Women's History in Royal Palm Beach

Story & Photos By Gale  Jackson, West Palm Beach Customer Relations Coordinator

In celebration of Women’s History Month, an off-the-clock luncheon attended by management and craft employees in 334/349 areas was held at the Golden Corral in Royal Palm Beach, FL.

Karen Alleyne Means, Editor in Chief and Publisher of “Her Life” magazine was the guest speaker.   Means delivered a powerful expression of her life’s struggles with cancer which resulted in a double mastectomy, losing her corporate job, and dealing with her husband losing his corporate position soon after.   Means told the group “I was self-taught. I didn’t know the business but learned it along the way.  “My message to all of you is, if I accomplished all of this through adversity, you can do it, too!” 

“I was so inspired by her message,” said Gayle Jones, Training Technician, West Palm Beach.  “We all have our problems and hearing her story lets me know I can move forward and accomplish big things despite what I may be going through.”

Attendees included Procurement Clerk Mary Ayers, Palm Beach Postmaster Patricia Copeland, Supervisor, Customer Service Suzette James, Training Technician Gayle Jones, Labor Relations Specialist Jane Dilisio, Postmaster’s Administrative Assistant Elaine Gusse, Supervisor, Customer Support Leslie Miller, and Jupiter Postmaster Laconnia Watkins.