WHO’S WHO AMONG
THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA
1922
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PRESIDENT'S ASSEMBLY
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Miss CHRISTINE HART, 1804 Leavenworth...........................................Honorary
President
Mrs. GEORGE A. MULLIN, 2520
Octavia...............................................................President
Miss JENNIE PARTRIDGE, 852
Clayton.................................................First Vice-President
Mrs. WILLIAM RITTER, 157 6th
Avenue..........................................Second Vice-President
Mrs. SEWELL DOLLIVER, 3675
Washington.......................................Third Vice-President
Mrs. EINAR WISMER, 1439
43rd Avenue.............................................Recording Secretary
Mrs. IRA CROSSCUP, 2823
Broderick............................................Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. H. C. JENSEN, 516
Cole.............................................................................Treasurer
Mrs. JULIUS BAER Mrs. C. W. BICHBAUM Mrs.
N. L. NELSON
Mrs. EMMA BLAISDELL Mrs. H. C. TIBBETTS
The President's Assembly, "The
Alumnae of Clubs," so called by one of the founders, is an organization of
club executives. All of the members are
presidents or past presidents, not only of San Francisco and the bay cities,
but of other clubs throughout the state.
Miss Christine Hart was the first
president. Mrs. Harold Lawrence Seager carried the Presidents' Assembly through war times
and has been one of the most efficient leaders.
The splendid programs presented under the
auspices of the Presidents' Assembly Friday evenings at the Presidio Y. M. C.
A. Building during two years of war times, have been rated as perhaps the best
contributed by any one organization in the United States. This service has been continued since last
September under the chairmanship of Mrs. A. W. Scott.
Many a mother, sister, and sweetheart of
boys in Letterman Hospital found cozy and attractive the artistic sitting room
furnished by the Assembly at the New Outside Inn, where they were domiciled
during their stay in San Francisco. The
writing room in the new Y. W. C. A. quarters was also furnished by the
Assembly.
Contributions are made to the Travelers'
Aid, Alice Frederick Memorial Fund, Maintenance Fund of the Palace of Fine
Arts, and to the Near East Relief. Our
local homeless children have in different ways been made happier through the
generosity of the Presidents' Assembly.
Mrs. Louis Hertz, the president from 1918
to 1919, was supported by a staff including:
Mrs. Harold Lawrence Seager, Mrs. Helen Ladd,
Mrs. M. O. Austin, Miss Eleanor Grace Unger, Mrs. Josephine Wilson, and Mrs.
Charles Wright.
Mrs. Harold Lawrence Seager,
presiding from 1919 to 1921, had an executive board comprising: Mrs. M. O. Austin, Mrs. Jessica Lee Briggs,
Mrs. Wallace R. Pond, Mrs. H. C. Jensen, Mrs. J. Delamater
Jessup, and Mrs. F. H. Jones.
CALIFORNIA
BRANCH
INTERNATIONAL
SUNSHINE SOCIETY
The State of California is called the Sunshine
State and although the work is new and I have not long been president, I want
to report splendid work in all of the branches.
The Pasadena branch has been extremely busy sewing for the Day Nurseries
and for the Mexican Children. The Branch
meets twice a month to sew for the Viva Sanitarium.
The Santa Monica branch is a live
organization. The members have their
beautiful Sunshine Home, which is paid for, and they raise money to meet other
Sunshine work.
The Golden Gate branch of San Francisco
has Mrs. F. C. Bennett, president, appointed organizer
for that district is doing excellent work and increasing membership. The Golden Gate branch of San Francisco, the
Pasadena branch and the Santa Monica branch have contributed $14.00 toward the
State treasury fund.
MRS. GERTRUDE F. STEWART
State President
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COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
Los Angeles
PORTRAIT OF MRS. JULES KAUFFMAN
The Council of Jewish Women was organized
at Chicago in 1893 at the World's Fair.
The inspiration came from the call that had been sent to all countries
to participate in a World's Parliament of Religions at the World's Fair. It was resolved on this occasion to arouse
the interest of women in a congress of Jewish Women, and it was through this
assembly that the Council of Jewish Women was called into being at the present
time, nine National Committees, one Department, six National Committees, one
Special Standing Committee, and two Special Committees, are associated with the
National officers in directing the various phases of the Council's program.
The National Council now numbers one
hundred and seventy-seven sections with approximately forty-five thousand
members. The International activities of
the Council have shown most excellent results.
The Department of Immigrant Aid has been invaluable in cases requiring
international co-operation and in its activities at Ellis Island.
The Los Angeles Section of the Council of
Jewish Women, now numbering seven hundred and thirty members, was organized in
1909. It has formed its organization in
harmony with the National body electing its own officers, appointing its own
committees and conducting its own local work, in addition to its co-operation
in national undertakings. The following
Committees are now carrying on the work of the local section:
Religion-Promoting interest in Judaism.
Religious Schools--Organizing
Religious Schools.
Social Welfare--Contributing to the
support of philanthropic institutions and social welfare organizations.
Civic and Communal Affairs--Co-operating with all civic
organizations, assisting community drives; urging beneficial civic legislation.
Immigrant Aid--Co-operating with
National Department and extending assistance to all unprotected women.
Committee on Americanization--Promoting
education and Americanization of immigrants.
Education--Establishing clubs, study circles, classes in
parliamentary practice; has established a Scholarship.
We have sub-committees on: Purity of
Press, Students' Welfare, Hospital Visiting, Juvenile Court Work, Soldiers'
Welfare, Jewish War Orphans.
The Junior Council an Auxiliary of the
Senior Section, has an enrollment of seventy-eight
members, Mrs. Ethel Tyroler, president. Monthly general meetings are held when
programs of the high order are presented.
There is but one motive that animates the spirit of every Councilmember
today. It is the thought that has
inspired the earnest and consecrated labors of Israel's' noblest men and
women: "The day is short; the work
is great."
Though it is not incumbent upon us to
complete the task, it is our sacred and joyous privilege to advance it. The greatest glories that can adorn the souls
of our women are the blossoming fruits of "faith and humanity."
President.
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COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Miss MARY L. PHELAN, 2150
Washington............................................Honorary President
Mrs. W. J. RUDDICK, 972 Bush..............................................................................President
Mrs. WM. SPROULE, 1150
Sacramento.................................................First Vice-President
Miss M. F. MULLEN, 2211
California...............................................Second Vice-President
Mrs. F. S. KELLY, 2925
Pierce...............................................................................Treasurer
Miss ALICE CONLON, 1494
McAllister................................................Recording Secretary
Miss LOUISE WINTERBURN,
1702 Union......................................Corresponding Secretary
In February, 1918, at the residence of
Miss Mary Louise Phelan, 2150 Washington Street, forty-five women assembled to
organize a club for Catholic women.
