National Federation Reaches 65 000 Members
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Inc United States with 1500 clubs in 48 states and territories, including the District of Columbia and Alaska, counts over 65 000 members. It operates from 1819 Broadway New York and publishes Independent Woman.
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc
District of Columbia
Hawaiian Islands
Alaska
Broadway
New York City
Independent Woman
Pioneer
U.S. A
St. Louis
Missouri
Federation High Spots In Eighteen Years’ Work
A historical overview of the National Federation’s first eighteen years since 1919, listing key milestones from 1920 to 1935. Highlights include joining the Women’s Joint Congressional Committee, creating the Lena Lake Forrest Fellowship, large member surveys, formation of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, Ten-Year Objective adoption, occupational discrimination studies, and political polling efforts.
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National Federation
Women’s Joint Congressional Committee
Lena Lake Forrest
University of Michigan Bureau of Business Research
International Federation of Business and Professional Women
Federation
Bryn Mawr College
Women’s Bureau of Dept. of Labor
Colorado Springs
Institute of Public Affairs
University of Virginia
Roster of State Federation Officers
The roster lists state federation officers including president Virinia A Fletcher of Xenia an accountant and works manager at McDowell Torrence Lumber Co. First vice president Florence H Wells of Toledo an attorney educator former Ohio legislator and assistant prosecuting attorney. Second vice president Marie W Borzman of Bellefontaine a court bailiff and law librarian. Corresponding secretary Kathryn Graham of Xenia bookkeeper stenographer. Recording secretary Helen J Currier of Dayton executive secretary of Widows Home. Treasurer Geraldine C Hope of Athens alumni secretary and publicity director at Ohio University. Auditor Florence M Given of Columbus coder statistician for the Division of Safety and Hygiene.
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Virinia A. Fletcher
Xenia
McDowell Torrence Lumber Co
Florence H. Wells
Toledo
Davis Business College
Ohio Senate
House of Representatives
Lucas County
Toledo Bank
Marie W. Borzman
Bellefontaine
Common Pleas Court
Kathryn Graham
D. E. Anderson Insurance Company
Helen J. Currier
Dayton
Widows’ Home of
Geraldine C. Hope
Athens
Ohio University
Florence M. Given
Columbus
Division of Safety and Hygiene
Industrial Commission of Ohio
Women of Elyria Club Span Wide Local Business Roles
A study of the 59 members of the local Business and Professional Women's Club shows diverse occupations across banking entertainment nursing teaching manufacturing retail and government work. Members include proprietors educators administrators nurses clerks retail staff and a few homemakers reflecting broad local economic involvement.
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Business and
Ethel Inskeep
Cad Williams
Central Book Store
Mildred Schultz
Mildred Beauty Shop
G. Pearle Wright
Wright Printing Service
Vanda Hubbard
Lucy Kirk
Evelyn Lehman
Susie Drake
Alice Gaston
Annie Spencer
Elizabeth Thomas
Olive McNeal
Nellie Davis
Sarah Yoder
Mable Herd
Sarah Hamilton
Ebba Fosselus
Dorothy Jones
Harriet Hubbard
Emma Gleason
Elyria City
Lorain County
Lizzie Hahn
Fern Gates
June Harrison
Lorain
Marjorie Rossiter
Elytia
Caroline Foley
Gates Hospital For Crippled Children
Erle DD
Chapman
Bessie Douglas
Elyria Y. W. C. A
Elizabeth Rich
First Congregational Church
Vivian Hackett
International Society For Crippled Children and Charity
M. Sherod
Dorotha Smith
Amherst Hospital
Cora Bassett
Cora Phelps
H. W. Cole
County Surveyor's Office
Myra Hoffman
Nina Burt
GC. Hl. Merthe Company
Emima Dill
Darek Florist
Minerva Seton
J. C. Penney Company
Elyria
Ruth Palmer
Ruth Simmons
Grace Nau
Business Women's Book Shelf At Elyria Library
Elyria Public Library teams with the Elyria Business and Professional Women's Club for National Business Women's Week March 14 20. A special Business Women's Book Shelf features titles by Adler Baker Beard Braddy Brittain Bryson Buckley Clarke Cobb Hanckel Hoffman Hoffman Jacobson Klein Lewis National League of Women Voters Overstreet Platt Roosevelt Sanford Shaffer States Taintor and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
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Elyria Public Library
Elyria Business and Professional Women's Club
Adler
Baker
Beard
Braddy
Brittain
Bryson
Buckley
Clarke
Cobb
Hanckel
Hoffman
Jacobson
Klein
Lewis
National League of Women Voters
Overstreet
Parker
Platt
Roosevelt
Sanford
Shaffer
States
Handbook of Social Correspondence
Taintor
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union
Ten Year Objective for Federation Leadership
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs proposes a ten year objective to develop real leadership in economic problem theory and social implications. It aims to help establish, through scientific methods, conditions that assure women and men the fullest possible opportunity and reward for developing any capacities they possess.
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc
Ohio Federation to Hold Eighteenth Annual Convention
A group from Elshia Business and Professional Women's Club plans to travel to Darton Ohio on May 22 and 23 for the Ohio Federation's eighteenth annual convention.
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Elshia Business and Professional Women's Club
Darton
Ohio
Ohio Federation
Elyria Focuses on National Business Women's Week Theme
Elyria literary note highlights the 10th National Business Women's Week with the theme The Business Woman as a Citizen and the federation debating Team Work for Social Progress. The piece emphasizes local club members' interest in business and professional life and close personal contact within the city.
