The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association welcomed members of the new Honorary Board of Directors during a dinner celebration on May 21, 2015 in Occoquan, Virginia, near the site of the planned memorial. The members of the Honorary Board will help TPSMA raise awareness about the memorial and support its construction.

Thank you to everyone who attended the celebration, and than you especially to those serving on the Honorary Board:  Brigadier General Clara Leach Adams-Ender, US Army, Ret.; former First Lady of Virginia, Susan Allen; former First Lady of Virginia, Jeannie Baliles; Professor Emeritus, Dr. Sidney R. Bland; Kristina Bouweiri, President/CEO, Reston Limousine; Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast, Eleanor Clift; Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr., Founder, Woman Suffrage Media Project; reporter Rebecca Cooper of ABC 7 News – WJLA News, Washington; Emmy-winning journalist and public speaker, Jan Fox; Gloria Feldt, Co-founder/President, Take the Lead; former Secretary of Virginia, Katherine Hanley; Coline Jenkins, great-great granddaughter of suffrage pioneer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Kathleen Spencer Kilpatrick, Virginia’s Curator of the Capitol; Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Curator Emeritus, Edith P. Mayo; Anne Sterling, President of the League of Women Voters of Virginia; Dr. Sandra Treadway, Librarian of Virginia; Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, US Air Force, Ret.; community activist and past TPSMA Board member, Su Webb.

For more information about the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, or the Honorary Board of Directors, visit www.suffragistmemorial.org/.