The club was named the San Francisco Council of Catholic Women, Its purpose is a development of literary and artistic tastes among the members with special attention to the achievements of the Catholic Church; also, the acquiring of general information on current events.
Miss Phelan offered the ballroom of her
residence as a temporary meeting place for the new organization. This offer was gratefully accepted and the
club continued to hold both business and social functions in Miss Phelan's
ballroom until October 1919 when the fourth floor at 233 Grant Avenue was
leased for a term of years. This floor
has been entirely remodeled and attractively furnished and is the present home
of the San Francisco Council.
To the interest and generosity of Miss
Phelan, Honorary president, is greatly due the success of the organization.
Mrs. A. Comte Jr., was elected first
president and served with marked success during the first two years of the club's
life. During her administration the club
was thoroughly organized and places on a permanent foundation. Mrs. W. J. Ruddick
was elected third president assuming responsibility in June, 1921.
SIGNATURE OF ANNA H. HEGER
Mrs. D. C. Heger
was elected second president and served for two years. During Mrs. Heger's
administration the club acquired the present handsome home at 233 Grant Avenue
and the membership was increased from on hundred and ten to two hundred and
twenty.
Mrs. Garret McEnereny,
who was elected to the presidency of the Council of Catholic Women at the
annual May meeting, is one of the best known San Francisco women in literary,
musical, philanthropic and society circles.
Mrs. McEnerney is supported by the following
staff of women: Honorary president, Miss
Mary Louise Phelan; first vice-president, Mrs. D. C. Heger;
second vice-president, Mrs. Wm. Sproule; third
vice-president, Miss Florence Mullen; recording secretary, Mrs. F. J. Harper;
corresponding secretary, Miss Louise Winterburn;
financial secretary, Miss Mary Fay; treasurer, Mrs. Wm. Butler.
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CATHOLIC
PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN'S CLUB
OFFICERS
Miss ELEANOR A. TIERNEY, 901
Taylor Street.....................................................President
Miss ANNE P. HUNT, 242 Wawona
Street............................................First Vice-President
Miss CICELY O'CONNOR, 137
Third Avenue...................................Second Vice-President
Miss PAULINE DES ROCHES, 1323 Woolsey Street...............................................Treasurer
Miss JULIA BEGLEY, 240 11TH
Avenue..............................................Recording Secretary
Miss GERTRUDE FLANAGAN, 330
Pierce Street............................Corresponding Secretary
Miss LOUISE DORAN, 330 Scott
Street...................................................Assistant Secretary
Miss MARY HUNT, 2742 Grove
Street, Oakland....................................Assistant Secretary
Miss NORA HUSSEY
Miss MAY MCCARTHY
Miss EDITH FLEMING Miss DOROTHY MORAN Miss AGNES GALLAGHER
Miss GENEVIEVE CARROLL Miss HELEN O'MALLEY
The Catholic Professional Women's Club of
San Francisco was founded in the year 1909 under the patronage of the late
beloved Archbishop, Patrick W. Riordan.
With his guidance and with the advice of a group of prominent citizens,
headed by Mr. Richard E. Queen, a number of Catholic women met at the Cathedral
residence and formed the organization with the central idea of bringing
together the Catholic women graduates of Universities and Normal Schools who
were engaged in the professional life of San Francisco, so that they might
continue their cultural studies along Catholic lines and form closer bonds for
mutual improvement.
At the same time all Catholic women
students of Universities and Normal Schools who were residents of San Francisco
were invited to join, thus giving the students the friendship of women already
at work in the fields which, later, would be theirs.
The work of organization grew slowly and
carefully because it was meant to be a permanent growth which must test every
step of the way and prove the merit of its existence.
It has gone steadily along in its progress
and holds in its membership, the active professional women, as the Catholic
writer, artist, physician, teacher, nurse, attorney or social worker. These women are part of the constructive
social life of San Francisco and live in the busy world. Their professional club is the Catholic haven
to which they go for rest and inspiration.
It holds up to them the Catholic ideal in daily life.
The club is unique in its idea of
membership strictly on professional lines but that definite idea has proven to
be its strength in bringing together Catholic professional women at hours
convenient to their arduous duties, enabling them to discuss and to give
concerted help to works needing professional guidance. The club stands ready to do its part in the
constructive social work of the day.
SIGNATURE OF JULIA C. COFFEY
Founder
Miss Anne P. Hunt is the new
president of the
club,
elected May,
1922
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TEMPLE EMANU-EL GUILD
San Francisco
PORTRAIT OF MRS. HENRY
SAHLEIN
The purpose of this organization is to
assist in the promotion and welfare of Temple Emanu-El,
particularly by developing a spirit of fellowship among the members of the
congregation and by serving as an active auxiliary.
Eligible to membership in the Temple Emanu-El Guild are women members of the congregation, women
employees and women relatives of members--women not affiliated with any other
congregation or other auxiliaries.
The Guild has been organized but four
years and has a membership approximating five hundred.
It is a member of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, the principal work of which is to advance the Hebrew Union College situated in Cincinnati, where the rabbis occupying the pulpits of the reformed synagogues throughout the country are educated.
One of the principal activities of the
Guild, composing the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, is to raise
scholarships to help students through a nine years course of study.
At present this Guild is campaigning for
the quota to be raised for a fund to be devoted toward the building of a
dormitory on the campus at Cincinnati.
In fact, all the activities are sectarian, making every effort to guard
against duplication of the work of other local organizations.
MRS. HENRY SAHLEIN
President
Emanu-El
Sisterhood--a world of sisterly tenderness and consideration encompasses the Emanu-El Sisterhood.
Miss Ethel Feineman,
the head worker of the Sisterhood, is a young woman of efficient executive
ability, keen intelligence, and warm sympathies, whose understanding has
increased the great social work carried on there as a
great upbuilding force for the womanhood of the
community.
The Emanu-El
Sisterhood house at 1037 Steiner Street accommodates thirty-five working girls
of the Jewish faith, with the addition of the cottage across the street used as
an annex. But there is always a long
waiting list of girls, and the present building does not meet the demands. So a new structure is being erected on Page
and Laguna Streets. This new building
will be one of the most modern buildings of its kind and will accommodate sixty
girls.
Once
a year during the Succoth Festival, a pageant is presented by the Emanu-El Sisterhood with hundreds of girls in the
cast. This pageant carries a message of
biblical teachings, talented young women essaying the roles with skill and
reverence. During the vacation summer
season, the Emanu-El Sisterhood maintains a cottage
in Larkspur. All of the girls living at
the Sisterhood house pay their board, pay their other individual expenses and
maintain a self-supporting attitude, generally.
