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 A History
 
 P.E.O. in Illinois 
 
 A HISTORY 
 
 I'lHl.ISHKn BY 
 
 Illinois Statf. Chapter 
 OF THE P. E. O. Sisterhood 
 
 THE Wayside Press, Mi;ndota, Illinois 
 
 1953
 
 Copyright 195S 
 The Illinois State CHArTER 
 OF THE P. E. 0. Sisterhood 
 
 State Standing History Committee, 19S8-1953 
 
 Mrs. Myrtle C. Combe, z 
 
 Mrs. May Hartley De Money, i Miss Eugenia Allin, cx 
 
 Editing and Publishing Committee, 1952-1953 
 
 Mrs. Beulah Ben Tho:mpson, ec 
 
 Mrs. Eriene B. Madsen, r Mrs. Laura M. Mack, eh 
 
 Mrs. Gladys A. Cross, dg Mrs. Ruby E. Prince, ci 
 
 Adviser: Mrs. Winona Evans Reeves, a 
 
 printed IX the united states of AMERICA FOR THE I•UBLISHER^ 
 BY THE WAYSIDE PRESS, INC, 
 
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 TABLE OF V^ONTENTS 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 Chcjpter One 
 
 Looking Backvcard 9 
 
 Chitpter Two 
 
 Founders: Residhnts of Illinois 13 
 
 Chapter Thrte 
 
 How P. E. O. Cami; to Illinois 18 
 
 Chapter Four 
 
 New Lettering, a-i; 
 
 First Nine Chapters in Illinois 22 
 
 Chapter Five 
 
 P. E. O. Chapters, j-ig ; 
 
 Illinois State Chapter, 1903-1953 36 
 
 Chapter Six 
 
 Illinois State Chapter Officers, 1903-53 119 
 
 Chapter Seven 
 
 Illinois State Chapter Conventions, 1903-53 144 
 
 Chapttr Eight 
 
 Officers of Supreme Chapter 
 
 From Our Illinois Membership 176 
 
 Chapter Nine 
 
 P. E. O. Projects: Illino:s Contributions 182 
 
 Chapter Ten 
 
 Illinois P. E. O. Philanthropies 201 
 
 Chapter Eleven 
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 207 
 
 Chapter Twelve 
 
 Timely Interest 225 
 
 The Book Ends 226 
 
 Maps 
 Location of Chapters in Illinois Designated by Old Lettering, 17; 
 Location of Illinois P. E. O. Chapters Before Organization of Illinois 
 State Chapter, 34; Location of Illinois P. E. O. Chapters on March 1, 
 195 3, UH.
 
 Acknowledgments 
 
 The Editing and PuhVishinq ('onnniftce is indebted to th'' 
 j olio wing : 
 
 History Committee (State Standing committee, l!);>8-19r),S) 
 
 l^ound \'olumes of Local ('ha})ter Histories 
 
 J^ound Volumes of Past-Presidents of Illinois State Chapter 
 
 Bound Volumes of Proceedings of Illinois State Chapter 
 
 Bound Volumes of P. E. 0. Records 
 
 The Story of P. E. 0. Two Volumes, by Winona Evans Reeves 
 
 History of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood, l)y Sajn-eme Grand Chapter 
 
 History of P. E. 0. in Iowa, by Iowa State Chapter 
 
 Mr. Kenneth B. Butler, of the Wayside Press, Inc., and 
 publisher of the P. E. 0. Record 
 
 Miss Doloris Hase, Chapter FH, Quincy ; Artist 
 
 Executive Office, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, for statistics 
 
 Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, for pictures nnd specific 
 infornuition 
 
 State Officers, 1953-1 !)r);5 
 
 All Illinois P. E. O.'s 
 
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 ntrodtiction 
 
 ► THE PURPOSE of this Book is to preserve, 
 in ink, memoirs of individuals and chapters with the events which 
 they caused to happen in 1^. K. 0. since 1871 when the organization 
 took root in Illinois. 
 
 ► WE ARE fortunate, indeed, to be a border 
 line neighbor of Iowa and especially close to Mount l^leasant where 
 our Sisterhood was founded. Even before there were State Chap- 
 ters, members who moved across the Mississippi, from Iowa, 
 brought /''ioneering A'fforts Over and established a chapter in the 
 Jacksonville Female Academy. Chapter "(-" (old lettering). 
 Jacksonville, marks the beginning of 1*. JO. 0. in Illinois. 
 
 ► THIS coMi'iLATfox of V. E. 0. facts, 
 figures, folklore and fun is the realization of the History com- 
 mittee. Myrtle C. Combe, Z, Harrisburg; May H. DeMoney, J, 
 ('hicago; and Eugenia Allin, CX, Decatur; who have worked tire- 
 lessly for the past fifteen years in collecting and assembling the 
 materials necessary for a historical publication. But in spite 
 of all their efforts, many of the early incidents go unrecorded and 
 sonu' ])ictures are missing. 
 
 ► IT IS OUR SINCERE HOPE that 50 years 
 hence, when another volume of our history is ])ublished, P. E. 0. 
 in Illinois, Avill have made the same remarkable growth and recoi-d 
 which the years since 1903 have shown. 
 
 Sara 11 Minear 
 
 President, 
 
 Illinois State Chapter, 1952-1953. 
 
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 LOOKING BACKWARD 
 
 ► To tho.se of us who hiive long been steeped 
 in the traditions of J'. E. ()., this elui[)ter will be a review; but to 
 our young-er members it will be of historical value. 
 
 Kvery P. E. 0. knows that the organization, as such, came 
 into l)eing on January 21, 18(i!>. But what traditions, what im- 
 pulses led to that event ? 
 
 > THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT 
 
 To answer that question we nuist go back t) 1830. wlien for 
 the first time girls were admitted to classes of high school grade. 
 With that act began the long history of the feminist movement. 
 
 College training for women came in 1833 at Oberlin, Ohio. 
 
 In 1841, Iowa Wesleyan College was founded at Mt. Pleasant.
 
 10 P- E- O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 This was the first co-edueatioiuil institution west of the Mississippi 
 Kiver. 
 
 Tho natural i-csult of co-education was, the soi'ority system, 
 for the fraterniiv svst(>in lia<l existed at William and Mary College 
 since 177(5. ■ ' 
 
 The first women's college organization was the 'T.C'" Sorosis, 
 founded at Monmouth College, (111.) in 18()7. 
 
 The second college grouj) of women was organized in 1869 
 at Iowa AYesleyan. This was the "P. E. 0. Society". 
 
 ► P. E. O. FOUNDED 
 
 The manner of its founding was as follows : Two girls were 
 sitting on a stile at the corner of the campus one rather warm day 
 in January, discussing the recently organized "I.C." Society, when 
 one of them said, ''Let's form a society of our own". The other 
 agreed and they immediately contacted five close friends. These 
 seven girls, Mary Allen, Alice Coffin, Franc Rhodes, Allie Bird, 
 Suela Pearson, Ella Stewart and Hattie Briggs, who were the 
 nucleus of our gi-eat sisterhood are always spoken of as "the orig- 
 inal seven" or the Founders and to them we owe a deht of gratitude. 
 
 ► P. E. O. GROWTH 
 
 That conversation on that stih^ that day in January seems like 
 a trivial incident; but out of trivial incidents great issues are born; 
 and from that conversation on that January day in 18G9 has come, 
 after eighty four years, a great organization of api)roximately 
 110.000 women, who have assisted in the education and advance- 
 ment of thousands of other women. 
 
 Fortunately for P. E. 0. its history and its traditions have 
 been recorded Avhile several of its founders were still living. These 
 interesting, verified accounts can be read in "The White History" 
 and in The Story of P. E. 0., 18(59-1936 by Winona Evans Reeves.
 
 Semixaky AcADp:.My ix Jacksonville, Illinois 
 where the first chapter in Illinois met in 1871 
 
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 Members or "Old C"; Jacksonville. Illinols 
 
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 FOUNDERS: 
 RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS 
 
 ► FRANC ROADS ELLIOTT 
 
 Mrs. Elliott is the only P.E.O. Founder who might rightly be 
 termed a resident of Illinois, having lived for thirty years in 
 Chicago. 
 
 She was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa in 1852, was graduated 
 from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1869. In 1872 she was married to 
 Simon Charles Elliott, son of Dr. Charles Elliott, twice president 
 of Iowa Wesleyan. 
 
 Early in their married life, the 3'oung people moved to 
 Lincoln, Nebraska where their two children, Charles and Stella, 
 were born and where in 1915 Mr. Elliott died. 
 
 The two children were graduated from the University of 
 Nebraska under the presidency of Dr. James Hulme Canfield. 
 Between the Elliott and Canfield families there was a strong bond 
 of friendship which was strengthened by the marriage of Stella to 
 James Canfield, a brother of Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 
 
 During the time her children were in the University, she 
 became the first instructor in art, which was the beginning of the 
 art department which later developed there. 
 
 For some years Mrs. Elliott followed art as a profession 
 teaching and studying. She traveled widely in this country and 
 
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 14 P- E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 made several trips abroad to study in the galleries of France and 
 
 ItaJy. 
 
 She was art supervisor in the public schools of Salt Lake 
 City and in Aurora, Illinois. While in Aurora she established a 
 model school room, a room properly lighted and Yentilated, with 
 hard wood floors and tinted walls on which hung pictures of merit. 
 Teachers from all parts of the country came to inspect the room. 
 Such rooms are common today, but it was Mrs. Elliott who, by her 
 model room, brought to school authorities a consciousness of how 
 ugly and unsanitary school rooms had been. 
 
 For the last thirty years of her life her home was in Chicago, 
 where her son Dr. Charles A. Elliott lived. He was a physician 
 and head of his deparment in the Northwestern University. 
 
 She lived in the Windermere Hotel on the south side, near 
 the University of Chicago where she attended lectures with much 
 regularity, sometimes taking a full course in a subject in which 
 she was interested. 
 
 There remain today evidences of her activity during those 
 years. Mrs. Elliott was founder of the Chicago Public School 
 Art Society, which insures that in every public school room there 
 shall hang at least one lovely picture, understandable to the pupils 
 in the grade who sit before it. 
 
 Where ever she lived she was distinguished and honored. 
 
 In 1884 she was appointed to represent Nebraska at the New 
 Orleans Exposition, the first time women commissioners were 
 named to an international exposition. There she came into asso- 
 ciation with intellectuals of every sort. The women commissioners 
 with many others, came together to hear Julia Ward Howe, 
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Francis 
 Willand and the poet Whittier, Two favorite themes were the 
 franchise of women and the abolishment of war. 
 
 For some eighteen years she worked to secure for women the 
 right of a seat and vote in the Greneral Conference of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church. That accomplishment later brought certain 
 privileges to women of other denominations. 
 
 She was an intellectual in every sense of that word. She 
 was a constant reader, not only of the classics, but of present day 
 books, always abreast of current-day thought. 
 
 Her conversation never ran to personalities nor to the weather, 
 she had wider and more interesting topics. She was in no sense 
 bookish nor didactic; she was always charming and delightful 
 and when one left her it was to look forward to another meeting. 
 
 Dr. Garrison of the University of Chicago, speaking at her 
 funeral summed up her life when he said, "She was a representative
 
 FOUNDERS: RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS 
 
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 of the type of woman which puts the spirit of the home into the 
 nation, the spirit of Christ into polities and brings culture and 
 beauty into the lives of the common people". 
 
 ► ALICE BIRD BABB 
 
 While Alice Bird (Babb) was born in Iowa and lived practi- 
 cally all of her life in that state, Illinois may claim her as resident 
 in the closing years of her life. 
 
 Following Judge Babb's retirement from the bench they came 
 to Aurora, where he had business and financial interests, and 
 established their home at 255 West Park Avenue. Here Judge 
 Babb died in 1925 and Mrs. Babb followed one brief year later, 
 November 21, 1926. 
 
 Two of their children live in Illinois, Miles Thornton Babb 
 in Glencoe and Alice Babb Ewing (Mrs. Donald K.) in Aurora. 
 Their oldest son, Max Wellington Babb, who died a few years ago, 
 was president of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company of 
 Milwaukee. 
 
 A daughter Claribel, died in childhood. 
 
 Mrs. Babb should be remembered by P. E. O.'s in every state 
 for on that first day January 21, 1869, she was the first of the 
 seven who took the pledge of membership, and she was the first 
 president of the first chapter. 
 
 She was born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, May 8, 1850, the daughter 
 of Dr. and Mrs. Wellington Bird. She attended the public schools, 
 and Howes Academy and was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan 
 College in 1869. She was married in 1873 to Washington Irving 
 Babb, a young lawyer who later became a Judge of the District 
 Court. 
 
 If one were to give an estimate of Mrs. Babb's character, it 
 would be that she was strongest on the intellectual side. She loved 
 society and her friends — but she did love a book. She was an 
 omniverous reader, and very few books of merit failed to come to 
 her library table. 
 
 Perhaps her almost constant reading was the cause of her 
 failing vision, for in her last years she saw dimly. This, however, 
 did not stop the reading for Judge Babb or Alice or other members 
 of the family, or the nurse, read to her. 
 
 She had a keen interest in governmental affairs and in the 
 issues of the day as well as in the classics. 
 
 She wrote a great deal for publication in her younger years 
 and was a delightful speaker. 
 
 In her years in Mt. Pleasant she had a great interest in the 
 college students and had charge of dramatics at Iowa Wesleyan.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 She dramatized many of Dickens' stories and others and 
 directed their presentation. 
 
 In religious faith she was a methodist, having joined as a 
 young girl the old Ashury Methodist church in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 P. E. O.'s will do well to remember her as well as the other 
 six who gave us an organization to cherish.
 
 
 CHAPTERS 
 IN ILLINOIS 
 DESIGNATED 
 
 "OLD LCTTERINGl' 
 
 ORIGINAL A— MT. PLEASANT, IOWA— ORGANIZED JAN. 21, 1869 
 
 "C" OLD LEHERING— JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS — 1871-1887 
 
 "K" or "L" OLD LEHERING — JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS — 1 883, 
 SHORT LIVED 
 
 "AH" OLD LEHERING — JERSEYVILLE, ILLINOIS — 1888-1889 
 
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 HOW P. E. 0. 
 
 CAME TO ILLINOIS 
 
 "C" (old lettering), Jacksonville 
 
 "L or K" (old lettering), Jacksonville 
 
 "AH" (old lettering), Jerseyville 
 
 No history of P. E. 0. in Illinois could be 
 complete without the story of the three early 
 chapters which preceded the organization of the 
 present Chapter A in the state; for P. E. 0. has, 
 in Illinois, not a record of fifty or sixty years; 
 but one of eighty-three years, rich in service and 
 sisterhood. 
 
 Chapter original A in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa had 
 scarcely made a good start when the idea began 
 to spread and others wanted to start P. E. 0. 
 societies. 
 
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 How P. E. O. Came to Illinois Ly 
 
 ► CHAPTER C 
 
 At the Jacksonville Female Academy in Illi- 
 nois* a group of school girls were charmed by the 
 stories concerning this rising star in Iowa, and on 
 January 21, 1871, a P. E. 0. society was formed 
 which was later designated under the early letter- 
 ing system as Chapter C. In addition to the 
 organizer, Ollie Downing, the charter members 
 were: Mary K. French, Mary Hodge, Fanny 
 Keener, Clara McMurtry, Leona Wells, Lizzie 
 Mae Moore, Anna Scovil, M. Lou Taylor, Alice 
 Kamsay. 
 
 For the next two years after organization the 
 chapter grew in interest and enthusiasm, increas- 
 ing steadily in numbers. Many of the members 
 lived in town, so it was thought best to hold the 
 meetings in the homes rather than in the semi- 
 nary. 
 
 As Jacksonville was a "city of schools", there 
 was plenty of desirable material from which to 
 choose, and the Illinois Woman's College, The 
 Young Ladies' Atheneum, and The Conservatory 
 of Music furnished many valuable members. 
 
 From personal recollections of younger descend- 
 ants we can get a few facts about some of these 
 girls, and from correspondence with the few sur- 
 viving members we have some brief glimpses. 
 
 In spite of the natural obstacle of time, we 
 have been able to see a fairly clear picture of 
 Chapter C. This is due partly to the outstanding 
 things accomplished by many of its members in 
 art, music, teaching and in Christian citizenship, 
 but principally it is due to the fact that one of 
 the early members. Miss Ellie Trabue, who was 
 initiated in 1873, kept her interest and member- 
 ship alive even during the years when there was 
 no P. E. 0. in Jacksonville. In 1930 when 
 Chapter CY was organized she joined that chapter 
 
 *See page U
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 as a charter member. From Miss Trabue we have 
 received much information about Original C. 
 
 Chapter C sent, as its first delegate to Mt. 
 Pleasant, M. Lou Taylor, about 1873, and Sallie 
 Hatfield, the year following. There was no Grand 
 Chapter (or Supreme, as it is now called) at that 
 time, and business was transacted in the homes 
 of the members. 
 
 The P. E. 0. Record had not yet come into 
 existence and communication between chapters 
 was carried on by correspondence. Some of these 
 letters were ornaments to the "presidents' box" 
 and were treasured for years. 
 
 At this time Chapter C was frequently spoken 
 of as "The Star in the East", being the first 
 chapter organized east of the Mississippi Eiver. 
 Five of the gold stars of Original C are in exist- 
 ence and are kept at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 In addition we have some other mementos that 
 help us to visualize this early group. One of the 
 outstanding finds is a picture taken in 1873 show- 
 ing a group of fourteen girls wearing their 
 P. E. 0. stars. 
 
 One of Chapter C's busiest apostles of P. E. 0. 
 ideals was Kittie Dietrick. In a letter dated 
 April 17, 1939, she writes, "I am inclosing copies 
 of two old letters written in 1876 and they refute 
 the statement that the first convention was held 
 sometime later. Also I note that the statement 
 was made that the chapter lent the pins. At that 
 time the chapter did not lend the pins. We paid 
 for them ourselves". 
 
 In those early days there were no organizers. 
 Any one could organize a chapter by obtaining 
 permission from Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 ► CHAPTER L OR K 
 
 Of Chapter *T/ or K" we have been able to 
 learn so little that it seems hard to believe that it 
 really existed. Much research has failed to
 
 How P. E. O. Came to Illinois 
 
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 establish definitely whether it was designated 
 "K or L", but the preponderence of information 
 seems to favor "K"*. Strangely enough the cata- 
 log of P. E. 0. of 1887 fails to mention "K or L" 
 or list its members. By patient research we have 
 been able to discover: that it was probably 
 organized in 1883, that the nucleus of members 
 seems to have been students from the same Female 
 Academy where Chapter C was flourishing, and 
 from The Atheneum and the Illinois College; 
 and that it evidently lasted a very short time. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AH 
 
 Chapter AH, Jerseyville was organized August 
 31, 1888 and was disbanded about the winter of 
 1889 or 1890. 
 
 ► "THEY BUILDED WELL" 
 
 Although the members of these three old chap- 
 ters were young women, most of them seemed to 
 realize the import of P. E. 0. and to gather 
 strength and inspiration from its aims and ideals. 
 
 It was from no lack of interest that Chapter C 
 gave up its charter in 1887; but through a chain 
 of circumstances which made the disbanding im- 
 perative. Severe illness and death were among 
 the contributing factors. 
 
 Looking back over these years, one cannot feel 
 that the influence is lost, for today the radiance 
 of our star shines far and wide, and those of us 
 who love and honor the principles of our sister- 
 hood, revere the memory of those who kept its 
 lustre untarnished. 
 
 Indeed we can all say with Kittie Dietrick, 
 "They builded weir\ 
 
 *See page 296-298 of First Corresponding Secretary's book 
 of State of Illinois.
 
 NEW LEHERING A-l; 
 FIRST NINE CHAPTERS IN ILLINOIS 
 
 ► We who are members of P. E. 0. in 1953 
 are hardly able to realize the difficulties and complexities faced by 
 members of the earliest Illinois chapters, organized, and carrying 
 on their chapter life before there was any state organization to 
 unify and standardize their procedure. It seems very worth while, 
 therefore, to preserve for ourselves and for future members some 
 record of those beginnings. Some of the problems almost appall 
 us; some of the procedures are vastly amusing; but in all of the 
 records of those days prior to our state chapter organization in 
 1903, we find cause for great admiration of the wisdom and per- 
 sistence and vision of our sturdy pioneers. 
 
 AU P. E. 0. societies were at first formed independently, each 
 just another P. E. 0. Society, without any further distinguishing 
 name. In October, 1883, delegates from the societies then in exist- 
 ence, — located in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Jacksonville, Illinois, and 
 the Iowa towns of Bloomfield, Fairfield, Burlington, Centerville, 
 and Iowa City, — came together in Fairfield, Iowa, and formed 
 the Grand Chapter of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood. This was a mo- 
 mentous step, for it provided an over-all organization for these 
 societies. As P. E. 0. spread, it became apparent that some meth- 
 od of designating one group from the other was needed, so the 
 
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 New Lettering A- 1 
 
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 plan of using the letters of the alphabet was adopted, and the name 
 chapter replaced society. Chapters were at that time lettered in 
 the order of their organization, regardless of their location in one 
 state or another. However, as soon as the Iowa Grand Chapter 
 was formed (1893), these earlier chapters were re-lettered, by 
 states, in chronological order. 
 
 In Illinois, the chapters from A through I had their begin- 
 nings before the organization of a state chapter, — and we have 
 felt it worth while to preserve some few notes from their records 
 of the years prior to 1903. 
 
 > CHAPTER A, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized Jantuiry 17, 1893 by Kittie E. Dietrich 
 
 Charter members: Kittie E. Dietrich, Emma Durland, Eu- 
 genia Durland Kutenber, Eulalia Edwards, Clara EUars Stowe, 
 Ella Ellars, Minnie Osgood Smythe, Nelle Osgood Blasland. 
 
 The first permanent P. E. 0. organization in Illinois was 
 Chapter A of Chicago. There had been a previous chapter at 
 Jacksonville, Illinois (1871-1877), preceded only by Original 
 Chapter A at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and Chapter B at Fairfield, 
 Iowa. The disbanded chapter of Jacksonville is lovingly referred 
 to as Chapter "C" (old lettering) of Illinois. 
 
 The Grand Chapter meeting of October, 1892, at Iowa City, 
 Iowa, was a very significant one, changing the name of the highest 
 administrative body to "Supreme Grand Chapter", establishing 
 State Grand Chapters, doing much in the way of reorganization 
 of the Sisterhood, and harmonizing many perplexing situations. 
 At this meeting permission was given to three members living in 
 Chicago, — Mrs. Kittie Dietrich, Dr. Emily H. Hackett, and Miss 
 Minnie Osgood, — to institute plans for the formation of three 
 Chicago chapters, one on the north, one on the south, and one on 
 the west side of the city. 
 
 Mrs. Jessie M. Thayer O^Neil, the newly elected Supreme 
 President, had a very busy term of office; she, with her executive 
 board, established the office of Organizer, took out articles of in- 
 corporation for the Sisterhood, organized the Iowa State Grand 
 Chapter subordinate to the Supreme Grand Chapter, chose the 
 marguerite as the Sisterhood flower, relettered the chapters by 
 states, — and in addition found time to counsel with the Chicago 
 committee as to the advisability of organizing one chapter to be 
 known as Chapter A, Illinois, P. E. 0. By the following January 
 (1893), everything was in readiness for the organization of Chap- 
 ter A. Miss Minnie Osgood, one of the charter members, has 
 furnished a vivid picture of the occasion in the following account :
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 "The organization took place January 17, 1893, at seven p.m., 
 in the home of Kittie Dietrich, 5027 Cnamplain Avenue, South 
 Side. There was an awful snow storm off the lake. It was im- 
 possible for my sister and me, living in Edgewater (far north side) 
 to brave the storm, which meant suburban steam train south to the 
 city; horse car over Adams Street east to Wabash Avenue, and 
 thence south by cable car on Cottage Grove Avenue to within walk- 
 ing distance of the place of meeting. We had no telephone in 
 Edgewater in those days. 
 
 "The organization was very different then from that of today. 
 Mrs. Dietrich (and it should be inserted here that her interest 
 had been quickened by her earlier membership as a college student, 
 in the chapter "C" (old lettering) in Jacksonville, not only or- 
 ganized the chapter, but also initiated the four candidates. The 
 charter list included the four initiates and those whose dimits had 
 been received (though two were not present). The officers were 
 elected, but were not installed until two weeks later," 
 
 ► DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED 
 
 As might be assumed, one of Chapter A's chief problems dur- 
 ing its early years was the matter of transportation. Members were 
 scattered over the north, west, and south sides, and getting from 
 one side of the city to the other frequently involved the necessity 
 of using a combination of steam suburban trains, horse, and cable 
 cars, which meant, not infrequently, consuming an entire day for a 
 meeting. Evidence of transportation difficulties is found in the 
 various secretaries' records which read : "Attempted meeting on 
 several occasions ; only four present." "An informal meet- 
 ing of the P. E. O.'s in the city was held at the Columbus School 
 of Oratory, then located on East Adams Street, and six members 
 of Chapter A were present. The majority thought it best to hold 
 the meetings in a central place" "Chapter A made ar- 
 rangements to continue to meet at the School, on the first and 
 third Mondays of the month. The rent was $1.75 per meeting." 
 It should be added that through a period of several years, the 
 meetings of Chapter A were held in the safety vault of the Colum- 
 bus Memorial Building. At times it was somewhat crowded in 
 this basement room, but there was no rent to be paid, merely the 
 five dollar annual fee for the safety deposit box, where the price- 
 less belongings of the chapter were kept. Not until the turn of 
 the century did the membership of forty make the vault-room 
 quarters too crowded, and cause the transfer of meetings to the 
 Auditorium Hotel. Then, as now. Chapter A was a downtown 
 chapter.
 
 New LETTERrNG A- 1 25 
 
 In May following the organization of Chapter A in January 
 of 1893, the Columbian Exposition opened. The Supreme Chapter 
 President, Mrs. Jessie M. Thayer O'Neil, was a member of the 
 Lady Board of Managers of the Exposition, and she arranged to 
 have the P. E. 0. Sisterhood represented in the "Organization 
 Eoom" of the Woman's Building at the World's Fair. According- 
 ly, when the Fair opened, there was a P. E. 0. booth, beautifully 
 decorated in yellow and white, with Miss Minnie Osgood in charge 
 as official hostess. A vast amount of information was given out, 
 and Miss Osgood's outstanding personality converted the some- 
 what doubtful venture of a P. E. 0. booth into a magnificent suc- 
 cess, giving P. E. 0. much impetus to growth in Illinois. 
 
 When Mrs. Emma Eunyon Pratt, President of Chapter A, 
 went to the Supreme Grand Convention in Newton, Iowa, in 1897, 
 she tendered the invitation for the 1899 convention to be held in 
 Chicago, This invitation was accepted and the convention was 
 held in the old Palmer House, then the most fashionable hostelry 
 in Chicago. There were over 68 delegates, and many guests. This 
 convention was unique in several respects : it was the first Supreme 
 Convention held east of the Mississippi Eiver, and the first to be 
 held in a state not having a "State Grand Chapter" of its own ; it 
 was the first time a chapter had entertained all delegates in a hotel, 
 with a spacious and elaborately appointed auditorium assigned for 
 the meetings, and various parlors for the several committees. Of 
 interest, too, is the fact that the total hotel expense for the con- 
 vention was only $482.55. At this convention Chapter A was giv- 
 en permission to form a new South Side chapter, to become Chap- 
 ter D, — its first "daughter". 
 
 On January 17, 1903, a special meeting was called by Chapter 
 A, — just ten years after its own organization date, — to be at- 
 tended by representatives of all Illinois chapters, for the purpose of 
 organizing a State Chapter from the nine local chapters which had 
 been organized in Illinois. The meeting was held in Monmouth, 
 Illinois, April 4, 1903, with Mrs. Dora Hallock, organizer for Su- 
 preme, presiding. With the organization of Illinois Grand Chap- 
 ter, Chapter A relinquished her ^'hig sister" responsibility, which 
 she had carried for ten years as being the oldest active chapter in 
 the state of Illinois. Through the many years folloAving, Chapter 
 A has been remarkable in her leadership as a chapter, and in her 
 furnishing of P. E. 0, leaders of state and national prominence. 
 
 Presidents ivho served : Kittle Dietrich, Alice Briggs, Emma 
 E. Pratt, Grace Parks, Hettie Morse, Maude Torry, Lillian Stock- 
 ton, Emily Hackett, Minnie Rowe, Hallie Newell, Mary Mills, Zoe
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Pollock, Minnie 0. Smythe, Genevieve Todd, Harriette Marquis, 
 Bessie Tieken, Lettie Mudge, Aura Tobey, Lura R. Spurgeon, 
 Bessie E. Raney, Beulah M. Thornton, Sarah B. Cooke, Marie C. 
 Snyder, Roma G. Faulkner, Elizabeth B, Williams, Lamah E. 
 Ware, Minnie T. Callen, Elizabeth Gilrain, Naomi Faber, Helen 
 Swartz, Floy Brown, Ruth Olson, Dorathea Graef, Harriet Fitzsim- 
 mons, June H. Stresenreuter, Margaret E. Hope. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 147. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 539. 
 
 ► CHAPTER B, CLINTON 
 
 Organized December 5, 1895 hy Mrs. Martha No7-ris 
 
 Charter members: Rilla Bailor, Lyde Howard, Harriet 
 Amsden, Mary Phares, Nellie R. Danks, Hattie Kaufman, Aldora 
 J. Tyler, Nelle Magill Pond. 
 
 On December 5, 1895, almost three years after the organiza- 
 tion of Chapter A, Chapter B was organized in Clinton. The 
 eight charter members immediately instructed the treasurer to 
 purchase a tin box with lock and key, for their papers; with this 
 business-like beginning, it is not surprising that by 1898 we find 
 in the minutes, along with the "reconunendation of the study of 
 French as a digression from gossip", the first definite reference 
 to the problem of a public library for the city of Clinton. The 
 members were deeply interested in organizing a circulating li- 
 brary, and by various means, — a dime here, a quarter there, — 
 earned the necessary money so that finally, as we read, "in Feb- 
 ruary, 1901, we opened in a room over W. B. Rundle's Meat Mar- 
 ket with a nucleus of seven hundred volumes". The Library As- 
 sociation consisted of two hundred and twenty seven members, 
 each paying a fee of $2.25 annually, to be used for the purchase of 
 books. Previous to the employment of a librarian, members of 
 Chapter B had charge of the library, each on a scheduled after- 
 noon and evening. In the fall of 1901 the library was turned over 
 to the city, and became a public library, supported by city tax. 
 It should always be a matter of real pride to all members of Chapter 
 B that to their continued and determined efforts is due the begin- 
 ning of the Vespasian Warner Public Library. For years, as in- 
 dicated by the secretary's records, the project continued to be a 
 matter of strong interest and unflagging support. 
 
 When the Illinois Grand Chapter was organized in 1903, 
 Chapter B felt very proud that one of its members, Mrs. Nellie 
 Rundle Danks, was elected to be the first president. 
 
 Presidents who served: Nelle Magill Pond, Nellie Rundle
 
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 Danks, Killa Bailor, Aldora Tyler, Harriet Magill Amsden, Alice 
 Crang, Yuba Schmith, Bertha Freudenstein, M. Estelle Mann 
 Carter, Minnie Ingham, Clara Eundle, Ella Huston, Clara Parker, 
 Euthelle Lemon, Lillian Kent, Emma Washburn Edmunds, Clem- 
 entine Lundh, Grace McCuddy, Gertrude Pifer, Edna Phares, M\Ta 
 Eundle Lewin, Nancy Kern, Alice Carter Querfeld, Lena Ed- 
 monson, Neva Eobb, Ann Willis, Lorraine Hull. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 40. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 89. 
 
 ► CHAPTER C, VERMONT 
 
 Orgamzed July 14, 1897 iy Helen Bollinger 
 
 Charter m&mhers: Susanna Amrine, Sarah Williamson Mc- 
 Fadden, Addie Bartholomew Mershon, Jessie Chaddock Wright, 
 Elizabeth Cassidy, Ida PhiUips Dickey, Mary Louise Cassidy Woel- 
 ber. 
 
 The idea of a P. E. 0. Chapter in Vermont was conceived by 
 Mary Louise Cassidy Woelber, who at that time was a pupil in the 
 Columbia School of Expression, Chicago. She had been much 
 impressed by a little gold star on the left shoulder of Miss Kath- 
 erine Gill, one of her teachers, for whom Mary Louise had the 
 greatest admiration and respect. Upon inquiry as to the signifi- 
 cance of the star, the answer aroused her interest, and made her 
 very desirous of forming a chapter in her home town of Vermont. 
 
 So it came about that in July of 1897 Mrs. Helen Ballinger 
 of Keokuk, Iowa, commissioned by the President of Supreme Chap- 
 ter to act as Organizer, went to Vermont and organized Chapter C 
 with seven charter members, of whom Mary Louise Woelber said, 
 "Here were young girls with the flaming enthusiasm of youth, and 
 older women with their better judgment and steadying hand." It 
 is of interest to recall that Mary Louise Cassidey Woelber was the 
 originator of the beautiful candle lighting ceremony in honor of 
 our seven founders. 
 
 Although this little item crossed the dividing line of the 
 formation of a state organization, it is of interest from an early 
 day: "Someone very early in our history conceived the idea that 
 a yellow satin star be used during initiation. The beautiful em- 
 broidered work had been completed, and the material was ready to 
 be cut in the shape of a star, when a letter came from the State 
 Grand Chapter saying that a star of yellow satin and white rib- 
 bons could be supplied to all chapters. The lovely embroidered 
 satin was then made into a pillow and used for candidates to kneel 
 upon. Later, this ceremony was abandoned, and the pillow is to-
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 day one of the chapter's choicest possessions." The note, preserved 
 in Chapter C's history, shows their early unselfish desire to conform 
 and cooperate. 
 
 Presidents who served : Susanna Amrine, Addie Bartholomew, 
 Nellie Daugherty, Ophelia Pittenger, Ada Whitney, Rebecca Free- 
 man, Helen Worsdell, Ehoda Nelson, Laura Kirkbride, Mattie 
 Cox, Bess Bogue, Ada Whitney, Martha Eussel, Abbie Webster, 
 Bertha Braun, Lottie Hamilton, Cora Wyne, Addie Mershon, Nelia 
 Fellon, Sada Bartholomew, Eily Nelson, Bess Mercer, Effie Beal, 
 Mary Mercer, Lillian McCormick, Emma Tingley, Bertha Daugh- 
 erty, Pauline Kirkbride, Katherine Mercer, Margaret Boynton, 
 Doris Wixom, Maude Wilson, Ann Richmond. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 96. 
 
 V CHAPTER D, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized December 15, 1899 by Katherine Boehmler 
 
 Charter members : Laura C. Rice, Florence G. Anderson, Lila 
 Robinson, Adah Webber Morris, Mary P. Bloom, Cora Z. Ogle, 
 Ella Noble Thorpe, Mary Tinus Sims, Laura D. Babcock. 
 
 Living on the south side in Chicago were several members of 
 Chapter A who felt that they could serve P. E. 0. better in a 
 chapter of their own. Accordingly they asked for, and were 
 granted, a dispensation at Supreme Grand Convention in Chicago 
 in October, 1899. Among the unavoidable causes for delay in or- 
 ganizing was the fact that the Supreme Organizer could not leave 
 her new baby at once to come to Chicago, — and so the new chap- 
 ter had to wait until the Organizer's delegate, Katherine Boehmler 
 of Iowa, came to Chicago to do her Christmas shopping. There 
 were nine charter members, all dimits, when the organization was 
 completed on December 15, 1899. They were a very understand- 
 ing and congenial group, who discussed all problems very openly, 
 — so much so that, as their record says, "When we were three years 
 old, a visitor arose to remark, 'I come from Minden, Nebraska, 
 where we tolerate neither laxity nor levity', and sat down. But to 
 this day our covenants are openly arrived at." However, har- 
 monious as they were, it was not easy at first; often, the first two 
 years, the minutes show "No quorum — no business", or "Just a 
 talk meeting — no quorum". 
 
 By the first annual meeting, the number had grown to thir- 
 teen, and at that time Lulu Corkhill Williams joined by dimit 
 from Chapter A, Illinois. As a very young girl she had been 
 initiated in Original Chapter A (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa), so she
 
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 brought a wealth of experience to her chapter. During many years 
 of her P. E. 0. service, she was a source of inspiration and great 
 pride to the members of Chapter D. 
 
 The story of Laura Rice, the first president, is very interest- 
 ing, and illustrative of the way in which P. E. 0. spread. 'V\^ile 
 visiting schoolmates in Osceola, Iowa, she had been initiated into 
 their P. E. 0. chapter. Returning to her home at Thornto^\^l, 
 Indiana, she called half a dozen of her friends together, and 
 P. E. 0. was established 'Ojack east" in 1886. Later she was a 
 member of Chapter A, Illinois, for three years before being di- 
 mitted to Chapter D in 1899. Her name is also to be found in 
 later years on the charter list of FJ, Davenport, Iowa, — EW, Los 
 Angeles, California, — and KD, Glendale, California, — which is 
 quite a record. The story of a little leaven leavening the whole 
 P. E. 0. loaf is oft-repeated. Many P. E. 0. organizations owe 
 their beginnings to the missionary conviction and enterprise of 
 some one person. 
 
 Presidents who served : Laura Craven Rice, Laura Duke Bab- 
 cock, Lila Woods Robinson, Mary Rogers McCosh, Lulu Corkhill 
 Williams, Matie Cornell Goodspeed, Luella Bostic Stafford, Mabel 
 Coe Crawford, Susan McGahen, Lida A. Church, Minnie Goodrich 
 Morin, Verne Church Fowler, Flora McCosh Stout, Margaret Hall 
 Miller, Elizabeth Ellott Wormhoudt, Laura Rice McDougall, Flor- 
 ence Ray Anderson, Juanita Callison Foster, Elizabeth Hall Stew- 
 art, Betty Douglass Clark, Margery M. Emery, Genevieve Needles 
 Grout, Margaret Ayer Swanson, Cora Elting Snyder, Bonnie W. 
 Wilkerson, Hazel A. Schreiber. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 64. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 273. 
 
 ► CHAPTER E, MONMOUTH 
 
 Organized December 6, 1900 by Julia N. Robinson 
 Charter members: Eva S. Diffenbaugh, Juniata Xander, 
 Caroline B. Hardin, Nellie J. Ewing, Evelyn C. Colwell, Mary G. 
 Scott, Mary S. Evey, Mary E. Sykes, Adda L. Morton, Blanche S. 
 Ross. 
 
 Living in Monmouth in 1900 were several ladies who had heard 
 much about P. E. 0. Two had lived in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 
 their young womanhood ; two others had been in towns in which 
 they were associated with P. E. 0. members. The four met to- 
 gether and talked about organizing a P. E. 0. chapter, and even- 
 tually enlisted the interest of seven other friends, all of whom unshed 
 to become charter members of the new chapter. The Organizer
 
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 P. E. Q. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 of Supreme Grand Chapter, Mrs. Julia N. Kobinson, came to Mon- 
 mouth for the organization. "All during this meeting^', the record 
 says, "there was a terrific electrical storm, rain descended in tor- 
 rents, the floods came, but this did not dampen the intense interest 
 of these sisters, nor has that interest lessened through the years." 
 
 In the early meetings, when a name was presented for mem- 
 bership, a member would rise and announce the name of the one 
 she wished for membership. This name would be referred to an 
 investigating committee to be acted upon, the ballot taken at the 
 next regular meeting. At some meetings, however, a name would 
 be presented by a sister arising and saying the name, and the ballot 
 would be taken at the same meeting. This method was discon- 
 tinued after a time, and the present method used. 
 
 In 1902, feeling the need for more money in the treasury, the 
 chapter made plans to hold a Charity Ball, a strictly in^^.tational 
 affair. This was a huge success, and for a number of years the 
 Annual Charity Ball of Chapter E was the big event in the social 
 life of Momiiouth, giving a great deal of pleasure as well as splen- 
 did revenue to be used for charitable work. 
 
 Chapter E, Monmouth, was the hostess to the nine chapters 
 that came together in April, 1903, to form an Illinois State Chap- 
 ter. It is of feminine interest that all the members of Chapter E 
 wore dark skirts and white shirt waists with high collars, — and 
 around the collar, a broad yellow ribbon tied in a big bow at the 
 back. This was quite the latest style. 
 
 From the very beginning Chapter E has been interested in 
 community service. WTien Moimiouth built its first hospital in 
 1901, Chapter E assumed responsibility for furnishing and provid- 
 ing the yearly upkeep of one room. In the early years, too, they 
 helped support a kindergarten. They laid the foundations for the 
 spirit of service which has widened and expanded with the years. 
 
 Presidents who served : Mary Evey, Caroline Sipher, Juniata 
 Xander, Ida Lord, May Patton, May H. Brokaw, Mary H. Pattee, 
 Etha Soule, Agnes Sherrick, Alice Bruner, Lucretia S. Weir, 
 Mabel M. McCov, Florence Lauder, Betty Jane Ranney, Mary E. 
 Sykes, Clara V." Hardin, Effe R. Austin, Catherine N. Lauder, 
 "Nellie McCoy, Joanna Mitchell, Lulu J. McCoy, Emma Gibson, 
 Blanche Blair, Roberta "Work, Evalyn Colwell, Lois B. Kritzer, 
 Kathleen McCrery, Helen Welch. Elizabeth ;McLoskey. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 98. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 217.
 
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 ► CHAPTER F, QUINCY 
 
 Organized January 4, 1902 hy Dora Hallock 
 
 Charter memhers: Ora A. Stocks, Frances Best, Anna M. 
 Best, Anna T. Williams, Margaret Cassidy Hathway, Amy Tim- 
 othy, Lucy W. Trowbridge, Winfry F. Darby, Maud Sohland, Belle 
 Johnson, Cara E. Stine. 
 
 On Saturday, January 4, 1903, Mrs. Dora Hallock of Monroe 
 City, Missouri, Supreme Organizer, came to Quincy and organized 
 Chapter F with eleven charter members. The first motion was 
 for a fifty cent assessment to defray immediate expenses. A year 
 of travel in the old world became the ambitious program topic for 
 the first year. Just two months after their organization, the of- 
 ficers with much hesitancy initiated their first candidate. A long 
 record of growth was thus begun. Mrs. Frances Best had the 
 honor of being elected the first delegate to attend a state conven- 
 tion, — the very significant one in Momnouth, in April, 1903. 
 
 Presidents who served: Cora Stine, Margaret Cassidy, Belle 
 Johnson, Anne Winters, Winfry Darby, Eva E. Robinson, Lena C. 
 McCrory. Anna M. Best, Lyla H. Scott, Ora Stock, Carrie E. 
 Knittel," Mary Hunsaker, Ollie M. Newland, Hettie M. Timothy, 
 Margaret Seaton, Laura W. Jackson, Sue Foreman, Huntie Dorsey, 
 Linnette M. Bixler, Charlotte Van Doom, Winifred Nelson, Kath- 
 erine Cleek, Elsie Harnly, Gladys Jensen, Eoxana Williams, Mae 
 Bredeweg, Sara B. Minear, Erlene B. Madsen, Elsie Williams, Eida 
 Bonansinga, Lucille McEwen, Helen W. Lewis, Gladys Hoelzen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 74. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 168. 
 
 ► CHAPTER G, ALEXIS 
 
 Organized Decemher 30, 1902 hy Bora Hallock 
 
 Charter m&mbers: Ollie M. Tubbs, Lucy Garrett, Effie A. 
 Filler Warnock, Pauline E. Tubbs, Hanna E. Rogers, Grace M. 
 Souster, Martha Gamble Irwin, Anna C. Bohan, Alena Loveridge 
 Hart, Edna C. Morris. 
 
 Mrs. Dora Hallock, Supreme Organizer, not only started the 
 year of 1902 by organizing an Illinois chapter, but she ended the 
 year gloriously with two new chapters, — G in Alexis and H in 
 Aledo, on successive days at the end of December. 
 
 Ollie Ungles Tubbs, whom Chapter G regards as its founder, 
 came from Iowa and from a rich and close association with Hattie 
 Briggs, one of the seven founders. When Mrs. Tubbs came to Il- 
 linois to live, the urgent appeal of P. E. 0. friends in Iowa in- 
 duced her to consider the organization of a chapter in Alexis, —
 
 32 P- E- O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 and she proceeded carefully with her plans. The organization, 
 with ten charter members, was effected just three months before 
 the formation of the State chapter. 
 
 Presidents who served : Ollie Tubbs, Grace Souster, Elizabeth 
 Blayney, Hanna Eogers, Ethel Tubbs, Anna Bohan, Grace Gar- 
 rett, Florence Humpheeys, Olive Lafferty, Edith Deuth, Georgia 
 Durston, Eva Blayney, Crissie Bruington, Kuth Durston, Emma 
 Jaques, Erma McGabbin, Hazel Cabeen, Virginia Stevenson, Mae 
 Pearson, Helen Ralston, Gertrude Deal, Emma Lawrence, Mina 
 Rae Bohan. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 72. 
 
 ► CHAPTER H, ALEDO 
 
 Organized December 31, 1902 by Dora Halloch 
 
 Charter members: Laura O'Neal Marquis, Opal S. Wolff, 
 Edna Andor Miller, Harriet C. Sells, Bess Wolff Watson, Bess B. 
 Bassett, Bessie Sponsler Cabeen, Eowena E. Wells, May Black 
 Wilson, Rose McManus Church, Minnie E. Prentiss, Pearl Love 
 Dandy. 
 
 Mrs. Laura O'Neal Marquis, who had been a student at Mt. 
 Pleasant and initiated in Original A, brought her dimit from 
 Chapter B, Burlington, Iowa, and planned the P. E. 0. chapter in 
 Aledo. At that time Mrs. Hallock was Supreme Organizer, and 
 on December 31, she and Mrs. Zander came in on the early morn- 
 ing train, unexpected by Mrs. Marquis and the girls that she had 
 invited to form the charter membership. The ladies were taken 
 to the home of Mrs. Sells and the girls were hastily summoned. 
 Rowena Everett was to be married at 4 :00 o'clock in the afternoon. 
 Pearl Love and Bess Bassett were to be bridesmaids and others in 
 the group were to be guests. Nevertheless, Laura Marquis pre- 
 sented her dimit, and eleven others were initiated. It may be 
 noted that the initiation then was shorter than in later years ; how- 
 ever, officers were elected and installed. It is to be observed, too, 
 that by June, the chapter numbered twenty, indicating a very 
 rapid growth ; in the second year of their organization, nine babies 
 were born to Chapter H members, — a fairly high percentage ! 
 
 Presidents who served: Bess Wolff Watson, Estelle Carter, 
 May Black, Nannie L. Emrick, Bess Bassett, Sarah B. Cooke, Opal 
 Wolff, Kathryne Detwiler, Rose M. Church, Mollie Bridgeford, 
 Zua McHard, Alice Dur^ton Rice, Carrie E. Allison, Rowena E. 
 Wells, Stella L. Guthrie, Bertha W. Wallace, Marjorie C. McBride,
 
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 Katherine E. Blazer, Lorraine E. Prentiss, Pauline Emrick, Bess 
 L. Watson, Anne P. Ives, Kuth Parks Beer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 83. 
 
 ► CHAPTER I, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized Janvury 16, 1903 ly Emma R. Pratt 
 
 Charter members: Grace E. Parks, Adna F. Pratt Ballard, 
 EfEie L. Lobdell, Winnie M. Jones, Plora Campbell Cook, Estella 
 K. Jones Chase, Katherine Eunyan, Frances Dickinson, Julia E. 
 Gordon Pratt, Flora E. Eunyan, Cora P. Eunyan, Caroline E. Dy- 
 son, Lena M. Conrads. 
 
 With the organization of Chapter I, Chicago, a couple of 
 weeks after Alexis, we come to the last one previous to the forma- 
 tion of a state organization. Naturally, in a period of two months 
 no great amount of permanent history could be written, but the 
 later years of chapter I show that it was well begun. 
 
 Presidents who served : Grace E. Parks, EfEie M. Eead, Caro- 
 line E. Dyson, Helen M. Viele, May H. DeMoney, Lena B. Bur- 
 ton, Adna P. Ballard, Mabel D. Wallis, Evelyn D. Fraley, Lynette 
 H. Manor, Dora E. Parks, Nellie S. Tenney, Jessie Parks Bonson, 
 Bessie B. Claypool, Florence Miller, Josephine F. Till, Mary Ethyl 
 Mantey, Irma S. Hays, Marjorie S. Christiansen, Marguerite Lud- 
 wigs, Marie Fairclough Keyes, Frances D. Eichards, Florence 
 Penry. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 55. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 174. 
 
 And so we conclude the list of those nine brave and enter- 
 prising young chapters that charted their owti path until a road 
 guide was given to them. When we are tempted to feel that pro- 
 cedures are complex, we may well recall our early beginnings 
 and be grateful.
 
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 First Convention 
 
 of 
 
 Illinois Grand Chapter 
 
 of the 
 
 P. E. 0. Sisterhood 
 
 held at 
 
 Monmouth, Illinois, April 3, 4, 190)5 
 
 Hostess Chapter, E, Monmouth. 
 
 Supreme Organizer, Mrs. Dora Hallock 
 
 Design of Original Emblem in use 
 1869-191(; 
 
 Redesigned in 1916 to 
 Present Emblem 
 
 In 1920 
 Illinois Grand Chapter 
 
 renamed 
 Illinois State Chapter. 
 
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 p. LO. CHAPTERS, J-IG; 
 ILLINOIS STATE CHAPTER, 1903-1953 
 
 ► CHAPTER J, CARTHAGE 
 
 Organized January 8, 1904 hy Juniata Xander 
 
 Charter members: Ida A, Cutler, Katherine Cherrill Kelly, 
 Helen Ferris, Helen Miller Noyes, Fannie G. MeCrory, Zellora 
 Faye HiU, Welthy M. Owen. 
 
 Presidents who served: Welthy M. Owen, Fannie McCrory, 
 Katherine Cherrill, Lillian B, Berry, Ethelyn H. Griffith, Julia 
 Tate Noyes, Clara M. Griffith, Helen P. Griffith, Helen Griffith 
 Baid, Elizabeth H, Taylor, Ethelyn Griffith Jones, Inez C. Hart- 
 zell, Sylvia R. Backman, Lilian P. Berry, Esther Williams, Ada 
 Martin, Helen Sherrick, Sara Reaugh, Edna Fitzgerald, Edith 
 Melvin, AUiene McLellan, Olive Wagner, Katherine Munneke, 
 Grace Davidson, Lucille Thompson, Rowena Califf, Maxine Huey, 
 Geraldine Huey, Lillian Callihan, Martha Capps. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 92. 
 
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 p. E. O. Chapters, J-IG 37 
 
 ► CHAPTER K, MACOMB 
 
 Organized March 7, 1905 hy Belle Johnson 
 
 Charter m&mbers : Myra W. Jenkins, May Cummings, Nellie 
 P. Armstrong, Edna J. Hill, Leah M. Laughlin, Alice Chandler, 
 Eleanor E. Bailey, Nellie B. Well, Clara C. Mapes. 
 
