Sparta Woman's Club Honored by Township Council

SPARTA, NJ – The Sparta Woman’s Club was honored at the township council meeting with a proclamation.  Sparta Woman’s Club is part of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, which was founded in 1890.

Mayor Neill Clark read the proclamation.  He said, “Thank you for all you do. Our community could not be what it is without you.  You make it vibrant. You make service to others an important touchstone to what you do.”

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According to the proclamation, the “GFWC is the oldest, largest, nonpartisan, nondenominational women’s volunteer service organization worldwide with 60,000 members in 3200 clubs.”

The proclamation also listed all the organizations they support:

• VIAL OF LIFE-- named Top Community Improvement Project in New Jersey, Veterans’ groups, Domestic Violence Awareness,
• DASI,
• Knoll Heights Senior Citizens,
• Veterans’ groups, Soldiers’ Christmas Stockings,
• Wreaths Across America,
• Sparta VFW Memorial Day Parade,
• NAMI,
• Manna House,
• Literacy Volunteers,
• Sparta Library,
• Family Promise,
• Sparta Community Food Pantry,
• Maryknoll Missionaries,
• Operation Smile,
• Newton Free Clinic,
• Cookie/Candy Project,
• JWCS Wish Tree,
• Cancer Center,
• Newton Hospital,
• St. Clare’s Hospital,
• Weekend Bag Project,
• Emmanuel Cancer
• Foundation,
• Sparta VFW,
• Sparta Elks, and
• donates to local, state and national charities

“Thank you for all your service,” Clark said. “I think when you read an entire paragraph of all you all have done. The reason why Sparta is such an outstanding community is because of the women sitting in front of us tonight and some who couldn’t be with us tonight.”

Marjorie Str a history of the Sparta Woman’s Club which was founded in 1949.  She read remarks written by Mrs. Robert D. Gibson Clothey First President of the Sparta Woman's Club
“A glimpse of Sparta in those early years...
The Sparta Woman's Club is located in "Beautiful Sussex County" in the mountain and lake region in the northwest corner of the State of New Jersey. The population is 35,000 and the principal industry is dairying. A state highway enters the county from the south and winds up and around wooded hills until, at Sparta, it divides, one branch continuing north and the other west. At the junction of the roads forming the "Y" lays the town of Sparta. It is an old town 7 miles from the county seat of Newton. Clean white frame houses line both sides of the single thorough-fare, accented by an occasional large boarding house. Only two new buildings have been added in the last 30 years, the brick Veteran of Foreign Wars meeting place and the Town Hall.
Until recently, Sparta hibernated in the winter, to arouse in summer to play host to the hundreds of city people who came to enjoy the cooler temperatures and the many natural diversions. Twenty-Five years ago , to the left of the stem of the "Y" a development company flooded a valley between the hills and created the largest privately owned lake the in the state, Lake Mohawk. Houses were built around the lake and on surrounding hills and sold on the club plan for summer residence. As the years went by, the character of the development has changed, until today over half of the lake community is permanently occupied. It is from these two areas that the Sparta Woman's Club draws its' membership.”

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