The Sisterhood is an Auxiliary of the Federation of Jewish Charities.
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COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
PORTRAIT OF MRS. JULIUS L.
BAER
Twenty-one years ago three hundred women
assembled in the auditorium of the Old Temple Emanu-El
to hear Miss Sadie American explain the aims, hopes, and purposes of the
Council of Jewish Women. Today, the San
Francisco section numbers one thousand two hundred and fifty.
This increase in membership, according to the historian, Mrs. Hattie Neumann, may justly be attributed to the presidents, who through their executive ability and constructive foresight, have helped build the Council up to its present standard. These presidents include: Mrs. Max C. Sloss, Mrs. Andrew Davis, Mrs. Louis Gertz, Miss Evelyn Aronson, Mrs. D. S. Hirschberg, Mrs. J. C. Levy, Mrs. Myer Friedman, Mrs. Frank Neumann, Miss Ada Goldsmith, Mrs. Henry Sahlein, Mrs. I. R. Kissel, Mrs. Samuel Langer, Mrs. S. S. Kahn, and Mrs. Julius Baer.
The most important work is Americanization
classes, conducted by Mrs. Newmark. Other important divisions of our activities
are: Immigrant Aid, conducted by Mrs.
Max C. Sloss and her committee; Social Welfare,
supervised by Mrs. J. L. Goodday and her large
committee. This department includes
clinical care of crippled children, the deaf and hard of hearing; providing
relief mothers for the Pacific Hebrew Orphanage, and sewing and mending
mothers; dispersing a Memorial Fund as a loan to Jewish girls following a
business course of study; supplying milk to three hundred under-weight children
in the John Swett and Henry Durant Schools; sending
books to institutions; Good Cheer packages to Jewish inmates of the State
Institution; furnishing relief for the blind in the State Institution; and
co-operating for the advancement of handicapped children in the public schools,
as well as working with the Tuberculosis Association.
Do you know that the National Council of
Jewish Women received Government recognition, and was the only organization
permitted to work at Ellis Island during the war? Do you know that during the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition we received the Gold Meal and Blue Ribbon for our work
in Social Economy?
Do you know what the San Francisco Council
has done?
Do you know:
That we are actively carrying on
Americanization work at the Y. M. H. A. Building, Haight
Street?
That we were the first organization in San
Francisco to support a home visiting teacher--work now taken over by the Board
of Education?
That we had an active worker for
Immigration Aid at this port for a number of years?
That the Red Cross work done by this
Section ranked highest in quality and in quantity?
That we established a neighborhood house
on San Bruno Avenue and conducted it successfully for ten years--work now taken
over by the San Bruno Community House?
That we are affiliated with civic
organizations in San Francisco and co-operate whenever a need arises?
That we give financial support to many
local philanthropic organizations?
Our Motto--"Faith
and Humanity."
SIGNATURE
OF MABEL SWEET BAER.
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CATHOLIC
WOMEN'S CLUB
Los Angeles
OFFICERS
Mrs. M. JOSEPH MC GARRY, 2123 Estrella
Avenue..............................................President
Mrs. DENNIS KEARNEY, 1144 Elden Avenue.......................................First
Vice-President
Mrs. THOMAS SCOTT, 1212
Arapahoe..............................................Second Vice-President
Mrs. EDWARD J. RODDIN, 2219
W. 16th...............................................................Secretary
Mrs. ALBERT MUCK, 1245 1/2
El Molino.....................................Corresponding Secretary
Miss NELL REARDON, 1323
W.
8th.......................................................................Treasurer
Although the year 1921-22 marks only the
sixth year of it existence this club has a membership of about eight hundred
with an auxiliary of one hundred and twenty-five young girls. We have eleven different departments,
Citizenship, Current topics, Dramatic, French, History and Landmarks, Italian,
Literature, Music, Parliamentary Law, Public Welfare and Philanthropy.
We have a splendid building site, bought
and paid for, and by the close of the year will have twelve thousand dollars in
our building fund.
We made the largest contribution of
garments to the Needlework Guild of any single club in Los Angeles and our sale
of Red Cross memberships was most gratifying.
We maintain a twenty-five dollar membership in the Los
Angeles Musical Settlement and along philanthropic lines try to do our
bit in contributing to all worthy causes and do much immediate relief work.
Resolutions favoring disarmament and
world-peace were adopted and sent to President Harding and Secretary Hughes,
chairman of the Disarmament Conference.
We publish a splendid monthly bulletin
containing valueable federation news articles of
interest to women, our programs and club news.
We meet every first and third Wednesday at
the Knights of Columbus Auditorium, 612 South Flower Street, when splendid
musical and literary programs are presented.
We try to have as many good speakers appear as we can to keep us in
touch with the worth-while activities that are going on about us.
Each
year our music section gives a big concert which yields in the neighborhood of
two thousand dollars. This year our
Christmas sale netted eighteen hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Last year our social service committee
expended seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. Four hundred and twenty eight garments were
distributed and twelve hundred seventy-seven visits were made to the jail and
to the sick.
SIGNATURE OF EVELYN McGARRY,
Pres.
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HOUSEWIVES'
LEAGUE
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Mrs. ANDREW NEUENBERG, 246 Cabrillo
Street......................................................President
Mrs. F. WESLEY CARPENTER, 1035
Bush Street.............................Corresponding Secretary
Miss FRANCES MEEKER, 3025 21st Street..............................................First
Vice-President
Mrs. ROBERT ARMSTRONG DEAN, 1034 Vallejo
Street......................Second Vice-President
Mrs. ANNETTE ABBOTT ADAMS, 345 Locust..................................Honorary
Vice-President
Mrs. H. A. BYRNES, 1691 18th
Avenue...............................................Recording Secretary
Miss ALICE CLEARY, 565
Eureka..........................................................................Treasurer
Mrs. A. S. MUSANTE, 1821 Jones.............................................................................Auditor
Mrs. HAMILTON RIGGINS, 241
16th Avenue...............................................Parliamentarian
The San Francisco Housewives' League has enrolled many prominent suffrage workers, some of them being California pioneers in the campaign for State suffrage and national figures in the struggle for enfranchisement.
All of the Housewives' League members are
as proud of their ability to cook as they are of their leadership work or other
achievements. Mrs. Ida Finney Mackrille, known as the "Woman Orator of the
West," is one of the chief bread-making members. Mrs. Alfred McLaughlin, prominent among the
University women of California, and a past president
of the San Francisco Center of the California Civic League of Women Voters is
one of the brilliant members whose pride is first and foremost, a well-ordered
home. All of the women of the San Francisco
Housewives' League are active in creating renewed desires for the culinary art
among club women. Recipes and economic
measures are topics of discussion taking precedence over other considerations,
whenever the Housewives' League hold their sessions.