 Presidents who served: Almira Jenkins, May Cununings, 
 Eleanor Bailey, Nellie Wells, Nellie Gumbart, Kuth Brockway, 
 Minnie Walker, Kate Lawrence, Matilda Bowen, Florence Holstine, 
 Alta Walker, Mary Wyne, Anna O'Harra, Faye Knappenberger, 
 Helen Wetzel, Ursula Willis, Winona Currens, Grace McDonough, 
 Mary Hillyer, Martha King, Mary Ewing, Edith Worrell, Dorothy 
 Harris. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 63. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 122. 
 
 V CHAPTER L, WOODHULL 
 
 Organized December 7, 1905 hy Belle Johnson 
 
 Charter members: Carrie L. Mackey, Estella E. Ferris, 
 Mable S. McClanahan, Viola E. Stickney, Sallie B. Taylor, Nellie 
 S. Eussell, Ethel B. Pritchard, Fannie D. Pritchard, Nonnie 
 Gamble Woods, Sophia M. Taylor, Bettie Squires Miller, Carrie 
 Wickoff Howell, Elizabeth Durston Simmons, Grace M. Minemyer, 
 Mollie P. Taylor Bridgford. 
 
 Presidents who served: Elizabeth Simmons, Nellie Eussell, 
 Sophie M. Taylor, Viola E. Stickney, Nonnie G. Woods, Edith 
 White, Carrie S. Downs, Anna Lowe Drennan, Grace S. Thayer, 
 Eva W. Taylor, Jessie Decker Close, Alice Thompson Shetler, Lois 
 D. Grossenburg, Ida S. Bell, Euth T. Cain, Emma A. Anderson, 
 Clara A. Holmes, Nelle S. Crane, Helen Gildemeister, Grace Bitts, 
 Lenore S. Tucker, Nelle W. Faulkner, Gertrude T. Gamel, Euth A. 
 Bloomberg. Clarice M. Bell. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 76. 
 
 V CHAPTER M, SHERRARD 
 
 Organized December 8, 1905 hy Belle Johnson 
 Charter members: Lora Osborn Bell, Iva A. Higbee Young, 
 Mae Clark, Harriet Danielson, Jennie L. Martin, Grace Clark, 
 Bessie Stuart, Harriet Abbott Carson, Emma Kinsey Hardy. 
 Disbanded April 27, 1910.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► CHAPTER N, ROSEVILLE 
 
 Orgmnized December 11, 1905 hy Mrs. Belle Johnson 
 
 Charter members: Nora Karns Eaybum, Mabel W. Ayles- 
 worth Clark, Elizabeth Beach Carlisle, Caroline Pearl Krieg, Caro- 
 line Jane Tucker, Ella Cunningham McMillan, Josephine Stearns 
 Eange, Clara W. Pratt Matthews, Myrtle T. Dixson, Edna B. 
 Smith Brown, Julia Boyd. 
 
 Presidents who served : Ella McMillan, Nora Kams Eayburn, 
 Myrtle Dixson, Clara W. Pratt, Edna B. S. Brown, Minnie Ray- 
 burn, Josephine Pratt, Bertha Patch, Pearl Krieg, Gladys Swanson, 
 Alice Livermore, Eose Taylor, Lenora Staat, Mayme Pratt, Har- 
 riett Tucker, Bertha Patch, Florence Pratt, Edith Strickler, Edna 
 L. Adkisson, Tessa Beaver, Edna M. Staat, Helen W. Taylor, 
 Maxine Felt, Edna Pratt, Marguerite Hill, Gertrude S. Taylor. 
 • Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 76. 
 
 ► CHAPTER O, McLEANSBORO 
 
 Organized January 4, 1906 by Mrs. Belle Johnson 
 
 Charter members: Margaret G. McElvain, Cora Webb Flan- 
 nigan, Carrie Harvey Lane, Jennie B. Foote, M. Augusta Barter, 
 Eella Lasater, Fannie F. Benson, Lida C. Davis, Jennie L. Eobin- 
 son, Anna B. Young. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jennie Foote, Annie B. Young, Pearl 
 Hogan, Mabel Eckley, Eva McNabb, Cora Flannigan, Pauline 
 Wallen, Madeline Campbell, Florence Powell, Cordah Hogan, Lea 
 Walker, Aurelia Wright, Clara Blades, Euth Wilson, Carolyn Hall, 
 Mary Flannigan, Carrie Lane, Lola Brown, Marie Elliott, Mary 
 Letsinger, Marian Moody. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 26. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 59. 
 
 ► CHAPTER P, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized May 19, 1906 by Mrs. Grace R. Parks 
 Charter members: Ida B. Faulkner, June Ackenbach, May 
 Eansom Leigh, Eebecca Warnock, Mabel D. Doud, Fannie W. 
 Bryant, Hattie J. Goebel, Jessie Eeed. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ida Faulkner, Nancy Olds, Elizabeth 
 Goodsmith, Mary Brown, Lulu C. Williams, Clara Hardy, Suza 
 Mohr, Mabel Davenport Doud, Maude McGonigle, Carrie E. Allen, 
 Virginia Holland, Irma Summers, Anne Bhodes, Ada Heck,
 
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 Katherine Eoth, Alma BateS;, Helen Ramm, Marian Milmoe, 
 Frances Gross, Agnes Larimer, Gertrude Vanstane, Helen Mathews, 
 Henrietta Curran, Cornelia Gunderson, Ann Pennington, Frances 
 Harris. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 44. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1. 
 1953: 144. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Q, FARMER CITY 
 
 Organized July 30, 1906 hy Juniata Xander 
 
 Charter members: Harriet Herrick, Marie Young Nichols, 
 ^STelle VanDeventer Hartsock, Katherine Herrick, Cordelia Robin- 
 son Dans, Grace G. Weedman, Josephine Littlejohn, Anna McCord, 
 Gertrude Kincaid Iveson, Martha McJntire, Martha Weedman. 
 
 Disbanded April 29, 1914. 
 
 ► CHAPTER R, PEORIA 
 
 Organized December 3, 1906 by Juniata Xander 
 
 Charter members: Mary T. Farley, Kate A. Carter, Flora R. 
 Ryan, Carrie A. Foster, Elizabeth Edwards, Lulu Beekhaus, I^aura 
 A. Johnston, Charlotte C. Miller. 
 
 Presidents who served: Flora Ryan, Emma Correll, Etta 
 Blythe, Ann K. ^Yright, Lulu Backus, Lizzie AYendell, Adelaide 
 Potter, Lila Loucks, Nellie T. Hoffmann, June Y. Kelly, Anna C. 
 Meniler, Grace Friess, Delma Lockwood, Mabel G. Hurd, Dora 
 Yost, Cecile Hoffmann, Louise Standlee, Ella Shimmin, Frances 
 Mackley, Harriette Hinnen, Nellie Day, Mary Casseday. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 42. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 130. 
 
 ► CHAPTER S, MAYWOOD 
 
 Organized May 17, 1907 by Mrs. Juniata Xander 
 Charter members: Margaret Nixon, Lulu D. Price Hine, 
 Isidore Nixon AUmendinger, Ora 8nyder, Anna McPherson, Har- 
 riet Roland, Chella J. Guest, Mary Jones Glunt, Grace Darling 
 Wittenberg. 
 
 Presidents who served : Margaret Nixon, Martha Jones Glunt, 
 Harriet Roland, Lulu D. Price, Minnie Coffman, Lina Clifford, 
 Alice Reiber, June Kopf, Ada Lancaster, Daisy McCullough, Clara 
 Bullard, Genevieve Knopf, Sarah VanGunter, Stella Scott, Ruth 
 Kilbey, Bessie Lewis, Cecil A^anNuys, Carissa Newell, Ada Schorr,
 
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 Veran Swift, Margaret Storey, Katkryn Buck, Edna Asche, Lorene 
 Griffith. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 70. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 142. 
 
 ► CHAPTER T, KIRKWOOD 
 
 Organized September 27, 1907 hy Mrs. Juniata Xander 
 
 Charter members: Margaret Pease, Blanche L. Houlton, Nell 
 C. Kyler, Emma L. Tubbs, Mary S. Gibson, Jeannette Drain, Anna 
 Belle Gibson, Minnie B. Capron, Olive A. Allen, Clare B. Kyler, 
 Melle WiUette Kyler. 
 
 Presidents who served: Minnie Capron, Clara Kyler, Olive 
 Allen, Nelle Houston, Martha Watson, Adah Gamble, May Gibson, 
 Eetta Akin, Jeanette Abbey, Helen Oyler, Edith Balcoff, Mae 
 Bro\\Tilee, Louise Kessler, Maude Everett, Jessie Pape, Mary Hill, 
 Naomi Cochran, Julia Hemminger, Carol Van Riper, Lucy Van 
 Eiper, Margaret Kennedy, Cora Rezner, Thehna Maim. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 43. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 73. 
 
 ► CHAPTER U, HAMILTON 
 
 Organized October 19, 1908 by Mrs. Martha Weedman 
 
 Charter members: May C. Wright, Jessie Robinson McMahan, 
 Mabel Waggoner, Viola Crouch, Mary Machin Gardner, Helen 
 Byers Higby, Bertha R. Dadant, Gertrude Gates Pardee, Maud 
 Fullmer Gordon, Valentine Dadant. 
 
 Presidents who served: Valentine Dadant, Nira Robinson, 
 Estelle Agnew, Mary Hosford, Gussie Berdolt, Clemence Dadant, 
 Mabel Waggonner, Effie Jolidon, Maude Matthis, Florence Mc- 
 Cartney, Gertrude Pardee, Clara Reed, Mabel Porter, Veta Gordon, 
 Helen Louise O'Brien, Ella Wescott, Helen Jackson, Antonia 
 Hathaway, Marcia Buss, Lorretta Hosford. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 83. 
 
 ► CHAPTER V, ROCKFORD 
 
 Organized November 18, 1908 by Martha Weedman 
 
 Charter memhers: Margaret K. Seymour, Ella B. Snyder,
 
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 Stella M. Weaver, Etha L. Weaver Schooler, Anna Rankin, Jessie 
 K. Dean, Anna W. Hunter, Catherine Seymour. 
 
 Presidents who served: Margaret Seymour, Stella Weaver, 
 Laura Huber, Sarah Keyt, Stella Taylor, Geraldine Doxsey, Mayme 
 Brodine, Euth White, Mary Brown, Ettabel Brown, Alice Bowie, 
 Ruth DeWitt, Eva G. Swenson, Anna Burgard, Anna Bowie, Jen- 
 nie Mott, Frances Dobson, Myra Wormley, Lottie Maloney, Alice 
 Chase, Lois Fiddick, Bessie Burritt, Zella Egdahl, Morea Cain, 
 Mabel Block, Edith Van Duzer, Sarena Bolender, Pearl A. Ritchie. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 123. 
 
 ► CHAPTER W, GALESBURG 
 
 Organized March 18, 1909 hy Bessie Bassett, Proxy 
 
 Charter members: Mabel M. McClanahan, Sadie D. Little, 
 Ethel H. Early, Jennie N. Longbrake, Nellie M. Eckley, Mary L. 
 Overstreet, Elizabeth M. Franing, Sara T. Drake, Emma L. Hazen, 
 Zora Hazlett, Nancy A. Martin, Mabel M. Evans, Abbie Gardner 
 Boyes, Caroline E. Doyle. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mabel M. McClanahan, Sadie D. 
 Little, Elizabeth Moore Franing, Zora A. Hazlett, Gertrude L. 
 Carney, Lu Cox, Mable Foster Smith, Lyle Stickney, Caroline 
 Greene Stotts, Lulu Ingersoll, Helen F. McLaughlin, Jessie Sco- 
 field Nash, Martha Neifert, Fanny S. Greene, Dorothy Hinchliff, 
 Isyl Spiker Walton, Gladys Van Patten Swanson, Margery Bown 
 Webster, Pearl Lucas, Nancy Anderson Johnson, Haroldine Ives 
 Hazen, Alice Wellard, Dorothy Dickson Rogers, Marguerite Falls 
 Casburn, Jean Zearing Gunning, Florance McComb Meyer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 :89 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 179. 
 
 ► CHAPTER X, BUSHNELL 
 
 Organized June 1, 1909 ly Mrs. Martha Weedman 
 Charter members: Cora B. Pinckly Cline, Blanche B. West, 
 Nelle Ann Hoover, Edith McElvain, Elizabeth Yearick, Nell M. 
 Pinckly, Mabel A. Frisbee, Garnet Pinckly, Hattie C. Pinckly. 
 
 Presidents who served: Garnet Pinckly, Blanche West, Lulu 
 Truman, Mabel Frisbee, Crete Sperry, Martha Campbell, May 
 Roark, Zoe Helfrich, Lily Ball, Maude Barber, Lulu Bricker, 
 Lucie LeMaster, Emily Norcross, Helen Ball, Teresa Dertinger,
 
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 p. E. O. IN Illinois. A History 
 
 Sylvia Brewbaker, Carrie Chain, Duzzaa Snowden, Alice Perrine, 
 Margaret Bricker, Vera Gray. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 48. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 95. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Y, HAVANA 
 
 0-rganized April 22, 1910 lij Mrs. Harriett M. Amsden 
 
 Charter memhers: Florence M. Collins, Mary E. Morril, 
 Bessie M. Price Southitt, Emma C. Eager, Angle A. Strickle, Lora 
 M. Werner, Mabel B. Nortrup Morrill, Nellie E. Kroell. 
 
 Preddentf! ivho served: Florence M. Collins, Mary E. Mor- 
 rill, Sara E. Pierce, Florence B. Steele, Grace G. Duffy, Mabel 
 A. Wissman, Caroline McHarry, Alice Klingman, Ellena A. 
 Duffy, Zella Schulte, Modelle Anno, Ruth L. Eaton, Lois Jones. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 37. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 69. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Z, HARRISBURG 
 
 Organized March 11, 1911 hy Pauline Ethel Tuhhs 
 
 Charter members: Elizabeth E. Edwards, Etta W. Tavlor, 
 Julia K. Harris, May Collier, Bess S. Parish, Ida E. Stilwell, 
 Fannie Gaskins, Mary E. Marsh, Portia Parish, Ethel H. Furman, 
 Fredrica Baumer. 
 
 Presidents irho served: Elizabeth Edwards, Ida E. Stilwell, 
 Kate Harris, Fannie Gaskins, May Collier, Portia Parish, Bess 
 Parish, Etta Taylor, Clara M. Harvey, Etta KaiTaker, Hazel 
 Lehman, ]\Iyrtle Combe, Helene Rathbone, Leta Coleman, Eva 
 Clark, Elsie Gregg, Clyde McGehee, Elsie Durham, Docia May 
 Bonnell, Grace Ozment, Ethel Thompson, Sibyl Whitley, Lelle 
 Pruett, Ethel Kane, Hortense Mugge, Nancy Lee Rude, Grace 
 Collier, Ruth Gray, Kathleen Montgomery, Bernice Benson, Bess 
 Choisser, Wilma Travelstead, Helen Parker, Louise WTiitchurch, 
 Dora Chapel, Helen Jackson, ]\Iyrna Towle, Mary Metcalf. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 81. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AA, CHRISTOPHER 
 
 Organized March 11, 1911 by Po/uline Ethel Tuhbs 
 CJmrter members: Nettie M. Edwards, Mary E. Meade,
 
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 Mattie W. Pfaus, Florence D. Provart, Ruby L. Beach, Mary 
 Harrison, Grace Harrison Settle, Laura E. Little. 
 
 Presidents who served : Sarah A. Putman, Iva Tygett, Nettie 
 Edwards, Mary Harrison, Eunice Gilbert, Bess Gibson, Freda 
 Turner, Dell Hindman, Ruth Reagin, Katherine Rogers, Mollie 
 Brown, Sears Lavender, Vivian Campbell, Mary Snider, Vera 
 Guthrie, Eloise Davis, Helen Cook, Charlotte Johnson, Vivian 
 Logan. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 70. 
 
 > CHAPTER AB, CARLINViLLE 
 
 Organized M<irch 14, 1911 hy Pauline Ethel Tuhhs 
 
 Charter memhers : Delia B. Davies, Effie Mounts, Margaret 
 Hubbard, Ida C. Turnbull, Eva Beatrice Hoehn, Ina L. Matthews 
 Snell, Alice P. Perrin. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Delia B. Davies, EflEie Mounts, Mar- 
 garet Hubbard, Ida C. Turnbull, Anna R. Burton, Harriette 
 Palmer, B. Eva Hoohn, Fannie K. Rinaker, Dora A. Barcus, 
 Pauline B. Rinaker, Ina L. Snell, Mae B. Wilson, Mabel I. Schuele, 
 Adele L. Hemphill, Lilas K. Chamness, Martha Ellen Ross, Louise 
 M. Arnett, Emily J. Anderson, Elizabeth J. Denby, La Verne W. 
 Lusk, Jean H. Landon. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 48. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 92. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AC, DIXON 
 
 Organized April 22, 1911 hy Pauline Ethel Tuhhs 
 
 Charter memhers: Nellie F. Weed Storer, Anna C, Weed, 
 Mattie M. Graves, Mae R. Keller, Ruth Helen Dysart, Lydia A. 
 Garnett, Harriet Leland, Ethel Van Spanckeran, Ida M. Dysart. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel Van Spanckeran, Ida M. Dy- 
 sart, Mattie Graves, Jessie Reid, Ruth Dysart, Mae Keller, Harriet 
 Leland, Clara Coppins, p]sther Newcomer, Grace Rowland, Mar- 
 garet Lager, Frances Charters, Gladys Worsley, Helen McNamera, 
 Irene Moore, Clara Armington, Grace Johnston, Alyce Bort, 
 Edith Eichler, Dorothy Armington, Mary Frances Horton. 
 
 Active membership March i, 1953 : 58. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 118.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 > CHAPTER AD, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized February 12, 1912 ly Pauline Ethel Tubls 
 
 Charter memhers: Eva Roberta Robinson, Frances D. 
 Bloomingston, Nancy P. Reynolds, Nettie S. Keller, Ella La 
 Follette, Nellie L. Byington Boswell, Maud E. Wilson Steams, 
 Christine Bednar, Adelaide Ames Worth, Evangeline Nohe, 
 Genevieve Elliott, Fannie Field Hall, Orpha Jewell Bake, Alma 
 Elizabeth Wilson McMahill. 
 
 Presidents who served : Eva R. Robinson, Nancy P. Reynolds, 
 Carrie K. Allison, Mary K. Lindsay, Nellie M. Lee, Ella W. 
 Winter, Lura H. Rothman, Laura D. Lazear, Anna McKenna, 
 Margot McPherron, Dorthy Keezel, Louise A. Reid, Maude 
 Ziegler, Ruth B. Elimball, Edith Cummings, Ethel Bullen, 
 Hazelle Knapp, Hermione I. Hill, Ruby S. McCallister, Alyce T. 
 Shambaugh, Sunshine Daines, Myrtle Lincicome, Lillian KKne. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 60. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 202. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AE, FARMINGTON 
 
 Organized March 7, 1912 by Pauline Ethel Tubbs 
 
 Charter members: Margaret B. McAfee, Mildred M. Mar- 
 shall, Lura G. Wood, Alice E. Brewer, Julia E. Dimmitt, J. Ethel 
 Fassnacht, Stella M. Orton, Grace B. Brown, Nellie E. Bowers. 
 
 Presidents who served: Margaret McAfee, Grace Brown, 
 Lura Wood, Julia Dimmitt, Ethel Fassnacht, Nellie Bowers, 
 Margaret Phillips, Elsie Butterfield, Blanche Blanchard, Estella 
 Fash, Evalyn Rohlfing, Viola Anderson, Lorena Akin, Minta 
 Schoonover, Gracie Parks, Lorena Hefner, Mary Holmberg, 
 Georgia Roberts, Wilma English, Mattie Gentle, Vivian Brewer, 
 Gwendolyn Wood, Valoris Dennis, Beatrice Negley, Mary Page, 
 Marjorie Sims, Florence Harper. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 46. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 92. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AF, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized January 6, 1913 by Luella B. Stafford 
 Charter members: Flora J. Sherman, Gertrude M. Losee, 
 Emily E. Reid, Mary Purdy, Ruth Wells, Olga E. Keiper Pen Dell, 
 Gerda E. Nelson, Meta Werlich Gibian, Myrtie Hart Cover. 
 Presidents who served: Myrtie Hart Cover, Olga M. Keiper,
 
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 Meta Werlich, Flora Sherman, Gertrude M. Losee, Olga E. Pen 
 Dell, Mattie Halleman, Clara M. Potts, Marie H. Bernhardt, 
 Gladys Wiley, Harriet S. Agler, Mary Schlieker, Euth Klass, 
 Ehoda Griffith, Ethel Jones, Caroline McKay, Lily Mitchell, 
 ]\Iargaret Conant, Marjorie Hough. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 73. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AG, KEITHSBURG 
 
 Organized March 16, 1914 hy Luella B. Stafford 
 
 Charter members: Orpha S. Bloomer, Lou Newell Willits, 
 Olive Emerson Temple, Olive Maley Hoyt, Gertrude P. Huston, 
 Elizabeth C. Gilrain, Eose Abrams Watts, Jessie King Madden, 
 Florence Allen Lawrence, Mary B. Humphreys, Hattye Orth King. 
 
 Presidents who served: Orpha S. Bloomer, Elizabeth C. 
 Gilrain, Olive E. Temple, Lou N. Willitts, Olive M. Hoyt, 
 Hattve 0. King, Mary B. Humphreys, Jessie K. Madden, Eose A. 
 Watts, Murl gV Ogle", Isabelle D. Chafa, May D. Coe, Bessie B. 
 Bloomer, Grace E. Trent, Ora N. Willitts, Helen B. Barnett, 
 Miriam M. Minteer, Almarine W. Sheriff. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 50. 
 
 > CHAPTER AH, PEORIA 
 
 Organized March 18, 1914 hy Luella B. Stafford 
 
 Charter members: Mary A. Craig, Alice Wilson, Alice Du 
 Bois, Anna Green, Nell Eussell Fonts, Helen M. Craig Whitmore, 
 Minnie E. Patty, Charlotte S. Ashman, Mary L. Shepherdson, 
 Lucile Du Bois Whiting, Verna E. Miller Doane, Mabel V. Morre 
 Harper, Sara Jacob, Augusta Schwarting Kummer, Nancy G. 
 Fuller, Ethel M. Scranton Parr. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary A. Craig, Lena Edmonson, 
 Nell Eussell Fonts, Irene Lidle Lynch, Ada Graham Lester, 
 Elsie Heyl McLaughlin, Estella E, Barnett, Nellie C. Wrigley, 
 Opal Bowton Baymiller, Fannie M. Johnson, Grace A. Gorham, 
 Florence D. Bone, Alice H. Findley, Mayme E. Heyl, Julia S. 
 Johnson, Mary L. Shepherdson, Jessie Eutherford Anicker, 
 Bertha C. Hazard, Minnie Brock, Blanche H. Triebel, Anne 
 McCord, Phebe E. Miller. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 42.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 90. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Al, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 7, 1914 hy Luella B. Stafford 
 
 Charter members: Maude B. McDonald, Susan B. Levis, 
 Jessie Mae Hieberg, Alice E. Cormack, Alice M. Braddock, 
 Mayme D. Kress, Edna Miller Johnson, Elizabeth D. Craig, 
 Mary Allen Monia. 
 
 Presidents who served: Alice Braddock, Maude McDonald, 
 Mayme D. Kress, Mary D, Knapp, Murriel Kalk, June Stresen- 
 reuter, Margaret Wulfing, Mabel K. Undine, Bessie P. Day, Euth 
 M. Cruse, Constance C. Cox, Sophea Rathje, Betty Ann Heyes, 
 Leone Joy Quinn, Bertha Strandberg, Lois J. Bennett, Norma L. 
 Battis, Bess Montague, Mary C. Casper. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 90. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AJ, BRIDGEPORT 
 
 Organized April 14, 1914 hy Luella B. Stafford 
 
 Charter members : Lora M. Firmin, Carrie F. Hoppel, Mary 
 I. Madding, Mildred M. Rausch Baker, Elizabeth N. Barnett, 
 Anna I. Seed, Dora Lanterman, Mary B. Laughlin, Fannie C. 
 Watson, Laura B. Groff. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lora B. Firmin, Anna C. Lewis, 
 Mary B. Laughlin, Dora L. Lanterman, Elizabeth N. Barnett, 
 Pauline G. Lewis, Melda F. Gray, Annie L. Finley, Annie L. 
 Mangum, Mildred Eausch, Kathryu Wiggins, Pauline V. Thomp- 
 son, Alta Hagnauer, Chlora B. Lewis, Maude Baldwin, Hilma 
 Baldwin, Helen Fahnestock, Lois Anstine, Mona De Tray. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 61. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AK, GILLESPIE 
 
 Organized April 25, 1914 ly Luella B. Stafford 
 Charter members: Tillie Wilcox, Gertrude Eice, Sarah 
 Jorgensen, Blanche Eeese, Elsie Smith Isaacs, Bonnibel B. Frey, 
 Alvena Schmidt, Clara J. Burton, Isa M. Pinkerton. 
 
 Presidents who served: Blanche Eeese, Elsie Isaacs, Maude 
 Fredrickson, Alvena Schmidt, Sarah Jorgensen, Ida Pfahler,
 
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 Clara J. Burton, Verna Hoehn, Tillie E. Wilcox, Erina McNely, 
 Ora Lewis, Anna Fitzgerald, Adella Kiss, Katharine Grauel, 
 Mary B. Elliman, Ora Lewis, Viola McPherson, Gwen Lesem, 
 Marcia Hoehn, Kathryn Armstrong, Viola Fisher. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 66. 
 
 V CHAPTER AL, RUSHVILLE 
 
 Organized March 20, 1915 hy Alice Willard 
 
 Ch-arter members: Laura L. Knowles Lynch, Helen GraS, 
 For a Loring McLaren, Marie B. Dyson, Mary Loring Mourning, 
 Maud R. Sweeney, Ruth S. Houston Scott, Harriet I. Houston 
 Threlkeld, Bessie D. Rodewald, Lou Taylor Nolan. 
 
 Presidents who served : Laura V. Lynch, Nora McLaren, 
 Marie B. Dyson, Bessie Rodewald, Alice M. Dyson, Mary Mourn- 
 ing, Ann Park, Matilda Deane, Lucile Dyson, Olive Bates, Grace 
 Loring, Esther Miller, Nellie Barton, Clara Staffelbach, Glenna 
 Heininger, Mabel Houston, Vergil Gain. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 65. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AM, KNOXVILLE 
 
 Organized October 1, 1915 by Alice Willard 
 
 Charter members: A. R. Becker, Lee Anna H. Lafferty, 
 Geneve Lotts Collins, Florence Lewey Lander, Ophelia B. Hebard, 
 Ella Lotts Lacey, Alice M. Charles, Isal Caldwell Lewis, Ruth 
 Barrett, Jennie A. Schwartz, Mary Elizabeth G. Campbell Bailey, 
 Minnie Rogers. 
 
 Presidents who served: Alice Charles, Orpha Hebard, Isal 
 Lewis, Lee Ann Robbins, Alice Baer, Geneve Collins, Alice 
 Huggins, Ella Lacy, Margaret McAfee, Kate Wallick, Jennie 
 Schwartz, Helen Brown, Fenimore Schwartz, Viola Mathers, 
 Mildred Cecil, Martha Beecher, Grace Compton, Leona Lacy, 
 Gladys Jensen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 36. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 83.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ¥ CHAPTER AN, GALESBURG 
 
 Organized March 4:, 1916 hy Alice Willard 
 
 Charter members: Anna M. Armstrong, Gail H. Eidg\vay 
 Brown, Julia W. Bentley, Henrietta Armstrong, Hettie L. Thomp- 
 son, Clara K. Lewis, Helen H. Birch, Blanche M. Boult, Margaret 
 Safford, Eulalia Anderson Gill, Amy Anderson, Blanche Holmes, 
 Mary Packenham Smith. 
 
 Presidentft who served: Anna M. Armstrong, Eulalia A. 
 Gill, Blanche Holmes, Hettie L. Thompson, Caroline F. Arm- 
 strong, Amy A. Toerpe, Henrietta Armstrong, Vanche M. Sessions, 
 Irene B. Mariner, Esther N. Book, Grace B. James, Alice W. 
 Dickson, Martha M. Annegers, Wilma Harrison, Margaret C. 
 Stanfield, Mary C. Beatty, Edith Lass, Myrle Bates, Claire G. 
 Chandler, Marie Hanson, Mildred Landon, Marguerite Nelson, 
 Mary Isley, Ruth Atwood. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 106. 
 
 > CHAPTER AO, ELMWOOD 
 
 Organized April 13, 1916 hy Alice Willard 
 
 Charter memhers: Ella M. Zoll, Margaret Ethel McCabe, 
 Irene Clinch, Lena M. Clinch Boiirque, Nina Belle Bowers, Zula 
 May Miller, Nora M. Gilmore Wiley, Alice R. Tarpy. 
 
 Presidents who served : Ella Zoll, Nina Bowers, Irene Clinch, 
 Zula Miller, Alice Tarpy, Ethel McCabe, Mary Schenck, Sadie 
 Humphrys, Minnie Heptonstall, Vera Bourgoin, Anna Day, 
 Gertrude McQuiston, Thora Young, Elsie Butterfield, Louise 
 Schlots, Cora Shissler, Marie Shissler, Blanche Seltzer, Frances 
 Waibel, Florence Miller. Mildred Bickford, Caroline Sipfle, Edna 
 Seltzer, Helen Norris, Pauline Matson, Mary Beard. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 40. 
 
 Total membership from date of organizatioii to March 1, 
 1953 : 68. 
 
 V CHAPTER AP, WAUKEGAN 
 
 Organized May 19, 1916 hy HalUe A. Newell 
 
 Charter members: Adla Richardson, Mary P. Hathorne, 
 
 Eunice A. Munson Bentley, Maud E. Peter Lewis, Jessie Ambrose, 
 
 Mabel M. Gibson, Edith R. Parker. 
 
 Presidents who served : Maud Peter, Adla Richardson, Edith 
 
 Parker, Lovina Caldwell, Lena Patterson, Mabel Gibson, Olive
 
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 I'helps, Grace Hoag, Edith Welton, Edith Higley, lleba Carlson, 
 Marion Sandven, Helen Weygant, Mary Crawford, Carolyn John, 
 Esther Allen, Gertrude Fucik, Fyrn McCall. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 95. 
 
 > CHAPTER AQ, AUGUSTA 
 
 Organized September 23, 191G hy Hallie A. Newell 
 
 Charter memhers : Georgia C. Stockton, Jean Aldrich Booker 
 Eobbins, Lelia M. Tarr Moore, Mary Elizabeth Gordon Eobison, 
 Helen W. A^iolette, Ella Louise Pendleton, Edith May Winters, 
 Bertha L. Winters, Grace Working Compton, Alma Alpha 
 Bertholf, Mary Catherine Magill, Mary Lewis Beard. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary Beard, Ella Pendleton, Lelia 
 Moore, Mabel Eobison, Edith Winters, Helen Artz, Mary Magill, 
 Mace Grain, Mary Eobison, Helen West, Marie Simons, Georgia 
 Stockton, Louise Eobison, Pearle Bruner, Grace Young, Eachel 
 Weinberg, Elizabeth W^illiams, Fannie McAfee, Helen Violette. 
 Mildred Cain, Esther AVinters, Mary Fullmer, Nina Jones, Mary 
 L. Weinberg, Imogene Whitehead, Shirley Shoopman, Mary 
 Holmes. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 37. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 58. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AR, URBANA 
 
 Organized November 7, 1917 hy May H. De Money 
 
 CJuirter members: Leola H. Long, Anna Starbird, Effie B. 
 Chance, Margaret E. Cramer, Mary Miller, Sarah A. Weeks, 
 Pearl Mc Lean, Emma A. Gere, Sarah W. Davidson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary Miller, Leola Long, Eula 
 Higgins, Sarah Weeks, Blanche Watts, Lillian B. Sale, Helen 
 Sears, Elizabeth Campbell, Edith Scoville, Grace Stanton, Euth 
 Matthews, Anna Seely, Hortense Barr, Gertrude McDonald, 
 Geraldine Cramer, Velda Newcomer, Bernita Davies, Burness 
 Piw'ce, Meryl Williamson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: Gl. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 147.
 
 jO P- E- O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 > CHAPTER AS, PEKIN 
 
 Organized November 19, 1917 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Minta B. Kroll, Carolyn Rhuhaak, Louise 
 Hiimnelheber, Gladys T. Helm, Martha E. Rueling, Martha 
 Steinmetz, Emma L. Weber, Maud C. Eupert. 
 
 Presidents who served: Emma Weber, Martha Steimnetz, 
 Caroline Sipfle, Ella Gray, Emma Hinners, Maude Eupert, 
 Imogene Elliff, Alga Velde, Marjorie Locke, Louise Grimmer, 
 Hazel McClintick, Jessie Kriegsman, Miriam Wherry. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 45. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 80. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AT, LAWRENCEVILLE 
 
 Organized November 21, 1917 by May E. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Cora Kirkwood, Eoselle Whittaker, Inez 
 Kirkwood, Allie Daugherty, Leonora Kirkwood, Lillie M. StoU, 
 Inez M. Tohill, Aleen Crumbacker, Anna M. Trueblood, Mary 
 Lemmons. 
 
 Presidents who served: Inez Tohill, Cora Kirkwood, Inez 
 Kirkwood, Jennie Lewis, Lillie Stoll, Aleen Crumbacher, Jeanette 
 Nunn, Lucinda Andrews, Deweese Bristow, Margaret Kirkwood, 
 Ethel Duff, Mildred Thompson, Enmia Highsmith, Mary Tip- 
 sword, Mae Cash, Veree Sonner, Margaret Davis, Lucille Wagner, 
 Emily Kirkwood, Joy Wells. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 46. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 72. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AU, GLEN ELLYN 
 
 Organized March 21, 1918 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Mary W. Alspaugh, Helen M. Kolb, 
 Florence M. Milmoe, Lulu S. Tatham, Bertha Kopp, Audrie 
 Alspaugh Chase, Mary Dening Lee, Bertha D. Congers. 
 
 Presidents who sei-ved: Mary Alspaugh, Jessie Lindsay, 
 Katherine Mitchell, Lulu Tatham, Olive Shepherd, Marjorie 
 Jorgeson, Alta Mitchell, Charlotte Simmons, Charlotte Benthey, 
 Jeanie McBride, Marion Pugh, Marjorie Berwanger, Mary Bear, 
 Euth Kelly, Dorothy Dickson, Vonee Berquist Cooley, Catharine 
 Karr, Jean Olsen, Frances Morgan. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 52. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 105.
 
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 > CHAPTER AV, BERWYN 
 
 Organized March 22, 1918 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members : Katherine E. Church, Mabel L. Stephens, 
 Bess L. Eutledge, Laura 0. Marquis, Maud M. Baldwin, Geneve 
 B. Beckman, Ida B, Howells, Kate M. Baden, Emma G. Holmes, 
 Euby B. Busian, Marian M. Kordsieman. 
 
 Presidents who served : Laura 0. Marquis, Maud M. Baldwin, 
 Katherine E. Church, Mabel L. Stephens, Marian M. Kordsiemon, 
 Clara S. Jonathan, Margaret W. Hessler, Martha H. Pope, 
 Alice M. Davidson, Letty Tate, Mayme Secreste, Mary A. Foltz, 
 Thelma Moore, Mary E. Smith, Olive E. Roise, Margaret Wright. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 56. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 102. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AW, BLOOMINGTON 
 
 Organized March 29, 1918 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Flora Isabel Kemp, Hattie C. Guild, 
 Ruth H. Shaw, Mary C. Wallis, Elizabeth S. Chapin, Ella R. 
 Funk Riggs, Mary S. Washburn, Nettie B. Butterworth, Carrie 
 M. Hazlett. 
 
 Presidents who served: Flora Isabelle Kemp, Hester Smith, 
 Stella Leys, Lottie Fitz Henry, Mabel Ahlenius, Ethel Baldwin, 
 Amy Straight, Louise Waddell, Mary Washburn, Emma Read, 
 Ruth Ramseyer, Eliza Burkholder, Clara Rost, Rosamond Mecherle. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 50. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 93. 
 
 > CHAPTER AX, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 1, 1918 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members : Edna M. Heilman, Jessie M. Libby, Anna 
 T. Green, Anna Robinson, Mae Irene Robinson, Grace E. Williams, 
 Tamma H. Ritsch, Elizabeth V. King, Corda P. Hooper. 
 
 Presidents who served: Corda Hooper, Florence Daniels, 
 Mae Robinson, Grace Williams, Pearl Hill, Ethel Amory, Iva Lane, 
 Margaret Harris, Delphine Baker, June Thornbury, Maude 
 Baird, Hazel Howe, Doris Harper, Frances Noble, Marian Hooker, 
 Hazel Bedinger, Helen Boberg, Melba Milton, Elva Adams, Gladys 
 Chatters, Jessie Steinhart. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 53. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 96.
 
 52 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► CHAPTER AY, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 5, 1918 hjj May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Mabel F. Swiney Hubbard, Elizabeth T. 
 
 Williamson, Mamie A. Eowley, Louise T. Squier, Vivian P. 
 
 Hatch, Kosabel Robinson, Gertrude C. Huls, Bernice Wood, Alice 
 
 D. Holliday, 8inabelle Smith, Louise C. Crooks. 
 
 Presidents vho served: Mabel Sidney Hubbard, Louise 
 Squier, Elizabeth Williamson, Elizabeth Castle, Florence Graybeal, 
 
 E. Mae Street, Cassie Davis, Evelyn Olson, Josephine Nims, 
 Lilian Beath, Marjorie Adams, Hazel Monroe, Daisy Minor, 
 Florence Smith, Jean Richardson, Katherine Busse, Helen 
 Knollin, Caroline Rickard. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 34:, 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 91. 
 
 ► CHAPTER AZ, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized January 28, 1919 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Lulu C. Williams, Bertha K. Hoffman, 
 Louise K. Hoffman Lownes, Mamie S. Hardy, Mary J. Traxler, 
 Inez Traxler, Mae Traxler, Catherine Rogers, Dora T. Brown, 
 Zena W. lUiker, Louie Towle, Anna White, Elizabeth Williams, 
 Edna R. Cook C'ooper. Margaret Towle Morse, Clara K. Hardy, 
 Maud N. Kraft, Myrta j\L Dennis, Mae Ransom Leigh. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lulu C. Williams, Dora T. Brown, 
 Flora E. Balch, Mae Leigh, Elizabeth Lovelace, Charlotte 
 Mitchell, Anna F. Betts, Zena U. Baker, Eva Taft, Aline Hakes, 
 Mary C. Edwards, ICsther C. Evans Greaves, Ada Marcellus, 
 Laura E. Mills, Vivian Wear, Constance Quint, Lucile Lugg, 
 Helen Russell, Gudrun G. Tucker, Rita Miner. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 88. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 185. 
 
 > CHAPTER BA, JOLIET 
 
 Organized April 10, 1919 by May H. DeMoney 
 Charter members: Aneita H. Frances, Glada E. French, 
 Zelia M. Davies, Mattie M. Stainiield, Winifred P. Seaver, Alphie 
 L. Mason, Atlanta Lossius. Jean Corlett, Ethel S. Wliite Jones, 
 Liela E. Rainville, Marie H. Hawlev, Louise A. Poehner.
 
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 Presidents u'ho served: Aneita Francis, Ethel White Jones, 
 Alphie L. Mason, Glada French, Hattie Keith, Alice P. Pence, 
 Minerva D. Newbold, Cjrace C. Hindle, Adrienne S. Barrett, 
 Martha Wilson, Daisy Leach, Blanche Lee, Anna Eankin, Bertha 
 Skinner, Mildred LeCompte, Hazel Jordan, Eosalind Pohl, Mabel 
 NewKirk, Evelyn Noll. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 59. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 104. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BB, ABINGDON 
 
 Organized April 19, 1919 hy May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Mary L. Eobb, Dora A. Yeomen Gaskin, 
 Yerda M. Shumaker, Gara E. Yeomen, Mabel E. Bond Stockdale, 
 Mabel E. Eeynolds Pierce, Ethel L. O'Connor, Mary K. Booton 
 McMillan, Eva J. Eobb. 
 
 Presidents who seized: Mary Eobb, Mabel Stockdale, Mabel 
 Pierce, Cinda Eobinson, Yerda Shumaker, Gladys Campbell, Pau- 
 line Hunter, Malcolm Huff, Eose Snyder, Clara Henry, Emma 
 Crumbaker, Daisy Miller, Lura Byram, Mae Cramer, Miriam 
 Brokaw, Marion Vander Wert, Euth Dunlap. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 59. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BC, DECATUR 
 
 Organized June 6, 1919 hy May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members : Eugenie M. Bacon, Jessie M. Miller, Win- 
 nifred M. Schaub, Olive M. Bear, L. Louise Bear, Ella Boyer, 
 Elizabeth B. Waggoner, Mattie E. Peacock, Mae Macknet, Marga- 
 ret W. Dick, Alice B. Evans, Alice T. Curtis, Delia P. Gushard, 
 Gertrude M. Moore, Annie P. Hunt, Harriet M. Amsdem, Clara 
 M. Hambright, Clara N. Hawkes. 
 
 Presidents who served: Harriet Amsden. Jessie Miller, Olive 
 M. Bear, Mildred Warner, Josie Pownall, Gladys Moeller Cross, 
 Pearl Mattes, Helen Shell, Helen Gill, Eunice McKee, Clarinda 
 Hatfield, Mary Ward, Mona Davidson, Beulah Freed, Jessie Lloyd, 
 Katharine Lowe. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : G2. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 135.
 
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 ► CHAPTER BD, AURORA 
 
 Organized September 2d, 1919 by May H. DeMoney 
 Charter members: Flora L. Kelly, Beulah Tomblin Gilman, 
 
 Margaret F. Pank, Anne M, Lord, Mary E. Anderson, Alice A. 
 
 Shepard, Luella Knight Macember. 
 Disbanded April 25, 1939. 
 
 > CHAPTER BE, FREEPORT 
 
 Organized November 10, 1919 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Florence W. Furst Kiner, Anna Young 
 Gransden, Emma G, Wagner, Leila M. Coleman Manning, Mabel 
 D. Hitchner, Bessie G. Firestone, Helen G. Harlan, Lucia B. 
 Marvin, Helen P. Hildreth. 
 
 Presidents who served: Emma Wagner, Pauline Wise, Flor- 
 ence Furst, Elsa Wagner Nugent, Marion Dildine, Mabel Bowers, 
 Mary Martin, Gladys Covert, Mildred Young, Edna Cully, Naomi 
 Little, Mary Carter. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 81. 
 
 ^ CHAPTER BF, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized January 24, 1920 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Edna Weaver, Louise Legg, EUa B. Leib, 
 Virginia M. Bowles, Ethel Barnes, Etta Springer, Ressa E. Arm- 
 bruster. 
 
 Presidents who served: Virginia Bowies, Mona Smith, Ada- 
 line Harnsberger, Ella Leib, Jeanette Stoddard, Irene Clapp, 
 Mabel Walraven, Anna McLoud, Gene Hall, Helen Bradley, Eliza- 
 beth Vance, Edna Cantrall, Ruth Hodgson, Margaret Cullen, 
 Florence Gordon, Roberta Conn, Edna Dimcan, Lillian Linney. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 53. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 113. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BG, GENOA 
 
 Organized January 26, 1920 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Alma Potter Kohn, Florence B. Leich, 
 
 Blanche C. Kiernen Zeller, Adah K. Shesler, Cora W. Schoon- 
 
 maker, Nellie F. Sandall, Dorothy C. Lankton, 
 
 Presidents who served : Dorothy Lankton, Lois Brown, Nellie 
 
 Sandall, Alma Kohn, Adah Shesler, Laura Lindgren, Eva Stewart,
 
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 Mabel Jackman, Helen Smith, Bonnie Faber, Lorene Bro^vn, Anita 
 Schoonmaker, Carrie McCoy, Catherine Burroughs, Marion Baker, 
 Grace Hobson, Florence Bennett, ]\Iabel Baldwin, Marguerite 
 Yerkes, Euth Lankton, Edith Eeid, lona Eichler, Evelyn Pflaum, 
 Margery Prain, Mary Jeanette Roberts, Helen Smith. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 28. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 52. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BH, STERLING 
 
 Organized January 28, 1920 hy May H. DeManey 
 
 Charter members: Jennie W. Craddock, Daisy Wood Van- 
 Sant, Bertha M. Williams, Isabella M. Honens, Stella Coney, 
 Irene Bassett, Edith Dillon, Euth E. Caughey, Elizabeth Nehr- 
 hood, Sophie M. Besse. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jennie Craddock, Winnifred Tim- 
 mons, Daisy VanSant, Anna Sipes, Clara Deeming, Sophie Besse, 
 Myra Cahn, Jessie McCandless, Lucia DeWind, Louise Jamison, 
 Evelyn Sipes, Emily Eice, Helen Marquis, Myrtle Bogard, Dorothy 
 Hutten, Helen Philips. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 46. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 78. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Bl, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized January 30, 1920 by May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter members: Mary D. Stafford, Harriet E. Garvey, 
 Estella C. Keck, Marrilla H. Eogers, Ethel V. T. Bliss, Beulah 
 B. Smith, Olive H. Arey, Carrie A. Towle, Harriet L. Hedger 
 Hart, Zaidee V. Peniston. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary D. Stafford, Olive H. x\rev, 
 Estella C. Keck, Zella S. MacArthur, Beulah B. Smith, Grace t. 
 Lockard, Ornetta A. Miller, Susan M. Pond, Olive A. Ellsworth, 
 Susan P. McDowall, Eula L. Luthy, Marilla II. Eogers, Euth C. 
 Millener, Lois P. Preucil, Anabel M. Houghton, Margaret Mc- 
 Clure, Edna C. Hull, Barbara Overmyer, Dorothea Coburn, Helen 
 Mojonnier. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 50. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 110.
 
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 > CHAPTER BJ, WHITE HALL 
 
 Organized April 7, 1920 hy May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter memhers : Mabel A. Lowenstein, Eleanor D. Short, 
 Edna H. Winn, Louise Lucas, Pauline Lowenstein, Kate L. Ellis, 
 Laura M. Baker, Mayme E. Watson, Emma D. Whiteaker, Mabel 
 M. Schram, Louise E. Waddell, Adelia J. Greene. 
 
 Presidents who served : Mabel A. Lowenstein, Eleanor Short, 
 Laura Baker, Louise Waddell, Carrie D. Noeker, Jessie Griswold, 
 Edith Chapin, Pauline Lowenstein, Clara Branson, Beryl Kose, 
 Helen Arnold, Elizabeth Fanning, Geneve Griswold, Florence C. 
 Rose, Ardeen L. Walker, Helen S. Piper, Mildred Thomas. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 57. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BK, ROCK ISLAND 
 
 Organized April 24, 1920 hy May H. DeMoney 
 
 Charter mem.hers: Mary F. Kreis, Gertrude Sala, Anna E. 
 Knox, Nettie A. Dingdinger, Euth E. Prietcher, Ehrma B. Mc- 
 Eoberts, Frida Bradford, Theodosia Heagv, Jennie Clark, Vernon 
 Simmons, Sara E. Weiss, Ella Montgomery, Jennie L. Martin. 
 
 Presidents who served : Sara E. Weiss, Anna E. Knox, I^ouise 
 Witter, Gertrude Sala, Helen Frey, Belle Ward, Dora Cervin, 
 Geneva Schroeder, Clara Souders, Charlotte Helpenstell, Helen 
 Osborne, Harriet Willard, Edna Davidson, Louise TJllemeyer, Opal 
 Barton, Mildred Anderson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 51. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to ]\Iarch 1, 
 1953: 101. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BL, MOLINE 
 
 Organized April 22, 1921 hy Maude B. McDonald 
 
 Charter mem.bers: Margaret K. Seymour, Mary S. Huntoon, 
 Mae Green, Ednah W. Bradley, Ella W. Edwards, Addie M. Cox, 
 I'^lla B. Haley, Mamie Beam, A^iolet Birch, Evalyn Coulter, Ida 
 P. Haddick, Myrtle McKelvey, Fannie Smith. 
 
 Presidents ivho served : Margaret K. Seymour, Ella H. Ed- 
 wards, Myrtle B. McKelvey. Fannie Smith, May Green, Bess Chap- 
 man, Harriet Cornell, Edith Cha])men, Vere Coddington, Margaret 
 MacDonald, Cora Piske, Luora Hills, Mary Helen Fuller, Mabel 
 Parkhurst, Belle Bickler, Isel Hankla. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 51.
 
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 Total membershi]) from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 104. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BM, LINCOLN 
 
 Organized April 5, 1922 hy Mmule B. McDonald 
 
 Charter members: Alberta C. Fox, Anna J. House, Eosanna 
 D. Sylvester, Edyth B. Maxwell, A^irginia F. Kennedy, Alta M. 
 Mitchell, Gwendolyn Sanford Barlow, Georgia B. Humphrey, 
 Elizabeth E. Small, Lillian A. Trapp, Josephine Lucas, Anna S. 
 Irish. 
 
 Presidents who served : Alberta Fox, Josephine Lucas French, 
 Maybelle Alvey, Alta Mae Mitchell, Ethel Johnston, Anna House, 
 Ruth GafEney, Florence Harts, Alene Berger, Hazel House, Bess 
 Longan. Marion Dowling, IJllian Trapp, Margaret Hodgson, 
 Mary Alvey, Dorothy Parker. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 45. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1. 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BN, PRINCETON 
 
 Organized April 11, 1922 by Maude B. McDonald 
 Charter members : Margaret T. O'Donnell Grove, Harriet A. 
 Avery, Nell E. Gibbs, Winifred C. Skinner, Darlene F. Eoe, Lil- 
 lian W. Hensel, Gladys C. Zearing, Carolyn L. Trimble, Christine 
 Brown, Ethyl C. Gill, Eugenia Spaulding, Marie C. Snell. 
 Disbanded April 24, 1936. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BO, LA HARPE 
 
 Organized December 7, 1922 by Maude B. McDonald 
 Charter members: Nelle S. Conrardy Menzies, DeEtta A. 
 Hungate, Mary E. Wheaton, Mabel Bushly, Mabel C. Mason, Clara 
 M. Kaiser, Mary E. Lyon, Lauretta M. Sperry, Kathrj-n E. Barker, 
 Elsie C. Moore, Martha E. Yedder, Edna R. Mayor, Ermna S. 
 Warren, Etiie C. Towler, Fae S. Coulson, Ruth A. Thompson, 
 Jane SejTnour, Adah E. Ash. 
 
