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Launch Drive for New YWCA . .
By JEKk.vic. t:NGL"iSH
Statesman Society Editor
A $200,000 campaign to rai.se funds for a much nejjed YWCA
building will be launched on Thursday at a brea.claa a., the Se ialor
Hotel. There can no longer be a delay of a new uuil , .. and Hie
committee hopes to raise tne needed amount so as to sf ;t coiisu-uc-tion
and provide the women adequate quarters in cc.p :ig with the
quality and quantity of YWCA memborFiip. A few . ears ago Uie
first $200,000 was raised and the presenf campaign w.li complete
the total.
The Salem VWCA has grown by leaps ahd bounds during the
past 15 years, grown in membership and activities, but not in phy
sical plant or facilities to handle this ever-increasing membership.
Growth of activities of the YWCA has marie the ui'.ding a ne
cessity. In 1938 the YW was reaching 234 Y-Te-n girN find today
the number is 784. Over 500 women are enrolled in various edu
cation classes at the YW and the 1938 membership of iS womi,
now totals 659. It has been necessary for the YWCA to ase outside
facilities snch as the library, churches and private homes for regular
group activities.
A. C. Haag is rerving as campaign chairman with Mrs. A. A
Schramm the associate chairman and C. A. Kelly, the assistant
chairman. Women's division chairme n are Mrs. Frank 1 1. Spears
and Mrs. Floyd L Utter.
A Coffee on Monday
The last meeting of women campaign workers before the YWCA
Building campaign gets underway will be held during a coffee hour
Monday morning at the home of Mrs. A. A. Schramm, 165 N. 17th
Street, at 9:45 o'clock.
All women campaign workers and others interested in the cur
rent building drive are invited to the coffee. A special guest will be
Miss Pauline" R. V. Schaedler, New York, member of the national
YWCA staff and secretary, responsible for buildings and residences.
Miss Schaedler is now in the northwest and is coming to Salem to
confer wHh campaign workers. There will be a question and an
swer period following her talK.
Greeting gue.' ts will be Mrs. Harold O. Schneider, president of
the YWCA, Mrs. Schramm and Miss Schaedler. At the door will be
Mrs. Floyd L. Utter and Mrs. Bruce F. Pickett.
Presiding at the coffee urns will be Mrs. Frank 11. Spears and
Miss Dorathea Steusloff. Assisting will be Mrs. Gus Moore, Mrs.
Tinkham Gilbert and Mrs. Wendell Webb. Mrs. Richard Upjohn. is
chairman of the social committee of the YWCA, in charge of arrang
ing the coffee.
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teen-aqe fashion show is on the slate for
Tr:-Y members this week and the setting
wili be the Salem Woman's Club. At present
there are no adequate facilities for such a show
at the YWCA, so the girls must go outside and
pay rent for another building. On the commit
tee for the style shew to be held Thursday night
are above left to right, Barbara Franzwa, Patsy
Snider, general chairman, Anne Woodmansee
and Carol Fisher. (Kenenll-Ellis photo).
Classes are even held in the living room of
the present YWCA building as there are
not enough rooms to accommodate the many
classes held weekly at the YW.' At the right, a
member cf the "Talcing Off the Pounds" class,
Mrs. W. B. Showalter cf Chemawa, is shown
eing weighed by the instructor, Mrs. Scott
oster Jr. The class meets weekly and the worn
in take their reducing exercises in the living
room. In the new building there will be a large
and small gymnasium for such classes. (Ken-
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Tea Time
The Oregon State Col
lege Mothers Club is en
tertaining with a mother
and daughter tea on
Thursday afternoon at
the Candalaria Heights
home of Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Stevens, 2825 Al
varado Terrace. The af
fair is being held during
spring vacation while the
coeds are home from
school. Mothers without
daughters and prospective
Oregon State students
and their mothers are in
vited to call Jaetween 2:30
and 6 o'clock.
Greeting guests will be
Mrs. Elmore Hill and Mrs.
George Rhoten. In the
receiving line will be Mrs.
Deral Jones, president of
the Salem Oregon State
Mothers, Mrs. Oscar I.
Paulson, a past state
president, and Mrs. Ste
vens. Presiding at the tea
urns during the afternoon
will be Mrs. Austin Wil
son, Mrs. Everett Ander
sen, Mrs. James Manning,
Mrs. William Wiederkehr,
Mrs. Joseph Rosen and
Mrs. Carl Wendt.
Mrs. Edward Majek is
chairman of the tea direc
torate and assisting will
be Mrs. A. E. Archibald,
Mrs. Sam H. Ruhl, Mrs.
Harold Gillespie and Mrs.
Elmore Hill.
At the present time there is no swimimng pool for women only in Salem and Included in
the architect's plan for the new YWCA building is a pool annex, when completed, will
face on South Winter Street . . . Pictured above are four Tri-Y members, who are boastincj
for the much needed pool. In the water are Connie Hilton and Janet MacDonald unci 8itlin3
on the edge at the YMCA pool are loan Traviss and Sharon Heider. UCennell-EUis photo). -1 ;
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