california history - California Historical Society

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The Friday Morning ClubCaroline’s election as chair of the prestigious and formidableFriday Morning Club at its founding was recordedin the club’s 1891 minutes’ book. A summary of the firstofficial meeting on April 16 described how “a few womengathered in the reading room of the Hollenbeck Hotel todiscuss the feasibility of organizing a woman’s club. . . .Mrs. Caroline Severance was elected Chairman. . . . Theobject of the society was discussed, time, place, name, andgeneral plan of organization.”Huntington Library, San Marino, California California History • volume 88 number 1 2010
Caroline attended the September 1899groundbreaking ceremony for the club’sfirst permanent headquarters. Followingthe advice of their businessmenhusbands, club members had formed acorporation and issued stock in order toobtain financing to buy and build on theland. As the cornerstone for the clubhousewas laid, the reformer, still optimistic atage seventy-nine, called upon her friendsand colleagues to rededicate themselvesto the “highest welfare of our homes,our schools, our city, our country andthe world” and predicted that a “fairerfuture” lay ahead for her sex.California Historical Society/USC SpecialCollectionsIn 1900, club members moved into theirhandsome, mission-style headquartersat 940 South Figueroa, where Carolineplanted a camphor tree from El Nido toshade the patio in the rear garden. Likethe tree, the club thrived and grew, provingCaroline’s contention: “It stampsas blasphemy to God and man and asuntrue to the facts of life and history, theclaim that competition is necessary to thehighest development of the individual orof society.” The club’s achievements in itsearly years under Caroline’s leadershipincluded the establishment of kindergartensand efforts on behalf of women’ssuffrage.California Historical Society/USC SpecialCollections7
Page 3: california historyvolume 88 number
Page 6 and 7: c o l l e c t i o n sAdmission tick
Page 8 and 9: c o l l e c t i o n sBusiness cards
Page 10 and 11: People’s Park:Birth and SurvivalB
Page 12 and 13: even on existing dorms due to the h
Page 14 and 15: The attraction, however, was fleeti
Page 16 and 17: Bay Area—North Beach and Haight-A
Page 18 and 19: A hundred students, activists, and
Page 20 and 21: are building a park on the land. We
Page 22 and 23: and illegal drug use in the park. T
Page 24: without even allowing Siegel to con
Page 27 and 28: As Bloody Thursday came to a close,
Page 29 and 30: this state.” On June 20, Reagan t
Page 31 and 32: Denovo, her autopsy revealed a down
Page 33 and 34: ation and encouragement, and shed n
Page 35 and 36: the guardians of her children. The
Page 37 and 38: mitted to visit Caroline in her new
Page 39 and 40: Sojourner Truth gave what famously
Page 41 and 42: After emancipation, she helped to o
Page 43 and 44: This 1885 view captures the sparsel
Page 45 and 46: But Caroline thought it imprudent t
Page 47: The “Mother of Clubs”In Boston,
Page 51 and 52: ments, Seymour and Sibley earned pe
Page 53 and 54: In this photograph, San Francisco s
Page 55 and 56: n o t e s12People’s Park: Birth a
Page 57 and 58: 1969; McGill, The Year of the Monke
Page 59 and 60: that “thousands of the brightest
Page 61 and 62: For Both Cross andFlag: Catholic Ac
Page 63 and 64: d o n o r sThe California Historica
Page 65 and 66: In Kind DonationsSandy Alderson, Sa
Page 67: Membership BenefitsJoin tHeCaliforn

california history - California Historical Society

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?