WHOS WHO AMONG
THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA
1922
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Friday
Morning Club
Los Angeles
Officers
Mrs. Arthur C. Wier, 1030 W. 48th
.
.First
Vice-President
Mrs. Randall Hutchinson, 2817 Menlo Avenue
.
.Second
Vice-President
Miss Helen Louise Kimball, 1801 ½ N. Western Avenue,
Hollywood
..Recording
Secretary
Mrs. William Waller Slayden,
4543 Pasadena Avenue
.Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Harry R. Callender, 2313
S. Hope
...Treasurer
Mrs. H.
H. Koons Miss
Therese Levy
Miss
Elizabeth Pepper
The purposes of the club are advancement and promotion
of literary, social, and education interests.
All women of Los Angeles and vicinity are eligible to membership. The club motto: In essentials, Unity; in
non-essentials, Liberty; in all things, Charity.
The club was founded April 16, 1891. Madame Caroline M. Severance was elected
president and the meetings were held in the parlor of the Hollenbeck
Hotel. It was incorporated in 1892 and
joined the General Federation of Womens Clubs the same year. It sent delegates to the Womans Congress at
the Chicago Fair in 1893, and in 1900 became a member of the State Federation.
On January 12, 1900, the eightieth birthday of Madame
Severance, the club celebrated the opening of the clubhouse, at 940 South
Figueroa Street. At present these
quarters are proving inadequate to the needs of the club and a new building
upon the same site is contemplated.
The regular weekly meetings of the club are devoted to
subjects of general interest along the lines of art, literature, science, or
public affairs, and the programs are given by speakers
of nations and international fame in these several lines. Thus the club has welcomed to its platform
during the past thirty years many famous men and women. The morning meetings are followed by a
luncheon at 12:15 oclock to which visitors of note are invited and are asked
to speak.
The Standing Committees include those of Art, Music,
Literature, Drama, Public Affairs, House, and Hospitality. Meetings of the Literature, Drama and Public
Affairs Committees are held once a month on Tuesdays.
Through its Public Affairs Committee, the club keeps in
touch with all progressive movements of the day, municipal, state, and
national, and both in forming public opinion and by aiding all measures aimed
toward social betterment it takes an active part in civic matters. The club administers many
philanthropies and fosters education by material means.
An eight-page bulletin is issued each month, and a
yearbook at the close of the season.
Mrs. Sarah M. Johnson,
Chairman of Literature.
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Womans
City Club
Los Angeles
Officers
Mrs. Emma L. Reed, 1010 W. 10th
.
..First
Vice-President
Mrs. Frederick Hickok, 1109 Ingraham
..Second Vice-President
Mrs. Robert T. Brain, 1440 Albany
.
Secretary
Treasurer
Mrs. J. A. Osgood, Montecito Avenue, Sierra Madre
.
.Parliamentarian
Mrs. Amy Patry, 1307 N. Avenue
54
Auditor
The Womans City Club of Los Angeles is a non-partisan
body of women citizens. The aim of the
club is to produce in women alertness of mind and sanity of judgment.
We are held together by a common interest in public
questions, and we aim to be thoroughly democratic in spirit. Our great object is Instruction in
Citizenship. Knowledge of public questions
is essential to intelligent voting.
We do not indorse the sentiments of our speakers; we aim
to get their point of view and we reserve judgment.
Our aim has been to make our women conversant with current
topics from three general standpoints: the economic, the educational and the
financial.
Intelligent woman citizenship depends on a vari-sided interest in, and understanding of, city, state,
national and international affairs.
The Womans City Club has had a phenomenal growth this
past year, adding over seven hundred new members, making a total membership of
thirteen hundred. The membership
committee has set the goal for fifteen hundred, and when this is attained the
number of new members admitted for this year will have reached over one
thousand.
This large increase in membership has brought us face to
face with a housing problem, and necessity has compelled us to have a home of
our own.
A Building Committee has been created and plans for a
future club house for the Womans City Club are taking shape very fast.
The Womans City Club is a civic factor in the community
of Los Angeles, and as such occupies first place among the clubs in its earnest
and serious consideration of public questions.
All of our programs are of an important and vital nature,
and are given to us by speakers of authority and world wide reputation.
The activities of the club are far reaching, and for this
reason we secure the very best talent which is willing to come to us and give
their service as a civic contribution.
