About Us
Our Principles
Membership is open to all women who support the following principle and objectives:
- To promote the principle of freedom, equality and justice on which the government of this country is founded.
- To promote an informed electorate through political education.
- To increase the effectiveness of women in the cause of good government through active political participation.
- To support the objectives and policies of the Republican Party.
- To promote community involvement.
Our History
The Bull Run Republican Women's Club was founded the evening of November 12, 1972, at the home of Gretchen Hetzel in Manassas. A group of women came together who had volunteered long hours on the Republican phone bank, and wished to continue their political activities by forming a club which would offer long-term participation in campaigns and elections.
Doriene Steeves, the 7th District Representative of the Virginia Federation of Republican Women, came to help them organize, and it was she who recommended they choose a geographically identifying name for the club.
Since the constituency came from cities in the western end of Prince William County, the name Bull Run was finally selected as all encompassing. At the time, the only Republican women's club was in the eastern part of the county.
The Club got off to a great start with a booth at Manassas Fun Days where the members raised operating funds by selling 10-cent chances on the number of jelly beans in a huge jar. At the Christmas Parade they built and decorated a train on a flat-bed truck, dressed themselves up in period costumes, and won first prize in the float division.
The speaker at one of its very first meetings was Representative Stanford Parris who had just been elected to Congress.
The Club was chartered by the Virginia Federation of Clubs in 1973.