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Wednesday, October 9. 1963 ' :
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RECEIVES DEGREE On
Sept. 13. Mrs. La Veil IDar
lene Clark I Vincent wat
graduated as a registered
nurse from Good Samaritan
School of Nursing in Port
land. Mrs. Vincent is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Clark of this city and
is a graduate of Klamath
Union High School. She will
remain at Good Samaritan
Hospital as a member of
the nursing staff.
Photo by Bruno Studio
Soroptimists
Help Seniors
MOUNT SHASTA The Sorop-
limist Club will meet Oct. 16 at
the Red House at 8:45 p.m. At
this meeting the club will vote to
donate $50 to the Wonderland Sen
iors to help in securing a meeting
spot nearer town during the
winter months. Presently the sen
ior group meets in the city park.
The Mount Shasta Soroptimists
have sponsored the senior citizen
club since its organization.
Also at the next meeting mem
bers will hear Pearl Summers,
field representative of the Com
munity Concert Association.
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Women, individually or collec
tively, rarely admit to being more
than 39 years old. Klamath Falls
Business and Professional Wom
en's Club not only admits its 39
years it's proud to be almost 40.
Ida Momyer Odell calls that
quite a swatch of time off the
yardage of eternity." Mrs. Odell
says she actually came to live in
Klamath Palls in 1895 and
as the beloved Historian tens
about the early days of the town,
it becomes again a vigorous fron
tier community bursting beyond
its nucleus around Link River.
She has seen the beginning of
many things and her blue eyes
reflect the merriment she recalls
as one of the organizers of the
first business women's groups
here.
She relates that in 1924 the
Women's Library Club, a strong
public influence then, as it still
is, undertook the formation of a
branch for business and profes
sional women.
Mrs. Odell, a member of Mom
yer and Momyer Real Estate and
Insurance: Coral Sabo of the
First National Bank; Gertrude
Moore, employed by the First
Trust and Savings Bank; Frances
Racknor. with Houston and
Phelps, the town's largest grocery
store; and Lena Dennis, city treas
urer, could well claim to be busi
ness women, so they became the
five original members. Mrs. Lyle
Kimball, teacher and library club
member, was the managing force
and mothered the new club
through its infancy. Later she was
to be awarded lifetime member
ship in BPW.
The business women began lo
meet in the basement of the old
library building located where
the present courthouse stands. An
other meeting place was the
Blue Bird, a cafe and candy
store which Mrs. Odell calls "an
institution in those days."
Mrs. Racknor became the first
president because, she claims, no
one else would accept the job
and she sought to be agreeable.
Soon the infant outgrew its
cradle and moved away from the
old home in the library to the
famed White Pelican Hotel, cen
ter of the town's social life, and
managed at that time by a new
member, Mrs. . Hope Kilbourn.
There, often seated on the floor
in front of the crackling fireplace
in the "little parlor" that jutted
toward Esplanade Avenue they
visited, sang and exchanged ex
periences. Mrs. Odell remembers
very little serious purpose then,
only that they all "loved it." She
delights in the memory of an ad
venturesome trip over the Green-
springs one Sunday for a picnic
in Lithia Park.
But there was soon to be a
change. With a membership of 15.
they began to feel they were grow
ing up and should take on some
responsibility. Mrs. Racknor v as
elected to a second term as preM
dent. They applied for and re
ceived a chapter from the Na
tional Federation of Business and
Professional Women, in its child
hood, too, having been founded
in 1919 with its basic purpose ex
pressed as "A Better Business
Woman for a Better Business
World."
Klamath Falls BPW has grown
toward maturity with the federa
tion with the common aim to pro
mote the interests of business and
professional women. With its na
tional strength it has supported
and brought about many import
ant legislative measures directly
benefiting the working woman.
Nationally the local club helps
support the Chinese Nursing Home
in Formosa. An important state
project is the continuing scholar
ship for an Oriental woman stu
dent. Among other local projects,
it provides an annual scholarship
for a promising Klamath County
high school senior girl. And it in
volves itself with lively sincerity
in all community interests, hop
ing to weave durable threads into
the present swatch ot time.
During this National Business
Women's Week, an adult Klamath
Falls BPW with a membership of
nearly 100, faces up to the federa
tion challenge "Responsibil
ity of Full Partnership. For con
fidence to meet the challenge it
pays tribute to its parent club, the
five organizers, and its charter
members for their construction of
a solid foundation and continued
inspiration without which the
club's present stature would be
impossible.
OAES Meet
The Oregon Association of Edu
cational Secretaries first meeting
for the 1963 - 64 school year
will be Oct. 12 at the Ashland
Junior High School in Ashland
Sandra Mitchell is chairman.
Registrations will be handled
bv Mrs. Maxine York, 88d Sis
kiyou Street in Ashland.
In many nations, community
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public places.
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BPW FOUNDERS In observance of National Business Women's Week these women
met to reminisce the early days of the local Business and Professional Women's Club,
The four charter members, seated in front, are Ida Momyer Odell, left, and Frances
Racknor, the first president. In back are Coral Sabo, left, and Gertrude Moore. A
fifth charter member was the late Lena Dennis.
OVER THE GARDEN GATE
GREENSPRINGS
GARDEN CLUB
The Greensprings Garden Club
met Oct. 4 at the home of Mrs.
Elmer Colson on Laurel Street.
To celebrate the club's fourth
birthday, a cake baked by Mrs.
Ray Billings and her co-hostess.
Mrs. Richard Harris, was served
during the social hour.
President Mrs. Lane Smith Jr.
conducted the meeting. Mrs. Zora
Luce gave the horticulture lesson
on the wintering of chrysanthemums.
Mrs. Guy Moore, garden ther
apy chairman, suggested t h (
group give to shut-ins throughout
the year, not just at Christmas.
As a result of discussion each
member will be responsible for
one month and one shut-in.
Mrs. Robert Baker, landscape
chairman, reported she is pur
chasing a tree to replace a dead
one previously planted at Keno
School.
Mrs. John Parisotto read an
article concerning the Nature
Trail written by Mes. Vern Bra
der, past state garden club presi
dent and which was published
in the National Gardener maga
zine. Mrs. Ray Billings presented the
program on narcissus and daffo
dils.
The next meeting on Nov. 7
at the home of Mrs. Robert Bak
er, lite. 3, Box 232 II, will be a
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