The Womans City Club has been in existence eleven years,
and during that time has developed a keen responsibility of citizenship among
our own members. This is expressed by a
ninety per cent voting average on election day, a
remarkable group of intelligent voters, participating.
We are endeavoring to make our voting strength one
hundred per cent. This, we feel is the
highest type of work that a club can do developing civic-consciousness and
citizenship within its own ranks. We
know that this kind of work is bound to be a power and an influence in the
community of which the club is a part.
By their fruits ye shall know them.
(Mrs. J. B.) Dora Smith Stearns
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Ebell Society
Oakland
Officers
Mrs. Magnum A. Anderson, 246 Mather
Street
.First Vice-President
Mrs. Charles Leonard Smith, 507 Peralta
Apartments
.Second Vice-President
Mrs. Henry L. Parish, 277 Park View
Terrace
.
.Recording Secretary
Mrs. Elijah H. Steele, 2327
Mitchell
.Financial Secretary
Miss Mary C. Heaton, 4266 Terrace
..
..Treasurer
Mrs. Richard H. Genung, 216 El
Cerrito Avenue
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Edward R. Sill, 1431 Eleventh Avenue
.
Secretary
of Publications
Dr. Canna S. Aldrich, 476
Rich
General Curator
Mary K. Culbertson, first president of the Ebell Society of Oakland wrote a beautiful tribute to the
society, to which she gave the title: My Ambition for Ebell. Here is the tribute, just as she wrote it:
My ambition for Ebell is
this: that from this center shall
radiate influences that will broaden, strengthen, elevate and purify women
advisedly, for it she be grand, unselfish, strong and pure, man will,
inevitably, become so, too. Are my
dreams Utopian? It rests with you whether or not this vision becomes a
reality. If this society shall give some
tangible proof of its efficiency, by some practical outcome of all its study, then
will it receive honest recognition and if needful, riches and power.
Miss Mary K. Culbertson will long be revered in the Ebell Society of Oakland and her ambition quoted above, in
tribute to her memory, reflects the realities to be found, today, in this
great, useful, influential and cultural Society of Ebell.
The Ebell club house of Oakland
has been the setting for some of the most noteworthy events in womens club
circles about the Bay. Prominent women
visiting Oakland are greeted at some special event within the pretty club rooms
where hospitality and womanly charm harmonize with the brilliancy and the
intelligence of members.
The Ebell Society of Oakland is
distinctive for the programs of scholarly attainment heard within the club
rooms. A large
auditorium, a splendid stage, afford opportunities for the presentation
of dramatic work.
Study sections, classes in the different languages,
lectures, musical studios, and a thorough course of studying current events
proclaim the intellectual status of the society. An original writers section, an art, a
parliamentary law section, and Living Issues pronounce some advanced
departments under the supervision of the president, her assisting executives,
the chairmen and the department leaders.
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San
Diego Club
San Diego
Officers
Mrs. Maud Frary, 2166 Park
Avenue
.First Vice-President
Mrs. Frank W. Lane, 1832 Granada Avenue
..Second
Vice-President
Mrs. Isabella Minson, 1624
First
....Third Vice-President
Mrs. R. M. Harnsberger, 439
Kalmia
.
Recording Secretary
Mrs. Fred OFarrell, 1635 Second
..
Corresponding
Secretary
Mrs. B. O. Lacey, 3913 Normal
.
Treasurer
Mrs. Isabella Minson Mrs. Paul A. Giraud Mrs. Maud Frary
Mrs. Harry Fulton Mrs.
J. H. Francis Mrs. B. O.
Lacey
Mrs. Fred OFarrell
The San Diego Club, founded thirty years ago by a handful
of women, has grown to be an organization of about four hundred, with a history
of which it may be justly proud.
While still a young club, they bought the lot on which
the present building stands, and in time built the clubhouse which is now in
use. This house is a valuable asset, for
it is downtown, the attractive auditorium is in constant demand and it brings a good revenue to the treasury of the club. The present building is gradually becoming
inadequate, and a building fund is being constantly added to, against the day
when a new building shall be necessary.
The purpose of the club is to promote the social, moral
and intellectual improvement of the members and others.
Regular meetings are held every two weeks, with programs,
which, each year, grow more ambitious; alternate meetings, in charge of one of
the departments. There are five
departments: Arts and Crafts, Art and Travel, Books and Conversation, Drama,
and Economics and Civics. To all these every member is eligible. Each department is actively and
enthusiastically at work. A large part
of the benefit of the club is in these departments.
