, where she received a certificate for 46 years of service.</p>
PLAINS – Louise Lulack was honored at the Plains Woman’s Club meeting on Friday afternoon with a certificate for her years of service.
Lulack is the longest standing member of the club, starting in 1967 and putting forth 46 years of service since then.
Her dedication to the club is undeniable and Lulack holds the Plains Woman’s Club dear to her heart.
Virginia Fortner, president of the club, welcomed Louise to be Queen for the Day during the meeting.
“Louise, this is your day. We appreciate you,” said Fortner. “You’re kind of like the mom for our Plains Woman’s Club.”
Lulack went on a walk down memory lane, pinpointing the changes she has seen in the previous years and detailing her favorite moments.
When Lulack first joined Plains Woman’s Club, the group met in the school and everyone always came dressed to impress. Lulack explained that blue jeans were never seen at the meetings and before her time the ladies even wore hats and gloves.
While participating in the club, Lulack said it was a blessing, granting her an escape from the busy home life of being a mom and a physical therapist.
“I just can never understand how young women say they have to wait till their kids are grown to come because that was a wonderful relief to leave my kids for two hours and go and be with a bunch of women,” said Lulack with a laugh.
The bountiful amount of projects that Lulack has seen come to life through the Woman’s Club is immense. From moving the log school to its new location, to bringing the Montana’s Children’s Theater to Plains for the first time, to more recently the Dorothy Johnson Memorial Park also known as the Triangle Park across from the Town Pump.
Lulack explained that before the Sanders County Arts Council was put in place, the Plains Woman’s Club was responsible for bringing the arts to Sanders County.
“The Arts Council has done a big service in taking over those projects because we just don’t have the budget for all of that,” said Lulack.
When Lulack envisions a future for the Woman’s Club she keeps the school and the arts close to her heart and hopes to bring more arts into the area.
“We bring Children’s Theater every other year and we’ve had Shakespeare in the Park but there’s always room for something else that would get to every student,” said Lulack.
Lulack is excited for the upcoming Children’s Theater and auditions for kids K – 12 will take place on March 18th in the high school cafeteria at 3:45 for the play, “Red Riding Hood.”
Along with her passion for the arts, Lulack also hopes that more young women would get involved.
“At sometime our club really lost a lot of members and I’m not sure exactly why,” said Lulack explaining that at one point the club had two meetings, one in the afternoon and one at night in hopes of targeting more people.
After her walk down memory lane, her husband Jack Lulack stood and told the crowd about past adventures the two have been on, bringing in hearty laughs from the crowd.
“It’s been one adventure after another,” said Jack.
Everyone had nice things to say about Lulack including her good friend Jean Morrison.
“The one thing that is very outstanding about Louise is that she is so kind and she was always doing something for everybody or anybody,” said Morrison. “ I just want you all to know that she is known in Plains, Montana for being so thoughtful and kind.”