Mrs. Harold Lawrence Seager, PresidentOrganized 1913
Federated 1917
Meets four times a year
50. PHELPS CIRCLE No. 1, UNITED STATES VETERAN NAVY
Mrs. Celia Dutreaux, President
Organized 11914
Federated 1917
Meets every fourth Friday
Phelps Circle is an auxiliary to Phelps Squadron, United States
Veteran
Navy, and is composed of not only the relatives of the men who
served in
the United States Navy during the wars in which our country has
been
engaged, but of loyal patriotic women, who love the Navy and take
a just
pride in its achievements.
Phelps Circle, organized in 1914, has been a valuable assistant
to
Phelps Squadron, which latter organization initiated the beautiful
custom of going out upon the ocean, and after holding solemn services,
and rendering eulogies to the memory not only of those who died
during
the preceding year, but, also, to the memory of the men who in
years
gone by distinguished themselves in the service of their country,
proceeded to strew upon the bosom of the ocean, spring's most
beautiful
offerings, the flowers and wreaths contributed by a grateful country.
OFFICERS 1918
Mrs. Rose M. Taylor, Captain
Mrs. Celia Dutreaux, Mrs. Madge Ash, Mrs. Sophie Haley, Miss Eva
Holmes,
Mrs. Olive Scott, Mrs. Isabelle Kennett, Mrs. Lulie Hanscom, Mrs.
Teresa
Sohms, Mrs. M. Irene Foster, Mrs. Mary Van Horn, Mrs. Hannah Floyd,
Miss
Charlotte Revaleon
OFFICERS 1919
Mrs. Rose M. Taylor, Captain
Sophie Haley, M. Irene Foster, Flora Bowley, Lulie Hanscom, Isabelle
Kennett, Roberta Hopkins, Mary Van Horn, Eva Holmes, Alma Jansen,
Georgia Hodgman, Rose Taylor, Olive M. Scott, Lillie Roxburgh,
Madge Ash
OFFICERS 1920
Madge Ash, Captain
Lillie Roxburgh, Rose Taylor, Alma Jansen, Mary Van Horn, Isabelle
Kennett, Olive M. Scott, Roberta Hopkins, M. Irene Foster, Celia
Dutreaux, Aida Gilberts, May Peixotto
Lulie Hanscom, Paymaster
Eva S. Holmes, Ship's Writer
Mrs. Myer Friedman, President
Organized 1894
Federated 1919
Meets second and fourth Mondays
In 1894, Mrs. Isadore Lowenberg, assisted by Mesdames Helen
Hecht, A. S.
Bettleheim, Wm. Haas, J. H. Neustadter, Chas. L. Ackerman, Moses
Heller,
S. Nickelsburg and Mrs. H. Anspacher-Meyers, organized Philomath
Club.
Its object was "to encourage literary and educational pursuits
and to
promote civic ideals." A broad and comprehensive platform
twenty-six
years ago, it is still big enough to carry the widening activities
of a
new generation.
The keynote of 1918-1919 was Service, and Philomath Club gave
of itself
without stint. The splendid Red Cross Auxiliary opened for work
September, 1917, and closed its doors February 15, 1919, having
sent to
Red Cross headquarters 69,434 surgical dressings and 2,208 sewed
articles. It furnished entertainment for enlisted men, sent Christmas
bags to soldiers, tobacco comforts to Mare Island for men imprisoned
for
minor offenses; assisted in the drives organized by the Woman's
Army and
was registered as Team Six with the War Savings Stamps Committee,
accounting for $144,255.34 worth of Stamps. Its delegate kept
the Club
in touch with Food Conservation problems. Generous contributions
were
made to drives and funds during the year, viz: The California
Committee
for Relief in Serbia and Northern France, American Jewish Relief
Committee, Red Cross Scholarships.
Six thousand dollars were invested in the various Government
Bond issues
and $100 in War Savings Stamps. The first recipient of Philomath's
eighth grade scholarship is now self-suporting and a second little
girl
is being put through high school. This is in line with Americanization
work, for the visiting home teacher keeps in close touch with
the
benificiary. During the influenza epidemic a professional cook
was
engaged and 1,000 packages of nourishing food distributed through
Red
Cross channels. The Club also adopted six French war orphans.
