The Archive · 1926

Proposal For Club Day

That is to say, as many club meetings can be arranged will fall on a Tuesday, and she hoped that the members would ce-operate with her} in making that a recognized club day. One or two evening entertain ments, she seid, were going to be given this term by the Dramatic Department, and also at the Hal-Jow'en Party on October 29 that Department had a great surprise in store though what it was to be she would not say. The President then said that great consideration had been given, too, to the general programme and she hoped that at these meetings also there would be much more ce-operation between the members.

Miss Smith closed her address by! saying that each woman who belonged to this club should feel proud of her membership, for she should remember that the American community in Shanghai was the first to} form a women's club outside their} own country, the Shanghai A.W.C, being six months older than the} American Women's Club in London, ing what club life should]

Miss Smith's speech, which was] heartily applauded, was followed by two negro spirituals excellently rendered by the Community Church Quartette, which all the members enjoyed greatly. Mrs. Harrison King, who represented the A. W. Jat the Atlantic City Biennial ' of General Federation of Womens' Clubs, also gave a short talk, which she described to the interested! members the convention of club women in America from which she} has just returned; this last address) closing the official meeting, the open ing of what promises to be very suc cessful year for the energetic and enterprising American Women's} Club.

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