Synopsis
"The U.K.'s hottest female ensemble since the Spice Girls..." -- People magazine
Looking for an attention-getting way to raise money for leukemia research, eleven middle-aged members of the Rylstone, England, WI - a pastoral women's service organization - decided to strip for charity. Calling their effort the Calendar Girl Campaign, the ladies abandoned the traditional jam-and-Jerusalem calendar route of watery sunsets and country lanes, drank a generous amount of red wine, and posed in nothing but pearls.
The result? A stunning collection of sepia-toned photographs, adorned with the recurring image of a yellow sunflower, commemorating John Baker, the husband of one of the ladies -- Miss February -- whose death inspired the project.
The Ladies of Rylstone have earned a whopping $500,000 for Britain's Leukemia Research Fund., and People magazine calls them, "the U.K.'s hottest female ensemble since the Spice Girls..."
Now the calendar has come to America and is being published in time for Mother's Day and the garden club season, with all royalties going to leukemia research.
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From the Back Cover
Calendars and calendar girls have gone hand-in-hand since the beginning of modern printing. But never quite like this. Looking for an attention-getting way to raise money for leukemia research, eleven members of the Rylstone, England, "WI"--a pastoral women's service organization--decided to strip for charity. Calling their effort the Calendar Girl Appeal (before any of them had heard of The Full Monty), the ladies abandoned the traditional garden club calendar route of watery sunsets and country lanes, drank a generous amount of red wine, and posed in nothing but pearls.
Who could resist? Filled with charm, tastefulness, whimsy, and a sense of mission that came straight from the heart--it was Angela (Miss February) Baker's husband, who fell ill and died from leukemia--the calendar became a British phenomenon. Now it has come to North America. Here it continues its fund-raising efforts, and the calendar is bound to touch Americans in the same way that it touched the thousands of Britons who felt compelled to write the ladies of Rylstone and thank them for putting their all--and altogether--into a cause they believed in, and for sharing the uplifting spectacle of celebrating real women with honesty and confidence.
MEET THE PINUP LADIES OF RYLSTONE
MISS JANUARY: Beryl Bamforth, 66 - married, 2 children - church choir member
MISS FEBRUARY: Angela Baker, 54 - 2 children, 3 grandchildren, and wife of John Baker in whose memory this calendar is dedicated
MISS MARCH: Lynn Knowles, 52 - married, two sons - photo most favored by the press
MISS APRIL: Leni Pickles, 45 - married, mother of 3 - college lecturer and baby of the calendar
MISS MAY: Moyra Livesey, 51 - married, 3 children and 1 granddaughter - originally to have posed in the garden behind the sunflowers, but it became too cold outside
MISS JUNE: Sandra Sayers, 49 - married, two daughters - interior designer and sister of Miss April
MISS JULY: Lynda Logan, 57 - married, 2 children, 1 grandchild - artist - married to calendar photographer Terry Logan
MISS AUGUST: Rita Turner, 58 - married, 2 children - retired PE teacher who prides herself on never having made a jar of jam in her life
MISS SEPTEMBER: Christine Clancy, 46 - college administrator - earlier pose shows a bit too much of her while playing darts, so she chose to have a second shot taken of her pouring tea
MISS OCTOBER: Tricia Stewart, 51 - married, 2 children - regularly quoted as having been less nervous after a glass of red wine
MISSES DECEMBER: All the ladies together, and the toughest shot to take
ALL ROYALTIES GO TO LEUKEMIA RESEARCH
All royalties from this calendar will be split between the LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FUND in the U.K. and THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY in the United States. Both groups are dedicated to finding cures for blood-related cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkins disease, and myeloma.
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