An additional department is the Girls Auxiliary,
composed of daughters of members and their friends. Its object is to provide a place where the
girls, properly chaperoned may have suitable recreation.
Frequent teas in department meetings, and on special
occasions, at the main club, give opportunity for personal acquaintanceship
among members.
It has been the intention of the club, from its
inception, to be power for good in the community. To this end it has done much philanthropic
and public-spirited work, subscribing to objects of municipal betterment and to
organized charities, and taking part in all the various activities during the
war. The last year a regular fund was
established for such interests.
The great event of the past year was the thirtieth
anniversary celebration, when two hundred members sitting at luncheon in their
own auditorium, paid honor to the founders and early members of the club, and
prophesied for themselves a flourishing future.
(Mrs. O. J. L.) Florence A. Arsenault,
President.
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Parlor
Lecture Club
Fresno
Officers
Mrs. A. L. Dahlgren
.
First Vice-President
Mrs. Geo. H. Taylor, 3228 Illinois
..
.
Second
Vice-President
MRs. John T. Lee, 154
Eden
...Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Effie Aaronson, 1753 Van Ness
.
.
.Financial
Secretary
Mrs. Miles Humphreys, 1245
Broadway
.
Treasurer
Mrs. Edith McLillan
..Auditor
Mrs. W. A. Conn, 1019 N. Van
Ness
.Auditor
Mrs. W. J. Eilert, Home Mrs.
I. Lesser, Music
Mrs. H. B. McFarland, Home Economics Mrs. Geo. W. Turner, Program
Miss Lucy Hatch
The Parlor Lecture Club of Fresno one of the largest and most progressive clubs of Northern California was organized in 1894, affiliating with the State Federation in 1900 and then with the General Federation in 1901.
Mrs. C. H. Hotaling, the
president, who has directed the club proceedings along the pathway of success,
has had an eventful year. Subjects of
vital import, discussions of moment, and purposes of wide ramifications have
been indelibly written in the annals of the past year. To her executive staff, Mrs. Hotaling attributes the crowing glory following her years
reckonings.
The Parlor Lecture Club is proud of its club house at
1350 Van Ness Avenue, where not only club sessions are held but where social
events and lectures by famous writers, musicales by well known artists and
where activities of civic and community interest, are held. This commingling of club women in cultural
pursuits merits the claim of the club for high consideration.
Departments of work include art, music, literature,
civic-philanthropic, and home department.
Mrs. W. J. Eilert and Mrs. J. R. Turner of the
Home Department presented memorable events, home economics being a factor in
the club studies. Pillow
making instructions were given at one novel meeting; and the food values
discussed the use of raisins under the supervision of the California Associated
Raisin Company affording an interesting day. Then came a fashion pageant, with the query:
Which dress shall it be? as Mrs. Clarence Haring presented the idea.
Mrs. J. H. Pettis, chairman of literature led the members
through a consecutive series of book discussions with prominent authors as
speakers. Current events directed by
that splendid authority, Mrs. Annie Little Barry; music, led by Mrs. I. Lesser
and a lecture program with John Cowper Powys as
speaker, was among the outstanding programs of the year.
Mrs. C. M. Vanderburgh, of Stanford University, will be
the chairman of the program for the new year. Mrs. George W. Turner, resident of Fresno,
was elected president of the San Joquain Valley
District, in May of 1921 at the Yosemite Valley Convention.
Mrs. J. H. Pettis is a new president of the Parlor
Lecture Club of Fresno. On her executive
staff are Mrs. A. M. Loper, Mrs. Will L. Potts, Mrs.
John Lee, Mrs. Fay Hines, Mrs. Effie Aaronson, Mrs. Miles Humphries, Mrs. W. G. Baymiller.
The coterie of chairmen in the new administration
includes: Mrs. W. L. Blayney, civic philanthropy;
Mrs. W. G. Eilert, home department; Mrs. H. B.
McFarland,
Home economics; Mrs. Adolph Buttner, literary department; Mrs. D. L. Zimmerman, music
department; Mrs. C. M. Vanderburgh, chairman of the program committee.
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Francisca
Club
San Francisco
Officers
Miss Ethel Hager, 2400 Divisadero
.
.