 Presidents who served: Nelle Seymour Conrardy, Mary E. 
 Wheaton, Fae Speer Coulson, Mary C. Lyon, Martha E. Vedder, 
 Edna R. Mayor, Kathryn E. Barker, Grace I. Smith, Alma J. 
 Adair, Ruth A. Thompson, Frances W. Burg, Florence I. Roberts, 
 Susan Gilman, Jane R. Rice, Grace I. Smith.
 
 58 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Active membersliip March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 57. 
 
 > CHAPTER BP, MINONK 
 
 Organized March 20, 1924 hy Jessie M. Miller 
 
 Charter memhers: Mattie W. Stoddard, Nettie L. VanDoren, 
 Grace C. Joosten, Mamie C. Phillips, Geraldine Phillips Fitz- 
 gerald, Myrtle S. Iliff, Lottie W. Simpson, Mary W. Pope, Myrtle 
 E. Danforth, Hattie B. Simater, Ruth Miller Sauer, Charlotte B. 
 Wilcox, Esther M. Simater Dye, Helen F. Henderson, Florence 
 L. WyUe Park. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mattie Stoddard, Nettie Van Doren, 
 Hattie Simater, Adda Sutton, Helen Henderson, Lillian Vissering, 
 Ella Vissering, Esther Simater, Clara Gray, Louise Parks, Ethel 
 McKee, Ruth Wylie, Ann Parks, Sara Bety McCully, Alice 
 Stimpert. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 36. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 53. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BQ, PEORIA 
 
 Organized April 14, 1924 hy Jessie M. Miller 
 
 Charter members : Louise B. Curtis, Grace Mau Miller, Helen 
 Blythe Camp, Dorothy Carter Metz, Elmagene T. Schueler, Mayme 
 Alcorn, Harriet Bush, Margaret Crane, Althea Patteson, Marjorie 
 Langston, Dorothy Gronnerod, Helen M. McClintick. 
 
 Presidents who served: Louise Curtis, Marjorie Baird, Elma- 
 gene Schueler, May Norton, Alice Roszell, Carolyn Bamett, Geneva 
 Wilton, Charlotte Barbour, Mabel Fuller, Leda Wilson, Lena 
 Wendell, Margaret Wrigley, Louise Plack, Margaret Ferdinand, 
 Marjorie Langston, Hazel Mugge. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 33. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 59. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BR, GALVA 
 
 Organized April 15, 1924 hy Jessie M. Miller 
 Charter members: Jane Houghton, Decinia N. Ford, Janet 
 B. Hudson, Jane J. Bergland, Elizabeth Ewing, Fannie R. Boyd, 
 Helen F. Lanham, Mildred A. Hanlon Anderson, Mae Yocum,
 
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 Shirley Alford, Margaret H. Foote Anderson, Sue L. Wigren, 
 Maurine Stewart. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Lanham, Jane Houghton, 
 Pearl Bergland, Shirley Alford, Decima Ford, Alice Best, Mae 
 Yocum, Hazel Miller, Mariam Means, Janet Hudson, Amy Seely 
 Nelson, Marcella Overbaugh, Norma Johnson, Jane Clayton, 
 Ethelyn Burcky. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 45. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 79. 
 
 V CHAPTER BS, WINNETKA 
 
 Organized April 18, 1924 hy Jessie M. Miller 
 
 Charter members: Deborah S. Ferry, Lora T. Dickinson, 
 Elizabeth F. White, Catherine 0, Wisdom, Mabel E. Windes, 
 Elyda A. Scharf, Louise H. Anderson, Eleanor Parker, Emma F, 
 Dean, Emma Dinsmore Ely, Mary K. Beard, Barbara C. Fair- 
 clough, Harriet W. Huddle. 
 
 Presidents who served: Deborah Ferry, Lora Dickinson, 
 Louise Anderson, Lulu Tatham, Louise Fanvell, Mabel Windes, 
 Catherine Wisdom, Mae Thomas, Louise Wagner, Margaret 
 Snyder, Helen Kadyk, Clara Eummler, Blanche Humphrey, 
 Minnie Stults, Dorothy Bronston. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 51. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 83. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BT, AURORA 
 
 Organized April 19, 1924 hy Jessie M. Miller 
 
 Charter members: Jessie L. Waterbury, Addie L. Thorpe, 
 Florence I. Ely, Emma L. Kaiser, Ida B. Howells, Sara I. Tarble, 
 Mary G. Worst, Minnie E. Winteringham, Ethel G. Wniett, Louise 
 G. Rice, Blanche C. Barber, Grace E. Bliss. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jessie Waterbury, Grace E. Bliss, Alice 
 M. Braddock, Emma L. Kaiser, Maud N. Peffers, Marion W. 
 Kaiser, Feme G. Bushnell, Anne M. Wilkinson, Florence D. Evans, 
 Florence H. Thomas, Gretta S. Budd, Ada M. Mitchell, Lois B. 
 Downs, Alice Crane, Hazel Berwick, 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 52. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 76.
 
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 ► CHAPTER BU, ROODHOUSE 
 
 Organized June 21, 1924 hy Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Grace Southwick, Delia Ash, Anna B. 
 Fant, Harriet Gilmore, Cora J. Orr, Lois Buchlin, Nina Hale 
 Smith, Pauline VanDoren Mackey, Kuby Michel Houseman, Nor- 
 ma S. Martin, Ella Scott, Annie M. Smith, Bonnie Wilkerson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ella Scott, Norma Martin, Delia 
 Ash, Lois Bucklin, Nina Smith, Nellie Buyle, Grace Southwick, 
 Hannah Hull, Pauline Mackey, Irma Hunt, Hazel Allen, Thelma 
 AVilkinson, Lois Barr, Ethelyn Cuddy, Harriet Gilmore, Cloah 
 Worcester. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 28. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 41. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BV, MENDOTA 
 
 Organized December 11, 1924 by Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members : Edith Stenger, Mary W. Lotts, Clara W. 
 Wagner, Florence B. Cook, Isabel B. Pohl, Ada Madden, Vivien 
 C. Alexander, Margaret H. Potter Webb, Ann C. Van Etten, 
 Agnes K. Cavanaugh, Cora A. Lenihan, Edith A. Ellingen. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary Lotts, Florence Cook, Alma K. 
 Reck, Isabel Pohl, Ada Madden, Ann Van Etten, Nano L. Dubbs, 
 Adrienne Faber, Helen Scott, Pearl Schaller, Lois Moore, Florence 
 Ellis, Elizabeth Colson, Caroline Schaller, June Claus, Jane Jacob, 
 Wilma Butler, Dorothy Greenwood, Virginia Potter, Florence 
 Goodwin, Mary Ellen Lipke. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 56. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BW, DECATUR 
 
 Organized March 23, 1925 by Caroline Stotts 
 Charter members: Marion D. Wood, Clarabel E. Lewis, Alice 
 B. File, Ella N. Bachman, Gussie B. Johnson, Grace G. Wood, 
 Bessie M. Holt, Mary V. Love, Annie li. Stafford, Ivah I. Shella- 
 barger, Anna H. Mills, Elsa E. Tearnan, Noy 0. M. Nicholson, 
 Corintha C. Boruff, Mary A. Collins, Mary V. Baldwin, Margaret 
 W. Tait, Grace F. Dewein. 
 
 Presidents who served: Marion D. Wood, Ivah F. Shella- 
 barger, Ella N. Bachman, Susanne I. Tenney, Elsa E. Teaman, 
 Bessie M. Holt, Stella C. Robinson, Jennie H. Rugh, Lyla J.
 
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 Melrose, Janet Anderson, Ethel E. Garman, Bessie L. McDavid, 
 Harriet E. Mertz, Helen D. Morey, Charlotte N, Jack. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 74. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BX, PEORIA 
 
 Organized March 31, 1925 hy Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Etta Walker Blythe, Lizzie G. "Wendell, 
 Lila S. Loucks, Elizabeth Nash, Lulu P. Beckus, Fannie E. P. 
 Shepherd, Nellie T. Hoffman James, Mary A. Lowes, Florence E. 
 McGowan, Mary T. Farley, Grace M, Gregory, Emma A. Thomp- 
 son, Olive L. McClintick, Katherine J. Faber, Myrtle M. Eoden- 
 hauser. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lulu Beckus, Minnie Bittel, Vandalia 
 Burgy, Minnie Eagleton, Mabel B. Seaburv, Marjorie Tadie, Marv 
 June Thompson, Etta Walker Blythe, Ethel E. King, Olive L. 
 McClintick, Nellie T. James, Maona Hood, Elizabeth Wendell, 
 Vandalia H. Burgy. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1935 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 74. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BY, TOULON 
 
 Organized April 9, 1925 hy Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Ivah Mae Cover, Florence Fell, M. Irene 
 Nowlan, Marianne M. Davis, Adah Lloyd, Katherine L. Brace, 
 Pearl I, Williamson, Cora Nowlan, Inez B. Rennick, Ednah Mc- 
 Clenahan, Mary N. Cover, Bertha L. Cover. 
 
 Presidents who served : Bertha Cover, Marianne Davis, Annie 
 Lowman, Iva Cover, Pearl Williamson, Fannie Bradley, Irene 
 Nowlan, Lucille McKee, Kathryn Lloyd, Ednah McClenahan, 
 Celia Berry, Mary Louise Walker, Dean Ebert. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 38. 
 
 ► CHAPTER BZ, CANTON 
 
 Organized September 2, 1925 by Caroline Stotts 
 Charter members: Adeline B. Norton, Eachel C. Simmons, 
 Helen Sappington, Myrtice Marshall Anderson, Thelma A.
 
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 Mosher, Evelyn B. Crandall, Olive M. Allen Dean, Mabel Coons, 
 Grace T. Slack, Grace M. Silva, Anna G. Preston, Margaret 
 Lauderback, Constance Harrison, May Norton, Ruth Johnson 
 Sterneman. 
 
 Presidents vho served: Myrtice Anderson, Helen Sapping- 
 ton, Margaret Lauterbach, Rachel Simmons, ISTeta Taff, Mabel 
 Coons, Frances Nelson, Loraine Mosher, Ruth Brehmer, Opal 
 Sutton, Melba Mercer, Maurine Shepley, Lela Murray, Alice 
 Klingman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 76. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CA, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized October 17, 1925 by Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Daisy Gesler McKee, Emma Louise Ever- 
 ett, Alma Opel Jean, Annette Baxter, Deela May Horrell, Theresa 
 F. Carroll Nafziger, Dorothy H. Stockton, Cordie E. Luers, Pau- 
 line D. Smith, Ruby Ellen Handshy Devlin, Bernice Angell, Ann 
 E. Armstrong. 
 
 Presidents who served : Ann Armstrong, Theresa C. Nafziger, 
 Ethel Jelliffe, Cordie E. Luers, Margaret Ditmore, Mayza Pene- 
 witt, Esther Wolaver, Alice Gottschalk, Ines Hoffmann, Gretta 
 Schneider, Lillie Nichols, Louise Sipfle, Floreca Tomlin, Grace 
 Fleming. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 82. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CB, CUBA 
 
 Organized November 28, 1925 by Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Caroline Scott Baylor, Dorothy B. Shurt- 
 leff, Caroline V. Ewan, Ruth E. Ewan, Genava Durand, Thelma 
 Stell Cooper, Blanche Nelson, Lucy Marshall, Lucy A. Stephens, 
 Edna Herbert, Nellie Burgett, Nellie Grady. 
 
 Presidents who served: Caroline Scott Bayloi', Nellie Grady, 
 Marie Moweiy, Sibyl Efnor, Edna E. White, Nellie Burgett, 
 Emma Cline Murphy, Helen Melvin, Dorothea Clayberg, Ruth 
 C. Queen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 52.
 
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 ► CHAPTER CC, ROCK FALLS 
 
 Organized January 9, 1926 hy Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members: Frances E, Potter, Helen L. Church Mc- 
 Namara, Bertha M. Yackel, Sarah H. Vaubel, Merle Golder, 
 Norma Riehl, Theo H. Bristol, Laura Scott, Virginia Kadel Eades, 
 Claribel Stephenson, Lois Dimmett, Irene Ranch. 
 
 Presidents who served: Irene Ranch, Virginia Eades, Hazel 
 Cruse, Elza Pippert, Liddie Howe, Ruth Walton, Sue Hendricks, 
 Sue Newburn, Dorothy Winn, Myrna Pfundstein, Helen Lennox, 
 Vivian Peterson, Julia Whiteley. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 45. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CD, PITTSFIELD 
 
 Organized February 5, 1926 hy Caroline Stotts 
 
 Charter members : Bertha Graham, Clara B. Shastid, Blanche 
 P. Williams, Myrtle Glandon, Almarena G. Grote, Edna H. 
 Weaver, Ruth C. Barrett, Lucile Hough King, Eva English, Janet 
 Biglow Hudson, Helen Lewis Grigsby, Glenna B. Cummings, 
 Maude M. Higbee, Maude Shaw, Pearl W. Smith. 
 
 Presidents u'ho served: Janet B. Hudson, Bertha Graham, 
 Myrtle C. Glandon, Maude M. Higbee, Edna H. Weaver, Blanche 
 P. Williams, Clara B. Shastid, Caroline B. Carey, Florence Bush, 
 June Harp, Marjorie Williams, Myrtle Dean, Mary Jones. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 48. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CE, SAVANNA 
 
 Organized December 9, 1926 by Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 Charter members: Harriet Correll Taylor, Myrtle Rose, 
 Mabel Imus, Isabella W. Imus, Winifred E. Howe, Doris Calehan 
 Parker, Sue Cole, Fannie Eldredge, Lauritta F. Miles, Laura P. 
 Thurber, Mabel Parker, Patty Leonard, Emma Machin Yates, 
 Lelah Turner, Fannie Benedict, Harriet E. Stockwell. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Harriett Stockwell, Laura Thurber, 
 Winifred Howe, Mabel Parker, Myrtle Rose, Margaret Mehlhop, 
 Patty Leonard, Clara Stransky, Sue Cole, Lela Turner, Jennie 
 Fuller, Fannie Eldredge, Louise Hyler, Lauretta Miles, Louise 
 Greison, Joy Cooley, Svea Adolphson, Alta Elder, Blanche Alten- 
 bern, MabeUe Greison, Blanche Lantau, Margaret Stransky, Hazel 
 Diehl, Mildred Stiles, Jeanne Fuller, Marjorie Rickert.
 
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 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 44. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CF, CHARLESTON 
 
 Organized April 9, 1927 hy Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter memhers: Gay Anderson, Mary G. Piper, Olive M. 
 Allen, Joyce Haefner, Nellie W. Anderson, Myra F. Tooke, Al- 
 faretta Mitchell, Mary C. Mitchell Hardy, Ida M. Shuey, Myra 
 Alexander, Eva Iknayan, Bertha L. Sellars, Phoebe F. Shortess, 
 Mary M. Reat, Floy U. Modessitt, Lena Foreman, Florence W. 
 Shoemaker, Mary P. Anderson, Olive E. Craig, Lucille W. Allison, 
 Margaret McCrory Corley, Esther McCrory. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Olive S. Craig, Esther McCrory, 
 Almeda Diirgee, Irene S. Phipps, Patsy Stover, Alice Cavins, 
 Elizabeth Thut, Florence M. Olsen, Ethel S. Phipps, Frances 
 Zeigel. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 54. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 86. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CG, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized April 21, 1927 hy Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter members : Lottie B. Niles, Ruth H. M3'ers, Edith S. 
 Mattmiller, Anna M. Phillips, Marie B. DreflEein, Edith R. 
 Havens, Dorothy S. Strong, Julia B. Branch, Ina M. Sisler, Grace 
 K. L'Hommedieu, Elizabeth Daniel, Elizabeth P. Mattis. 
 
 Presidents who served : Grace L'Hommedieu, Ina Sisler, 
 Elizabeth Daniel, Julia Branch, Anna Louise Phillips, Edith 
 Mattmiller, May Baker, Dorothy Strong, Sarah Johnson, Bess 
 Smith, Helen Larsen, Ruth Ruckman, Helen Pringle, Levina M. 
 Chapman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 37. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to ]\Iarch 1, 
 1953: 53. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CH, RIVERSIDE 
 
 Organized April 23, 1927 by Mahel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter members: Nerma F. Wagner, Mary Moore, Juliet 
 
 D. Kimball, Elizaheth D. Marks, Margaret W. Brundage, Eleanor 
 
 C. Saxe, Harriet G. Frazier, Gertrude N. Krueger, Grace W. 
 
 Moore, Gladys H. Hinkle, Sylvia K. Schnable, Louise D. Dawson.
 
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 Presidents tcho served: Nerma Wagner, Gladys Hinkle, 
 Margaret Brundage, Louise Dawson, Grace Moore, Ida Mae 
 Slaton, Gertrude Krueger, Ruth Norris, Louise Rowland, Mary 
 Moore, Nancy Peebles, Eunice Darrow. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 76. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CI, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized November 23, 1927 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Delia R. Rigler, V. Miller, Maude C. Sher- 
 man, Gertrude D. Giffin, Virginia G. Hackett, Chastine C. Webber, 
 Kathr\Ti G. LaVoie, Ella H. Woodhead, Mabel C. Kerndt, Iva L. 
 Soli, Ruby E. Prince, Genevieve S. Breed. 
 
 Presidents who served : Gertrude Giffin, Iva Soli, Olive Cain, 
 Ruby Prince, Mabel Kerndt, Gene^deve Breed, Mabel Heberling, 
 Corinne Eddy, Gertrude Langhorne, Mary Shackelton, Sarah 
 Smith, Dorothy Nash, Helen Crooks, Velma Redmon. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 22. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 46. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CJ, ROCKFORD 
 
 Organized Febi-uary 16, 1928 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Lucile A. Dickerson, Grace N. Weikel, 
 Ruth T. White, Ettabel L. Brown, Ruth C. DeWitt, Alice 
 Countryman, Annis B. Smith, Ethel Rutherford, Geraldine 
 Doxsey, Elice K. Andrews, Frances L. McPhail, Jane P. 
 Hubbell, Sadie R. McPhail. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Lucille Dickerson, Ruth White, 
 Frances McPhail, Harriet Leland, Elizabeth Corbridge, Sadie 
 McPhail, Hazel Reno, Grace Hall, Elice Andrews, Annis Smith, 
 Lou Williams, Lydia Blaine, Grace Kampmeier, Madge Schwartz. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 45. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CK, HINSDALE 
 
 Organized February 17, 1928 by Bessie R. Raney 
 Charter members: Nettie G. Neumann, Florence F. Howes, 
 Tessie Sindeler, Sadie M. Gibson, Cora P. Lockwood, Ellen M.
 
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 Healy, Margaret Flett, Verbee Ebert, Florence E. Hale, Leone 
 Schroeder, Georgiana Kohout, Bertha Hoover, Jane Maxwell. 
 
 Presidents who served; Nettie Neumann, Ellen Healy, Ina 
 Holch, Leone Schroeder, Georgiana Kohout, Cora Lockwood, 
 Marion Carson, Lillian Morris, Sadie Gibson, Dorothy Holcomb, 
 Agnes Sieben, Virginia Kearnes. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 90. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CL, BLOOMINGTON 
 
 Organized March 29, 1928 hy Bessie B. Raney 
 
 Charter memhers: Marjorie M. Hartenbower, Parthena G. 
 Wyatt, Edna L. Eadliff, Agatha D. Green, Ada M. Meeker, Julia 
 S. Johnson, Anna P. Washburn, Alice P. Hiltabrand, Mabel 
 Hartenbower, Eleanor K. Wetzel, Mary H. Piatt, Blaine Boicourt, 
 Alice E, Ellis Pickard, Bernadine B. Kirkpatrick. 
 
 Presidents who served: Marjorie Hartenbower, Parthena 
 Wyatt, Clara Dunn, Ada Meeker, Bernadine Kirkpatrick, Jane 
 Curtiss, Edwinna Akers, Eleanor Wetzel, LaRue Sloan, Nellie 
 Fairchild, Edna Eadliff, Marjorie Doud, Shirley Campell, 
 Gladys Saurer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 67. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CM, STREATOR 
 
 Organized April 17, 1928 hy Bessie R. Ramey 
 
 Charter members: Louise Dicus, Isabel White, Eva E. 
 Fairbaim, Ellen M. Schurman, Nell Harrison, Louise Gaut, 
 Dorothy B. Yates, Nora Dixon, Nellie Wilson, Wilda L. Essington, 
 Helen H. Fornof, Phoebe E. Arthur, Charlotte A. Hall, Gussie 
 M. Jones, Louise Tremper. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eva Fairbaim, Nellie Wilson, 
 Lucile Schiffbauer, Gussie Jones, Louise Dicus, Ellen Schurman, 
 Alice Funk, Eose Wagner, Bessie Powers, Eeba Barrett, Gladys 
 McNamara, Margaret Arthur. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 56. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71.
 
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 ► CHAPTER CN, WINNETKA 
 
 Organized April 20, 1928 ly Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Frances McGraw, Lottie Allen Babb, 
 Eloise W. Wortley, Stella S. Smith, Bess Taylor Ballenger, Rose 
 B. Hamilton, Anna B. Goble, Nina D. Da^ds, Cora Gould Davies, 
 Charlotte W. Eatcliffe, Lillie B. Bro^^'n, Grace C. Hunter, Janette 
 Eaub. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eose Hamilton, Anna Goble, 
 Charlotte Eat<!liffe, Nina Davis, Janette Eaub, Eloise Wortley, 
 Lucile Dougherty, Laura Clarke, Atlantis Marshall, Charlotte 
 Vandenburgh, Margaret Masters, Gertrude Nielsen, Hildegarde 
 Skyrm. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 48, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CO, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized May 24, 1928 hy Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter memhers: Jeanette Magowan, Nina Goertz, Mildred 
 B. Gehhnann, Margaret Eea May, Florence I. Harris, Ella W. H. 
 Gates, Mildred L. H. Marsh, Lucile K. Clo\ds, Marie C. Lilliston, 
 Ercel F. Whitmer, Florence A. Wolcott, Olive D. Shelley, Nell 
 B. Heisterman, Gladys P. Houser, Florence Brubaker, Addie 
 M. Hoffman, Marion H. Bell. 
 
 Presidents who served : Jeanette Magowan, Florence Wolcott, 
 ^Margaret May, Florence Brubaker, Jessie Job, Mildred Gehlmann, 
 Gladys Houser, Bessie Bates, Florence Magowan, Alma Weldo, 
 Mabel Gramlich, Ma)-belle Snorf, Edna Euth Wood. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 37. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CP, LAKE FOREST 
 
 Organized October 30, 1928 hy Bessie R. Ra>ney 
 Charter members: Edith G. Johnson, Jeanette H. Haynes, 
 Frances L. Coffin, Theresa H. Cummings, Doris L. Muir, Annie 
 Eoberts, Eda C. Sleight, Jessie M. Eussell, Eleonora Engle, 
 Isabelle W. Brown Carter, Marguerite Creamer Pearson, Stella 
 E. Glasgow Daires, Gene\'ieve W. James. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Edith Johnson, Eda Sleight, Frances 
 Coffin, Annie Eoberts, Dorothy Williams, Anna H. Wenban, Olive
 
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 I. Vercoe, Stella Glasgow, Mildred Gillette, Dorothy Moore, 
 Esther Beatty, Margaret Curtis. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 68. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CQ, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 16, 1929 iy Myrtle C. Combe 
 
 Charter members: Mae Hazen Howe, Lillian Gerecke Hope, 
 Ruth Hazen Kimble, Addie M. Tomlinson, Cecil Kasehagen, 
 Marion Murphy, Kate S. Hale, Helen D. Bechtolt, Florence B. 
 Tomlinson, Aurel Zinsmeister, Katherine D. Payne, Marion L. 
 Tracy, Georgia V. Hill, Genevra A. Overholt, Vera Wertheim, 
 Anita B. Reece, Margorie G. Suard. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mae Hazen Howe, Addie M. 
 Tamlinson, Katherine Payne, Josephine Swigert, Helen D. 
 Bechtolt, Madelyn H. Gleeson, Marget McPherron, Marie 
 Lauthers, Aurel Zinsmeister, Ruth Kimble, Florence Pinch, 
 Esther Comstock, Lois Zinsmeister. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 48. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CR, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized April 17, 1929 hy Myrtle C. Combe 
 
 Charter members : Elizabeth Mae Parry, Laura Lee Clements, 
 Esther L. Strickland, Ruth E. Maland, Hazel Lamb Skinner, 
 Helen Bogue Dicus, Laura C. Eason, Helene H. Altfilisch, Lucile 
 K. Clovis, Marjorie A. Francis Bickler, Frances P. Baker, Ida C. 
 Dicus, Blanche Young Gregg, Anita Hill Atkinson, Hulda M. 
 Phipps. 
 
 Presidents who served: Laura Lee Clemens, Palma Smith, 
 Frances Baker, Amanda Holbrook, Sylvia Lee, Hazel Skinner, 
 Ruth Maland, Jeanette Myers, Ruth McAffee, Luella Bushey, 
 Mayme Brown, Eleanor Hoffman, Jean Simmons, Mary Brent- 
 linger. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 44. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 87. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CS, KEWANEE 
 
 Organized April 18, 1929 by Myrtle C. Combe 
 
 Charter members: Margaret V. Lauterback, Leona M.
 
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 Karsten, Mary W. Walker, Frances D. Rhodes, Elizabeth B. 
 Palmer, Pauline King Kemp, Bertha Bninner, Charity P. Taylor, 
 lima Kerr Heflin, Clara Louise Howard, Louise N. Boethke, 
 Harriet Munn, Hazel Curtis Swain, Carrie C. Peterson Waller, 
 Eleanor T. Washburn. 
 
 Presidents who served: Margaret Lauterback, Mary Walker, 
 Eleanor Washburn, Pauline Kemp, Bertha Brunner, lima Heflin, 
 Louise McRae, Mildred Anderson, Martha Curtis, Betty Stewart, 
 Hazel Swain, Helen Williams. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 59. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 92. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CT, EAST ST. LOUIS 
 
 Organized April 20, 1929 by Myrtle C. Combe 
 
 Charter members : Nell H. Olbrich, Mayme Mead, Esther N. 
 Spitze, Madeline W. Pierce, Alta G. Ropiequet, Jennie L. 
 Eodenberger, Hazel H. Wright Driemeyer, Mabel A. Miller, 
 Evalena B. Nickell, Nell E. Watson, Frances W. Nalbach, Jessie 
 M. Goetzman, Louise Helm, Corinne Ellis. 
 
 Presidents who served: Nell Olbrich, Bessie Patterson, 
 Madeleine Pierce, Corinne Ellis, Charlotte Johnson, Alta 
 Eopiequet, Frances Nalbach, Odessa Patterson, Vashti Gill, Edna 
 Hitchcock, Gertrude Stephenson, Lucile Myers, Jennie Eoden- 
 berger, Katherine Osborn, Adele Harrington. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 46. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 73. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CU, MOUNT MORRIS 
 
 Organized November 16, 1929 by Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter members: Frances G. Prendergast, Dorothy Davis 
 Eoss, Polly B. Newton, Pauline B. Yoe, Frances T. Bronson, 
 Margaret Crawford, Ada Mitchell, Lorraine Thomas, Ealy F. 
 Grobe Morris, Mary E. Wishard Logan, Euth Coft'man, Bemice 
 B. Leonard, Laura Lewis Cratty, Edith E. Kable. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary Wishard Logan, Berniece 
 Leonard, Lorraine Thomas, Ealy Grobe Morris, Amy McNett, 
 Euth Coffman, Pauline Yoe, Dorothy Eoss, Ethyle McNett Town, 
 Margaret Crawford, Edna Coulson, Lola Lizer, Sarah Allen, 
 Margaret Mitchell, Evelyn Lundgren. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 26. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 40.
 
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 ► CHAPTER CV, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized Janiuiry 14, 1930 hy Opal B. Baymiller 
 
 Charter members: Edith B, Loucks, Drusa D. McKarahan, 
 Mildred B. Wanberg, Alberta Read, Adelaide M. Cox, Virginia 
 B. Ashby Eyerly, Nona S. Donahue, Marian Abel McCreary, 
 Carrie M. Holmes, Maude B. Stolley, Anna Dean K. Whitchurch, 
 Mary Scott Burkland, Fern Constance Harris, June Whitford 
 Misko, Lucie Fogle Janes. 
 
 Presidents who served: Edith Loucks, Doris Mutz, Adelaide 
 Cox, Anne Whitchurch, June Misko, Mildred Wanberg, Hazel 
 Hamrin, Alda Gillet, Dorothy Hiatt, Ruth Freeman, Hennion 
 Mathews, Mabel Tackaberry, Marian Aycock. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 56. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 93. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CW, LA GRANGE 
 
 Organized February 3, 1930 by Opal B. Baymiller 
 
 Charter members: Hazel Hill Vial, Kathryn V. Squires, 
 Sarah B. Dodge, Mary E. Heater, Jennie E. Vial, Margaret 
 Tyler Vial, Ruby D. Purcell, Edith Bloomfield, Mildred G. 
 Workman, Beulah A. Johnson, Eleanore M. Hurbut, Hope E. 
 Branum, Elizabeth K. Warner, Frances M. Mooney. 
 
 Presidents who served: Kathryn Squires, Carrie Kendall, 
 Beulah Johnson, Eleanor Davies, Hazel Ziesel, Josephine Fielder, 
 Anna Simons, Ruth Shupp, Mila Field, Kathryn Price, Bernda 
 Ault, Mabel Lissack, Roxane Ruminer, Alberta Drake. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 55. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 96. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CX, DECATUR 
 
 Organized March 17, 1930 by Opal B. Baymiller 
 Charter members: Hazel J. Wikoff, Edith S. Clark, Elizabeth 
 H. Stevens, Margaret Moore, Marion Wood, Grace S. Jack, 
 Harriet E. Childs, Lavina Hess, Irene H. Duerr, Eugenia Allin, 
 Margaret Hadley, Jessie W. Lockett, Olga E. McDavid, Anna 
 W. McNabb, Effie M. Theobald, Margaret Morrow, Olive M. 
 Young, Helen E. Bohon. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eugenia Allin, Olga McDavid, 
 Margaret Moore, Grace Jack, Lavina Hess, Genevieve Miller, 
 Helen Allen, Neva G auger, Effie Theobald, Marian Diehl, 
 Marjorie McGee, Harriet Birt.
 
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 Active membership March 1, 1953: 51. 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 69. 
 
 ► CHAPTER CY, JACKSONVILLE 
 
 Organized April 14, 1930 ly Opal B. Baymiller 
 
 Charter members: Ellie J. Trabue, Grace Burd Coover, 
 Emma G. Smith, Vera T. Swope, Harriet Gilmore, Empo Henry, 
 Jessie P. Jenks, Anna L. Stevenson, Claire S. Stevenson, Anna 
 K. Johnson, Stella M. Gilbert, Vera K. Caldwell, Alida Alexander, 
 Liila D. Hay. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Jessie P. Jenks, Vera Swope, Empo 
 Henry, Elizabeth Buffe, Bessie Ballow, Pearl Dollear, Helen 
 Carpenter, Lela Hamm, Vera Caldwell, Violet Davis, Harriet 
 Willard, Lecie Hutchison, Anna L. Stevenson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 47. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 85. 
 
 ► CHAPHR CZ, PEORIA 
 
 Organized April 15, 1930 hy Opal B. Baymiller 
 
 Charter members: Elsie D. Heiple, Myrtle G. Mendenhall, 
 Pearl T. Lund, Harriet Kellstedt, Dorothy B. Hootman, Eva W. 
 Prochazka, Ethel Fisher, Euth W. Pearman, Freda M. Engstrom, 
 Una G. Lidle, Grace Dunshee, Harriet Galbraith, Talea M. 
 Hulsebus, Ella M. Streibich. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel Fisher, Ella Streibich, Hazel 
 Lynch, Dorothy Hootman, Nelle Olson, Elizabeth Keithley, Madge 
 Schied, Harriet Galbraith, Glenna Cummings, Pearl Lund, Helen 
 Eussell. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 53. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DA, PARK RIDGE 
 
 Organized December 13, 1930 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter memhers: Gladys E. Kivell, Florence G. Smock, 
 
 Bereniece Ward, Edith G. Malone, Opal Pagan, Mary Osia, 
 
 Miriam V. K. Nelson, Evelyn Cox Simmons, Harriet J. Smock, 
 
 Mary S. Shepard, Carrie H. Snell, Gloria T. Taylor, Lillian
 
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 L. Ackerburg, Katherine M. Abbott, Marian B. Cassody, Elvira 
 Brown, Cora Kyerson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Gladys Kivell, Opal Eagan, Marian 
 Cassady, Elvira Brown, Mary Shepard, Gloria Taylor, Lillian 
 Ackerburg, Florence Smock, Marion Miller, Margherita Hallberg, 
 Carrie Snell, Euth Cameron, Mary Schmidt. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 40. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 66. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DB, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized December 30, 1930 hy Bessie B. Baney 
 
 Chxirter members: Norma L. Eomes, Sara P. Taylor, Jean 
 W. Goodsell, Helen M. Taylor, Helen C. Miller, Grace E. 
 Johannesen, Jean H. Greig, Sara Jane Eomes Matther, Elizabeth 
 Eomes Young, Ethel B. Kellar, Grace M. Stephens, Lillian P. 
 Wisdom. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen M. Taylor, Jean Goodsell, 
 Sarah P. Taylor, Grace Johannesen, Eloise Hutchinson, Elizabeth 
 Eomes, Marjorie Carr, Grace M. Stephens, Helen C. Miller, 
 Ethel B. Kellar, Hila Logan, Helen Mercer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 35. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DC, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized January 6, 1931 by Pauline B. BinaJcer 
 
 Charter members: Jessie M. Graham, Euth C. Montgomery, 
 Margaret P. Cowdin, Helena, M. Tobin, Neva C. Strong, Dell 
 F. Jordon, Alice W. Luehrs, Alice E. James, Emilie L. Taylor, 
 Lucy S. Shepherd, Virginia S. Catron, Eleanor K. Holmes, 
 Nira C. Irwin, Gertrude L. McKelvey, Kathleen G. Hardaway. 
 
 Presidents who served: Kathleen Hardaway, Helena Tobin, 
 Gertrude McKelvey, Dell Jordan, Esther French, Euth Mont- 
 gomery, Jessie Graham, Vera Dellert, Helen Stephens, Frances 
 Bay, Lucy Shepherd, Lucille Eeddick. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 54. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DD, AURORA 
 
 Organized January 23, 1931 by Pauline B. Binaker 
 
 Charter members: Mary Potter Culver, Susie C. Davis,
 
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 Esther E. Eandall, Nettie C. Eea, Anna Eiddell Sagle, Polly 
 Boorkman, Pearl Grometer, Greta Picker, Sidonia L. Walker, 
 Ann B, Hamper, Minnie F. Janda, Mabelle J. Cheney. 
 
 Presidents who served: Anna Sagle, Mildred McDowell, 
 Anna Hamper, Mabelle Cheney, Katherine Lee, Minnie Janda, 
 Lettie Murphy, Mary Culver, Mame Croushorn, Lillian Schwarz, 
 Creta Picker, Hildagard Schuff, Lucille Halfvarson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 57. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 77. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DE, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized January 31, 1931 ly Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Elizabeth Bell Albro, Mary M. Marker, 
 Marion F. Brazelton, Mona Jackson, Catharine Gilford Snyder, 
 Ethel D. Luckenbill, Margaret McLaughlin, Helen M. Schollen- 
 berger, Emily C. Hackett, Essalee Wallace, Alta H. Davis, Mary 
 Louise DeMet, Louise M. Wallace, Helen L. Snider, Miriam L. 
 Ecklund. 
 
 Presidents who served: Catharine Gifford, Essalee Wallace, 
 Mary DeMet, Elizabeth Bell, Helen Schollenberger, Sylvia 
 Johnson, Marion Brazelton, Madge Baldwin, Frances Seeley, lone 
 Wells, Bernice Burden, Virginia Parker, Mona Peterson, Mona 
 Jackson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 33. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 63. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DF, WESTERN SPRINGS 
 
 Organized February 3, 1931 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Helen B. Carpenter, Lillian H. Shore, 
 Martha D. Keith, Sara Dockum, Ernesta S. Seass, Nora H. Bills, 
 Alice F. Sperry, Elizabeth A. Stevenson, Mabel Togg, Wilma G. 
 Hieron}anus, Margaret Creelman, Elizabeth Andrews, Margaret 
 S. Groat, Eosamund H. Abbott, Louise Acres, Euth C. Bolay, 
 Willmana S. Noyes, Mary P. Niemann. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lillian Shore, Wilma Hieronymus, 
 Nora Bills, Willmana Noyes, Mabel Hank, Mildred Trumbo, 
 Nora Wishard, Marie Moore, Sara Simpson, Helen Bomke, 
 Josephine Swec. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 77.
 
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 ► CHAPTER DG, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized February 11, 1931 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Mabel G. McKee, Julia A. Pool, Helen 
 
 B. Patton, Bertonia A. Allum, Edith Harris, Florence B. Payne, 
 Helen J. Miller, Helen B. Leys, Edith L. Lanning, Jean M. 
 Brewer, Gladys M. Irwin, Margaret A. Clevett, Frances S. Cassidy. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mabel G-. McKee, Helen B. Patton, 
 Helen B. Leyes, Jean M. Brewer, Helen Miller, Gladys Cross, 
 Olive Cross, Olive Hill, Enth Wilder, Maybelle Cross, Mildred 
 Daniel, Katherine Crawford, Lucile Coombs. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 87. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DH, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized February 16, 1931 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Elizabeth 0. Smith, Bernice Law, Clara 
 M. Harvey, Grace B. Beall, Martha J. Van Nostrand, Kachel 
 P. Withers, Alberta 0. Smith, Gertrude H. Klingensmith, Mae F, 
 Trigg, Kathryn K. Cairns, Marguerite Hartman, Grace P. 
 Ferguson, Zoraida H. Dobberteen, Eamona K. Johnson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Elizabeth O'Lynn Smith, Clara 
 Harvey, Eleanor Holland, Martha Van Nostrand, Zoraida 
 Dobberteen, Kathryn Eoark Cairns, Euth Sherman, Helen Small, 
 Euth Wilhjelm, Eleanor Briggs, Florence Mayfield, Edna Eidley, 
 Lucile Drewry. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 73. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Dl, DOWNERS GROVE 
 
 Organized February 26, 1931 by Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Marjorie B. Wrenn, OUum A. Mochel, 
 
 Addie H. Becker, Eva M. Coburn, Margaret H. Derr, Beatrice A. 
 
 Hoag, Marie M. Pay son, Vivian W. Harkness, Euth C. Boal, Nelia 
 
 C. Owen, Lucile E. Jones, Grace E. Diener, Leila M. Lacey, Clara 
 E. Mackey, Gladys M. Coles. 
 
 Presidents who served : Marjorie Wrenn, Ollimi Mochel, Euth 
 Boal, Nelia Owen, Leila Lacey, Euth Carpenter, Edna Naramore, 
 Alice DeWolf, Merle Mackey, Maude Antkoviak, Margaret God- 
 shalk, Betty Wiley, Myrtle Beckham. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 64.
 
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 ► CHAPTER DJ, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 11, 1931 hy Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter memhers: Ethel E. Holton, May Y. Eeed Mullen, 
 Laura S. Hartwell, Florence M. Blake, Louise Hartwell, Helen 
 I. Whigam, Florence Hanawalt, Grace 0. Randall, Lillie A. 
 McAllister, Edith M. Briggs, Snow Mayo, Julia M. Hartwell, 
 Marv G. Hartwell, Betsv A. Hanson, Eva H. Thornton, Frances 
 E. Thornton. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel E. Holton, Grace 0. Eandall, 
 Snow Mayo, Florence M. Blake, Edith M. Briggs, Betsy A. Han- 
 son, May Y. Mullen, Florence Hanawalt, Bertha Pendrup, Dorothy 
 J. Magee, Lucy Daniels. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 26. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 41. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DK, CARROLLTON 
 
 Organized April 13, 1931 hy Pauline B. Rinaker 
 
 Charter memhers: Edith F. Burns, Blanche S. Purl, Harriet 
 W. Eldred, Ruth F. Meek, Clara H. Meek, Alma M. Daum, Edna 
 R. Vedder, Louise M. Baldwin, Minnie J. Sharon, Elizabeth M. 
 Coyle, Ann Driver, Meda P. Jones, Mary T. Pierson, Julia Pier- 
 son, Dorothy Davis. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Clara Meek, Julia Pierson, Edna 
 Vedder, Blanche Purl, Ruth Meek, Elona Hardcastle, Harriet 
 Eldred, Gudrun Wilson, Hazel Paper, Ann Driver, Blanche Brown. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 41. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DL, ROCHELLE 
 
 Organized April 13, 1931 hy Pauline B. Rinaler 
 
 Charter memhers: Kathlyn MacCullock Kirpeteg, Margaret 
 Falstad, Lois E. Kingma, Mabel L. Lissack, Beth W. Grieve, Kalah 
 Stegmeir, Faye F. Carter, Laura B. Masters, Lillian 0. linger, 
 Orva Cleveland, Mabel Barker, Franc linger. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mabel Lissack, Kathlyn MacCullock, 
 Beth Grieve, Lois Kingma, Lillian linger, Ethel Hoon, Orva 
 Cleveland, Laura Masters, Franc linger, Nora Phelps, Hazel 
 Anderson, Faye Carter, Margery Guest, Helen Ellis, Ruth Heron, 
 Pearl Motlong, Anastasia Bienfang, Ada May. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 33. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 46.
 
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 ► CHAPTER DM, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized April 15, 1931 hy Mahel Y. Frishee 
 
 Charter members: Nellie Banes, Emma J. Larson, Minnie 
 L, Fitzgerald, Grace V. Kuck, Mary H. Yearley, Beatrice E, 
 Tomlinson, Frances Wilson, Emma McConkey, Laura May Ollen- 
 dorf, Willette Fitzgerald Kuhlman, Clara E. Taylor, Jean Fitz- 
 gerald-Budd. 
 
 Presidents who served : Minnie L. Fitzgerald, Nella R. Briggs, 
 Laura May Ollendorf, Jessie Johnston Howser, Lois Dimmitt, 
 Marian Gates, Betty Inman, Myrtle Murray, Margaret Hawkins, 
 Margaret Nass. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 57. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DN, GENESEO 
 
 OrgoiTiized April 16, 1931 hy Pauline B. Rinaker 
 
 Charter members : Gertrude P. Huston, Rose A. Watts, Lydia 
 Colby, Clara W. Murphy, Nellie S. Smith O'Harra, Marion P. 
 Becker, Olive S. Greenwood, Fannie M. White, Flora White, Nellie 
 Hanna, Louise E. Magee, Mary C. Brown, Mildred E. Richmond, 
 Louise T. White, Edith G. Wood. 
 
 Presidents who served: Gertrude Huston, Clara Murphy, 
 Mildred Richmond, Louise White, Olive Greenwood, Loma Hoy, 
 Rose Watts, Eunice Higginbotham, Marian Becker, Jean Potter, 
 Mary Brown. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 53. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DO, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized April 21, 1931 hy Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members : Stella C. Searle, Lillian Beecher, Winifred 
 Roach, Saidee Lee Caperton, Annette G. Goheen, Ada C. Mercer, 
 Mary W. Moore, Ruth M. Webb, Pearl Stanley Miller, Erma C. 
 Houston, Flora D. Skipp, Alice M. Bishop, Sarah F. Brandt. 
 
 Presidents who served: Stella Searle, Winifred Roach, Erma 
 Houston, Frances Dreyer, Pearl Stanley Miller, Ada Mercer, 
 Annette Goheen, Sarah Brandt, Mary Moore, Ella Kennedy, Ruth 
 Eberlein, Faith McGee, Ruth Krotz. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 36. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 61.
 
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 ► CHAPTER DP, OAK PARK 
 
 Orgamzed April 23, 1931 ly Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Nina H. Goertz, Charlotte R. Ellinwood, 
 Ella W. Gates, KathrjTi V. Sqiiires, Dorothy Gronnerod, Virginia 
 J. Gardner, Vivian H. Ketcham, Retta B. Hervey, Marjorie F. 
 Bates, Jane 0. Harris, Ruth Skelly, Alice R. Hubbard, Vernia 
 M. Kirkpatrick. 
 
 Presidents who served: Nina Goertz, Vivian Ketcham, Char- 
 lotte Ellinwood, Retta Hervey, Daisy Holland, Eldora Spear, 
 Maud Diehl, Katherine Roth, Marie Good, Lela Long, Faith Wood. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 50. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DQ, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized April 24, 1931 hy Bessie R. Raney 
 
 Charter members: Mary Alice Ebersole, Miriam C. Burr, 
 Agnes Reeves Cohdlle, Ruth Drummond, Ida S. Crawford, Har- 
 riette B. Allen, Margaret Butchart, Cecile H. Heywood, Lucile B. 
 McKnight, Mary Lee Elwood, Alice A. McSlov, Mildred B. Taft, 
 Alifl B. Bradt. 
 
 Presidents who served: Agnes Colville, Miriam Burr, Ida 
 Crawford, Mary Alice Ebersole, Harriette Allen, June Luscher, 
 Margaret Whitfield, Marjorie Bennett, Mary Lee Elwood, Ruth 
 Hause, Betty Carey, Olive Pickard, Margaret Kreml. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 62. 
 
 ► CHAPnR DR, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized Janwary 11, 1932 hy Mahel Y. Frishee 
 
 Charter m&mhers: Ruth H. Thelander, Gertrude E. Cone, 
 Ruth K. Frazier, Frances Beinert, Carol D. AVoodruff, Vera Ryan, 
 Barbara Wood, Gretchen K, Culter. J, Louise Pavey, Pauline S. 
 Atlass, Jeanette B. Wells, Helen Gilmore, Aileen Mundt, Eliza- 
 beth R. Baldwin, Maxine Smaage. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ruth Thelander, Ruth Frasier, Ger- 
 trude Cone, Vera Ryan, Maxine Smaage, Betty Baldwin, Caroline 
 McCormick, Katharine Harbaugh, Virginia Drake, Beryl Spies. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 28. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 51.
 
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 ► CHAPTER DS, JOLIET 
 
 Organized January 14, 1932 ty Mabel Y. Frishee 
 
 Charter members: Christine E. Bunch, Helen A. Humphrey 
 Perry, Hester K. Nicolls, Harriet E. Peterson, Margaret Wheelock, 
 Grace Tippet, Helen Anne Wright, Lois M. Hyde, Mabel F. Hunt, 
 Mabel Moon, Doris McKinstry Loomer, Dorthe Hudzietz, Mildred 
 N. Anderson Libberton. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Humphrey, Grace Tippet, 
 Mabel Moon, Lela Eldred, Mabel Hunt, Harriet Peterson, Helen 
 Anne Wright, Myra Mather, Dorothy Hudzietz, Christine Bunch, 
 Glenna Hamill. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 27. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 33. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DT, SALEM 
 
 Organized January 29, 1932 hy Stella B. Leys 
 
 CJmrter members: Louise H. Rodden, Helen McMackin, 
 Dorothy H. Merritt, Amelia Schoonover, Florence Donahue, Char- 
 lotte Holt, Helen Laney, Edith Reed Purdue, Ruth Rohrbough, 
 Marie D. Cotton, Opal H. Bell, Margaret B. Martin, Lena Keeler, 
 Helen Wilson. 
 
 Presidents who served : Louise Rodden, Helen McMackin/ 
 Opal Bell, Dorothy Merritt, Margaret Martin, Helen Laney, Mar- 
 garet Holt, Ruth Rohrbough, Lena Keeler, Stella Logan, Louise 
 Davidson, Grace Kneale, Helen Wilson, Nedra Yohe, Pauline 
 David, Ruth Bachman, Gladys Hiatt, Dorothy Dietrich, Mamie 
 Sweney, Winona Smith. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 52. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DU, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 11, 1932 by Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter members: Beatrice Ek, Rachel Sykes Anspach, 
 
 Jennie Wittbecker, Doris R. Mutz, Caroline Stoeber, Frances 
 
 Shanks, Mary Elizabeth Burmeister, Saidie B. Works, Ruth B. 
 
 Stauffer, Lizette S. Freeark, Lucille B. Gallion, Margaret A. 
 
 Snedicor, Kathryne M. George, Ora B. Nightingale, Lillian E. 
 
 Morgan. 
 
 Presidents vjho served : Doris Mutz, Saidie B. Works, Beatrice 
 
 Ek, Lizette Freeark, Caroline Stoeber, Rachel Anspach, Ruth
 
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 Stauffer, Dorothy Waterbury, Dorothy Gano, Eloise Beatty, Stena 
 Elghammer, Vivian Porter. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 60. 
 
 ► CHAPnR DV, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized April 20, 1932 ly Mabel Y. Frishee 
 
 Charter members: Harriet L. VonWeyk, Euth Lacy Velde, 
 M}Ttle E. Judd, Grace I. Judd, Mary Matilda Janes Baker, 
 Arlene Hippie, Mildred Newman, Willa Ella Hawley, Kathryn 
 M. Rooney Johnson, Rae S. Keil, Helen B. Greenwood, Ellen 
 L, Judd, Virginia M. Eraser. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen B. Greenwood, Euth I. Velde, 
 Mildred Newman, Grace I. Judd, Willa Ella Asay, Eae S. Keil, 
 Mae T. Burns, Alice Louise Wescott, Mildred A. Magill, Eva L. 
 Henninger, Arlene Hippie, Olive M. Carlson, Euth Cook, 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 48. 
 
 Total membership from dat€ of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 57. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DW, POLO 
 
 Organized December S, 1933 by Alice P. Pence 
 
 Charter members: Alta E. Burman, Lois Vertrees Dexter, 
 Eomana Terry, Florence E. Eowland, Annabelle McGrath, Ida 
 Marie Woodruff, Hazel Eusch, Mary Vera Joiner, Nancy Strickler, 
 Pauline S. Schell, Fannie G. Schryver, Aileen McGrath, Milbrey 
 E. Mulnix, Vera Ocker, Eleanor Griffin. 
 
 Presidents who served : Aileen McGrath, Nancy Strickler, 
 Eleanor Griffin, Eomana Terry, Vera Joiner, Fannie Schryver, 
 Marguerite Coffey, Milbrey Mulnix, Margaret Donaldson, Anna- 
 belle McGrath, Mary Copenhaver. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 38. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DX, DE KALB 
 
 Organized April 1, 1933 by Alice P. Pence 
 Charter members: Grace E. Nix, Helen B. Adams, Maude 
 Uhland, Elsie Wiggert, Emily Burton, Eva McKee, Jeann H.
 