To cultural items it contributed carefully planned programs;
monetary
aid to the Palace of fine Arts Maintenance fund, to its Library
fund; to
the Public Education Society.
The present year found Philomath continuing her Eighth Grade
Scholarship, her contributions to the Palace of Fine Arts Maintenance
and Library funds, and in addition supporting the Alice Fredericks
Memorial fund, the Mary Prag Scholarship, the Roosevelt Memorial,
Korean
Relief, the Palestinian Supply Committee, the Edith Cavell and
Marie de
Page Hospital of Belgium, the Near East Relief fund, Palestinian
Restoration fund, the International Longfellow Society. Six of
our
members volunteered for service on Dr. Anne Nicholson's Americanization
Court Committee. The club participated in the City Federation
Fete. Its
bi-monthly programs touched on topics of live interest - music,
the
drama, and politics. They were presented by college professors,
writers,
professional men, public lecturers, artists, and by our own members.
Philomath is a member of The Recreation League, and is interested
in all
movements of social and communal concern.
OFFICERS 1918-1919
Mrs. Myer Friedman, President
Mrs. Isaac Prager, Vice-President
Mrs. Oscar Hoffman, Second Vice-President
Mrs. S. F. Haber, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Maurice Greenberg, Business Secretary
Miss Sarita Henderson, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Hattie Sheideman, Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Mrs. B. D. Pike
Mrs. Chas. Schlessinger
Mrs. Simon Anspacher
Miss Rachel Abel
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. Richard Newman, President
Mrs. Isaac Prager, Vice-President
Mrs. Oscar Hoffman, Second Vice-President
Mrs. S. F. Haber, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Maurice Greenberg, Business Secretary
Miss Sarita Henderson, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Hattie Sheideman, Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Miss Rachel Abel
Mrs. Simon Anspacher
Mrs. J. J. Eppinger
Mrs. Herbert Clayburgh
Mrs. Harold Lawrence Seager, President
Organized 1913
Federated 1917
Meets four times a year
The Presidents' Assembly, "The Alumnae of Clubs," has for its membership Presidents and Past Presidents, not only of San Francisco and the Bay City clubs, but of the clubs of the State.
Mrs. Louis Hertz continued her activities as President until May, 1919, and contributed the following delightful meetings.
September, 1918, to render patriotic service, a theater party was given in the California Theater, followed by tea in the Red Cross Tea Shop. At this meeting Mrs. Julius Kahn brought a message from Washington, D. C., and the Assembly voted to endow a bed in the Navy Red Cross Club.
December 7, the Lux School extended its hospitality to the organization for the Christmas Jinks.
A memorable day was spent at Mills College March 8. A luncheon, prepared and served by college girls, was followed by a play, "In the Tents of the Arabs," and an address by Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt.
The annual meeting took place in May at the Red Cross lunch room in the Civic Center. Thirty dollars was voted at this meeting for the Alice Frederick Memorial fund to establish a home teacher in San Francisco, and twelve dollars was subscribed to the Maintenance fund of the Palace of Fine Arts. The name of the President, Mrs. Louis Hertz, was placed on the honor roll of the Endowment fund of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.
The year 1919-1920, Mrs. Harold L. Seager, President, opened
with a tea
in the Pagoda, at "Taits at the Beach," the President
of the State
Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Aaron Schloss, being guest of
honor.
The Assembly was holiday hostess on December 13 to thirty children
from
the Czecho-Slovak Colony and Telegraph Hill settlement. "The
Bird's
Christmas Carol," by Kate Douglas Wiggin, was presented,
and at the
close, Santa Claus appeared simultaneously with the lighting up
of the
large Christmas tree. Boxes of candy, nuts, fruit, and cornucopias
of
ice cream were distributed.
March 6, with Nielson Laurvik as guide and lecturer, the Assembly
visited the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection of Rembrandt Etchings
and
Prints installed in the galleries of the Palace of Fine Arts and
later
enjoyed tea in the tea room. Twelve dollars was contributed to
the
maintenance fund of the Palace of Fine Arts and also twenty dollars
to
the orphan fund of the Near East Relief Commission.
The splendid programs presented under the auspices of the Presidents'
Assembly Friday evenings at the Presidio Y. M. C. A. Building
during two
years of war times, have been rated as perhaps the best contributed
by
any one organization in the United States. This service has been
continued since last September under the chairmanship of Mrs.