First
Vice-President
Mrs. William Hinckley Taylor, 20 Glen Alpine,
Piedmont
Second Vice-President
Mrs. Fannie C. McCreary, 2020 Pacific
Avenue
Recording Secretary
Mrs. A. Douglas McBryde,
Redwood City
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. William Henry Smith, Jr., 1632 Vallejo
.
.Treasurer
In the new building there are large reading rooms, a library, writing-room accommodations and an attractive drawing room on the west side of the main floor. The artistic dinning room, the flowering tea rooms where smart luncheons, teas and receptions are given, are additional charms which attract the Francisca members for entertainment of guests and noted visitors.
A limited number of sleeping rooms, arranged with the
feminine requirements of a private boudoir afford accommodations for
out-of-town members. Atop the building,
overlooking the San Francisco Bay, is a glassed-in sun
room.
The personnel of the Francisca roster represents
some of Californias best known families.
The membership, though limited in number, now has an enrollment of five
hundred. Social amenities, literary
gatherings, with world-famous authors as honor guests, are typical of the
Francisca Clubs hospitalities.
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The staff of executives represent many of the citys
noblest families its women are women whose quiet, effective deeds are deeds of
honor and a credit to womankind.
Miss Marion Angelotti, one of
Californias brilliant authors is a member of the Francisca Club, Mrs. Daniel
Lathrop, author of Five Little Peppers is a guest member and when she visits
San Francisco often entertains her literary friends in the tea room.
A group of young society women are counted among the
Francisca Club members, Miss Marion Zeile, Miss
Marion Warren, and others from San Francisco and the peninsula cities, being
among the active constituency.
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Shakespeare
Club
Pasadena
Officers
Mrs. Lewis H. Turner, 897 N. Holliston
..
First
Vice-President
Mrs. W. D. Crocker, 999 N. Madison
.
.Second
Vice-President
Mrs. A. J. Wingard, 1257 N.
Wilson
...Recording Secretary
Mrs. Frank H. Shares, 473 S. Los
Robles
..
.Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Frederick Gillmor, 485 Eldorado
..
..Treasurer
Mrs. Wm. A. Spill, 1091 N. Los
Robles
Auditor
Mrs. Lewis H. Turner, 897 N. Holliston
..
.General
Curator
Mrs. J.
F. West, Club House Mrs. Wm. L.
Blair, Membership
The Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, with a membership of
over one thousand, has completed, under the efficient leadership of its
president, Mrs. Leo G. MacLaughlin, a year of high
attainment in service.
In Civic affairs, the committees of Public Affairs,
Health and Sanitation, Education, History and Landmarks, and Industrial and
Social Conditions have taken an active part.
With a vision of national and world-wide service, Americanization,
International Relations, Conservation, Legislation and Social Service
committees have kept in touch with world problems.
Notable programs by famous artists and lecturers have
brought the best in music, art and literature.
Morning departments continued from past years include: Shakespeare,
Music, Drama, Art and Travel, Home Economics, Book and Magazine, Political
Science and Bible. Two new and popular
departments, Current Events and the Penwomans, have
fully justified their existence. Topics
of luncheon speakers have ranged from the far-away island of Yap to the
intimate problems of city government.
With over two hundred new members during the year the Shakespeare
Club is facing the need for a larger clubhouse.
The County Fair, given at the Maryland Hotel in November, and other
affairs of a social nature, have not only added to the building fund, but have
interested every member in the plans for a greater Shakespeare Club of the
future.
San Francisco
The first organization of women to be established exclusively along the lines of mens clubs in San Francisco, was formed in the year 1892. This organization was called the San Francisco Town and Country Club. From the time of its incipiency, the Town and Country Club was the center of interest, partly, because of its appearance in the social world was an experiment, and partly, because at that time, a club where out-of-town members could spend over night was really something new.
From the initial day of its formation, the Town and
Country Club, has owned its own home.
The membership of five hundred and fifty is supplemented by guests and there
is a waiting list of prominent women wanting to affiliate. The extensive library, the splendid
restaurant service and the accommodations given members are some of the
comforts accorded. The lounge and living
rooms for temporary guests are additional conveniences.
Situated as it is, overlooking Union Square, in the very
center of the business district, the Town and Country Club is an ideal place
for those who seek its enjoyment.
