The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
Y. ". IN BIC WORK
Four Hundred Attend Annual
Membership Banquet.
Value of Association to Com
munity Is Told by Speakers.

From the women who are grand
mothers to the grade school girls who
have just become members of the Girl
Reserves The annual Y. W. c. A men,
bership banquet drew an attendance
of nearly four hundred persons Fri
day night at the association building.
The cafeteria room was crowded with
an overflow into the breakfast room
for the most successful membership
banquet'the local association has ever
held.
The Value of the Association to
the Community" was the chief adj
dress Of the evening. given by Mrs. d.
L. McEachron of the board of di-
rectors. She told of the appreciation
OF the Y. w. c. A from the viewpoint
ness girl. the college girl, the business
| man, the minister.Nand others
Means Friendship TO Girls.
"A business girl told me that the
Y. w. C. A. means friendship to her
| first. many, many good times, a
chance for finer living, inspiration
and Bible study" Mrs, McEachron
| that the Y. W. C. A. was her only
refuge from the outside world.
L know of no Christian organiza-
ton that is so wide awake to the mod
ern need and so ready in mind and
hand to meet it as the Young Women's
| SIiIlSlldH dSSOCldtlOn Is what mln-
| lister told me- Mrs. McEachron said.
The business man tell me that the
value of the association cannot be
measured in dollars and cents, but
that it is Eeeded every bit as much as
| the bank, the railroad or any other
| business.
Does Big Service.
| THE college girl said she felt that
more than anything else the Y. W.
&. a has friandShin n her
an expression of service; that it broad
ened her vision of the life of women
| in the world, and developed leader
ship" Mrs. McEachron concluded
her address with plea for the great
| est loyalty to the association that
means so much to community.
Music was furnished during the
evening by the girls glee club Of
! Washburn college.
To Observe Invisible Guest Day.
Invisible Guest Day." Herbert
Hoover's plan for helping the Euro
pean children's relief fund, will be OBJ
served by the Y. W. c. A. February
| /, when all the proceeds from the
cafeteria will go into the fund. The
plan was explained by Mrs. Baxter
+, Phelps.
Make a Will Day" the slogan for
Friday of Thrift week, was introduced
| into the program Members were
| urged to make wills and to remember.
/ if possible, the Y. w. c. A. in making
the will. Among the ones who gen
ferousfy remembered the Y. w. c. A.
in their wills in the past were Judge
]. P. Clark, Miss Kathryn Mills, Miss
| Elizabeth Samson, Mrs. G.. c.. Gage,
Mrs. Jane Stormont, Mrs. Eleanor
Doane ard Jonathan Thomas.
The groups of women and girls
were seated at tables according to
their activities in the association, and
| each table was appropriately decor
ated. Above the table of the gymna-
SUM girls was arranged a tennis net
with tennis balls and basketballs sus-
pended from it The Washburn girls
| table was decorated in blue and white.
| Among the groups represented were
the Girl Reserves, high school and
| college girls, young business women,
girls of the Y. W. c. A. dormitories,
the Tri club, the Washburn advisory
board and cabinet. the Bible class
gymnasium classes, general member
ship and speakers.
In a basketball game which fol-
/ lowed the banquet two Y. w. C. A
tea ms took part with the Orioles de-
feating the Red Sox by a score of 80
to 20.
Elect New Directors.
Directors elected to the Y. w. c. A
board to serve for the coming three
years were Mrs. D. L. McEachron
Mrs. W. N. Mason Mrs r. T. Her
rick and Mrs C. D. Skinner. Mrs. J.
| D. Gossett was elected for an unex-
pired 19e1-1922 term.
The Y. W. c. A. concludes the year
1920 with excellent financial standing
An audit of the books showed that the
association spent s65,717.s0 from a
revenue of s66.014.17.
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