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Saturday, February lt;£5, IytcTHE AUGUSTA CLUB“The Oldest Club in Town” Meets Twice Monthly to Read and DiscussSelected BooksThe Augusta club meets in the homesof its members on the first and third Tuesdays of each month from October to May. Meetings are devoted to the reading and discussion of a book selected for the year. The last session of +he year is an annual business meeting and luncheon. The membership is,limited to twenty-five.The officers are:President—Mrs. Dunning P. Jones.Vrice President—Mrs. C.«A. Perkins.Secretary—Mrs. J. S. Harris.Treasurer—Mrs. Henry Ghislin.To have lived and thrived for more than forty years has been the gratifying experience of this body, now known as the 'oldest club in town.”Way back in the days when opportunities for cultural development were notas available in the village of Oak Park as they are today, a little group of women reaching out for something broader than the round of daily household duties, used to meet together to read and discuss some good book. This satisfied both a mental and a social need and when they finally decided to form a club it was written into their constitution that the object of the club was “mental and social culture.”The club was named in honor of one of its founders, Mrs. Augusta Sheridan, and the original constitution, written by Mrs. Annie Rankin, is still used.The secretary's books from the foundation of the organization have been placed with the Oak Park historical records in Scoville Institute.Four of the original members, Mrs. Ellen Bige, Mrs. Annie Rankin, Mrs. Mary C. Rogers and Mrs. Clara Ward Seabury, are still living in Oak Park.The subject of study last year was Thomas Hardy’s great poem, “The Dynast.” This year, Will Durant’s TheStory of Philosophy” is being read and club members express the opinion that political conditions have improved very little since 400 B. C., the time of Plato.
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Oak Park Oak Leaves
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Sat, Feb 25, 1928
Page 67
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