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Docusign Envelope ID: D7A65FC7- 56D1- 877A- 8006- 667FB8DB9B14 RESOLUTION 2026- 18 BY: Baker, Bixenstine, Bullock, Evans, Kepple, Steiner, Strebig A RESOLUTION to recognize and celebrate the civic contributions of College Club West on the 100te Anniversary of their founding. WHEREAS, Lakewood College Club, later renamed College Club West, was founded by a small group of female college graduates in 1926 to provide social, cultural, and intellectual outlets to the first generation of college -educated women who were few and far between at the time; and WHEREAS, as a result of the hustle of those early founders and Lakewood women' s hunger for intellectual pursuits in camaraderie with one another, the membership of College Club West quickly swelled to 250 members within its first year; and, WHEREAS, ever since its early days, College Club West has maintained a robust roster of members who meet regularly to pursue a diverse menu of interests with one another from foreign languages, culinary arts, and literature to physical fitness, community service and more; and WHEREAS, in the last 100 years, College Club West members have had the privilege of learning from an impressive roster of guest speakers including local television and radio personalities, magazine editors and newspaper columnists, foreign correspondents, former spies for the U.S., medical doctors, and female presidents of colleges and universities; and WHEREAS, in 1971 College Club West expanded its mission in an important way to help make a college education more accessible to individual women by launching a scholarship program that now regularly awards more than $ 10, 000 annually to local women; and WHEREAS, our entire community benefits when women come together to better themselves and build relationships among one another; and, WHEREAS, while women' s roles and opportunities have dramatically evolved over the past century, the appeal of College Club West' s original mission endures, which is to bring women together around shared interests and cultivate those interests in the next generation, now, therefore; BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That this Council recognizes College Club West' s 100th Anniversary and commends the Club for its enduring civic role in our community. Section 2. That the Clerk of Council is hereby authorized and directed to present a certified copy of this resolution to representatives of College Club West. Section 3. It is found and determined that all formal actions ofthis Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and any of its committees that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements. Docusign Envelope ID: D7A65FC7- 56D1- 877A- 8006- 667FB8DB9B14 Adopted: March 16, 2026 Approved: 3 ?- v 2Cp Docusigned by: Sarah KepVle, President of Council DocuSlg a by: Maureen M. Bach, Clerk of Council Meghan . George, Mayor