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38304
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Service clubs had the task of drawing communities together in the years before social media networks. How service clubs like the Optimists and Sherrills Fords Lions Club maintain their place in their respective communities is through charitable endeavors. Profiled was North Carolina Lions’ funding Camp Dogwood and Optimists’ fundraising research related to cures for childhood cancer.
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Service clubs; Service clubs--North Carolina--Optimists ; Service clubs--North Carolina--Sherrills Fords Lions Club; Nonprofit organizations; Camp Dogwood (Lake Norman); Lake Norman; Recreational facilities--North Carolina--Catawba County--Lake Norman; Service clubs--North Carolina--Sherrills Ford--North Carolina Lions; Freemasons--History; Optimist Club; Service organizations
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8364
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Mrs. Katherine Sweet Babington was born in 1815 in Chatham County. She grew up around the Masonry traditions and in her late teens began spying on initiations in the Masonic Hall for an entire year until she was caught. Since she had learned all the order's signs, symbols, words and secrets, the prominent Masons decided to administer to her the three degrees of Masonry and she became a Master Mason. Although, in 1712 one other woman in Ireland had become a Mason, Mrs. Babington was the first woman Master Mason in the history of the Masonic order. She died in Shelby, NC in 1886.
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