A. W.
Scott.
Many a mother, sister, and sweetheart of boys in Letterman
Hospital
found cozy and attractive the artistic sitting room furnished
by the
Assembly at the New Outside Inn, where they were domiciled during
their
stay in San Francisco. The writing room in the new Y. W. C. A.
quarters
is also appreciated - both being furnished during the former
administration.
Contributions are made to the Travellers' Aid, Alice Frederick
Memorial
find, Maintenance fund of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Near East
Relief
and our local homeless children have in different ways been made
happier.
HONORARY PRESIDENT
Miss Christine Hart
OFFICERS 1918-1919
Mrs. Louis Hertz, President
Mrs. Harold L. Seager, First Vice-President
Mrs. Helen Ladd, Second Vice-President
Mrs. M. O. Austin, Third Vice-President
Miss Eleanor Grace Unger, Treasurer
Mrs. Josephine Wilson, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Charles Wright, Corresponding Secretary
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. Harold L. Seager, President
Mrs. M. O. Austin, First Vice-President
Mrs. Jessica Lee Briggs, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Wallace R. Pond, Third Vice-President
Mrs. H. C. Jensen, Treasurer
Mrs. John D. Jessup, Recording Secretary
Mrs. F. H. Jones, Corresponding Secretary
OFFICERS 1920-1921
Mrs. Harold L. Seager, President
Mrs. M. O. Austin, First Vice-President
Miss Jessica Lee Briggs, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Wallace R. Pond, Third Vice-President
Mrs. H. C. Jensen, Treasurer
Mrs. John D. Jessup, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Ira Crosscup, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Jennie Cohan, President
Organized 1915
Federated 1916
Meets second and fourth Mondays
The Saint Francis Study Club was organized for the purpose
of self-culture
and education, and the membership has now reached a total of fifty-two
in number.
We have devoted a great deal of our time to the study of the
history and
peoples of the different nations. Then the study of the literature
was taken
up and last year was devoted to the study of the dramatists of
the European
nations, and many of the most important works of the different
dramatists
were studied and discussed. It has been very interesting to hear
the
different members discuss these works, and at the close of the
meeting each
member has felt that she has gained a great deal from the meeting.
We hold meetings on the second and fourth Monday of each month.
The second
Monday is devoted to our study work, and the fourth Monday is
devoted to the
discussion of current events.
We are all very much interested in the current event meetings
and on these
evenings we have a very interesting and capable speaker come to
out club and
take up the subjects of the greatest importance at the present
time.
These meetings are found most illuminating and interesting to
all who attend.
OFFICERS 1918
Miss Helen Brown, President
Miss Gertrude Echoff, Secretary
Mrs. F. Smith, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Toomey, Treasurer
OFFICERS 1919
Miss Ethel Cumbers, President
Miss Kate Hanson, Secretary
Mrs. Jewett, Treasurer
Mrs. F. Smith, Corresponding Secretary
OFFICERS 1920
Miss Jennie Cohan, President
Mrs. G. Pomeroy, Vice-President
Mrs. Lillian Brown, Recording Secretary
Miss Rae Cohan, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. A. Jewett, Treasurer
ADVISORY BOARD
Mrs. Grace Caukin
Miss Helen Brown
Mrs. Grace Fleck
54. SAN FRANCISCO ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND
Mrs. William Mitchell Bunker, President
Organized 1902
Federated 1917
Meets first Thursdays
Blindcraft is the trademark of the San Francisco Association
for the
Blind. The unique society, started by a woman, directed by women,
managed by a woman, and today a welfare success, is so distinctly
successful in an economic sense that it ranks as a model for similar
organizations throughout the United States. While helpful educationally
and socially, the policy of the Association is to first provide
gainful
occupation for the adult blind and thus enable them to revel in
independence.
The first object of the Association is the industrial development
that
will provide the funds for broadening the work for the blind.
This
development has already reached impressive proportions.
From two rooms in the small frame building to twenty-five thousand
square feet of floor space in a three-story brick structure, with
a
corresponding increase in equipment, is the history of the San
Francisco
Association for the Blind for 1919. The Association carries many
of the
blind in its motor trucks to and from Blindcraft Building, 1120
Folsom
Street. It teaches Braille, self-discipline and other things the
blind
need to know.
