2025 Citizen of the Year: Sue Pitiger
● Who writes the best listserv posts ever?
● Who makes sure everyone knows what amazing work that Norwich Women's Club members accomplish?
● Who has been vital to the thriving of the NWC?
● Who has been on the town’s Development Review Board for over 7 years?
● Who helped establish, with past Citizen of the Year Dan Fraser, The 19 Days of the Upper Valley--then and now, the Upper Valley Haven's largest fundraising event?
● Who practically singlehandedly sustained the Hartford/Norwich Holiday Basket Helpers, growing it into the
amazing charitable event it is today, benefiting hundreds of children and adults each holiday season?
● Whose laugh is infectious?
● Who can be seen walking around town greeting everyone she encounters with a smile and a connection of some sort?
● Who speaks to and stands behind every righteous cause, and shows us how to do it with humor and effectiveness too?
● Who in short, is a wonderful example to us all?
Sue Pitiger, that's who!
We are thrilled to announce that Sue is the Norwich Women's Club 2025 Citizen of the Year. Sue will be celebrated on Sunday, June 15th at 5:30 pm on the Norwich Town Green during the summer concert. Please join us there! In the meantime, please tell Sue congratulations and thank you when you see her about town.
2025 Annual Appeal
Many thanks to ALL of you who donated to our 2025 Annual Appeal.
The Norwich Women's Club is honored to have received a matching grant from the Byrne Foundation to support our 2025 Annual appeal, IMPACT NORWICH! We are thrilled! Through your generosity, and the generosity of the Byrne Foundation, we have been able to meet our fundraising goal for 2025. The amount raised will help us fund our Education Scholarships and Community Project Grants for 2025-2026.
We are always accepting donations to the Club to provide additional funds for these programs. Thank you, Norwich!!
Our Story
In the beginning...
Norwich, 1907. Eight women meet to “promote the cultural, charitable and social aspects of Norwich life.” They paid $0.25 and pronounced a dress code of white gloves and a hat. It was the Ladies Literary Society, and by 1910, they had 25 members! Lose the gloves and hat, up the dues, and it’s us - the Norwich Women’s Club. And we still IMPACT NORWICH.
In 1914, $100 was enough to pay for the first electric street lights in Norwich. And then, as the country went to war a couple of years later, the women of the Norwich Women’s Club threw themselves into the War Relief and Red Cross efforts. And they donated buckets for the new Fire Department too! And we continue to IMPACT NORWICH.
1930, America. Depression, hunger, misery. The Norwich Women’s Club sponsors a timely debate on the topic of, get this, “The emergence of women from the house is a regrettable feature of modern life.” The ayes had it, 24-3. Oy. Oh, and the club funded $50 for gravel for the sidewalks. And there’s the IMPACT NORWICH.
