WHOS
WHO AMONG
THE
WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA
1922
After
months or years of very active work overseas it is quite natural that those
women who were privileged to be with the American Expeditionary Forces should
wish to carry over into after-the-war days, the spirit of service of the
war. United by the close bond of common
experience the eight thousand women who served abroad with any of the twenty
welfare organizations or with the army or navy have formed a national
organization known as the American Women Overseas League. In California there are two strong chapters,
one in Los Angeles the other in San Francisco.
Although many governmental and welfare organizations are working for the
ex-service man and woman, there are many cases where for technical reasons
needy men are not entitled to governmental aid, many others where emergency aid
is necessary and still a larger group where pride or bitterness or some mental
difficulty brought on by wars experience, makes the man or woman unwilling to
go to charitable organizations for aid.
There is a close tie and wide friendship among those who served overseas
and for this reason hundreds of worthy cases come to our notice. The legal provision of aid, food and clothing
for mother and young babies, clothing for men who have secured jobs and have no
suitable clothes, advice to discouraged or puzzled men who are entitled to
governmental aid but do not realize how to obtain itall these are our
immediate problems.
Our
purposes are to meet these needs of ex-service people, to hold ourselves ready
to serve again the government in time of emergency and to co-operate with all
welfare organizations in their work at home and overseas.
(signed) Mrs E. K.
Sturgis
President
The
other officers of the American Women Overseas League include: Mrs. Elizabeth
Potter, recording secretary, and Mrs. R. H. Hunt, treasurer, San Francisco;
Mrs. J. K. Maxwell, corresponding secretary, now in Paris; Mrs. Marjoria McKillop, Seattle; Mrs. Louis Zianette, Pasadena; Mis Louis Wisler, and Miss M.
Hill, Los Angeles; Mrs. Douglas Brookman, Mrs. Sarah Young, and Miss Marian Crocker,
San Francisco.
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THE
FERRY CANTEEN
San
Francisco
The Ferry Canteen
conducted under the supervision of Mrs. Prentiss Cobb Hale in the Ferry Station
at the foot of Market Street, San Francisco, stands out as one of the great
tributes to the work of women in the American Red Cross.
Women from
the fields of industry, from society circles, from the philanthropic and from
the civic enterprises, were among the faithful and ardent workers at the Ferry
Canteen. Soldier-boys on their way to
war; soldier-boys returning, and others in transportation from camp to camp
were welcomed with that ring of hospitality which wrote indelibly on their
hears something too sacred to record in terms of adulation or printed
appreciation.
The Ferry Canteen had a system
of daily participation in the Red Cross Service which made it possible for each
listed member to serve on certain days, at scheduled hours. The personnel of the list of workers at the
Ferry Canteen, included a coterie of women whose continued service is inscribed
not alone in the annals of Whos Who Among the Women
of California but within the heart of every soldier or sailor visitor.
When Mrs.
Hale visited France this past year, she officially represented America in the
national observance of decorating the graves of American heroes. Her participation in the activities of the
Red Cross, her work on the playground commission, her devotion to the various
causes of this city are historical. During the fire of 1906 she was especially
honored by the Fire Department in the formal presentation of a silver plate,
the inscription thereon expressing their gratitude.
Mrs.
Prentiss Cobb Hale was chairman of Women War Workers, San Francisco Chapter,
American Red Cross, and chairman of the Women War Workers Committee for the San
Francisco Armistice Day ceremonies, November 11, 1921, held in the Civic
Auditorium.
Other
prominent women of San Francisco serving on the official committee were: Mrs.
A. S. Baldwin, Miss Anna Beaver, Mrs. George Cameron, Mrs. J. H. Deering, Miss Alice S. Griffith, Mrs
Latham McMullin, Mrs. Thurlow
McMullin, Mrs. John F. Merrill, Mrs. T. M. Potts,
Mrs. Max C. Sloss, Mrs. W. S. Berry, and Mrs. James Rolph, Jr., wife of Mayor Rolph.
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WOMENS
SERVICE CLUB
San Francisco
Mrs. Marcos S. Koshland,
3800 Washington
..Vice-President
Mrs. A.S. Baldwin, 2 Presidio Terrace
Treausurer
Miss Edith Black, 2224
Sacramento
Recording Sectretary
Mrs. Henry Crocker, 433 California
.Corresponding
Secretary
Mrs. R.P. Hankerson, 835
Arlington, Berkeley
Executive Secretary
|
Mrs. A.S. Baldwin |
Mrs. A.P. Black |
Dr. Adelaide Brown |
|
Mrs. S.G. Chapman |
Mrs. Henry Crocker |
Miss Jean Doub |
|
Mrs. Katherine Phillips Edson |
Miss Anna L. Fetherstone |
Mrs. Cleveland Forbes |
|
Mrs. Willian B. Hamilton |
Mrs. Wendell Hammon |
Mrs. Marcus S. Koshland |
|
Miss Gail Laughlin |
Miss Marion Whitfield Leale |
Mrs. Alexander Lilley |
|
Mrs. William Palmer Lucas |
Mrs. Parker S. Maddux |
Mrs. Ernest Meiere |
|
Mrs. F. S. Moody |
Mrs. H. S. Moore |
Mrs. J. R. K. Nuttall |
|
Miss Lillian Palmer |
Miss Esther Phillips |
Mrs. Willis Polk |
|
Miss Edith Slack |
Mrs. H. A. Stephenson |
Mrs. H.L. Terwilliger |
|
Mrs. Wm. Warren |
Miss Ethel A. Young |
Mrs. Duncan McDuffie |
|
Mrs. George Kelham |
|
|
The San
Francisco branch of the National League for Womens Service was formed in June,
1917 and performed much valuable work during the war.
After the
crisis caused by the war had passed, it was decided to carry on the work at the
National League for Womens
Service Club and through its activities meet certain community
needs not covered by other organizations.
The aim is to promote a big democratic
organizationdemocratic enough to satisfy members of every industry,
profession, business and social affiliation.
Every effort has been put forth to make quarters of the League
comfortable and attractive, and yet, inexpensive enough to come within the
reach of all, and general enough, to allow for its use by smaller, more
definite groups.
The Volunteer
Service department is kept in action by service rendered within the leaguein
the lounge, shop and restaurant.
The League
maintains a restaurant for the convenience of its members where attractive
lunches and dinners are served at moderate prices.
The Shop is
one of the most popular activities but must be seen to be fully appreciated.
