Tiffany Ramzy Several members of Voices United (VU) recently visited the Denton County African American Museum. During their visit, they were pleasantly surprised by a chance meeting with Alma Clark, a longtime Denton resident who moved to Quakertown in 1962 with her husband and children. Alma is one of five prominent African American women featured…
Tiffany Ramzy Public Art in the City of Denton Texas Recently, several members of Voices United (VU) visited a commemorative art installation commissioned by the City of Denton Public Art Committee. The work features 60 images dyed and powder-coated onto aluminum discs, forming an “art curtain,” which commemorates a legacy of courage, love, sisterhood, and…
Tiffany Ramzy On June 4 Pat Gulley was a speaker at the Voices United (VU) monthly lunch meeting. Pat has gained notoriety at UNT and is the subject of several oral and written artifacts about her social activist work in the 1960s with the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship (DWIF). Pat earned her bachelor’s degree in…
Vicki Baker There are so many things to love about summer: sunshine, swimming pools, road trips, and watermelon. That extra hour or so of lingering sunlight and the warm evenings made Voices United members just about ready to POP—that is, ready to Party on the Patio! There’s not one good reason for confining the festivities…
Deborah Williams The Voices United (VU) membership held their monthly luncheon meeting on April 2. During that meeting, VU member Ginger Sheppard introduced Mindy Arendt, president and co-founder of the local non-profit Friends with Benefits (FWB). Mindy provided VU members with an overview of what FWB is all about. FWB throws fun, affordable events that…
Janie Cindric On March 23 several members of Voices United attended the 2022 University of North Texas Equity and Diversity Conference. Joanne Woodard, Vice President of UNT’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access, had addressed our Voices United group via Zoom in January, and due to our group’s interest, extended an invitation to us…
Jane Scholz Voices United members learned about the state of housing and transportation in our city in March from our new Denton council member Alison Maguire. The takeaway: Expect a lot of residential and road construction here in the next eight years. Maguire was elected to the council in May 2021, but District 4 did…
Jane Scholz Voices United (VU) Community Outreach Committee is making plans with local community service groups in Denton County for the remainder of 2022. This will include securing meeting speakers and a hands-on volunteer effort by VU members. Final selections will be made in the near future. Given that the February meeting was held via…
Deb Williams Voices United (VU) held its annual 3-Club Scramble on Thursday, Oct. 21. Ten members played nine holes of golf with a single requirement—each person was only allowed to bring and play with three golf clubs of their choice. Decisions, decisions! Players included Jackie Ford, DeeDee Karabetsos, Nanci Odom, Marsha Scholze, Vicki Shoemaker, Jane…
Jane Scholz Starting Oct. 19, Voices United will offer everyone a chance to bid on auction items and raffle prizes worth more than $30,000. All proceeds will support Ignite, a national non-partisan non-profit that helps young women in Texas and around the country learn how to achieve decision-making roles in local, state, and national government.…