At many of their luncheons zest is added
to their studies and practical demonstrations by the test of minimum prices for
meals. Oftimes,
the number of dishes, according to caloric values, are in accord with a system
of securing a palatable meal for the least expenditure. Luncheons given on these occasions when
lawyers, doctors, society and club women congregate to test the cooking of
confreres, are quite the smartest events in local club circles.
Meetings are held in the California Club
building, at 1750 Clay Street, where kitchen facilities make it easy for
housewives to convince guests of their art in preparing and in serving meals
best suited for the purse or the taste of the individual.
Mrs. Andrew Neuenberg,
president of the Housewives' League, was campaign manager for Margaret Mary
Morgan, the first woman supervisor of San Francisco.
Mrs. Annette Abbott Adams, honorary
vice-president of the Housewives' League of San Francisco, former United States
Attorney of San Francisco and Assistant United States Attorney-General, is well
known among her intimate friends for the excellence of her biscuits. Mrs. Suzanna Bolles, second vice-president of the San Francisco
Housewives' League is a practicing attorney, of San Francisco.
The Juvenile Protective Association has a
work to do which no other organization seems to be able to master. This is due to the fact that men and women
trained for the part they essay in protective work among the young men and the
young women know exactly what methods to follow in coping with juvenile
digressions.
To protect the youth is a purpose of the
Association. For that purpose are they
banded together and when they meet they discuss the best means for combating
those evils which assail every normal boy or girl, unless home influences or
early training have safeguarded them.
The officers of the Juvenile Protective
Association are among the best known citizens of the community. The workers are well known in point of directness
and purpose.
"To be a friend of the boy, is to gain his confidence; to merit the confidence of a
girl is to be her friend."
Miss Julia George is the president of the
Juvenile Protective Association. Mrs.
William L. Hyman is the first vice-president; Mrs. Paul Downing is the second
vice-president; and Miss May F. Hallet, the
secretary, has served in this official capacity over a period of many
years. Offices are maintained in the
Phelan Building where information on all matters pertaining to the Juvenile
Protective work is available.
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WOMAN'S
VIGILANT COMMITTEE
San Francisco
PORTRAIT OF DR. MARIANA BERTOLA
When, at a time in the annals of civic
history, the hearts of San Francisco mothers were touched with sorrowing pity
and their dignities aroused over outrages committed by a number of gangsters,
there arose in the community a concerted group of women determined to protect
the young girls of the community. Like
the Vigilant Committee of early days, these women, were assembled with haste,
determined to find out ways and means for the prevention of similar things.
This committee of women led by the valiant
leader, Dr. Mariana Bertola, met in the assembly hall
of the Phelan Building, November, 1921, and then and there formed themselves
into a Woman's Vigilant Committee.
Keeping vigilance was but one phase of
their noble work. Protecting young
girls, with the strong hope and ardent zeal of preventing the repetition of any
such blot on the escutcheons of the city, prompted their gatherings.
After a time, the meetings so grew in
interest and size,. that
larger quarters were necessary. So the
California Club at 1750 Clay Street was offered to them and there the Woman's
Vigilant Committee meet, as they have for many months
past.
All of the meetings are devoted to careful consideration of each case or circumstance as the various sub-committees report. All of the considerations are weighed in tender concern with authentic deliberations and advices from those in authority as the most efficient means of meeting each situation. Whatever touches the life of the girl or the boy, whatever enters into the home-life of the community, whatever affects the welfare of the commonwealth, in a civic, a social or a moral way--these engage the strict attention of the Woman's Vigilant Committee.
BERTOLA
ASSEMBLY OF
CALIFORNIA
WOMEN
The Bertola
Assembly of California Women was founded by Mrs. Emma R. O'Donnell. In tribute to Dr. Mariana Bertola,
past-grand president of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, this
organization of California women was named by the founder. Mrs. M. Lawrence Nelson is president of the Bertola Assembly of California, Mrs. George Springer is the
treasurer; Mrs. John Boege, recording secretary and
Mrs. William H. Urmy is the corresponding secretary.
Prominent members include Mrs. Stephen Simmons, Mrs. Ella Lees Leigh, Mrs. Isabelle Pomeroy, Mrs. E. J. Wales, Mrs. Stanley Vernon Wilson, Mrs. I. A. Schlarlin, Mrs. H. Bloom, Mrs. C. E. Hoss, Mrs. E. Parrish, Mrs. E. J. Barton, Mrs. Mary Coghlan, Mrs. Cordes. Mrs. William Harold Wilson is an honorary member.
Meetings are held at the Native Sons'
Building, 414 Mason Street. Subjects
like American Citizenship are discussed under such leaders as Mrs. E. J. Wales,
of the San Francisco District Federations, and kindred themes by other women of
state prominence and community interests form the motif of the interesting days
devoted to historical and geographical studies.
Dr. Mariana Bertola
is the Honorary President of the Bertola Assembly of
California Women.
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CZECHO-SLOVAK WOMEN'S CLUB
PORTRAIT OF MISS MARGARET
MIRIAM KRASK
American ideals,
and everything pertaining to the moral and material benefit of the community
are purposes on which the Czecho-Slovak Women's Club
major in their collective work.
Our women are women of the home whose
first duty is toward the upbuilding of the home as
the safe-guard of the nation. We teach
our women of the younger generation some of the ideals inculcated in our
national and community life. We aim
toward that perquisite as essential to our development.
Many of our women are expert needleworkers and, on various occasions, exhibits of their
work have been given.
One of the principal aims of the club is to bring all the Czecho-Slovak women of San Francisco and the Bay counties together that they may co-operate with the other women's clubs in movements for civic improvement. It is also the aim of the club to create a better understanding between the American-born and the Czecho-Slovak women by an interchange of what is best in art, music, literature, history and the economic and commercial development of both countries.
The Czecho-Slovak
Women's Club was organized in 1920 at a meeting held at the Fairmont Hotel, May
24, ten charter members forming the membership enrollment.
MARGARET MIRIAM KRSAK.
The P.E.O. Sisterhood represents a group
of women who devote time, thought, and energy to cultural pursuits and
philanthropic work. Meetings are held at
the homes of members with a scheduled course of study for the day's
discussion. When the time is opportune,
or the occasion requires their attention, charitable work is introduced under
the supervision of the women comprising the personnel of the P. I. O.
Sisterhood. The organization is a secret
one, only those initiated into the order being cognizant of its full import and
procedure.
Mrs. Lola P. Bennett, president of
California State Chapter, was born in Michigan.