The Vocational
Guidance Bureau is the one only kind in San Francisco where women may go for
information concerning any employment open to womenwhere they may count on
receiving wise counsel without cost.
Page
31 & 32
WOMEN ON THE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE ON THE
LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT
Washington, D. C.
The Advisory Committee to the American
Delegates to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament was appointed by the
President. The members of this Committee
represented all shades of opinion of the citizens of this country, both men and
women. There were four women members of
the Advisory Committee. These women were not appointed as a separate womans
committee, but were on the Committee just as any other citizen. They served on the general committee and on
all sub-committees. They did not
organize themselves in any sense as a womans committee but took part in all
discussions just as American citizens.
The womens organizations of the East had been
very insistent that the President appoint women as delegates to this
Conference. The President was
exceedingly anxious to recognize women, but the necessity of having a small
delegated group made it practically impossible to include a woman among the
Plenary Delegates because they must of necessity be men in large representative
positions such as the Secretary of State, Chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Senate, and the leader of the Democratic opposition. Besides that, any country having the good
fortune to possess a man with a great knowledge of international law that is
possessed by former Secretary Root, would be doing itself an injustice no to
use such expert service. Therefore, it
was generally understood that it was imperative that Mr. Root should be one of
the four delegates.
The President was exceedingly anxious that
such representation as the women had would be real, and he discussed with the
women leaders of the Republican Party the propriety of putting women on the
Advisory Committee. These women leaders
said they would be very glad to have women appointed, provided the Advisory
Committees functions were real and not just honorary. The president assured them that the Advisory
Committee was to play a most important part in the deliberations of the
Conference. He then asked them to submit
names, and among the names submitted were chosen the
following:
Mrs. Charles Summer Bird,
of East Walpole, Massachusetts, the Chairman of the State Republican Club of
Massachusetts, and also an active member of the National League of Women Voters in
Massachusetts. Mrs. Bird is a Progressive
Republican and she and her husband were active participants in the Roosevelt
Campaign in 1912.
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, of Minneapolis, the
President of the General Federation of Womens Clubs. Mrs. Winter is a Republican but a woman who
has taken no active part in partisan politics.
She is a great orator and splendid thinker and brought to the Advisory
Committee splendid balanced judgment.
Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan did not in any
sense represent organized women of this country. She is a brilliant magazine writer and has
had large experience in the Far East, having lived in the Philippine Islands
nine years and spent three or four years in China and Japan. Her husband is Mr. Martin Egan, Publicity
Manger of the J. Pierpont Morgan firm.
Mrs. Egan has the honor of being a personal friend of Secretary Herbert
Hoover and of General Pershing.
(signed) Katherine Philip Edson
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34
THE VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL
ORGANIZED LIFE
Since my first participation in creating an
organization for women, "The Alphi Phi
Sorority" just fifty years ago--I have believed in group activity.
As early as 1887 I came from Los Angeles to
San Francisco to help form the old time Chautauqua Circles and following that I
was definitely interested and active in the formative years of California's
organized womanhood under its various phases of church, educational,
philanthropic, eleemosynary and political development.
I have believed in these groups of people
with common interests, in the community of work as the finest foundation for
understanding and enduring friendliness.
I believed that devotion to a common cause, loyalty to a common task
would transcend pettiness and local narrowness as well as accomplish some of
the definite objects desired by those thus banded together.
I was convinced these compact organizations could have a driving power, where most needed, to accomplish results.
If these group activities have not justified
the dreams of those who "saw visions"--my analysis is that the
failures have resulted from the lack of the organized individual life of those
participating.
We are non-organized has been the cry
since the marvelous success of wartime organizations has so stimulated us to
any form of co-operation
But this cannot be true until each woman has
organized her own life that she may not only know herself, the community, the
state, the nation, the world; but the relation of her individual life each of
these units.
Is it suggestive then to ask? Have you organized your life?
Familiar as most women are with the usual
form of Constitution and By-laws, we recall that the first article reads, The
Name of the Organization shall be etc."
What is the name of your Life
Organization? Selfishness? Undue Ambition? Indifference? Service?
Second-What shall the Object of your
Organization be? Self-indulgence?
Display? Money? Betterment of mankind? Enrichment of the world?
Third-Who is your Executive Officer? Your physical
Self? Mental Self?
or Spiritual Self:
If it is the latter do you starve or nourish your Executive
Officer? A weak and aenemic
executive never builds an efficient, effective organization.
Fourth--The Recording Secretary is always
provided, but Memory will only record the minutes you dictate. And pray there may be no page you could wish
to blot out.
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35
FifthThe Treasurer of your organization
keeps a debit and credit account of every hour, whether you add or subtract to
the sum total of the world betterment by what you think, say and do. Only you can keep the balance on the right
side of the ledger.
In this form of the organization there must
always be provision for Amendments that there may be a re-evaluation of life
each day, which is, after all, the fullest expression for education.
The educational process by which we glimpse
the splendor of life is truly an inward, individual process.
What John
Fletcher wrote of men is equally true of women:
Man is his own star; and
the soul that can render an
honest and a perfect man commands
all light, all
influence, all fate, nothing to him
falls early, or too late.
The value of organized effort whether singly
or in groups then, lies in the fulfilment of this
prophesy:
When the Soul of a women conquers,
And Gods banners are
unfurled,
We may catch a glimpse of
Heaven
From the hill-top of the
world.
(signed)
Elane B. Burdette
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36
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF
UNIVERSITY
WOMEN
San Francisco Bay Branch
OFFICERS
Mrs. E. E. Brownell, 1700
Broadway
..President
Miss Emma Nooman,
1302 Hayes Street
Vice-President
Mrs.
Wm. J. Drew, 67 Buena Vista Terrace
..Recording Secretary
Mrs. E. W. Curries, Broderick
Street
..Corresponding Secretary
Miss Carol A. Rehfisheh, Standford University,
Box 984
...Business Secretary
Mrs. T. J. Bagigalupi, 179 22nd
Avenue
..Treasurer
Mrs. E. W. Newhall, Jr., 2972
Pacific Avenue
..Auditor
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Marion Delany Miss Effie McFaden
Mrs. Anne Whitley
Mrs. T. T. C. Gregory Miss Ella
Barrows
COUNCILLORS
Mrs. Frederick Faulener Miss
Marion Leale
Miss Mabel Pierce
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner, President-Elect
After thirty-five years activity as the
California Branch of the National Association of Collegiate Alumnae of the
local Organization, numbering three hundred and fifty college graduates, has been known during the past year as the San
Francisco Bay Branch of the American Association of Univeristy
Women.