Mrs. Seward N. McNear is the
president, Mrs. Willard O. Wayman, vice-president;
Mrs. Federick W. Tallant,
treasurer; Miss Eleanor Morgan, secretary; and Miss Margaret Casserly is librarian, Associate directors are; Mrs. Robert
Roos, Mrs. Henry Poett,
Mrs. Perry Eyre, Mrs. Harry J. Knoles, Mrs. Horace
Van Sicklen and Mrs. Robert Lewis Coleman.
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La Mesa
Mrs. A. C. Wright, La Mesa
...
.....First
Vice-President
Mrs. E. C. Upp |
Mrs. A.C. Wright |
Mrs. E. G. Allen |
|
Mrs. R. F. Thomas |
Mrs. M. B. Christopher |
Mrs. Isadora Barney |
Mrs. A. C. McClelland |
Mrs. Henry Levy |
Mrs. S. H. Washburne |
Service, Harmony and Friendship are the dominating influences that have pervaded the club ever since its organization in 1902. It immediately fedrated with the state, and in 1905 with the National Federation. The clubhouse was built in 1912.
The organization has always fostered and encouraged
enterprises of a community nature.
The first work of the club after the completion of the
club house was to organize and house the city library, and it has, ever since,
taking a leading part in the citys civic affairs. The membership has enjoyed a steady growth
and now has 125 members.
A very active Arts Crafts department has been an
important factor in its recent growth.
Mrs. Ida Masters, a pioneer in Arts Crafts work, is the very efficient
chairman. This years program has been
carried out almost to the letter under the chairmanship of Miss Sarah Palmer,
assisted by the music chairman, Mrs. Lillian Freeman
The main social event of the year was an elaborate
banquet at which affair it was our rare privilege to have Mrs. Robert Burdette
as a guest of honor.
For the past three years the club has presented a
successful lecture course. The talent
has all been donated by numerous talented friends of club members---the most
notable of whom is our honorary member and neighbor Carrie Jacobs Bond. Over twelve hundred dollars has been raised by
this method to liquidate the club house debt.
In every way each years work has been one of pleasure
and profit and the bond of and fellowship that is so strong in this club has
been continuously strengthen.
Mrs. E. C. Upp,
President.
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Sorosis Club
San Francisco
Officers
Mrs. A. E. Buckingham, 2808 Jackson
...
.....First
Vice-President
Mrs. A. C. Rulofson, Jr. 52
West Clay Park
.
..Second Vice-President
Mrs. Milton E. Unger, 321 Lake
.Third
Vice-President
Mrs. A. Z. High, 3902 Clay
.
Business
Secretary
Mrs. J. H. Barbet Mrs. William J. Drew
Mrs. R. V. Whiting
The Sorosis Club was the first
literary club to be formed in this country.
Soon after Sorosis clubs were initiated along
similar lines throughout America.
The Sorosis Club of San
Francisco was founded by the following prominent women: Mrs. Charles Aull
(deceased), Mrs. Adele Brooks, Mrs. George J. Bucknall,
Mrs. Alban B. Butler, Mrs. William Carr (deceased), Mrs. Andrew S. Rowan, Mrs.
Guy C. Earl, Mrs. Eli Lewelling, Mrs. Frederick
Sanborn (deceased), Mrs. Irving Scott, Mrs. Irwin C.
Stump.
Mrs. Irving M. Scott was the first president of the Sorosis Club in the years 1894-96.
Following Mrs. Scott the women who, in sequence, directed
the Sorois Club in the capacity of president were:
Mrs. William B. Carr, Mrs. Frederisk Sanborn, Mrs.
George Busknall, Mrs. William R. Eckart,
Mrs. Willard B. Harrington, Mrs. Luis Lane Dunbar, Mrs. Akin Hiller Vail, Mrs.
Lyman A. Kelley, Mrs. Edward B. Young, Mrs. John Loosley,
Mrs. Thomas E. Haven, Mrs. John H. Robertson, Mrs. Joseph Fife, Mrs. Thomas E.
Haven (reelected), Mrs. Sewall Dolliver,
Mrs. A. D. Shepard, Mrs. Charles A. Shurtleff, Mrs.
Everett Welsey Wilson, and the presiding officer of today, Miss Florence Stull.
Associate directors with Miss Stull include: Mrs. A. C. McLaughlin, Mrs. William Hannam, Mrs. Jessie S. Andrews, Mrs. J. H. Barbat, Mrs. William J. Drew and Mrs. Randolph V. Whiting.
