Information Sheet
R
1175 Secretary’s record book,
1932-1943.
One volume.
These are the secretary’s minutes of the annual
meetings of the Sixth District, Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs. The record book includes minutes of the
twenty-ninth through fortieth annual meetings, 1932-1943.
According to the booklet produced for the thirty-fourth
annual convention (1937), the Sixth District was comprised of federated clubs
in Christian, Crawford,
Annual meetings of the district were held at
The two-day district meetings in September or October
of each year featured a mix of socializing and musical entertainment, speeches
from local and state leaders, and reports from various committees on
citizenship, legislation, applied education, scholarships, public welfare, and
the status of Junior Clubs in the district.
Beginning in 1941, patriotic themes predominated, with reports and
programs on war work, defense projects, the American Red Cross, and the Women’s
Army Corps. In October 1941, guest
speaker Brigadier General U. S. Grant III, from Fort Leonard Wood, described
defense activities in that area. The
minutes also show national efforts to organize the Women’s Field Army, an
organization dedicated to fighting cancer that ultimately became the American
Cancer Society. The theme for the 1943
annual meeting was “The Ozarks Looks Toward Peace.”
A clipping from the Lebanon Republican, 16 November 1906, is enclosed in the front of
the volume. It describes the fifth
annual meeting of the district, when Rev. Harold Bell Wright of Lebanon was a
guest speaker. Due to a lack of time, he
was unable to give readings from his unfinished novel, The Strength of the Hills.
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