The change in a name was nessitated
by the reorganization of the National Association which is now a part of the
International Federation of University Women.
Organized nationally in 1882 primarily to
advance the cause of higher education for women, the objects of the local
branch have been extended to include provision for the social intercourse for
college alumnae, to promote educational interests and to secure broader
opportunities for women.
As part of its contribution to the Bay
communities the branch maintains two committees, Baby Hygiene and Child
Hygiene, which are doing splendid constructive work for mothers and children who
come within their sphere of influence.
In 1917 the Baby Hygiene Committee established the first Childrens
Health in San Francisco. It is located
at 323 Haight Street.
Particular emphasis is being placed upon the
subject of International Relations, especially as they affect women. A large
standing committee on International Relations is another important part of the
Branch work.
A Scholarship Loan Fund, established on the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the local branch is maintained and constantly in
use by women in California universities or colleges. Among the other prominent and active
committees of the branch are, the educational,
housing, and membership committees, three play-reading sections and the
National and Branch club-house committees.
Monthly meetings are held on the fourth Saturday of the month, generally
in the form of luncheons.
(signed)
Sophia P. Brownell
President
Mrs. Frederick Faulkner, Leland Stanford Jr.
University, is president of the American Association of University Women, Bay
Branch, for the year beginning May, 1922.
On the Executive board with Mrs. Faulkner are the following:
vice-presidents, Miss Emma Noonan, University of California, Dr. Mary Vost, Vassar, Leland Stanford Jr. University, Miss Anne
Whitley, University of California; recording secretary, Mrs. Victor Gaines,
Mills College; corresponding secretary, Mrs. James Wales, Leland Stanford Jr.,
University; business secretary, Mrs. Collis Mitchum
Bryn Mawr; treasurer, Mrs. Tadiel
Bacigalupi, University of California; auditor, Mrs.
B. S. Drake, University of California, directors, Miss Marion Leale, University of California, Mrs. T. T. C. Gregory,
Leland Stanford Jr. University, Mrs. F. C. Turner, University of California,
Mrs. William J. Drew, University of California, Mrs. E. W. Currier, University
of California.
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37
THE WOMENS UNIVERSITY CLUB
Los Angeles Branch
American Association of University Women
OFFICERS
Mrs. Edwin Hill Brooks, 342
S. New Hampshire Ave
.
.President
Miss
Ann M. Mumford, 623 Prospect Avenue, South
Pasadena
Vice-President
Miss
Almira Mayo, 830 Park View
Street
Recording Secretary
Mrs.
F.H. Noe, 172 N. Hobart
Boulevard
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs.
Michael Creamer, 1645 S. Hobart Boulevard
..Treasurer
COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN
|
Mrs.
W.L. Woolett, President |
Mrs.
W.H. Olds, Printing |
|
Miss
Margaret Ray, House |
Miss
Ray Hanna, Bureau of Occupations |
|
Mrs.
Noel Edwards, Membership |
Miss
Elizabeth N. Pepper, Public Affairs |
|
Mrs.
H. Kenyon Burch, Scholarship |
Mrs.
Arthur S Heineman, Affiliation Secretary |
|
Mrs.
H.M. Baruch, College Information Bureau |
Mrs.
H. R. Hooper, Press |
|
Mrs.
Sarah M. Johnson, Secretary of the Bureau of Occupation |
|
The Women's University Club of Los Angeles,
Mrs. Edwin Hill Brooks, president, was founded in 1917 through amalgamation of
the three college women's organizations then existing in the city, the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the College Women's Club, and the Federation
of College Women's Clubs.
The club is the Los Angeles Branch of the
American Association of University Women (the new name of the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae) hence part of its membership is on the standard national
A.A.U.W. basis,
but it also has its college membership including women who have had two years
of undergraduate college work, and its club membership whereby any organization
of college women may affiliate with it.
The avowed object of the club is "to unite college women and to
concentrate their influence of the problems of social service and the
advancement of education and to co-operate in the general work of the national
A.A.U.W."
Besides co-operating in various fields of club activity in the city and maintaining Drama, Social and Public Affairs sections, the club has three unique departments of service, The Bureau of Occupations, the Scholarships and the Bureau of College Information. The Bureau of Occupations follows three lines of activity, research, vocational guidance and placement, the research investigating professional opportunities for women, the vocational guidance leading undergraduates into the proper study to reach the lines of opportunity, the placement fitting the women to the position. At present one or two scholarships are offered each year for which any Los Angeles County girl may apply who has college entrance credits, her study to be done at any college in California recognized by the A.A.U.W. As this is a revolving fund to which an addition is made each year from the club treasury the future will see an increasing number of scholarships granted each year. The Bureau of College Information was established to stimulate a desire in the preparatory school girl for higher education and to furnish her with information concerning environment and the social life on the campus.
The club meets the first Saturday of each
month from October to June inclusive. A
luncheon with speaker at 12:30 o'clock is followed at 2:30 o'clock by the
business meeting and program. The
sections likewise meet monthly. The
down-town club room, 805 Brack-Shops, furnishes
convenient headquarters and a meeting place for all sections and committees,
but the regular monthly meeting is held in the Ebell
Club House.
The club has an individual membership of 550
with 20 affiliated clubs.
(signed) (Mrs E N) Edwin W Brooks
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38
COLLEGE WOMENS CLUB
Long Beach Branch
American Association of
University Women
OFFICERS
Alta B. Hall, 232
Atlantic
President
Mrs. R. E. Oliver, 848
Esther
First Vice-President
Elva M. Richards, 505 E. 16th
Second
Vice-President
Mrs. O. P. Bell, 620 E. 5th
Recording
Secretary
Mrs. William B. Wright, 2810 E. 2nd
.Corresponding
Secretary
Mrs. Chas. A. Wiley, 911
Pacific
.Federation Secretary
Helen Elise Larsen, 325 E.
State
.Financial Secretary
Mrs. P.H. Grote
..Treasurer
Mrs. C. H. Spence, 648
Atlantic
.Parliamentarian
CHAIRMEN OF DEPARTMENTS
|
Edith
Brubaker, Program |
Mrs.
T. R. Merrill, Membership |
|
Mrs.
Fred Bixley, Philanthropy |
Mrs.