The workers of Blindcraft Building make baskets, brooms, reed
and rattan
furniture and rugs, not in a trivial way, but in large quantities,
the
products totaling many thousands of dollars per year, a volume
of
business that ranks the Association with the important industrial
units
of California, a fact doubly significant and doubly valuable when
one
recalls that the organization is wholly devoted to the welfare
or the
blind.
In spite of trials of all kinds, the Association has created
a market
for its products, enlarged its plant, improved its library and
made
Blindcraft Building a hive of industry. Nowhere are there more
cheerful
workers. The Association provides coffee and soup for the lunch,
and
fruit in season. And all the time the canaries in Blindcraft aviary
are
singing sweetly. Once a month a lunch is served to all the force
in
honor of those whose birthdays fall in that month, and once a
month
there is a musical and literary entertainment with refreshments
and
dancing following.
And then comes the comment: "What beautiful useful work."
And then the
question: "How can I help?"
And then the answer: "By buying Blindcraft brooms, furniture,
or rugs,
at Blindcraft shop, 432 Sutter Street, and becoming a subscribing
member
of the Association."
Would you sense the situation of the blind? Then shut your
eyes for one
scant minute and, seeing nothing, feeling your previous treasure
gone,
think of your joy at winning independence through gainful occupation,
the occupation that relieves friend and family and the community
of a
burden, the occupation that will maintain you. Then, in this mood,
open
your eyes in a grateful flood of light and pay your tribute to
the
Blindcraft men and women who have given such a splendid impulse
to home
industry, the heroes and heroines of a peaceful conquest.
OFFICERS 1918-1919
Mrs. Andrew S. Rowan, Honorary President
Mrs. Ralph C. Harrison, Honorary Vice-President
Mrs. George J. Bucknall, Honorary Second Vice-President
Mrs. Wm. Mitchell Bunker, President
Mrs. Wm. S. Breeze, First Vice-President
Mrs. Charles H. Crocker, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Edith Lindow, Treasurer
Miss Harriet Pomeroy, Recording Secretary
Mrs. J. J. Mack, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Rhoda Niebling, Librarian
Mrs. Ruth Quinan Marks, Superintendent
DIRECTORS
Mrs. J. Dennis Arnold
Mrs. George E. Billings
Mrs. Gale H. Carter
Miss Gertrude Comfort
Mrs. Charles H. Crocker
Mrs. J. J. Mack
Mrs. George W. Towle
Mrs. Harry J. Douglas
Mrs. J. N. Laurvik
Mrs. Frank P. Deering
Mrs. George W. Caswell
Mrs. E. J. Pringle
Mrs. Herbert Clayburgh
Mrs. Jos. A. Donohoe
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. Andrew S. Rowan, Honorary President
Mrs. Ralph C. Harrison, Honorary Vice-President
Mrs. George J. Bucknall, Honorary Second Vice-President
Mrs. Wm. Mitchell Bunker, President
Mrs. Myer Friedman, First Vice-President
Mrs. Charles H. Crocker, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Edith Lindow, Treasurer
Mrs. Herbert Clayburgh, Recording Secretary
Mrs. J. J. Mack, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Ruth Quinan Marks, Superintendent
DIRECTORS
Mrs. J. Dennis Arnold
Mrs. Dean Avery
Mrs. George E. Billings
Mrs. George W. Caswell
Mrs. Herbert Clayburgh
Mrs. Frank P. Deering
Mrs. Joseph A. Donohoe
Mrs. Harry James Douglas
Mrs. John Dennis
Mrs. Charles H. Crocker
Mrs. J. J. Mack
Mrs. Charles J. Okell
Mrs. William Fries
Mrs. Edith Lindow
55. SAN FRANCISCO COLONY OF NEW ENGLAND WOMEN
Mrs. Wesley T. Gorham, President
Organized 1905
Federated 1916
Meets second Fridays
The San Francisco Colony of New england Women was organized, not as a civic club, but to promote social and intellectual intercourse among its members, and to assist women who were born and brought up in New England, or who are descended from New Englanders.
Gradually we have become greatly interested in civics, philanthropy and economics. Many of our members are active in the various civic clubs.
