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The Wake Robin Women's Golf Club will celebrate their 75th Anniversary in June 2012.

Lost and Found

Lost:
Barbara Douglas, (January 27, 2012) First African American woman to chair, USGA Women's Committee, Presented the 2011 Ben Hogan Award by the Golf Writers Association of America
Ethel Funches, UGA National Open Women's Champion, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1969 & 1973 (2/2010)
Vernice Turner, UGA National Open Women's Champion, 1958 & 1961 (9/2009)

Found:
Laurie Stokien, 1975 UGA National Open Women's Champion
Carrie Jones, UGA National Open Women's Champion, 1962
Exie Shackelford-Ochier, UGA National Open Women's Champion, 1970 & 1971

THANKS!

A SPECIAL THANK YOU to the families and friends who provided photographs of the following African American Women golfers -

Helen Webb Harris (Walter Combs)
Maggie Hathaway (Michael Riddick)
Julia Siler & Lucy Mitchum (Victoria Ragland)
Vernice Turner (The Turner Family)
Lucy W. Mitchum (Victoria Romero)
Green's Ladies Golf Club (Winifred Stanford)
Lucy W. Mithcum (Randall Burger)
Ann Gregory & Thelma Cowans (Exie Shackelford-Ochier)
Lucy W. Mitchum (Bret Green)

We are still looking for photographs of Eoline Thornton, Thelma Cowans, Marie Thompson Jones, Ella Able, and Melnee Moye.