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Elyria
Witch
Equal Rights Amendment debate to air on NBC network
A symposium on the Lucretia Mott Amendment or Equal Rights Amendment is set for 5 to 5 30 p m EST broadcast from Station WJZ over NBC blue. Federation president Miss Charl Ormond Williams will preside with supporters Mrs Stephen Pell Mrs Betty Gram Swing and Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch and opponents Miss Dorothy Kenyon Miss Rhoda McCulloch and Miss Mabel Leslie among the speakers.
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WJZ
National Broadcasting Company
Blue Network
Charl Ormond Williams
National Federation
Stephen Pell
National Council of the
Woman’s Party
Betty Gram Swing
National Council of the Woman's Party
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Dorothy Kenyon
New York City
Rhoda McCulloch
Woman's Press
Mabel Leslie
Biennial Convention in Atlantic City 1937
Delegates from 1,500 clubs of the National Federation of Women's Clubs will attend the 1937 biennial convention in Atlantic City New Jersey from July 18 to 25. The event will showcase eighteen years of Federation progress with a modern program. Mrs Myra Allen Blakeslee directs the state arrangements committee assisted by a list of New Jersey women including Mrs Clara D Adams and Miss Jessie L Winkworth.
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Myra Allen Blakeslee
Blakeslee
Clara D. Adams
Jessie L. Winkworth
New Jersey Federation
May Carty
Carrie Lambert
Polly Rose Warner
Frances A. Britton
Laura K. Long
Isabelle Summers
Cora Lane Roberts
Margaret Warner
Alice I. Webster
Posters in Contest On Display In Local Stores
Elyria Business and Professional Women's Club invites residents to tour Elyria’s business district during National Business Women’s Week to view poster contest displays and special window decorations by local merchants. Posters from high school students are shown in many shop windows and the library features a Business Women’s Book Shelf.
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Elyria
Thomas and Brown Furniture
Tersch-Emerich
C. I. Merthe Company
Elyria-Dry Goods
Phillips Drug Store
Eberts Drug Store
McCarsel Jewelry
Farmers Supply
Elyria Library
John Lersch Company
Lorain County Savings and Trust Company
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Ohio Public Service Company
Fay Company
United Dry Cleaners
J. C. Penney Company
Careks
Business Women
Emblem of Business Women Federation Seals Mission
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women embodies its aims in the emblem. The Torch stands for light and duty, the Wand for opportunities, the Ship of Commerce for international influence, and the Open Scroll of Learning for responsibility. Nike Victory symbolizes triumph, all within a golden circle of harmony. Local clubs use the seal on stationery and members wear rings and pins.
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women
Mercury
Ship of Commerce
Federation
Nike
Samothrace
Dauntless
Potential Ability Must Not Be Trasted
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt urges business and professional women to seek greater social and economic security. She cites youth opportunities, midlife prospects, and the risk of wasting potential ability in women over forty, expressing confidence in their future contributions.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women’s clubs report surge in New Members
Miss Sarah M Postlethwaite membership chairman announces a gain of 2 310 or 514 percent for the first six months of this fiscal year over last year. The National Board aims for 100 000 members by 1944 set at its Chicago meeting last July. Miss Marian Parkhurst, director of organization, says 100 new clubs may join before the biennial convention in Atlantic City next July.
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Sarah M. Postlethwaite
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Chicago
Marian Parkhurst
Atlantic City
Tramp of Mankind Marches Forward Silent Yet Steady
A reflective line notes humanity’s ongoing progress even when unseen or unheard. It frames perseverance as a quiet, persistent force guiding collective effort through time.
Dr Dan F Bradley To Speak At Elyria Dinner
Dr Dan Freeman Bradley of Cleveland will speak at the Elyria Business and Professional Women's Club Public Relations Dinner during the annual Public Relations Week observance. The event highlights team work for social progress with civic leaders and service clubs invited to attend.
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Dan F. Bradley
Business Women’s
Elyria Business and Professional Women’s Club
First Congregational Church
Cleveland
Dan Freeman Bradley
Elyria
Our City
Oberlin College
Black River
Bradley
Bankok
Siam
Sarah Brachly Bradley
Oberlin
Yankton College
S. D
Grinnell
Iowa
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
National Council of Congregational Churches
Dwight J. Bradley
Boston
Robert G
Theodore Dan
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Alice Foley
Local Club Receives Multiple Invitations From Nearby Groups
Elyria and Lorain sister city links bring Public Relations dinners at the B and P W club March 23 at the Masonic Temple and a 6 30 start with Attorney Levine as speaker. Brooklyn Business and Professional Women invite March 18 at St Luke s Church and a Hobby Tea March 21 at West Side Y W C A. Also urged to inspect Camp Lorain CCC work camp with open dates from two to four yesterday.
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Bis Rie Buenness
Elyria
Lorain
B. and P. W
Masonic Temple
Fourth and
Washington Avenue
Levine
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Business and Professional Women’s Club
St. Luke’s Evangelical Church
Memphis
Pearl Roads
Brooklyn Club
Elyria Club
West Side
Franklin Avenue
Camp Lorain
CCC
Gulf Road
Affiliations Listed by National Federation of Business Women
The federation's affiliations include the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, International Federation of Business and Professional Women, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, National Peace Conference, U S Mainland Committee of the Pan Pacific Women's Association, and Women's Joint Congressional Committee.
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National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations
International Federation of Business and Professional Women
National Committee On
National Peace Conference
U. S. Mainland
Pan Pacific Women’s Association and
Women's Joint Congressional Committee
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National Business Women's
Martin L. Davey
State of
William J. Kennety
Secretary
Haserodt
Carek
Emma Disd
Mgr
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Florist
Capitol Theater
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