The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-03-13
SUI rs. HELD
INAUGURATION
CEREMONIES
Miss Minnie Kehoe Sue
ceeds to Presidency; Vice
Miss M. Ingraharn
OTHER OFFICERS
ARE INSTALLED
Great Work Promised For
Year-Resurne of Last
Years Achievements

With the induction of new officers,
and the annual report of the retir-
ing president, Miss Marguerite In
graham, the meeting of the Pensacola
Equal Suffrage League on Monday
evening was of much importance and
interest, Miss Minnie Kehoe, the new
president, accepting her office in a
short and eloquent speech, and pre-
siding with much ability.
New Officers.
Those indicted into office last night
were:
President, Miss Minnie Kehoe;
first vice president, Mrs. George Mar
BILE; second vice president, Mrs. E. E.
Saunders; corresponding secretary,
Miss Evanette Robinson; recording
secretary, Miss Edith NJ. Nicholas;
parliamentarian Miss Marguerite In
graham; treasurer Miss Fannie Ke-
hoe; chairman finance committee,
Mrs. Minnie Wolfe Rutherford; chair
man program committee, Miss Ger
trude Friedman; chairman press COM
mittee, Miss Faith Binkley; chairman
legislative committee, Mrs. Walter
Ingrahan1.
The retiring officers are: President,
Miss Marguerite Ingraham; first
vice president, Miss Gertrude Fried
man; second vice president, Mrs. J.
B. Perkins; corresponding secretary,
Miss E. E. Robinson; recording secre-
tary, Miss Faith Binkley; treasurer,
Miss Edith M. Nicholas; chairman
finance committee, Mrs. W. G. Bar
row; chairman legislative commit
tee, Miss Minnie Kehoe; chairman
program committee, Miss Isabel In
graham.
In accepting the office of president
Miss Kehoe said:
Miss Kehoe's Speech.
Madam President, Friends and
Members of the League:
Out of the fullness of my heart l
thank you for the honor you have
paid me, the very highest honor in
the power of the league to confer
and one that shall always cherish,
wish it were in my power to ade-
quately thank you, but when you ask
me to make speech, you take me out
of my element. Were I to be re-
quested to report a speech for any
other member of this association II
would be the most natural thing in
the world for me to take that chair
and sit at that table, and make a
pen picture of her words. But if
cannot speak eloquently I shall en-,
deavor by my acts to prove to you
that I am sensible of the trust that
you have reposed in me.
While / am deeply grateful to you
] for this honor, am not unmindful OF
the very grave responsibilities that
the office carries with 1T. We have
before US a vast amount of work tc
be done in order to accomplish the
object of the league as set forth in
cur constitution, namely, to promote
the cause of equal suffrage.
! "ICiI VI Tic WOIHSU WIZ
have preceded me in this office, theil
ability, their earnestness, their en-.
thusiasm and zeal, and the sacrifice:
they made in order to do their full
duty, 1 feel very humble and very
unworthy to follow in their footsteps
However, if each member of the
league can be filled with the sense
of the obligations which is weighing
upon me, and will share the response
bility with mel feel that we cal
accomplish the work before US. Blu
you must remember that no presiden-
can accomplish any substantial de
suits without the hearty support ant
cooperation of all the members. Off
GERS may outline policies and attemp
to enlist the support of individual
members, but in the end the worl
must be done by the united efforts o,
the whole league.
And l want to impress this though
upon the minds of each one of you
that you are an integral part of thi
association, and I want you to fee
that you are each a part of the presi