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Re-organization under Howard. In 1944, following Mr. Howard's return from Washington, another re-organiza- tion was ordered "in an effort to establish lines of authority and responsibility for operation of the public service of the library."
Two general divisions were created -- adult services . division, and extension and children's division. The adult services division under the assistant librarian, Mr .. Sealock, was given responsibility for the reference room, young adult room, and the acquisitions and circulation de- partments. It was also to serve in an advisory capacity to the extension and children's division on adult work in the branches.
The extension and children's division under the direction of Mrs. Rezia Gaunt had responsibility for all adult library service in the city of Gary and in the town- ships, with the exception of the Central Library. It was responsible for all children's work in the system -- both in the city of Gary and in the townships. It served as an adviser to the adult service division on such problems as registration and circulation records.
The heads of the two divisions, the librarian and the administrative assistant formed an administrative council, consulting with department heads and branch li- brarians on problems pertinent to a particular department or branch. The two division heads were granted full re- sponsibility and authority in their own divisions. Mr. Sealock, as assistant librarian, was designated as the ranking staff member and had charge when the librarian was absent.
Staff association. As a corollary to the re- organization, the staff, in the summer of 1944, organized into an association with Mrs. Myrtle Belshow as president. Previous to this a committee of the staff had prepared recommendations for improvement of personnel, pay schedules, and similar matters.
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Among the proposals was one asserting the desirabili- ty of a job analysis, a job classification and salary schedule. The board granted several staff association re- quests and authorized the preparation of the job classifi- cation and salary schedule by a joint staff-board com- mittee. Representing the staff on the committee were Richard Sealock, chairman, Marjorie Bowers, Helen Norris, Martha Taylor and Lydia Kirchoff, Miss Margaret Southwick and Mrs. Fred Borns represented the board.
The committee findings and recommendations were presented to the trustees at their last meeting in 1944. The proposals were approved by the trustees and were to go into effect January 1, 1945.
Job classification scheme. A resume of the job classification report follows :
The scheme, for the first time in Gary, set up pay ranges based on American Library Association recommenda- tions, one of which was that fifty-five percent of the bud- get be devoted to salaries. This was made possible by budgetary increases voted by the trustees, effective Janu- ary 1, 1945.
The job classification followed ALA recommendations and established three grades of professional service, ex- clusive of the librarian and the assistant librarian. De- partment heads had a salary range from $2,400 to $2,760; experienced professional assistants had a minimum salary of $1,860 and a maximum of $2,200; less experienced pro- fessional assistants had a minimum of $1,620 and a maximum of $1,800. All professional positions required five 'years' college training, one of these to be in a recognized li- brary school.
For sub-professional service the brackets extended from $1,200 to $1,560.
Two grades of clerical service were set down: grade 2, paying a minimum of $1,140 and a maximum of $1,320; and grade 1, paying from $960 to $1,080. Two special service categories were established.
Both the librarian and the trustees indorsed the following special recommendations of the committee:
That advancement within a grade be on the basis of a satisfactory personnel rating sheet and department head's recommendation to the librarian. That when a staff member qualifies for a higher grade by obtain- ing additional education or experience, his promotion be recommended to the librarian by the department head, provided there is a satisfactory rating sheet and a satisfactory supervisor's report.
That a permanent staff-trustee committee be appointed to continuously study the effect of the
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leaders, present and former staff members, and friends of the institution banqueted in the Y.M.C.A. on June 20, and then adjourned to the Central Library for the homecoming reception. Miss Peters and Mrs. Borns, a member of the board, were in charge of the arrangements.
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Chapter VII THE LIBRARY BOARD
Gary's Public Library gained its high standing by a combination of circumstances, chief of which was first- rate leadership. The institution has been blessed not only with professional administrators but with library trustees who have given freely of their time and talents, without recompense other than personal satisfaction. High
standards were set early in library history and were achieved and maintained.
As a result of this wise leadership the institution has kept free of politics and political influence. The librarians, though answerable to the trustees, have always been given free rein in the administration of the library.
On invitation of the American Library Association, a committee of Gary library trustees, 1 in 1944, prepared a manifesto in which the duties and responsibilities of li- brary trustees were set forth. The article "Speaking for Trustees" was written by Miss Margaret Southwick, vice- president of the board, and was published in the ALA Bul- letin of December 1944. As representative of the ideals maintained by the Gary board through the years, the high- lights of the manifesto are quoted here :
"No trustee can expect to meet new conditions and help solve problems without study. Therefore, the trustee will study .... He will study how to improve both the amount and the quality of library service, and will not shy from approving new services or from discarding out-of-date materials, as the need requires ....