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 Sohner Wirtz, Charlotte M. Cummings Whittaker, Irma J. Wittke 
 Glidden, Grace C. Spencer, Alice E. Gould, Mary S. Mann, Blanche 
 Davidson, Rose P. Bradley. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eva McKee, Maude Uhland, Jean 
 Wirtz, Elsie Wiggert, Grace Nix, Charlotte AVhittaker, Hazel 
 Foster, Hazel Coar, Alice Gould, Florence Dertinger, Grace 
 Howell, Katherine Walker, Bernadine Hanby, Emily Burton, 
 Jeannie Hainds, Edna Easmusen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 45. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 58. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DY, ELGIN 
 
 Organized April 3, 1933 hy Alice P. Pence 
 
 Charter members: Alice Blackman, Elma Sims Gabby, Doris 
 Cartwright, Mildred T. Weigal, Nina Reber, Eva C. McClenaghan, 
 Norma Eggert, Winnifred Towner, Ethel C. Bennett, Ina E. Shep- 
 herd, Dorothy O'Connor, Edith C. Eiser, Edna L. Spiess, Mar- 
 garet Gabby Mote, Louise Stewart. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Alice Blackman, Ethel Bennett, 
 Ina Shepherd, Louise DeLancey, Eva Jean McClenaghan, Eileen 
 Allerton, Dorothea Myers, Gertrude Gromer, Nina Eeber, Mar- 
 jorie Leonard, Gladys Schmidtke, Martha Dack. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 55. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 78. 
 
 ► CHAPTER DZ, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 5, 1933 hy Mahel Y. Frisbee 
 
 Charter members: Addie D. Mitchell, Almona B. Hamblin, 
 Winifred C. Abram, Martha B. Eastin, Margaret Mitehell, Eosa- 
 lind J. Engberg, Elinor N. DuBois, Adolphia G. Ettinger, J. 
 Louise Pavey, Bessie A. McCaughan, Euth G. McAfee, Dorothy 
 F. Dickson, Mina Latham, Irene Heims. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Addie Mitchell, Winifred Abram, 
 Doris Flynn, Harriette McCahnan, Pauline Morrison, Kathr}Ti 
 Squires, Marguerite Martin, Jean Goodsell, Kathryn Garretson, 
 Josephine Hemb, Susie Marlatt. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 32. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 63.
 
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 ► CHAPTER EA, BATAVIA 
 
 Organized April 8, 1933 by Alice P. Pence 
 
 Charter members: Bessie S. Bucks, Dorothy Bucks, Louise 
 W. Pickett, Mary E. Storm, Ora C. Gayle, Naomi E. Abernathy, 
 Ida M. Purinton, Harriet Keith, Mary G, Morton, Kuth W. 
 Nelson, Dorothy M. Frick, Mae L. Lee, Florence E. Daniels, Sara 
 A. Thompson, Isabelle C. Crane. 
 
 Presidents trho served: Mary Storm, Bessie Bucks, Ruth 
 Nelson, Florence Daniels, Maude Bailey, Edna Hailey, Isabelle 
 Crane, La Verne Augustine, Blanche Powell, Miriam Johnson, 
 Edith Elwood. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 52. 
 
 ¥ CHAPTER EB, JOLIET 
 
 Organized April 18, 1933 by Alice P. Pence 
 
 Charter members: Stella Lane, Lucille Evans, Nellie L. 
 Mariner, Harriet D. Temple, Helen S. Johnson, Grace G. Jones, 
 Luella N. Deam, Alice F. Johnson, Edith L. Mowat, Martha W. 
 Talcott, Gordina S. Newton, Vera K. Reynolds, Mildred M. Frost. 
 
 Presidents who served: Grace Jones, Lucille Evans, Luella 
 Deam, Nellie Mariner, Alice Johnson, Gordina Newton, Helen 
 Johnson, Vera Reynolds, Edna Blough, Marion L. Hahneman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 39. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EC, QUINCY 
 
 Organized April 19, 1933 by Alice P. Pence 
 
 Charter members: Ruth H. Howerton, Gladys R. Appuhn, 
 Edythe R. Johnson, Corinne Primrose, Margaret H. Keys, Ruth 
 Enlow, Mary Schallenberg, Belle Zora Taylor, Grace E. Shuck, 
 Yetta M. Tisdall, Lillian Schlagenhauf, Mary W. Larson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mary Warren Larson, Ruth Hale 
 Howerton, Gladys Appuhn, Corinne Primrose, Grace Shuck, 
 Marian Merritt, Margaret Pearce, Helen Larson, Winifred Thesen, 
 Winifred Pfeiffer, Marie Howd, Lois Nichols, Mabel Gabriel, 
 Lydia Bunting. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 60.
 
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 ► CHAPTER ED, EDWARDSVILLE 
 
 Organized April 4:, 1934 hy Mary K. Lindsay 
 
 Charter members: Martha L. Williamson, Hazel D. Powell, 
 Emily C. Gunn, Lucile G. Dressel, Doris H. Alexander, Alice G. 
 Mayo, Grace E. Davis, Helen B. Osborne, Helen W. Love, Naomi 
 B. Wood, Viola E. Bristow, Dorothy D. Schwarz Blackmore, 
 Adelaide H. Dale. 
 
 Presidents who served: Hazel D. Powell, Naomi B. Wood, 
 Helen W. Love, Martha L. Williamson, Dorothy S. Blackmore, 
 Doris H. Alexander, Viola R. Bristow, Elizabeth P. Scott, Lucile 
 G. Dressel, Edna V. Kinzer, Florence T, Springer, Marjorie C. 
 Flagg, Alice G. Mayo, Vivian Ij. Blume, 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 44. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EE, MORTON 
 
 Organized April 14, 1934 hy Mary K. Lindsay 
 
 Charter members: Jean Gallagher, Joanna C. Conibear, Jane 
 Ann Conibear Doble, Erma Cariiis, Mabel Rolling, Iva Hoettchen, 
 Ethel Darst, Marion Hallock, Edna C. Wright, Hazel Risk, Anna 
 Miller, Garretta Ueberrheim, Emma E. Miller, Edythe Kirk, Jane 
 Corbitt Oekel. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jean Gallagher, Jane Ann Dobel, 
 Edna Wright, Erma Carius, Emma Buehrig, Florence Mathis, 
 Ethel Darst, Elsa Stumpf, Irene Dunniway, Helen Cox, Ethel 
 Melton, Marjorie Jensen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 33, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 46. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EF, PEORIA 
 
 Organized April 16, 1934 by Stella B. Leys 
 
 Charter members: Alice Virginia Covey, Betty Bartholomew 
 Baldwin, Evabeth Miller, Helen Heyl Royster, Elizabeth Findley 
 Meek, Gladys Royal Bittel, Isabel Bone Rix, Evelyn Holliday 
 Fraker, Martha Baymiller Ridley, Gretchen Hiilsebus Iben, Lucille 
 Triebel Ireland, Rhody Fisher, Eleanor Hazard Reagan, Dorothy 
 Gorham, Mildred Hazard Neidlinger. 
 
 Presidents who served: Gretchen Iben, Evelyn Fraker, Eva- 
 beth Miller, Lois Kautfman, Mary Runnnel, Margaret Cowan,
 
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 Betty Baldwin, Mildred Neidlinger, Alice Covey, Helen Dunlop, 
 Virginia Baymiller. Betty Brown. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 42. 
 
 Tota,l membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 66. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EG, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized AjJril 21, 1934 hy Margaret W. Brundage 
 
 Charter members: Anna L, Helsing, Felicie S. Ward, Corinne 
 H. Cheney, Marion Klasstorner, Edna J3ell Spencer, Alice Roth, 
 Vera T. Joyce, Ruby H. Johnson, Muriel Schmnaker, Helen H. 
 Helsing, Martha Bo wen, Mary C. Nelson. 
 
 Presidents who served : Anna Helsing, Corinne Cheney, Olive 
 Boice, Winifred Lumpkin, Sally Simpson, Mary Virginia Oldaker, 
 Ethel Bemmels, Adelaide Price, Louise Miller, Winifred Knox, 
 Amy Medina, Mary Gene Gurley. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 58. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EH, OHAWA 
 
 Organized April 21, 1934 hy Mary K. Lindsay 
 
 Charter memhers: Ethel M. Roe Whitaker, Katherine E. 
 Dyson, Eva Anderson, Ellen W. Green, Edith Hibbs, Evelyn M. 
 Drew Zwanzig, Hope H. Dunavan, Audrey Albert, Minnetta Hart- 
 shorn Pearson, Eleanor Parks Carlson, Clara T, Thorson, Mildred 
 E. Marsh Teitgen, Margareth H. Carlson, Mildred Morgan, Lillian 
 M. Lindholm, Hazel C. Giehler, Sara W. Floyd. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel Roe Whittaker, Lillian Lind- 
 holm, Hope Dunavan, Margareth Carlson, Clara Thorson, Ethel 
 Propps, Helyn Sawyer, Audrey Albert, Sophia Spurgin, Frances 
 Gates, Helen Burke. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 59. 
 
 > CHAPTER El, JACKSONVILLE 
 
 Organized May 21, 1934 by Mary K. Lindsay 
 Charter imembers: Hester C. Burbridge, Vivian P. Johnson, 
 Esther N. Robinson, Margaret Merz Rohrman, Janet M. Mc- 
 Clelland, Margaret P. Gruny, Julia Thornburgh Walker, Grace
 
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 L, Fitch, Eloise S. Plouer, Laura S. Bailey, Frances R. P. Mc- 
 Reynolds, Mary E. Groves, Virginia F. Hoffman, Thelma J. 
 Hollowell. 
 
 Presidents who served: Hester Burbridge, Julia Walker, 
 Thelma Hollowell, Grace Fitch, Laura Bailey, Eloise Plouer, 
 Katherine Sheppard, Margaret Gruny, Mary Louise Newman, 
 Elma Savage, Isabel Thomson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 47. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EJ, VIRDEN 
 
 Organized May 22, 1934, by Mary K. Lindsay 
 
 Charter members: Leta E. Coleman, Kathryn C. Liggett, 
 Bessie M. Babbitt, Sarah A. Goode, Edna L. Alderson, Bertha M. 
 Blunk, Leota J. Heuston, June C. Costley, Elsie C. Horner, Mable 
 W. Beasley, Corinne Boucher Hale Kunkle, Grace Shumaker. 
 
 Presidents who served: Leta E. Coleman, Elsie C, Horner, 
 June Costley, Sarah Goode, Bertha M. Blunk, Alma England, 
 Edna L. Alderson, Kathryn C. Liggett, Bessie Babbitt, Grace L. 
 Shumaker, Pearl Woolley, Edith M. Wallace, Georgia Donaldson, 
 Mable Beasley, Charlotte Lane, Leta Coleman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 21. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 24. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EK, WINCHESTER 
 
 Organized May 23, 1934 by Mary K. Lindsay 
 
 Charter members : Elsie M. Thomas, Bernadine Corrie, Alice 
 I. Mudd, Annie L. Smith, Bessie C. Stainforth, Maude C, Banner, 
 Mary L. Coultas Black, Isabel S. Cowhick, Anna E. Haskell, Mabel 
 G. Booz, M. Weltha Webster, Lucille B. North, Bertha Allen, Edna 
 B. Pine. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Edna Pine, Mabel Booz, Maude 
 Danner, Anna Haskell, Alice I. Mudd, Bernadine Corrie, Elsie 
 Thomas, Beilby Leach, Jane Lehman, Lucille North, Courtney 
 Edmonson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 27. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 35.
 
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 ► CHAPTER EL, WILMETTE 
 
 Organized June 1, 1934 hy Margaret W. Brundage 
 
 Charter members: Darlene Jones, Edena Smith, Jeneva 
 Doyon, Luella Farrall, Helen H. Davidson, Theodora C. Mahle, 
 Elizabeth W. Michelet Traxler, Olive C. Smith, Eose B. Pifer, 
 Dora A. Harper, Edith R, Bickham, Leah K. Robson, Winifred 
 Large Pauley. 
 
 Presidents who served: Darlene Jones, Rose Pifer, Winifred 
 Pauley, Dora Harper, Helen Davidson, Beatrice Jeffords, Kather- 
 ine Adams, Leah Robson, Helen Willis, Margaret Gadske. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 48, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 70. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EM, GRIGGSVILLE 
 
 Organized August 27, 1934 ly Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 
 Charter mem.hers: Margaret Hunter, Henrietta F. Kopps, 
 Helen F. Bashforth, Jennie H. Loveless Armentrout, Josephine 
 Laird McLaughlin, Ada W. Jester, Mary Elizabeth Myers, Har- 
 riet W. Myers, Margaret T. Yates, Nellie S. Carey, Hazel S. Ball, 
 Celia Hitch. 
 
 Presidents who served: Margaret G. Hunter, Ada Jester, 
 Mary E. Myers, Harrietta Kopps, Annabelle Ramsey, Hazel S. 
 Ball, Gertrude Gay, Josephine McLaughlin. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EN, WHEATON 
 
 Organized January 28, 1935 hy Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 
 Charter members: Florence 0. Hills, Else L. Cromer, Elaine 
 D. Thompson, Hazel L. Jordon, Mabel C. Safford, Edna D. 
 Wygant, Genevieve C. Biggar, Ruth T. Heaton, Reba D. Harris, 
 Irene R. Kleitz, Retta E. Gay lord, Dorothy S. Morgan, Margaret 
 A. Grant Huntington, Ethel A. Duner, Lucille C. Eotchford. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Florence Hills, Ethel Duner, Gene- 
 vieve Biggar, Bernece Roberts, Rachel Ross, Margaret Best, Reba 
 Harris, Florence Byerrum, Eleanor Mojonnier, Neta Chandler, 
 Helen Stockton, Lydia Crawford, Alice Bremer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 43. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 75.
 
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 ► CHAPTER EO, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized March 23, 1935 ly Ethel C. Jellife 
 
 Charter members: Georgina K. Kyle, Jeanette R. Abels, 
 Mary S. Wakeman, Dorothy P. Rebscher, Anne E. Lewis, Helen 
 S. Ehrhardt, Helen H. Lindner, Cynthia A. Loud, Ella Joy Skoog, 
 Marie G. Wood, Helen J. Kadyk, Helen L. Wood, Mary Ethel 
 Briggle, Grace K. Hadley, Clara F. James, 
 
 Presidents who served : Georgina K. Kyle, Grace K. Hadley, 
 Jeanette E, Abels, Helen S. Ehrhardt, Blanche Lambert, Flo 
 Waldmire, Frances Thomas, Anne Lewis, Mary Jane Neer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 36. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 45. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EP, PALATINE 
 
 Organized April 6, 1935 hy Margaret W. Brundage 
 
 Charter members: Lillian Puffer, Helen Wanberg, Nettie 
 Reusser, Lillian Anderson, Gertrude L, Langhorne, Ida H. Orth, 
 Mary L. Bloomquist, Lulu Herrmann, Anne W. Slover, Dorothy 
 G. Mair, Edna L. Mair Shaddle, Mae M. Gibbs, Margaret Paddock. 
 
 Presidents who served : Lillian Puffer, Gertrude Langhorne, 
 Margaret Paddock, Lulu Herrmann, Dorothy Mair, Florence 
 Steinbrinck, Mildred Acree, Mae Gibbs, Mildred Sanborn. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 54. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EQ, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized April 9, 1935 by Ethel C. Jellife 
 
 Charter m&mbers: Mary Louise W. Dillie, Margaret W. 
 Cooke, Irma C. Schlitt, Anna P. Spencer, Joan C. MacWherter, 
 Mildred S. Struck, Luella Pay ton Smurr, Mildred 0. Eberle, Lois 
 A. Newkirk, Carrie Nell D, Frew, Clara Jane Tobin Hall, Helen 
 0. Collamore. 
 
 Presidents who served : Mary Louise Dillie, Helen Collamore, 
 Joan MacWherter, Lois Newkirk, Mildred 0. Eberle, Irma C. 
 Schlitt, Elsie K. Wells, Pearl Radeke, Margaret Cooke, Virginia 
 Ackerman, Luella Smurr. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 51. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 66.
 
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 ► CHAPTER ER, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 
 
 Organized April 13, 1935 hy Margaret W. Brundage 
 
 Charter members: Leonora D. Byrd, Elizabeth Barrett, Helen 
 W. R. Wilson, Martha P. Mills, Edna H. Allison, Dorothy I. 
 Bowlin, Martha Mueller, Irma Grose, Marion I. White Johnson, 
 Edith L, Lindsey, Donna Marie Volz, Mary F, Monroe, Dorothy 
 P. Fellingham, Esther Underwood Dugnette. 
 
 Presidents who served: Leonora D. Byrd, Elizabeth Barrett, 
 Martha Mills, Dorothy Fellingham, Grace W, Wensley, Lois 
 Kiimler, Louise Rinker, Thelma Cox, Helen Otzen, Helen Meyer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 49. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 69. 
 
 ► CHAPTER IS, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Orgmnized April 15, 1935 hy Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 
 Charter members: Bernice Angell, Annette Baxter, Pearl 
 Brown, Mary Frances Chatburn, Emma E. Parrotte, Katherine 
 VanMeter, Bertha M. Chapman, Frances Summers Ridgely, Alma 
 M. Bengee, Catherine C. Curry Bucholz, Courtney Quinlan, Louise 
 M. Jacobs, Jeanette M. Dickerson, Diamond V. Brand, Beulah 
 M. Price. 
 
 Presidents who served: Frances Chatburn, Courtney Quinlan, 
 Diamond V. Brand, Jessie Jenks, Pearl Brown, Lillian Glover, 
 Jeanette M. Dickerson, Emma E. Parrotte, Helen Cory. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 47. 
 
 > CHAPTER ET, ROCKFORD 
 
 Organized April 17, 1935 by Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 
 Charter members: Charlotte A. Howard, Betty Lou Hughes 
 Bridges, Janice M, Chilcott Merson, Virginia C. Robinson Barrett, 
 Janette J. Jeffreys, Rae K. Anderson, Louise R. Dike, Helen S. 
 Muntz, Phoebe J. Barnes, Vivian W. Barnes, Henrietta Burr 
 Leonard, Margaret Chernals. 
 
 Presidents who served: Charlotte Howard, Helen Muntz^ 
 Janette Jeffreys, Elizabeth Lawton, Mariam Robertson, Bernice 
 Wormley, Phoebe Barnes, Barbara Spongberg, Vivian Barnes, 
 Gretchen Lobdell, Lois Picken. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 32. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 48.
 
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 ► CHAPTER EU, CHICAGO 
 
 OrgoiTiized November 9, 1935 by Myrtice M. Anderson 
 
 Charter members : Pauline Callen, Marjorie G. Sward, Helen 
 S. Campbell, Helen L. Snider, Frances C. Hope, Hazel N. Lnnoe, 
 Evelyn S. Olsen, Lela S. Fuekerson, Margaret N. White, Lutrelle 
 W, Bickel, Amelia C. Wedderspoon, Anna L. Wendt, 
 
 Presidents who served: Marjorie Sward, Hazel Lunoe, 
 Amelia Wedderspoon, Helen Campbell, Edna Hagenbook, Marjorie 
 Bickel, Anne Wendt, Alice Somes, Laurene Kennelley, Lutrelle 
 W. Bickel. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 57. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EV, SKOKIE 
 
 Organized April 7, 1936 by Myrtice M. Anderson 
 
 Charter members: Lottie A. Babb, Lou Belle Koepp, 
 Catharyn B. Nelson, Marion W. Wetmore, Margaret McClellan, 
 Ruth H. Jenness, Jessie Burkitt vonOhms, Louise W. Throop, 
 Evelyn Reynolds, Martha C. Caris, Beulah F. Littell, Blanche 
 H. Smith, Dorothy S. Pavey, Abna F. Galitz. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lottie Babb, Lou Belle Koepp, 
 Cathryn Nelson, Marion Wetmore, Grace Fowler, Louise Throop, 
 Nelda Hamilton, Violet Juniac, Mabel Westerberg. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 37. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 74. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EW, LA GRANGE 
 
 Organized May 26, 1936 by Myrtice M. Anderson 
 
 Charter members: Eva Vanderploeg, Margaret S. Mooney, 
 Anita Atkison, Grace B. Friess, Emily C. Gunn, Florence M. 
 Klose, Angeline H. Olson, Anna R. Dunlap, Marguerite T. 
 Colyer, Pearl E. Hedges, Bernice Sedgwick, Ruth R. Matthews, 
 Dorothy C, Littlewood, Agnes M. Barber. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eva Vanderploeg, Anita Atkison, 
 Emily Gunn, Anna Dunlap, Agnes Barber, Florence Klose, Pearl 
 Hedges, Mary Neice, Lillian Collins. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 43. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 73.
 
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 ► CHAPTER EX, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized April 15, 1937 by Ruth M. Cruse 
 
 Charter Tnemhers: Margaret G. Bryan, Audrey E. Spangler, 
 Mabel I. Whitford, Mary W. Purdy, Esther E. Franke, Laura G. 
 Ames, Margaret H. Alborg, Sophie M. Bemhard, Muriel Nan- 
 carrow, Olive A. Dean, Lucille Ireland, Grace Danshie, Carrie 
 M. Mace, Elsa M. Huebner, Alta P. Teetor, Margaret Bryan 
 Loveland. 
 
 Presidents luho served: Margaret Bryan, Elsa Huebner, 
 Audrey Spangler, Gladys McCroskey, Alta Teetor, Ethel Dalton, 
 Kuth Zook, Agnes Goff, Grace Gaumnitz. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1963: 63. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EY, EAST ST. LOUIS 
 
 Organized April 17, 1937 hy Ruth M. Cruse 
 
 Charter members: Miriam Rodenburger, Mildred W. Bow- 
 man, Lucille Schnyder, Clara B. Bacon, Eleanor J. Buzzell, 
 Eunice J. Williamson, Marie Mueller Oertle, Mary Hurd, Irma 
 B. Bucknell, Helen Wright Newman, Gladys Farthing, Elise M. 
 Clanahan, Laura H. Whitlock, Ruth K. Davis, Beulah C. 
 Sprecher, Marie H. Kenagy, Ruth Steenmeyer Cassel. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ruth Steenmeyer Cassel, Miriam 
 Rodenberger, Marie Kenag)', Laura Whitlock, Mary Hurd, Gladys 
 Farthing, Gladys Frazier, Esther Jones Delano, Clara Bacon, 
 Irma Bucknell, Marie Oertle, Eleanor Buzzell, Elsie Clanahan, 
 Maurine Hundley, Ruth Davis, Louise Casteel. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 32. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 44. 
 
 ► CHAPTER EZ, BROOKFIELD 
 
 Organized April 20, 1937 by Ruth M, Cruse 
 
 Charter members: Kathrine M. Mott, Leah Schaffert, 
 Pauline G. Eckland, Ruth A. Pearson, Laura P. Lilljander, 
 Elizabeth G. Hendel, Mary E. Mann, Catherine M. Lewis, 
 Fredrika W. Wiley, Ahna S. Dopp, Miriam B. Allen, Esther M. 
 Bendel, Clara E. Cassady. 
 
 Presidents who served: Clara Cassady, Pauline Eckland,
 
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 Laura Lilljander, Miriam Allen, Dorothy Polivka, Mary Mann, 
 Nan Jones, Catharine Lewis, Elizabeth Ellingson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 46. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FA, EFFINGHAM 
 
 Organized September 10, 1937 by Ella B. Leib 
 
 Charter members: Lillian C. Powell, Harriet M. Walters, 
 Serena H. Bachman, Daphne Olson, Jiilianne Loving, Justine 
 Harris, Kuth R. Brissenden, Marion S. Karr, Velta M. Goodfellow, 
 Martha Britton, Euth H, Gaertner, LaWanda C. Wiley, Eva S. 
 Porter, Lorna S. Magowan, Charlotte Bowman, Genevieve Mar- 
 shall. 
 
 Presidents vho served: Velta M. Goodfellow, Marion S. 
 Karr, Ruth R. Brissenden, Martha Britton, Lillian C, Powell, 
 Lura Nehren, Dorothy O'Neill, Ann Loving, Genevieve Marshall, 
 Irene Slifer, Helen Strobel, Josephine Van Deusen, Harriett M. 
 Walters, Justine Harris. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 48. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FB, PEORIA 
 
 Organized Febrvxiry 10, 1938 by Ella B. Leib 
 
 Charter mem.bers: Anna Price, Anita Briggs, Jane M. Reed, 
 Alice H. Nance, Nellie Keyser, Edna May Jamison, Eva Dovey, 
 Hallie P. Dovey, Goldie Stephens, Harriet D, Howell, Florence 
 Coakley, Eileen H. Phillips. 
 
 Presidents who served: Harriet Howells, Jane Reed, Hallie 
 Dovey, Eileen Phillips, Alice Nance, Madaline Bennett, Mate 
 Sunderlin, Martha Solomon, Mary Safford. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 48. 
 
 V CHAPTER FC, WOOD RIVER 
 
 Organized March 12, 1938 by Ella B. Leib 
 
 Charter members: Ruby Giehl, Gertrude M. Jolley, Beulah 
 Bergholtz, Catherine Z. Harmon, Irene Meyer, Elizabeth Gerner, 
 Besse Cahoon, Helen G. Paton, Adaline E. Hubbard, Eleanor E.
 
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 Coffeen, Edith J. Harrod, Cecile M. Wainright, Ethel Holcomb, 
 Lorena De Atley, Helen B. Volz, Lillian Gillis. 
 
 Presidents who served : Euby Giehl, Beulah Bergholtz, Helen 
 Paton, Adeline Hubbard, Besse Gaboon, Helen Volz, Ethel 
 Holcomb, Lovisa Berry, Gertrude Jolley, Cecile Wainright, 
 Eleanor Coffeen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 27. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 36. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FD, AMBOY 
 
 Organized March 31, 1938 hy Ella B. Lieh 
 
 Charter members: Neita J. Vaughan, Lucile J. Entorf, 
 Grace L. Brink, Ruby A. Holladay, Edith V. Eichler, Anna L. 
 Hewitt, Clara H. Badger, Lois C. Funkhouser, Minnie E. Lee, 
 J. Elizabeth Lee, Jane C. Griffith, Clara E. Klapprodt, Hazel 
 G. Wagner. 
 
 Presidents who served: Hazel G. Wagner, Mildred E. June, 
 Jane C. Griffith, Neita J. Vaughan, Anna L. Hewitt, Mildred 
 Nowe. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 20. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 26. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FE, GENEVA 
 
 Organized April 2, 1938 hy Ella B. Leih 
 
 Charter members : Alma M. Bates, Myrtle G. Nelson, Velma 
 H, Eedman, Dorothea K. Gray, Marian Meyers, Jessie L. 
 Sherwood, Fairie Cunningham, Laura Cantrall, Helen Wanburg, 
 Florence V. Burghorn, Eva Vanderploeg, Agnes P. Weber, Luanna 
 Chappel Zolessi, Mary E. Davis. 
 
 Presidents who served : Luanna Chapel Zolessi, Dorothea 
 Gray, Marion Meyers, Agnes Weber, Emily Anderson, Dorothy 
 O'Connor, Virginia Hutchings, Euth Vernon. 
 
 Active membership March 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 51. 
 
 > CHAPTER FF, URBANA 
 
 Organized April 12, 1938 by Ella B. Leib 
 Charter members: Euth Mathews, Helen Sears, Grace 
 Stanton, Mary Veirs, Fern J. Eichart, Kate MacDonald, Anna L.
 
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 Clark, Helen J. White, Evangeline G. Hunter, Georgia B. Reed, 
 Lucile J. Whiting, Marguerite W. Ashby, Lizzie M. Maris, Grace 
 L, EajTnond, Joann G. Scott, Kathryn McClure, Mary Jo 
 Scoville Beamer, Betty Eichards Zorn Ealston, Elizabeth Pnicha, 
 Lena Eice. 
 
 Presidents who served: Grace Stanton, Helen Sears, Evange- 
 line Hunter, Euth Mathews, Lucille Whiting, Winifred Waxier, 
 Eva Trotier, Dorothy Garland. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 55. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 71. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FG, TAYLORVILLE 
 
 Organized April 14, 1938 hy Ella B. Leih 
 
 Charter memhers: Helen G. Eeese, Augusta C. Taylor, 
 Priscilla A. Coale, Edna E. Duncan, Lourena B. Grundy, Catherine 
 S. Bryant, Helen P. Love, Verna H. Vogelsang, Aileen Clawson, 
 Arlone D. Kramer, Lucy DeHart, Eoselle B. Young, Janice W. 
 Hopper, Bernice B, Marblestone. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Eeese, Arlone Kramer, 
 Catherine Bryant, Eoselle Young, Priscilla Coale, Lourena 
 Grundy, Lucy Peabody, Bernice Marblestone, Aileen Clawson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 22. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FH, QUINCY 
 
 Organized April 23, 1938 by Ella B. Leih 
 
 Charter members: Esther Kreich, Blanche Blackwood, Ida 
 Schreimann, Lola Yancey, Nellie Whitefield, Mildred Turnbull, 
 Myrtle McAhren, Nellie Sproul, Mildred Ebert, Euby B. Janssen, 
 Stella E. Lilly, Marian Beil, Mary E. Williamson, Harriet M. 
 Hunter, Cora D. Smith. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Myrtle McAhi'en, Mildred Turnbull, 
 Mildred Ebert, Mary Williamson, Harriet Hunter, Blanche 
 Quigley, Laura Mack, Lola Yancey. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 53.
 
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 ► CHAPTER Fl, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized November 19, 1938 hy Beulali M. Thornton 
 
 Charter members: Kuth B. Kimball, Eleanor J. Huber, 
 Lois E. Harrison, Louise A. Eeid, Dorothy W. Weaver, lone L. 
 Furry, Florence R. Allen, Corinne B. Eedfield, Eva C. Gallaher, 
 Sabra S. Comstock, Gene-vdeve C. Cato, Lucile L. Hottenroth. 
 
 Presidents who served'. Ruth Kimball, Eleanor Huber, 
 Florence Allen, Lois Harrison, Eva Gallaher, Clara Faulkner, 
 Dorothy Hutton, Ethel Stiles. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 38. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FJ, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized May 15, 1939 by Beulah M. Thormton 
 
 Charter members : Ethel Hedenbergh, Emma M. Widenhouse, 
 Sadie G. Winebrenner, Margaret R. Baldwin, Doris G. Hall, 
 Grace H. Peterson, Gladis Farrell, Ruth Hannah Richards, 
 Georgia Gardner, Lois M. Roach, E. Louisa Pandolfi, Bernice 
 Vaughn, Marikae Stout Hutchens. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel Hedenberg, Ruth Richards, 
 Gladis Farrell, Lois Roach, Sadie Winebrenner, Doris Hall, Helen 
 Williams. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 17. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 29. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FK, MOUNT CARMEL 
 
 Organized September 30, 1939 by Louise Dicus 
 
 Clvarter members: Ernestine Willhite, Ellen S. Fulks, 
 Harriet K. Frey, Helen Gibbs Denton, Lucile Goddard Roberts, 
 Ina S. Taylor. Elinor Mitchell Hill, Mary Best Baird, Helena 
 Reeves, Flora Cleveland, Irma Condrey, Lora G. Shaw. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ernestine Willhite, Helen Gibbs 
 Denton, Irma Moulton Condrey, Ellen Turner Fulks, Grace R. 
 Mitchell, Elinor Mitchell Hill, Anne Denton Brubeck, Margaret 
 Snyder Liddle. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 43.
 
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 ► CHAPTER FL, MORRISON 
 
 Organized March 8, 1940 by Louise Dicus 
 
 Charter members: Jennie W. Craddock, Ruth E. Caughey, 
 Lillian Norrish, Louise Eobertson, Wilma Lucas, Wilma G. 
 Trundy, Daisy Eiordon, Mildred Chapman, Agnes Mills, Bessie 
 Beswick, Fae Rogers, Christina Sauer, Mary Wright, Ruth Tracy, 
 Margaret Iftner, Doris Mellon. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jane Craddock, Doris Mellon, Daisy 
 B, Riordon, Wilma Lucas, Agnes Mills, Pauline Simmonds, 
 Wilma Trundy, Phyllis Cole. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 45. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FM, BLOOMINGTON 
 
 Organized March 29, 1940 by Louise Dicus 
 
 Charter members: Lesha Marshall, Helen Goehner, Florence 
 M. Sherrard, Esther N. Robinson, Ruth E, Ahlenius, Barbara 
 Jean Gerling, Charlotte L. FitzHenry Robling, Jean Jordan 
 Lawson, Constance Ferguson, Mary Jane Carothers Carper, 
 Ernestine Barker, Mary M. Nafziger, Marjorie Ellis, Stella 
 Henderson, Mary S. Arnold. 
 
 Presidents who served: Esther Robinson, Ruth Ahlenius, 
 Mary Nafziger, Elsie Grime, Eileen Filnspach, Mary Arnold, 
 Ruth Huggins, Margaret Knuppel. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 49. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FN, NEWTON 
 
 Organized December 5, 1940 by Ella B. Leib 
 
 Charter members: Winifred M. Burton, Ethel S. Wright, 
 Chlora Arnold, Inez H. Roebuck, Bertha Crowley, Shirley Mason 
 Klier, Clara Riley, Lena T. Payne, Rese B. Armitage, May Kendall 
 Wilhoit, Ida Harding, Rose Apple, Marie Bevis. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel Wright, Winnie Burton, Clara 
 Riley, Rese Armitage, Marie Bevis, Shirley Klier, Laura Eber- 
 hardt, Lena Payne, Mary Absher, Ollie Arnold, Ethel Thormahlen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 26. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32.
 
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 ► CHAPTER FO, SANDWICH 
 
 Organized December 7, 1940 by Mary C. Beatty 
 
 Charter members: Alia M. Schule, Jean R. Potter, Laura N. 
 Haskin, Genevieve R. Long, Bessie I. Ogilvie, Desire D. Mont- 
 gomery, Violet J. Lindner, Lucille I. Legner, Ethel H. Lindner, 
 Charlotte H. Early, Hedwig Easter, Helen AV. Lowry, Grace F. 
 Coleman, Minnie B. Davis, Florence M. Hammond. 
 
 Presidents who served: Alta Schule, Genevieve Long, 
 Florence Hammond, Desire Montgomery, Charlotte Early, Bessie 
 Ogilvie. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 31. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FP, PARK RIDGE 
 
 Organized April 5, 1941 by Mary C. Beatty 
 
 Charter members: Ella W. Gates, Geneva Shinn Parrish, 
 Janet Johnson Mosher, Louise A. Frederick, Mabel E. French, 
 Florence G. Strassheim, Azalia G. Bangert, Esther T. Carrick, 
 Florence S. Grieve, Georgena B. Sale, Helen N, Sargent, Jean 
 L. K. Buehlman, Shirley Carlson Youngberg, Grace L. Weiss, 
 Margery F. Consoer. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ella Gates, Esther Carrick, Gene 
 Sale, Azalia Bangert, Grace Spencer, Julia S. Johnson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 41. 
 
 Total membert^hip from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 48. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FQ, PEORIA 
 
 Organized May 13, 1941 by Mary C. Beatty 
 
 Charter members: Virginia M. Hyson, Lucy F. Scherer, 
 Evelyn J. Oaks Forbes, Helen L. Moore, C. Ann Dovey Curtis, 
 Margaret L. Mason, Eleanor S. Holliday, Mildred L. Adarason, 
 Phillippa R. Gearhart, Betty M. Hoffman McQuarrie, Dorothy H. 
 Semlow, Marion G. Simko, Elizabeth P. Batorson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Moore, Lucy Scherer, Eleanor 
 Holliday, Betty McQuarrie, Mary Finney, Margaret Sutherland, 
 Ann Curtis. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 38. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 54.
 
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 ► CHAPTER FR, OLNEY 
 
 Organized March 20, 1942 hy Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 Charter members: Lois S. Horton, Lillian S. Koberts, 
 Miriam K. Wade, Slary W. Morrison, Margaret V. Borah, Clara 
 T. Blackburn, Dorothy Nell Roberts, Eileen H. Meehan, Genevieve 
 McD. Eobbins, Lena V. Wilson, Nellie Godeke, Gertrude L. 
 Weber, Margaret Williams Borah, Mildred A. Cooper. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lois Horton, Lillian Roberts, 
 Margaret W. Borah, Pauline V. Thompson, Virginia M. Dailey, 
 Viola Kowa. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 33. 
 
 > CHAPTER FS, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized April 8, 1942 hg Geneva G. Schroder 
 Charter members: Dorothy E. Strong Mai, Ruth Johnson, 
 Jessie 0. McKerrow Paslowsky, Evelyn Northcott Staves, Suzanne 
 
 0. Christensen, Ruth L. Flinn, Gwendol)^! Fouse, Helen V. 
 Sawler Aarts, Margaret Jane Dykema, Jeanne M. Winn Clark, 
 Mary Anna Chapman Kitzerow, Isabel Balfour Williams, Evelyn 
 
 1, Green. 
 
 Presidents who served: Betty Mai, Jessie Paslawsky, Gwen 
 Fouse, Ruth Flinn, Mary Anna Kitzerow, Hortense Frankiw, 
 Edith McKerrow, Jeanne Winn Clark. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 41. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FT, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 9, 1942 hy Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 Charter members: Eleanor Orth, Edna Laity, Rebecca 
 Knowlton Hollaway, Joy Bangs Keswick, Content Bangs Fergu- 
 son, Elizabeth Danforth Randolph, Grace Lambertson, Reba 
 Staggs, Margaret Larsen, Helen Baumgartner Abben, Beth James, 
 Margaret Chittenden O'Malley, Mary Page Taylor, Sally Fortune 
 Cheney. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Eleanor Orth, Edith Knight, 
 Miriam Collins, Reba Staggs, Content Ferguson, Mary Kaiser. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 45.
 
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 ► CHAPTER FU, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized December 5, 1942 hy Ruby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members: Etha Anderson, Villa S. Stout, Vera C. 
 McConnell, Marjorie Armstrong, Gladys M. Weart, Isabella M. 
 Madden, Vivian McLarty, Marian J. Hodges, Kathryn L. Sloan 
 Tanton, Ethel K. Hawkins, Cordelia C. Stephens, Kuby P. Evans, 
 Louise Griffith, Nellie Towers, Myfanwy Filson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Villa Stout, Vera McConnell, Ruby 
 Evans, Isabelle Madden, Marie Jaeger, Gladys M. Weart. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 37, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 49. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FV, ROCKFORD 
 
 Organized March 12, 1943 by Euby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members: Mary C. Brown, Sarah Brown Wilder, 
 Margaret Connell, Marrian Kelley, Pearl L, Webb, Elizabeth A. 
 Golden, Maude E, Golden, Etta L. Pennock, Elizabeth B. 
 Plueddeman, Frances W. Ratcliffe, Mabel H, Rupp, Anna B. 
 Mackey, Maudene Williams, Myoma Meyers, 
 
 Presidents u'ho served: Mary Brown, Pearl Webb, Margaret 
 Connell, Elizabeth Plueddeman, Helene Parker. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 43, 
 
 ► CHAPTER FW, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 
 
 Organized March 18, 1943 by Ruby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members: Irma M. Grose, Muriel S. Oden, Marion 
 D. Bloecker, Marguerite A. Tuttle, Vera M. Militzer, Dorothea 
 S. Carr, Mildred L. Myers, Olga M. Lattof, Mildred S. Collins, 
 Ruth K. Johnston, Beth D. Nichols, Margaret B. Gregg, Wilda 
 M. Close, Ellen M. Evans. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Marguerite Tuttle, Irma Grose, 
 Marion Bloecker, JMargaret Gregg, Elizabeth Lyman, Mary B. 
 Marrow. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 43.
 
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 ► CHAPTER FX, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 6, 1943 by Ruby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members: Mary B. Devitt, Eleanor H. Reagan, 
 Dorothy Mae Eeynolds, Ruth H. Quinlan, Margaret Wolf, Jane 
 T. Dabney, Leonora A. Gill, Amy R. Brons, Adelyn Vail, Grace 
 Vail, Margaret V. Lee, Bemice Munson. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Ruth Quinlan, Amy Brons, Jane 
 Dabney, Betty Ross, Dorothy Reynolds. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 20. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 35. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FY, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized April 10, 1943 by Ruby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members: Virginia McQuiddy, Ruby S. Cunmiins, 
 Frances E. Stout, Frances T. McConaughy, Fredda L. Wines, 
 Mary B. vonAlbrecht, Laura Mae Carpenter, June Mathews Jubelt, 
 Helen Marr VanTuyl, S. Jean Beatty Angrist, Ardis L. Schlotter- 
 beck, Emily F. Maloney. 
 
 Presidents tvho served: Frances T. McConaughy, Hellen 
 Marr Van Tuyl, Virginia McQuiddy, Margaret Pittman, Fredda 
 Wines, Ruth Neilander, Janith H. MacDonald. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32. 
 
 ► CHAPTER FZ, ELMHURST 
 
 Organized April 4, 1944 by Louise R. Waddell 
 
 Charier members: Mattie S. Anderson, Ellen L. Clark, 
 Marjorie C. Boye, Anna May Hyde, Edna G. Haney, Edna M. 
 Anderson, Mary Louise Boren, Rachel Squibb Byler, Arvilla S. 
 Van Denberg, Alice M. Tozier, Helen H. Billett, Florence K. 
 McArty, Rebecca P. Roberts, Grace C. Moreland. 
 
 Presidents who served: Mattie Anderson, Ellen Clark, Edna 
 Haney, Florence Bacon, Helen H. Billett. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 43. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 52. 
 
 ► CHAPTCR GA, MOUNT CARROLL 
 
 Organized April 5, 1944 by Louise R. Waddell 
 
 Charter members: Ida M. Thayer, Zella Catherine Corbett,
 
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 Edna Thoreen, Thelma Fox Hommedew, Ruth Noble, Armella 
 Kneale, Florence M. Eaton, Margneritte Harmon Bro, Sadie 
 Hedley Schmidt, Dorothy Ashley Lovejoy, Violet Frank, Virginia 
 Weigel. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ida Thayer, Violet Frank, Ruth 
 Noble, Sadie Schmidt, Zella Corbett, Dorothy Seyfarth, Evelyn 
 Senneff. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 30. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GB, JERSEYVILLE 
 
 Organized April 10, 1944 hy Louise R. Waddell 
 
 Charter memhers : Eleanor Bowen, Helen M. Cross, Adele T. 
 Dressel, Huldah M. Drew, Cornelia DuHadway, Edna C. Pere- 
 boom, Edith Pirtle, Jean Pirtle, Adah Smith, Alice A. Staley, 
 Hazel C. Woodrow, Ruth Snedeker, Mabel E. Ewin. 
 
 Presidents who served: Huldah Drew, Adah Smith, Lucille 
 Porter, Cornelia DuHadway, Jean Pirtle. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 28. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 34. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GC, WILMETTE 
 
 Organized February 26, 1945 hy Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 Charter members: Rose Baker Pifer, Claire Biles, Dorothy 
 Lewis Edwards, Fern Storm Jones, Sue Sparks Workman, 
 Dorothea Becker Blythe, Frances Bartz Paulsen, Mary Lee 
 Christian, Phoebe Snyder Brooks, Caroline Swenson Perrill, Peggy 
 Ware Storms, Vera Howard Richardson, Hazel Lowry Funkhouser, 
 Susan P. Waidner. 
 
 Presidents who served: Rose Pifer, Dorothea Blythe, Peggy 
 Storms, Doris Van Winkle. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 38. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GD, ELGIN 
 
 Organized March 20, 1945 hy Bessie S. Ballow 
 Charter memhers : Ethel Hoaglund, Blondina Allen, Dorotha 
 Riley, Margaret Lee Jensen, Ruth Pattinson Lea, Blossom Patter-
 
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 son, Lula I. Sorn, Charlo Byars Bohl, K. Thelma Sowers, Jane 
 Hampton Chipman, Mary Henderson Meyer, Harriet R. Southard, 
 Marcy Haeger McQuillan, Ruth Bridge, Rosemary Ebrie, Norma 
 R. Strohm, Vera Mae Thompson, 
 
 Presidents who served : Ethel Hoaglund, Lula I. Sorn, 
 Margaret Lee Jensen, Norma Strohm, Vera Mae Thompson, 
 Charlotte C. Anderson, 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 33, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 37. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GE, PEORIA 
 
 Organized April 5, 1945 hy Bessie 8. Ballow 
 
 Charter members: Bertha L, Winters, Delia W, Thede, 
 Ethel M. Parr, Margaret S. Mitzit, Helen C, Hayler, Eva V. 
 Mackemer, Grace Clark Brown, Monta Bane, Jessie P. Hazen, 
 Wanda C. Watson, Dorothy Van Scoyk, Ethel B. Helmick, 
 Elizabeth Voss, Remda Westerman, Mary C. Johnston. 
 
 Presidents who served: Bertha Winters, Delia W. Thede, 
 Grace Clark Brown, Dorothy C. Chessman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 36. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GF, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized June 1, 1945 by Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 Charter members: Meribah Peterson, Frances Hyde Arm- 
 strong, Ethel L. Esch, Genevieve Robbins, Frances De Curtis, 
 Anna C. Ames, Marion F. Bryant, Elizabeth E. Bjork, Mabel F. 
 Tuit, Mary Louise Nielander, Iva M. Sharp, Esther F. Carr, 
 Eunice B. Baab, Orpha H. Fries, Beulah T. Walsh, Kathleen 
 Hughes, Harriet M. Luckman. 
 
 Presidents who served : Frances De C. Curtis, Meribeh Peter- 
 son, Frances H. Armstrong, Eunice B. Baab, Eloise Hutchinson, 
 Genevieve Nauman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 26. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 36. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GG, ALTON 
 
 Organized February 5, 1946 hy Hazel V, Ziesel 
 
 Charter members: Ruthanna B. Savage, Roberta Coffman,
 
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 Jeanne F. Mac Duff, Florence B. Vose, Nellie M. Brown, Linnette 
 Bixler, Anna Eosenkranz, Elizabeth McVey Shultz, Marie Dresch- 
 er, Winnie T. Luer, Helen Patison, Margaret Ann Nuckols, Clara 
 G. Foster, AUie L. Heuer, Florine D. Schmoeller, Helen Sonntag, 
 Flora H. Sonntag. 
 
 Presidents who served: Clara G. Foster, Winifred Delano, 
 Jeanne F, Mac Duff, Dorothy I. Lake. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 41. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GH, DOWNERS GROVE 
 
 Organized March 14, 1946 hy Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 Charter memhers: Nelia C. Owen, Margaret H. Derr Scame- 
 horn, Marjorie B. AVrenn, Mary Scares, Elizabeth D. Coles, Jessica 
 North MacDonald, Myrtle Becker, Grace B. Vogele, Margaret 
 Lake, Joanna B. Yost, Hazel M. Gordinier, Vera R. lehl, Helen 
 C. Jensen, Ethel E. Berntsen, Dorothy P. Owen, Helen E. Boltz, 
 Esther D. Johnson, Elsie I. Wurtz, Frieda Humphris, Ardys Ray. 
 
 Presidents who served : Joanna Yost, Elsie Wurtz, Jessica 
 MacDonald, Grace Vogele. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 27. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 35. 
 
 ► CHAPTER Gl, CHICAGO 
 
 Organized March 26, 1946 by Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 Charter members : Helen Joan Miller, Jane M. Fockler, Lulu 
 M. Teach, Margaret H. Alborg, Grace H. Peterson, Wilma Smyth 
 Mayeske, Alice L. Carpenter, Margaret Gear Lawrence, Ethel Hay 
 Oschatz, Ruth Lee Spaeth, Beulah M. Clark, Constance C. Folkrod, 
 Florence Walton, Lillian Heacock, Ruth Hardy Jaeger, Betty 
 Wilson, Vera Gustafson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Miller, Jane Fockler, Alice 
 Carpenter, Helen M. Barker. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 29, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 38. 
 
 CHAPTER GJ, SKOKIE 
 
 Organized April 2, 1946 by Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 Charter members: Lottie Allen Babb, Alma F. Galitz, Ruth
 
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 Hawkins Jenness, Jessie Burkitt Von Ohms, Katherine S. Galitz, 
 EveljTi D. Eeynolds, Anna B. Phillips, Martha De Moss Byrum, 
 Marguerite L. Gray, Gertrude F. Miller, Anita P. Clynes, Jane 
 Ehmer, Lillian H, Dunlap, Agnes F. Brown, Myrtle E. Hend- 
 riekson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lottie Babb, Alma Galitz, Evelyn 
 Reynolds, Grace F. Kellogg. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 27. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 27. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GK, WILMINGTON 
 
 Organized April 4, 1946 hy Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 Charter members : Blanche M. Luther, Lela E. Shipley, Ruth 
 Rettenmayer, Loeva Dude, Eve Feely, Oda Erikson, Mary Z. 
 Luther, Margaret E. Johnson, Arline S. Merkel, Florence M. 
 Dunbar, Blanche D, Keeley, Mabel G. Martin Scivally, Vesta A. 
 Hinds, Alma M. Butcher, Adele Davey, Ruth Mutchler, Ruth 
 Stevens, 
 
 Presidents who served: Blanche M. Luther, Lela E. Shipley, 
 Ruth Rettenmayer, Florence Dunbar, Adele Davey. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 28. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GL, CENTRALIA 
 
 Organized October 18, 1946 hy J&nnie H. Rugh 
 
 Charter members : Julia Phillips, Helen R. Herfurth, Theresa 
 P. Nichols, Helen L. Gough, Fanny F. Perrine, Pauline B. Wham, 
 E. Carolyn Hager, Ruby Baker, Edna Hebbler, Reba D. Webb, 
 Mildred R. Chambers, Georgia C. Felt, Glenna Gildehaus, lone 
 Hildes. 
 
 Presidents wh^o served: Theresa Nichols, Pauline Wham, 
 Helen L. Gough. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 21. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GM, EAST ST. LOUIS 
 
 Organized November 12, 1946 hy Jennie H. Rugh 
 Charter members: Jane S. Parks, Mary Morrow, Natalie S. 
 Roper, Bess M. Benham, Esther R. Laughlin, Ora V. Sager,
 
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 Marguerite Harding, Frances Eppard, Mary Stewart, Henrietta 
 S. Bowman, Susie Lee Moore, Carolyn Bradley, Mable Bruce, 
 Frances Cox, Nettie Potts, Carrie Hollman. 
 
 Presidents who served: Jane Parks, Mable Bruce, Mary 
 Stewart, Mary Morrow. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 20. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GN, MAYWOOD 
 
 Organized Janimry 14, 1947 ly Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 Charter members: Helen Barber, Louise Houghton, Carissa 
 Newell, Bettie L. Coifman, Edna M. Schwarz, Lois E. Moore, 
 Evelyn Nordquist, Marion J. Newell, Margaret C. Baker, Martha 
 Kochenderfer, Maude P. Foster, Vera Dunning, Mary E. Wageck, 
 Euth Cromar, Helen Hodgskiss, Esther Lloyd Hagg. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lois Moore, Helen Hodgskiss, Helen 
 Barber, Evelyn Nordquist. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 28. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 30. 
 
 > CHAPTER GO, MOUNT VERNON 
 
 Organized January 27, 1947 hy Jennie H, Bugh 
 
 Charter members: Mary C. Phillips, Euby L. Wilson, Lois 
 S. Horton, Aline Hutchison, Edna H. Casey, Olivia Kathryn 
 Broyles, Martha Gee DeWitt, Eose Griffith Lough, Laura S. Hall, 
 Octa J. Newkirk, Nina W. Burks, Ethel E. Harrison, Euth H. 
 Maxwell, Catherine Harris Corlew, Mabel B. Howard, Feme W. 
 Lee, Elizabeth Maxey, Eose Mary DeWitt, Stanley S. Lewis. 
 
