Shanghai held their 22nd birthday celebration on Monday afternoon at the Carlton Ca! holding this meeting og near the exact date of founding, November 29, as possible.
The club was founded in 1898' and included the following charter members:—Mrs. Young J. Allen, Miss Ethel Allen, Miss Emma Silver, Mrs. J. R. Hykes, Mrs. W. H. Lunt, and Mrs. Barchet. These women are still resident members of the club in Shanghai. The first meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Goodnow in Kiukiang Road. It was organized as a reading circle for the purpose of uniting the American women of Shanghai in a cultural and social way, and, although these members were full of aspirations and. hopes for their society, they probably did not anticipate its wonderful growth into the organization of to-day boasting 500 members, 70 of them new just this autumn. That makes 1920 2 record year because out of last year's 130 new members, not more than 4d came in as carly as November 15.
Massy Activities, Club meetings are held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. A social hour precedes the meeting, which consists of an interesting programme given by one of the five departments. The Music Department holds three programmes during the year and furnishes some very fine musical numbers. There is a meeting held once a month in this department for the purpose of studying Appreciation and History of Music. The Literary Department have two or three very interesting exhibitions of embroideries and other Chinese things and they are meeting twice a month and doing some intensive work along these lines. Later in the year, they are taking up the study of Chinese literature. The Social Service Department are specializing in work for the American sailors, making Shanghai a better port, taking care of cases that seem to require help, furnishing entertainments for them once or twice a month, and in particular, getting as many Americans in Shanghai to open up their homes as far as possible so that the - sailors will have some place to go to at Thanksgiving and Christmas time. When there are a large number of naval men in port, the club gives dances for them, as it did when the Huron and the Asiatic Fleet of destroyers were in port.
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