James Daly, Hospitality |
|
Maude
E. Hayes, Social |
Carol
Lewernez, Decorating |
With the aims of fostering higher education,
the College Womens Club and the Long Beach Chapter of the American Association
of University Women unite the college trained women of the city in a common
cause, and give the inspiration for increased service to the community. In its closed membership of 225, it includes
alumnae of almost every representative college and university of the East and
West. Because one of the aims of the
club is to promote the college spirit of comradeship among the members, it has
seemed best to limit the membership so that the social meetings may be held in
the homes. A waiting list is kept from
which vacancies are immediately filled.
The Virginia Hotel is the club headquarters,
and alternate monthly meetings are held there, when speakers active in world
affairs address the club members. Other
meetings are held in the homes of members; and are of a more purely social
nature. Among the speakers of the last
year have been such leaders in education as Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt,
President of Mills College; Dr. Jessica B Peixotto,
Chairman of the Department of Economics, University of California; and Dr. C.
P. Colegrove, President of Upper Iowa University;
such artists as Louis P. Mertins and Arthur B. Kachel; and such diplomats as the Hon. John Barrett,
formerly Director of the Pan American Union.
As practically every artist in Long Beach is an active member in the
club, the programs with the exception of the addresses, are given entirely by
members.
In aiding students to higher education, the
club assisted in netting one thousand dollars last year with a garden fete for
the Ethel Moore Dormitory at Mills College, and this year started its Bertha
Brown Fisk scholarship loan fund.
One of the civic activities of the last year
was a Christmas pageant given in the municipal auditorium, when hundreds of the
Long Beach kiddies were entertained on Christmas Eve. The club has a glee club and a dramatic
section, both of which are leading attractions at the meetings,
and at other events where their services are requested.
(signed) Alta B Hall
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39
STANFORD WOMENS CLUB
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Mrs.
J. F. Sheehan, Jr., 117 Alpine
.President
Mrs.
Margaret Smith Thomas, Palo Alto
..First Vice-President
Miss
Eva Pearsall, 333 Pine
.Second Vice-President
Mrs.
Elizabeth Hogue Moore, 947 Bush
...Secretary
Miss
Helen Cochrane, 1663 OFarrell
..Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Elizabeth Yoch
Lewton Mrs.
Geralding Dewey
Miss Katherine Chandler Mrs.
Adeline Wright Fuller
The Stanford Women's Club was organized
three years ago with the purpose of developing and fostering social relations
of all Stanford women, and to maintain a spirit of interest in the conduct of
the University and all things which pertain to the democratic ideals of
Stanford. Any woman who has matriculated
at Stanford and is a resident of the City of San Francisco or within a radius
of fifty miles is eligible to membership.
The club has over 150 active members and the membership drive should
increase the number very materially.
Board meetings are held the last Tuesday of
the month at the Young Women's Christian Association Building, 620 Sutter
Street, at 7:30 p.m. All members are
invited to attend.
The regular monthly luncheon is held on the
second Saturday of each month at 12:45 p.m. at the Clift
Hotel. A speaker for fifteen or twenty
minutes is part of the program followed by informal discussions on University
activities and general information on its developments so our women may keep in
close touch and be rightfully informed on what is going on since they severed
their closer touch with their Alma Mater.
The past year a scholarship fund was started
and the sum of two thousand dollars obtained.
This scholarship will be awarded to a San Francisco girl. The requirements, and awarding of same are being worked out by
the chairman, Mrs. Verne McKinney, past president and her committee.
The Board of Directors and officers have
been actively engaged in the million dollar drive for Stanford and hope to see
their efforts rewarded with the fixed sum of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, the quota for San Francisco.
A regular calendar for the year has not been
mapped out, but the usual luncheons and teas will be given and emergency duties
met by the very active and efficient officers.
The housing committee are
looking for permanent and suitable headquarters and the years work will be
actively centered in making the Stanford women of San Francisco realize they
can give and receive much by close co-operation, loyalty and a united interest
in matters pertaining to their Alma Mater, Leland Stanford University.
(signed)
Josephine F. Sheehan
President
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40
COLLEGE WOMANS CLUB
San Diego Branch
American Association of
University Women
OFFICERS
Mrs.
Warren E. Libby, 450 Olive
..President
Mrs. A. H. Merrick, 3911
St. James
.First Vice-President
Dr. Alice E. Pratt, 2506
Collier
.Second Vice-President
Mrs. John Stone, 4811 Pamorama Way
Third Vice-President
Miss Mary C. Hristol, 3105 5th Street
Recording
Secretary
Miss Nina J. Cleaver, 600
First Street, Coronado
Corresponding Secretary
Miss Annie H. Goodrich,
3668 Oregon Street
.Treasurer
Miss Aeline
Fay, 840 Ash Street
.
Member at Large
Mrs. R. M. Morton, 3412 28th
Street
Press
Miss Alice Halliday, 3555 First Street
.Councillor
The College Woman's Club of San Diego was
organized for the purpose of promoting fellowship among college women, and for
the furtherance of educational and social interests among its members and in
the community.
Eighteen women were present at the first
meeting held October 12th, 1911, when Mrs. Earl A. Garretson was elected
president.
So ready was the response to a college
woman's organization that one week later when the second meeting was called
thirty-seven women were present to voice approval of the plans for such an
organization.
Miss Belle P. Nason,
a public spirited woman who had interested herself in woman's advancement,
particularly in forming clubs for young girls and women was elected an honorary
member of the College Woman's Club in recognition for her splendid spirit in
developing higher idealism in the lives of school girls and employed women.
During the first year plans were made for
three departments of activities of vital interest to college women--civic,
educational, and philanthropic.
Social
Service Committee, 1913: After the
first year's work in the fall of 1913
plans were discussed for the establishment of a social service section, under
the advisement of Miss Emma F. Way, and Miss Nason,
social service among working girls was planned which later might become the
nucleus for a real college settlement.
First Funds Raised: Under a committee composed of Mrs. F.E. Nash,
Miss Belle Nason, Mrs. Mary Hill, Mrs. George Buxton,
Miss Elizabeth Charles, Mrs. C.W. Winslow, president of the club, Miss Emma
Way, chairman of the philanthropic committee, a play (Campus Newsers) was given by the College Woman's Club at the Spreckles Theater.
The funds accruing from the play's presentation were to be used by the
Philanthropic committee for a settlement nucleus. The sum of nearly $1,400.00 was raised.