The Sorosis has an art section,
a current events section, a dancing section, a card section, a drama section, a
literature and education, a travel, a practical aims section, a music and a science section.
A library section and a house section, a hospitality
section and an auditing section pertaining to club development are also part of
the working body of Sorosis.
The first of third Mondays or both, unless otherwise
provided for by the Constitution, or for special reasons is observed as guest
days. Where either of these days is not
observed as guest day, it is kept for drawing-room day.
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Philomathean Club
Stockton
Officers
Mrs. E. D. Taylor, 327 W. Park
..
..First
Vice-President
Mrs. E. Woodruff, 27 E. Maple
.
..
.Second
Vice-President
Mrs. J. B. Cory
.
..
..Third
Vice-President
Mrs. A. C. Cullahan, 122 W.
Rose
..Recording Secretary
Miss Elizabeth Perry, 807 N. El
Dorado
.
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. G. A. Willard, Magnolia and
Hunter
..
.Treasurer
Mrs. Emma Webb, 432 W. Poplar
..
..Librarian
Directors
Mrs. C.
F. Bertholf Mrs. A. E. Pryor Mrs. Edward S. Munford
Mrs. M.
Murphy Mrs. F. E. Goodell Mrs. E. C. Stewart
Mrs. H. R. McNoble
The Philomathean Club of
Stockton ranks as one of the largest clubs of the Alameda District California
Federation of Womens Clubs. It was
organized in 1893 and federated with the State in 1900.
The club has sections devoted to the study of history,
literature, art, civics, music and drams.
Book reviews are part of the regular section work in addition to study
and discussions on current topics.
Philomathean Club has
one of the most attractive club houses in the District, and within its walls
are held many sessions sought by others, in addition to the club work. We call our club house the Home of Philomathean Club for the home-atmosphere is pronouncedly
part of the spirit which prevails here.
Philomatheans are proud
of the music department, as many of the members have
been wanted by clubs throughout the state for programs. An active literary section, with book
reviews, makes for the high cultural tastes of our Stockton club members.
The part in community welfare work maintained by the by
members, individually and collectively is in strict accord with the
co-operation which prevails in the commonwealth.
The State president, Mrs. W. A. Fitzgerald, and the
District president, Mrs. George A. Rigg, of Oakland,
have been honor guests at Philomathean events.
Among the prominent club leaders in Philomathean
Club are the past-presidents who maintain their active interest. They include:
Mrs. Margaaret Davis, Mrs. S. N. Cross, Mrs.
W. D. Buckley, Mrs. J. E. Budd, Mrs. J. L. Phelps, Mrs. Edward S. Munford, Mrs.
C. S. Sargent, Mrs. E. L. Dodge, Mrs. C. J. Haas,
Mrs. H. H. Hewlett, Mrs. F. S. Holley, Mrs. W. H. E. Fellfer,
Mrs. A. E. Pryor, Miss Lottie Ruggles,
Mrs. R. R. Smith, Mrs. C. L. Six, Mrs. J. L. Craig, and Mrs. E. C. Stewart.
One of the special programs of Philmathean
Club this last February was a tlak on The Redwoods
with a strong appeal made to the club women for conservation of California
trees.
I
think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree;
Poems are made by fools like me,
But God alone can make a tree.
The officers of the Building Association of the Philomathean Club to whom a debt of gratitude is due
because of their excellent judgment and business enterprise include: Mrs. J. W. Barrett, president; Mrs. E. S.
Munford, Miss Lottie Ruggles,
Mrs. Percy Kenyon, vice-presidents; Mrs. E. C. Stewart, secretary; Mrs. A. M.
Noble, treasurer. The following women
were directors of the Building Association: Mesdames J. W. Barrett, E. S.
Munford, Percy Kenyon, F. R. Clarke, A. M. Noble, J. L. Craig, E. C. Stewart,
C. F. Bertholf, E. L. Gibbens
and Miss Lottie Ruggles. Mrs. E. C. Stewart is chairman of the rental
committee.
The
Wednesday Morning Club
Los Angeles
Officers
Mrs. F. W. Fuller, 134 S. Eastlake
Avenue
.
..President
Mrs. S. B. Welcome, 3022 S. Western Avenue
First
Vice-President
Mrs. Harold Bailey, 942 N. Western Avenue
..
Second
Vice-President
Mrs. Walter J. Van Valkenburger,
1711 Serrano Avenue
.
