The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-08
BUSINESS WOMEN PLAN ORGANIZATION
 FOR MUTUAL HELP
Committee Selected at Y. w. c. A. Gathering To Per
 feet Plans for New Body.

A hundred earnest and intelligent young business women of this city gathered in the Y. w. c. A. rooms on Broad street last evening to attend the banquet given by the membership committee for the purpose of ascer- taining the general feeling of this class of young women concerning a pro- posed business woman's club which would be a part of this broad and hourishing Nwoman's organization. Judging from, the enthusiasm display ed and the large number of signerS in favor of the movement, the club was suddenly brought from the dim vista of the future into the clear reality of the present by last nights banquet,
 The tables were congenfally arrang- ed and the banquet proved a happy party at which the singing of many old and new songs and ditties to the piano accompaniment of Miss Mary L. Peck was pleasantly alternated with eating.
 was begun by Llrs. George E. Hill. who is chairman of the committee and to whose energies much of the success of the work. accomplished Is to be at tributed. Mrs. Hills little talk oa welcome was followed by a few words from Misss Fannie Shearer, who in turn introduced the principal speaker of the evening, Miss Mary Dingnan, national industrial secvretary of the Y. w. c. A.
 Miss Dingman told of the wonden- fuI success of the Syracuse club, which has grown to a. membership of several hundred young business women in the few months since it's organization. She told of their plan of having a for. Ina aIrrr .1V7d aTf STf1l- jects are invited to talk and related the wonderful success of this plan. It was an organization, founded on the same basis as the SyracuSe club, that Miss Dingman advised for Bridgeport.
 Among the purposes which such a. club accomplishes according to Miss Dingman are: It gives a group a feel ing of solidarity and unity; it gives each member a chance to develop and broaden; 1t gives each one a chance for self expression along many lines which the average business does not offer to a girl; and it also gives each one a chance to be force in the com munity.
 The speaker emphasized the partic- u1arly advantageous position which the young woman in business holds in the general scale of womarhood. She must work for her living and there fore must have every faculty alert. She mast be intelligent and use her brains if she would hold her place in business and she is not so bowed down with work that she is practically crushed. Thus having the energy and initiative which come from business training she capable of doing more for. her less fortunate than perhaps anyone else.
 Following Miss Ddngman's interest ing talk, slips were passed about de@ scribing the proposed club and asking those who favored it to sign. Praeti- cally everyone present signed.
 An organization committee was then appointed composed of the following:
 Mrs. R. c. Winton of Stratford, Mrs. G. Herthal, Mrs F. E. Wadham, Mrs. R. Fitzpatrick, the Misses B. Schwab M. Scott, L.. R. Ritchie, Daisy Wa1d- man, l.. A. Eales. L. Bull, F. Scherer, B. Dundus M. Burgess, A. Grumman, I. Gum, E. Gum, R. Brady, B. Hogens. M. Christie, M. Gaynor. B. s. Stoves, S. Tibaut, M. Cline, K. Wood of Strat- ford. The committee iss to hold it's first meeting on April 26.
 Mrs. Ethel Poland HubbeII con- tributed greatly to the pleasure of the evening with four charming solos, ttAn Irish Love Song," Margaret yRuthven Lang; 70 Tell Me NightingaIe,'' Liza Iehmann; Garden of Your Heart '' Francis DoreI and Thoughts of You'' Mary Helen Brown. Mrs. .Hubben was accompanied by Miss Mary L. Peek.
 The members of the membership committee who waited on table at the William Nothnagle, Mrs. Jane Weld 1 lich, Miss Jennie Hawley, Miss Nellie l Upson and Mrs. Groves. /.