 Presidents who served: Edna H. Casey, Aline G. Hutchison, 
 Euby Wilson, Mary C. Phillips, Feme W. Lee. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 26. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GP, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized February 1, 1947 by Jennie E. Rugh 
 Charter members: Virginia C. Schleicher, Patty B. Sizer, 
 Maryalice Butler, Mary Ellen John, Patty 0. Butler, Eosemary 
 G. Eoyer, Shirley P. Ferguson, Emmy Lou F. Monson, Joann
 
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 Frakes, Marjorie C. Faulkner, Betty Morrow Easka, Barbara D. 
 Schwanke, Gloria Angsten. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Patty B. Sizer, Betty Easka, Jeanne 
 Eggleston, Marjorie Faulkner. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 19. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 27. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GQ, ROCK ISLAND 
 
 Organized February 26, 1947 by Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 Charter members: Olive Wagner, Irma Eomans, Hazel C. 
 Miller, Ethel M. Long, Edith M. Walz, Annabel C. Pruden, 
 Florence Coffland, Esther May Huston, Eosemary H. Greene, 
 Helen Willming, Mildred R. Johnson, Lval W. Swenson, Clara 
 B. Chaney. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Olive Wagner, Irma C. Eomans, 
 Annabel Pruden, Eleanor E. Jones. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 33. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 26. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GR, DECATUR 
 
 Organized March 4, 1947 by Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 Charter members: Helen E. Beer, Euby E. Gullett, Yolande 
 E. Irish, Nadine IST. Osgood, Blanche W. Burks, Suzannah Wright, 
 Maud N. Davidson, Bertha E. Ferguson, Margaret Eugh, Dott 
 Williams, Bessie Dickey, Julia Kilborn, Euby M. Whittle, Fanny 
 Bassett, Louie I. Eeid, Ellen Y. James. 
 
 Presidents who served : Euby Gullett, Suzannah Wright, Lois 
 Burks. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32. 
 
 > CHAPTER GS, PEORIA 
 
 Organized March 12, 1947 by Jennie H. Rugh 
 Charter members: Mary Frances Eodenhauser, Katherine M. 
 Kupper McCarrell, Dora L. Phillips, Mary Louise Seabury Hem- 
 brough, Shirley Schueler Hyler, Louise Flora Howard, Marian 
 Barbour Voelker, Mary Ellen Mendenhall Teeter, Susan Fuller 
 Schefelbein, Alice Ann McCord Weaver, Barbara Lund, Phyllis 
 Blair Marshall.
 
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 Presidents who served: Louise Howard, Phyllis Marshall, 
 Martha Blair. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 31. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 33. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GT, WESTERN SPRINGS 
 
 Organized March 20, 1947 hy Euby E. Prince 
 
 Charter members : Marion P. Bohner, D. Elizabeth Knundsen, 
 Mina L. Wichman, Margaret W. Vaile, Alice A. Eoth, Mabel J. 
 McKee, Florence A. Wickersham, Verna H. Bird, Margaret M. 
 Carlson, Laura F. Eosenwald, Esther M. Chambers, Beatrix H. 
 Coman, Dorothy E. Kellogg, Ruth H. Hutchison, Jerry Collins. 
 
 Presidents who served: Margaret W. Vaile, Marion P. 
 Bohner, Esther Chambers, Elizabeth Knundsen. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 32. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 37. 
 
 > CHAPTER GU, BEARDSTOWN 
 
 Organized May 27, 1947 hij Blanche A. Lee 
 
 Charter members: Edna Brown Pine, Mildred G. Hegener, 
 Bessie L. Dunn, Fern M. Knudsen, Opal M. Dowdall, Lill E. 
 Corkill, Mary E. Welch, Grace W. McAllister, Elizabeth C. 
 Hegener, Lena C. Spencer, Dorothy I. Zimmerman, Georgene 
 McKenzie, Edna Dunn Huss, Adele Hegener, Verna Coleman 
 Huss, Winifred W. Winhold, Caroline Post Simpson. 
 
 Presidents ivho served: Edna Pine, Mildred Hegener, Grace 
 McAllister. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GV, RIVER FOREST 
 
 Organized June 5, 1947 by Blanche A. Lee 
 
 Charter members: Rhoda M. Griffith, Marguerite G. Tab- 
 bert, Jane R. Lee, Martha H. Jaeger, Daisy E. Lee, Cassie C. Pine, 
 Cynthia C. Pine Pemberton, Mildred Lane Nix, Rosa D. Sims, 
 Edith A. Richards, Alice D. Webster, Josephine M. Wheeler, 
 Esther B. Guilford, Frances Sims.
 
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 Presidents who served: Ehoda M. Griffith, Esther B. Guil- 
 ford, Mildred Lane Nix, Jane Lee. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 39. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GW, PEKIN 
 
 Organized Novemier 22, 1947 hy Blanche A. Lee 
 
 Charter merribers: Zillah C. Kriegsman, Gladys S. Langley, 
 Lydia S. Breedlove, Marie E. Eeardon, Doris R. Kenyon, Mildred 
 E. Himmel, Martha A. Grossweiler, Vivian B. Horst, Lois L. 
 McClintick Westrope, Gladys E. Abts, Norma Bastian, Lois G. 
 Francisco, Helen J. Hoffman, Dorothy Veerman. 
 
 Presidents who served; Helen Hoffman, Doris E. Kenyon, 
 Marie Eeardon, Mildred E. Himmel. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 30. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GX, CARBONDALE 
 
 Organized April 3, 1948 ly Blanche A. Lee 
 
 Charter members: Helen Sherertz, Katheryn Eeissaus, Ethel 
 L. Wilson, Thelma E, Dykhouse, Euth Sedwick Blakey, Euth M. 
 Turner, Mabel Sickman Lane, Elizabeth Opal Stone, Gladys Clark, 
 Minnie Mae Pitkin, Mabel Pulliam, Lucy K. Woody, Bernice 
 Sickman, Jane Hills Blakey, Euth Haroldson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Helen Sherertz, Lucy K. Woody, 
 Euth Haroldson. 
 
 Active membership Mai'ch 1, 1953 : 30. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 36. 
 
 y CHAPTER GY, HIGHLAND PARK 
 
 Organized April 8, 1948 hy Blanche A. Lee 
 
 Charter members: Adelaide Carlson, Elizabeth E. Bjork, 
 Eoma J. Baker, Irene A. Frehner, Louise B. Hansmann, Helen 
 M. Sproul, Charlotte K. Brown, Evelyn M. Watkins, Ellen Miller, 
 Stella K. Stunkel, Helen A. Date, Eoberta M. Seitz, Anna L. 
 Lacy, Jessie E. Hiatt, Euth S. Nelson, Anita B. Davis. 
 
 Presidents who served: Charlotte K. Brown, Adelaide Carl- 
 son, Betty E. Bjork.
 
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 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 29. 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 32. 
 
 ► CHAPTER GZ, PARK RIDGE 
 
 Organized April 12, 1948 ly Blcunche A. Lee 
 
 Charter members;. Mildred H. Jeffries, Dorothy H. Hage- 
 mann, Alice L. Evans, Opal H. Baldwin, Jean B. Carlson, Milli- 
 cent E. Olmsted, Dorothy S. Coate, Georgia K. Weidenmiller, 
 EUoree H. Myers, Mae W. Wilson, Augusta B. Murphy, Doris 
 W. Malone, Constance S. Van Alyea, Shirlev K. Snider, Margaret 
 B. Bosbe. 
 
 Presidents u-ho served: Alice Evans, Opal Baldwin, Mae W. 
 Wilson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 34. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 37. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HA, RANTOUL 
 
 Organized December 14, 1948 hy Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 Charter members: Hazelle Rhoads, Hazel Freeland, Dorothy 
 Morton, Mildred Exton, Bernelle Moot, Mabel Kimes, Marien 
 Seward, Laura Ryburn, Cleda Wiley, Virginia Van Zant, Florence 
 Gorman, Bernelle E. Stephens, Marguerite Van Dam, Janis Little, 
 Betty James. 
 
 Presidents who served: Hazelle Rhoads, Dorothy Morton, 
 Virginia Van Zant. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 20. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 24. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HB, MOLINE 
 
 Organized December 14, 1948 by Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 Charter members: Mar\- Helen Fuller, Bonita H. Black, 
 Marguerite H. Wilson, Myrtle Reeves, Adelaide Price, Vivian 
 B. Jones, Clara H. Warfield, Vere Coddington, Mary Jane Cod- 
 dington Buck, Syhda Honeywell, Margaret Smillie, Gwendoln 
 Dodge, Sylvia Hanson, Jane H. Brainard, Marguerite Cornell. 
 
 Presidents who served: Bonita Black, Myrtle Reeves. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 39. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 43.
 
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 y CHAPTER HC, AURORA 
 
 Organized April 11, 1949 by Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 Charter members: Lucile J. Entorf, Olive M. Randall, 
 Evaline M. Friday, Helen B. Pierce, Hilda L. Schultz, Marie 
 M. Johnson, Louise Lloyd, Irene Hill, Aune Perham, Ruth Judd, 
 Florence Thorp, Florence Muschler, Winifred Mclntyre, Doris 
 Armbruster. 
 
 Presidents who served: Lucile Entorf, Helen B. Pierce. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 21. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 21. 
 
 > CHAPTER HD, PANA 
 
 Organized May 26, 1949 by Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 GJmrter members: Stella M. Vaughn, Gladys Preihs, Louise 
 McCracken, Mary Bob Miller, Carlene Preihs Wagner, Helen M. 
 Brummett, Barbara J. Henderson, Helen L. Dorward, Mary P. 
 Seller, Eva M. Downs, Kathleen D. Burroughs, Vanette Ziegler, 
 Erma F. Tex, Winifred Hinton, Mary R. Denton, Myrle Rogers. 
 
 Presidents who served: Gladys Preihs, Stella Vaughn. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HE, HOMEWOOD 
 
 Organized November 30, 1949 by Sara B. Mineor 
 
 Charter members: Edith Mays Figley, Blanche P. Johnston, 
 Lilah I, Morrison, E. Louisa Pandolfi, Carol E. Branch, Kay B. 
 Canning, Viola B. Cook, Helen 0. Gring, Frances D. Heron, 
 Celeste Noel, Lois Stewart, Minnie Auten, 
 
 Presidents who served: Lilah I. Morrison, Edith M. Figley, 
 Jean Vaughn, Kay B. Canning. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 22. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HF, HINSDALE 
 
 Organized February 17, 1950 by Sara B. Minear 
 Charter members: Bessie L. Love, Florence F. Howes, Ar- 
 lene W. Dickinson, Esther W. Vogler, Helen F. Durman, Ray- 
 mona C. Swortwood, Frances A. Sanden, Sara Beth McMillan,
 
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 Lucy W. Moore, Cora P. Lockwood, Elizabeth Keller, Marion 
 Hobson, Helen M. Lowden, Irene N. Nelson. 
 
 Presidents who served : Raymona Swortwood, Marion Hobson, 
 Mildred Seaton. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 32. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 33. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HG, WASHINGTON 
 
 Organized March 20, 1950 hy Sara B. Mvnear 
 
 Charter memhers : Dorothy M. Gano, Eose M. Steimle, Helen 
 Habecker, Harriet B. Heiple, Jessie M. Grafton, Mabelle M. 
 Clemens, Louise Busse, Ethel M. Storey, Ethel L. Black, Blanche 
 D. Esser, Frieda M. Roehm, Caroline Z. Martini, Betsy C. Coons, 
 Alice Kimmell Snell, Fleta H. Fuller, Mary Heiple Birkett, Maude 
 H. Ochenrider, Gertrude 0, Kimmell, Edith White, Blanche L. 
 Danforth, June Mueri. 
 
 Presidents who served : Gertrude Kimmell, Frieda M. Roehm. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 24. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HH, PARK FOREST 
 
 Organized March 29, 1950 by Sam B. Minear 
 
 Charter memhers: Martha Richert, Helen Softley, Marjorie 
 Kempster, Bette H. Lasher, Ernestine B. Bryant, Edna Gordon, 
 Margaret McKay Nevosad, Mary Helen Fuller, Vera Coddington, 
 Bernice Patterson, Isabel Palmer, Martha Herminghaus, Jeanne 
 Oliver, Florence Byrd Stevenson. 
 
 Presidents who served: Isabel Palmer, Martha Richert, Helen 
 Softley, DeEtte Holland. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 35. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 40. 
 
 \ CHAPTER HI, URBANA 
 
 Organized March 31, 1950 hy Sara B. Minear 
 
 Charter memhers: Velda Newcomer, Elizabeth Frank, Gloria 
 
 Sauer Grace, Helen P. Knodle, Donna Jordan Mamer, Elizabeth 
 
 R. Cobb, Gretchen Young Plagge, Beth Stephens Martin, Dorothy 
 
 S. Campbell, Dorothy C. Salisbury, Betty Jane Cribbet, Mary L.
 
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 Filbey, Janice E, Perkins, Mary Elizabeth L. Housrath, Betty J. 
 Mitchell, Mae E. Howard, Jerry S. Crocker. 
 
 Presidents who served: Velda Newcomer, Dorothy Salisbury, 
 Mae Howard. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 25. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 30. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HJ, GREENFIELD 
 
 Organized April 5, 1950 hy Sara B. Minear 
 
 Charter members: Elizabeth P. Bell, Mildred Green Bauer, 
 Virginia S. Parks, Lloyd E. Fosse, Pauline Bulger, Margareta 
 Lou Smith, June Burnham, Florence Mellos Guy, Pauline Bott, 
 Hazel D. Parks, Dorothy E. Guer, Elizabeth Hettick, Louise K. 
 Smith. 
 
 Presidents who served: Elizabeth Bell, Mildred Green Bauer. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 16. 
 
 > CHAPTER HK, LITCHFIELD 
 
 Organized May 18, 1950 hy Sara B. Minear 
 
 Charter members: Eunice Larkin, Martha Guyan, Evelyn 
 Eussell, Kathryn Patton, Henrietta Mahlandt, Eunice Paullis, 
 Merle Butler, Jane Flareth, Margaret P. Heath, Doris D. Moss, 
 Maxine Hauser, Lois Blazer, Frances Sinclair, Eachel Thorp, 
 Margaret Ann Sinclair Wilson, Virginia Morgan, Abbie Morgan. 
 
 Presidents who served: Eunice Larkin, Martha Guyan. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 21. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 25. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HL, DES PLAINES 
 
 Organized May 25, 1950 by Sam B. Minear 
 
 Charter members: Gwendolyn Smaage, Euth B. Kimball, 
 Ann E. Eomigh, Eva B. Anderson, Jean H. Kinder, Mary W. 
 Muncy, Grace L. Crosby, Nelle M. Shorey, Bernadene Eoberts, 
 Andre Woehr, Elinor M. Traeger, Marie Coe, Margaret Milliman, 
 Lillian Knippenberg, Florence M. Harris.
 
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 Fresidents who served: Gwendlyn Sniaage^ Ann E. Romigh. 
 Active membership March 1^ 1953 : 19. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 19. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HM, PALOS HEIGHTS 
 
 Organized May 28, 1950 by Sara B. Minear 
 
 Charter members : Lulu W. Avery, Kathleen K. Cross, Flor- 
 ence S. Grieve, Margaret M. Keswick, Elizabeth E. Stewart, 
 Jacqueline L. Suthers, Ethel H. Miller, Barbara ]\L Biederman, 
 Marjorie G. Coates, Grace Lake Gilleard, Harriet Flood Kanter, 
 Bernice Limd, Ellaree Schroeder, Francine Stevenson Ware, ^''ir- 
 ginia M. Wood. 
 
 Presidents who served: Ethel H. Miller, Elizabeth E. Stewart. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 20. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 23. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HN, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 
 
 Organized January 24. 1951 by Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 Charter members: Winifred Webster, Jane Faner, Florence 
 Hannmn, Jane Hirt, Julia Hull, Irene Johnson, Louise Johnson, 
 Hortense Laude, Mildred Martin, Blanche Eose, Betty Ross, Mary 
 Ellen Tucker, Ruth Beisler, Eleanor Li])s, Lotte Parbs. 
 
 Presidents who served: Louise Johnson, Betty Ross. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 22. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 22. 
 
 > CHAPTER HO, GALESBURG 
 
 Organized March 29, 1951 by Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 Clvarter members: Isyl B. Walton. Xellie S. O'Harra, Carol 
 J. Ford, Alice C. Willard, Marijaret Weber, Florence E. Willard, 
 M}Ttle M. Tally. Charlotte if. Petersen, Islah B. Kuhl, Jo Ann 
 Bulkeley, Alyce Anderson, Eila V. Hiler, Irene C. Bulkeley, Evel}Ti 
 D. McClure, Eleanor Robson, Mabel H. Scneder, Elizabeth Baylor. 
 
 President who served: Isyl B. Walton. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 24. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 2().
 
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 ► CHAPTER HP, BLOOMINGTON 
 
 Organized March 31, 1951 ly Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 Charter members: Blanche A. Obom, Louise Logan, Vera 
 H. Vogelsang, Maria Browne, Betty Lou Vannice, Virginia Spell- 
 man, Lucille E. Sedwick, Elizabetii Bumham, Janet E. Herrin, 
 Betty W. Oborn, Faith H. Larsen, Carrie E. Spier, Helen J. 
 Patton, Florence K. Holmes, Betty H. Brown, Rosie J. Yarger, 
 Helen H. Morrison, Ethelda W. Cooke. 
 
 President who served: Blanche A. Oborn. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 23. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 24. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HQ, GLEN ELLYN 
 
 Organized April 5, 1951 by Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 Charter members: Marion Pugh, Ruth G. Kelly, Frances 
 Allen Noble, Frances B. Biederman, Jean H. Finch, Vernalee 
 Sharp, L. Vonee Cooley, Evelyn Murphy, Rachel Whitfield, Jeanne 
 A. Royer, Rebecca P. Roberts, Virginia H. Dolmyer, Dorothy P. 
 Boylston, Helen D. Rinefort, Laurice L. Guyer. 
 
 President who served: Marion Pugh. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 21. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 22. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HR, BELLEVILLE 
 
 Organized if ay 7, 1951 by Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 Chnrter members: Mildred Eversull, Hazel Wilson, Eliza- 
 beth Ryan, Eleanor Wehrle, Marie Ackermann, Sylvia Robertson, 
 Hazel Hall, Lillian Dechant, Mary Kennedy, Josephine L. Asbury, 
 Mary Luise Niess, Jane Lee Badgett, Josephine Cross, Frances 
 Reed, Dorothy N. Buenger. 
 
 President who served: Mildred Eversull. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 16. 
 
 V CHAPTER HS, WAUKEGAN 
 
 Organized September 29, 1951 &y Ethel B. Dalton 
 Charter members: Cora Ewan Rinehart, Norma C, Efnor, 
 Marjorie Pile, Zelma Lewis, La Verne B. Wehrman, Denise H.
 
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 Wing, Esther Allen, Louise D. Jones, Jean Beagle, Alene Ludtke, 
 Alice Jane Fryman, Barbara Graham, Mary Elizabeth Dean. 
 
 President who served: Cora Ewan Rinehart. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 18. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 19. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HT, GRANITE CITY 
 
 Organized November 2, 1951 by Haroldvne I. Hazen 
 
 Charter members: Gladys M. Chapman, Myra L, Jackson, 
 Anna Kaltenbach, Helen A. Coolidge, Vivian K. Fechte, Lucile 
 Rodemyer, Goldie G. Fischer, Eva Dron, Loretta Reiske, Mary 
 Miller, Elizabeth W. Rice, Marie Droege, Dorothy L. Kerch, Vivian 
 P. Johnson. 
 
 President who served: Gladys M. Chapman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 17. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 17. 
 
 ¥ CHAPTER HU, SPRINGFIELD 
 
 Organized February 12, 1952 by Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 Charter members: Esther Newbegin, Helen Sherertz, Evelyn 
 N. Dixon, Celia Hitch, Edith B. Ragan, Phyllis Hanna, Bernice 
 I. Bell, Viola Voile, Elma T. Turner, Josephine K. Olson, Mary 
 L. Grummon, Ruth W. Diers, Alice B. Knight. 
 
 President who served: Esther Newbegin. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 15. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 15. 
 
 > CHAPTER HV, HIGHLAND PARK 
 
 Organized February 16, 1952 by Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 Charter members: Jane T. Dabney, Margaret E. Smith, Ellen 
 Miller, Mary Jane Blackburn, Hope J. Straith, Doreen Donaldson, 
 Claire Gates, Raedith Reed, Betty Moncrieff, Lynn Strange, Amy 
 R. Brons, Patricia Sanders, Pat Frye, Margaret Fleming, Eliza- 
 beth Cochran. 
 
 President who served: Jane Dabney. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 16.
 
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 ► CHAPTER HW, EVANSTON 
 
 Organized February 18, 1952 by Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 Charter members : Mary B. AYick, Allene K. Eobson, Wil- 
 ferene M. Kessler, Frances Nelson, Marion Dillinger, Mildred 
 Miller, Josephine K. Nims, Marjorie Preucil, Docia Bathiirst. Sue 
 Huff, Edith A. Lipps, Margaret Cooley, Lynn Wienhoeber. 
 
 President who served: Frances Nelson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 18. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 18. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HX, DANVILLE 
 
 Organized April 1, 1952 by Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 Charter memihers: Flo Hunter Shell, Patricia Perry Burke, 
 Lillian Hackley Hazel, Lois B. Draegert. Bertha Pendrup, Ger- 
 trude F. Johnson, Jeannette P. Kleinschmidt. Ellen B. Miles, 
 Mary Jane Wetherell Webber, Mamie Engel Rogers, Pansy B. 
 Collins, Mabel A, Lowenstein, Margaret Buck Bishop, Grace 
 Theodora Garrett, Florence Angell, Jean Campbell Henson. 
 
 President who served: Flo Shell. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953: 17. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 17. 
 
 V CHAPTER HY, ELMHURST 
 
 Organized April 14, 1952 by Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 Charter members: Euth B. Einaldo, Dorothy D. Eowe, Elea- 
 nor F. Fralick, Jennie Clark, Barbara J. Morgan, Hazel S. Dame, 
 Euth H. Strand, Mary Ehrhardt, Faith B. Jenkins, Nathalene 
 Foersterling, Thelma Schroeder, Joy B. Eamsey, Marian Golseth, 
 Lois E. Dinkmeyer. 
 
 President who served: Euth B. Einaldo. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 14. 
 
 ► CHAPTER HZ, OAK PARK 
 
 Organized May 23, 1952 by Jessie Parks Bonson 
 Charter members: Zella B. Creswell, Pearl Mittelstadt Fyl- 
 ling, Beulah Bergholtz, Emily Nystrand, Gano F. Anderson,
 
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 115 
 
 Catherine J. Stark, Marjorie F. Sainsbury, Hortense G. Frankiu, 
 Margaret E. Miller, Evelyn J. Forbes, Louise Rowland, Sue Eliza- 
 beth Anderson, Grace L. Armstrong, Grace B. Schreiber. 
 
 President who served: Pearl Fylling. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 14. 
 
 ► CHAPTER lA, CRYSTAL LAKE 
 
 Organdzed June 5, 1952 hy Jessie Paris Sanson 
 
 Charter members: Arklay M. Firth, Elizabeth Alford, Bea- 
 trice L. Wimple, Hazel W, Crumlish, Virginia Hennig, Helen B. 
 Schneider, Bess Smith, Euth L. Sherman, Edith Woertz, Medora 
 Colberg, Marjorie Von Stein, Betty Bonson Smith, Helen Lowell, 
 Frances Sayles. 
 
 President who served: Arklay M. Firth. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14, 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 14. 
 
 ► CHAPTER IB, PEORIA 
 
 Organized September 19, 1952 hy Jessie Parhs Bonson 
 
 Charter members: Frances B. Herman, Ida W. Endres, 
 Imogene Belsley, Marian Whitmore, Hilda Mae Ball, Eva Berg- 
 strom, Lucinda Soldwell, Lucille Wallis, Myra Miller, Zilla Stein, 
 Margaret Dewey, Mary Hoffman, Adelaide Adams. 
 
 President who served: Frances B. Herman. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 14. 
 
 ► CHAPTER IC, STREATOR 
 
 Organized November 8, 1952 hy Jessie Parhs Bonson 
 
 Charter members : Ann J. McNamara, Eimice Remley, Susan 
 Brandes, Julia Bromage, Mabel Metcalf, Ruth Strong, Betty 
 Stevenson, Dorothy Patterson, Emily Shannon, Carolyn E, 
 Schramm, Ellen Baysinger, Lyndal M. Dorland, Miriam W. 
 Elliott, Emily J. Gilman, Jane Prichard. 
 
 President who served: Eunice Remley. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 15. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 15.
 
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 ► CHAPTER ID, WHEATON 
 
 Organized Joinvary 12, 1953 by Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 Charter members; Mary Wright, Jane McKoane, Margery 
 Johnston, Neta Chandler, Betty Bluedorn, Belvidere Formo, Laura 
 Coonley, Mary Gale Hamilton Norton, LaVerna S. Augustine, 
 Alice S. Somes, Mary Anna Okell, Kathryn H. Everett, Virginia 
 M. Kimball, Helen S. Poe, Betty R. Kleber. 
 
 President who served: Laura Coonley. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 15. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 15. 
 
 ► CHAPTER IE, QUINCY 
 
 Organized January 21, 1953 by Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 Charter members: Wilha Vuylsteke, Lou Willa H. McReyn- 
 olds, lone M. Seeley, Mary E, Murphy, Linda Webb, Charlotte 
 Woodward, Elizabeth Beeson, Beatrice A. Howell, Ida Line, 
 Winnie Ingram, Dorothy B. Jacobson, Marie H, Estaque, Jessie 
 A. Casper, Betty Montgomery, Mary Louise Patterson, Ann S. 
 Cravens. 
 
 President who served: Jessie A. Casper. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 16. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 16. 
 
 > CHAPTER IF, DECATUR 
 
 Organized January 23, 1953 by Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 Charter members: Alice C, Hixson, Ruth S. Vorhees, Patty 
 D. Ray, Patricia M. Schenk, Margaret F. Munneke, Mary A. 
 Kamm, Ermine J. Parks, Neva L. Bridges, Ellen Nenney, Helen 
 M. Higgs, Helen C. Eaton, Betty E. Jacobson, Joan Purdue, 
 Alma Herkless, Catherine Minto, Betty Lee Campbell, Marion 
 Jean Larson, M. Eileen Jones. 
 
 President who served : Alice C. Hixson. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 18. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953 : 18. 
 
 > CHAPTER IG, ROBINSON 
 
 Organized January 30, 1953 by Jessie Parks Bonson 
 Charter members: Cleo H. Kaley, Gladys J. Cochran, Lucy
 
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 117 
 
 S. Hamilton, Lucille L. Schernekau, Jean Mills, Elizabeth Willard, 
 Ruth B. Burckhalter, E. Marye Norris, Jean Ridgeway, Letty 
 Irwin, Georgia D. Lathrop, Norma E. Hammer, Gather Maxwell, 
 Worthy H. Correll. 
 
 President who served: Cleo H. Kaley. 
 
 Active membership March 1, 1953 : 14. 
 
 Total membership from date of organization to March 1, 
 1953: 14.
 
 
 
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 OFFICERS OF 
 ILLINOIS STATE CHAPTER, 1903-1953 
 
 ► 1903-04: MONMOUTH, APRIL 4, 1903 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Nellie E, Banks 
 Ophelia Pittinger 
 Alena Loveridge 
 Bessie Bassett 
 Lulu C. Williams 
 Belle Johnson 
 Juanita Xander 
 
 Chapter 
 
 B Clinton 
 
 C Vermont 
 
 G Alexis 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 F Quincy 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 ► 1904-05: CHICAGO, 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Organizer 
 
 APRIL 1 2, 1 904 
 
 Maude B. Torry 
 Grace E. Parks 
 Pauline E. Tubbs 
 Mary E. Sykes 
 Lulii C. Williams 
 Helen Worsdell 
 Belle Johnson 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 I Chicago 
 
 G Alexis 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 C Vermont 
 
 F Quincy 
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► 1905-06: CLINTON, i 
 
 APRIL 24, 1 905 
 
 
 President 
 
 Grace E. Parks 
 
 I Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Lulu C. Williams 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Fannie McCrory 
 
 J Carthage 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Bessie Bassett 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Mary A. Tanner 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Clara V. Hardin 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Belle Johnson 
 
 F Quincy 
 
 ► 1 906-07: VERMONT, 
 
 APRIL 24, 1 906 
 
 
 President 
 
 Grace E. Parks 
 
 I Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Lulu C. Williams 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Belle Johnson 
 
 F Quincy 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Bessie Bassett 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Martha Cox 
 
 C Vermont 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Harriet Amsden 
 
 B Clinton 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Juanita Xander 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 ► 1907-08: CHICAGO, 
 
 APRIL 24, 1 907 
 
 
 President 
 
 Lulu C. Williams 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Harriet Amsden 
 
 B Clinton 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Mira W. Jenkins 
 
 K Macomb 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmons 
 
 L Woodhull 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 May B. Wilson 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Merta Dixson 
 
 N Eoseville 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Juanita Xander 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 ► 1 908-09: MONMOUTH, APRIL 22, 1 908 
 
 
 President 
 
 Lulu C. Williams 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Harriet Amsden 
 
 B Clinton 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Effie E. Austin 
 
 E Monmouth 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmon? 
 
 L Woodhull 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 May B. Wilson 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Fannie F. Benson 
 
 McLeansboro 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Martha Weedman 
 
 Q Farmer City 
 
 ► 1909-10: QUINCY, APRIL 20, 1909 
 
 
 President 
 
 Harriet Amsden 
 
 B Clinton 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Winfry F. Darby 
 
 K Macomb 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Lila H. Scott 
 
 F Quincy
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 121 
 
 Kecording Secretary 
 
 Nancy Olds 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Minnie B. Capron 
 
 T Kirkwood 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Fannie F. Benson 
 
 McLeansboro 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Martha Weedman 
 
 Q Farmer City 
 
 ► 1910-11: ALEXIS, APRIL 26, 1910 
 
 
 President 
 
 Winfry Darby 
 
 K Macomb 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmons 
 
 1 L Woodhull 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Ethelyn Griffith 
 
 J Carthage 
 
 Eecording Secretary 
 
 Nancy A. Olds 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Minnie B. Capron 
 
 T Kirkwood 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Martha J. Glunt 
 
 S Maywood 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Pauline E. Tubbs 
 
 G Alexis 
 
 ► 1911-12: ALEDO, APRIL 26, 1911 
 
 
 President 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmons 
 
 \ L Woodhull 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Ethelyn Griffith 
 
 J Carthage 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Bessie Bassett 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Nancy Olds 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Flora Ryan 
 
 R Peoria 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Margaret Seymour 
 
 V Rockford 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Pauline E. Tubbs 
 
 G Alexis 
 
 ► 1912-13: CHICAGO, 
 
 APRIL 16, 1912 
 
 
 President 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmons 
 
 L Woodhull 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Ethelyn Griffith 
 
 J Carthage 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Bessie Bassett 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Blanche B. West 
 
 X Bushnell 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Flora Ryan 
 
 R Peoria 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Margaret Seymour 
 
 V Rockford 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Luella B. Stafford 
 
 D Chicago 
 
 ► 1913-14: CARTHAGE 
 
 , APRIL 22, 1913 
 
 
 President 
 
 Ethelyn Griffith 
 
 J Carthage 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Bessie Bassett 
 
 H Aledo 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Eleanor E. Bailey 
 
 K Macomb 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Blanche B. West 
 
 X Bushnell 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Hallie A. Newell 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Margaret Seymour 
 
 V Rockford 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Luella B. Stafford 
 
 D Chicago
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A History 
 
 ► 1914-15: MACOMB, 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second A'ice-President 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Orfranizer 
 
 APRIL 28, 1914 
 
 Ethelyn Griffith 
 Eleanor E. Bailey 
 Luella B. Stafford 
 Blanche B. West 
 Hallie A. Newell 
 Margaret Seymour 
 Alice Willard 
 
 J Carthage 
 K Macomb 
 D Chicago 
 X Bushnell 
 A Chicago 
 V Rockford 
 W Galesburg 
 
 ► 1915-16: WOODHULL, APRIL 27, 1915 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Eleanor E. Bailev 
 Luella B. Stafford 
 Viola R. Stickney 
 Blanche B. West 
 Hallie A. Newell 
 Margaret Seymour 
 Alice Willard 
 
 K Macomb 
 D Chicago 
 L Woodhull 
 X Bushnell 
 A Chicago 
 V Rockford 
 W Galesburg 
 
 ► 1916-17: ROSEVILLE, APRIL 25, 1916 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Orsranizer 
 
 Eleanor E. Bailey 
 Luella B. Stafford 
 Viola R. Stickney 
 May H. DeMoney 
 May A. Brokaw 
 Alice Willard 
 Hallie A. Newell 
 
 K Macomb 
 D Chicago 
 L Woodhull 
 I Chicago 
 E Monmouth 
 W Galesburg 
 A Chicago 
 
 ► 1917-18: McLEANSBORO, APRIL 1 7, 1 91 7 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Luella B. Stafford D 
 
 A^iola R. Stickney L 
 
 Fannie Benson 
 
 Jessie G. Scofield AH 
 
 May H. Brokaw E 
 
 Moilie Bridgford H 
 
 May H. DeMoney I 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Woodhull 
 
 McLeansboro 
 
 Peoria 
 
 Monmouth 
 
 Aledo 
 
 Chicago 
 
 ► 1918-19: CHICAGO, APRIL 23, 1918 
 
 President Luella B. Stafford D Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President ^fay H. Brokaw E Monmouth 
 
 Second Vice-President Gladys Swanson N Roseyille
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 123 
 
 K'ecording Secretarj'' 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 Treasurer 
 Organizer 
 
 Ruth H. Dysart 
 Margaret McAfee 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 May H. DeMoney 
 
 AC Dixon 
 
 AE Farmington 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 I Chicago 
 
 V 1919-20: PEORIA, APRIL 21, 1919 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Organizer 
 
 May H. Brokaw 
 Margaret McAfee 
 Etta W. Blythe 
 Ruth Dysart 
 Gladys Swanson 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 May H, DeMoney 
 
 E Monmouth 
 AE Farmington 
 
 R Peoria 
 AC Dixon 
 N Roseville 
 P Chicago 
 I Chicago 
 
 ► 1920-21: MAYWOOD, APRIL 27, 1920 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 May H. DeMoney 
 Margaret McAfee 
 Etta W. Blythe 
 Bessie C. Tieken 
 Ruth Dysart 
 Flora Isabel Kemp 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 
 I Chicago 
 AE Farmington 
 
 R Peoria 
 
 A Chicago 
 AC Dixon 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 ► 1921-22: KIRKWOOD, APRIL 26, 1921 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Margaret McAfee 
 Etta W. Blythe 
 Flora Isabel Kemp 
 Maude McDonald 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 Harriette Palmer 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 
 AE Farmington 
 
 R Peoria 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 AI Chicago 
 
 BC Decatur 
 
 AB Carlinville 
 
 P Chicago 
 
 > 1922-23: HAMILTON, APRIL 25, 1922 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Etta W. Blythe 
 Flora Isabel Kemp 
 Valentine Dadant 
 Maude McDonald 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 Katherine Church 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 
 R Peoria 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 IT Hamilton 
 
 AI Chicago 
 
 BC Decatur 
 
 AV Berwyn 
 
 P Chicago
 
 WHO'S WHO 
 
 in Illinois P. E. 0. 
 1903 - 1953 
 
 Peesidents of Illinois State Chapter 
 
 124
 
 Xellie E. Daxks, 1903-04 
 
 Chapter B, Clinton 
 
 Tvensurer. Supreme Chapter 
 
 1905-0: 
 
 Maide B. Torry, 1904-O.j 
 Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 Grace Kuxyax Parks. 190.5-07 
 
 Chapter I, Chicago 
 
 Supreme Chapter: 
 
 First Vice-President, 1909-11 ; 
 
 President. 1911-13 
 
 125
 
 Lulu ("orkhii.l AVilliams, 
 
 1907-0!) 
 
 ('h;il)t('r I), Chiciip) 
 
 Hakhikt M. Amsj)kx, 1909-10 
 Chapter B, Clinton 
 
 WixXFRY Darby, 1910-11 
 Chapter K, Maconiib 
 
 Elizabeth D. Simmons, 1911-13 
 Chapter h, AVoodhull 
 
 126
 
 Ethelyx Griffith (Joxe.s), 
 
 1913-15 
 
 Chapter J. Carthage 
 
 Eleanor Eads Bailey, 1915-17 
 
 Chapter K, Macomb 
 
 Corresponding Secretari/. 
 
 Suiireinc Chdpter, 1919-23 
 
 LuELLA B. Stafford, 1917-19 
 Chapter D, Chicago 
 
 127
 
 
 
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 May H. Brokaw, 1919-20 
 Chapter E, Monmouth 
 
 May H. DeMoney, 1920-21 
 Chapter I^, Chicago 
 
 Margaret McAfee, 1921-22 
 Chapter AI% Farmington 
 
 Etta W. Blythe, 1922-23 
 Chapter li, Peoria
 
 Flora Isabel Kemp, 1933-24 
 Chapter AW. Blooniington 
 
 Maude B. McDoxald, 1925-2(i 
 Chapter AI. Cliiia;^^ 
 
 T 
 
 ^Iahkl Davkxi'out Dori). l!)^!-"^.") 
 Chapter P, Chicago 
 Supreme Chapter: 
 Treasurer. 1925-29 ; 
 
 Second yice-Prei^ident, 1929-31; 
 
 Firsi \-ice-7' resident, 1931-33; 
 
 1' resident, 1933-35 
 
 129
 
 Jessie M. Millek, 1920-27 
 Chapter V>C, Decatur 
 
 Bessie K. Eanev, 1928-29 
 
 Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 ^'^upirme Chapter: 
 
 ( 'oncsprmding Secn'tanj, 193T-;59 : 
 
 lii'rording Secretary, 1939-41 ; 
 
 Organizer, 1941-43 ; 
 
 Second Vice-President, 1943-45; 
 
 Fir.'^t Vice-Pre.ndent, 1945-47; 
 
 President, 1947-49 
 
 Katherine E. Church, 1927-28 
 
 Chapter AA', ]>er\vvn 
 
 Served on Hoard of I'rastee.s, 
 
 Cottcy College 
 
 130
 
 Maufl Y. Frisbe, 1929-30 
 Chapter X, Bushnell 
 
 Wk' "^. 
 
 ^fc* 
 
 ^P^iWd^A 
 
 Myrtle C. Combe, 1930-31 
 Cha])ter Z, Harri-sbiirg 
 
 ;ttie S. Mri)(;E, l!);)!-:!" 
 Cliaj)t('i' A, Cliicngo 
 Serred as TniHtee of 
 Eclucdtional Fund 
 
 Opal B. Bay. miller, 1932-33 
 Cha])ter AH, Peoria 
 
 131
 
 rAlLIXE 11 KrNAKEH, 1933-84 
 
 Chapter AB, Carlinville 
 
 ►Stella \\. Leys, 19;U-3r) 
 Chapter AW, Bloomingto]! 
 
 Ai.icK V. Pekhix, 193r)-;5G 
 ('haj)ter I5A. -lolict 
 
 .Maky K. Lixdsay. 19;)()-;5: 
 ( 'hautcr Al ). ('hica^'o 
 
 132
 
 Ethel C. Jelliffe, 1937-38 
 Chapter CA, Springfield 
 
 Myrtice M. Anderson, 1938-39 
 Chapter BZ. Canton 
 
 KuTH M. Cruse, 1939-10 
 Chapter AT, Chicago 
 
 Klla B. Leib, 1910-11 
 Chapter BF, .Springfiekl 
 
 133
 
 Beulah Thornton, 1941-42 
 
 Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 Serving as Trustee 
 
 of Supphj Dcparfnicnt 
 
 LouLSE Dicus, 1942-43 
 Chapter CM, Streator 
 
 Mary C. Beatty, 1943-44 
 Chapter AN, Galesburg 
 
 CiENKVA C. SCILROJUEU. 1911-15 
 
 Chapter BK, Eock Island 
 
 134
 
 RiBY K. Prixck, 1945-46 
 Chapter CI, Chicago 
 
 LuLisK R. Waddkij-, 1946-47 
 Cha})ter AW, Blooinington 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow, 1947-48 
 Chapter CY, Jack.-^onville 
 
 Hazel \'. Zieskl, 1948-49 
 Chapter CW, La Grange 
 
 135
 
 Jennie H. liuGH, 19^9-50 
 Chapter BW, Decatur 
 
 Blanche Allen Lee, 1950-51 
 Chapter BA, Joliet 
 
 J'J.izai;i:tli Cohbridue, 1951-55 
 Cluiptcr (M. IJnekford 
 
 Sara B. Minear, 1952-53 
 Chapter F. Quincy 
 
 136
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 137 
 
 ¥ 1 923-24: ROCKFORD, APRIL 24, 1 923 
 
 President 
 
 Flora Isabel Kemp 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 
 P 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Maude McDonald 
 
 AI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 
 BC 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Ettabel Brown 
 
 Y 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Katherine Church 
 
 AV 
 
 Berwyn 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Valentine Dadant 
 
 IT 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 ► 1924-25: GALESBURG, APRIL 22, 1924 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Mabel D. Dowd 
 
 P 
 
 Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Maude McDonald 
 
 AI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 
 BC 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Caroline G. Stotts 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Ettabel L, Brown 
 
 V 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Katherine Church 
 
 AV 
 
 Berwyn 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Valentine Dadant 
 
 U 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 ► 1925-26: BUSHNELL, 
 
 APRIL 28, 1925 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Maude McDonald 
 
 AI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 
 BC 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Katherine Church 
 
 AV 
 
 Berwyn 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Caroline G. Stotts 
 
 AV 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Ettabel L. Brown 
 
 V 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 X 
 
 Bushnell 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Valentine Dadant 
 
 u 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 ► 1926-27: HAVANA, 
 
 APRIL 27, 1926 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Jessie M. Miller 
 
 BC 
 
 Decatur 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Katherine Church 
 
 AV 
 
 Berwyn 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Caroline G. Stotts 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Mabel Y. Frisbee 
 
 X 
 
 Bushnell 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Olga Pen Dell 
 
 AF 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Bessie R. Raney 
 
 A 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Grace Dulfy 
 
 Y 
 
 Havana 
 
 ► 1927-28: HARRISBURG, APRIL 26, 1927 
 
 President Katherine Church AV Berwyn 
 
 First Vice-President Mabel Y. Frisbee X Bushnell 
 
 Second Vice-President Myrtle C. Combe Z Harrisburg
 
 138 
 
 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 Treasurer 
 
 Bessie E. Raney 
 Olga Pen Dell 
 Helen Henkel 
 Grace Duify 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 AF CWcago 
 
 BF Springfield 
 
 Y Havana 
 
 ► 1 928-29: CHRISTOPHER, APRIL 24, 1 928 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Bessie R. Raney A Chicago 
 
 Mabel Y. Frisbee X Bushnell 
 
 Nettie Edwards AA Christopher 
 
 MjTtle C. Combe Z Harrisburg 
 
 Opal B. Bayiniller AH Peoria 
 
 Helen B. Henkel BF Springfield 
 
 Grace Duffy Y Havana 
 
 ► 1929-30: CARLINVILLE, APRIL 23, 1929 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Mabel Y. Frisbee X 
 
 Myrtle C. Combe Z 
 
 Lettie S. Mudge A 
 
 Opal B. Baymiller AH 
 
 Pauline B, Rinaker AB 
 
 Stella R. Leys AW 
 
 Bess Mercer C 
 
 Bushnell 
 
 Harrisburg 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Peoria 
 
 Carlinville 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 A^ermont 
 
 ► 1930-31: DIXON, APRIL 21, 1930 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Myrtle C. Combe 
 Lettie S. Mudge 
 Opal B. Baymiller 
 Pauline B. Rinaker 
 Stella R, Leys 
 Bess Mercer 
 Alice P. Perrin 
 
 Z Harrisburg 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 AH Peoria 
 
 AB Carlinville 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 C Vermont 
 
 BA Joliet 
 
 ► 1931-32: CHICAGO, 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 APRIL 27, 1931 
 
 Lettie S. Mudge 
 Opal B, Baymiller 
 Pauline B. Rinaker 
 Stella R. Leys 
 Alice P. Perrin 
 Mary K. Lindsay 
 Ethel C. JelHffe 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 AH Peoria 
 
 AB Carlinville 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 BA Joliet 
 
 AD Chicago 
 
 CA Springfield
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 139 
 
 ► 1932-33: CANTON, APRIL 25, 1932 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Opal B. Baymiller 
 Pauline B. Rinaker 
 Stella R. Leys 
 Alice P. Perrin 
 Mary K. Lindsay 
 Ethel C. Jelliife 
 Myrtice Anderson 
 
 AH Peoria 
 
 AB Carlinville 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 
 BA Joliet 
 
 AD Chicago 
 
 CA Springfield 
 
 BZ Canton 
 
 ► 1 933-34: PEORIA, APRIL 24, 1 933 
 
 Pauline B. Rinaker 
 Stella R. Leys 
 Alice P. Perrin 
 Mary K. Lindsay 
 Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 Grace A. Gorham 
 Myrtice Anderson 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 AB Carlinville 
 AW Bloomington 
 BA Joliet 
 AD Chicago 
 CA Springfield 
 AH Peoria 
 BZ Canton 
 
 ► 1934-35: CHICAGO, APRIL 24, 1934 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Stella R. Leys 
 Alice P. Perrin 
 Mary K. Lindsay 
 Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 Myrtice Anderson 
 Grace A. Gorham 
 Ruth M. Cruse 
 
 AW Bloomington 
 BA Joliet 
 AD Chicago 
 CA Springfield 
 BZ Canton 
 AH Peoria 
 A I Chicago 
 
 > 1935-36: SPRINGFIELD, APRIL 22, 1935 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Alice P. Perrin BA Joliet 
 
 Mary K. Lindsay AD Chicago 
 
 Ethel C. Jelliffe CA Springfield 
 
 Myrtice Anderson BZ Canton 
 
 Ruth M. Cruse AI Chicago 
 
 Ella B. Leib BF Springfield 
 
 Edna Weaver CD Pittsfield 
 
 ► 1936-37: CHICAGO, APRIL 23, 1936 
 
 President Marv K. Lindsay 
 
 First Vice-President Ethel C. Jelliffe 
 
 AD Chicago 
 CA Springfield
 
 140 
 
 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Second Vice-President Myrtice Anderson BZ Canton 
 
 Organizer Ruth M. Cruse AI Chicago 
 
 Recording Secretary Ella B. Leib BF Springfield 
 
 Corresponding Secretary Beulah Thornton A Chicago 
 
 Treasurer Ethel C. Bennett DY Elgin 
 
 > 1937-38: BLOOMINGTON, APRIL 22, 1937 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Ethel C. Jelliffe CA Springfield 
 
 Myrtice Anderson BZ Canton 
 
 Ruth M. Cruse AI Chicago 
 
 Ella B. Leib BF Springfield 
 
 Beulah Thornton A Chicago 
 
 Ethel C. Bennett DY Elgin 
 
 Louise Dicus CM Streator 
 
 ► 1938-39: GALESBURG, APRIL 28, 1938 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Mvrtice Anderson 
 Ruth M. Cruse 
 Ella B. Leib 
 Beulah Thornton 
 Louise Dicus 
 Marv C. Beattv 
 Louise R. Wad dell 
 
 BZ Canton 
 
 AI Chicago 
 
 BF Springfield 
 
 A Chicago 
 
 CM Streator 
 
 AN (lalesburg 
 
 AW Blooniington 
 
 ► 1 939-40: ROCK ISLAND, APRIL 25, 1 939 
 
 President 
 
 Ruth M. Cruse 
 
 AI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Ella B. Leib 
 
 BF 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Beulah Thornton 
 
 A 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Louise Dicus 
 
 CM 
 
 Streator 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Mary C. Beatty 
 
 AN 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Ceneva C. Schroder 
 
 BK 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Ruth B. Kimball 
 
 FI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 ► 1 940-41 : CHICAGO, APRIL 23, 1 940 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 l-:]la B. Leib BF 
 
 lieulah Thornton A 
 
 Louise Dicus CM 
 
 Mary C. Beatty AN 
 
 Geneva C. Schroder BK 
 
 Springfield 
 Chicago 
 Streator 
 (-ialesburg 
 Rock Island
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 141 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Ruth B. Kimball FI Chicago 
 
 Mary K. Lindsay AD Chicago 
 (AprH 21st to 25th) 
 
 Ruby E. Prince CI Chicago 
 
 > 1941-42: JACKSONVILLE, APRIL 23, 1941 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 ► 1942-43: CHICAGO, 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 ► 1944-45: CHICAGO, 
 
 President 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Beulah Thornton 
 
 A 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Louise Dicus 
 
 CM 
 
 Streator 
 
 Mary C. Beatty 
 
 AN 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 BK 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 Ruby E. Prince 
 
 CI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 APRIL 23, 1942 
 
 
 
 Louise Dicus 
 
 CM 
 
 Streator 
 
 Mary C. Beatty 
 
 AN 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 BK 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 Ruby E. Prince 
 
 CI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CAY 
 
 LaG range 
 
 APRIL 29, 1943 
 
 
 
 Mary C. Beatty 
 
 AN 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 BK 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 Rubv E. Prince 
 
 CI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 La r; range 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 APRIL 25, 1944 
 
 
 
 Geneva C. Schroder 
 
 BK 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 Ruby E. Prince 
 
 CI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 LaGrange 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Blanche A. Lee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► 1 945-46: ROCICFORD, APRIL 24, 1 945 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Ruby E. Prince 
 
 CI 
 
 Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Second A^ice-President 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 LaGrange 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Blanche A. Lee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 ► 1946-47: QUINCY, APRIL 23, 1946 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Louise R. Waddell 
 
 AW 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 First A^ice- President 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 LaGrange 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Blanche A. I^ee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 ► 1947-48: CHICAGO, 
 
 APRIL 22, 1947 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Bessie S. Ballow 
 
 CY 
 
 Jacksonville 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 LaGrange 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Blanche A. Lee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 l*]lizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 ► 1948-49: GALESBURG, APRIL 27, 1948 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Hazel V. Ziesel 
 
 CW 
 
 LaGrange 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Jennie H. Rugh 
 
 BW 
 
 Decatur 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Blanche A. Lee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 ► 1949-50: CHICAGO, APRIL 25, 1949 
 
 President Jennie H. Rugh BW Decatur 
 
 First Vice-President Blanche A. Lee BA Joliet 
 
 Second Vice-President Elizabeth Corbridge CJ Rockford
 
 State Chapter Officers 
 
 143 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Haroldine I, Hazen 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 I 
 
 Chicago 
 
 ► 1950-51: PEORIA, APRIL 25, 1950 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Blanche A, Lee 
 
 BA 
 
 Joliet 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 I 
 
 CMcago 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Ella C. Shimmin 
 
 R 
 
 Peoria 
 
 ► 1951-52: CHICAGO, 
 
 APRIL 26, 1951 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Elizabeth Corbridge 
 
 CJ 
 
 Rockford 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 I 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Ella C. Shimmin 
 
 R 
 
 Peoria 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Gladys A. Cross 
 
 DG 
 
 Chicago 
 
 ► 1952-53: SPRINGFIELD, APRIL 28, 1952 
 
 
 
 President 
 
 Sara B. Minear 
 
 F 
 
 Quincy 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Ethel B. Dalton 
 
 EX 
 
 Evanston 
 
 Second Vice-President 
 
 Haroldine I. Hazen 
 
 W 
 
 Galesburg 
 
 Organizer 
 
 Jessie Parks Bonson 
 
 I 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Recording Secretary 
 
 Ella C. Shimmin 
 
 R 
 
 Peoria 
 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 (iladys Cross 
 
 DG 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Frances M. Bay 
 
 DC 
 
 Springfield
 
 CONVENTIONS OF 
 ILLINOIS STATE CHAPTER, 1903-1953 
 
 ► As WE LOOK closely at the convention 
 records of Illinois State Chapter of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood, during 
 a period of fifty years, we may well be prepared for gi-eat changes. 
 We shall be studying developments and the growth of a movement 
 made possible by the combined efforts of many people, rather than 
 by paying tribute, as we well might, to striking individual leader- 
 ship. Through all these skeleton reports, watch the growth in 
 numbers; observe the experimental shifting and changing in the 
 organization's structure, for efficient dealing with a vastly en- 
 larged membership ; note the loyal adjustment to actions of the 
 larger national group, and acceptance of responsibility and leader- 
 ship in it; study and be continually proud of the dual interest of 
 P. E. 0. women in the affairs of the world about them (through 
 which we might readily trace the history of these decades), — 
 and in the Projects, conceived, born, developed, and grown powerful 
 in the hands of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood. Even while you are 
 recognizing how compressed and fragmentary these words must be, 
 you will be able to find much of challenge, a little rebuke for easy 
 contentment, and real inspiration for future effort. 
 
