Hillary Clinton Club Members Meet Senator, Maya Lin At Hall Of Fame

Hillary Clinton club members meet senator, Maya Lin at Hall of Fame

THE TALK ABOUT TOWN

Janine Easter, Ann Arbor chapter coordinator for the Hillary Rodham Clinton Support Network (formerly the Hillary Rodham Clinton Fan Club), wants you to know that her group does more than run around cheering the former first lady at every turn. Election reform, for example, is one of the group’s priorities. But cheering is also part of the package.

That’s why 12 members of the HRCSN’s Ann Arbor chapter traveled to Seneca Falls, N.Y., for Clinton’s induction to the National Women’s Hall of Fame this month. Members of the Ann Arbor club spent about half an hour chatting with Clinton, now a U.S. senator from New York, during the weekend event.

Architect Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington as well as the Wave Field on the University of Michigan’s North Campus, was also among the 10 inductees. Easter presented both Clinton and Lin with a photo of some members in their Hillary T-shirts standing on the Wave Field. “We are still kind of on a high from all of this,” Easter said, days later.

One woman in the group, Jean Kluge, got to share a personal story with Lin. Kluge has a grandson whose name was inspired by the Vietnam Memorial. His parents went to the memorial, found a Kluge, and named their son James for the man whose name was etched in the wall.

COURTESY, CHRIS LORD

Some members of the Ann Arbor Chapter of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Support Network pose on the Wave Field designed by Maya Lin. Lin and Clinton were recently inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Fall. N.Y. From left are Valerie Constance, Karen Fahle, Amy Seetoo, Arlene Huff, Janine Easter, Chris Lord, Alicia P.Van Pelt, Jan Murray and Sharon Arthur.