May (Mrs. F. E.) Ring
Administration 1917-1919 |
Biography
While Ring was in office as
President of the Woman’s Monday Club:
- Club Hospital Committee
made visits to the Campy Scurry Infirmary to visit soldiers wounded in WWI
- Club observed Baby Week
- Club surveyed the Corpus
Christi community and gave results at their April 9, 1917 meeting
- Club improved its usage
of Parliamentary Order
- Club assisted in the
beautification of rural school grounds
- Club sponsored writing
contests on “World Wide Peace”
- Club monetarily
supported the War Library Fund
- Club urged members to
buy Liberty Bonds
- Club supported
University of Texas including promotional article written by Mrs. Bluntzer
and published in the Corpus Christi Caller
- Club endorsed Food
Conservation Movement, including suspending refreshments at meetings until
the end of World War I
- Club created a Library
Committee to aid The La Retama Club
- Club monetarily
supported the Red Cross
- Club monetarily
supported the state Textbook Amendment
- Club raised money for
the “Canteen Fund”
- Club studies included:
Spanish, Spanish Literature, South America, Mexico, Central America, “The
Blood of the Nation” by D. S. Jordan, The Peace Movement in America,
Child Welfare, “Texas Laws that Benefit Women,” “The Naval Education
System of the United States,” “The US: A Deciding Factor of the War,”
“Migration from Farm to the City”
Compiled by Jessica
Brannon-Wranosky
Source: Woman's Monday
Club 1897-1949 Scrapbook #1, p.16 |
Mrs. May Ring |