Clubs Plan
Red-Letter
Day Parties
Chourinard Art institute in Los Angeles and the Armstrong college in
Berkeley.
Contributors to the fund since the
convention, with the amount of
their gifts, follow:
La Grande Neighborhood club,!
$38.50; First District federation,
$33.50; St. Helen's Woman's club,
! $28,60; Corvallis College Folk club,
$25; Powers Woman's club, $16;
Enterprise Woman's club, $15;
Baker Alpha Literary club, $10;
Pendleton Pioneer Ladies' club, $10;
women's auxiliary to the Hotel
Greeters of America, $7.50; State
Woman's Press club of Portland,
Eugene Federation of Women's
clubs, Metzger Woman's club, Bon-
By FREDA GOODRICH MOWREY!anza Woman/s club, Wasco Study
' Club Editor, The Oregonian club, $5 each; Newport Woman s
Attracting a major share of at- club' ?
tention from Oregon clubwomen all
Many Benefits Arranged
To Raise Money to
Carry on Work
through January is the popular
an's club, $4. Three of the contributors, the Pendleton Pioneer
Ladies' club, the Corvallis College
scholarship loan fund of the Oregon Folk club and the Hotel Greeters'
auxiliary, are not members of the
state federation.
Federation of
which, since its
Women's clubs
establishment
m The loan fund was begun in 1908
1908, has helped 1515 girls in their at the federation's convention in
efforts to obtain a higher education.! 3^ Grande with the small sum of
a « „iw„„™, +i,a i„~* rxr^x ~ j - $23.65 which remained from the
As always, the last Wednesday of ^nll„f VQiW! w th, womp
the month, which this year is January 27, has been designated as red-!
letter day. On or near that date
every club in the federation is
urged to arrange a benefit party
or entertainment to raise the money
needed to carry on the fund's important work. Portland clubs, as
Oregon to buy the statue of Saca-
jawea, which stood in the grounds
of the Lewis and Clark exposition
in Portland in 1905. Mrs. Sarah A.
Evans was president of the federation at that time and it was upon
her suggestion and that of her of-
wVlfas theTr"sisrerg7oups7nMevery flcefs that the sma11 rcmainder^was
corner of the state, are planning a ™e.df as * nucleus for the fund
festive series of parties for the next which had reached, by May 1, 1936,
week or two to add their bit to this *he impressive total of $48,137.91,
favorite federation project.
Since Mrs. Walter Hembree of %oans Made Only
Portland, chairman of the fund's ~ r\ . n* i
board of trustees, made her report \§ ° Oregon Lriris
at the federation convention in The Loans are made only to girls liv-
Dalles last May, 45 additional loans jng jn Oregon. They must also at
have been granted
Oregon girls.
to
Beneficiaries Attend
Many Oregon Schools
deserving tend Oregon schools unless it is
proved to the board's satisfaction
that the course they wish is not
available here.
Most of the loans are limited to
$150 and are granted, for the most
Behnke-Waiker Business
The beneficiaries this year arelpart, to upper-class students that
enrolled at Linfield college, Eastern!the money may not be tied up for
Oregon normal school, Oregon nor-j too long a time,
mal school, Oregon State college, Federation members who are serv-
Pacific university, Reed college, ing with Mrs. Hembree on the pres-
Southern Oregon normal school, ent board, with the years in which
"University of Oregon, University of they were named, induce Mrs. W.
Oregon Nurses' training class, J. Kerr, 1913; Mrs. G. M. Glines,
college, 1922; Mrs* Jessie McGregor, 1922;
Mrs. John Van Zante, 1926; Mrs.
George Gerald Root, 1930; Miss'
Lutie E. Cake, 1932; Mrs, Saidie Orr
Dunbar, 1934; Mrs. W. S. Nicholson, 1936, and Mrs. A. C. Mclntyre,
president of the federation, who is
an ex-officio member this year.
Miss McGregor, whose home is
at 7027 Northeast Klickitat street,
Portland, will receive the red-letter,
day donations, Mrs. Hembree has
announced.