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The first 20 years |
| A "summary" of what has been written about this topic in The Rotarian would be nice and appropriate after 20 years of Women and Rotary. |
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However, it is nearly impossible to write something "coherent", as
you can already see from the attached (and yet unfinished) collection of
headlines in The Rotarian. Two articles about women's clubs from The Rotarian and for an interesting discussion on if women should work follow RGHF Senior Historian Dr. Wolfgang Ziegler, Germany, 19 September 2007. Some articles found in The Rotarian - Please search "Books/The Rotarian to see full articles. May 1913 - Have the Women a Place in Rotary? (by Russell F. Greiner) April 1914 - A Woman’s View of Rotary April 1920 - Woman’s Place in Rotary July 1920 - The Woman Investor (by Clara F. Porter) November 1924 - Woman and Rotary (by A. F. Graves) January 1925 - Rotary – and the Women Outside January 1925 - Woman and Rotary (by Frank L. Mulholland) February 1925 - Woman and Rotary (Among our Letters) December 1928 - The Women of Rotary – Response to the suggestion for a Women’s Forum (by Helena Weatherby, who worked for The Rotarian) Letters from Women Readers (all in response to Helena’s article. A Newcomer Visits Chicago Women of Rotary (quote from the letter) “[…] Mrs. Harvey, who was the first president of the club, tells about those first days of the organization (back in 1921 I think it was) when they tried so hard to get recognition from Rotary International. Paul Harris, it seems, had been easily won over, but it was not so with the Board of RI.”Some of those early attempts included - - Rotary Anns of Pitman, New Jersey, organized March 24, 1925 - Rotary Anns of Birmingham, Michigan - Women of Rotary of Tacoma, Washington, organized May 4, 1920 - Spokane Women of Rotary - Inglewood, California, organized August 11, 1924 February 1929 -nbsp;The Women of Rotary – This Month: Pertinent Remarks on Feminism (by Helena Weatherby) (quote from her article: “As for free love, she (the new-style Feminist) thinks it is impractical rather rather than immoral. With the society organized as it is, the average man and woman cannot carry on a free union with any degree of tranquillity.” Letters from Readers - - March 1929 - The Women of Rotary – Should we endeavour to rewrite Mother Goose? (by Helena Weatherby) - Charleston Rotary Auxiliary April 1929 - The Women of Rotary – Dismissing our friends with: “How Queerly they Dress” (by Helena Weatherby) June 1929 - The Women of Rotary – The Exchange of Youth Movement as a Test of Intelligent Parenthood (by Helena Weatherby). |
| March 1931 - Rotary Ann – "A Portrait By One of Her"
Illustration in pencil by Harvey Fuller         |
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