For reservation requirements and cancellation information, please see Meetings information at the bottom of this page.
Note: All planned 2021 programs are subject to local and federal guidelines.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021, 11:00 a.m.
General Meeting & Luncheon
Program: Rose-Mary Rumbley and Jill Beam
Rose-Mary Rumbley is a well-known book reviewer, author, lecturer, storyteller — a Dallas Icon and a Texas Legend! Jill Beam is a singer, dancer, entertainer, Ms. Texas Senior in 2015, and the daughter of Rose-Mary Rumbley. Put these two together and you have two generations presenting a program filled with fun, laughter, and the very best in entertainment!
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021, 11:00 a.m.
General Meeting & Luncheon
Program: Country Western Music: Trent Blackley & Michael Bridges
Two talented singers bring you Country Western Music at its best! Both are members of the Texas Country Boys, a group that performs regularly in North Texas.
*** Postponed from Fall 2020 and rescheduled for Fall 2021 ***
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021, 11:00 a.m. — Postponed from 2020
General Meeting & Luncheon
Program: Ruth Sears – Book Review
Between SUN and SOD by Willie Newbury Lewis – A story of the Texas Panhandle during those romantic years when grass was free, and the frontier was a single, boundless range of prairie and plain.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2021, 11:00 a.m. — Postponed from 2020
General Meeting & Luncheon
Program: Skip Hollandsworth, Speaker
Walter Ned “Skip” Hollandsworth is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, and executive editor for Texas Monthly magazine. His true crime history, The Midnight Assassin, was on the NY Times Best-Seller List. In 2010, Skip won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing from the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Prior Events
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020, 11:00 a.m.
General Meeting & Luncheon
Program: Love Songs by Jackie Payne.
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Meetings
Friends meets regularly five times each year – September, October, February, April and May, in addition to special events. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are held in the Community Room of the Rockwall County Library, 1215 E. Yellow Jacket Lane, Rockwall, Texas 75087.
All meetings and special events are open to the community but reservations are required.
- A $20 luncheon reservation includes meeting, program and buffet luncheon.
- To attend the meeting and program only (without lunch), reservations are required and a fee of $5.00 will be charged. Reservations without lunches are limited to ten (10) and will be closed when this number is reached.
- Unless a luncheon reservation is cancelled by 5:00 pm Tuesday the week prior to meeting date, payment is required.