Our committee of five was appointed to visit the courts upon the examination of applicants for citizenship, for the purpose of encouragement, and also to further the work of Americanization among the wives of the applicants.
We have a representative to each of the nine departments, and the interesting reports from the child welfare and literature departments are to be specially mentioned.
The president of the unit of Needlework Guild was successful in collecting many more than the required quota of new garments.
Our philanthropic committee reported a larger donation of clothing,
books, toys and money than in previous years, and this was contributed
to the Goodfellow fund for the children of the needy poor in this
city.
Our Thrift unit is still in existence. As New England women,
we have
ever been mindful of the importance of saving in our daily lives,
and
find it no harder to practice it today than in past years.
At both the Federation Fete and Granville Barker Tea, we had representation.
Our work along educational lines has been the contribution
toward the
Alice Fredericks Memorial fund, and we have been able to double
our amount.
Like the other clubs, we have made efforts to increase our
membership
and have been successful in adding many new names to our roster.
The delegates to the convention have returned wonderful reports to our meetings.
We have presented programs full of unusual interest, varying
in scope
from readings, dancing, vocal and instrumental music, lectures
and
addresses on the Serbians, on Americanization, on history and
landmarks.
Our dearly loved president of the City Federation brought to
us a most
wonderful message that will remain long in our memories.
We have endeavored to make much of the social side of our club
life and
our hour over the teacups has been a great factor in promoting
friendliness and comradeship.
OFFICERS 1918-1919
Mrs. M. A. Buchan, President
Mrs. S. C. Gorham, First Vice-President
Mrs. F. E. Bowley, Second Vice-President
Mrs. W. T. Gorham, Recording Secretary
Mrs. M. J. Lidstone, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Lionel Shaw, Treasurer
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. S. C. Gorham, President
Mrs. Frank A. Gilley, First Vice-President
Mrs. Clara S. Brown, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Henry C. Bunker, Recording Secretary
Miss Lucy M. Vining, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. I. A. Merrell, Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Mrs. I. W. Buchan
Mrs. C. S. Wade
Mrs. H. T. Holdstein
Mrs. W. C. Price
Mrs. G. E. Souper
OFFICERS 1920-1921
Mrs. Wesley T. Gorham, President
Mrs. Frank A. Gilley, First Vice-President
Mrs. Alice Price, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Frank Payne, Recording Secretary
Miss Lucy M. Vining, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. H. T. Holdstein, Treasurer
Mrs. Sara C. Gorham, Registrar
Mrs. E. B. Burr, Historian
DIRECTORS
Mrs. David Louderbach
Mrs. John Lewis
Mrs. John Wills
Mrs. Richard Sarl
Mrs. E. B. Wheeler
56. SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS' WELFARE HOME
Mrs. John L. McGinn, President
Home located at 1657 Hayes Street
Organized 1914
Federated 1917
Meets every second Monday
The San Francisco Girls' Welfare Home is non-sectarian and provides room and board for self-respecting girls and women. It provides free shelter and food and medical treatment for girls and secures employment for them. Also gives free legal advice, hospital care, and gives the unlifting home influence. The girls who are low salaried can secure room and board for $3.00 per week. Those who have no money are cared for until they can better themselves.
The Home is supported by voluntary contributions from the public and from its members, who number ninety-four. The membership fee is twelve dollars per year and five dollars for working members.
The Home has been completely furnished and we invite inspection at any time.
A piano or a victrola would give much cheer and comfort to the girls who live with us. Perhaps some member of the Federation has one that she would gladly have used, either temporarily or permanently.
We can accommodate seventeen persons at one time. The books are audited yearly. This organization is endorsed by the Charities Endorsement Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
In 1918 we gave shelter and served meals to 360 girls and women. Also gave clinical aid to twenty-four.
In 1919 we served 15,900 meals at the Home and gave shelter to 390. Gave clinical aid to thirty-six.
In 1918 we had an average of five convalescents; in 1919, an average of seven per month.
Mrs. H. H. Somers, working as captain of a team in the recent
Salvation
Army drive for funds, most of which is to be used in establishing
a home
for working girls, collected $339.