She was graduated from Iowa State University with degree B. S. and was a
member of Pi Beta Phi. For several years
she was associate professor of Chemistry at Iowa State College. At that time she became a member of P. E. O.
in Chapter A. Ames, Iowa.
In 1913 she moved to Orange, California,
and a year later was admitted to Chapter S, California.
Mrs. Bennett has filled all the offices in
a local chapter and has been corresponding secretary and vice-president of the
State Chapter before her election to the presidency. She is a member of the Woman's Club of
Orange, a member of the Board of Trustees of the City Library and is president
of the Board of Trustees of the Intermediate Schools of Orange. She is a most efficient woman as this record
shows.
Chapter A. M., San Francisco P. E. O., is
headed by Mrs. Mildred W. Clemens, president, who has been elected to office
for three consecutive years. Other
members of the Chapter are: Mrs. May B. Chaplin, vice-president; Mrs. Florence
McArthur, recording secretary; Mrs. Daisy P. Crocker, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Grace M. Ogden, treasurer; Miss Alice P. Bowen, chaplain; Mrs. Estelle O.
Hyde, guard. Mrs. Dixie C. Samuels is chairman of the program committee. Others on the committee are: Mesdames H. E. Waring, Estelle O. Hyde, C. H. Todd and Miss Alice P.
Bowen. Heading the courtesy committee
are Mesdames Ogden and McArthur. Pianist, Mrs. Elmendorf; historian, Mrs. C. A. Nance; parliamentarian,
Mrs. H. E. Waring.
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PHILOMATH CLUB
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Mrs. I. LOWENBERG, Clift
Hotel............................................................Honorary
President
Mrs. RICHARD NEWMAN, 68 Palm
Avenue...........................................................President
Mrs. WM. HYMAN, 2410
Steiner...........................................................First
Vice-President
Mrs. SAMUEL KIRSCHFELDER..........................................................Second
Vice-President
Miss HATTIE SHEIDEMAN, 2101
Pacific Avenue..................................................Treasurer
Mrs. BERTHOLD GUGGENHIME,
Fairmont Hotel....................................Business Secretary
Miss ANITA LEVY, Bellevue
Hotel.......................................................Recording Secretary
Mrs. MAX BLUMLEIN, 358 Arguello Boulevard...........................Corresponding
Secretary
DIRECTORS
Mrs. OSCAR HOFFMAN Miss REBECCA JACOBS
Mrs. BENJAMIN ARNHOLD Mrs. J. J. EPPINGER
CHAIRMEN
Mrs. AMANDA SCHLESINGER,
Education Mrs. EUGENE ELKUS, Music
Mrs. Myer Friedman, one of the presidents
of the Philomath Club gave a comprehensive report to the City Federation during
her term of office in which she defined, at that time, the work of the
Philomath Club. This excellent report is
quoted, in part, as follows: In 1894,
Mrs. Isadore Lowenberg,
assisted by Mesdames Helen Hecht, A. S. Bettleheim,
William Haas, J. H. Neustadter, Charles L. Ackerman,
Moses Heller, S. Nickelsburg, and Mrs. H. Anspacher-Meters, organized the Philomath Club. Its object was "to encourage literary
and educational pursuits and to promote civic ideals." A broad and comprehensive platform twenty-six
years ago, it is still big enough to carry the widening activities of a new
generation.
The keynote during recent years has been
Service and Philomath Club gave of itself without stint. The splendid Red Cross Auxiliary sent many
hundreds, yes thousands of garments to Red Cross headquarters.
The first recipient of Philomath Club's
eighth grade scholarship is self-supporting and since then other girls have
been put through high school. Americanization
work has been a great factor for Philomath activity through all the
administrations. The club adopted a
number of French orphans.
To cultural aims Philomath has contributed
carefully planned programs; momentary aid to its library fund, to the Public
Educational Society, and to many other worthy projects, always with the purpose
and the principles of Philomath primarily behind the work. The Mary Prag
Scholarship, the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, the Alice Fredericks Memorial Fund,
Korean Relief, the Palestinian Supply Committee, the Edith Cavell
and Marie de Page Hospital of Belgium, the Near East Relief, Palestinian
Restoration Fund, the International Longfellow Society, have received the
support of Philomath Club. Six members
volunteered for service on Dr. Anne Nicholson's Americanization Court
Committee. Its bi-monthly programs
touched on topics of live interest, music, drama, and politics. Philomath is a member of The Recreation
League and is interested in movements of social and communal concern.
New officers of the Philomath Club elected
at the annual meeting, May, 1922, following the administration of Mrs. Richard
Newman and her executive staff include the following: Mrs. Charles Schlesinger, president; Mrs.
William L. Hyman, first vice-president; Mrs. Samuel Hirschfelder,
second vice-president; Mrs. Joseph I. Cahen, business
secretary; Miss Anita Levy, recording secretary; Mrs. Max Blumlein,
corresponding secretary; and Mrs. Benjamin Arnhold,
Mrs. Oscar Hoffman, Mrs. Julius Feigenbaum, Mrs. H.
G. W. Dinkelspiel, directors; and Mrs. Julius Kahn,
Mrs. Caspar Rosenheim, and
Miss Rebecca Godchaux, honorary members.
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THREE ARTS CLUB
Los Angeles
OFFICERS
Mrs. WILLIAM N. GOODWIN,
Hotel Darby............................................................President
Mrs. J. WELLS SMITH, 3512 So.
Flower................................................First Vice-President
Mrs. GODFREY HOLTERHOFF,
Jr., 1360 W. Adams.........................Second Vice-President
Mrs. WILLIAM A. EDWARDS, 3406
W. Adams...................................Third Vice-President
Mrs. A. B. MACBETH, 1030 So.
Magnolia...........................................Recording Secretary
Mrs. OSCAR ROGERS............................................................................Recording
Secretary
Mrs. H. E. INSLEY, 1232A W.
5th..........................................................................Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Mrs. W. W. BURTON
Mrs. BENJAMIN GOLDMAN Mrs. ROB WAGNER
Mrs. CHAUNCEY CLARKE Mrs. JAMES MOORE Mrs.
E. T. PETTIGREW
Mrs. WESLEY CLARK Mrs. DAN MURPHY Mrs. JULIA BRACKEN WENDT
Mrs. JAMES DONOVAN Mrs. H. D. SCHROEDER Miss MARY WORKMAN
Mrs. GEORGE W. FISHBURN Mrs. KATHERINE SHARP Mrs. KENNETH B. WALLACE
Miss MARGARET GOETZ Mrs. OSCAR TRIPPET Mrs. W. T. WYATT
The Three Arts Club of Los Angeles, like
those of Paris, London, New York, Cincinnati and Chicago, has for its object
the promotion of artistic opportunities for young students of music, painting,
the drama and kindred arts; and to provide a home and clubhouse for members.
