Plains Woman’s Club marks a century of service
Plains Woman's Club President Jamie Schmidt speaks at a gathering to mark the club's 100th anniversary. (Tracy Scott/Valley Press)
It was teatime at the Paradise Center this Saturday as residents gathered to celebrate 100 years of service by the Plains Woman’s Club.
“For the last 100 years, the general Federation of Women’s Club members that makes up the Plains Woman’s Club have worked tirelessly for the betterment of our community,” said past Plains Woman’s Club President Debbi Kirschbaum. “The things that a group of women who come together with the same mindset can accomplish is amazing. Much has changed in the last hundred years, but the one thing that has not changed is the desire to improve that which is around us, an investment in our community. Since the beginning, Plains Woman’s Club members were instrumental in creating the Fred Young Park and Dorothy Johnson Park, the library, and clean water for the town of Plains, setting an example for those of us to follow.”
The Plains Woman’s Club is affiliated with the Montana State Women’s Club with almost 600 members statewide in 16 communities across the state. The Plains club is part of a national organization called the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) with over 60,000 members in all 50 states and over a dozen countries. Montana saw the first women’s club organized in Deer Lodge in 1898.
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