WHOS WHO AMONG
THE WOMEN OF
1922
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Friday
Morning Club
Officers
Mrs. Arthur C. Wier, 1030 W. 48th
.
.First
Vice-President
Mrs. Randall Hutchinson,
Miss Helen Louise Kimball,
Secretary
Mrs. William Waller Slayden,
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
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
On January 12, 1900, the eightieth birthday of Madame
Severance, the club celebrated the opening of the clubhouse, at
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
Officers
Mrs. Emma L. Reed, 1010 W. 10th
.
..First
Vice-President
Mrs. Frederick Hickok, 1109 Ingraham
..Second
Vice-President
Mrs. Robert T. Brain, 1440
Mrs. J. A. Osgood, Montecito Avenue, Sierra Madre
.
.Parliamentarian
Mrs. Amy Patry, 1307 N. Avenue 54
Auditor
The Womans City Club of
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
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
Officers
Mrs. Magnum A. Anderson,
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,
Mrs. Edward R. Sill,
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
The Ebell Society of
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
Officers
Mrs. Maud Frary,
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
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
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.)
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.