Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-06-07
Noted Club Women
Now In Business
Mrs. B. M. Boykin, of Atlanta,
Will Manage Woman's Depart
ment of Large Life Insur-
ance Company

ATLANTA, June 6-Women a,
wage earners do not have to confine
their efforts to stenography, salesman,
ship or the other lines of BUSINESS
where the remuneration is small anc
the work confined to the narrow com
pass of an office. So, at least, thinks
Mrs. B. M. Boykin, retiring president
of the Atlanta Woman's Club, and one
of the best known club women in the
| United States.
She believes that women are fully
capable OF being big business produc-
ers, and she is so fir,n in her convic-
tons that she has retired from active
club life for the present in order to
provide some of the enlarged oppor-
tunltles which she fcrsees for South
err women in the business world.
"l'tling my years il, public lie, y
said Mrs. Boykin. 81 have Lee. Ic-
peatcdly struck with the fact that club
women are doing just as big things in
an executive way as men. only, as a
usual thing, they are combining their
NliOl 10 lON al dS DllluIllS up lllCll IOlll-
munities in forwarding great projects
for the public welfare rather than in
building up private fortunes. The
idea has been borne in upon me and
more during recent months that the
executive capacity and the power to
deal in large affairs which is so con-
splCuously represented in many of Our
leading club women can also be util-
lied by other members OF Our sex in
the business world with every indica-
ton OF success.
with this idea in mind, | determ-
ined at the close of my term as pres
ident of the Atlanta Woman's Club to
devote my energies to providing such
all opportunity. My attention had
been attracted by number Of women
both in Atlanta and in other Southern
cities who were making great Roadway
in insurance lines One such woman
in Atlanta, who entered the insurance
field three years ago, is at present the
largest business producer for one OF
the great American companies in the
state of Georgia. Others are high up
i'll other companies.
at then occurred to me that a de-
partment made up entirely of women
especially trained for their work il
insurance selling, would provide the
opportunity which | had in mind. ]
approached Mr.. John H. Byrley, gen
cral agent of the Fidelity Mutual Life
Life Insurance Company in the states
OF Georgia and Tennessee, with the
propCD ition, knowing he bad formerly
been, for ten Years, the manager Of
agencies for his company, four years
of which had been in the capacity OF
vice-president of the company. l felt
that his experience with field agents
would help him to judge very quickly
as to the feasibility OF my plan.
Mr.. Byrley was not only sympa-
thetic, but enthusiastic; with the res
ult that such a department of women
agents was Immediately decided up
on and he has given me every lati-
tude in working out the details of the
proposed organisation By this
means, ! am enabled to offer women
of Georgia and Tennessee the same
contract that is offered to men and
to help them in laying the foundations
of alb usiness career that is unlimited
in scope and future possibilities"
Since the close OF the war Mrs
Boykin has been actively identified
with Woman's Club, being its presi-
dent during the past two years. Dur
ing this time, she was instrumental in
building the $4,000 auditorium, con.
tanning the most perfect little theatre
in the South, and in erecting the ban.
quet hall at cost OF $4,000. In ad.
dition, she has been largely instrumen.
tai in the founding OF Atlanta's public
market and other enterprises Of sim
liar public note.