"He will interpret the library to the community, explaining its services and its needs, gaining support for its program, and helping to secure an adequate tax levy. He will find many ways, if he studies, to serve the library in the community ....
"He will in all things study to make himself genuinely useful to the librarian, remembering always, of course, that it is the librarian who is the ad - ministrator of the library, not he .. . .
"Nor will the trustee limit his concern to his own community. The better the library service there, the more zealous will he be helping to ex - tend service to the 35,000,000 persons in the United States who are without benefit of libraries. It may
1. Members of the committee were Miss Margaret Southwick, chairman, Judge Ora L. Wildermuth and Mrs. J. G. Wilkinson.
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Msgr. Thomas Jansen .1908-1913
Ora L. Wildermuth 1913 -- LIBRARY BOARD PRESIDENTS
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be possible for his own library to establish small branches or book trailer stations in outlying dis - tricts. If it is, the trustee will be alert to the need and to the possibility of extending the useful- ness of his institution.'
New horizons for trustees. The paper expressed new horizons for trustees:
" The library is in process of rapid change. The comfortable routine of the board meeting .. . has been disturbed .... Now the library is taking inven- tory of its material and personnel, meeting with other agencies for co-operative planning, develop- ing new policies, re-educating itself to a more dy - namic participation in community affairs. The trustee as representative from his community and spokesman of it on the board is forced to do some hard and constructive thinking ...
The first library board in Gary. The first library trustees, who held their first meeting March 30, 1908, con- stituted a "dummy" board, since it had no legal status. Under the new public library law of 1903 five years' resi- dence in a town was required for membership on the board. This was impossible in Gary as the town was less than one year old when the library was started. So it was that the library board was organized under the old school board library act of 1883. This was done with the understanding that when the city was old enough, change would be made to the regular library law. Not wishing to take the en- tire responsibility for the library, the school board ap- pointed a board of four members to organize and manage the public library. The actions of this group were passed on by the school board thus making the transactions legal. Members of the first board were Reverend Father Thomas Jansen of Holy Angels Church, president; William A. Wirt, superintendent of city schools, secretary ; Ora L. Wilder- muth, lawyer; and Mrs. John E. Sears, wife of the alder- man of Gary's third ward.
Independent library board established. By June 11, 1911, the statutes had been amended making the resi- dence requirement for members of the library board one year instead of five.
"Following out the principles agreed to in the beginning, the School Board on June 20, 1911, passed a resolution tendering to the Trustees of the Gary Public Library the entire library system as it was then de - veloped. There was a similar resolution by the City Council on July 3, 1911, and on July 10, 1911, the new library board held its first meeting. Under the law the Common Council appointed two members, the School Board two members, and the Judge of the Circuit Court three members. The first appointments by the
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Common Council were Father Thomas Jansen and Mrs. William R. Brown. The School Board appointed Mr. John A. Gross, General Superintendent of the Ameri- can Sheet and Tin Plate Plant, and Mr. George M. Hunter, Superintendent of the American Bridge Plant. Judge McMahon of the Circuit Court appointed Mrs. Homer J. Carr for one year, Miss Annie Klingensmith for two years and myself for three years. Father Jansen was elected president of the board, continu- ing in the position he had occupied. Mrs. Brown was elected vice-president. " Mrs. Carr was secretary.
"A Library Board so constituted is unique in America in this respect : that under the law of Indiana it had full power to levy its own taxes without super- vision or control by any other body or board. In no other state in the union is there such a law. There was a very . similar law in Iowa, but the Supreme Court of Iowa held the act unconstitutional, while the Supreme Court of Indiana sustained the constitutionality of the Indiana act and it has ever since remained the law. However, in later years, the legislature gave the State Board of Tax Commissioners the power to review and reduce levies not only for library purposes but for all other governmental functions, and still later the Tax Adjustment Boards were created . #3 Since the establishment of the Tax Adjustment. Boards, the library has always worked out its annual budget in conference with representatives of the Taxpayers As- sociation.
Balanced budget. Despite hardships created during the first World War when the State Board of Tax Commission- ers cut the library's appropriations in half, and again during the economic depression of the 1930's, the trustees have adhered to a balanced budget. No money was lost in closed banks although Gary had thirteen bank failures. No money was borrowed. In order to meet emergencies library hours were reduced, staff size reduced and vacations elim- inated, and the purchase of books and equipment was cur- tailed.
