Woman's Monday Club Scrapbook

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CHRISTI TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937

Au Revoir Luncheon Marks

 Final Meeting of Woman’s

Monday Club Yesterday

E. W. Westervelt Is

Featured Speaker

at Affair

            A large number of members of the Woman’s Monday Club attended the club’s Au Revoir luncheon held yesterday at the home of Mrs. A. M. French, and heard E. W. Westervelt, guest of honor, discuss practical philanthropy and its application to America’s youth of today.

            Modern school systems, Mr. Westervelt, contended, tend to swell the ranks of the unemployed, rather than fit young men and women for the task of earning a living.  Subjects embraced in many present day curriculums, the speaker continued, have little place in the practical scheme of things.

            If young men and women were taught to build homes and produce food, Mr. Westervelt said, much destitution and public charity would be eliminated.  The speaker’s remarks were based on his personal experiences rather than on theory, he said.  Robstown school boys, under his direction, built a small home with materials furnished by Mr. Westervelt.

            At Berea College in Kentucky, he inaugurated a like movement, which met with great success.  Included in Mr. Westervelt’s philanthropic activities are the housing of ministers, missionaries and either social workers in three former hotels, where all expenses of upkeep are paid, and the maintenance of a building for girl students and working girls.

            The Woman’s Monday Club Florence Loan Fund, through which 27 students have been given financial aid, was founded by Mr. Westervelt as a tribute to his wife, who was a member of the club.

            Mrs. Edwin F. Flato, Mr. Westervelt’s daughter, also spoke to the club, describing museums in the Hawaiian Islands.  Mrs. H. H. Watson gave a report on the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, recently held at Tulsa, Okla., and the adoption of The Clubwoman as the text for the Woman’s Monday Club was accepted.

            Mrs. Frank de Garmo presided at the meeting and presented the speaker.

            Guests were seated at small tables for the luncheon, at which a decorative theme in rainbow colors was carried out.  The tables were laid with vari-colored covers, made by Mrs. W. B. Hopkins, a former president of the club, and centerpieces were made up of low bowls of delphiniums.

            At the president’s table were seated Mr. Westervelt, Mrs. Edwin Flato and Mrs. F. A. Tompkins.  Charter members, Mrs. G. R. Scott, the founder of the club; Mrs. Henry Redmond of Laredo, Mrs. Atlee McCampbell and Mrs. A. M. French were seated at a near table, and officers, committee chairman, members and guests were seated at tables grouped about the living room and library.

            Coffee and cake were served by Mrs. M. G. Lee and Mrs. George Gould.

            Other than the featured speaker and his daughter, special guests were Mrs. Mary Mathis, Mrs. W. E. Pope, Mrs. W. M. Meek of San Diego; Mrs. Henry Redmond of Laredo and Mrs. G. R. Scott.

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TIMES, TUESDAY, JAN   Y 26, 1937

Monday Club Has

 Regular Meeting

          At House of Gifts

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            Mrs. Sam Rankin presided at a meeting of the Woman’s Monday Club, which was held yesterday afternoon at the House of Gifts, with Mrs. A. M. French as hostess.

            Mrs. R. R. Banner, chairman of music, gave a review of  “Tales of Hoffman,”  as broadcast by the Metropolitan Opera Company Saturday afternoon.  Mrs. Banner also reported that 60 members of the Tourist club had gathered at the Breakers Hotel to listen to the broadcast.

            Mrs. Harry Watson, chairman of art gave a talk featuring the lives of Texas artists.

            Mrs. William Gerhardt, as program chairman of the day, presented Dr. Gordon Heaney, who gave the featured talk of the afternoon on “Advancement in Medical Science.”  Dr. Heaney’s grandmother, Mrs. Alfred G. Heaney, and his great-grandmother, Mrs. A. Judd, were members of the Monday Club and he is the third generation of the Heaney family to practice medicine.

            In his talk, Dr. Heaney included a discussion of the causes and methods of prevention for influenza and colds, and described the work of students in the Medical College of Chicago, which he attended.

            In addition to Dr. and Mrs. Heaney, Mrs. W. W. Meeks of San Diego was a guest.

            Mrs. Rankin announced that the club would receive a percent of all sales made at the Isenberg stores Saturday, and the amount received will be added to the club’s educational fund.