 144
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 145 
 
 ► FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, B. P. 0. E. Rail, Monmouth, Illinois. Hostess 
 CImpter E. 
 
 Date, April 3, 4, 1903. 
 
 Presiding Officer, Mrs. Born HallocJc, Organizer and Bepre- 
 sentative from Supreme Grand Chapter. 
 
 Mrs. Nellie B. Banks was elected the first President of 
 lUirwis Grand Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 9. Number of delegates 15. 
 
 This was, of necessity, a convention crammed with organiza- 
 tion details. It is to be noted that every delegate was assigned 
 to some special committee at once. Delegates were elected (one 
 for every three chapters) for the "Supreme Chapter", to be held in 
 Lincoln, Nebraska, in the coming October. Much attention was 
 given to the state by-laws, in process of formation and adoption. 
 At one point in the very interesting minutes, we read, "Many of 
 the delegates were obliged to leave at this point to take the east 
 bound trains. After the doors were closed, Mrs. Hapeman (the 
 Supreme President) gave us some good advice and explained 
 many points of interest." In attendance from the Supreme 
 organization, in addition to the president and organizer, were the 
 Treasurer, Mrs. Emma Pratt, and Miss Mary Osmond, Editor of 
 the P. E. 0. Eecord, — all of whom helped to make it a very 
 significant gathering for the delegates. 
 
 ► SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapter A. 
 
 Bate, April 12, 13, 1904. 
 
 Mrs. Nellie B. Banks, President, Illinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Bepresentative from Supreme, Mrs. M. Lue Weber, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 10. Number of delegates 17. 
 
 Charter was granted to Chapter J, Carthage. 
 
 At this convention the dues were increased from 50c to $1.50, 
 after the experiences of one year. Although there was a formal 
 memorial address, a member of each bereaved chapter spoke person- 
 ally of her departed sister. When the by-laws committee made its 
 report, there Avere very specific comments on the by-laws of every 
 chapter, with exact references to changes needed. The Sisterhood 
 was growing cautiously, there being only one dis])ensation granted 
 for a new chapter. It is interesting that the charter fee for a new 
 chapter was $5.00. It was decided that each chapter should be
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 entitled to two delegates to the Illinois Grand Chapter convention. 
 The only printed blanks in use were those of the president and 
 the treasurer. 
 
 ► THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Elks H<lII, Clinton, Illinois. Hostess CJvapter B. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 26, 1905. 
 
 Presiding, Mrs. Grace R. Parks (Vice-President) in place of 
 Mrs. Maude B. Torry, who resigned because of serious illness. 
 
 Pepresentative from Supreme, Mrs. M. Lue Weher, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 11. Number of delegates 19. 
 
 Charter was gra^nted to Chapter K, Macomb. 
 
 Mrs. M. Lue Weber, Supreme Grand Chapter President, was 
 iu attendance and answered many questions. One topic of general 
 interest was the number it is desirable to have as charter members 
 in any chapter. The discussion resulted in a decision that there 
 should be at least eight, but not more than ten members. Another 
 point settled was that it was not permissible to invite the officers 
 of a neighboring chapter to do the work of any chapter, but that 
 any individual officer could so officiate. The chapter reports were 
 given by individual members as part of the program and dealt, at 
 some length, with the general work of the chapters, such as pro- 
 gram of study, social events, philanthropic work, and business 
 management. 
 
 ► FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Hall, Vermont, Illinois. Hostess Chapter C. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 26, 1906. 
 
 Mrs. Grace R. Parks, President, Illinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supr&me, Mrs. Walter Irish, First Vice- 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 15. Number of delegates 27. 
 
 Charters ivere granted to Chapters L, Woodhull; M, Sher- 
 1-urd; N, Roseville; 0, McLeansboro ; and P, Chicago (organized 
 one manth later). 
 
 The minutes of this convention attest the remarkable talent 
 that the president, Mrs. Grace E. Parks, had for constitutional 
 work. During her term of office, the constitution and by-laws 
 received the closest study; many new sections were added for 
 clarity, slight errors in grammar or usage were corrected, and the 
 wording was made absolutely specific. Mrs. Parks was a master
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 147 
 
 of detail and clarity, and much of our present constitution is due 
 to her clear thought during these years. 
 
 It is interesting that as early as this, the use of a question 
 box was an accepted part of the convention program. The Me- 
 morial Committee made the unique report, "We are able to say 
 we have no deaths to report, and are truly thankful for the Divine 
 care and protection we have had during this year." 
 
 A resolution was passed that the first two meetings following 
 an election of officers in a local chapter be devoted to a study of 
 the constitution and by-laws, with the retiring president acting 
 as instructor. The Grand Chapter recording secretary was au- 
 thorized to have the minutes and by-laws printed and copies sent 
 to each local president, corresponding secretary, and treasurer. 
 Arrangements were made, also, for the printing of credential 
 blanks and other supplies. 
 
 According to the report, there were now 286 active members 
 in the state of Illinois. 
 
 V FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Lexington Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapter D. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1907. 
 
 Mrs. Grace R. Parks, President, Ulinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Mary D. Lawrence, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 18. Number of delegates 35. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters Q, Farmer City; and R, 
 Peoria. 
 
 Several of these early conventions were fortunate in having 
 in attendance one or more of the Founders, as well as members 
 from Original A, who could pass on not only factual information, 
 but a little glow of inspiration. Such was the situation in 1907. 
 Mrs. Alice Bird Babb, one of the Original Seven, spoke about the 
 early days of P. E. 0., and Mrs. Franc Roads Elliott, another of 
 the Original Seven, gave one of the principal evening addresses. 
 Mrs. Lulu C. Williams, who had also been a member of Original 
 A, was likewise present at this convention, so it was a peculiarly 
 rich time of connection with beginnings. The convention con- 
 tinued the very careful work of the previous one, on the State 
 by-laws, making numerous slight changes to harmonize exactly 
 with laws of Supreme, and to eliminate duplications in areas 
 covered by the constitution. We are inclined to chuckle over two 
 of the resolutions, so indicative of the problems of the small or- 
 ganization. "Whereas the P. E. 0. Conventions are our greatest
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 source of inspiration and help, therefore be it resolved that each 
 chapter is re(juested to urge and influence its members to visit 
 
 such conventions whenever possible" and "Whereas there 
 
 is a great financial benefit to the order in obtaining railroad rates 
 to and from conventions, therefore be it resolved that all members 
 be urged to have friends and relatives visit the convention city and 
 assist us, under the usual certificate plan." How successful the 
 appeal was, we can only surmise. 
 
 ► SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Elks Parlors, Mawmouth, Illinois. Hostess Chapter E. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1908. 
 
 Mrs. Lulu Corkhill Williams, President, Illinois Grand 
 Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Sophie McLean, Organ- 
 izer of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Nitmher of chapters represented 20. Number of delegates 40. 
 
 Charters were granted to Clmpters S, Mayivood; and T, Kirk- 
 wood. 
 
 Mrs. McLean, the representative from Supreme, gave a care- 
 ful explanation of the new Educational Fund, and a contribution 
 of $50 was voted from Illinois. From this time on, there is a 
 great deal of emphasis on this big P. E .0. project, and it has a 
 place of importance in every convention. Mrs. Franc Eoads 
 Elliott, one of the Original Seven, addressed the convention on the 
 subject of Greek Art. 
 
 Changes in the ^^'orld at large are indicated by such additions 
 in the by-laws as that "street addresses, if any" be used on various 
 blanks. Two guards were still adequate for the needs of the 
 convention group. It was decided that the State Organizer should 
 be sent to Supreme Convention, and her expenses paid by the state. 
 This became an essential part of the by-laws. It is a recognition 
 of the great importance of the Organizer in interpreting and pro- 
 moting this ffi'owinjT movement. 
 
 i SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Elks Parlors. Quincy, Illinois. Hostess CJmpter F. 
 Date, April 20, 21, 22, 1909. 
 
 Mrs. Lulu Corkhill Williams, President, FJinois Grand 
 Chapter.
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 149 
 
 Eeprescntative from, Supreme, Mrs. Carrie M. Peterson, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Nnmber of chapters represented 23. Number of delegates 43. 
 
 Charters were grmnted to Chapters U, Hamilton; V, Rockford, 
 and W, Caleshurg. 
 
 In this convention as once or twice before, there was futile 
 eifort to change the time of convention from April to mid-May; 
 apparently April was popular. Another field in which there was 
 changing opinion, apparently, was that of dues. The per capita 
 dues which had been advanced from 50c to $1.50, were now moved 
 back to $1.00. There was an effort to secure permission to use a 
 state jeweler, instead of the Official Jeweler, but the motion was 
 lost. In her president's address, Mrs. Williams urged that every 
 individual member be encouraged to conmiit to memory every 
 word of the ritual, which officers were required to learn. 
 
 ► EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Hall. Alexis, Ulinois. Hostess Chapter G. 
 
 Date, April 26, 27, 28, 1910. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet M. Am&den, President, Ulinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Grace R. Parks, First 
 Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 24. Num,her of delegates 44. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters X, Bushnell; and Y, 
 Havana. 
 
 You will observe that although there were 23 chapters in the 
 previous convention and two new ones organized during the year, 
 the number is given as only 24. That is because Chapter M of 
 Sherrard, after a long and hopeless struggle, asked permission to 
 disband. Such permission was granted, and the president reported 
 that all of Chapter M's supplies had been returned. This is the 
 first loss in the state. 
 
 From the president's report we read, "One of the puzzling 
 problems of the year, which confronts us and which will grow 
 more and more serious in time to come, is now, and will be, the 
 aiding of the overburdened chapters in entertaining Grand Chapter. 
 If all were present today who are entitled to a seat, this conven- 
 tion would number sixty-two delegates, which proves conclusively 
 that we are growing beyond the entertainment of small chapters." 
 Accordingly, there were ]jlaced in the by-laws the provision that 
 every delegate pay the sum of one dollar to assist in paying ex- 
 penses of entertainment. 
 
 The Educational Fund has become of sufficient importance
 
 150 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 that a separate bank book and receipt book were authorized for 
 the treasurer in handling this fund. 
 
 The president said it would be of great help to her if the 
 local presidents would write a letter during January, concerning 
 the condition of the chapter and ways in which the state organ- 
 ization could be of help. The suggestion was so valuable that it 
 is now a matter of accepted procedure. 
 
 With the numerical growth of P. E. 0. in Illinois had ac- 
 cumulated a considerable bulk of correspondence, and a committee 
 was appointed to examine the materials of the corresponding 
 secretary, and eliminate that which no longer was needed. 
 
 ► NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Hall, Aledo, Illinois. Hostess Chapter H. 
 
 Date, April 26, 27, 28, 1911. 
 
 Presiding, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Simmms, Vice-President, acting 
 for Mrs. Darby. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Winona E. Reeves, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 26. Number of delegates 46, 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters Z, Harrisburg; AA, 
 Christopher; AB, Carlinville; and AC, Dixon. 
 
 It was the convention's privilege to be addressed by Mrs. 
 Mary E. Price, the first President of Supreme, who spoke on "The 
 Earlier Days of P. E. 0." The program included such contro- 
 versial subjects as "Political Equality for Women" (a debate), 
 "Public Sanitation Measures", "The High School System". The 
 convention suggested a form of voucher to be used in proposing 
 a name for membership and recommended it for consideration at 
 the next meeting of Supreme Grand Chapter. The delegates to 
 Supreme were also instructed to bring before the convention the 
 question of making our stars smaller. 
 
 At this time, if an inactive member wished to be reinstated, 
 the fee was $2.00. Again, there was an unsuccessful attempt to 
 change the convention time to May. The treasurers' books, having 
 been found to be completely lacking in uniformity, were brought 
 to convention, where definite suggestions were outlined. Evidently 
 the officers were feeling the problems of growth, for the president 
 was authorized to buy an additional trunk or box for the keeping 
 of records and supplies. 
 
 Of the four new chapters, three were in southern Illinois, a 
 new development.
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 151 
 
 ► TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapter 
 I. 
 
 Date, April 16, 17, 18, 1912. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Simmans, President, Illinois Grand 
 Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Grace Bunyan Parhs, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 29. (Number absent 1). 
 Number of delegates 56. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chaptei's AD, Chicago; and AE, 
 Farming ton. 
 
 In an effort to keep the program within bounds, without loss 
 of interest, the president had asked that all local chapter reports 
 be sent by March 15th, so that a person appointed by the president 
 might have time to incorporate them all in one report for the 
 convention. This was a great improvement. The By-Laws were 
 changed, striking out the word "Grand'^ wherever it appeared in 
 the state constitution, in connection with Supreme Chapter. An 
 ardent appeal was made for local support of the Educational Fund, 
 now well-established and growing. At this convention six guards 
 were used in each session. 
 
 ► ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Baptist Church, Carthage, Illinois, Hostess Chapter J. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1913. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Simmons, President, Illinois Grand 
 Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Grace Runyan Parks, 
 President of Supre\me Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 27. (Number absent 4). 
 Number of delegates 52. 
 
 Charter was granted to Chapter AF, Chicago. 
 
 As at various other times, amendments which were to be pro- 
 posed at Supreme Convention by other states, such as Iowa, or 
 California, or Missouri, were fully discussed, so that the delegates 
 would know the wish of their own state. We observe that the term 
 used on the program at this point is "exemplification of the initi- 
 ation ceremony", rather than the familiar "Model Meeting". 
 
 Mrs. Simmons in her president's address said, "In my ac- 
 quaintance with chapters, I find one universal and deplorable 
 condition. Almost without exception the President only is able 
 to give the secret work, and in few cases is this letter-perfect." 
 She insisted with conviction that it should be possible for every
 
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 first delegate at convention to know the secret work before re- 
 turning home, and then she should practice teaching it to the 
 other members of the chapter, thus not only fixing it in her own 
 mind, but "Obviating the danger of the chapter being left without 
 it/' This had become a matter of general concern, and so a pro- 
 vision was incorporated in the Standing Kules that all officers 
 should know the secret work within two months after election. 
 The matter of a president's letter on the state of the chapter, in 
 January, also became one of the Standing Rules. 
 
 Eight guards assisted in each session of this convention. 
 
 Contributions to the Educational Fund had now grown, in 
 Illinois, to $451.75. and there were 72G active members. 
 
 ► TWELFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Knights of Pythias Hall, Macomb, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapter K. 
 
 Date, April 38, 29, 30, 1914. 
 
 Miss Ethelyn Griffith, President. Jllinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Dell Glazier, Correspond- 
 ing Secretary of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 33. (Numher absent 3). 
 Number of delegates 62. 
 
 Charters ivere granted to Chapters AG, Keithsburg; AH, 
 Peoria; AI, Chicago; A.J, Bridgeport ; and AK, Gillespie. 
 
 Inasmuch as nine members of Chapter Q in Farmer City were 
 listed as inactive, as of March 1st, leaving only one active member, 
 it was recommended that the Charter of Chapter Q be surrendered. 
 The first alphabet now lacked M and Q. The president reported 
 that the distance to Supreme Convention the previous fall was 
 greater than had ever before been covered by delegates from Il- 
 linois, (Hutchinson, Kansas) the expenses thus exceeding the 
 funds in the treasury and necessitating a levy of 30c per capita 
 on all active members in Illinois. The minimum of changes in 
 constitution and by-laws indicates the careful work done a few 
 years earlier. However, that familiar section of Article II deal- 
 ing with dues, was amended to read "one dollar and fifty cents 
 per capita," instead of one dollar. 
 
 ^ THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Presbyterian Church, WoodhuJl, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapter L. 
 
 Date, April 27, 28, 29, 1915. 
 
 Miss Ethlyn Griffith, President, Illinois Grand Chapter.
 
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 153 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Miss Edith Prouty, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 35. (Number absent 1). 
 Number of delegates 66. 
 
 Charter was granted to Chapter AL, Bushville. 
 
 Corresponding Secretaries' books are mentioned as highly 
 desirable, and obtainable from the state chapter. The Vice-Presi- 
 dent recommended the establishing of a Reciprocity Bureau, with 
 the Second Vice-President as chairman. 
 
 A plea was made for a greater interest in the movements of 
 the day, and the convention went on record as favoring universal 
 peace, and state wide prohibition. Frequently there was a debate 
 on early convention programs, and this time the question was 
 "resolved that in practical experience it is better to give charity 
 through organized civic and philanthropic channels than it is 
 through personal investigation and contact with cases in need." 
 
 ► FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Hall, Roseville, Illinois. Hostess Chapter N. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1916. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor E. Bailey, President, Ulinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Helen M. DmTce, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 34. (Number absent 4:). 
 Number of delegates 65. 
 
 Charters ivere granted to Chapters AM, Knoxville; AN, 
 Galesburg ; and AG, Elmivood. 
 
 The convention was especially fortunate in having four of the 
 nine members of Supreme Chapter Board in attendance, together 
 with the first Supreme President, one other Past Supreme Presi- 
 dent, the Editor of the Record, and five Past State Presidents. 
 Indeed, with increased years the number of honored guests at each 
 convention increased, their attendance furnishing guidance and 
 stability. The contributions to the Educational Fund now totaled 
 $740.75. The convention voted to change the dues from $1.50 per 
 member to $1.00. This fluctuation of dues', amusing at a distance, 
 probably reflects real difi^erence of con^^ction over a long period 
 of years. 
 
 ► FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Methodist Church, McLeansboro, Ulinois. Hostess 
 Chapter 0. 
 
 Date, April 17, 18, 19, 1917.
 
 154 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor E. Bailey, President, Illinois Grand Chupter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Helen M. Drake, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 32. (Number absent 9). 
 Number of delegates 51. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters AP, Waukegan; and AQ, 
 Augusta. 
 
 It was decided in this convention that the recording secretary 
 of each local chapter was to read the state by-laws at the first meet- 
 ing in February. The convention urged that effort be made to 
 have $1 per member for three vears subscribed for the Educational 
 Fund, to make it $100,000 in 1919. 
 
 The active membership was reported to be 1,078. 
 
 ► SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Edgeirater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapter P. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1918. 
 
 Mrs. Luella B. Stafford, President, Illinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative of Supreme, Miss Margaret Durward, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 44. (Num,ber absent 5). 
 Number of delegates 85. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters AR, Urbana; AS, Pehin; 
 AT, Lawrenceville; AU, Glen Ellyn; AV, Berwyn; AW, Bloom- 
 ington; AX, Chicago; and AY, Chicago. 
 
 It will be noted at once that this was an exceptionally large 
 convention, and that it had the largest number of new chapters 
 thus far presented at any convention. There was a chairman for 
 the guards, and a group of seven guards at each session. Perhaps 
 it had been discovered what a colorful addition they made to the 
 picture. The Proceedings contain a great deal of reference to 
 Eed Cross, the problem of compulsory military training, the sale 
 of Liberty Bonds, responsibility to soldiers at home and overseas. 
 The content of the program itself would indicate that it was a 
 war year, even if there were no date. 
 
 The convention donated fifty dollars to Chapter V at Eock- 
 ford, to help defray the expenses of entertaining P. E. 0. boys 
 (husbands, sons, brothers) at Camp Grant. Individual chapters 
 reported a great deal of war relief work, and a quickening of in- 
 terest in all charitable endeavors. A one hundred dollar Liberty 
 Bond was purchased by the convention, and donated to the Edu- 
 cational Fund. 
 
 The convention was saddened by the death of Mrs. Effie
 
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 Hoffman Rogers, long the editor of the Hecord, and for many- 
 years an attendant at and reporter of Illinois state conventions. 
 
 The formal report of the Organizer contains many references 
 to changed schedules because of illness in chapters to be inspected, 
 and is a forcible reminder of situations prevailing during the terri- 
 ble influenza epidemic. 
 
 ► SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Jefferson Hotel, Peoria, Illinois. Hostess Chapter R. 
 
 Date, April 21, 22, 23, 1919. 
 
 Mrs. Luella B. Stafford, President, Ulinois Grand Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Winana Evans Reeves, 
 Editor of the P. E .0. Record. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 52. Number of delegates 99. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapter BA, Joliet; and BB, 
 Abingdon. 
 
 Such a big convention as this brought with it new problems 
 and methods of expediting work and program. Both pages and 
 guards were used. After much discussion it was decided that each 
 delegate shovild pay $2.50 to assist with the expenses. The state 
 dues were increased from $1.00 to $1.50 per capita. It was recom- 
 mended that every chapter contribute one paper annually to the 
 Reciprocity Bureau, and have one Reciprocity program annually. 
 
 The Educational Fund was really BIG BUSINESS in the 
 organization now, and much effort was expended to meet quotas, 
 and make the fund grow as planned. The president, Mrs. Stafford, 
 realizing that war work had channeled considerable money in other 
 directions, and disliking to leave office with a deficit of about $500 
 as compared with the amount pledged, spoke of her distress at a 
 meeting in the P .E .0. Red Cross rooms (Chicago). The Chicago 
 chapters suggested that they find a way to make good the promise 
 to the Educational Fund. Accordingly all the Chicago chapters 
 and their close neighbors, Maywood, Berwyn, and Evanston, held 
 a bazaar at the La Salle Hotel, April 12, 1919, netting the splendid 
 sum of $800, and thus putting Illinois over the top before con- 
 vention time. 
 
 A long roll of men in service, and a long account of war work 
 reminds us that the country was in the throes of war. 
 
 ► EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Mascmic Temple, Maywood, Ulinois. Hostess Chapter S. 
 
 Date April 27, 28, 29, 1920. 
 
 Mrs. May Brokaw, President, Ulinois State Chapter.
 
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 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Helen D. Townsend, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 52. (Number absent 9). 
 Number of delegates 91. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters BC, Decatur; BD, Aurora; 
 BE. Freeport; BF, Springfield; BG, Genoa; BH. Sterling; BI, 
 Oak Park; BJ, WhiteHall; and BK, Rock Island. 
 
 This convention, which reported a membership of 1234 active 
 members, voted to make the annual dues $2 per capita, and to 
 eliminate the word Grand, changing to State, to conform to the 
 new constitution. Convention sessions had become so crowded 
 with detail that it became necessary to hire an assistant for the 
 recording secretary during convention. 
 
 Mrs. Franc Roads Elliott gave an inspirational address on the 
 progress of women in the years since the founding of P. E. 0. and 
 made a fervent appeal for the achieving of peace in the world 
 through the influence, study, and work, of women. 
 
 The report on the Supreme Convention at Denver spoke of 
 Illinois having had 24 delegates, and of the principal business 
 being the revision of the Constitution. The problem of entertain- 
 ing a large convention received much discussion, there being con- 
 sideration of the possibility of having but one delegate from each 
 chapter, — of having groups of chapters entertain, — of having 
 a special committee to help small chapters with the problem. 
 There was no resolution, but the neighboring chapters offered to 
 assist Chapter T, Kirkwood, the next hostess chapter. 
 
 ► NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Kirkwood, Illinois. 
 Hostess Chapter T. 
 
 Date, April 2G, 27, 28, 1921. 
 
 Mrs. May Hartley De Money, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bertha Clark Hughes, 
 First Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 52. (Number absent 9) 
 Number of delegates 96. 
 
 Charter was granted to Chapter BL, Moline. 
 
 This paragraph from the Organizer's report is of particular 
 interest, in connection with the formation of the new chapter: 
 "Eleven years ago Chapter M of Sherrard was forced to give up 
 their charter. When so many of their members moved away, it 
 was impossible to hold their meetings for lack of a quorum. Many 
 kept up their dues and have been active P. E. O.'s; others were
 
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 reinstated. Living in Moline and surrounding towns, they were 
 taken into this Chapter (BL), making a delightful group of 
 seventeen women to help carry on our good work." This made the 
 organization of Chapter BL particularly gratifying. The change 
 from Grand to State in constitution and by-laws necessitated the 
 purchase of a new Seal with the correct wording. 
 
 The Educational fund was the absorbing topic, and the gi'eat 
 verbal enthusiasm was backed up in tangible form by numerous 
 pledges from the floor. 
 
 The Second Vice-President commented that only eight papers 
 had been received for the Eeciprocity Bureau, instead of one 
 from each of the 61 chapters, and that only 11 chapters had asked 
 for papers. She urged the use of the good material available so 
 easily. The new idea took root slowly. 
 
 This was the last convention that Mrs. Franc Roads Elliott 
 was able to attend. With her intense interest in civic affairs, she 
 spoke urgently for the Smith Towner Bill, and for the work of 
 the League of Women Voters. She believed in an informed and 
 active citizenship. 
 
 ► TWENTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Bethel Presbyterian Church, Hamiltan, Illinois. 
 Hostess, Chapter U. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1922. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret McAfee, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bertha Clark Hughes, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 56. (Number absent, 6) 
 Number of delegates 102. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapter BM, Lincoln; and BN, 
 Princeton. 
 
 The hostess chapter U, of Hamilton gave the exemplification 
 of the new ritual, with but three weeks in Avhich to prepare. It 
 had been the custom for the hostess chapter to have this part on 
 the program, except at such times as the state officers took it. 
 
 A group of about 50 visitors attended in a body from Keokuk, 
 across the river in Iowa. For the first time, there was a regular 
 Educational Fund Hour, so named, as one of the evening pro- 
 grams. More than a thousand dollars was raised at this convention. 
 Reading the Proceedings, and observing the great increase in 
 printed reports for each major office and committee, one becomes 
 conscious of the greatly increased responsibility that the state 
 officers were carrying, with an active membership of 1775.
 
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 ► TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Elks Club, Rockford, Illinois. Hostess, Chapter V. 
 
 Dates, April 24, 25, 26, 1923. 
 
 Mrs. Etta Walker Blythe, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Bepresentative from Supreme, Mrs. Bertha Cl/irk Hughes, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 62. (Number absent, 3). 
 Number of delegates 113. 
 
 Charter was granted to Chapter BO, La Harpe. 
 
 This was the year in which Mrs. Reeves' new "History of 
 P. E .0." made its appearance at convention and was sold to all. 
 
 The president spoke of her disappointment in not being able 
 to present to Illinois five chapters that had been under way all 
 year. Her complaint was that the women simply did not have 
 time to give to the preparations. "Towns are too thoroughly 
 organized", she said. "When I tell you that one town of less than 
 2,000 inhabitants boasted of 32 clubs, not counting fraternal 
 orders, you may readily see how time is at a premium." One 
 might comment that times have not changed much in the direction 
 of simplification! 
 
 The report of the Educational Fund showed that Illinois 
 chapters in the year 1922-1923 contributed a total of $3823.33. 
 
 ► TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Presbyterian Church, Galesburg, Illinois. Hostess, 
 Chapters: W, Galesburg; AM, Knoxville; and AN, Galesburg. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1924. 
 
 Mrs. Flora Isabel Kemp, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Eleanor E. Bailey, Cor- 
 responding Secretary of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 63. (Number absent 5) 
 Number of delegates 120. 
 
 Chai-ters were granted to Chapter BP, Minonkj BQ, Peoria; 
 BR, Galva; BS, Winnetka; and BT, Aurora. 
 
 In reading the Proceedings, one becomes aware of a much 
 more careful organization, year by year, of greater accuracy at 
 various points, more printed reports. The five Honor Guests 
 were presented with little notes, in lieu of flowers, reading "This 
 is your Corsage Bouquet. We are crediting you with $3 for the 
 Endowment Fund". Gifts of flowers, and corsages had become 
 so numerous that one of the questions in the Question Box was, 
 "Would it not be a good idea to cut out corsage bouquets and 
 flowers, and put the money into the Educational Fund ?" And the
 
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 answer was, "Many have thought so." Instead of recognizing each 
 gift and courtesy in the program, all were gathered together on a 
 courtesy page. We find memorandum books (these with views of 
 Knox and Lombard College). The Convention selected Mrs. 
 Eleanor E. Bailey as chairman of a committee to cooperate with 
 Mrs. Dell Glazier of the Memorial Library Committee; this was 
 the begining of several years of strenuous work on the Memorial 
 Library project. 
 
 ► TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Presbyterian Chwrch, Bushnell, Illinois. Hostess, 
 Chapter X. 
 
 Date, April 28, 29, 30, 1925. 
 
 Miss Mahel B. Doud, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Supreme President, Mrs. Vina 
 Ives Bowden, President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 67. (Number absent &) 
 Number of delegates 126. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters BJJ, Eoodhouse; BV, 
 Mandota; BW, Decatur; BX, Peoiia; and BY, Toulon. 
 
 We note in passing that the hostess chapter still gives the 
 exemplification. The first proposal for a state budget appears, a 
 project in which Miss Doud as a business woman was deeply in- 
 terested. There was much discussion of the Memorial Library 
 proposal, and finally the convention set aside the sum of $500 as 
 a memorial "to our beloved Mrs. Franc Eoads Elliott, when, a.s, 
 and if, the Library at Mount Pleasant is an established fact." 
 Flowers with "hearts of gold" were popular again as corsages for 
 the officers, and the Bushnell B. I. L.'s presented a bouquet of ten 
 marguerites, in the center of each of which was a five dollar gold 
 piece for the Educational Fund. The Sisterhood has had steadily 
 increasing cause for gratitude to the B. I. L.'s for very tangible 
 help through the passing years. 
 
 ► TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Havana, Illinois. 
 Hostess Chapter Y. 
 
 Date, April 27, 28, 29, 1926. 
 
 Mrs. Maude B. McDonald, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Alice H. Scott, President 
 of Supreme Chapter.
 
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 Number of chapters represented 71. (Number absent 9). 
 Number of delegates 126. 
 
 Charters were granted to CJmpters BZ, Canton; CA, Spring- 
 field; CB, Cuba; C'C, Bock Falls; and CD, Pittsfield. 
 
 The Sisterhood had grown at this time to a total of 2331 
 active members in Illinois, so it is not surprising that matters of 
 organization consumed considerable time. Although it seems to 
 have been customary for someone from the hostess group to be 
 honored with a state office, there was no uniformity as to which 
 office it was, and officers frequently served for more than a year. 
 This was particularly true in the case of the treasurer who in 
 several instances held office for a considerably longer period. The 
 convention decided that the memorial for Mrs. Franc Roads 
 Elliott, provided for in the previous conA^ention should be a fire- 
 place, its location in the ]\Iemorial Library to be determined by 
 the Building Committee. There was suggestion that our organi- 
 zation use the term Intei'uational instead of Supreme. Much 
 time was given to preparations for entertaining the Supreme Con- 
 vention in Chicago in 1929, — a truly tremendous task to care 
 for some 800 delegates in Chicago for four days. However, the 
 convention considered the claims of good citizenship and endorsed 
 the 18th Amendment, authorizing notice to go to the President 
 of the United States, the Governor of Illinois, and the United 
 States Senators from Illinois. 
 
 ► TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Temple, Harrishurg, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapter Z. 
 
 Date, April 26, 27, 28, 1927. 
 
 Mrs. Jessie M. Miller, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Bepresentative from Supreme, Mrs. Alice H. Scott, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters 67 (Num,ber absent 17). Number of 
 delegates 116. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters CE, Savanna; CF, Charles- 
 ton; CG, Oak Park and, CH, Biverside. 
 
 The state convention voted the sum of $500 as a memorial 
 for Mrs. Alice Bird Babb whose death had occurred in November, 
 The suggestion was made that seating in convention be rotated so 
 that the newer chapters might have the benefit of the front seats; 
 this plan has prevailed from that time on. Through the efforts of 
 Mrs. Eleanor Bailey, there was a very considerable revision of our 
 constitution, by-laws, and standing rules, in the interest of uni-
 
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 formity, simplicity, and clarity. Responsibility was given to the 
 Reciprocity Grouping Coniniittee to work out some plan of group- 
 ing for the entertaining of conventions, such plan to be presented 
 at the next State Convention. 
 
 During the convention sessions, delegates arrived, who had 
 just attended the laying of the corner stone of the Memorial 
 Library in Mount Pleasant. Local chapters had done a superior 
 job of raising their money for the Library Fund, in addition to 
 which there were many individual gifts. 
 
 Mrs. Lettie Mudge, as chairman of arrangements for the 
 Supreme Convention in Chicago in 1929, made inquiries about 
 funds raised; the Chicago chapters were to pay $20 per member, 
 out-of-Chicago chapters, $10, — and newly organized ones a 
 smaller amount. Miss Mabel Doud was treasurer of the fund. 
 
 ► TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Chridian Church, Christopher, Illinois. Hostess 
 CJiapter A A. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 26, 1928. 
 
 Mrs. Katherine E. Church, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Ola B. Miller, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 78 (Number absent 12 j. 
 Number of delegates represented 136. 
 
 Charters ivere granted to Chapters CI, Chicago; CJ, Rockford; 
 CK, Hinsdale; CL, Bloomingtan; CM, Streator; and CN, 
 WinnetJca. 
 
 In July, 1927, Mrs. Mary Allen Stafford, the last of the 
 Founders, died, just two months before the dedication at Mount 
 Pleasant of the Library, in recognition of the Seven Founders. 
 At that dedication, in rain and mud, there were 47 representatives 
 from Illinois. A large number of substantial memorial gifts 
 honoring earlier presidents and heads of committees, were reported 
 in this convention. The glow of success attended the completion 
 of that project, just as the first faint whisperings of work to be 
 done in connection with Cottey College were heard. Up to this 
 date, the entertaining of conventions had been strictly alphabetical, 
 the hostess this time being the first one in the second alphabet. 
 A suggested grouping had been worked out, in which the first 
 named would serve as chairman and have the privilege of enter- 
 taining, — but the most advantageous and convenient place in the 
 group of towns involved, would ultimately be chosen. It was felt 
 that this would greatly relieve the burden for small chapters,
 
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 without depriving them of the benefits of entertaining. This was 
 a very significant change. 
 
 ► TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Methodist Episcopal Church, Carlinville, Illinois. 
 Hostess Chapter AB. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1929. 
 
 Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from, Supreme, Mrs. Ola B. Miller, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 90 (Number absent 5). 
 Number of delegates 169. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters CO, OaJc Park; CP, Lake 
 Forest; CQ, Chicago; CR, Evanston; CS, Eewanee; and CT, 
 East St. Louis. 
 
 The total attendance at this convention, including all the 
 previous ofl&cers, honored guests and visitors, was 273, and the 
 active membership was reported as being 2785. Permission was 
 given to Chapter BD of Aurora to disband, this being the third 
 since 1903. Mrs. Virginia Cottey Stockard, Founder and Presi- 
 dent of Cottey College was present, and talked about the school, 
 to which gifts totaling $1195 were given. It was recommended 
 that a new Standing Kule should require each local chapter to have 
 a Cottey College committee. Additional gifts, in connection with 
 the Memorial Library, were announced, and the steady growth of 
 both the Educational and the Endowment Fund was reported. 
 The chapters newly organized were welcomed with a sense of added 
 gratitude because they provided homes for so many unaflfiliated 
 members. 
 
 ► TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Temple, Dixon, Illinois. Hostess Chapter AC. 
 
 Date, April 21, 22, 23, 1930. 
 
 Mrs. Mabel Y. Frisbee, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Edith Markham Wallace, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 96. Number of delegates 186. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters CU, Mt. Morris; CV, 
 Evanston; CW, La Grange; CX, Decatur; CY, Jacksonville; and 
 CZ, Peoria. 
 
 For years the problem of the large number of unaffiliated
 
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 P. E. O.'s in the Chicago area had burdened the state ofi&cers. 
 Individual chapters and tiie Chicago Presidents' Eound Table had 
 worked on the problem, but needed further help; accordingly a 
 committee was appointed, consisting of Mrs. Bessie Kaney and 
 Mrs. Katherine Church, both Past State Presidents, and Mrs. 
 Maud Baldwin, President of the Chicago Presidents' Round Table. 
 They found a total of 460 unaffiliated members, and proceeded to 
 prepare for the organization of twelve chapters, in addition to 
 the work of the Organizer. 
 
 This convention provided gifts of $2,000, to the Educational 
 Fund, $2,000 to Cottey College, honoring Miss Mabel Devenport 
 Doud, and $7500 for steel stacks for the Memorial Library, honor- 
 ing Mrs. Harriet M. Amsden. The Supreme Board Anshed the 
 Illinois gift to Cottey to be used to redecorate the parlors and 
 entrance of the main building, and it was necessary to extend the 
 fund to about $5,000 to provide a suitable entrance hall and 
 reception rooms. 
 
 ► TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 AD, Chicago; AF, Chicago. 
 
 Date, April 27, 28, 29, 1931. 
 
 Mrs. Myrtle C. Combe, President, Ulinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Edith Ma/rkham Wallace, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 114 (Number absent 4j. 
 Number of delegates 221. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters DA, Park Ridge; DB, 
 Chicago; DC, Springfield; DD, Aurora; DE, Chicago; DF, 
 Western Springs; DG, Chicago; DH, Chicago; DI, Downers 
 Grove; DJ, Chicago; DK, Carrollton; DL, Rochelle; DM, Oak 
 Park; DN, Geneseo; DO, Evanston; DP, Oak Park; and DQ, 
 Evanston. 
 
 In this year of the deep depression with all organization work 
 a struggle, there was the interesting phenomenon of great growth, 
 \vith seventeen new chapters and an increase of over three hundred 
 members. Someone commented that it was the first time the 
 Organizer had used a Ford for transportation. It served her well 
 in an extremely busy year. With the help of the Proxy Organizer 
 and her faithful committee, appointd at the previous convention, 
 she completed her task. It was reported that 43 unaffiliated 
 members had Joined old chapters, and 67 had become charter 
 members of new chapters, together with the 88 initiates. Because
 
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 the work of inspecting chapters had now become such a big under- 
 taking, it was recommended that the work of inspecting be 
 divided between the Organizer and such other State Officers, as the 
 President and Organizer should deem wise. 
 
 The President reported attendance in December at the chapel 
 service at Iowa Wesleyan College, when recognition was given to 
 the Illinois' gift of stacks for Memorial Library, to honor Mrs. 
 Harriet M. Amsden. 
 
 This convention inaugurated — and most successfully — the 
 group plan of entertaining convention. 
 
 A gift of $500 to Cottey College Endowment Fund, honoring 
 the memory of Mrs. Grace Runyan Parks was voted by the 
 convention. Dr. A^irginia Cottey Stockard was in attendance 
 and one of the convention speakers. 
 
 ► THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Elk's Memorial, Canton, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 AE, Farmington; BZ, Canton; AO, Elmivood; and CB, Cuba. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1932. 
 
 Mrs. Lettie S. Mudge, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Pepresentative froim Supreme, Mrs. Zora Y. Knight, President 
 of Suprem.e Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 112 (Number absent 11^. 
 Number of delegates 227. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: DP, Chicago; DT, 
 Salem; DS, Joliet; DU, Chicago, and DV, Evanston. 
 
 At this convention plans were completed for maintaining 
 headquarters at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. 
 The committee had been organized by Grace R. Parks three years 
 before. 
 
 \ THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: AS, Pekin; AH, Peoria; BP, MinonJc; BQ, Peoria; 
 R, Peoria; BX. Peoria; and CZ. Peoria. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 26, 1933. 
 
 Mrs. Opal B. Baymiller, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Pepresentative from Supreme, Mrs. Zora Y. Knight, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 127 (Number absent ?>). 
 Number of delegates 270,
 
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 165 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: DW , Polo; DX, DeKalh; 
 DY, Elgin; DZ, Chicago; EA, Batavia; EB, Joliet; and EC, 
 Quincy. 
 
 Perhaps the outstanding feature of this convention was the 
 very thorough study of Cottey College by a committee appointed 
 by the President and headed by Stella Leys. 
 
 ► THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapter AI, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 26, 1934. 
 
 Mrs. Pauline B. Rinaker, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Miss Mahel D. Doud, President 
 of Supreme CJmpter. 
 
 Number of clmpters represented 135 (Number absent 0). 
 Num.ber of delegates 279. 
 
 Charters tvere granted to Chapters: ED, Edwardsville; EG, 
 Chicago; EE, Morton; EH, Ottawa; and EF, Peoria. 
 
 It was reported at this convention that P. E. 0. was the only 
 sorority which maintained headquarters and catered to the needs of 
 all P. E. O.'s, who called, at the Chicago Century of Progress 
 Exposition. The state had appropriated $500 for running expenses 
 and the committee remitted $138.53 to the State Treasurer. This 
 sum was set aside as a nucleus for an Illinois State P. E. 0. 
 Welfare Fund. 
 
 ► THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Ulinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: AJ, Bridgeport; DT, Salem; AK, Gillespie; BF, 
 Springfield; AT, Lawrenceville ; CA, Springfield; and DC, Spring- 
 field. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1935. 
 
 Mrs. Stella R. Leys, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Miss Mabel D. Doud, President 
 of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 145 (Number absent 2). 
 Number of delegates 309. 
 
 Charters ivere granted to Chapters: EI, Jacksonville; EJ, 
 Virden; EK, Winchester ; EL, Wilmette; EM, Gnggsville; EN, 
 Wheaton; EO, Springfield; EP, Palatine; EQ, Springfield; ER, 
 Arlington Heights; ES, Springfield; and ET, Rockford.
 
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 P. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 It was at this convention that the Welfare and Trust Fund 
 was officially established, the nucleus being the $138.53 which had 
 been set aside by the State Convention of 1934, to which was 
 added $1500 from the Illinois Supreme Convention Surplus. This 
 amount was to be increased each year by setting aside 5% of the 
 State dues. 
 
 ► THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess: Chapter 
 A, Chicago. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1936. 
 
 Mrs. Alice P. Perrin, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Hallie A. Newell, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 147 ( Number absent 1). 
 Nibmher of delegates 315. 
 
 Charters tvere grafted to Chapters: EU, Chicago and EV, 
 Center. 
 
 It was at this convention that the name of the Welfare and 
 Trust Fund was officially adopted as the Lulu Corkhill Williams 
 Welfare and Trust Fund of Illinois. Myrtice M. Anderson should 
 be given credit for this change. 
 
 This convention gave the President power to name a History 
 Committee. 
 
 ► THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Christian Church, Bloamington, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: B, Clinton; AR, Urbana; AW, BloomingtO'n; BM, 
 Lincoln; CL, Bloomington; and CM, Streator. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1937. 
 
 Mrs. Mary K. Lindsay, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Winona Reeves, Editor of 
 the Record. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 150 (Number abs&nt 2). 
 Number of delegates 319. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: EW, LaOrange; EX, 
 Evanston; EY, East St. Louis; and EZ, Brookfield. 
 
 It was at this convention that a history committee consisting 
 of Mrs. Myrtle C. Combe, chairman, Mrs. May H. DeMoney, and 
 Miss Eugenia Allin was appointed for the purpose of collecting 
 data relative to P. E. 0. in Illinois.
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 167 
 
 The state dues were raised to two dollars and thirty cents, 
 the fifteen cents increase to be given to the group entertaining 
 convention. 
 
 ► THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Central Congregational Church, Galeshurg, Illinois. 
 Hostess Chapters: AN, Oaleshurg; AM, Knoxville; AG, Keiths- 
 hurg ; AI, Augusta; BB, Ahington; and BO, LaHarpe. 
 
 Date, April 28, 29, 30, 1938. 
 
 Mrs. Ethel C. Jelliffe, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, Corre- 
 sponding Secretary of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of clvapters represented 157 (Number absent 3^. 
 Number of delegates 335. 
 
 Charte^rs were granted to Chapters: FA, Effingham; FB, 
 Peoria; FC, Woodriver; FD, Amboy; FE, Geneva; FF, Urbana; 
 FG, Taylorville; and FH, Quincy. 
 
 It was at this convention that the President recommended the 
 appointment of a committee to look into the matter of a P. E. 0. 
 home. 
 
 Mrs. Jelliffe was the first State President to have served in 
 everv office on the State Board. 
 
 ► THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Methodist Church, Rock Island, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: BE, Rock Island; BL, Moline; BR, Galva; BY, 
 Toulon; CS, Kewanee; and DN, Geneseo. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1939. 
 
 Mrs. Myrtice M. Anderson, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Chellie Stevens Wright, 
 President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 159 (Number absent 2). 
 Number of delegates 331. 
 
 A charter was granted to Chapter FI, Chicago. 
 
 It was at this convention that the recommendation was made 
 that each local chapter be entitled to one delegate only. A Com- 
 mittee was appointed, with Miss Mabel Doud, Chairman, to 
 investigate the possibilities of a P. E. 0. Home for Illinois. A 
 collection of copies of the 'Tlecord" for the State begun by Mrs. 
 Lettie Mudge in 1932 was completed and bound.
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Palmer Hoibse, Chicago, lUinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 AP, Wauhegan; BS, Wimnetka; CI, Chicago; CN, Winnetha; CP, 
 Lake Forest; DA, Park Ridge; EP, Palatine; ER, Arlington 
 Heights; and EV, Niles Center (now Skokie). 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1940. 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Monroe Cruse, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Veda M. Jones, Presi- 
 dent of Supreine Chapter, 
 
 Number of chapters represented 165 (Number abs&nt 0). 
 Number of delegates 348. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: FJ, Chicago; FK, Mount 
 Carmel; FL, Morrison; and FM, Bloomington. 
 
 At this time the Lulu Corkhill Williams Welfare and Trust 
 Fund had grown to almost $5000. During this year the Illinois 
 Suite at Cottey College was furnished and dedicated to Winona 
 Evans Reeves, who had, at this time, spent 50 years in P. E. 0. 
 The recommendation was adopted to establish a Fund for a 
 P. E. 0. home in Illinois. 
 
 ► THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Central Christian Church, Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 Hostess Chapters: BJ, White Hall; BU, Roodhouse; CD, Pitts- 
 field; CT, East St. Louis; CY, Jacksonville; DK, Carwlltown; EI, 
 Jacksonville; and EY, East St. Louis. 
 
 Mrs. Ella B. Leib, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from. Supreme, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, Record- 
 ing Secretary of Supreme Chapiter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 1G7 (Number absent \). 
 Number of delegates 350. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: FN, Neivton; FO, 
 Sandwich; and FP, Park Ridge. 
 
 Illinois' support of the Educational Loan Fund and of 
 Cottey College makes us all very proud. 
 
 ► FORTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 ATI, Glen Ellyn; AV, Berivyn; CH, Riverside; CK, Hinsdale; 
 CW, LaGrmnge; DF, Western Springs; DI, Downers Grove; EW, 
 LaGrange; and EZ, Brookfield. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1942.
 
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 169 
 
 Mrs. Beulah M. Thornton, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative froim Supreme, Mrs. Blanche D. Walker, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 172 (Number absent Q). 
 Ntember of delegates 360. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: FQ, Peoria; FB, Olney; 
 FS, Oak Park; and FT, Chicago. 
 
 During this year, a chairman of defense efforts was appointed 
 and questionnaires sent to all chapters. 
 
 ► FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Masonic Temple, Decatur, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 BC, Decatur; BW, Decatur; CF, Charleston; and CX, Decatur. 
 
 Date, April 29, 30, and May 1, 1943. 
 
 Miss Louise Dicus, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Hazel Hine, Executive 
 Secretary of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 172 (Number abs&nt 5). 
 Number of delegates 190. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: FU, Springfield; FV, 
 Rockford; FW, Arlington Heights; FX, Chicago; and FY, 
 Chicago. 
 
 It was at this time that the State By-Laws were changed to 
 read, "The Illinois State Chapter Convention shall convene on the 
 fourth Tuesday in April." This was the first convention to have 
 but one delegate from each chapter. 
 
 ► FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 BA, Joliet; BT, Aurom; BV, Mendota: DD, Aurom: DS. Joliet; 
 DY, Elgin; DX, DeKalh; EA, Batavia; EB, Joliet; EH, Ottawa; 
 EN, Wheaton; FE, Geneva; FO. Sandwich. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 1944. 
 
 Mrs. Mary C. Beatty, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Carrie B. Simpson, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 176 (Number absent 4j. 
 Number of delegates 196. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: FZ, Elmhurst; GA, 
 Mt. Carroll and GB, Jerseyville. 
 
 Because of the war situation, the convention time was cut to
 
 170 P- E- O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 two days. A recommendation was adopted at this convention that 
 an appeal be made to composers who are members of P. E. 0., that 
 they submit to a committee, original music for the opening Ode 
 and for the initiation service. Activites of P. E. 0. were much 
 curtailed because of the second world war; however war work 
 among the members was outstanding and showed many hours of 
 service in all departments. P. E. 0. raised money for four mobile 
 canteens and their maintenance. 
 
 > FORTY -THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Faust Hotel, Rod-ford, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 V, Rockford; AC, Dixon; BE, Freeport; BG, Genoa; BH, 
 Sterling; CG, Rock Falls; CE, Savanna; CJ, Rochford; CU, Mount 
 Morris; DL, Rochelle; DW, Polo; ET, Rockford; FD, Amhoy; 
 FL, Morrison; and FV , Rockford. 
 
 Date, April 24, 25, 1945. 
 
 Mrs. Geneva C. Schroder, President, Ulinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, Second 
 Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 36 (Number absent 0). 
 Number of delegates 49 — only 50 delegates were allowed by 
 0. D. T. regulations. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: GC, Wilmette; GD, 
 Elgin; and GE, Peoria. 
 
