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Opening up Summer in a Pandemic

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Dull as dishwater, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, mundane, commonplace, routine,  dry as dust, lackluster, lifeless, drab, colorless, dullsville:   all of these describe Hoyt Griffith's word of the day, "jejune."  None of them describe today's meeting.  Blanca Sanchez and Susann Swan shared the Toastmastering role.  Don Glovan was joke master. "Women in Power" was the title of Jeanne Resen's speech which completed her level four in Pathways, the Presentation Mastery.  Jeanne recounted the timeline of some significant achievements of women.One little known fact was that in Wyoming in 1869, women were given the right to vote.  In 1890, when Wyoming was admitted into the Union, that continued suffrage was demanded, which was 30 years before women in the rest of the states won that right.  Jeanne mentioned various female heads of state from the past to the present, including an expected female running mate to Biden, concluding, "You've come a long w