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1987-2007 The First Twenty Years

A "summary" of what has been written about this topic in TR would be nice and appropriate after 20 years of women in Rotary. However, it is nearly impossible to write something "coherent", as you can already see from the attached (and yet unfinished) collection of headlines in TR. 

Two articles about women's clubs from TR and an interesting discussion, if women should work follow RGHF Senior Historian Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler, Germany, 19 September 2007

 

Women in Rotary

 

(Some articles found in The Rotarian)

 


May 1913                     Have the Women a Place in Rotary? (by Russell F. Greiner)

 

April 1914                    A Woman’s View of Rotary

 

April 1920                    Woman’s Place in Rotary

 

July 1920                      The Woman Investor (by Clara F. Porter)

 

November 1924            Woman and Rotary (by A. F. Graves)

 
January 1925                 Rotary – and the Women Outside

January 1925                 Woman and Rotary (by Frank L. Mulholland)

 

February 1925              Woman and Rotary (Among our Letters)

December 1928             The Women of Rotary – Respond to the suggestion for a Women’s
                                       Forum  (by Helena Weatherby)

                                    Letters from Women Readers (all in response to Helena’s
                                    article, who worked for The Rotarian :

                                    -
A Newcomer Visits Chicago Women of Rotary (quote from the letter:

                                               “[…] Mrs. Harvey, who was the first president of the club, tell about those
                                                first days of organization – back in 1921 I think it was – when they tried so
                                               hard to get recognition from Rotary International. Paul Harris, it seems, had
                                               been easily won over, but it was not so with the Board of RI.”

                                   
- Rotary Anns of Pitman, New Jersey, organized March 24, 1925
                                             - Rotary Anns of Birmingham, Michigan
                                             - Women of Rotary of Tacoma, Washington, organized May 4, 1920
                                             - Spokane Women of Rotary
                                             - Inglewood, California, organized August 11, 1924

February 1929              The Women of Rotary – This Month: Pertinent Remarks on
                                       Feminism (by Helena Weatherby) (quote from her article:

                                   
“As for free love, she (the new-style Feminist) thinks it is impractical rather
                                             rather than immoral. With the society organized as it is, the average man and
                                             woman cannot carry on a free union with any degree of tranquillity.”

                                    Letters from Readers

March 1929                  The Women of Rotary – Should we endeavour the rewrite Mother
                                    Goose? (by Helena Weatherby)

                                    Letters from Readers

                                   
- Charleston Rotary Auxiliary

April 1929                    The Women of Rotary – Dismissing our friends with: “How Queerly
                                    they Dress” (by Helena Weatherby)

                                    Letters from Readers

June 1929                     The Women of Rotary – The Exchange of Youth Movement as a
                                       Test of Intelligent Parenthood (by Helena Weatherby)

March 1931                  Rotary Ann – A Portrait By One of Her


                                   
Illustration in pencil by Harvey Fuller

 

 

(To be continued)

 

"Women at Work" October 1938
 
Women's Clubs - October 1939
Should Women Work? Yes and No

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