One of the dividend-paying policies of the trustees for many years was the practice of levying a tax annually, at the rate of five mills per $100 valuation, to create a Sites and Building Fund. The plan worked well for years. Branch sites and buildings were paid for in cash from this fund. However, pressure from the Gary Taxpayers' Associa- tion finally compelled abandonment of the practice. Since then the board has resorted to bond issues to finance ad- ditions and new buildings.
2. Ora L. Wildermuth, "The Gary Public Library" (Paper read at the Gary Rotary Club, January 20, 1944). (Typewritten)
3. Ibid., p. 11
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Library trustees associations. Since the forma- tion of the first state and national trustees' associations, members of the Gary Library Board have taken a prominent part in their activities. Ora L. Wildermuth has served on trustee committees in both the Indiana State Library As- sociation and the American Library Association, and has headed the state organization. In 1944 Mrs. Fred Borns was chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Trustees Division of the A.L.A. Miss Margaret Southwick was a mem- ber of the Executive Committee. Gary board members are regular attendants at national and state library associa- tion meetings.
Judge Wildermuth honored by the A.L.A. In recogni- tion of his long and distinguished service as a library trustee, the American Library Association awarded Judge Ora L. Wildermuth a citation on June 7, 1943. He was one of two so honored that year in the United States. Judge Wildermuth, who was responsible for founding the library in 1908, has been a member of the board since the first board was appointed in 1908. He was made president of the board in 1913 and has held that office continuously since that time.
Another member of the present board who has given long and faithful service is Richard Hotchkiss, who was appointed in 1913, and has served as secretary since 1915.
Miss Margaret Southwick became a member of the board in 1928 and has served as vice-president since 1934.
Other members of the board in the order of their appointment are Mrs. J.G. Wilkinson and Charles M. Leary, 1935; Stephen M. Jenks, 1938; and Mrs. Fred Borns, 1940.
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COMPARATIVE TABLE December 1, 1908 - December 31, 1944
Population of Gary and rural Territory
Date
Books
Circulation
Borrowers
Served
Branches
Income
Full time staff members
Dec. 1908 (A)
1,186 (B)
1,292 (E)
3 84
8,000 (G)
0
$ 7,000.00
1
Jan. - Aug. 1909
3,328
18,536
1,450
13,000 (G)
0
7,000,00
1
1910
11,598
48,870
(E)
3,148
16,802 (G)
1
10,000.00
3
1 92 0
79,183
418: 155
24,571
63,000
10
38,000.00
18
1 93 0
146,717
644,560
35,107
119,680
13
164,000.00 (E)
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1940
210,409
1,022,518
48,904
148,864
14
118,035.67
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1944
232,581
813,560
37,156
148,944
17
147,918.00
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KEY : -
A - Library established September 1, 1908. Opened to public December 1, 1908
B - Includes 250 volumes loaned -by the Indiana State Library Commission.
E - Estimated
G - Gary
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BIBLIOGRAPHY of Source Material Not Generally Available
Bailey, Louis J.
What the Gary Public Library is doing. The Calumet,
v. 1, No. 25, p. 607, 21 Nov. 1913.
Cannon, T.H. and others
History of the Lake and Calumet region of Indiana. v. 1, p. 582-585; 757-759.
Gary Public Library
Library board minutes and annual reports 1908-1944 ..
Gary Public Library
Opportunity; notes from the Gary Public Library, 1915-1917 Hamilton, W.J.
Growth of the Gary Library system. (prepared for the Indiana Library Association and published in the Gary Post-Tribune 31 Aug. 1931.)
Hamilton, W.J.
The Library in the Platoon Schools of Gary.
Luttrell, Laura
Library War Work, 1917-1919
Southwick, Margaret
The history of a long partnership
Wildermuth, Ora L.
Gary Public Library (an address delivered before the Rotary Club, 20 Jan. 1944)
NEWSPAPERS
Articles published in the following Gary newspapers, 1907- 1944.
Gary Daily Tribune
Gary Evening Post
Gary Evening Post and Daily Tribune
Gary Daily Tribune Gary Evening Times
Gary Post-Tribune
Gary Tribune; Weekly
Northern Indianian .