 As a war measure, this convention was re-sized by the Presi- 
 dent working in co-operation with the President of Supreme 
 Chajiter. This compact version reflected credit, not only on the 
 Executive Board, but also on the hostess chapters, who spared 
 neither time nor effort in making the convention an interesting one. 
 
 > FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Presbyterian Church, Quincy, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: C, Vermont; F, Quincy; J, Carthage; K, Macomb; 
 U, Hamilton; Y, Havana; EC, Quincy; EM, Griggsville; and 
 FH, Quincy. 
 
 Date, April 23, 24, 25, 1946. 
 
 Mrs. Ruby E. Prince, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, First 
 Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 184 (Number absent 5). 
 Number of delegates 202.
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 171 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: GF, Evamston; GG, 
 Alton; GH, Downers Grove; GI, Chicago; GJ, Skokie; and GK, 
 Wilmington. 
 
 Illinois conformed to the decision of the Supreme Chapter 
 in continuing to carry on the work of rehabilitation and con- 
 tributing to the P. E. 0. Victory Fund, part of which was used 
 for the purchase of bedside radios for service men in hospitals. 
 Hospitals have benefitted materially from gifts of Bibles, records, 
 afghans, sweaters, socks, books, and magazines. In addition, 
 Illinois P. E. O.^s have given generously of their time, talent, 
 and service for the men in our armed forces. 
 
 ► FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 AZ, Evanston; CR, Evanston; CV, Evanston; DB, Chicago; DO, 
 Evanston; DQ, Evanston; DR, Chicago; DV, Evanston; DZ, 
 Chicago; EG, Chicago; EL, Wilmette; EX, Evanston; GC, Wil- 
 mette; and CF, Evanston. 
 
 Date, April 22, 23, 24, 1947. 
 
 Mrs. Louise Waddell, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Dorothy L. Welter, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Numher of chapters represented 197. (Number absent 1). 
 Number of delegates 220. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters : GL, Centralia; GM, East 
 St. Louis; GN, Maywood; GO, Mount Vernon; GP, Oak Park; 
 GQ, Rock Island; GR, Decatur; GS, Peoria; and GT, Western 
 Springs. 
 
 It was at this convention that the P. E .0. Home committee 
 of Illinois State Chapter, Mrs. Jessie Parks Bonson, Chairman, 
 proposed to amend the By-Laws by changing Article XI to include 
 an "establising act," and setting up plans for financing of a home. 
 
 "The Lulu Corkhill AVilliams Welfare and Trust Fund, es- 
 tablished in 1934 has grown steadily until it now exceeds $6,000 
 and is aA^ailable to anv member in the state who is in distress." 
 
 ► FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, First Methodist Church, Galesburg, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: E, Monmouth; G, Alexis; N, Roseville; T, Kirkwood; 
 W, Galesburg; X, Bushnell; AM, Knoxville; AN, Galesburg; and 
 BB, Abington. 
 
 Date, April 27, 28, 29, 1948. 
 
 Mrs. Bessie S. Ballow, President, Illinois State Chapter.
 
 172 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, Presi- 
 dent of Supreme Chaptet. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 202. (Number absent 2). 
 Number of delegates 227. 
 
 Charters were granted to Chapters: GU, Beardstown; GV, 
 River Forest; GW, PeMn; GX, Carbondale; GY, Highland Parle; 
 and GZ, Park Ridge. 
 
 At this convention, Mr. R. E. McLaughlin and Judge Gale 
 Mathers appeared before the convention to explain the details of 
 the offer of a Home, by the Trustees of the Knoxville Old Ladies 
 Home, to the Illinois State Chapter of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood. 
 This convention voted to accept the offer with regard to the Knox- 
 ville Home, that acceptance to be conditioned on the final approval 
 by a % vote of all chapters, 
 
 ► FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess Chapters: 
 I, Chicago; P, Chicago; S, Maywood; BI, Oak Park; CG, Oak 
 Park; CO, Oak Park; DE, Chicago; DJ, Chicago; DM, Oak Park; 
 DP, Oak Park; F8, Oak Park; FZ, Elmhurst; GN, Maywood; GP, 
 Oak Park; GY, River Forest. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1949. 
 
 Mrs. Hazel V. Ziesel, President, Ulinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Laura Storms Knapp, 
 First Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 207. (Number absent 0). 
 Number of delegates 235. 
 
 Charters were granted to HA, Rantoul; HB, Moline; and 
 HC, Aurora. 
 
 At this convention, Mr. W. B. Schroder of Eock Island, an 
 attorney, representing Illinois State Chapter, P. E. 0., urged and 
 recommended that the Illinois State Chapter of the P. E. 0. 
 Sisterhood, incorporate as a corporation, not for profit, so that the 
 project of the Home at Knoxville could legally be taken over. 
 This recommendation was acted upon and carried. The Board of 
 Trustees of the Illinois P. E. 0. Home fund reported a balance 
 of approximately $10,000.00. 
 
 Also at this convention, Illinois State Chapter members be- 
 came well aware of their obligations for the entertainment of the 
 Convention of Supreme Chapter, September 6, 7, 8, 1949, to be 
 held in Chicago, with our own Bessie Raney serving as President 
 of Supreme Chapter. Plans were outlined by the General Chair- 
 man, Mrs. Beulah Thornton, Past-President of Illinois State 
 Chapter.
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 173 
 
 ► FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Pere Marquette Hotel, Peoria, Illinois. Hostess Chap- 
 ters: R, Peoria; AE, Farmington; AH, Peoria; AO, Elmwood; 
 AS, Pekin; BI, Peoria; BX, Peoria; CZ, Peoria; BE, Morton; 
 EF, Peoria; FB, Peoria; FQ, Peoria; GE, Peoria; GS, Peoria; 
 and GW, Pekin. 
 
 Date, April 25, 26, 27, 1950. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie H. Bugh, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Gertrude P. Tomhave, 
 SecoiThd Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 212. (Numler absent 2). 
 Number of delegates 236. 
 
 Charters were granted to HD, Pana; HE, Homewood; HF, 
 Hinsdale; HG, Washington; HH, Park Forest; HI, Urbana; HJ, 
 Greenfield. 
 
 At this convention it was voted to tax each local chapter $1.00 
 per capita for both resident and non-resident members for the 
 maintenance of the Illinois P. E. 0. Home. This to take effect 
 when legal title to the Home has been granted. 
 
 The State President, Mrs. Jennie Rugh, appointed a special 
 finance committee for the purpose of the reorganization of finances 
 for State Conventions, Mrs. Blanche A. Lee, Chairman. This 
 special finance committee served for two years and was dismissed 
 in 1952. It was upon their recommendation that the dues were 
 raised .50c in order to meet the ever increasing cost of state 
 administration. 
 
 ► FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: A, Chicago; D, Chicago; AD, Chicago; AY, Chicago; 
 CQ, Chicago; DG, Chicago; DH, Chicago; DU, Chicago; FI, 
 Chicago; HE, Homewood ; and HH, Park Forest. 
 
 Date, April 26, 27, 28, 1951. 
 
 Mrs. Blanche Allen Lee, President, Illiirwis State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Mabel Scurrah, First 
 Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 221. (Number absent 0). 
 Number of delegates 240. 
 
 Charters were granted to HK, Litchfield; HL, Des Plaines; 
 HM, Palos Heights; HN, Arlington Heights; HO, Galesburg; 
 HP, Bloomington; and HQ, Glen Ellyn. 
 
 The legal complications pertaining to the transfer of the 
 'Knoxville Old Ladies Home' to the Illinois State Chapter,
 
 174 
 
 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 P. E. 0., are gradually being adjusted and next year promises to 
 see the consummation of the hopes of all Illinois P. E. O.'s. "The 
 wheels of the courts grind slowly". 
 
 Mrs. Myrtle C. Combe, chairman of the history committee, 
 made the announcement that the AVTitten vote from chapters (163 
 pros and 32 cons) received April 20, 1951, favored printing Tifty 
 Years of P. E. 0. in Illinois' — thus authorizing this publication. 
 
 > FIFTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 
 
 Place, Hotel Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois. Hostess 
 Chapters: Y, Havana; BF, Springfield; CA, Springfield; CB, 
 Cuba; CY, Jacksonville; DC, Springfield ; EI, Jacksonville; EJ, 
 Virden; EK, Winchester; EO, Springfield; EQ, Springfield; ES, 
 Springfield ; FG, Taylorville; FU, Springfield ; HD, Pana; and 
 HU, Springfield. 
 
 Date, April 28, 29, 30, 1952. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Corbridge, President, Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 Representative from Supreme, Mrs. Nell F. Stevenson, Second 
 Vice-President of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 Number of chapters represented 228, (Numher absent 1). 
 Number of delegates 262. 
 
 Charters were granted to HR, Belleville; HS, Waukegan; 
 HT, Granite City; HU, Springfield; HV, Highland Park; HW, 
 Evanston; HX, Danville; HY, Elmhurst. 
 
 Following this convention, fifteen of the hostess chapters 
 gave $1500.00 to the United Victory Fund for International 
 Scholarships. This amount was left over from the convention 
 hostess fund. 
 
 Illinois P. E. O.'s have been able to assist materially with 
 our International Scholarship Project, which is an important 
 factor in the world peace program. 
 
 The members of this convention voted to accept the terms 
 of a decree transferring the 'Knoxville Old Ladies' Home' to the 
 Illinois State Chapter of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood. 
 
 And so we come to the end of conventions of Illinois State 
 Chapter reports for fifty years. Such growth ! From 9 chapters 
 in Illinois in 1903 to 237 chapters in 1953 ! From 213 members 
 in 1903 to 8,561 members in 1953 ! From the first throes of birth 
 to the present well developed organization with functioning boards 
 and committees carrying on a great amount of work. With every 
 extension in numbers, there has come a deepening and enriching 
 of program and of assumed responsibility. It is a proud record ! 
 
 This brings us to the preparation for our 1953 convention,
 
 State Chapter Conventions 
 
 175 
 
 which will be held in June rather than in April, - — and on a great 
 university campus rather than in a big city hotel. We are follow- 
 ing the pattern of various others in making use of the facilities 
 of colleges and universities. With increasing numbers of delegates 
 and visitors, the only satisfactory solution for those chapters 
 located away from our larger cities has seemed to lie in availing 
 themselves of the privilege of a return to college for these con- 
 vention days. It is for us a great change, — an untried experience, 
 but the records of our forbears certainly do not indicate fear of 
 change, or shrinking from what is new and untried. 
 
 Forward, then, together, • — to our newest convention experi- 
 ence! 
 
 The University of Illinois at Urbana, June 15, 16, 17, 1953.
 
 OFFICERS OF SUPREME 
 CHAPTER FROM OUR ILLINOIS MEMBERSHIP 
 
 / FIVE OF OUR Illinois members have served 
 Supreme Chapter as President: 
 / Mary Berry Price, Chapter W, Galesburg 
 
 President, 1883-1885 
 f Winona Evans Peeves, Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 Organizer, 1905-1907; First Vice-President, 1907-1909 
 
 President, 1909-1911 
 y Grace Eunyan Parks, Chapter I, Chicago 
 
 First Vice-President, 1909-1911 
 
 President, 1911-1913 
 i Mabel Davenport Doud, Chapter P, Chicago 
 
 Treasurer, 1925-1929 
 
 Second Vice-President, 1929-1931; First Vice-President; 
 1931-1933 
 
 Presid&nt, 1933-1935 
 f Bessie K. Eaney, Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, 1937-1939; Recording Secretary, 
 
 1939-1941; Organizer, 1941-1943; Second Vice-President, 
 
 1943-1945; First Vice-President, 1945-1947 
 
 President, 1947-1949 
 
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 Officers of Supreme Chapter 
 
 177 
 
 Four of our Illinois members have served Supreme Chapter 
 in offices other than President: 
 i Sallie I. Hatfield, Chapter "Q," (old lettering), Jacksonville 
 
 Second Vice-President, 1883-1884 
 f Minnie Osgood, Chapter A, Chicago 
 
 Treasurer, 1893-1901 
 *■ Nellie R. Danks, Chapter B, Clinton 
 
 Treasurer, 1905-1907 
 f Eleanor Eads Bailey, Chapter K, Macomb 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, 1921-1935 
 
 ► MARY BERRY PRICE 
 
 Mrs. Mary Berry Price (later Mary Berry Price Johnson), 
 the first president of Supreme Chapter, was originally a charter 
 member of Chapter D, Centerville, Iowa, who moved to Illinois 
 in 1885. 
 
 She served as Supreme Chapter president for two terms. 
 During her administrations a charter for chapters was set up; 
 an installation ceremony was prepared and used, and an official 
 pin was adopted, since the ones previously used were not uniform. 
 The first Constitution was adopted and the name Grand Chapter 
 of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood was given to the body created by this 
 Constitution, 
 
 In her second administration, 1881-1885, having married Mr. 
 A. R. Price, who lived on a farm near London Mills, Illinois, she 
 became a resident of Illinois, although her chapter membership 
 was held in Iowa until 1909, when she dimitted to Chapter W, 
 Galesburg. As a tribute to her long devotion and loving service 
 in P. E. 0., of which she was a devoted member for sixty years, 
 Chapter W considered her its most distinguished member and in 
 August, 1933, placed a beautiful Chinese vase in the P. E. 0. 
 Memorial Library, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 ► WINONA EVANS REEVES 
 
 Illinois is very happy to share with Iowa in giving a place 
 of honor to Mrs. Winona Evans Reeves, in the History of Illinois 
 P. E. 0., for she has been an important part of P. E. 0. in our 
 State for many, many years. 
 
 She began her P. E. 0. life in 1889 as an initiate in Chapter 
 Original A, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; she belonged to the College 
 Chapter during the time she attended Iowa Wesleyan; for many
 
 I/O P- E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 years was a member of Chapter U, Keokuk, Iowa; and during a 
 brief residence in Minnesota held membership in Chapter D. It 
 was in 1921 that the family moved to Chicago and Mrs. Reeves 
 accepted the invitation to dimit to Chapter A, Chicago, 
 
 She had served Iowa State Chapter as president in 190-1 and 
 was president of Supreme Chapter, 1909-1911. She was Editor 
 of the P. E. 0. Record, 1918-1949; and it was undoubtedly in this 
 superior service to P. E. 0. that her star shone most brilliantly. 
 During these busv years she also found time to write two volumes, 
 "The Story of P/E .0. — 1869-1923" and "The Story of P. E. 0. 
 — 1924-1936." In response to popular demand in 1944, Chapter 
 A, Chicago, compiled and published "As we were Saying", a col- 
 lection of talks Mrs. Reeves had given in Conventions. 
 
 Widely traveled both in the United States and abroad, having 
 contacted many nationalities and types of people, Mrs. Reeves 
 meets, in a preferred manner, any and all tasks and situations. 
 She is a member of the League of American Pen Women, Illinois 
 Women's Press Association, Iowa Authors' Club, American Asso- 
 ciation of University Women. She also served as District Foreign 
 Correspondent of the Board of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 One might a])tly describe Mrs. Reeves in the words of that 
 popular song as "Lovely To Look At, Delightful To Know." For 
 of course, it is her own personality and her varied contributions 
 to P. E. 0. which insure the enviable position she occupies in our 
 organization. She has been an active and motivating force in 
 each and every P. E. 0. Project. She was directly responsible 
 for naming the Educational Fund. In 1927 when the Memorial 
 Library, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, was dedicated, she took an active 
 part in arranging the program. Her imtiring efforts in behalf of 
 Cottey College are well known throughout the Sisterhood. 
 
 Recognition of her unselfish and never-failing devotion to 
 P. E. 0. and to Iowa Wesleyan college found expression in the 
 degree, L.H.D. which the college, in 1942, conferred upon Mrs, 
 Reeves on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her graduation 
 from Iowa Wesleyan, 
 
 The portrait of Mrs. Reeves painted by Edmund Giesbert 
 which was on display during Supreme Chapter Convention, in 
 Chicago, in 1949, was a gift of Chapter A, Chicago, to Cottey 
 College. It hangs in Winona Evans Reeves Hall. 
 
 It was at this 1949 Convention of Supreme Chapter that Mrs. 
 Reeves tendered her resignation as Editor of the P. E. 0. Record. 
 At the close of her service she gave "Grateful acknowledgment to 
 the Wayside Press, Mendota, Illinois and in particular to Mr.
 
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 Kenneth B. Butler, its president, and his staff of assistants, who 
 for more than twenty-five years have co-operated in every particular 
 in an effort to put out an acceptable publication." 
 
 This tribute to the publisher is typical of her attitude toward 
 her co-workers. All who have worked with Mrs. Reeves in any 
 capacity are agreed on the high privilege it provides. Executive 
 without being dictatorial, decisive without being biased, quick to 
 give and take, she is at once a pleasure and inspiration in close 
 contact. And all the honors that have come to her have been 
 well earned. 
 
 ► GRACE RUNYAN PARKS 
 
 Mrs. Parks, as President of Supreme Chapter, 1911-1913, 
 brought to the office a wide experience in that she had been active 
 in the interests of P. E .0. from the day of her initiation in 
 Chapter A, Chicago, in 1896. 
 
 She was a charter member of Chapter I, Chicago, in 1903 
 and was its first president. 
 
 She was president of Illinois State Chapter, 1903-1907, and 
 four years later was elected president of Supreme Chapter. She 
 presided over the convention of Supreme Chapter held in Hutchin- 
 son, Kansas. Minnesota State Chapter received its charter at this 
 convention. The Educational Fund was given a prominent place 
 on the program and the amount of the fund was reported to be 
 over $22,000. 
 
 An event of her administration was her appointment of the 
 first custodian of supplies, which was the initial step toward great- 
 ly improving the handling of P. E .0. supplies. In 1913 the sup- 
 plies were kept on a shelf in a closet in the home of Mrs. Addie 
 M. Janes of Chicago; but they now fill a large room in the Ex- 
 ecutive Offices in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 While arrangements had been completed in the previous ad- 
 ministration for the organization of Chapter A, Vancouver, the 
 first chapter in British Columbia, the actual organization took 
 place in August, 1911, in Mrs. Parks' administration. 
 
 Mrs. Parks was famous for her hospitality and is said to have 
 entertained every president of Illinois State Chapter and all 
 except two presidents of Supreme Chapter, including even Mary 
 Berry Price, the first of them all. 
 
 She belonged to a family in which the ideals of P. E, 0. 
 were held high and in which outstanding service was rendered. 
 Her sister, Emma Runyan Pratt, served as Treasurer of Supreme 
 Chapter at the time the Educational Fund was started ; her sister, 
 Julia Runyan Pratt, served as President of Washington State
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 Chapter; her daughter, Dora Parks Hemenway, served as President 
 of Michigan State Chapter; and at the time this History is 
 printed, her daughter, Jessie Parks Bonson, is serving as Organizer 
 of Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 To all of Mrs. Parks' relationships she brought a quality that 
 tended to call forth the best in all with whom she worked. 
 
 The gleam of the star blinded her eyes to all save the beauty 
 of the light it radiated. One closely associated with her said, 
 "Grace always knew that the motive of a P. E. 0. was right and 
 only fair action could follow right motive". 
 
 ► MABEL DAVENPORT DOUD 
 
 Miss Mabel Davenport Doud was initiated into Chapter P, 
 P. E. 0., Chicago, in 1906. She was born in Iowa and received 
 her education in that state and in Illinois. In addition to her 
 academic and business training in schools, she has had over twenty 
 years experience in banking and in Investment Life Insurance in 
 Chicago. 
 
 In religious faith she is an Episcopalian, a member of St. 
 Peter's Church, Chicago, where she has at different times been 
 treasurer of the Woman's Guild and president of the Woman's 
 club of that church. She has been associated with St. Katherines, 
 an Episcopal school for girls in Davenport, Iowa. 
 
 She has served Illinois State Chapter, P. E. 0., as treasurer, 
 first vice-president and president; and served Supreme Chapter 
 as treasurer, first and second vice-president, and president. 
 
 Although her home for many years has been in Chicago, her 
 present address is 979 Summit Avenue, New York, N. Y. 
 
 With all her mental ability and business acumen, we must 
 not forget that her feminine attributes of graciousness, sincerity, 
 and willingness to serve, have been vital factors in her success. 
 
 ► BESSIE R. RANEY 
 
 Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, 39th President of Supreme Chapter, 
 presided over the convention held in the Grand Ball Room of the 
 Stevens Hotel, Chicago, September 6, 7, 8, 1949. 
 
 During her two years as president Mrs. Raney was extremely 
 loyal to the activities in all the departments of Supreme Chapter. 
 
 To the various chairmen in their increasingly heavy responsi- 
 bilities she was helpful and understanding. To Cottey College, 
 the Educational Fund, Peace Participation, Post War Work, In-
 
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 ternational Scholarships, and the P. E. 0. Museum Project she 
 gave her best effort. 
 
 She participated in the laying of the corner stone of Reeves 
 Hall, June 7, 1948, and presided at the dedicatory ceremony in 
 1949. At the dedication of the Franc Eoads Elliott memorial 
 stone at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in September 1952, Mrs, Eaney 
 gave a "Preliminary History of the Project." 
 
 A dispensation was granted to Virginia State Chapter and 
 she was present at its convocation in June 1949. During the 
 biennial she attended 17 state chapter conventions. 
 
 During the years Mrs. Eaney served in State and Supreme 
 Chapter offices, she organized 32 Local Chapters and 1 State 
 Chapter. It is characteristic of her that she has kept in contact 
 with all those chapters through the years. Euby Prince was her 
 first initiate in the first chapter she organized, which was Chapter 
 CI, Chicago. At the convention, over which Mrs. Prince presided 
 as President of Illinois State Chapter, Mrs. Eaney was an honor 
 guest. 
 
 In addition to offices held in State and Supreme Chapters, 
 Mrs. Eaney served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 
 Educational Fund and was chairman of the Memorial Library 
 furnishing committee. 
 
 At the inauguration of Dr. Eaymond Chadwick as president of 
 Iowa Wesleyan College, Mrs. Eaney had the honor of bringing 
 greetings from the P. E. 0. Sisterhood as a feature of the program. 
 
 If honor be given as a reward of service rendered, Bessie E. 
 Eaney deserves many and great honors. Her ser\'ice to the P. E. 0. 
 Sisterhood continues to be truly great.
 
 p. E. 0. PROJECTS: 
 ILLINOIS' CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
 ► THE EDUCATIONAL FUND 
 
 The Educational Fund, our first and oldest project has been 
 a distinguishing feature of the work and influence of our Sister- 
 hood for forty-six years. Little did Chapter 0, Missouri, realize 
 to what proportions their contribution of $658.88 would grow. 
 This amount remained, after all expenses were paid, from a 
 P. E. 0. day that was held at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on 
 June 18. 1903. It was given to the convention of Supreme Chap- 
 ter held at Thorntown, Indiana in 1905 and $146.87 was added 
 from the supreme treasury, making the fund $800. A request was 
 made that local and state chapters make contributions to the fund, 
 knowing that in time it Avould be put to some wise and helpful 
 use. In 1907 there was $1,071.88 in the fund and Mrs. Winona 
 E. Reeves moved that the fund hereafter be called the Educational 
 Fund. 
 
 i Purpose 
 
 The first loan wa.s granted in 1908 and was for $300.00. At 
 the Convention of Supreme Chapter in 1909, the present plan of 
 
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 183 
 
 a Board of Trustees was established and the fund, which was then 
 onl}'^ about $5,000.00 was placed in the hands of the Supreme 
 Chapter Treasurer. The first Board of Trustees of the Educational 
 Fund was appointed by Mrs. Winona E. Eeeves, who was then 
 President of Supreme Chapter. The purpose of the fund, which 
 was adopted at the 1909 Convention is as follows : "This fund is, 
 and shall be created, preserved, and used for loans in assisting 
 worthy young women, coming to us properly recommended, who 
 desire to complete their higher education, with a view to becoming 
 self-supporting." 
 
 1 Administration 
 
 Illinois women have been prominent in the administration 
 of the Fund throughout the years. When the first Board of 
 Trustees was appointed, lots were to be cast to determine the 
 length of term of ofl'ice of each trustee and Mrs. Grace R. Parks, 
 first vice-president of Supreme Chapter, was asked to draw the 
 lots in the presence of her chapter, I, Chicago. 
 
 / Results 
 
 When the Fund was established it was ^vith the hope that in 
 the future the fund might, by the interest on it and repayment of 
 loans, become self supporting. When Mrs. Bessie R. Raney was 
 chairman of the board of trustees in 1935, she announced in her 
 report that this goal had been achieved. 
 
 Mrs, Eleanor Eads Bailey of Macomb was a member of an 
 early board, as was Miss Mabel Doud of Chicago. Mrs. Aura G. 
 Tobey, during her chairmanship of the board, did much to spread 
 interest in the fund by suggesting a slogan: "Every chapter 
 sponsor a girl." Mrs. Lettie S. Mudge and Mrs. Bessie R. Raney 
 have also served on the board. 
 
 A slogan, "Double the Fund in 1933", suggested by Chapter 
 A, Chicago, was adopted at the convention of Illinois State Chap- 
 ter at Kirkwood in 1921. In the same year a similar slogan, 
 "20,000 in the fund in 1923", was adopted by Supreme Convention. 
 
 Illinois has contributed to the Loan Fund, including bequests 
 and special gifts, $73,514.32. Bequests and gifts to the Endow- 
 ment Fund from Illinois, amount to $15,798.71. (March 1, 1952) 
 
 Through this Fund, opportunity has been given for thousands 
 of young women to acquire a higher education. We are proud 
 that through its revohing nature, on August 12. 1952, the 10,000th 
 loan was granted. As of March 1, 1952, (1953 figures not com- 
 plete at the time of this publication), 944 girls from Illinois have
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 been granted loans totaling $403,858.30. On July 31, 1953 the 
 total assets were $858,956.65 with an Endowment Fund of $26,- 
 310.79. 
 
 THE MEMORIAL LIBRARY 
 
 At the Supreme Chapter Convention held in Kansas City in 
 1921, Dell Phillips Glazier, of Chapter BD, Fort Madison, Iowa, 
 presented the plan for a memorial library to be erected on the 
 campus of Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to com- 
 memorate the founding of P. E. 0. A promotion conmiittee of 
 three was named, to submit the plan to all local chapters for con- 
 sideration. Appointed to this committee were Mrs. Glazier of 
 Iowa, Ellen Ball of Washington, and Clara R. Waterhouse of 
 Nebraska. At the next convention, 1923, there was much dis- 
 cussion, but no action beyond the continuing of the committee. 
 In the convention in Minneapolis in October, 1925, however, Vina 
 Ives Bowden presiding, the motion to erect a Memorial Library 
 was unanimously carried. 
 
 At the Illinois State Convention the following spring it was 
 reconmiended to set aside $500 for the Memorial Library project, 
 this to be a memorial to Franc Roads Elliott. At that convention 
 the president, Maude B. McDonald, reported ha\ing appointed a 
 State Finance committee for this project, with Margaret McAfee, 
 Past President of Illinois State Chapter, as chairman. Illinois 
 worked steadily on its assigned quota and proudly paid it at the 
 specified times, in addition to the many personal contributions. 
 The memorial to Franc Roads Elliott was followed by a similar one 
 to the memory of Alice Bird Babb, another Founder especially dear 
 to Illinois. Somewhat later there was the heavy investment of 
 $7500 in the steel stacks for the library, these to honor Harriet M. 
 Amsden, Chapter BC, Decatur, Past President of Illinois State 
 Chapter. 
 
 There was great enthusiasm for the Memorial Library project. 
 Mrs. Amsden had been a member of the building committee and 
 given generously of her time to that cause. Upon completion of 
 the library in 1928, she was appointed by the President of Supreme 
 Chapter, Ola B. Miller, to serve as a committee of one for the 
 management, control, and furnishings of the Memorial Library. 
 This duty she discharged with skill and efficiency as long as she 
 was physically able. By tireless personal work she raised the funds 
 for carrying out her cherished project — the painting of the 
 portraits of the Seven Founders. 
 
 At the close of the convention of Supreme Chapter in Chicago
 
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 in 1929, a special train, arrangements for which were the work 
 of Margaret McAfee, carried a very large delegation to Mt. 
 Pleasant for the unveiling of the portraits, at which Mrs. Amsden 
 presided. She expressed her joy in a task completed. 
 
 When Mrs. Amsden became too ill to continue to supervise 
 the P. E. 0. rooms in the Memorial Library, Mabel Y. Frisbee, 
 Chapter X, Bushnell, Past President of Illinois State Chapter, 
 was appointed by Mabel Doud to be the committee of one in charge 
 of furnishings. 
 
 The great appeal of this Memorial Library to Illinois 
 P. E. O.'s is indicated by the long list of their memorial gifts, 
 bringing together in one place, priceless memories and tangible 
 reminders of the past. These gifts are Illinois' tribute to the 
 Founders of P. E. 0. 
 
 Torches and andirons — Illinois State Chapter, in memory 
 of Alice Bird Babh; hooJc stacTcs, honoring Harriet Magill 
 Amsden; brass howl and candle sticks. Chapter BW, Decatur, 
 honoring Gertrude Magill Moore; pair of lamps, Illinois State 
 Chapter, in memory of Mabel Y. Frisbee; Camel's bell, Chapter 
 BA, Joliet, honoring Hattie Adams Keith; Lincoln book ends. 
 Chapter BF, Springfield; Florentine desJc set. Chapter BY, 
 Toulon; P. E. 0. Records, 1919-1936, clothbound. Chapter F, 
 Quincy, and Lenora ClvnJcenbeard; fireside bench. Chapter BI, 
 Oak Park, in memory of Mary Allen Stafford; walnut bench. 
 Chapters R, AH, BQ, BX, CZ, EF, Peoria; Aubusson tapestry 
 chair. Chapter P, Chicago, honoring Mabel Davenport Doud; 
 carved walnut chair, Eleanor Eads Bailey in memory of her mother, 
 Mary C. Eads, and her aunt, Eleanor Eads Mann; winged Empire 
 chair, Chapter AA, Christopher, in honor of Winona Evans Reeves 
 and Katherine E. Church; Japanese chair. Chapters AZ, CR, CV, 
 DO, DQ, DV, Evanston, honoring Anna F. Betts; Walnut settee. 
 Chapter B, Clinton, and other P. E. 0. friends honoring Nellie 
 R. Danks, first State President of Illinois. 
 
 Walnut cabinet. Chapter I, Chicago, honoring Grace Runyan 
 Parks; tapestry, antique French, Chapter A, Chicago, honoring 
 Winona Evans Reeves; grill doors, wrought iron. Chapter AZ, 
 Evanston, honoring Lulu Corkhill Williams; stairway lamps. 
 Chapter BC, Decatur, honoring Harriet M. Amsden; crystal chan- 
 delier, Illvnois State Chapter, honoring Bessie R. Raney; alabaster 
 lamp, Chapter N, Roseville; log-roller, Mabel Davenport Doud; 
 walnut mantel, Illinois State Chapter, in memory of Franc Roads 
 Elliott; gold convex mirror, J. W. Bailey and family, in honor of 
 Eleanor Eads Bailey, Chapter K, Macomb; grand piano, gift of Mr,
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 H. B. Williams, honoring his wife, Lulu Corkhill Williams; photo- 
 graph of Myra McCoy Andrews, Aura G. Tohey, Chicago; photo- 
 graphs of Harriet M. Amsden, gifts of Chapter BC, Decatur, and 
 Jessie M. Miller; fire screen, Mildred W. Warner, in memory of 
 her sister, Helene Westervelt Thielens, Chapter BC, Decatur; 
 statue, "Winter", gift of Bessie R. Fancy in honor of her mother, 
 Lenora V. BodricTc; statue, "Justice'' gift of Chapter AV, Berwyn, 
 in honor of Katherine E. Church. 
 
 Shawl, Paisley antique, gift of Chapter BW , Decatur; wall- 
 hanging. Crewel emhroidered, gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pierce, 
 honoring Mabel D. Doud and Mabel Y. Frisbee; vase, brass. 
 Chapter CM, Streator; vase, Cinnabar, Chapter W, Galesburg, 
 honoring Mary Berry Price Johnson, first Supreme Chapter 
 President; vase, Chinese, Jessie M. Miller, Past President, 
 Illinois State Chapter; end table, Chapter CA, Springfield; boot- 
 broom, Mabel Davenport Doud; art port-folios, Nellie Magill 
 Pond; walnut table, honoring Elizabeth Goodsmith, Chapter P, 
 Chicago, given by her four daughters; mirror, antique. Chapter X, 
 Bushnell, in memory of Mabel Y. Frisbee. 
 
 COTTEY COLLEGE 
 
 Cottey College at Nevada, Missouri, is distinctive in several 
 ways. It is the only college in the United States owned and sup- 
 ported hy a woman's organization and it is a self-built college. 
 
 Cottey College was established in 1884 by Alice Virginia 
 Cottey, a young school teacher, who received her inspiration from 
 reading the story of "The Life of Mary Lyon" and her establish- 
 ment of Mount Holyoke seminary. 
 
 Miss Cottey had but $3000 in cash Avhich she had saved 
 laboriously from ten years of teaching; but she convinced the 
 mayor and to^vn council of Nevada of her sincerity and ability and 
 they gave her seven acres of land just outside the town upon which 
 to build her school. 
 
 The school started in one brick building, two stories high and 
 with 28 pupils. By the end of the first year the capacity of the 
 building was doubled and again filled with students. Thus year 
 by year buildings and additions were erected and filled with stu- 
 dents, only to require further expansion. 
 
 In 1887 the school was chartered by the State of Missouri 
 and its status as a Junior college was definitely fixed. Early in 
 her years at Cottey, Alice Virginia Avas married to Mr. Stockard, 
 a widower with three children. He lived only six years but Mrs.
 
 p. E. O. Projects 
 
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 Stockard reared and educated the three children. The daughter 
 Katherine, married Lieut. Col. Milam, but died while her three 
 children were small. Mrs. Stockard reared and educated those 
 children also. It is a significant commentary upon her strength of 
 character to say that while she was building and administering a 
 college, she reared and educated two generations of children. 
 
 As the years passed, the realization that she was becoming 
 too old to administer the college came to her and, being anxious 
 for the safety of her school, Mrs. Stockard, in 1927 gave Cottey 
 College to the P. E. 0. Sisterhood. With the college, which was 
 free from debt, was given $20,000 endowment. At that time the 
 school had 265 pupils and was fully accredited by the University 
 of Missouri. Mrs. Stockard remained as President of Cottey until 
 1929. In 1930 she was given an honorary Doctor's degree by 
 Iowa Wesleyan College in recognition of her great contribution to 
 education. She had administered her college for forty-five years. 
 The citation given with the degree is a memorable note on her 
 character and spirit. It reads : "Virginia Alice Cottey Stockard, 
 President Emeritus of Cottey CoUege, lover of young womanhood, 
 possessing the spiritual insight to see the undeveloped resources 
 of youth, building a college first in dreams and then making it 
 real in brick and mortar, causing it to live with students and in- 
 structors, a leader of women in higher education." 
 
 Mrs. Stockard was succeeded by Dr. Mary Eose Prosser who 
 served until 1933. In July 1933, Florence E. Boehmer, Ph.D., 
 began her work as President of Cottey College. In 1934, the 
 fiftieth anniversary of Cottey was celebrated in the presence of the 
 founder. Dr. Alice Virginia Cottey Stockard, which lent color 
 and interest and made the celebration a notable one. 
 
 Dr. Marjorie Mitchell was president from 1938 to 1949. 
 During this eleven year period the P. E. 0. Sisterhood sponsored an 
 expansion program of sizable proportions, the first fruits of which 
 were the construction of P. E. 0. and Reeves residence halls. 
 Faculty House, Stockard House, and B.I.L. Hill were purchased 
 and a heating plant was erected. 
 
 i -t i 
 
 On November 28, 1949, Cottey College took still another step 
 toward a brighter future when Dr. Blanche Hinman Dow was 
 inaugurated as president. Dr. Dow has had wide experience, a 
 deep cultural and educational background, and came to Cottey 
 fully equipped to carry the wegiht of the administration of a grow- 
 ing College. 
 
 In 1950, for the first time in her history, Cottey opened her 
 doors to girls from outside the United States. In 1951-52 in ad-
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 dition to girls from thirty states, ten foreign countries were repre- 
 sented. Much of this foreign influx was due to the Peace Partici- 
 pation program of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood, which furnished scholar- 
 ships for foreign students. 
 
 Cottey College offers a scholarship grant of $100 to the vale- 
 dictorian of her high school class and a scholarship grant of $50 
 to the salutatorian. Cottey has also established a number of 
 service grants to deserving students who may earn $120 a year. 
 Four scholarship grants of $125 each are offered in the field of Fine 
 Arts and two $150 scholarships to students who have achieved 
 distinction in music. Since 1931 when the first P. E. 0. scholar- 
 ships were established, forty Illinois girls have attended Cottey 
 on the strength of these Illinois grants. Application for an 
 Illinois P. E. 0. State Scholarship to Cottey is made through 
 a local chapter to the State Scholarship chairman. First Vice- 
 President of Illinois State Chapter. Since 1884, one hundred 
 sixteen girls have attended Cottey College from Illinois. 
 
 Through the years Cottey has gained full recognition and 
 accreditation from the University of Missouri and by the State 
 Department of Education. It is also a member of the American 
 Association of Junior Colleges and is fully accredited by the North 
 Central Association of Colleges and Secondary schools. In Mrs. 
 Stockard's words: "Cottey has long since doffed her baby clothes, 
 outgrown her childish prattle and donned the garb of womanhood 
 as a mature and full fledged Junior College." 
 
 The Cottey College faculty includes men and women who have 
 studied in all sections of the world. The minimum requirement 
 for faculty members is the Master's degree. One-fourth of the 
 faculty have the Doctor's degree and several others are but a few 
 weeks from obtaining theirs. 
 
 Another point in which Cottey College is unique is its suite 
 plan of arrangement in its dormitories. This was originated by 
 Mrs. Stockard who supervised the erection of Kosemary Hall in 
 1903; a suite plan which lends much to gracious living and for 
 which Cottey is noted. In this plan the living quarters are di- 
 vided into suites, which include a living room, bath, kitchenette 
 and bedrooms for ten girls. In this way the girls may have 
 privacy and yet always be a part of a group. P. E. 0. Hall (1939) 
 and Winona Evans Keeves Hall (1949) were built on the same 
 plan. Eeeves' Hall has been acclaimed as the most beautiful and 
 livable college girls' dormitory in the United States. 
 
 The P. E. 0. Sisterhood has created an endowment fund for
 
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 Cottey of approximately $65,000 as well as giving yearly, financial 
 support and a living endowment of 123,000 P. E. 0. members. 
 
 Katherine E. Church, Past President, Illinois State Chapter, 
 and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Cottey College, 
 was an ardent and loyal supporter of the college library. She 
 established and contributed annually to the Harry V. Church 
 Memorial Fund. Her assistance did much to build the history 
 and reference collections. Her gifts, with those of a daughter 
 and of other friends have brought the donations to the Church 
 Fund to more than $1600. 
 
 The Eomance Language collection has been in especial need 
 of attention. A gift of $1096, from Mr. PenDell and Chapter AF, 
 Chicago, to the Olga PenDell Memorial Collection offers the main 
 reference tools in the field of French and a few works of the major 
 authors. 
 
 Blanche Eoss, Chapter BI, Oak Park, in addition to sending 
 part of her library to Cottey College, sent $500 with which the 
 library purchased a much desired microfilm reader and storage 
 cabinet. 
 
 In addition to the one dollar per capita annual assessment paid 
 to Cottey, Illinois State Chapter has expressed great interest with 
 their generous voluntary contributions through the State Chapter, 
 Local Chapters, individual members and B. I, L.'s. 
 
 Memorial gifts to Mabel D. Doud, former member of the 
 Board of Trustees of Cottey College, Grace Eunyan Parks, Winona 
 Evans Eeeves and Muriel Betts are indicated with the furnishing 
 of the parlor in Old Main, Illinois Parks, Illinois Eeeves, and the 
 Office and Dean of Eesidence Suite in P. E. 0. Hall. As is noted 
 elsewhere in this History, the B. I. L.'s paid gracious tribute to 
 Bessie E. Eaney with the furnishing of Eaney Suite in Eeeves 
 Hall. Besides these material investments Illinois bestows rich 
 blessings on the students through scholarships. 
 
 B. I. L. Hill was purchased in 1949 by the husbands of 
 P. E. O.'s as a gift to Cottey. It provides an ideal recreation cen- 
 ter, with lodge, fireplace, outdoor swimming pool, picnic and over- 
 night camping out facilities. Many happy carefree moments are 
 spent at "The Hill". 
 
 The generous B. I. L.'s, ever alert to the values of Cottey 
 College, are bending their efforts toward the erection of a Chapel 
 on the campus. The present dream will become a future reality. 
 Cottey has truly had a glorious and colorful past and looks forward 
 to an even brighter future under the sponsorship of the P. E. 0. 
 Sisterhood.
 
 lyO P- E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 THE p. E. O. RECORD 
 
 Note : for much of the early data about The Record, we are in- 
 debted to the research done for the "History of P. E. 0. in Iowa." 
 
 The decision to establish a "Society paper" came in the sixth 
 annual convention of the Grand Chapter of P. E, 0. held in 
 Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1888, fifteen years before there was an Illinois 
 State Chapter. The necessary amount for publishing a monthly 
 paper was to be taken from the Grand Chapter treasury. Local 
 chapter corresponding secretaries were to send material suitable 
 for printing, and Mrs. Effie Hoffman Eogers was to be the first 
 editor, at a salary of $40 a month. The subscription price, pay- 
 able in advance, was to be 75 cents a vear, and the paper was to 
 be called The P. E. 0. Record. 
 
 Mrs. Eogers was not only the editor and publisher, but was 
 the president of the Grand Chapter, with the entire responsibility 
 for organizing new chapters, as well as all of the correspondence 
 and routine work of the office. She was also County Superintend- 
 ent of Schools ! 
 
 In 1889 Mrs. Eogers reported to convention that there were 
 451 subscriptions; the cost of publishing each magazine was 6% 
 cents, so that the actual cost exceeded the 75 cent subscription 
 price, and there was not a cent left for the editor's salary. She 
 personally folded, stitched, covered, and mailed the Eecords. It 
 was a losing battle. 
 
 Each successive convention struggled with the problem of 
 financing the magazine. The readers were delighted with the 
 publication, but did not seem to be much concerned over the fi- 
 nancial difficulties involved. The Record was not self-supporting, 
 yet every convention decided to continue it and annually re-elected 
 the editor, also annually made up a financial deficit. Mrs. Eogers 
 was succeeded by Miss Mary Osmond as editor, and she was suc- 
 ceeded in 1893 by Mrs, Siddie Eichards. In 1895 a per capita 
 tax of 25 cents was voted, as a means of making the magazine self- 
 supporting. In 1897 Miss Osmond resumed her position as editor, 
 continuing until 1913, when Mrs. Eogers was reelected. She 
 served until her death in March 1918. 
 
 In 1911, Mrs. Winona Evans Eeeves, as president of Supreme 
 Chapter, recommended, "That the P. E. 0. Eecord be placed 
 under the special charge of a board of trustees composed of three 
 P. E. O.'s appointed by the president, no two of whom shall be 
 from the same state. That one of the trustees shall serve for six 
 years, one for four years and one for two years. That the Supreme 
 Chapter president shall select the chairman of the board whose 
 expenses shall be paid to the Supreme Chapter convention where
 
 p. E. O. Projects 
 
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 she shall make the report. We further recommend that to this 
 board shall be entrusted the awarding of the contract with the 
 printers of the magazine, instead of having the matter handled by 
 a committee in the convention as has heretofore been done." This 
 recommendation was adopted, and the system of management 
 which largely prevails now was adopted. 
 
 In 1918 Mrs. Winona Evans Eeeves was appointed as editor, 
 and she served continuously until her resignation in 1949, when 
 the present editor, Mrs. Edith Markham Wallace, Washington, 
 and associate editor. Miss Elsie Irene Shoemaker, Oklahoma, were 
 appointed. 
 
 During a period of somewhat more than sixty years there have 
 been but five editors; the form and size of the magazine have 
 changed; it has been put on a business basis, with a subscription 
 price that has risen with the increase in costs, to a present total 
 of 85 cents per capita; there is now a circulation of over 113,000, 
 the magazine going into every state, all the provinces of Canada, 
 Hawaii and Alaska, and many far-away countries. The P. E. 0. 
 Sisterhood has been exceedingly fortunate during this period of 
 years in having the incomparable editorial service of Mrs. Keeves, 
 and in producing a magazine which has served not only as a means 
 of inter-chapter communication, but as a great unifying force and 
 inspiration. The P. E. 0. Sisterhood has been fortunate, too — 
 and Illinois is rightfully proud of its service — in the publishing 
 of The P. E. 0. Record, for it has been the work of The Wayside 
 Press, at Mendota, Illinois since 1931. Mr. Kenneth B. Butler 
 and his associates have been consistently interested in producing 
 a superior magazine. 
 
 PEACE PARTICIPATION 
 
 Since the war work era of 1942-'45 and the post war work 
 years of 1946, 47 and 48, the united eiforts of P. E. O.'s have been 
 continued in Peace Participation. This project is of uppermost 
 importance in the hearts and minds of P. E. O.'s, though rather 
 new in development. 
 
 The Second Vice-President of Illinois State Chapter is in 
 charge of the Peace promotional work, which is managed under 
 the three divisions of the United Victory Fund : (a) Aid to Veter- 
 ans; (b) International Peace Scholarships; (c) Overseas Relief. 
 
 Records show that Illinois continues to make generous con- 
 tributions in dollars and cents through Red Cross and to veterans 
 hospitals; in addition to giving personally of time and talent to 
 veterans in hospitals and U.S.O. Centers. Generous donations
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 have been given toward overseas relief and with CAEE packages. 
 
 For the year, 1952-53, the surplus fund, $1500, from the 
 Hostess Committee of the 1952 convention of Illinois State Chap- 
 ter was awarded, through the International Scholarship Fund, 
 to Ruchira Chinnapongse, Bangkok, Thailand, for study of her 
 Doctorate at the University of Illinois and to Young Hi Kwun, 
 Seoul, Korea, a sophomore at Shimer College, Mount Carroll, 
 Illinois. Local Chapters in the neighborhoods of these girls have 
 shared the gracious hospitality of their homes, making a real 
 American "Home-Coming" for the girls, when on vacation. 
 
 The program reports from the Peace Participation committee 
 chairmen of local chapters disclose an ever greater knowledge of 
 *World Affairs', with 'World Peace' as their ultimate goal. 
 
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 of the I*. E. 0. Sisterhood on the cninpus of Iowa Weslevan 
 College, Mount Pleasant,, Iowa, iiuilt in 1927 hy tlie P. E.' 0. 
 8iste]"hood in honor of its seven founders. 
 
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 Eeeves, painted by Edmund Giesbert, 
 the gift of Chapter A, Chicago. The 
 portrait now hangs in Winona Evans 
 Eeeves Hall at Cottey College, Nevada, 
 Missouri. ^Mrs. Eeeves is a member of 
 Chapter A. Chicago. 
 
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 erected in 1949 
 
 Cottey College 
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 "The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, the hand to 
 execute." — Junius' letters. 
 
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 P. P]. 0. Home. Photo taken in the Directors' Room, first floor. 
 
 At left is Orpha Hebard, AM, Knoxville, Chairman of the 
 House Furnishings Committee. Following, from left to right, are 
 members of the Board of Trustees : Eva Swenson, C J, Rockford, 
 Treasurer: Tsyl Walton, HO, Galesburg. Acting Chairman, 1952- 
 53; Ann Driver, DK. Carrollton, Chairman of Applications, and 
 Louise R. Waddell, AW, Rloomington, Secretary. 
 
 A fifth member of the Pioard of Trustees, A^iola Mathers. AM. 
 Knoxville, serving in an advisory capacity, was unable to be present 
 A\'hen this picture was taken. 
 
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 ILLINOIS 
 P. E. a PHILANTHROPIES 
 
 ► LULU CORKHILL WILLIAMS WELFARE AND TRUST FUND 
 
 The Lula Corkhill Williams Welfare and Trust Fund was 
 originated to give financial aid to Illinois P. E. 0/s in time of 
 need. 
 
 It was established in 1934 when Lulu Corkhill Williams, a 
 past president of Illinois State Chapter, suggested that the balance 
 of $138.53 in the trea^urj' at the close of the State Convention, 
 be used as a nucleus for such a fund. That same year $1,500 with 
 accrued interest. Supreme Convention surplus, was added to the 
 fund. At the State Convention in 1935 a resolution was adopted 
 to set aside five cents per capita from the annual dues to perpetuate 
 this "Welfare Fund". With the addition of personal and chapter 
 gifts the fund has grown to approximately $8,000. 
 
 Since 1935, a total of $4,240 has been expended from the 
 fund, in loans or gifts, to twenty five of our sisters who have found 
 relief from financial strain in a time of need. All information 
 concerning a recipient is held in strict confidence. 
 
 i Trustees 
 
 The treasurer of Illinois State Chapter is custodian of the 
 Fund, but it is administered by a revolving committee of three 
 members. Both in the establishing and in administering of the 
 Fund the following have served on the Board of Trustees : Lettie 
 
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 202 
 
 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 S. Mudge, A, Chicago; Caroline Stotts, W, Galesburg; Opal B. 
 Baymiller, AH, Peoria; Jessie M. Miller, BC, Decatur; Anna F. 
 Betts, AZ, Evanston; Anna Seeley, AK, LTrbana; Stella E. Leys, 
 AW, Bloomington; Katherine E. Church, A, Chicago; Eloise 
 Wortley, CN, Winnetka; Alice Bruner, E, Monmouth; Pauline 
 B. Einaker, AB, Carlinville; Martha C. Neifert, W, Galesburg; 
 Mabel Heberling, DC, Chicago ; Margaret McAfee, AM, KnoxA^lle ; 
 Margaret Boynton, C, Vermont; Alice Bort, AC, Dixon: Mary 
 K. Lindsay, AD, Chicago; Lucile Lugg, AZ, Evanston; Alice P. 
 Pence, BA, Joliet; Edna Kinzer, ED, Edwardsville ; Margaret 
 Best, EiST, Winnetka; Geneva C. Schroder, BK, Eock Island. 
 
 1 A Memorial 
 
 After the death of Mrs. Williams in 1935, the name of the 
 fund was changed to the Lulu Corkhill Williams Welfare and 
 Trust Fund, in memory of the woman who first proposed the idea 
 and whose life exemplified love and service for others. 
 
 Mrs. Williams was the daughter of a Methodist minister, so 
 had a heritage of fine ideals. She attended Iowa Wesleyan College 
 at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where she graduated in 1874. She was 
 initiated into Original A, P. E. 0. in 1869 when only fourteen 
 years of age. She held membership in several other chapters, — - 
 D, Iowa, as a charter member, Illinois Chapters A, D, P, and AZ. 
 At the time of her death she was a member of Chapter AZ, Evans- 
 ton, Illinois. She served as president of Illinois State Chapter for 
 two years, 1907-1909. 
 