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. John L. McGinn, President
Mrs. H. H. Somers, Treasurer
Mrs. G. C. Alfrez, Financial Secretary
Mrs. John P. Zipf, First Vice-President
Mrs. Webster Welbank, Second Vice-President
Mrs. M. E. Lewton, Recording Secretary
Miss Ruby Finn, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Fidelia Jewett, Offical Representative
57. SAN FRANCISCO GRADE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
Miss Edna Cotrel, President
Miss Mary Mooney, Federation Representative
Organized 1917
Federated 1919
The San Francisco Grade Teachers' Association represents an effort on the part of the classroom teachers of San Francisco to provide an organization which may study their problems and speak with authority for them.
That such an association answers a need is shown by its growth. Formed May, 1917, in three years the membership has reached beyond eight hundred.
Through affiliation with the National League of Teachers' Associations,
the organization meets and cooperates with similar groups of classroom
teachers in the National Education Association and in the California
Teachers' Association.
The general executive body of the Association is the Central
Committee,
which meets the first Monday not a school holiday of each calendar
month. Special activities are carried on through sections or committees.
A monthly bulletin is issued to advise the members of the various
activities and the time of meetings. Committee and most section
meetings
are held in the Association headquarters at 333 Kearny Street.
This room
is a gift from Mr. Raphael Weill.
The following sections are now active: Kindergarten and First
Grade
Section, Second and Third Grade Section, Fourth Grade Section,
Fifth and
Sixth Grade Section. Seventh and Eighth Grade Round Table, Bird
Section,
and Swimming Section.
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Miss Edna Cotrel, President
Miss Louisa McDermott, Vice-President
Miss Marie Oliver, Vice-President
Miss Nora Hussey, Vice-President
Miss Kathryn Cooney, Recording Secretary
Miss Thrysa Walters, Membership Secretary
Miss Anna M. Onyon, Treasurer
OFFICERS 1920-1921
Mrs. Emma L. Dacre, President
Miss Kathryn Cooney, First Vice-President
Miss Martha Grant, Second Vice-President
Miss Hilda Baily, Third Vice-President
Miss Dorothy Farrell, Recording Secretary
Miss Mary Mooney, Membership Secretary
Miss Anna Onyon, Treasurer
58. SAN FRANCISCO LEAGUE FOR THE HARD OF HEARING
Mrs. John E. D. Trask, President
Organized 1916
Federated 1920
The San Francisco League for the Hard of Hearing is an organization interested in solving the problems of the adult deaf. Knowing of the great success and beneficial activities of such an institution in New York, Mrs. Trask, the president of the San Francisco League, with the help of fellow-hard-of-hearing teachers, organized the League in 1916.
The principal aims of the League are to help the deafened in the matter of procuring employment; to render aid and sympathy in times of misfortune; to alleviate their social isolation and to provide lessons in lip reading.
With these objects in view the League has a club room at 406 Geary Street, where are held class meetings, and various social activities, all of which have done much toward giving the deafened a normal cheerful outlook.
In the matter of helping the deafened to procure work, the League has interested many firms and convinced them of the desirability of employing the hard of hearing because of their unusual conscientious performance of their work and power of concentration.
To overcome the morbid sensitiveness of the deaf, entertainments,
moving
pictures, a study club and classes for lip reading practice and
various
social meetings have had very happy results. The hard of hearing
are
thrown in contact with each other and with normal hearing people.
All these functions have been wonderfully successful in bringing
happiness and hopefulness into discouraged lives.
The League now enrolls 125 members, each year showing a decided growth.
The League's membership includes not only the hard of hearing,
but many
normal hearing persons who are interested in the work for the
deafened.
The work for the years 1918 and 1919 includes the League's
Auxiliary of
the American Red Cross, which made surgical dressings, outfits
for
Belgian babies, and French orphans, besides knitting at home,
and took
part in the second war drive and the Christmas roll call.
Each summer the League holds two picnics, going by motor or
boat to some
pleasure park for lunch and a day's outing. Every month there
is a party
to celebrate the birthdays of members and an evening at a motion
picture
play.
Every Tuesday morning and Friday evening throughout the year
the League
conducts a class for practice in lip-reading, which has an average
attendance of twenty. Two hundred and eighty-one private lessons
have
also been given. On Wednesday afternoons many members attend the
study
club, when an hour is devoted to the study of interesting subjects,
followed by a social hour, tea being served.
