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Of lunch and charity

Published:Friday | October 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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From left: Marcia Francis, Sati Chandiram and Carol Hadeed smile for the camera.
From left: Friends Tamara Hill, Dawn Woodstock and Valerie Brown.
The colourful trio (from left) Lorna Myers, Jacqui Neilsen and Janette Stewart.
Out to do battle for charity are (from left) Gail Drake, Beverly Levy, Clelie Barrieto de Hunter and Judith Douglas.
Members of the new board of the American Women's Group (from left) Faval Williams, Dawn Woodstock, Debbie Shill, Dione Morrison, Tammie Parnell, Trefina Asiedu, Rose Barnett and Gayle Lee. - photos by Gladstone Taylor/Photographer
American Women's Group members pose for the Social pages (from left) Valerie Brown, Jennifer Lim, Charmaine Chin Loy, Dawn Woodstock, Maureen Biggs Royale and Joy McHugh.
From left: Friends Tamara Hill, Dawn Woodstock and Valerie Brown.
Sydney Bartley of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission greets Tammie Parnell.
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The members of the American Women's Group (AWG) held their first meeting for the new year yesterday at the St Andrew residence of Tammie Parnell, wife of United State Chargé d'affaires, Isiah Parnell. President Trefina Asiedu outlined plans for the year, chief among them two major fund-raising events for the group's ongoing scholarship programme for needy students.

Special guest at yesterday's lunch was Sydney Bartley from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission, whose presentation included a session on the 'talking drum'. His presentation gave insights to Jamaican culture, as it relates to women and how work was accomplished with music and song in the days of our foreparents. Here are snapshots from the event.