Following a year's work devoted to the
creation of an interest in the idea of a Three Arts Club for our city, which is
rapidly becoming an art center, and to obtain memberships, we were able to
undertake a residence. In July we moved
into our present quarters, 1001 West Washington Street.
We have had in residence, during this
first year, twenty students from seven states including our own. The arts of music, painting and the drama are
about equally represented.
Resident students are under the
supervision of a capable, sympathetic house director. This plan insures for the students an
attractive home life, opportunity to entertain friends, and fosters helpful
suggestions and encouragement in their work.
In addition to the resident members we
have a large non-resident student membership.
These have all the privileges of the club. The Sunday afternoon teas and programs, as
well as concerts, plays and lectures for which tickets are sent in by friends
of the club.
The Sunday afternoon programs
are arranged with special attention to students' studies in their respective
lines of work, and fosters inspiration gained from contact with those
who are "on their way," or who have "arrived."
The Board of Directors is convinced that
this initial year has proved the necessity for providing a safe home and
artistic environment for young women who, coming to this art center in pursuit
of their studies, look forward to owning their own clubhouse where a larger
number of students may find home influence amid the joy of group-life.
MRS. W. N.
GOODWIN.
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Mothers of students at the University of
California, Berkeley, comprise the personnel of this mothers' club, the first
one of its kind to be formed in America according to our authentic information.
As the enrollment of students at the
University of California has been, at many of the college semesters the largest
in the country, peculiar attachment is noted in the membership enrollment. Then, too, as a great number of students come
from distances, many, in fact from various parts of the nation, many from
foreign lands, their mothers affiliated with the University Mothers' Club form
a great chain of federation, the length and breadth of which can hardly be
encompassed in roster form.
Many of the mothers meet under the great
influence of college life. Some of these
mothers take special courses of study and others of them enter into the college
activities through channels alloted to
parenthood. Thus is maintained and
sustained a club of mothers and students of distinction.
At the Claremont Hotel, recently, a new
staff of officers was elected, the occasion being a delightful luncheon on the
sun veranda of the Claremont amid flowering roses and other fragrant blossoms. Tribute was paid at this time to the
influence of the late Mrs. Phoebe Apperson
Hearst. Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt was
the speaker of the day and Lucy Ward Stebbins, Dean
of Women, University of California, was an honor guest.
Mrs. Josephine B. Perry is president of the
University Mothers' Club. Other officers
are: Mrs. Finlay Cook, first vice-president; Mrs. R.
W. Richards, second vice-president; Mrs. Agnes Weatherby,
third-vice-president; Mrs. D. T. Duel, recording secretary; Mrs. P. W. Dunyon, corresponding secretary; Mrs. W. R. Drake,
treasurer; Mrs. W. H. Berteaux, financial secretary;
Mrs. L. Van Haren, assistant financial secretary;
Mrs. J. M. Brown, custodian of Pins; Mrs. E. M. Elliott, press correspondent.
"THE SPINNERS"
"What art so deep, what science so high,
But worthy women have thereto attained?
Who list in stories old to look may try,
And find my speech herein, not false nor fain'd."
"The Spinners" is a club of
women writers, musicians, literary leaders and women of extensive reading and
travel. The club was organized in San
Francisco by Miss Sara Dean, her idea being to assemble young women working
along artistic lines who would be willing to present the work they were doing
to fellow workers for criticism and for encouragement. The first officers were: Miss Sara Dean, president; Mrs. Frank Powers,
vice-president; Miss Millicent Cosgrove, secretary; Miss Ednah
Robinson, treasurer. Prominent women
among the members were: Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, Mrs. Mark Gerstle,
Mrs. Robert Forsythe, Mrs. Henry St. Goar, Mrs. Lola
Sleuth, Miss Alice Chittenden, Mrs. Carmichael Carr, Miss Ina Coolbrith, Miss Helen Hyde, Miss Mabel Gross, Miss Eleanor
Morgan, Mrs. Ernest Simpson, Mrs. Reginald Knight Smith, Mrs. E. W. Stebbins, Mrs. Russell Selfridge,
Mrs. Charles Sawyer, Miss Maude Wellendorff, Mrs.
William R. Wheeler, Mrs. Conrad Weil, Mrs. Clarence Wetmore, Mrs. R. A. Wilson,
Miss Marie Withrow, Miss Evelyn Withrow,
Miss Netterville, Mrs. Warren Wilken,
Eleanore Gates Moore.
Geraldine Bonner was one of the first members. The most recent event of The Spinners was
given at the Fairmont Hotel on Thursday, February 9, 1922, in compliment to
Miss Sara Dean the founder. Mrs. Mark Gerstle, the president, presided
Mrs. A. E. Graupner, the treasurer, assisted.
"Give the people plenty of cultural
things and there need be no dearth of attainment; supply a community with
plenty of beauty and evil will vanish from their sight."
Philosophy of this nature is radiated by
women representing the arts. Mrs.
Josephine Swan White, of Oakland, with her classical cantillations;
Miss Ida May Bradley, Oakland; Mrs. Oscar Maillard
Bennett, Berkeley; Miss Mae Frances O'Keeffe, Miss Ethel Cotton, San Francisco;
Mrs. Minna McGauley, of
Fruitvale, contemporaneous exponents of the beauty of the spoken word; Mrs.
Bradford Woodbridge, Roseville, who has sponsored splendid musicales; and Miss
Alice Seckels, who has originated "matinee
musicales," throughout the entire state with world-famous artists
programmed; and Miss Marie Hughes McQuarrie,
harpist--are among the women whose appreciation of cultural things is evidenced
by their general dissemination of music, literature and kindred arts in rural,
as well as in urban communities.
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Something unusual in the conferring of
diplomas took place at the Letterman General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco,
when 108 graduate nurses received their certificates from Surgeon General Merritte W. Ireland, U. S. A.
This "historic class of the Army
School of Nursing" were given their valuable
diplomas on July 14, 1921. It was the
first group of nurses that has ever been trained under governmental control and
the only class that has ever been a part of a training school which is connected
with the army. This group and this event
can never be duplicated, according to Major Julia C. Stimson,
superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps and dean of the Army School of
Nursing. Miss Annie K. Goodrich was the
organizer of the Army School of Nursing and the first dean of the school. Miss Goodrich went back to her former
position as assistant professor in the department of Nursing and Health at
Columbia University, as soon as the nurses received their diplomas.
Scholarships established by the Red Cross to
enable nurses to continue special lines of study for a year were awarded at the
ceremonies of the Letterman Hospital graduation to Eudora C. Dickason, and to Louise Hast Bruce.