The
Pathfinder, Social Survey: The first
step taken was to determine the definite need for such work and the best
location for the settlement. A social survey of San Diego was decided upon, and
"The Pathfinder Social Survey" was completed in March, 1914, by Mr.
and Mrs. Fred A. King, assisted by a special committee, members of the College
Woman's Club, and interested friends.
The investigation covered public health and sanitation; public
education; recreation; taxation and public finance; and a list of charitable
and semi-charitable agencies. The
Pathfinder, a splendid report, disclosed interesting facts and urgent need for
a settlement establishment.
The Books created much commitment and were
the means of arousing public interest and some finances for the project.
Neighborhood
House, July, 1914: Subsequently with the loyal support of Miss Way, Mrs.
Mary A. Hill, Mrs. Earl Garretson, Miss Marion Mitchell, Mrs. Fred King, and
other interested workers, Neighborhood House, the College Settlement was
started at 14th and H Streets, July, 1914, with Mrs. King as head worker.
Scholarship
Funds: During this time other
interests had developed in the club, and plans of the educational committee
established a scholarship fund to assist girls through grammar school, high
school or college, as the means or case might determine; and throughout the
club's growth this scholarship fund has been in constant use.
Social
and Educational Development: The social and educational purposes of the
club had not been neglected, and noteworthy lectures on art, English, music,
drama and kindred subjects were enjoyed with profit by members and outsiders
who were guests of the club. Unique
parties to introduce new members to each other and to the club in general were
planned and were successful in developing a fine spirit among the members.
State
Federation of Woman's Clubs: So widespread has been the interest of the
club's activities that with a beginning of eighteen members three years before,
the club at its May, 1914 meeting reported 132 members with a representation of
fifty colleges. Not wishing selfishly to
limit their interest to college affairs, in March, 1914, the club affiliated
with the State Federation of Women's Clubs.
Glee Club: The fall of 1914 found a musical section
added to the club committees--that of a Glee Club founded under the direction
of Mrs. Edwin P. Sample. Remarkable results were shown from the
beginning, and for several years the College Woman's Glee Club was one of the
real choral organizations of the city.
Neighborhood House
Association: So successful has been the Neighborhood House
work that larger quarters and better facilities were needed. The Neighborhood House Association was formed
admitting members other than college women to co-operate with the Industrial
School Board in the Logan Heights district where the foreign population and
thickly congested living conditions were found.
First Year-Book: The first year-book was published September,
1914, with Mrs. Warren E.
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Libby chairman of press. It contained much of interest to the members, giving in detail the
progress of the club, its affiliation with its varied interests, and the list
of members with the colleges represented.
General
Interests of Club: During
the next three years the club took active part in many interests of civic
growth such as assistance in work for the Exposition of 1915-1916, better film
movement, milk inspection and distribution of milk to needy families, health
and sanitation measures, and has endorsed the local organizations in their
efforts to arouse civic consciousness along its varied lines.
Drama Section 1915-1916: With the purpose in
mind of increasing funds of the club, and also to allow histrionic expression
of talented members of the club, a dramatic section under the able direction of
Mrs. A. J. Casebeer,
assisted by Mrs. C. A. A. McGee, was formed.
Many delightful plays, playlets, and readings
were enjoyed by the club, for which an admission could be charged.
War Work: During the World War the College Woman's Club
devoted its activities to war interests.
A War Service section was formed to represent the clubs in war work, and
co-operate with the government organizations in uniting for Red Cross work for
convalescent soldiers at Camp Kearny; a War Fund committee was formed to assist
in drives for war savings stamps, liberty loans and Red Cross Drives.
The Strolling
Players: This band was
formed under the Drama Section for patriotic service, to visit various camps
and help furnish entertainment for enlisted men. The Music Section also held itself in
readiness to answer calls for patriotic service whenever needed. The Educational committee planned work along
lines suggested by Carrie Chapman Catt for the
Council of National Defense, that of retelling
accredited truths to spread throughout the country. The Social Service Section of Neighborhood
House adhered to the plan of Americanization of our foreign born residents as
their share in war activities.
Reorganization of College
Club, 1918: Association of Collegiate
Alumnae--With the club's growth, its membership numbering 212, and with 89
colleges represented, it seemed a necessary procedure to reorganize so as to be
eligible for membership in the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, a national
organization founded in 1882 and composed of women graduates from about one
hundred American colleges and universities whose degrees entitled them to
membership. The association was
organized for the purpose of uniting alumnae of different institutions for
practical educational work, for the collection and publication of statistical
and other information concerning education, and for the inspiration of higher
standards of education in general. As
this organization presented possibilities for greater development for the
College Women's Club, in April, 1918, the club became the San Diego Branch of
the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
Cultural
Asset to Community: Study classes
were formed November 11, 1919, and they were opened to the public as a
contributor to the cultural assets of the city.
California
Woman's Legislative Council: The
club took out membership in the California Woman's Legislative Council in
April, 1920. This organization
represented the interests of 40,000 women of the state.
In 1920 an International Federation of University Women was founded, and since then several countries have affiliated with the organization, including Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland, and the United States. The aim of the federation is to promote international understanding of educational movements, and to promote international friendship among students of the world.
The American Association of University Women is the American Branch of the International Federation. Hence every member of the American Association of University Women is not only helping to advance education in America, but is directly contributing to the support of the International Federation.
San
Diego Branch, American Association of University Women: In April, 1921, the San Diego College Woman's
Club voted to remain in the National and International organization and thus
become the San Diego Branch of the American Association of University Women.
With the steady growth of the College Woman's Club the year 1921-1922 will find a membership of approximately 250 members, representing 95 colleges ready to shoulder the responsibilities already begun.
Neighborhood House under the loyal direction of its interested workers, both of yesterday and today, finds its needs and developments calling for greater response from the college members and from the community at large. It is with great measure of satisfaction that these members who have en ever increasing influence in the community in the advancement of the cause for the higher education of women.
Past chairman of the Social Service committee to whom such splendid results for Neighborhood House should be credited have been: Mrs. Earl Garretson, Mrs. Mary A. Hill, Miss Anna B. Christian, Miss Helen Clark, Miss Helen Marston, Dr. Alice Pratt, Miss Emma Way, Miss Mariam Beasley, and Miss Maud Fay, present chairman of the Neighborhood House Committee.
The past presidents of the club were: Mrs.
Earl A. Garretson, Mrs. C. W. Winslow, Mrs. Charles Bentham
(deceased), Mrs. H. I. Randall (Gertrude Logenecker),
Mrs. W. H. Fraser, Mrs. Irving Outcalt, Mrs. H. H.
