At the Alpha Tau Chapter of DKG ILSO meeting held on Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Regional Office of Education building in Carlinville, Tom Emery, historian and author from Carlinville, was the guest speaker.

He shared information about four of the 22 women he wrote about in The Notable Women of Illinois. Tom introduced us to Mary Ann Bickerdyke, Jane Addams, Francis Willard and Gwendolyn Brooks. He even commented that of the many presentations he has done, this was the first he did sitting down, talking into a computer on Zoom.

At this hybrid meeting (both in person and on Zoom), we had se...