Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-17
100 WOMEN AND
GIRLS GATHER
AT Y. W. c. A.

| One hundred women and girls
meeting together at the Y. w. g a..
on Tuesday evening for the annual
membership meeting of the Douglas
Young Womens Christian association
! enjoyed an unusually good supper
at a very nominal price after which
program of business ana enter
tainment was held. Assisting in ar
Irangements for the supper were
Mesdames j. p Sexton, w. e. Wal
lace. L. j. Meiser, w. r. Davis G..
EN. Manatt, ]. W. Deeming, George
Cowden, Emma Miescher, w, f.
Jones' e. H. Agnew, c. r. McCord
Il. c. Arthur, Gerald sherman.
An important item OF the business
was the election of new board mem
hers for three-year term to fill the
places of those retiring this coming
June Those elected will serve on
the board Of directors as chairman
ard committee members and are as
follows: Mesdames Ralph Williams,
Douglas Cooper, Lyn cooper, W. Il.
Wallace (re-elected, H. w. VIM
Lerley, w. r. Gabriel, J. B. Crowell.
The first vote was also affirmatively
taken on the proposed cnange Of
basis in membership by which it
would be possible for other than
members of protestant evangelical
churches to become voting and board
members. The second and final
vote will be taken next year.
Following the minutes Of last
years annual meeting and the read
ing of the treasurer's report, Mrs.
Arthur w Cotton, president Of the
association for the past two years,
gave her report which included the
work of all the various committees
condensed and summarized. Mrs
Cotton used as .the outline for her
report the first two clauses of the
association. Purpose pointing out
that all the various activities of the
association are planned toward the
Carrying out of this purpose. The
first clause is to:
Associate young women in per-
sonal loyalty to Jesus Christ as
Savior and Lord Under this head
ing Mrs. Cotton brought out the
work of the membership and finance
committees. Under the Craftsmanship
of Mrs L. j. Meiser, the membership
at present 254 adult members of the
association with AZ having been add
cd since me first of the year. The
membership committee is responsible
for all functionss of the membership
as we'll as recruiting new members
and keeping ur with old
The finance committee in the report
from Mrs. e. j. HuNtable gave the
results of the campaign for the
budget ass held gJanuary 10 to 96,
pointing out that there was almost,
$1,000 lacking ITO the necessary
amount to run the association during
the coming year though a few sub
scriptions nave not come in yet.
statement cf appreciation of the
work of George Drysdale and A. II.
Grant of the Phelps Dodge corpora
ton for their assistance in audit
:ng the books was made.
The second clause of the associa-
tion purpose is ITO promote growth
in Christian character and service
through physical, social, mental and
spiritual training" Mrs. Cotton
mentioned summer camp was being
devised to meet these four side in
girls life" Through the efforts
CT Mrs. J. P. Sexton and her com"
mittee and also through the time
and labor spent by members of XII
wants club and other friends, the
association now has a comfortable
and sanitary camp. This is run with
a capacity of so girls for two weeks
as girls camp with full program
and is open for rental and used by
Douglas and Bisbce people from May
tc November. A free permit has
been granted from the government
and stO3 65 was spent last year in
permanent camp improvements.
A second all-round way of carry
ing out this part of our purpose Is
through the girls work." continued
Mrs Cotton Our nine clubs now
total Il membership of 2O5 with new
developments i'll the way of organi-
cation of Mexican club and II
colored girl reserve club as well as
the sponsoring of two camp fire
groups. All these clubs are under
fine, trained leaders who deserve
messed Major H. o. D..~Segrave es-
special commen6ation and put in
girl terms this purpose.
( Under the psysical side of our
purpose q part of the program is
Eealth education which was done
through thH maintenance of the
Recreation CLUB and women's gym
class last year as well as co-opera-
tion in health week activities. Spe-
ecial mention was made of the effic-
lent service of Mrs. Guy Sites and
Miss Mary1yn Norton as directors
of the swimming and gymnasium
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