Mrs. Kennedy, wife of Colonel James M.
Kennedy, the commanding officer at the Letterman General Hospital, and Mrs. A.
H. Flash, chief nurse, were among the prominent women who participated in the
memorable ceremonies.
With one year's service as a member of the
Army Nurse Corps during the world war to her credit, Miss Marian A. Hill, of
Oakland, is the first veteran in the State of California to receive the
benefits of the California Home and Land Act.
Enlisting in the Army Nurse Corps from Merced near her birthplace, on
July 5, 1918, Miss Hill served one year and fifteen days at Ft. Douglas,
Arizona. Miss Hill received her home
during the month of July, 1922.
Miss Julia Hinkle, director of
instruction, San Francisco Chapter, American Red Cross, was one of the head
instructors during the training of nurses on Presidio grounds. During that time several hundred women from
San Francisco, Oakland, San Mateo and adjacent cities took the full course of
training and were given their certificates for nurses' aide.
In her report of the San Francisco
Chapter, American National Red Cross work as carried on in the Civic Auditorium
building of the Red Cross, Miss Julia Hinkle has prepared a brief outline for
"Who's Who Among the Women of California" as
follows:
On March 30, 1917, the San Francisco
Chapter of the American Red Cross opened class rooms at 278 Post Street to
teach First Aid and Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick. Because of the large number of doctors and
nurses volunteering for war service, it was essential that women be taught to
meet emergencies, and to care for the sick in their homes in the absence of
professional care. These classes have
proved of such interest and the instruction of such value in the community,
they are still continued. There are a
thousand people taking the instruction in San Francisco at the present time,
while 3025 have taken the instruction in First Aid, and 3023 in Home Hygiene.
This includes people of all classes and
ages. Women, girls and children in
Community Center, girls and boys in High Schools, Junior R. O. T. C. boys,
groups of people from the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A., Salvation Army lads and
lassies, classes from the Pacific Coast Methodist Training School, Masters,
Mates, and Pilots of the Merchant Marine Service and last, but not least,
classes of colored women who take great interest in the work. Out of the First Aid work has developed Water
First Aid with regular classes in Life-Saving with the forming of three
chartered life-saving corps, one, men's; and two, women's, with a membership of
two hundred and eighty-eight.
Prominent women on the board of directors
include: Mrs. Max C. Sloss, Mrs. Prentiss Cobb Hale,
Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, Mrs. George Cameron, Miss Alice Griffith, Mrs. Thurlow McMullin, Mrs. T. M.
Potts, Mrs. Latham McMullin, Mrs. James Rolph Jr., wife of the Mayor of San Francisco.
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THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION ON THE PACIFIC
COAST
The Young Women's Christian Association
nationally and internationally has become more publicly known since the war,
and here on the coast with its immigration station on Angel Island, its club
house on the Zone for the girls of the Amusement Concessions during the
Exposition, and its more recent Studio Club at Hollywood for the girls in the
movies, it has come in for its share of the public interest.
A place to live, a place to eat and a place to play and find friends have been offered by this organization in communities wherever there are girls. In the State of California: Fresno, Hollywood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and San Pedro, and the towns of Eureka, Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Vellejo, are affiliated with the National organization. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno and Oakland have special branches for foreign born girls, and San Francisco and Los Angeles, each has eight centers. The summer Conferences for Christian training have grown from the summer of 1912, when Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst prepared on the grounds at Hacienda a tented city for three hundred delegates, to the erection of eight permanent buildings at Asilomar--three miles from Del Monte--on a grant of land containing fifty acres, given by the Pacific Improvement Company. The Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall, the Mary A. Crocker Dining Hall, Scripps Hall and the Grace H. Dodge Memorial Chapel are beautiful monuments to the generosity of the donors, and to the architectural imagination and skill of the designer, Miss Julia Morgan. This "Retreat by the Sea" has brought rest, refreshment and inspiration to thousands of girls all over California, and though owned by the National young Women's Christian Association is available for the use of other organizations.
Pasadena's new building is nearing
completion, and on May 15 Los Angeles opened a splendidly equipped headquarters
building. Thousands of girls all over
the state are enrolled either in industrial clubs or in corps of Girl
Reserves--the name given to the young business and school girl groups. Their programmes
include activities of body, mind and spirit.
Sympathetic leadership and direction for
these growing girls brings and incalculable asset to the community,
and this organization which is not a club, not a creed, but a comradeship based
upon the democracy of a common faith is becoming a power among the girls of
many nations.
Among the many women prominently connected
with the management of the organization on the Coast are
Mrs. John F. Merrill, Chairman of the Exposition work and Committee of One
Hundred; and Mrs. Benjamin I. Wheeler, of the Asilomar
Committee. The recent Chairmen of the
State wide work include, Mrs. Walter Barnwell, Mrs. Laurence Draper, and Mrs.
Warren Olney, Jr.
Regional headquarters are at 800
California--Pacific Building, 105 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
EDITH N. STANTON,
Regional Secretary,
National
Young Women's Christian Association.
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Very large group photo
Courtesy, Pacific Golf and Motor.
Left to (standing)--Mrs. C. F. Ford, Mrs. Max Rothschild, Mrs. T. S. Baker, Mrs. Eli H
Wiel, Mrs.
Dorothy Hill, Mrs. H. Minot, Mrs. D. P. Fredericks, Mrs. A. B. Watson,
Mrs. A. B. Seinerton,
Mrs. H. L. Slosson, Mrs. W. F. McGee, Mrs. I. M. Green,
Mrs.
Von Schmeling,
Mrs. Waldeyer, Mrs. Braddock, Mrs. M. Bernard, Mrs.
J. M. Yount,
Mrs. Brent Potter, Mrs. J. M. Reimers, Mrs. Karl M. Anderson, Miss May Hayes.
Middle row--Miss
Margaret Cameron, "Bobs," Mrs. Wm. Johnsone.
Lower row--Mrs.
H. F. Anderson, Mrs. A. R. Pommer, Mrs. L. E. W. Pioda, Mrs. H. E.
Law, Mrs. W. C. Van Antwerp, Miss Alice Hanchett, Miss Cornelia O'Connor, Mrs.
R. A. Roos,
Mrs. H. H. Scott, Miss Lucy Hanchett, Mrs. Phil Wand,
Mrs. Gerald
Mack, Mrs. Mead Hamilton, Mrs. C. H.
Terry.
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Woman’s golf in California is on a par with
that of any other section of the country, with the possible exception of New
York, which has the advantage of being able to draw upon a much larger circle
of clubs. It has been claimed, and there
is some reason in the claim, that the women golfers of the San Francisco Golf
and Country Club, can hold their own in team match
competition with any club team in America.
