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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
and CINDY CUMINS
Staff Writers The town of Washington made national news when its all-woman council took their seats in 1950. This September, 30 years later, Dorothy Hawkins is the single member of that petticoat government still in office, having served without a break for more than a quarter of a century.
Postal clerk, avid yoga enthusiast, councilwoman, wife, mother and grandmother, she’s maintained the delightful enthusiasm with life which most of us lose at 12. Politics may be a “down and dirty” business but politicians, she's proved, can be trusting, friendly and warm.
“It all began one evening when Judge ‘Snippy’ Miller and his wife were sitting on their front porch talking,” Dorothy recalled.
The " town was a mess—stray dogs roaming, trash lying around, grass unmowed, street lights out. The general feeling was that Washington’s town fathers had been negligent.
"Mrs. Miller jestingly suggested that even the women could do a better job. It just shows what front porch talk can result in!” Dorothy chuckled.
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