Information Sheet
R Libra Club (
1153 Scrapbooks, 1950-2003.
Four volumes.
These are the scrapbooks of the Libra Club, a women’s
club at
The Libra Club was founded in 1950 as a Junior Club of
the Missouri Federation of Women’s Club under the auspices of the Round Table
Club of Lebanon. There were sixteen
members. The membership was restricted
to that number by charter, but was later raised to twenty and then twenty-five
members. Patti Hurst was the first
president.
In 1968, the Libra Club ceased to be a federated club
and devoted its efforts strictly to local community projects. In the same year the club sponsored
organization of the Philia Club, a junior women’s club.
Club activities over the years have included
sponsoring Girl Scout activities, promoting city beautification and
progressive government, assisting the Red Cross Bloodmobile, sponsoring the Sophomore
Pilgrimage to Jefferson City, helping Wallace and Breech hospitals in Lebanon, funding
a memorial to Juanita Donnelly in the rose garden of the governor’s mansion in
Jefferson City, supporting the Special Olympics, promoting a new library, and establishing
a scholarship fund for graduates of Lebanon High School. Many of these endeavors, as well as social
events, were co-hosted with other service groups in
The records of the Libra Club consist of four
scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, photographs, annual booklets, thank
you notes, and miscellaneous correspondence and papers. The materials begin with the organization of
the club in 1950 and continue through 2003.
Volume 1 includes a history of the Sixth District,
Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs, of which the Libra Club was a part until
1968. Volume 4 contains the club’s annual
booklets or yearbooks showing the officers, meeting places, and program topics
for the club year (September through May).
The volume also contains a complete listing of the club’s officers,
1950-2000. Miscellaneous papers and
correspondence, 1967-2003, have been filmed in chronological order at the end of
Volume 4.
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