Amabel Anderson Arnold - 29/08 (DYK that Amabel Anderson Arnold, a
St. Louis lawyer and law professor, received degrees from both Benton College of Law and City College of Law and Finance within a five-day period?)
Althea Warren, director of the Los Angeles (California) Public Library from 1933 to 1947 and president of the American Library Association in 1943-1944
Kate Sessions, American botanist, horticulturalist, and landscape architect closely associated with San Diego, California, and known as the "Mother of Balboa Park."
Mary Foote Henderson, American author, real estate developer, and social activist from the U.S. state of New York who was known as "The Empress of Sixteenth Street"
Virginia Jolliffe, Mrs.
Daniel C. Jackling, 1st President of the Girls' Recreation and Home Club
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Mrs. W.E. Silverwood, 1922 President of the
Kate Tupper Galpin Shakespeare Club
Officers of A.A.U.W. upon arrival in Klamath Falls, Oregon, were met and welcomed by
Wanda Brown Shaw. From left to right: Mrs. G.A. Johnson, Mabel Morton, Wanda Brown Shaw, Helen Moor, Mrs. Herbert Howell, Dr. K.W. Jameson, state president and dean of women at Oregon State College
Zulu Clements, traffic manager for the Leslie Salt Co, and touted as "Woman Salt Baron"
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Orelia Key Bell - 24/09 (DYK that, in 1895, Orelia Key Bell dedicated a collection of poems to her "Heavenly Muse" Ida Jane Ash, next to whom she is now buried in
Atlanta?)
Berenice Wyer - 21/09 (DYK that Paolo and Francesca, the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer, was performed in New York and Chicago?)
Kate Brew Vaughn - 14/09 (DYK that someone told Kate Brew Vaughn that her eggless, sugarless, and butterless
World War I Victory Cake was "joyless", but then ate three pieces?)
Isabel Pell - 02/09 (DYK that American socialite Isabel Pell joined the
Maquis and rescued a contingent of American soldiers in France during World War II?)
Edith Brake West, American educator. She conducted a ground-breaking survey of county organizations which was recognized by the National Federation of Women's Clubs