Wentworth (Helen Clark), Mrs. Jesse Shreve, Mrs. George J. Champlin,
Miss Arline Fay.
(signed) Mrs. R.M. Morton
Press
Chairman
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Photo of Myra Nye
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OFFICERS
|
Miss Jane C. Humphrees,
2326 Scarf |
President |
|
Mrs. Frank A. Gibson, 2301 Scarf |
First Vice President |
|
Mrs. Hancock Banning, Banning Place, Wilmington |
Second Vice President |
|
Mrs. Roy Jones, 308 Commonwealth |
Third Vice President |
|
Mrs. Florine H. Wolfstein, 671 South Coronado |
Secretary |
|
Mrs. Homer Laughlin, Jr. 666 W. 18th |
Treasurer |
|
Mrs. A. B. Barret, 1235
Orchid, Hollywood |
Auditor |
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette Mss
Caroline Kellogg
Mrs. W. I. Hollingsworth Mss
Clara Erickson
Mrs. Willis G. Hunt Mss
Rosario Dockweiller
Miss Florence E. Shindler Mss
Frances Holmes
The Womens Athletic Club of Los Angeles is
an organization formed for the specific purpose of building a Womans Club
House in Los Angeles that will serve the double purpose of affording full club
privileges to its member and as headquarters and meeting place for the various
womens organizations of the city.
The club was organized April 26, 1921. Mrs. Mathew S. Robertson was elected as the
first president and served in that capacity until her death, which occurred
December 1, 1921. The Board of Directors
voted at once to include in the new building a Memorial Library and Reading
Room dedicated to Mrs. Robertson.
In less than a year the club has enrolled
over eleven hundred members and purchased property valued at $200,000 for a
building site. The property consists of
three lots, 150 x 155 feet between Eighth and Ninth Streets on flower Street,
one of the most desirable locations in the city for such a club, as it is
adjacent to the best shopping district and yet outside the congested traffic
zone.
The Membership of the club is representative
of groups of women of wide interests and varied activities and includes leaders
in club life, social circles, the professions, and business enterprises. A large and most interesting group is made up
of representatives of the Pioneer families of California, and it is planned to
create within the club some form of permanent memorial to the courage and
vision of the pioneer women whose sacrifices made possible todays
achievements.
This will be the first club of its kind to
be built in the Southern part of the State, and will serve a long felt need in
the community. One of the special
features of the club will be the conveniences it will afford to its out-of-town
members who will find there a convenient and comfortable headquarters during
the pleasure or business trip to the city, offering a place for rest and
recreation and for meeting and entertaining friends.
The club quarters will include a lounge, a
dining-room, library and reading room, rest rooms, gymnasium, swimming pool,
etc., completely equipped departments of hairdressing, manicuring, massage,
Turkish baths, etc.; bedrooms for permanent and transient use of the members and
for persons holding guest cards in the club.
In addition to the club quarters, it is planned to include in the building, halls and executive headquarters for the use of various organizations of women desiring such housing accommodation, and thereby securing to the club an income which will enable the monthly dues of the members
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to
be kept at a low figure. The initiation
fee for membership in the club at present time is $125.00 plus 10% war tax for
regular members, and $1,000.00 for life memberships.
The life memberships are limited to one
hundred in number and are exempt from dues. As life memberships are for the
life of the club, they furnish the most desirable membership offered.
The life members enrolled to date are: Mrs. Charles
A. Andrews, Mrs. Harold Arnold, Mrs. Maria Bastanchury,
Mrs. William T. Bishop, Mrs. Boardman, Mrs. Norman Bridge, Mrs. Robert J.
Burdette, Mrs. Harry Chandler, Mrs. E. A. Clampitt,
Mrs. Louis Cole, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Mrs. Eldridge M.
Fowler, Mrs. Kate C. Gartz, Miss Evelyn Hamburger,
Mrs. Irving Hellman, Mrs. W. I. Hollingsworth, Mrs.
Willis G. Hunt, Mrs. Fred Keeler, Mrs. Lee Phillips, Mrs. Otto Sweet, Mrs. John
Milner, Mrs. William Lee Wollett, Mrs. Thomas Bard,
Mrs. W. E. Clark, Mrs. Horace Laughlin, Jr., Mrs. W. T. McArthur, Miss
Josephine Izard.
The members of the present Board of
Directors are: Mrs. Hancock Banning,
Mrs. A. B. Barret, Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, Miss
Rosario Dockweiler, Miss Clara Erickson, Mrs. Frank
A. Gibson, Mrs. W. L. Hollingsworth, Miss Frances Holmes, Miss Jame C. Humphreys, Mrs. Willis G. Hunt, Mrs. Roy Jones,
Miss Caroline Kellogg, Mrs. Homer Laughlin, Miss Florence Shindler,
Mrs. Florine Wolfstein.
(Signed)
Martha L. Cable (Mrs. Herbert A. Cable)
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WOMANS ATHLETIC CLUB
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Mrs. James A. Black, Stanford Court
Apartments
President
Mrs. P.E. Bowles, Union and McAdam
Streets, Oakland
.First Vice-President
Mrs. H.M.A. Miller, Stanford Court
Apartments
..Second Vice-President
Mrs. William Roth, 2251
Jackson
.Treasurer
Mrs. William J. Shotwell,
1869 California
.Secretary
Mrs. Daniel Volkmann, 1901
California
Corresponding Secretary
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Edson F. Adams Mrs. Roger Bocqueraz Miss
Jean Boyd
Mrs. Samuel Boardman Mrs.
Frank Dray Mrs.
Milton Esberg
Mrs. Wickham Havens Miss Josephine Moore Miss Laura L McKinstry
Mrs. Samuel Pond Mrs.
Patricia Webster
The story of the building of the Womens
Athletic Club of San Francisco, the strength and value of the club in the
community, the pleasures and comfort accorded members, the respect the club
commands from both men and women in the commonwealth, form the nucleus for a story
of courage, valor, determination, business ability, integrity, optimism and
romance. Furthermore, the story of the
Womens Athletic Club of San Francisco is a story of feminine foresight.
When the small group of representative San
Francisco women first planned to have a club, and a club building, something
after the manner of mens clubsa club which should be all that the name
impliesmany husbands of the women who had dreamed of such a plan, many
business men who admired the business audacity displayed, gallantly withheld
smiles. Some women, who were originally,
among the doubters, as whether such a thing as a Womens Athletic Club were
feasible, or, even possible, were finally stirred to profound respect when the
dauntless women made their dream a firm realization.
