The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-17
Florida Federation of Wormen's Clubs

the letters which came with the
interest and good will expressed in
checks. Many of our clubs We're
not able to give last spring when the
first call was made, but wrote letters
showing approval of the investment
made and promising to give during
the coming year. Only one club in
the F. f. flatly refused to give any
thing at any time.
We have still two years in which
to meet our pledge and that it will
be paid in full is beyond question.
Since my last report the Womans
Clubs of Sanford. Melbourne. Winter
Park, Chattahoochee and River juno
ton, Moore Haven, Eustis, Dunedin
and Holt have enrolled as direct
members of the G. F. w. c.
The chief ambition of your direc-
tor on assuming the duties of that
office, was to help create closer ac-
quaintance and sympathy between the
Florida club women and the G. F. w.
c., in other words tomake it possible
BILE when speaking of the G.. F. mat
tiers to say I'VE" and not they"
The G. f. means simply the women
of Florida and Maine and Oregon and
California and all the other states.
With the realization of this fact
comes our responsibility for mainten-
ance Of our national work, at the
same time we support our state and
local work.
But for perhaps seven adverse
votes cast at Gainesville in 1921, Flor
ida would have stood with Iowa, Geor-
gia and Montana as alI-G. F.-mem-
ber-states at the ChautauQua Bien-
NAL. May the convention at Green
Cove Springs, where the f. F. first
began its existence, be the time and
place when we accept our RESPONSE
blIittes for individual national service
ana also place our hOnOred state fed
Grafton upon a sounder financial
basis, removing it from it's present
humiliating necessity for private do
nations by the officers who serve US.
1t is again matter of pride to re-
port the Florida clubs on the Honor
Roll published by the G. F. Treasur-
er, with all dues paid in full. Our
gain in G. F. membership has been 65
percent since the Des Moines Bien-
NAL.
Our state representation at the BIZ
ennial was very large and the Flori-
da women took their full share in the
committee work of that great con-
vention. The reports of state dele
gates will give you full details of the
sessions.
Owing to the greatly increased bur-
den of work and responsibility con-
nected with an important piece of
civic work undertaken by your Di-
rector for the city of Orlando, it be-
came imperative for me to resign
from one of the two offices which
have been carrying. With much re-
greet my resignation as G. f. Direc-
tor was sent to the president of the
F. F. just before the Biennial. This
sudden action was taken in order that
my successor might be appointed and
later confirmed by the G. F. at Chau-
tauqua, thereby removing my name
from the new stationery and mailing
lists of the G. F. which would have
caused great confusion and delay in
the directors mail for the coming
year. The suddenness of my resig-
nation and the impossibility of placing
! it before the board or the executive
committee, owing to the brief time be-
fore the Biennial has caused serious
embarrassment for your president,
which 1 sincerely regret, but which
was unavoidable.
In closing my report, permit me to
thank the women of the F. F. w. c.
for having allowed me to serve them
in what L consider the most inter-
esting and delightful office I have
ever held and to wish to my successor
the same degree of pleasure and profit
which has been mine while serving
you as G. F. Director for Florida.
Sincerely yours,
JESSIE MALLORY O'NEAL.