Transcribe
Translate
League of Women Voters minutes, 1920-1925
Page 49
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
important boards and I come to you after eighteen month experience with them with this high eulogy in the performance of their duties in vastly important spheres (affairs) the women have demonstrated equal with their male members, so that is the highest compliment that can be paid them. You take the State Board of Education that has under its supervision the State University of Iowa, the great agricultural college at Ames, the teacher's training college at Cedar Falls and so on, the women who are on that Board have not only become thoroughly familiar with the ethical relations that they sustain with the Board, but they have become entirely acquainted with the fiscal societies that support the Board and the Schools. That I count one of the greatest compliments, triumphs of all. I think I read an article that said there would be a scarcity of women who could be induced to accept an office, but after awhile just as in this state in the city of Des Moines, in the case of Mrs Monis as one of the City Council, the women will broaden & expand until they shall be equal with men in every way. I hope you may have a profitable & stimulating convention. Mrs Geo. Gelhorn of St. Louis, at one time National Chairman for American Citizenship and a leader of tremendous force in her own state, fascinated her audience by her bright brilliant of the "Woman's Experience in a new world." Mrs Gelhorne gave a certain flavor to the work of the League that we sometimes
Saving...
prev
next
important boards and I come to you after eighteen month experience with them with this high eulogy in the performance of their duties in vastly important spheres (affairs) the women have demonstrated equal with their male members, so that is the highest compliment that can be paid them. You take the State Board of Education that has under its supervision the State University of Iowa, the great agricultural college at Ames, the teacher's training college at Cedar Falls and so on, the women who are on that Board have not only become thoroughly familiar with the ethical relations that they sustain with the Board, but they have become entirely acquainted with the fiscal societies that support the Board and the Schools. That I count one of the greatest compliments, triumphs of all. I think I read an article that said there would be a scarcity of women who could be induced to accept an office, but after awhile just as in this state in the city of Des Moines, in the case of Mrs Monis as one of the City Council, the women will broaden & expand until they shall be equal with men in every way. I hope you may have a profitable & stimulating convention. Mrs Geo. Gelhorn of St. Louis, at one time National Chairman for American Citizenship and a leader of tremendous force in her own state, fascinated her audience by her bright brilliant of the "Woman's Experience in a new world." Mrs Gelhorne gave a certain flavor to the work of the League that we sometimes
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
sidebar
