Remembering
By Joseph Celentano
TCMM Historical Research Committee
www.TuolumneMuseum.org/rt0503.htm
While searching the archives of the TCMM,
we ran across the following bit of information regarding the "Tuolumne
Women's Improvement Club".
"The following Tuolumne Women's
Improvement Club Members voted to make a gift of their club house to the
Tuolumne City Memorial Museum, Inc:
- Mrs. Cornelia
"Pat" Adkins (Theodore)
- Mrs. Maun
Schutze Baker (Mark)
-Mrs. Margaret Hodge Barnett
-Mrs. Alice Caldera
-Mrs. Sarah Carter (Woodard)
-Mrs. Agnez
Holm Curnow (Stanley)
-Mrs. Marian Dunn
-Mrs. Moree
Finkler
-Mrs. Buelah
Fyock (
-Mrs. Gladys Gustafson (Erik)
-Mrs. Isabelle Hodge (Fred)
-Mrs. Dolores Perano
Hodges (
-Mrs. Beatrice Bangs Kelly (Harold)
-Mrs. Phyllis Martin Reid (
-Miss Marie Rozier
-Mrs. Myrtle Ness Sullivan (Edward)
-Mrs. Bertha Smith Thomas (Earl)
-Miss Ruth Tupper
-Mrs. Blossom Wilever
-Mrs. Cordelia
Wilcoxson (Dave)
"The members decided they could no
longer keep up the necessary improvements and care of their building and
grounds. So
they withdrew from the state Federation of Women's Clubs, continued as just the
local group, and made plans for turning over the property, building,
furnishings and grounds, to the Tuolumne City Memorial Museum, Inc. This took quite a long time as it took over
two years for the incorporation of the Museum to be established.
"Fred Hodge, Milton Fyock, and Eugene Palihnich were
the prime movers in this effort. The
women had joined the Museum
Association and had fund raising projects for both the Museum and Improvement
club during the waiting period.
"At last, the time when the deeds
were signed, and the Tuolumne Women's
Improvement Club became inactive as such, but worked hard with the
Museum Association and donated their treasury balance of $440 to the Museum.
"It was Cordelia
Wilcoxson who worked so diligently on building
and grounds and fund raising and Gladys Gustafson who kept the
Presidency for so many years. Thus the
organization, started in 1911, whose duty was to work for the good and the
improvement of the town, put its property into different hands."
…..and
thus, another page turns in the history of Remembering Tuolumne.