 Home | Recent News | Parsons | Red Hat Society 09 Feb 2006 Manor debuts Red Hat SocietyThe Red Hat Society will begin meeting every Thursday at 3 p.m. beginning Feb. 9. All ladies of the Manor are invited to attend and join. Alma Wolgamott, Health Care Center resident, is our leading consultant on this activity and is working with Betty Blackburn, Activities coordinator, to start a club at the Manor. The Manor will provide hats to the members of the club. You may ask “What is the Red Hat Society?” Here is a quote from the Red Hat Society’s official website: “Our main responsibility is to have fun! We see this group as an opportunity for those who have shouldered various responsibilities at home and in the community their whole lives, to say goodbye to burdensome responsibilities and obligations for a little while. This is the place to have fun and enjoy yourself. The refrain of the popular Red Hat Society theme song puts it rather bluntly: ‘All my life, I’ve done for you. Now it’s my turn to do for me.’” We feel like we have all been so dutiful and busy for so long that we deserve a break. The Red Hat Society calls itself a “dis-organization” and we are proud of our lack of rules and bylaws. We are all helping to develop an enormous nurturing network of women older than 50 (and younger), by joining red-gloved hands and spreading the joy and companionship we are finding within and among the chapters. We have also discovered a mission of sorts: to gain higher visibility for women in our age group and to reshape the way we are viewed by today’s culture. We are all familiar with groups of the past, which stridently sought to achieve their agendas. Well, we are decidedly un-strident, but we hope to advance our agenda with good humor and laughter. If we do not join together under the banner of the Red Hat Society, but rather remain isolated, in unconnected groups, that will not happen. Therefore, we are working to build a dis-organization within which we can all connect and eventually take over the world! Are there any rules? The spirit of the Red Hat Society forbids rules, per se. There is, however, one inflexible guideline that we must insist upon: You must be a woman of 50 or older (or you may be a Pink Hatter younger than 50) and you must attend functions in full regalia, (red hat and purple outfit for women 50 and older, or pink hat and lavender outfit for women younger than 50).
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