Westlake City Council honors women's suffrage anniversary

From left: Mayor Dennis Clough, Patricia Zaiem, chapter chair Janice Patterson, Councilman Ken Brady, and Nadia Zaiem. Photo by Isam Zaiem

A double presentation at the Westlake City Council meeting on Feb. 20 marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as the 100th anniversary of the founding of the League of Women Voters.

Council President Pro Tem Kenneth R. Brady presented a resolution signed by all council members to Janice Patterson, Westlake-North Olmsted Chapter of the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland. An anniversary proclamation was presented by Mayor Dennis M. Clough.

Accompanying Mrs. Patterson were mother-daughter chapter members Patricia Zaiem and Nadia Zaiem, both of Westlake. Mrs. Zaiem wore a costume replicating the white dresses women wore in parades in the early 1900s as part of the national campaign to obtain the right to vote.

The Westlake League of Women Voters was founded in February 1954. In 1964, the North Olmsted unit merged to create the two-city League that has regularly provided services to voters and timely public policy programs.

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Volume 12, Issue 5, Posted 10:02 AM, 03.03.2020