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LIBRARY BOARD MEMBERS Present Library Board - 1944
Judge Ora L. Wildermuth, President 1908 - date Miss Margaret Southwick, Vice-President 1928 - date Richard Hotchkiss, Secretary 1913 - date Mrs. Fred A. Borns 1940 - date Mrs. Jesse Wilkinson 1935 - date
Stephen Jenks 1938 - date Charles M. Leary 1935 - date
Mrs. Frankie Helman, Calumet Township Trustee Henry S. Evans, Hobart Township Trustee
Michael J. Kolling, St. John Township Trustee John F. Pillman, Westchester Township Trustee
FORMER BOARD MEMBERS
August, Rabbi Garry J.
Barnes, Louis E.
Hobart Township Trustee
Boyd, Alexander Ross Township Trustee Brown, Mrs. William R.
*Jansen, Father Thomas Johnson, A. G. Westchester Township Service
Klingensmith, Annie Kunert, Mrs. Karl
*Call, Harry Carr, Mrs. Homer J.
Martin, Ina
*Feder, Dr. William Fisher, Mr. A.M.
Gerlack, Joseph St. John Township Trustee
Gettler, Paul
Goldsborough, F. M. Westchester Township Trustee
St. John Township Trustee
Green, John B. *Greenlee, Mrs. C. M. Gross, John A.
*Werner, Mrs. Fanny Hobart Township Trustee Williams, William Calumet Township Trustee
Harms, John Hobart Township Trustee *Hunter, George
Wirt, William A. * Wood, John J.
Hobart Township Trustee
*Indicates person is not living. Unless otherwise indicated, persons represent the Gary constituency .
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*Ridgely, Edgar A.
Schaaf, Mrs. Mary Grace Wells Calumet Township Trustee
Sears, Mrs. John E. Seyl, Mrs. P. W. *Stommel, A. W.
PRESENT LIBRARY STAFF
Paul Howard - Chief Librarian Richard B. Sealock - Assistant Librarian
GARY STAFF:
Becker, Mildred
Belshaw, Mrs. Myrtle Marks
Belson, Harold
Benedict, Mrs. Ilo
Benkert, Helen
Bills, Mrs. Martha see Taylor
Bartley, Patricia A.
Bowers, Marjorie
Boyd, Lois see Shroll
Browne, Mrs. Ferne
Brunckhorst, Frank L.
Buford, Mrs. Margaret
Cooper, Mrs. Irma L. Cox, Ruth M.
Danyi, Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. Vivian Funcannon Denesuk, Mary see Komechak-
Erkekedis, Helen
Fifield, Mrs. Theresa Funcannon, Vivian see Davis Fusillo, Sylvia
Gaunt, Ina see Wilson Gaunt, Mrs. Rezia Rowley Gullette, Mrs. Irene
Hamilton, Mary Heveder, Ann
Keller, Louise Kirchhoff, Lydia Komechak, Mrs. Mary Denesuk Kuruzovich, Catherine.
Larson, Doris Letherman, Dorothy see Mitchell
Magrammes, Demitria Marks, Myrtle see Belshaw Martling, Lyndell
Maxwell, Mrs. Esther
Miko, Mrs. Charlotte Mitchell, Mrs. Dorothy Letherman
Norris, Helen
Peters, Orpha Maud
Shingle, Sylvia
Shroll, Mrs. Lois Boyd
Sizemore, Mrs. Josephine
Sloan, Julia
Streeter, Josephine
Taylor, Martha Tinkham, Mabel
Vickers, Mrs. Leona
Wallace, Margaret
West, Mrs. Agnes
Williams, Dan A.
Wilson, Mrs. Flo
Wilson, Mrs. Ina Gaunt
TOWNSHIP STAFF:
Blodgett, Mrs. Ed. Griffith Librarian Brewer, Harriet Dyer Librarian
Corts, Mrs. S. F. Schererville Librarian
Jackson, Mrs. Ruth Cedar Lake Librarian
Keller, Mrs. Jennie Munster Librarian
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Marks, Mrs. Bessie East Gary Librarian MacGillivray, Mrs. Bessie Banks Hobart Librarian
Kanost, Donna
Hobart Assistant Librarian
Swanson, Matilda Chesterton Librarian
BUILDING STAFF Michael Hartman, Superintendent
Armstrong, Jesse
Goldner, Agnes
Balogh, Mrs. Mary
Hanson, Alfred
Bodkin, Mrs. Priscilla
Kupec, George
Dudash, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stanovich, Mrs. Julia
Fosmore, Clair
Taub, Mrs. Anna
Zaideman, Neal
FORMER LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS
The following is a list of former staff members. There is no claim to absolute completeness and it does not include pages and many part time people.
