WCC to celebrate women at Feist-Tea

The Woman’s City Club of Greater Cincinnati will gather together to celebrate local, feisty women on December 8 at its annual event, appropriately named Feist-Tea.
 
“I have fun doing creative little things, so I came up with this idea that we need to celebrate women who get feisty and who get things done,” says Ruth Cronenberg, Woman’s City Club board member. “They’re not necessarily the big donors or in the newspaper—you don’t know what they’re doing—but they are feisty and they’re the kind of women we want to hold up.”
 
Cronenberg became involved with the WCC prior to retiring from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation in 1998.
 
“I worked through the era when women had a hard time working—they got half the pay men did,” she says. “But we were some of the working force that made changes for this generation, and now that I’m retired, women like me who have been through that are members of the WWC, and we’d like to continue making changes and help support younger women coming into the workforce and doing things in the community.”
 
This year, the WCC is honoring women for a variety of reasons—everything from informing members about political issues impacting the area and encouraging inner city literacy efforts, to inspiring artistic efforts among children by creating a life-size giraffe out of duct tape that Cronenberg says “must be about 12 feet tall.”
 
“This idea started as a fundraising event, but unlike others like it, we don’t charge, so that all people can come,” Cronenberg says. “It works very beautifully and very smoothly. And it’s a festive event, whereas most of our meetings are focused on an issue. But we grab old lace tablecloths from around the house and gloves and hats and anything that looks like a tea event and just spread it through the room— add a little décor.” 

Do Good: 

• Honor local women by attending Feist-Tea.

• Help support your community and get to know other women by becoming a WCC member.

• Support the WCC by donating. 

By Brittany York
Brittany York is a professor of English composition at both the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University. She also edits the For Good section of SoapboxMedia.