Ideas are conceived in the mind of someone; some ideas die because they are too weak to withstand criticism of skeptics. On June 27, 1963, in the Abby Rockefeller Reading Room at the Spelman College campus, in Atlanta, Georgia, the idea of a state organization of ministers' wives and ministers' widows became a reality. Mrs. Queen E. Cook (DREAMER) had been attending the National Association of Ministers' Wives and Widows meeting since 1954, but could not get the ministers' wives of Georgia organized. Mrs. Nancy Pollock, President of the Atlanta Baptist Ministers' Wives and Widows Coterie, took a group of her ladies to Raleigh, North Carolina, to extend the personal invitation to the National President, Mrs. Rendella W. Lucas, to come to Georgia and organize the Georgia Association of Ministers' Wives and Widows. An election was held and the Georgia Officers were elected:

Mrs. Nancy Pollock, President

Mrs. Queen E. Cook, 1st Vice President

Mrs. Fannie Lomax, 2nd Vice President

Mrs. Ruth Stripling, 3rd Vice President

Mrs. A. G. Davis, Secretary

Mrs. Jessie Stell, Financial Secretary

Mrs. Jewell Terrill, Corresponding Secretary

Mrs. H. C. Carswell, Treasurer

Mrs. Mary Lockett, Chaplain

Mrs. Annie Ruth Smith, Reporter

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President Nancy Pollock made the following appointments:

Mrs. Julia Borders, Coordinator

Mrs. Clara West, Chairperson of Programs

Mrs. LaVada McKinney, Musician

Mrs. Ruth Stripling, Musician

Mrs. Mella Brown, Dean

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     This organization has been affiliated with the National/International Association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows since being organized in 1963. Our first convention was held in April, 1964 in Savannah, Georgia. Three denominations, 4 chapters, and 45 members registered.

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