..Recording Secretary
Mrs. Helen L. Gottschall, 1407
S. Vermont Avenue
...
Financial Secretary
Mrs. Hector Zahn, 128 S.
Ardmore Avenue
.
.Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. C. E. White, 2814 Pasadena
Avenue
...
.Treasurer
Mrs. L. Paul Zahn, 5254
Virginia Avenue
..
Curator
Maud E. Butler, 774 E. Kensington Road
..
.Federation
Extension Secretary
Mrs. John Hokum, Membership Mrs. Orla D.
Spray, Decorating
Mrs.
F. A. Willis, Courtesy
The Wednesday Morning Club believing that He who does
advance goes backward upholds the object for which it was formed, namely,
advancement along literary, civic and philanthropic lines, by maintaining
several study sections under the leadership of competent instructors, and its
weekly programs, which feature artists in various lines, lecturers and speakers
on live issues of the day.
The Shakespeare section with its large and enthusiastic
enrollment presents one or more of Shakespeares plays each year. Members of this section who take a four year
course, study four plays each year, and write a paper on each play receive from
the club a diploma and pin. Then they
become members of the Wednesday Morning Club Shakespeare Alumnae.
Music section members receive careful instruction in
sight reading, correct breathing, voice placing and artistic rendering of solo
and concert music. These members, in
addition to regular class-work give selections for shut-ins and church gatherings,
often furnishing music for afternoon programs presenting at least one operetta
during the club year.
The study of Spanish is proving most interesting and the
class is doing excellent work.
To create a deeper interest in our mother tongue that we
may use it more intelligently, the class in English has two lessons a month
devoted to proper pronunciation and intelligently, the class in English has two
lessons a month devoted to proper pronunciation and the correct use of words.
Current events and public welfare receive a full share of
attention, the open forum affording an excellent opportunity for the expression
of individual opinions.
Drama was taken up as a new study this year and is already
doing splendid work having a pageant called The Spirit of the Trees already
well under way for presentation in the very near future.
In the Parliamentary section we are sitting at the feet,
as it were, of our District Parliamentarian, Mrs. Charles S. McKelvey, who likens the various motions to a kit of tools
with which we may do our work decently and in order. In this way we are gaining a
knowledge of Parliamentary Usage which will be useful not only to
ourselves but to any assembly in which we are participants.
Social affairs are featured in this enterprising club,
especially the weekly luncheons, and the dances, when the members and their
friends to the accompaniment of excellent music prove the truth of the saying
that To live, to laugh, to love ones friends and be loved by them is the
essence of happiness.
The club belongs to the Womens Legislative Council of
California which concerns itself in State Legislation concerning women and
children.
A lively interest is also displayed among the membership
in the production of better films for moving pictures.
Bearing in mind the injunction of Shakespeare To thine own self be true we have sought to comfort the poor,
protect and shelter the weak, remembering that In as much as ye have done it
unto the least of these ye have done it unto me.
Mrs. Fred W. Fuller,
President
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History
Club
Los Gatos
The History Club had its beginning in a little class of six women, who were called together by Mrs. R. A. Urquhart of Los Gatos to study the history of the world. In 1907, the little class having grown into a club of thirty, it was decided to build a club house so the club incorporated. Bought a lot and put up a house at a cost of $3,000.00. The money was borrowed from a friend of Mrs. Urquharts who proposed to lend it without interest, to be paid in ten years. It was paid in nine years.
It was agreed in the beginning between the members, that
the amount should be paid by the members themselves. They were to earn the money, not to ask their
men folks for it, nor was
the club to give public entertainments to raise money. The membership was increased to fifteen. Each one was to pay $5.00 a year toward the
debt and the rental of the club house.
Revenue from private dances and parties, and so forth, was to be added
to the amount contributed by the members.
The club has now a membership of seventy-eight. It is divided into sections, History, Current
Events, Music, and Dramatics. It meets
once a week.
The object of the History Club is to promote education
among women, and to aid by united efforts all worthy
causes that tend to the best interests of the community. The officers are: Mrs. Emily Cohen, president; Mrs. Mary L.
Gilbert, vice-president; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, recording secretary; and five
directors who, with the above officers, form a board of directors.
Emily L. Cohen,
President
Adelphian Club
Alameda
Officers
Mrs. John Merrill, 1329 Caroline
....First
Vice-President
Mrs. Lottie Garrettson,
2004 Clinton
...