 A devout Christian, she lived a life of faith and understand- 
 ing. Surely this Fund is a living memorial to a beloved P. E. 0. 
 
 THE ILLINOIS P. E. O. HOME 
 
 One of Illinois' own P. E. 0. Projects is its Home for elderly 
 members, the establishment of which is less than one year old at 
 the time of this publication. On October 1, 1952, the hopes and 
 dreams of the Illinois P. E. 0. members were fulfilled when our 
 State Chapter became the proud owner of the Mary H. Jones 
 property in Knoxville. The Mary H. Jones room on the first 
 floor commemorates this wonderful sift. 
 
 i Description 
 
 The property constitutes an entire town block and is situated 
 two blocks east of the Knoxville City square on route 150, five
 
 Illinois P. E. O. Philanthropies 
 
 203 
 
 miles southeast of Galesburg. The main building, erected in 1912, 
 is a beautiful memorial of which we can all be justly proud. It is 
 well designed, well constructed, in excellent condition, and fire- 
 proof throughout. An elevator serves its basement and three 
 floors. There are ample accommodations for thirty seven perma- 
 nent residents plus a five room infirmary, office, chapter room, 
 directors' room, reading rooms, large dining hall, kitchen, and 
 quarters for the staff of employees. In addition to the main build- 
 ing, the property includes a nine room frame dwelling. The 
 grounds are spacious enough for future expansion and the erection 
 of individual cottage units. The interior and exterior of the 
 main building have been redecorated. 
 
 Included with the property transfer was a sum of money which 
 was used in modernizing the building to meet present day demands 
 in appearance and convenience. And, in return, for all this — as 
 per the intent of the Mary H. Jones' will — space will be provided 
 to accommodate five non-members, who are residents of Knox 
 County, and who may be admitted under the same Rules and Eegu- 
 lations which govern our own members. A GOLDEN OPPOR- 
 TUNITY FOR ILLINOIS P. E. O.'s TO PRACTICE THE 
 GOLDEN RULE. 
 
 i Red Tape 
 
 Since its erection in 1912, this Home had been managed 
 under the terms of the Mary H. Jones will, by a Board of Tnistees, 
 who in 1948 sensed the necessity for a change in ownership if 
 operation and maintenance of the Home were to continue. One 
 of our good B. I. L.'s, Mr. Charles Boydston, and his wife, Helen, 
 of Chapter W, Galesburg, recognized the possibility of future sta- 
 bility for the Home under the support and management of Il- 
 linois P. E. O.'s and urged the consideration of a transfer to them. 
 So at the convention in Galesburg. on April 29, 1948, an offer of 
 the "Knoxville Old Ladies' Home" was made by the Trustees of 
 the Home to the Illinois State Chapter, P. E. 0. Then the red 
 tape ticker sounded off days and months until October when a 
 written ballot from chapters ratifying the vote of convention 
 tabulated a vote of acceptance. By then the courts were in the 
 red tape business with legal technicalities which enter into the 
 consideration of transferring willed property, and the anxious 
 time of waiting went on for four whole years while the transfer 
 was being legally processed. 
 
 Then on the second day of the convention in Springfield, 
 April 29, 1952, the Knox County court issued a decree with a
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 new offer which was accepted by the delegates there assembled. 
 On May 21, a. new decree was entered in the court of Knox County 
 further clarifying several items. It was not until October 1, 1952, 
 that all legal transactions were cleared, and the Illinois State 
 Chapter started operating the Home as its own. 
 
 y Incorporation 
 
 But while this Home was being considered by us and legally 
 considered for us, our Illinois P. E .O.'s did not wait for their 
 big moment without serious advance preparation, nor did their 
 enthusiasm wane. In 1947, when Louise E. Waddell was presi- 
 dent, our By-Laws were revised to include an "^Establishing Act' 
 allowing us to finance, maintain and operate a Home. Our officers 
 visited and studied the operation procedure of other similar homes. 
 Plans went ahead for our Home's management and in 19-19 when 
 Hazel Ziesel was president, upon the legal advice from our at- 
 torney, Mr. Wm. B. Schroder, Rock Island, the Illinois State 
 Chapter of the P. E. 0. Sisterhood was incorporated under the 
 laws of the State of Illinois as a not for profit corporation. The 
 corporation Board of Directors are the Officers of Illinois State 
 Chapter, P. E. 0. 
 
 A name was considered for the Home, and in 1950 when 
 Jennie H. Rugh was president, by a vote of the local chapters, the 
 name of "ILLINOIS P. E. 0. HOME" was chosen. At this same 
 convention provision was made in the By-Laws for a dollar per 
 capita contribution to be paid with Illinois State Chapter dues 
 when legal title to the Home should be granted. This contribution 
 of $9,000 annually, payable for the first time, March 1, 1953, will 
 contribute toward the maintenance of the Home. 
 
 y Committees and Trustees 
 
 In 1938, when that first committee, Mabel D. Doud, P, Chi- 
 cago; Dora Yost, R, Peoria; and Anna Fitzgerald, AK, Gillespie; 
 started research on a Home, the suggestion was made that ours be 
 called the "Reeves' Club", their idea being to have it managed as 
 a club rather than a home. At that time 31 members expressed 
 the desire for entrance. 
 
 In the 1939 convention the committee reported that the Home 
 should be an object of State pride and love, — that each resident 
 should have the privilege of buying a room or possibly erecting 
 a cottage upon the grounds — these to be their homes so long as 
 they held residence but with the deed running into the Home Cor- 
 poration. There was also to be provision for the needy from the 
 Welfare Fund.
 
 ILLINOIS P. E. O. Philanthropies 
 
 205 
 
 other committee appointees who served during that dream 
 period and in those days of research are: Myrtice M. Anderson, 
 BZ, Canton; Mabel A. Hanke, DF, Western Springs; Frances 
 Burg, BO, LaHarpe; Euth Cruse, EU, Chicago; Jessie Parks 
 Bonson, I, Chicago; Mary Bailey Ewing, K, Macomb; Mary C. 
 Beatty, AN, Galesburg; Ann Driver, DK, Carrollton; and Doro- 
 thea Gray, FE, Geneva. 
 
 At the 1950 Convention a five member Board of Trustees was 
 appointed, each member to serve, in rotation, as chairman and be 
 retired with a new member to be added by appointment of the out 
 going President of Illinois State Chapter. The members of the 
 first Board of Trustees were: Mary C. Beatty, AN, Galesburg; 
 Mabel Hanke, DF, Western Springs; Viola Mathers, AM, Knox- 
 ville; Ann Driver, DK, Carrollton; and Louise E. Waddell, AW, 
 Bloomington; Isyl Walton, HO, Galesburg; and Eva Swenson, 
 CJ, Eockford, were appointed in 1951 and 1952 respectively. 
 
 For the year 1952-1953 the work of the Trustees was greatly 
 aided by the committee, appointed in May, 1952, on furnishings: 
 Orpha Hebard, AM, Knoxville; Mary Bailey Ewing, K, Macomb; 
 Mabel Hanke, DF, Western Springs; Mary C. Beatty, AN, Gales- 
 burg; and Martha G. Meyer, F, Quincy. A professional decorator, 
 Mr. A. L. Thompson, Galesburg, was obtained to supervise the 
 decorating and furnishings. An advisory Building Committee, 
 Mr. E. A. Jensen and Mr. Kenneth Cecil, Knoxville, and Mr. C. 
 S. Boydston, Galesburg, together with Mr. John A. Scribbins, the 
 architect, supervised the building improvements. 
 
 Mrs. Gertrude L. Carney, W, Galesburg; and Miss Fenimore 
 Schwartz, AM, Knoxville, served on the landscaping committee. 
 From the neighboring local chapters, the following members were 
 appointed to serve on 'Home Affairs and Courtesies' : Cora Eliza- 
 beth Bennison and Mary Goff, AM. Knoxville; Irene Mariner, 
 AN, and Eleanor Eobson, HO, Galesburg; Malcolm Huff and 
 Mabel Stockdale, BB, Abingdon. 
 
 / Giving Credit 
 
 As presidents, during the period when the details of trans- 
 ferring the property were pending, Elizabeth Corbridge, CJ, 
 Eockford, and Sara B, Minear, F, Quincy, worked long and ef- 
 fectively. The latter, \\dth the loyal assistance of her entire Board 
 had to cope with the complicated details of the final transfer and 
 establishment — made easy because Isyl Walton, acting chairman 
 of the Trustees, gave every waking moment to thinking, planning 
 and supervising all the modernization. Isyl Walton deserves full
 
 206 P- E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 credit for the beautiful results. No one could have done a better 
 job. 
 
 Bessie Douglas, AM, Knox\alle, continues in the Home as 
 director of Kesidence. Florence Neil Doyle, W, Galesburg, is 
 serving as the first Home Secretary. Since the 1952 Convention, 
 legal advice has been freely given by Attorney LilKan E. Schlagen- 
 hauf, EC, Quincy, 
 
 V Final Achievement 
 
 The Rules and Regulations, revised November 1, 1952, are 
 applicable and workable. By-law recommendations for establish- 
 ment of Funds and the designation of the Illinois P. E. 0. Home 
 as the Executive Office for Illinois State Chapter, will be con- 
 sidered at the 1953 convention. 
 
 It is the sincere desire of the officers and committee members 
 who are serving during this early development that the Home be 
 established as those early planners envisioned it, and as those who 
 seek to live there, wish it; and that the applicant list continue to 
 outnumber the available rooms. For members — the Chapter 
 Room makes a delightful meeting place. For residents — Tele- 
 vision brings the outside world in. For visitors — the guest 
 rooms offer comfort and Welcome. Donations and furnishings 
 from Chapters and individuals are outward evidence of the en- 
 thusiasm with which the Illinois P. E. O.'s have received their 
 new Home. 
 
 As this Book goes to press, plans are well underway for the 
 Official Dedication of the Home, Sunday May 3, 1953.
 
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 ERTINENT X^ NDS AND O 
 
 DDS 
 
 ► It has been a high privilege for your var- 
 ious committees to assemble and organize the material that recalls 
 the changes and progress of an entire half century. An intimate 
 sharing of the pages of the eight big volimies of local chapter 
 histories is a rich experience. Those history notebooks are not to 
 be lost. They are invaluable — the careful work of hosts of local 
 historians — and are to be preserved in the library of the Illinois 
 P. E. 0. Home, where they can be enjoyed. No factual history 
 tells the whole story. There are always certain pertinent ends and 
 odds, if you please, which are needed to complete the picture — 
 a smile, a tear, an unrecognized service — just bits of color that 
 brighten the whole tapestry. A few of these we are recording for 
 you, to suggest that richness of color which characterized the mov- 
 ing pageantry of P. E. 0. life from 1903 to 1953. 
 
 ► STYLE HINTS 
 
 In April of 190C, the brand new chapter at McLeansboro 
 appointed delegates to the state convention. They immediately 
 went to a neighboring town to consult someone who was an au- 
 
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 208 P- E- O- 'N ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 thority on fashion, as to what gowns were needed. She suggested 
 that each person have at least two new ones, "One, an eton suit 
 for general wear, and the other a more elaborate silk for receptions 
 and other social events". Gage hats completed the ensembles. The 
 delegates had planned to wear beautiful, soft kid gloves, but dis- 
 covered that the proper thing was suede, — something quite dif- 
 ferent, of which they had not heard. When they saw their first 
 suede gloves, they found it difficult to believe them worth the four 
 dollars required. 
 
 Numerous chapters which were organized in late March or 
 early April were confronted by the same situation, — the privilege 
 of attendance at a state convention without the slightest idea of 
 what was involved. Chapter DL, Eochelle, writes humorously 
 about its experience as a two-weeks old infant, at the convention 
 at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. "AVe sat in the front row, the 
 only two in the entire convention hall with our new spring bonnets 
 on.' Can you picture the two of us, probably taller than any other 
 two there, towering above everyone else — and then blushing furi- 
 ously when we were asked to remove our hats. Another bit of 
 embarrassment occurred when I was asked to give the special work. 
 I didn't know that I would be asked for it, and all I could re- 
 member was the pass word, and I was feeling mighty proud to 
 think that my mind had not failed me on that." This incident 
 would doubtless not be so amusing, if we could not recall similar 
 perplexities and embarrassments of our OAvn, as we slowly became 
 aware of accepted procedures. 
 
 When Chapter Z was installed, the members wore new dresses 
 with trains, and high bone collars. Everyone was very nervous, 
 even including Miss Tubbs, the organizer, who, however, put every- 
 one at ease when she stopped to unhook her tall collar, which she 
 said was choking her. 
 
 Recalling the twenties — "following the initiation, the ini- 
 tiates, dressed in white middy suits, lunched at the Lincoln Tavern 
 in Sterling." 
 
 In one chapter, when the death of the president occurred, the 
 members pinned their stars over black gauze ribbon and wore them 
 that way every day for a month. 
 
 Many chapters record with a note of understandable pride 
 their making of beautiful robes for the officers and initiates to 
 wear. At the State Convention in Peoria in 1933, the guards and 
 pages for the first time wore uniform attire, — white crepe dresses 
 with short capes lined with yellow. Since that time, the beauty 
 and effectiveness of their costumes have added much to the pag- 
 eantry of our conventions. 
 
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 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 209 
 
 ► A PENNY HERE, A PENNY THERE! 
 
 We doubt if anywhere in similar space there is assembled a 
 more diverse collection of money-making ideas than are contained 
 between the covers of the eight scrapbooks of chapter history which 
 our patient State History Committee has compiled from the re- 
 ports of local histor)' chairmen. It is really amazing ! 
 
 Bazaars, bake sales, rummage sales, benefit card parties, maga- 
 zine subscriptions, the sponsorship of various movies, lectures, 
 musicals, and art exhibits — all these were accepted practices. 
 But what va^st unexplored realms beyond these. One woman made 
 $150 for the Educational Fund by raising and selling canaries. 
 Chapter groups seAved rugs for rag carpets, made, quilted, and 
 auctioned Beauty Chene or monogrammed quilts, managed cir- 
 culating rental libraries, dressed and raffled lovely dolls, and 
 served meals innumerable ! 
 
 Following are a few of the it^ms which various groups have 
 sold: paper napkins, pastry brushes, Chinese tea, extracts, yarn 
 holders, polishing cloths, speedo can openers, soap flakes (bought 
 by the barrel), whippets, skimits, hosiery, corsets, silk lingerie, 
 siddoo cleanser, jam and jello, metal sponges, iron rust remover, 
 water softener, hand lotion, gummed address labels, pecans from 
 Louisiana, personalized stationery, wearever aluminum, shampoo, 
 slip toe rubbers, scissor grinders, miscellaneous paper products, 
 raincoats, coat hangers, calendars, — these, and many more. 
 
 Then there were the familiar little devices by which we en- 
 courage ourselves to move a coin painlessly from our own pocket, 
 such as fines for failure to attend a meeting or failure to wear one's 
 pin, the sale of recipes to each other, various methods of auction- 
 ing our own possessions within the group, sample breakfasts (one 
 of which turned out to be only grape fruit, cottage cheese, popcorn, 
 soup, and more grapefruit, — an interesting dietary combination), 
 and sample luncheons, the collection and sale of old paper, all these 
 and many more in unending succession. 
 
 And then there were the chapters in which the struggle for 
 funds is summarized in the one terse statement, "We decided to 
 assess each member — ". With such zeal and ingenuity, little 
 wonder that our various funds and projects have prospered. And 
 who can measure the fun afforded along the way? 
 
 ► THE FUN OF GIVING 
 
 In the early days before there were accepted P. E. 0. projects 
 to claim our support, practically every group sought ways to ex- 
 press its generosity and philanthropic interest in its own com- 
 munity. Many of these continued, in addition to the loyal support
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 of our various funds. The}' indicate that great confidence was felt 
 in the spirit of service of P. E. 0. members on the one hand, and 
 on the other, that no task was too himible, too difficult, or too 
 unusual for those members to attempt. 
 
 ► LOCAL PROJECTS 
 
 In almost every college community, the chapters were very 
 eager to help with scholarships, loan funds and iniprovements. 
 In half a dozen localities, the beginning of the public library must 
 be credited to the P. E. O.'s. In a large number of places, the 
 hospital was the focal point for early efforts, and the furnishing 
 of hospital rooms continued to require year-after-year service. 
 
 In a score of towns the Camp Fire girls, the Scouts, groups 
 of the Y.M.C.A., and the Y.W.C.A. owed much, both in leadership 
 and financial support to their P. E. 0. friends. Kindergartens 
 were started and underwritten; a crippled children's clinic was 
 organized and directed ; sewing classes were organized and main- 
 tained until the public schools could take the project over; a 
 wading pool was provided for the city park; an employment bu- 
 reau and day nursery were begun. Surely all of these demonstrate 
 the real civic interest of hundreds of loyal women. 
 
 But what of these efforts, in addition? One chapter provided 
 waste paper containers for the public square, beginning the clean- 
 up movement; one was asked to undertake the cleaning up of the 
 old, neglected city cemetery site; one was responsible for caring 
 for flower-beds in the pai'k near the depot; one bought a paper 
 baler for the library, to aid in economical operation. One provided 
 financial assistance to help buy a fire truck. Humble tasks, ])er- 
 haps, but significant. 
 
 > BETTER LIVING 
 
 'J^he personal charities of these 237 chapters would be quite 
 impossible of enumeration; the beauty of it is that they have not 
 even been catalogued by the givers. Usually they haA^e brought 
 great satisfaction; sometimes, they turned out unexpectedly. For 
 instance, there was the woman to whom a chapter gave money for 
 much-needed false teeth, and also to get a divorce from a worth- 
 less husband. There was the gift of curtain stretchers for a woman, 
 to enable her to support herself and a crippled child. I'here was 
 the $25 collected with considerable effort, to relieve a food short- 
 age for a needy family, followed by the amazing discovery that it
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 211 
 
 had been spent on a musical instrument! "Man shall not live 
 by bread alone." 
 
 Oh, Yes, and there was the rummage sale at which the profits 
 were considerably reduced by the fact that a customer appropriated 
 the good coat of one of the members ! 
 
 There was that little extra, so many times, to a loan fund 
 girl, or someone who was struggling for an education — like the 
 watch and fountain pen for the nursing student, or the new clothes 
 for the girl whose suitcase of clothing was burned while she was 
 at home for Christmas vacation, or the shower of personal gifts 
 for ''our first loan fund girl." 
 
 ► "OUR" GIRLS 
 
 The sense of personal attachment and PEIDE, and the pro- 
 jection of the giver into the experiences of the loan fund girls, is 
 repeated so many times that it makes one wonder who benefited 
 most — the giver or the receiver. Evidently those chapters who 
 say with pride, "We have had eleven loan fund girls, and all have 
 been such a credit to us," have enriched their experience incal- 
 culably. One chapter so identified itself with the unfortunate 
 experience of a loan fund girl whom sickness had overtaken, that 
 it assumed her whole $800 loan, and with apparent good will. 
 Another rejoiced as if it were an own daughter who had won a 
 $2500 award for a successful play. The few failures are in no 
 comparison to the total good to the world of these hosts of trained 
 women ; their records in dozens of specialized fields are a revelation. 
 
 ► WORLD SERVICE 
 
 The history scrapbooks record the passing of years, and the 
 periods of two terrible world wars, with their aftermath of relief 
 work. No one could estimate the number of French, Armenian 
 or Serbian orphans who were aided in an earlier day, or the little 
 Korean children ministered to later. Xo one could count the 
 millions of hours of Red Cross work, (one member of Chapter E 
 is reported to have knitted a total of 300 sweaters and 1325 beanie 
 caps for soldiers and service men in Veterans' Hospitals, during 
 the first World War) or the great contributions to European Re- 
 lief. All these have simply become a part of the whole pattern of 
 growth and the development of character in women, who believe 
 that as you give, so shall you receive. With our heritage we could 
 not have done otherwise.
 
 212 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 ► ORGANIZATION NOTES 
 
 Early in its studies of records, your committee became aware 
 of confusion in the lettering of the second Jacksonville, Illinois 
 chapter, sometimes referred to as "L" and sometimes as "K". 
 The records in our executive office in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, dis- 
 close the following entry: Chapter "h", Old lettering, Jackson- 
 ville, Illinois. Organized November 21, 1883 by Chapter "C", 
 old lettering, Jacksonville. (The following sentences were placed 
 in the files on April 12, 1916 by Mrs. Delf Glazier.) "This chap- 
 ter only existed about one year and members say was merged in 
 "C" although names do not appear on "C's" list, so they are con- 
 sidered as members of "Old L". At first "K" was recorded as the 
 chapter letter, but when Mrs. Grace S. Jones asked for reinstate- 
 ment and a dimit, the question arose about letter of chapter. Mrs. 
 Jones' pin was marked "L" and I consulted Mrs. McKinney in 
 Los Angeles about the case and she felt sure "L" was the correct 
 letter so we changed letter of chapter from "K" to "L", There is 
 no record of the old Chapter "K". It may have been assigned to 
 a chapter that did not organize. Chapter "L" disbanded and the 
 letter Avas given as Second "L" to Bethany, Missouri, on October 
 1, 1887". However, a record of the list of members of Chapter 
 "K" appears in the first Corresponding Secretary's ledger of Il- 
 linois Grand Chapter. This ledger is among the early supplies 
 of Illinois State Chapter. 
 
 All of this of course, was long before the organization of the 
 Illinois State Chapter; greater accuracy of records has eliminated 
 any such possibility of confusion in our fifty years of history. 
 HoM^ever, there has been a surprising number of changes in the 
 spelling of names (actually found in printed material in two, or 
 even three varying forms) and there has been, in many cases, lack 
 of complete agreement between the pages of the local chapter his- 
 tories and the records of "Convention Proceedings." These Avill 
 be quickly apparent to the people involved. Accurate records are 
 very important. 
 
 When Chapter AH of Peoria was organized on March 18, 
 1914, it was known as Chapter AI. but by April 8, the president 
 had received word that it was really AH, there having been con- 
 fusion about AJ, AH, and AI. And little wonder, when we note 
 that AG, Keithsburg, was organized March 16, 1914; AH, Peoria 
 on March 18; AI, Chicago, April 17; AJ, Bridgeport, April 14; 
 and AK, Gillespie, April 25. The Organizer that year must have 
 felt that she had quintuplets ! 
 
 But the Organizer was not the only one who had her troubles. 
 More than once we read of a situation such as is made graphic in
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 213 
 
 the following quotation from one chapter's notes, "Oh, what 
 troubles we have been having over inspection. Eight now, they 
 are baby troubles — our chaplain expecting her baby at any time, 
 but not knowing what date we can safely set. Oh, the letters we 
 have written, and the plans we have made!" (It should be added 
 that that unaccommodating baby did not arrive on schedule, and 
 there had to be a substitute for the chaplain after all.) 
 
 We are awed by the Organizer's complete familiarity with all 
 of our ritual. Not many of us, however, have shared in a situation 
 such as is described from Chapter DH's record, "Mrs. Eaney called 
 the meeting to order and then initiated the six new members and 
 gave from memory the entire initiation ceremony, just as given 
 by our seven officers at a regular initiation. She was all seven 
 officers rolled into one. Needless to say, it was beautifully given, 
 and very impressive." Numerous organizers have afforded this 
 same inspiration to their amazed listeners, but for most of us it 
 would be a revelation. In the early years it was customary for the 
 officers of the chapter entertaining the State Chapter Convention 
 to give the exemplification of the ritual, which was felt to be no 
 small responsibility, when combined with the various hostess duties. 
 Life has been simplified for the generation of 1953. 
 
 > ORGANIZERS ARE HUMAN 
 
 One Organizer in making her report to convention, sum- 
 marized one inspection visit thus: "The initiation was given in 
 a very impressive manner, one or two having to resort to notes, 
 but these were such dear little elderly ladies one felt it quite out 
 of place to admonish them." And speaking of inspections — one 
 early chapter historian with a sense of humor writes that in Chi- 
 cago "for years it was the custom to invite state officers and 
 neighboring presidents to visit us on Inspection Day. That is 
 not the popular sport today !" 
 
 The origin of a new P. E. 0. group is a most interesting 
 thing. It would be illuminating to catalogue the ones which were 
 an outgrowth of the zeal of some one individual who had been a 
 member of a chapter in a different town or state, or who had been 
 briefly exposed through a visit in the home of P. E. 0. relatives 
 or friends. Illinois is certainly heavily indebted to Iowa in this 
 way, as good Iowa P. E. O.'s have moved across the border. Some- 
 times a chapter developed from an Episcopal Altar Society, or an 
 embroidery club, or four college companions; but in many, many 
 instances it brought together a hitherto unacquainted group of 
 women, unified by their belief in the ideals for which it stood,
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 rather than by common experience or earlier social congeniality. 
 Just as we received from many other states, so Illinois has done 
 its share in passing on the spirit of P. E. 0. when its members 
 have moved to far away places and organized "first" chapters in 
 Virginia or Kentucky or Hawaii. It is the germ of life continuing, 
 but merely transplanted. 
 
 ► JUST A STORY 
 
 One summer day Mrs. Zoll of Elmwood was sitting on her 
 porch, when she saw a woman and three small children coming 
 up the street. It was hot, and one little child said, "Mother, may- 
 be the lady would give us a cold drink." The lady would — and 
 cookies, too. They were waiting for a train, their home being in 
 Farmington. The mother was Mrs. Margaret McAfee. Years 
 later, when Mrs. Zoll, herself the mother of two P. E. 0. daughters, 
 sought to organize a chapter in Elmwood, Mrs. McAfee immediate- 
 ly recognized the name, and said, "A woman who would oifer such 
 hospitality to a stranger would make good P. E. 0. timber." 
 
 ► JUST ANOTHER STORY 
 
 In September, 1884, Mrs. Carrie McCarty Hazlett went from 
 Bloomington, Illinois to Bloomfield, Iowa, to visit relatives. Her 
 charming manner and lovely appearance attracted a group of 
 young ladies, who invited her to join the P. E. 0. Society. After 
 consultation with her aunt, she accepted and was initiated on 
 October 24, into Chapter B of Iowa. At Christmas she returned 
 to Bloomington wearing a huge star, and creating among many 
 a desire to know what this huge "policeman's star" meant. Many 
 years passed and there were no P. E. 0. contacts in Bloomington, 
 but she wore the star and was mindful of her vows. It wa.s in 1918 
 that she became one of the charter members of Chapter AW, 
 Bloomington. She had waited a long time for the years of chapter 
 service that were then to be hers. 
 
 ► TIDBITS 
 
 We have baseball fans, and theater fans, and television fans, 
 but it is fun to read that Mrs. Maud McDonald, AI, Chicago, 
 (State Chapter President in 1925-1926) was considered a great 
 convention fan, having attended practically all Illinois State 
 Conventions from the time of her initiation in 1914, and three of
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 215 
 
 Supreme. A large number of such fans would be wholesome ! 
 
 WTien Mrs. Xellie E. Banks (Chapter B, Clinton) held office 
 as the first President of Illinois State Chapter, she was also elected 
 Treasurer of Supreme, '"Perhaps the only P. E. 0. who ever held 
 an office on the Supreme Board, and the office of President of her 
 state at the same time." 
 
 When Miss Ethl\Ti Griffith (J, Carthage) became a member 
 of the State Board, and her chapter was hostess to convention, it 
 was possible for her mother to entertain in her oAvn big home all 
 of the State Board, and Mrs. Parks, Mrs. Banks, Mrs. Williams 
 and Mrs. Amsden, making 15 P. E. 0. house guests. Mrs. Griffith 
 was very proud of her large P. E. 0. family, whom she cared for 
 so graciously. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Eads Bailey (Chapter K, Macomb) was another 
 officer who was capable of expanding the limits of her home almost 
 indefinitely. She was a charter member of Chapter K. Eight years 
 later she began her period of state service and between 1913 and 
 1917 was, successively. Second Vice-President, First Vice-Presi- 
 dent, and President of Illinois State Chapter. Buring part of this 
 time she was also president of her local chapter. From 1919 to 
 1923 she was Corresponding Secretary for the Supreme Chapter. 
 In 1923 she was asked by Mrs. Vina I. Bowden, President of Su- 
 preme Chapter, to ser\'e as chairman of a committee of three for 
 the "Eevision of Instructions". This was not only an important 
 piece of work, but highly technical and difficult. The committee 
 lived in the home with Mrs. Bailey for one whole month, while 
 completing this task. This was only one of the many occasions 
 when her hospitality was enjoyed. As a memorial to her, her 
 family and Chapter K are furnishing the lovely third floor parlor 
 at the Illinois P. E. 0. Home. 
 
 Macomb can also be verv^ proud of the fact that one of its 
 members. Miss Euth Brockway, served as the one and only Mem- 
 bership Secretary of Supreme Chapter during the time tbat Mrs. 
 Bailey was Corresponding Secretary of Supreme Chapter. The 
 office of Membership Secretary was appointive, and came to her 
 from Mrs. Bertha Clarke Hughes at Seattle in 1921. She served 
 for the full two year period. Now the Executive Secretary in 
 Mount Pleasant, Iowa, has charge of the entire membership. 
 
 These officers, in addition to Mrs. Winfry Barby, Illinois 
 State President, do indeed give Chapter K just claim for distinc- 
 tion in ser\dce. 
 
 A paragraph from the histor}- of Chapter BG, Chicago, is 
 worth quoting. "It is in itself a tribute to P. E. 0. that a group 
 of a baker's dozen of strange women, having in most cases nothing
 
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 p. E. O, IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 in common but their P. E, 0. vows, could thereupon speedily and 
 firmly build a thriving organization of loyal friends. Geographi- 
 cally, we had come from points bounded by Colorado in the west, 
 Kentucky in the south, and Nova Scotia, both east and north, with 
 but one native Chicagoan in the group." There were dimits from 
 Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Illinois, together with 
 eight initiates. The record speaks for itself. 
 
 In contrast, there are chapters that are closely knit mother- 
 daughter relationships. There are all varieties. 
 
 Three of Bloomington's chapters have the same birthday, 
 March 29th. AW was born in 1918 ; CL, in 1928 ; FM, in 1940 ; 
 and the fourth little sister, HP, on March 31, 1951. They can all 
 celebrate together with one big party. Chapter AW, Bloomington 
 is to be congratulated on having had three Past Presidents of 
 Illinois State Chapter, — Flora Isabel Kemp, Stella R. Leys, and 
 Louise R. Waddell. 
 
 This record is second only to that of our distinguished Chap- 
 ter A, Chicago, which has provided as Presidents of Illinois State 
 Chapter, Mrs. Maude B. Torry, Mrs. Bessie R. Raney, Mrs. Lettie 
 S. Mudge, and Mrs. Beulah Thornton. 
 
 Chapter EP, Palatine, sent delegates to convention just ten 
 days after its organization, frantically prepared for its first 
 inspection after three regular meetings, and after only two and a 
 half months of life launched its first loan fund girl. That is, 
 indeed, a brisk beginning ! 
 
 At the organization of Chapter BI, Oak Park, there was an 
 unusual situation. The first president, Mary D. Stafford, was the 
 daughter-in-law of Mary Allen Stafford, one of the Seven Found- 
 ers ; with Mary Allen Stafford as vouchers were two other Founders, 
 Franc Roads Elliott, and Alice Bird Babb. This was in 1920. 
 
 One chapter mentions as a source of real pride the fact that 
 the only time the black cube was ever used was during an inspection 
 when a local officer's hands were so icy cold that she fumbled. 
 As the record said, it was an "error of handling, rather than an 
 error of judgment". It is indicative of the high trust that the 
 members have, one for the other, and is mentioned in their history 
 as evidence of the priceless unity of spirit which they so value. 
 
 Reminiscent of a long gone economic era, Chapter I in 
 Chicago tells of sponsoring an excursion boat trip to Milwaukee 
 with a two hour stop-over there. Tickets for the entire day's out- 
 ing were secured by the chapter for 50 cents and sold for $1.00, 
 thus enabling the chapter to realize a great profit ! 
 
 Money did not always come easily. Havana speaks of its first 
 food sale, the total returns from which were $2.50, which restored 
 the depleted treasury.
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 217 
 
 ► TUT TUT! 
 
 In the very early days one chapter found it difficult to interest 
 women in becoming members. At one meeting, shortly after its 
 organization, three names were proposed for membership. A mo- 
 tion was made and carried to lay aside the by-laws and constitution, 
 and take the ballot that very afternoon. All were elected, but only 
 one was able to accept. This must have been the impetuosity of 
 youth! The program of one chapter consisted of an original 
 serial story of six chapters ! Can you imagine that ! In numerous 
 towns, the P. E. 0. Chapter sponsored and made possible lecture 
 courses, concert series, travel talks and art exhibits ; before the 
 day of C. M. A.'s and Town Hall Forums, they were helping pro- 
 vide culture and entertainment for the whole community. 
 
 At least once, a state convention hostess group planted bulbs 
 in the fall, in order to have spring flowers for convention. 
 
 The historian of Chapter D writes spicily about the Pioneer 
 Days, the War Years, the Dizzy Twenties, and the Depression 
 Years when the cost of maintenance went up and the personal 
 income went down ! A few words say a lot : "At our October 
 meeting we learned that the bank which held our permanent fund 
 and checking account had closed. We start anew, financially 
 speaking." (CQ, Chimgo-Avalon Park) 
 
 Chapter AR of Urbana, must have really felt the pinch! 
 They lost $100 in one of the bank failures; their check for 
 Supreme and State dues failed to clear before the Bank Moratori- 
 um. But nothing daunted them and they went right on. Situa- 
 tions similar to this are cited in probably two dozen chapters. 
 
 Mentioning courage and persistence — what do you think of 
 the women of BG, Genoa, who were confronted with the necessity 
 for heavy funds for the maintenance of the library. They bought 
 raw jumbo peanuts in huge bags ; then all the members helped to 
 blanch and skin them, but one particularly skilled person did all 
 the frying. The peanuts were sold at all basketball games, card 
 parties, home talent plays, church affairs, and at the library itself. 
 
 Roll call in the early days must have been quite something! 
 We find early roll calls answered with quotations from the Bible, 
 best recipes, jokes and conundrums, things to be thankful for, 
 names of presidents and names of governors of Illinois. And 'tis 
 recorded there was a fine for being late ! 
 
 We read of one local treasurer who served continuously for 
 more than seventeen years — ■ and lived to tell the story. 
 
 At Clinton's convention, May 1, 1905, "rain poured during 
 the convention. There was a carriage bill of $54.20." 
 
 The sense of history — past and future — is strong in some 
 chapters. Several anticipated or followed the example of the New
 
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 p. E. O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 York World's Fair, and placed in the president's box a capsule of 
 valuable tokens, for opening at some remote future date. 
 
 Two early and devoted members of our Sisterhood, who left 
 generous bequests to their local chapter, would surely be gratified 
 to know that the interest from those funds is providing the very 
 adequate infirmary in our Illinois P. E. 0. Home, so that their 
 P. E. 0. sisters of a later period will continue to be blessed by 
 their generosity. 
 
 Mrs. Ethel C. Jelliffe, Chapter CA, Springfield, President of 
 Illinois State Chapter 1937, was the 29th president, serving in the 
 thirty-sixth convention, and the first to serve in every office on 
 the Board and to serve seven years. 
 
 In Chapter A, Chicago, membership being so large and dis- 
 tance so great, the problem of sociability was of importance. At 
 the suggestion of Mrs, Eaney in 1925, the Chapter was divided into 
 four geographical groups. Each group has a Chairman who plans 
 the social meetings in the homes of the members once a month, 
 allowing them a much closer association and greater acquaintance 
 than their combined monthly meetings would provide. 
 
 This history would not be complete without creditable refer- 
 ence to the Past Presidents of Illinois State Chapter. With their 
 rich experience received from the State Board service, they give 
 invaluable support on State Standing committees and Boards of 
 Trustees, as evidenced in reports at each convention. 
 
 Eeciprocity groups come in for recognition of past importance, 
 too. Not only have they been instrumental in effecting a "Good 
 Neighbor Policy" among chapters but much of our Peace Partici- 
 pation work has been accomplished through group management. 
 They are currently active on special projects connected with the 
 establishment of our Illinois P. E. 0. Home. 
 
 ► OUR B. I. L.'s 
 
 No reading of the eight vohmies of our history-notes could 
 fail to impress one with the very great importance of our B. I. L.'s. 
 Self-sacrificing and dictatorial; ridiculous and inspiring; full of 
 great service and of small tricks; slaving, dreaming, ridiculing, 
 supporting, they are an institution whose importance has grown, 
 with the passing years, to unmeasured proportions. 
 
 Many chapters will share the pleasure of Chapter AZ, Evans- 
 ton, in the words we quote : "No history of Chapter AZ would be 
 complete without a paragraph about Mr. H. W. Williams, the 
 greatest B. I. L. of them all. For over fifty years Mr. Williams 
 took the greatest interest in his "Pansy's" (Mrs. Lulu Corkhill
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 219 
 
 Williams) Sisterhood, and great were his facetious comments and 
 conjectures on the P. E. 0. secret. For the fourteen beautiful 
 years of Mrs. Williams^ membership in Chapter AZ, Mr. Williams 
 was ever the Chapter's staunchest friend, most generous giver, 
 and most ardent B. I. L." His loyalty to the P. E. 0. Sisterhood 
 was marked throughout his life, and he is credited in the Presi- 
 dents' Book as being the Original "B. I. L." and its Founder. His 
 numerous gifts to Cottey College in memory of his wife mark his 
 belief in the great P. E. 0. projects. Many other chapters will be 
 reminded immediately of their own precious experiences, and be 
 saying, "And do you remember our B. I. L.'s" Blessings on them, 
 all. 
 
 Almost every individual chapter history is tinged with glee 
 over harrowing and costly (to them) initiation ceremonies devised 
 for the B. I. L's, or lavishly conceived banquets planned as atone- 
 ment. And almost every record tells of the good hmnored chuckles 
 of the women over some of the retaliatory measures and punitive 
 experiences. They are cherished memories. These B. I. L.'s have 
 played with us, and paid for us — and dearly ! 
 
 Just one story of B. I. L. fortitude. When Chapter AG was 
 organized in Keithsburg, in 1914, the meeting lasted so long past 
 the hour at which the husband of the hostess had been coached to 
 return, that he, finding the affair still flourishing, secured a ladder 
 from the barn, climbed through his bedroom window and went to 
 bed. Patience and fortitude ! 
 
 r Services, Recognized or Not 
 
 Year after year, the story of the State Convention contains 
 references to the tireless work of these B. I. L.'s. to their under- 
 girding of committees, their stepping into difficult tasks, and their 
 whole-hearted eagerness to make the hostess-efforts of their groups 
 thoroughly successful. It was the B. I. L.'s that "starred" the 
 windows of their places of business; it was the B. I. L.'s that 
 provided conveyances and arranged tours of the city; it was the 
 B. I. L.'s, always, that became stage hands and interior decorators ; 
 it was the B. I. L.'s that aided heavily (and still do, in every 
 enterprise) with their wholesale-house connections. Chapter F's 
 B. I. L. Wesley Minear of Quincy, with his combination of great 
 artistic ability and real interest, provided all of the delegates' 
 badges at one Illinois State Convention, and for the last three con- 
 ventions of Supreme Chapter, has made all of the Illinois badges. 
 
 The conventions would have lacked many a rehearsed speech, 
 many a cabn presiding officer, many a souvenir token for its dele- 
 gates, had it not been for the listening ear, the steadying hand, and
 
 220 P E O. IN ILLINOIS: A HISTORY 
 
 the generous spirit of our B. I. L.'s. Ijong before the days of 
 money contributions, their esteem and faith were made very evi- 
 dent. Each convention group must have waited impatiently for 
 the moment when the president declared a recess and introduced 
 a B. I. L.. who may have brought special greetings or welcome, 
 along with a gorgeous arrangement of roses, or a huge basket of 
 flowers. The B. I. L.'s were very lavish with their love gifts. At 
 one convention, the B. I. L.'s provided individual corsages for every 
 member of convention. What a thrill ! 
 
 For several years — 1926, 1927 and 1928 — they gave actual 
 cash gifts of considerable size, for the Educational Fund. Begin- 
 ning in 1940 we have records of substantial gifts for the various 
 funds. Sometimes the funds were given directly to the recipient, 
 and so are not listed by the treasurer, but those which do appear 
 indicate the great under-girding of effort. In 1940, $100 was given 
 to Cottey College by the B. I. L.'s; in 1941, $60 went to Cottey, 
 $25 to the Home Fund, and $22.50 to the Educational Fund; in 
 1942, Cottev received $174, the Lulu Corkhill Williams Welfare 
 and Trust Fund, $25, and the Home Fund $75 ; in 1943, we find 
 $50 given to the United Victory Fund; in 1946, $411.50 was con- 
 tributed to Cottev, by our loyal B. I. L.'s; in 1947 the sum for 
 Cottey was $883.50. 'The climax was the gift of $2175 from Illi- 
 nois B. I. L.'s at the 1949 convention of Supreme Chapter, 
 designated for a Bessie Eaney Suite in KeeA^es Hall at Cottey 
 College. 
 
 Then beginning in 1949, the B. I. L.'s have turned their atten- 
 tion to the Home Fund with gifts of $500 in 1949, $550 in 1950, 
 and $500 in 1951. In 1952, $640 was contributed to the fast grow- 
 ing Chapel Fund for Cottey College. Mr. 0. D. Corbridge, Chap- 
 ter CJ's B. I. L. of Eockford, Illinois, is the contact man in Illi- 
 nois for the Cottey Chapel project. 
 
 B. I. L. Hill at Cottey College, an achieved fact, stands as 
 proof of the love and loyalty of B. I. L.'s all over the country. Our 
 Illinois B. I. L.'s have had a proud part in that enterprise with 
 their liberal contribution of $550. 
 
 ■f Cottey Library 
 
 Beginning in 1945, Mrs. Katherine E. Church and her family 
 have given generously every year to a memorial fund honoring 
 Mr. H. V. Church, the gift to be used for the purchase of books 
 for our college faculty. So a B. I. L. is actually named in one of 
 our Cottey College memorials. 
 
 Probably no woman could dare the responsibilities and sacri- 
 fices entailed in membership on our State Board and far-reacliing
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 221 
 
 Staudiiig Committees, were it not for the support and belief of her 
 husband. No term of office could possibly be a success without 
 a mutual and joint acceptance of the heavy burden. There have 
 to be, all down the line, the B. I. L.'s who say, "You can do it.'' 
 So, hats off' to the husbands — one and all. 
 
 Yes, and we even have a B. I. L., Mr. Kenneth B. Butler, 
 husband of Wilma, BY, Mendota, as the publisher of our Record, 
 and of our Illinois History. Being a B. I. L. must add to his 
 natural understanding, patience and cooperation, and make him 
 ever zealous for our good. We have been fortunate in having his 
 personal interest and generous counsel. 
 
 > CONVENTIONS 
 
 Probably no less than a hundred times in the local chapter his- 
 tories, one reads words to this effect: "Perhaps the most impor- 
 tant event in our history was when we entertained the annual 
 Convention of Illinois State Chapter." Sometimes that was the 
 startled testimony of a chapter with only a few months of or- 
 ganized life and experience, appalled at the thought of the money 
 re<piired; sometimes it was the word of a very experienced group. 
 It would almost seem to point to the fact that wliere we work 
 hardest, we find the most permanent satisfaction. The hard work 
 entailed in earning sufficient funds for a convention — and the 
 great effort involved in committee organization — always with the 
 thought of the comfort of the guests, seem to have produced a new 
 s]jirit of unity within chapters, and to have given chapters in larger 
 entertaining groups the privilege of the kind of fellowship that 
 comes only from sharing a big job. The efforts were not M^asted. 
 With all their efficiency and businesslike procedure, the conven- 
 tions have been gala occasions and immeasurable inspirations to 
 hundreds of representatives. 
 
 And incidentally, speaking of conventions, all honor to the 
 patient and thorough work of those women who aided in making 
 the somewhat awkward shift from the alphabetical plan to the 
 group plan for entertaining State Convention. The Grouping 
 Committees have had a vast amount of work behind the scenes, and 
 the task of smoothing out many difficulties to create an effective 
 functioning organization with the least ])0ssible inconvenience, and 
 with perfect fairness to all, has been difficult and complex. We 
 appreciate and honor their .service. 
 
 At the 1938 State Convention, the idea of appointing a Home 
 Committee was suggested; at the same convention, in 1938. the 
 History Committee, w hich worked for fifteen j'ears. was appointed,
 
 222 P- E. O. IN ILLINOIS; A HISTORY 
 
 with Myrtle C. Combe, Z, Harrisburg; Eugenia Allin, CX, Deca- 
 tur; and May Hartley De Money, I, Chicago, as members. By 
 some rare coincidence, both of these 1938 dreams are becoming 
 realities in this year of 1953, with the publication of our History 
 and the establishment of the Illinois P. E. 0. Home. From dreams 
 to fulfilment ! 
 
 ► SUPREME CHAPTER CONVENTIONS 
 
 Illinois has been proud and happy to be hostess to the Supreme 
 Chapter Convention at three different times ; the first, even before 
 there was a state organization, in 1899, when Chapter A, Chicago, 
 was host to the 68 delegates and numerous guests, in a delightful 
 convention at the Palmer House, "the first East of the Mississippi, 
 and the first ever held in a state not having a 'State Grand 
 Chapter'." The total expense was $482.55. 
 
 In 1929, when Bessie R. Eaney was president of Illinois State 
 Chapter, the convention of Supreme Chapter was held in Chicago, 
 with Lettie S. Mudge as General Chairman. Beulah Thornton 
 was Chairman of Registration. Mrs. Mudge felt that a total of 
 $25,000 was needed for the entertainment of the delegates, and 
 the chapters raised the required amount. A big surplus enabled 
 them to make heavy contribution to the various P. E. 0. projects 
 in the following year. 
 
 In 1949, Illinois again entertained the Supreme Chapter 
 Convention in Chicago. Bessie R. Raney, Past President of Illi- 
 nois State Chapter, and member of Chapter A, Chicago, was 
 president of Supreme Chapter. The general chairman of conven- 
 tion was Beulah M. Thornton, past president of Illinois State 
 Chapter, now serving as a Trustee of the Supply Department. The 
 President of Illinois State Chapter, Jennie H. Rugh was the 
 Hostess President. 
 
 ► ADORNMENTS 
 
 It is tragic to have to omit all the beauty spots in our con- 
 ventions, in the interest of cold historical accomplishment. It 
 would take a whole train, we are sure, to carry all the floral 
 tributes; the sound waves must be vibrating hurriedly with all 
 the music that inspired and delighted. And think of the words 
 of wisdom ! Yet all these became a part of the whole, from which 
 we, in 1953, emerge. They are background for present action.
 
 Pertinent Ends and Odds 
 
 223 
 
 In 1929 when Mabel Frisbee, as president of Illinois State 
 Chapter was official hostess to the Supreme Chapter Convention 
 in Chicago her friends of Chapter X, Bushnell, were proud to 
 make and present a beautiful silk P. E. 0. flag. It has been on 
 display at each State and Supreme Convention since that time. 
 
 At the State Convention at the Palmer House in 1940, there 
 was, for the banquet, a lighted replica of Cottey College "Old 
 Main", made of ice, brought in by the waiters, with all the house 
 lights off. Chapter BS, Winnetka, was responsible for the unique 
 banquet plans. 
 
 ► INQUISITIVE? PERHAPS YOU CAN GUESS 
 
 How many P. E. 0. teaspoons have been bestowed on Illinois 
 babies. How many priceless possessions, like silver candelabra, 
 beautiful table-covers, embroidered P. E. 0. pillows, figurines or 
 paintings of the Founders, and officer's robes are treasured in 
 individual chapters. 
 
 How many enduring, life-long friendships have emerged from 
 being on a Keciprocity committee with a strange woman, rooming 
 with an unknown delegate at convention, associating closely with 
 an inspecting officer. Well — how far does a little candle throw 
 its beam? Who can know?
 
 TIME 
 
 LY INTEREST 
 
 1830 — Jacksonville Female Academy established 
 1833 — College training for women begun at Oberlin, Ohio 
 1841 — Iowa Wesleyan College founded at Mount Pleasant, Iowa 
 1867 — First Sorority, "I.C. Sorosis", founded at Monmouth 
 
 College, Illinois 
 1869 — January 31, P. E. 0. Society founded at Mount Pleasant, 
 
 Iowa 
 1871 — First P. E. 0. chapter in Illinois ("C", old lettering, 
 
 Jacksonville) 
 
 1882 — First Assembly of P. E. 0. chapter representatives 
 
 1883 — Grand Chapter organized 
 
 1885 — First Official Seal; first written initiation ceremony 
 1888 — ^ The P. E. 0. Record established 
 1890 — First written Constitution of P. E. 0. 
 
 1892 — Grand Chapter renamed, 'Supreme Grand Chapter' 
 
 1893 — New lettering for chapters begun 
 1903 — Illinois State Grand Chapter organized 
 1907 — Educational Fund established 
 
 1909 — Supreme Grand Chapter renamed 'Supreme Chapter' 
 
 1916 — Emblem redesigned to present size 
 
 1920 — Illinois Grand Chapter renamed 'Illinois State Chapter^. 
 
 1927 — Memorial Library built at Mount Pleasant, Iowa 
 
 1927 — Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, was accepted by Su- 
 preme Chapter. 
 
 1931 — First Illinois Scholarships were established for Cottey 
 Students 
 
 1931 — ' Beginning of Publication of the P. E. 0. Record at 
 Mendota, Illinois 
 
 1934 — Lulu Corkhill Williams Welfare & Trust Fund started 
 
 1938 — Home committee recommended 
 
 1938 — State Standing History Committee appointed 
 
 1949 — Illinois State Chapter incorporated 
 
 1952-53 — Illinois P. E. 0. Home accepted and established 
 
 1953 — History of Illinois P. E. 0. published. 
 
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 ^//£ BOO/C £JifDS 
 
 ► This book records officially the dreams, 
 hopes and realizations of the members of P. E, 0. 
 in Illinois. It has been, both spirituall}^ and ma- 
 terially, a period of remarkable achievement. 
 
 The value of a candle is in the light which it 
 produces. Seven girls lighted their candles and 
 in turn helped others to light theirs. Thus have 
 spread the white flames of Faith, Love, Purity, 
 Justice and Truth. 
 
 At the match lighting ceremony in the Chicago- 
 land Music Festival each person is asked to light 
 a match at a given time. When the 90,000 people 
 do this, the brilliant glow of those 90,000 small 
 flames is an inspiring sight. 
 
 Each of us who loves P. E. 0. should petition 
 that ours may be a bright light, gleaming in uni- 
 son with the other 113,000, so that the result may 
 be an inspiring sight to all the world. May eA^ery 
 P. E. 0, throughout the world join us in saying: 
 
 "0 light my candle. Lord! 
 Perchance some other, struggling in the dark, 
 May see my light, though hut a gleam. 
 And, talcing heart, push on. 
 Light thou my candle!" 
 
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