Anderes, Mrs. Catharine Curtis, Helen see White · Custer, Mrs. Louise, Loos
Anderson, Anna M.
Andrews, Josephine
Danielczik, Marie
. Davis, Ethyl
Dawson, Elizabeth
Baboo, Mrs. Pearl Papke
Badertscher, Mrs. Elizabeth Van Winkle
Bailey, Louis J.
Bakker, Mrs. Peter H.
Baluk, Mary see Moshier
Dudgeon, Edith M. Dunbar, Mrs. Lois Pocock
Barnes, Anita
Baker, Mrs. Charity
see Barnes, Mrs. Samuel A.
Barnes, Mrs. Samuel A.
Bayer, Mrs. Mary O'Meara
Beatty, Ivone
Beckman, Mrs. August
Black, Louise see Holt
Blc .. ham, Mrs. Dorothy Thomas Boris, Lillian
Boye, Mrs. Inger
Brennan, Wintress
Brink, Mrs. Helen Nelson
Brown, Gladys M.
Brunswick, Caroline see McKeel
Bryan, Mrs. Zella Mae Spencer Buehler, Gertrude
Buenting, Florence see Schadd
Bugay, Mrs. Frances Povlinski
Bundy, Catherine see Glueck
Burton, Alice G.
Campbell, Clara E.
Campbell, Ruth Hayward
Casement, Lois see Spencer
Carr, Zada
Clary, Mrs. Lois Gross
Cox, Mary F.
Crull, Mrs. Charlotte
Culver, Mrs. Laura Lyon
Glueck, Mrs. Catherine Bundy
Goldman, Mrs. Olga Schevchik
Goodall, Harriet Gòre, Elizabeth see Hinton
Gottlieb, Mildred see Mahala
Echterling, Mrs. Julia Hoffman
Eichstadt, Mrs. Tillie Else, Ethel
Evans, Jean Eytcheson, Esther
Ferris, Mrs. Barbara Leroy
Fifield, Mrs. Ann Hotchkiss Fifield, Madalyn . see Oliver Finnerty, Mrs. Winifred Wheeler
Fisher, Grace
Fisher, Maureen
Forgey, Mrs. Gladys Harmack
Ferguson, Harriet Movis
Gallagher, Mrs. Elsie Dietz
Garbett, Mrs. Ruth Miller
Gaskin, Mrs. Etka B.
Geir, Hazel see Spencer
Gibson, Anna see Marsh
Glancy, Mrs. Lois see Wood
Glawe, Bess
see Gallagher
Doll, Mrs. Theodore
Aylesworth, Mrs. Anna Harnack
Dickinson, Madalyn see Ryan
Dietz, Elsie
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Graff, Elizabeth see Kenvin Graham, Mrs. Florence Nelson Grant, Margaret see Grant Grant, Mrs. Margaret Grant Gregg, Mrs. Aidah Taylor Gross, Lois see Clary
Haman, Theodora
Hamilton, William J.
Hammond, Mrs. Martha Hugus
Harnack, Anna see Aylesworth
Hartman, Mrs. Harry
Hayward, Ruth see Campbell Hill, Doris see Turner
Hinton, Mrs. Elizabeth Gore
Hoffman, Julia see Echterling Hogan, Marie see Robbins, Jr.
Holderman, Mary see Huber Holt, Mrs. Louise Black
Hotchkiss, Ann
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see Fifield
Hotchkiss, Grace see Leventry Howard, Lois see Pence Huber, Mrs. C. A.
Hughes, Ruth see Scott
Hugus, Martha
see Hammond
Inouye, Mrs. Ai
James, Marion E. Jamison, Mildred see Platt Jarabines, Helen see Lobo Jerome, Janet Jessee, Mrs. Vivian Trittchue Johnson, Blythe see Wirth Johnson, Catharine see White Johnson, Lillian Johnson, Roberta
Kannowski, Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer
Kaplan, Sylvia Kenady, Mrs. Elizabeth Kenvin, Mrs. Burchard (Elizabeth Graff) Knight, Josephine Krppf, Mrs. Ida Mendenhall Kusmitz, Anne
Labb, June Lakin, Mrs. Grace see Leventry Lambert, Mrs. Emily N.