The League has a Consulting Board of Otologists, who examine
and advise
any members who so desire. Dr. Harrington B. Graham is in charge
of this
branch of the work.
The League is associated with the San Francisco Social Service
Exchange,
the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and the American Association
for
the Hard of Hearing.
OFFICERS 1920-1921
Mrs. John E. D. Trask, President
Harrington B. Graham, M. D., Vice-President
Mrs. Charles C. McNeill, Recording Secretary
Miss Heloise M. Thibault, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Alfred Newman, Treasurer
59. SAN FRANCISCO MUSICAL CLUB
Mrs. E. E. Bruner, President
Organized 1890
Federated 1916
Meets first and third Thursdays
In presenting the following resume, I feel that the San Francisco Musical Club has accomplished much this past year in the way of bringing before the public our resident artists and their work.
To Mrs. Josephine Crew Aylwin and her efficient program committee belongs the credit for some of the finest programs the Club has ever presented - both from an educational and entertaining standpoint.
Noticeable among these were: "An American Morning," beginning with the earliest music obtainable and through the different periods to the more modern of the present day compositions.
Early in December of 1919 an original comic opera, with lyrics
by Miss Marion Cumming and music by Mrs. Aylwin (both ladies being
active members), was produced at Scottish Rite Hall before a splendid
audience.
The event was quite out of the ordinary and highly successful,
club members filling the parts, assisted by prominent men singers
of the community.
The Christmas program was devoted to oratorio in keeping with the season. Holy Thursday happening to fall on a regular club day, was made memorable by the rendition of the beautiful "Messe Solonelle" by Paladilhe - by solo, quartet and chorus.
Seventeen programs will have been given by the close of the
season,
exclusive of the Jinks which took place April 29th, consisting
of
Tableaux Chantants, followed by original stunts by members.
On April 15th we were honored by a visit from Mrs. Frank A.
Seiberling,
national president of the Federation of Music Clubs, and our state
president, Mrs. Cecil Frankel. Mrs. Seiberling's vital address
to us
created a splendid impression and was thoroughly enjoyed.
Although the war has ceased, the Club has still continued its
auxiliary
work under the direction of Mrs. G. G. Dreyfus, who has presented
splendid programs at the different military camps adjacent to
San
Francisco.
We have accepted about forty new members; have added some necessary
amendments to the constitution and the Club at large will next
month
vote on the question of raising the dues, which seems unavoidable
in
order to meet the advance in all our expenses.
OFFICERS 1918-1919
Miss Adeline Maude Wellendorff, President
Miss May W. Shannon, First Vice-President
Mrs. Charles S. Ayres, Second Vice-President
Mrs. F. G. Canney, Corresponding Secretary
Miss Sarah A. Wafer, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Frank J. Cooper, Treasurer
Mrs. J. T. Rowe, Business Secretary
Mrs. E. E. Bruner, Librarian
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS 1918-1919
Mrs. J. E. Birmingham
Mrs. Louis C. Mullgardt
Miss Christine Hart
OFFICERS 1919-1920
Mrs. Edward Everett Bruner, President
Mrs. Horatio Stoll, First Vice-President
Mrs. R. N. Aylwin, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Benjamin Apple, Business Secretary
Mrs. F. T. Canney, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. J. E. Birmingham, Recording Secretary
Miss Sarah B. Collier, Treasurer
Miss Elise Young, Librarian
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS 1919-1920
Mrs. Martin Molony
Mrs. Raymond Benjamin
Miss Christine Hart
HONORARY MEMBERS 1919-1920
Mrs. Marriner Campbell
Mrs. Mathilde Wismer
OFFICERS 1920-1921
Mrs. Edward Everett Bruner, President
Mrs. Horatio Stoll, First Vice-President
Mrs. Sophia Newstadt, Second Vice-President
Mrs. Benjamin Apple, Business Secretary
Mrs. Martin Molony, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. F. H. Porter, Recording Secretary
Miss Sarah B. Collier, Treasurer
Miss Marion de Guerre, Librarian
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS 1920-1921
Mrs. Raymond Benjamin
Mrs. Perham Nahl
Mrs. Frank H. Dunne
Transcribed by Elaine Sturdevant