PRESIDENT'S BIOGRAPHY

Celeste A. Wilson grew up in West Palm Beach, Fla., and moved to Boston in the late 1960s. She comes from a family of all Democrats, but converted to the Republican Party during the Regan Administration.

She has been in the Middlesex Republican Women’s Club for eight years, and served as 1st Vice President. She managed the corporate library at Progress Software for seven years until her retirement two years ago. She served on the Stoneham and Billerica Conservation Commissions for a total of 10 years, and served as Stoneham Conservation Commission chairman for 4½ years.

Celeste was president of the Stoneham G.C. twice. She served as the Southern N.E. chapter leader of the Steamship Historical Society of America for five years, and  is trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. She is serving as president of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts through June 2009.

Celeste resides in Billerica with her husband, David, an M.I.T graduate and senior research scientist with 12 patents to his credit who retired from Raytheon after 38 years.

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FEDERATION PROFILE

In November 1935, Mrs. Alfred B. Williams, then vice chair of the Republican State Committee, called a luncheon meeting at the Women's Republican Club in Boston. The group discussed the need to educate voters and concluded that this should be the prime function of the organization. When the Massachusetts Federation was formally organized, it represented approximately 25,000 Republican women. Giving women the tools to become sophisticated campaign workers remains a goal to this day.

Members raise funds, sponsor workshops, increase the visibility of the GOP, work to elect Republicans at all levels, educate voters and provide community service through the Barbara Bush Literacy Program.

Past presidents include:
Carol Sneden
Donna Ryan
Joan Reed
Yolanda Romanowski
Alice Morrison
Phyllis Johannson
Jean Inman
Elaine Kronland  
Mrs. Raymond Wheeler (founding)

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