Art and Literature Club Founded by Martha Villepigue
On January 26 1916 twelve girls gathered at the late Mrs William M Gray home to form a study club named Art and Literature Mrs Gray enforced formal etiquette and strong eye contact with no notes The group focused on art and later on literature evolving into a 1960 Historical Panorama plan covering music events statesmen science technology literature philosophy and art.
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Martha Villepigue
William M. Gray
Gray
Ogy
Chicago Art Museum
Don Abbuehl
McCoy Jr
Wichita
James A. Butin
Arthur Eltzholtz
Butin
Jean Gray
Heritage Club Fetes Its Enduring Civic Arts Legacy
The article recalls a long running study group in Chanute chronicling cultural events and local civic projects from its founding through 56 years. Members like Mrs. Seth Gray and Mrs. Abbauhl aided charting, library gifts, and exhibits while fundraisers supported milk funds and children's rooms. The Heritage Room, established in 1963, memorializes donors and serves as a community meeting space with a record player funded by clubs.
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Napoleon
Beethoven
Jefferson
Wordsworth
Byron
Keats
Volta
Chanute
Seth Gray
Abbuehl
Joe Balch
Charles Henshall
Jeanette Wickstrom
William M. Gray Jr
A. F. Leverenz
City Federation Af Clubs
Claude FE. Fieidline
Nelson Art Gallery
Kansas City
Wichita
Dale
Leverenz
William Gray
Paul Villepigne
Mmes
Robert Allen
James Blessing
William Bodley
Reuben Burkman
Bruce Burris
Randall Diver
George Donaldson
Richard Good
Dean Gough
John Knight
Dwight McCreight
Howard McNeill
James Peters
R. C. Reynolds
T. F. Ahlers
Carl Pate
Diver
Chanute’s Cultural Desert And The Call For Arts
The piece argues Chanute Kansas faces a cultural imbalance despite strong athletic and civic life. It warns modern society undervalues the arts and religion, urging leisure as freedom for intellectual and spiritual ventures, and notes decline in church music and arts in schools.
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Chanute
Kansas
Neosho County
U.S.A
Kanas
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