WOMEN VETERANS HONORED!
Assemblyman Ted Lempert, Twenty-First District, introduced Assembly Concurrent Resolution 171 which has memorialized
U.S. Highway 101 from Ralston Avenue exit in Belmont to the Santa Clara County line in the name of women who have, are and will serve in the United States Military.
Assembly Fellow Jennifer Anastasoff and Assemblyman Ted Lempert
Read Assembly Concurrent Resolution 171
The Servicewomen's Memorial Highway Project Advisory Board members are:
Originator Winifred Matthies U.S. Navy, WWII Co-Chair Sheryl Shaffer U.S. Army and Reserves 68-73, SP/5 Co-Chair Helen Wong U.S. Army and Reserves 73-95, Lt. Col. Treasurer Lorna Givens U.S. Army and Reserves 77-81, Sgt.
(Left to right) Lorna Givens - Treasurer, Helen Wong - Co-Chair, Winifred Mattias - Originator, Sheryl Shaffer - Co Chair
Thank you for helping us to accomplish our goal of placing signs along Highway 101 in honor of Women Veterans.
Sheryl Shaffer, Co-Chair
For an overview of WOMEN IN WAR, please visit American Women In Uniform
The Dedication Ceremony was October 15, 1998 at the VA Hospital at 795 Willow Road in Menlo Park.
This date was selected to coincide with the First Year Anniversary (October 18, 1997) of the Women in Military Service For America Memorial WIMSA in Washington, D.C.
This is the first memorial of it's kind dedicated to Women Veterans in California.
This project is the idea of Winifred Matthies of Los Gatos, a U.S. Navy veteran who served in WWII. She wrote a letter to the State Assembly recommending that part of the highway be named in honor of all women veterans, past, present and future!!
We thank the following groups and individuals for their generous donations for this wonderful project!
American Legion District 26
American Legion Post 409 - San Bruno
American Legion Post 410 - So. San Francisco
American Legion Coastside Post 474 - Half Moon Bay
American Legion Post 585 - San Carlos
AMVETS Post 53 - San Mateo
Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 16 - Redwood City
Marines Memorial Club - San Francisco
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2310 & Auxiliary - Redwood City
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 464 - San Mateo
WAC Association Chapter 44 - San Francisco
Jim Blank, Steve Coppola, Ira Davis, Ellen DuBose-Shaheed, Larry Estavan, Betty Frint, Lorna Givens, Tom Heuning, Philip Kurokawa, Alvera Mace, Karen Matthews, Winifred Matthies, Sheryl Shaffer, Mark Svenningsen and Helen Wong.