The Womens Athletic Club of San Francisco
is a success, in every sense of the wordfinancially, sociallya convincing
argument in favor of women who build.
Having outgrown the capacity of their present
quarters, the club bought a lot adjoining the present structure, and soon a new
building will be erected with sixty more rooms.
The new building will contain a larger swimming pool, almost twice as
large as the handsome marble swimming pool in the present building. Other additions will include a larger tennis
court, indoor golf accommodations, more equipment for
the gymnasium, which ranks now as one of the last word in womens
athletics. The new building will have
more rooms for hair-dressing and Turkish bath departments.
The Womens Athletic Club of San Francisco
was organized in 1915. While a lure of
lovers of athletics, it is the center for social and cultural activities, a
pretty place where famous women are feted, dinned and honored on noteworthy
occasions. It forms an attractive
setting where hostess members greet the travelers or speed the parting guest;
it is a place where debutantes tell their romances and announce their
betrothals. It is a place where young
mothers assemble for home economics talks.
The giving of smart luncheons for girl friends, dinners, once in a while
for father, or brother, or man guests are honors conferred by members, as
features of the club.
Many of San Franciscos most prominent
families are enrolled on the membership list which now numbers 1,784. The present board of
managers headed by the popular president, Mrs. James Black, and her splendid
staff, merit universal commendations.
The vision of things now so thoroughly a part of the Womens Athletic Club
of San Francisco certainly belongs to the original board who watched their
first thoughts thrive to fruition.
Mrs. H. D. Pillsbury was the first
president, and on her board were the following women: Mrs. Latham McMullin, Mrs. Lawrence Harris, Mrs. James A. Black, Mrs.
Raymond Wilson, Miss Elizabeth Livermore, Mrs. Julian Thorne, Mrs. Geo T.
Cameron, Mrs. Thomas A. Driscoll, Mrs. E. S. Heller, Mrs. John Lawson, Mrs.
Oscar Fitzalan Long, Mrs. Geo. D. Lyman, Mrs. Aetholl McBean, Mrs. Silas H.
Palmer, Mrs. Wm. Henry Smith, Jr., Mrs. James Ellis Tucker. Among charter members were: Mrs. Edson F. Adams, Mrs. Wallace Alexander, Miss Marion Angelotti, Miss Mary Armsby, Mrs.
John Barneson, Miss Marion Baker, Mrs. P..E. Bowles, Mrs. Roger Bocqueraz,
Mrs. John Breuner, Miss Winifred Braden, Miss Lynda
Buchanan, Mrs. Wm. Cluff, Mrs. Charles J. Deering, Miss Christine Donohoe,
Mrs. Miton Esberg, Miss
Mary Eyre, Mrs. Paul Fagan, Mrs. W. B. Faville, Mrs.
Wm. Fitzhugh, Mrs. John Gallois, Mrs. Alice Gartenlaub, Mrs. J. J. Gottlob,
Mrs. J. Downey Harvey, Mrs. J. R. Hanify, Mrs.
Richard Heiman, Miss Jennie Hooker, Mrs. Frederick J.
Koster, Mrs. Peter B. Kyne,
Mrs. Geo. Lent, Mrs. Louis F. Monteagle, Mrs. E. W.
Newhall, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Miss Amy Requa, Mrs.
Lloyd Robbins, Miss Else Schilling, Miss Gladys Sullivan, Mrs. Augustus Taylor,
Miss Emelie Tubbs, Mrs. Geo. H. Tyson, Miss Hilda Van
Sicklen, Miss Johanna Volkmann, Mrs. W. F. B.
Wakefield, Mrs. Willis Walker, Dr. Agnes Walker, Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler,
Mrs. Robert White.
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EBELL
Los Angeles
OFFICERS
Mrs. Charles Hulbert Toll, 1635 Kenneth Road, North
Glendale
.President
Mrs.
Oscar A. Trippet, 943 S.
Hoover
...First Vice-President
Mrs.
Emerson Clyde Gates, 5334 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood
..Second
Vice-President
Mrs.
Leslie R. Hewitt, 1212 S. Alvarado
Third Vice-President
Mrs.
John Stearns Thayer, 2656 Brighton Avenue
.Fourth Vice-President
Mrs.
Berney Donnell, 1410 Sherman Drive
..Recording
Secretary
Mrs.
Edward Crumley, 2283 W.
Twenty-first
...Corresponding Secretary
Mrs.
Lewis Clark Carlisle, 1849 W. Twenty-first
.Treasurer
Mrs.
Edward A. Tufts, 2666 Vermont Avenue
...General Curator
DIRECTORS
Mrs.
Charles Hulbert Toll Mrs.
Matthew Sparks Robertson
Mrs.
Grantland Seaton Long Mrs.
Benjamin Franklin Perkins
Mrs.
Charles S. McKelvey Mrs.
William Read
CHAIRMEN OF
DEPARTMENTS
Mrs. Almon Bartlett Ross, Ebell Rest Cottage Association Mrs.
Ilot Johnson, Scholarship
The Ebell of Los
Angeles, the third of several Ebells in the state to
be organized, and now grown to be the greatest in point of numbers, was formed
in 1894 for advancement in all lines of general culture, as its by-laws
state.
The twenty-eight years of existence have
witnessed many changes. The club now
numbers twenty-two hundred members, including a flourishing Junior Auxiliary of
a hundred members. The sections are now fourteen, as follows: English, French,
Spanish, Parliamentary Law, Social Science, Art and Travel, Bible Literature,
Books and Current Literature, Browning, Choral, Music, Drama, Shakespeare and
Psychology.
In addition to this section work, the club
maintains Rest Cottage, an institution where from four to eight guests are
cared for at a nominal charge (if guest is financially able) or free of charge.
The guests are those women who have been discharged from local hospitals as
convalescents, but who find their strength insufficient to enable them to
assume the burdens of employment. Here
they may gain the necessary strength which shall enable them to return to
active life. Positions are secured for
those for whom employment is not waiting.
This year twelve young women who have been
recommended by the deans of the high schools or colleges where the girls are
students, and whose scholarship is of the best, have been assisted with a
regular sum of money each month, by the clubs Scholarship Department. The money advanced is in the form of a gift.
The Practical Relief department has assisted
local philanthropic organizations by co-operation in providing clothing from
its stores for the needy, and by sewing for emergency calls. This department has practically clothed Ebellss Scholarship girls.