...Second Vice-President
Mrs. Charles Moody, 2150 Clinton
Avenue
.Treasurer
Mrs. Robert Hill, 1234 Hawthorne
...
..Recording
Secretary
Mrs. J. B. Emmal, 2516 Noble
Avenue
...Corresponding Secretary
The Adelphian Club of Alameda
stands out from many other well known clubs of Alameda County, to which it is a
contributing part as one of the most hospitable clubs in California clubdom.
The pretty club house at the corner of Central Avenue and
Walnut Street has been the setting for many ambitious literary and dramatic
presentations. Presidents from the club
of the Bay cities have been entertained with that lavish hospitality for which
the Adelphian Club is far-famed.
Sections of club work at the Adelphian
Club include: art, history, tourist, Shakespeare, music,
current events, literature and New Books, household-arts, civic, dramatic,
Hearth and Home.
The Adelphian Club was organized
in 1897. It is federated with the
Alameda District and the State Federation and ranks high in the totality of
altruistic achievements, not only for the club itself, but for the community in
which it is a potent force.
On the first Thursday of the month union meetings of the
club are held. The various sections of
the Adelphian Club which are, in themselves, like
small club circles, have individual sessions all contributing finally to the upbuilding of the high purposes of the club, in general,
and to the advancement of each division, in particular.
Many of the States most brilliant women have been honor
guests at the Adelphian Club and taken part in the
programs given there. The State
president, Mrs. W. A. Fitzgerald and her constituents, as well as the District
and County executives are often heralded as the complimented guests on these
special occasions which pronounce the Adelphian way
of club participation in the enterprises of the Bay cities.
Mrs. W. E. Vaughan has been re-elected to office as
president of the Adelphian Club of Alameda. Several other officers were re-elected with
her including: vice-presidents, Mrs. John H. Merrill, Mrs. Lottie
A. Garretson; treasurer, Mrs. Charles H. Moody; general curator, Mrs. M. A. Winant; recording secretary, Mrs. Robert H. Hill;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. G. E. Furbush;
directors, Miss Ida Spencer, Mrs. J. Sherman McDowell, Mrs. Robert A. Laurenstein, Mrs. S. W. Cright,
Mrs. C. A. Allardyce, Mrs. C. J. Lancaster;
membership committee, Mrs. P. W. Barton, Mrs. W. H. Stanley, Mrs. C. J.
Siegfried, Mrs. E. D. Rue and Mrs. J. W. Kearney.
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Womens
Club
La Mesa
Officers
Mrs. A. C. Wright, La Mesa
.
First
Vice-President
Mrs. M. B. Christopher, Lookout
....Second
Vice-President
Mrs. E. G. Allen, La Mesa
Recording
Secretary
Mrs. R. F. Thomas, La Mesa
...Corresponding
Secretary
Mrs. S. H. Washburne, East
Third
...
Treasurer
Service, Harmony and Friendship are the dominating
influences that have pervaded the club ever since its organization in
1902. It immediately federated with the
state, and in 1905 with the National Federation. The club house was built in 1912.
The organization has always fostered and encouraged
enterprises of a community nature.
The first work of the club after the completion of the
club house was to organize and house the city library, and it has, ever since,
taken a leading part in the citys civic affairs. The membership has enjoyed a steady growth
and now has 125 members.
A very active Arts Crafts department has been an
important factor in its recent growth.
Mrs. Ida Masters, a pioneer in Arts Crafts work, is the very efficient
chairman. This years program has been
carried out almost to the letter under the chairmanship of Miss Sarah Palmer,
assisted by the music chairman, Mrs. Lillian Freeman.
The main social event of the year was an elaborate
banquet at which affair it was our rare privilege to have Mrs. Robert Burdette
as a guest of honor.
For the past three years the club has presented a
successful lecture course. The talent
has all been donated by numerous talented friends of club members the most
notable of whom is our honorary member and neighbor Carrie Jacobs Bond. Over twelve hundred dollars has been raised
by this method to liquidate the club house debt.
In every way each years work has been one of pleasure
and profit and the bond of and fellowship that is so strong in this club has
been continuously strengthened.
Mrs. E. C. Upp,
President
Transcribed by Pat Houser.
Proofread by Marla Fitzsimmons.
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2005 Nancy Pratt Melton
GOLDEN NUGGET LIBRARY'S SACRAMENTO COUNTY