Lawlor, Elizabeth
Lepper, Mrs. Lillian Pulver
Leroy, Barbara see Ferris
Leventry, Mrs. Grace Hotchkiss (Lakin) Linkhart, Helen see Sweeny Lobo, Mrs. Helen Jarabines
Luttrell, Laura
Mc Fall, Ruth Rhea
Mc Keel, Mrs. Caroline Bruns- wick Mahala, Mrs. Mildred Gottlieb
Malich, Mary
Marsh, Mrs. Anna Gibson
Martin, Mamie
Martin, Shirley see Scofield
Mason, Mrs. Anna Coulter
Maud, Mrs. Dorothy Shipman
Mayer, Leone Mendenhall, Ida see Kropf Metz, Mrs. Josephine Knight Meyers, Elinor see Simonson
Michaely, Genevieve see Thatcher Miller, Ruth see Garbett Moessner, Paula see Smith Mohri, Mrs. August Montgomery, Luella Moquin, Belle Moshier, Mrs. Mary Baluk (Myers) Mosley, Mrs. Genevieve Streeter
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FORMER LIBRARY STAFF MEMBERS
Nelson, Emily see Lambert Nelson, Florence see Graham Nelson, Helen see Brink Nesbit, Beatrice see Oppenheim Newkirk, Lail
Oliver, Mrs. Madalyn Fifield O'Meara, Mary see Bayer Oppenheim, Mrs. Beatrice Nesbit
Papke, Pearl see Baboo Patterson, Helen Paulding, Olivia see Taylor Pence, Mrs. Lois Howard
Pettibone, Patricia
Platt, Mrs. Mildred Jamieson Pocock, Lois see Dunbar Pospichel, Mrs. Margaret Ritchie Post, Mrs. Anna Seaman Povlinski, Frances see Bugay Pulver, Lillian see Lepper Pushkar, Martha
Ransel, Mary Esther see Sayles Rhodes, Mrs. Mabel E. Ritchie, Margaret see Pospichel Robbins, Jr., Mrs. Marie Hogan Robinson, Caroline Rolfs, Clara E. Rollitt, Mrs. Margaret Schrock Ryan, Mrs. Madalyn Dickinson
Sayles, Mrs. Mary Esther Ransel . Saylor, Cerilla C. Saylor, Georgia M. Schadd, Mrs. Florence Buenting Schrock, Margaret L. see Rollitt
Schuette, Sybil
Scofield, Mrs. Shirley Martin Scott, Mrs. Ruth Hughes Seaman, Anna see Post Searcy, Katherine A.
Shaffer, Velma R.
Sharp, Katherine
Shaw, Ralph R. Sherburne, Gladys see Thompson Shipman, Dorothy see Maud Shortz, Ruth
Simonson, Mrs. Elinor Meyers
Smith, Mrs. Paula Moessner
Smith, Ruth
Snowden, Mrs. Mildred
Spencer, Mrs .: Lois Casement
Spencer, Mrs. Hazel Geier
Spencer, Zella Mae see Bryan Squire, Mrs. Ruth Miller see Garbett Stack, Mary
see Stewart Stewart, Mrs. Mary Stack
Stickney, Helen
Stokes, Mrs. Louise
Stoner, Mrs. Frederick
Streeter, Genevieve see Mosley
Swanson, Mrs .: Dorothy Wood
Sweeny, Mrs. Helen Linkhart Swenson, Mrs. Marion Voigt
Taber, Marjorie Taylor, Aidah see Gregg Taylor, Mrs. Olivia Paulding
Thatcher, Mrs. Genevieve Michaely Thomas, Dorothy see Bloxham Thompson, Mrs. Gladys Sher- burne Thornton, Rachel see Woodke Travis, Ernestine Trittchue, Vivian see Jessee Turner, Mrs. Doris Hill
Van Winkle, Elizabeth see Badertscher
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Van Winkle, Mrs. Ethel Voigt, Marion see Swenson
Waddell, Fay Welter, Jeanette Wheeler, Winnifred see Finnerty White, Mrs. Catharine Wigginhorn, Elsie Wiggins, Lynnette see Young
Wilcox, Leila B. Winer, Sara
Wirth, Mrs. Blythe Johnson Wood, Dorothy see Swanson Wood, Mrs. Leo Woodke, Mrs. Rachel Thornton
Young, Mrs Lynnette Wiggins
Zimmerman, Minnie E.
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