The club meetings are held every Monday; and
the programs presented cover a wide range of interests. All meetings are held in the club house,
erected in 1906.
An attractive feature of the club is its
weekly guest luncheon, at which men and women in various activities in life are
the speakers. Every important current
topic is here discussed.
(signed) Mrs. Charles
Hulbert Toll
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WOMANS CLUB
Hollywood
OFFICERS
Mrs. Henry T. Wright, 8300 de Longpre
Avenue
President
Mrs. Joseph J. Carter, 1801 La
Brea
..First Vice-President
Mrs. John F. Mead, 7231 Hollywood
Boulevard
Second Vice-President
Mrs. H.G. Bentham, 5526
Lexington Avenue
.Third Vice-President
Mrs. Alfred L. Bartlett, 1647 Sierra
Bonita
.Recording Secretary
Mrs. Walter G. Hudson, 7120 Sunset
Boulevard
.Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. F.W. Bartlett, 7558 Hollywood Boulevard
Assistant
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Chas. T. Hovey, 1725
El Cerrito Place
...Treasurer
Mrs. Chas. Stewart, 1529 Courtney
Avenue
.Assistant Treasurer
Mrs. B.F. Bailey, 1260 Harper
Avenue
..Federation Secretary
Caroline Spalding
..Financial
Secretary and Clerk
Mrs. J.R. Dudley, 981 Sanborn
Avenue
..Parliamentarian
Mrs. Jesse B. Roberts, 1400 Hayworth
Avenue
.Curator
DIRECTORS
Mrs.
Thomas Cooke Mrs.
F. M. Douglass
Mrs.
E. B. Latham Mrs.
Chas. H. Richmond
Mrs.
Llewellyn A. Banks
Our club was organized May, 1905, joined
the State Federation in 1908, and was incorporated in 1913. We have, to date, thirteen hundred members,
and a property worth over two hundred thousand dollars. We have five departments: Music, Art,
Literature, Drama, and Public Affairs; and nine study sections. The English and Shakespeare sections were
added last year, as also were the Bible Study and Womans Chorus sections. These, I am proud to state, were organized
during my administration. This year we
added a Political Science section.
The club enters into all community affairs
and lends its influence to any and all things for the betterment of the people.
Our club is used as the meeting place for: The Apollo Club, a mens chorus; The
Post War Service League, an organization for the welfare of disabled soldiers;
The Velada Club, a group of girls employed during the
day; and for the Childrens Community Center, a group that it was my privilege
to organize, consisting of a chorus of about two hundred children meeting on
Saturday afternoon to sing under the leadership of Mr. Hugo Kirchoped;
and a play section, which is doing excellent work producing childrens dramas.
We build this year our new auditorium, a
fire-proof building, seating one thousand, and which, with the enlargement of
the kitchen and dinning-room, cost $65,000.00.
We gave an evening reception on May third to
the State officers and delegates who were attending the State Convention of C.
F. W. C. held in Los Angeles.
We give a monthly Prom for the Junior and
Senior students in the Hollywood High School, and also an annual scholarship to
one of its students. Contributions are made to all worthy causes.
(signed) Janette Bray
Wright
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CALIFORNIA CLUB
San Francisco
OFFICERS
Mrs. A.W. Scott, Fairmont
Hotel
.President
Mrs. O.H. Fernbach, 1902
Leavenworth
..First Vice-President
Mrs. F.M. Sponogle, 1902
Leavenworth
..Second Vice-President
Mrs. Chester Le Noir, 1508
Lake
Recording Secretary
Mrs. Loran E. Barnes, 400 36th
Avenue
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Chas. S. Rosener,
Hotel Whitcomb
..Treasurer
Mrs. John S. Phillips, 2235
Leavenworth
.Financial Secretary
Mrs. W.J.B. Lee, San
Mateo
..Social Secretary
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mrs. Jos. Victor Mrs. Walter Scott Gray
Mrs.
Davis Loudenback Mrs.
Helen S. Treat
Mrs.
Walter V. Walsh Mrs.
John R. Jones
Mrs.
A. John Archer Mrs.
L. H. Thompson
CHAIRMEN OF
DEPARTMENTS
Mrs. Jas. C. Crawford,
Education Mrs. A. D. McLean,
Social Science
Mrs. Hamilton J. Riggins,
Civics Mrs. George T.
Marsh, Outdoor Art
The California Club holds a place in clubdom all its own, virtually a civic club, yet with
departments and sections covering almost every line of educational and welfare
work. The Civic Department is active in
every branch of civic demand. The Social
Science Department in Hospital and Welfare work, the Educational Department has
many sections and branches, the Outdoor Art, in the interest of the
out-of-doors, in the preservation of our forests, wild flower, birds.
The sections of the several departments are:
Literacy, Choral, Players, French, Shakespeare, Art, History, Whist, Dancing,
New Citizenship and Parliamentary. The
Literary Section is a joy, bringing to us wonderful days of nearness and
companionship, with the best authors and writers and their works; these days
are always looked forward to with greatest interest. An Open Forum held once a month is most
interesting, bringing the members into a line of active thinking and expression
and greatly enjoyed by all.
A club Cotillion is given once a month, and
lends a happy trend to the club life.
We were happy to full measure in the burning
of the mortgage on our club home. Our
celebration of it was unique and delightful, a day never to be forgotten by the
members of the club who participated in it.
Thus the California Club studies, works,
plays, a band of capable, busy, united, wonderful women.
(signed) Mrs. A.W. Scott
Chairmen of the different sections who
served with Mrs. A. W. Scott were: Mrs. William H. Wilson, literature; Mrs.
Edward J. Morser, players; Mrs. Arthur Flood,
American Citizenship; Mrs. Walter Walsh, French; Mrs. W. S. Leske,
dancing; Mrs. Richmond Revalk, choral; Miss Mary Fairbrother, parliamentary law; Mrs. Lydia Lister,
Shakespeare section; Mrs. William S.
Howard, whist.
Mrs. F. M. Sponogle is the new president of the California Club. On her executive staff are: Mrs. Sidney Strickland, first vice-president; Mrs. John S. Phillips, second vice-president. The board of directors include: Mrs. Loren Barnes, Mrs. Hamilton Riggins, Mrs. Clovis Farnsworth, Mrs. John S. Mills, Mrs. A.D. McLean, Mrs. Samuel Dannebaum, Dr. S. B. K. Hewitt, and Miss Elizabeth Hill.
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