SPEAKING AT RED HAT LUNCHEONS
POSSIBILITIES! is
what I speak about at Red Hat luncheons, and about reinventing
oneself, adventure, hope and following one's dreams, and
if you have something special you would like me to cover, I do
that as well.
How does one set up a
luncheon and talk?
A chapter finds a location for a luncheon-- a country
club, church hall, or any large venue which serves lunch. They invite
the chapters in their area. Usually 100 to125 women make reservations.
I arrive early so that I can visit with the ladies.
I do not own my books--the first three are published
by St. Martins Press, the rest by Pocket Books which is a part
of Simon and Schuster, so a local bookstore is asked to bring
the books and handle the sales. This makes it easy for anyone wishing
to buy them and have me sign them personally. I am available before
and after my talk.
Convention Coordinators left to right: Karen Scisco,
Lois Sneed, Cyd Ashmore and Linda Bullock with Joan Medlicott, Speaker
in the center.
Red Hat Fans from Long Island
Left top standing: Holly Ahrenstein, Center--Maddy Kasden
who recently visited Joan in Asheville and Jill Ahrenstein.
Sitting: left Evelyn Eichler and right Sandy Valenza.
A great time was had by all at the
Red Hat Iowa Convention in 2005.
FROM
LEFT to RIGHT : Pat Riggins; Lois Owens;
Carol Lewis; Judy Hetherington
IOWA GALS do the town.
Photographs taken at the Red
Hat Convention in Iowa
where Joan was the speaker at three major events.
Diane Silberson created these lovely hats!
See her website: ladydianehats.com.
Barb and Kathleen
Ginny, Kathleen and Joan
Ginny was the coordinator of the Iowa Convention.
Rosemary
Joan
and Bevery Lundsford at a Red Hat Event at
Wolf Laurel Country Club in Madison County, North Carolina
Red
Hatters are not just about dressing in purple,
wearing a red hat, and having fun. We are about relationship and
companionship. It is quite wonderful to be able to travel anywhere
in the US, and many places abroad, and with a phone call or e-mail
make contact with a sister red hatter and be welcomed to that city
or town.
It had been my pleasure to talk to red hat chapters in NC, SC, Fl, TN
and GA and I have been a speaker at a red hat convention in NC and have
been invited to speak at conventions in Georgia and Iowa. When I talk
to audiences at library fund raisers, more and more I look out at my
red hat sisters in the audience.
Hats off to Sue Ellen Cooper for starting what has become a marvelous
sisterhood.
Read
about Joan on 'Scarlet la-TEA-das'
This
event honored Maxine Phillipi,
representative of the Red Hat Society on QVS.
Joan
spoke to the ladies at Mars Hill Retirement Community
about the Ladies of Covington & The
Three Mrs. Parkers
May
7 2005
Mars Hill Retirement Community
Red Hats from the Scarletti O'Hatters and
the Mountain Word Sprites meet at Mars Hill Retirement
Mother's Day Tea
Celia, Sophia and Joan of the Mt. Word Sprites
at lunch at
Mary Coxe Mill Inn in Flat Rock, NC
Joan at lunch with ladies from Bristol,VA
and Bristol TN red hatters.
Barb Hoppes, Sandi Tomlin-Sutker, Joan and Mary Ann Van Coutren
at Mars Hill Retirement Home - Mother's Day Tea
Red Hatters join Joan and author Celia Miles at dinner in
Wytheville, Virginia.
Most, though not all of The Mountain
Word Sprites gather
for lunch at Vice Queen, Celia Miles' home. Celia took this photo. Seated:
L to R DeeDee, Holly, and Joan Standing: L to R Pat, JC, Gilda, and Penny
