How it all started...

The "Gee...You Will Have a Dress for that Formal" project, now the "Gee...You Will Project," was created by Friends of Gale Ullmer (G.U.) Will.  This initiative is dedicated to empowering women and to giving them the tools they need to live a happy, prosperous and successful life.
 
In her life, Gale embodied the characteristics of empowerment and drew on them to make herself a strong, successful and influential person.  She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a career woman, a friend, and a survivor of breast cancer. Despite her triumph over breast cancer, she later succumbed to leukemia on October 27, 2000.  While she was taken from this life too soon, she left behind a legacy...one in which she gave, not only of her possessions, but also of herself.

This project was created with Gale's spirit of giving in mind.  Her family and friends wanted to give purpose to the gowns she had purchased to wear to military balls and events she attended when she and her husband were living and working overseas.

In collaboration with the Women in Business Forum, a project of First State Community Action Agency's Entrepreneur Resource Center, the "Gee...You Will Have a Dress for That Formal" project began in May 2003.