Taking ten as the number selected golfers we have Mrs. Hubert E. Law,
Mrs. W. C. Van Antwerp, Mrs. Charles F. Ford, Mrs. Thomas S. Baker, Mrs. A. R. Pommer, Miss Alice Hanchett, Miss
Lucy Hanchett, Mrs. Alfred B. Siwnerton,
Mrs. H. Francis Anderson, and Miss Josephine Moore. All of these players are bonafide
members of the San Francisco club who compete regularly in the competitions
scheduled on the new Ingleside links.
In Eastern competition, California golfers
have not made a particularly brilliant showing, but very few of them have
persistently essayed to gather representative honors in the golfing land east
of the Rockies. Mrs. W. C. Van Antwerp
(as Miss Edith S. Chesebrough) made two attempts in
the National championship but failed to show anything like her real form. Mrs. Hubert Law competed once for the title
and was defeated in the first round by a Mrs. Galt, an unknown player at that
time, but who has since proved herself to be one of the best competition
players in the country. Miss Doreen Kavanaugh, the present title holder of California, did very
well in the Western and was selected in the West vs. East matches. Mrs. Luther Kennett and Mrs. Hubert Law, both
former holders of the California title, were selected as reserves on the West
team. The Hanchett
sisters did remarkably well in France and England last year. In fact these two Santa Cruz girls have given
more encouragement to women golfers in “this neck of the woods” than anyone
else to date. More competition with our
Eastern sisters should and would doubtless give us our place among the “Golfing
Greats of America.”
In the southern part of the state there are
several very good golfers who have carried off most of the honors of the state
during the past few years. They are Miss
Doreen Kavanaugh, Mrs. Luther Kennett, Miss Margaret
Cameron, and Miss Mary Browne, who was the Southern California golf champion
but is even more famous as an exponent of the tennis racquet, with which she
has won many national championships.
Mrs. E. R. Williams and Miss Katherine Mellus
have also shown up quite prominently in representative competition.
In addition to the “big ten” of the San
Francisco Golf and Country Club, the North is possessed of a few golfers who
play consistently well in competition.
They are Mrs. Robert A. Roos, Mrs. Milton
Bernard, Mrs. Max Rothchild, and Miss Gwen Parks.
“BOBS”
A tribute by “Bobs,” expert
on Golf and special writer on golf, tennis, polo, ¾and one of the recognized authorities on out-door
sports in America.
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Tennis in California is so vitally a part of
the athletic history of the state and so pronouncedly a source of pride in the
land of the Golden West that it is with consistent concern women champions are
named and their radiant records placed before the scrutiny of critics and
devotees.
Mrs. May Sutton Bundy, of California, whose
home is in Los Angeles, was for a number of years “greatest woman tennis player
in the world.” She held the title season
after season. It was frequently
said: “The playing of May Sutton was
nothing short of phenomenal.” Up to last
year her devotion to home ties and the rearing of a family of four lovely
children, three boys and a girl, precluded her appearance in state or national
contests although Mrs. Bundy has always maintained her “love of the game.”
Now come dispatches from New York, as we go
to press, stating that Mrs. Thomas C. Bundy, nee Sutton, and Miss Mary K.
Browne, former national champion and Pacific Coast players will compete in the
woman’s national tennis tournament to be played in Forest Hills, New York,
beginning August 14, 1922. This
announcement was formally made by United States Tennis Association officials
upon receipt of word from Dr. Sumner Hardy, president of the California Lawn
Tennis Association.
The coming back of May Sutton Bundy into the
national tournament contests is heralded from one end of the continent to the
other. In writing of her a contemporary
said: “Last summer Mrs. Bundy came back
as no other woman has ever done in the history of tennis. That a mother of four children who has been
out of competitive tennis for a number of years should reach the semi-finals of
the national was a feat unheard of. But
Mrs. Bundy accomplished it when she reached the threshold of the championship
of the United States.”
That the “Sutton Sisters” have written their
names indelibly on the escutcheons of the tennis world is evidenced in the reappearance
of the great California favorite in the forthcoming national game. Violet Sutton (Boeg)
and May Sutton (Bundy) were the great drawing cards which packed the tennis
grounds in the early history of the sport and the interest the public still maintains
in their “drives” presages the value of Mrs. Bundy’s welcome “return.” It is interesting perhaps to review again
with a contemporary who said: “Should
Mrs. Bundy and Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt
Mallory face each other across the net in Forest Hills in August, there will be
more than ordinary significance to the meeting.
On one side will be the reigning queen of American tennis returning for
world honors at Wimbledon. On the other
side will stand a woman who, fifteen years ago triumphantly advanced to premier
honors on those same courts at Wimbledon now a challenger for the national
title she captured exactly eighteen years ago.
“Whatever the result of Mrs. Bundy’s eastern
tour this summer, she will have the satisfaction of knowing that she has made a
second “comeback” more glorious than the tennis world has known.”
In writing of the young California star,
Helen Wills, in one of his special articles, William T. Tilden, former champion
of the world, said: “I have no doubt but
that in a few years Helen Wills of California will add her name to the list of
champions already made famous by such players as Molla
Bjurstedt Mallory, Mary K. Browne and May Sutton
Bundy.”
Mary Browne of Los Angeles held the women’s
National title in 1912-13-14 while in 1919 Mrs. George Wightman (Hazel
Hotchkiss), a Berkeley girl, won first honors.
Last year Helen Wills went east and brought back the National title for
girls. Golda Myers Gross was the
sensation of the Golden Gate Park courts for several seasons before she took on
national honors. Mrs. Gross is now the
mother of two fine boys. Miss Elizabeth
Ryan of California, now residing in England, enjoys international recognition
as one of the foremost players in the tennis world.
In her review of women in athletics and the
relationship athletics bears toward motherhood, Mrs. Hazel Pedlar
Faulkner, president of the American Association of University Women, San
Francisco Branch, said: “Many of the
tennis stars, as I can recall, who have married have
fine families. The girls are good
mothers, good healthy broadminded mothers.”
She quotes Miss Elizabeth Rheen Stoner, head
of the Department of Physical Education at Mills College, and one of foremost
authorities on physical education for women in the United States, who said: “Many girls graduated from Mills who have
been keenest in athletics are the mothers of fine boys, husky, lusky ones.”
The woman’s point of view quoted in this
article regarding tennis as a builder of physical strength and acclaiming the
motherhood of famous women tennis players; the point of view of a former world
champion who knows tennis as a game to command admiration from every healthy,
spirited man or woman; and the point of view of those who favor this great
out-of-door recreation of mind alertness, skill and bodily strength, are summed
up in the deduction that tennis in California claims universal attention.
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