BLACKWELL FAMILY MISCELLANY SPEECHES, ANNOUNCEMENT ALICE STONE BLACKWELL OFMASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Third Middlesex Representative District IMPORTANT MEETING - FOR MEMBERS ONLY At the home of Mrs. Charles Peabody, 197 Brattle Street Wednesday, April 28, 1920, 2.30 P. M. MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL will speak on the plan of the National and State League of Women Voters and will make suggestions for local organizations. There will [*be*] a discussion of the following questions: Shall we continue the existence of our association? Shall we change our name and organization? Shall we unite with the other Cambridge districts? Shall we pay dues? A proposed revision of the constitution will be presented, and a nominating committee must be chosen to present the names of new officers to be voted upon at the annual meeting. All members are urged to be present. 70NORTHBRIDGE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS WHITINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS 28 Spring St Friday Sept 15, 1933 My dear Miss Blackwell; It is with a great deal of pleasure and anticipation that the Northbridge League of Women Voters will await your speaking to them on the afternoon of Nov. 6 at 2.30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. John Lasell. Kindly advise me one week before Nov. 6, what time you will leave Boston, and the time you will arrive in Worcester in order that the necessary arrangements may be made. Yours truly E. Mildred BrownWhitinsvilleMarch 23 THE POET LOOKS AT LIFE Chairman: MRS. MARION PERHAM GALE Vice-Chairman: MISS MADELEINE BARRETT A most unusual and interesting program has been arranged for this afternoon. Tea Hostesses: MRS. JEAN E. CARTH MISS GRACE EVELYN BROWN April 27 "THE WRITER AND HER MUSIC" Chairman: MRS. M. H. GULESIAN Vice-Chairman: MRS. MALCOLM BRADLEY FRENCH A play by Mrs. Larz Anderson in a musical setting by Mrs. Gulesian Tea Hostesses: MRS. WEIGA TRACY MRS. M. AGNES BISHOP May 2, 12.30 P.M. MAY BREAKFAST Tickets: MRS. A. LOUISE GILLETTE Music: MRS. GULESIAN Hostesses: Mrs. Flagg, Miss King, Dr. Cross, Mrs. Cheyne, Miss O'Hara, Miss Barrett, Mrs. Gillette, Mrs. Southwick, Mrs. Lord, Mrs. Thore Decorations: DR. BARBARA RING Speakers: MRS. ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE DR. FANNIE FERN ANDREWS Each member will be called upon for a one-minute greeting. May 25, 2.00 P.M. ANNUAL MEETING Election of Officers Hostesses: MISS ELEANOR EARLY MRS. JANIE WELTMAN Delegate to the General Federation of Women's Clubs' Biennial Convention, Seattle, 1932 MRS. M. AGNES DALRYMPLE BISHOP Author of the Press Association History MRS. MYRON B. LORD STATE FEDERATION MEETINGS 1931-1932 President, MRS. C. L. SCHRADER Federation Headquarters, 687 Boylston Street, Boston September 15, 16, 17, 1931 New England Conference Rangeley Lake Hotel, Rangeley, Maine October 30 Fall Meeting at Marlboro November 4, 10 A.M. to 12 P.M. Grace Morrison Poole Bazaar Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston February 18 Mid-Winter Meeting Hotel Bradford, Boston May 18, 19, 20, 21 Annual Meeting at the New Ocean House, Swampscott 1931 1932 The New England Woman's Press Association PROGRAM HOTEL FRITZ-CARLTON 1138 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts MEETINGS REGULAR MEETINGS Fourth Wednesday, October-May NOTE: The Executive Board Meeting at 1 P.M. will be followed by the regular Business Meeting of the Club at 2 P.M., while the Program of the afternoon (to which guests are admitted) will be held at 3 P.M. GUEST NIGHT February 19, 1932 Dinner at 7 P.M. MAY BREAKFAST Monday, May 2, 1932 12.30 o'clock ANNUAL MEETING Wednesday, May 23, 1932 The Reception Committee Mrs. Henry Armstrong.............Talbot 2092 Mrs. Malcolm B. French...........Regent 1034 Mrs. Nelson Howard.................Parkway 0780 Dr. Edwina K. Lang.....................Revere 1749-J Dr. Barbara Ring..........................Arlington 0081 Mrs. Christopher D. Thore, Chairman Everett 1754OFFICERS President MRS. FRANCIS J. FLAGG, Newton North 4490 54 Oakwood Road, Newtonville Secretary MISS JUANITA F. O'HARA, Parkway 0386-W 18 Meredith Street, West Roxbury Treasurer MRS. A. LOUISE GILLETTE, Braintree 0300 21 Hancock Street, South Braintree PROGRAM October 28 3.00 P.M. DRAMA DAY at Hambury Hall 149 Hillside Avenue, Arlington Heights Chairman: DR. BARBARA RING Vice-Chairman: MRS. LOTT MANSFIELD Presiding at the Tea Table MRS. IRENE H. BURNHAM MRS. WALLACE S. KING An analysis will be made of a play from the Pen to the Press. The first act of an original play entitled "Heard Round the World" will be presented by a group of selected players. Members of the Club will be invited to express their reactions to the play in a discussion led by PROFESSOR ALBERT R. LOVEJOY, Director of the Cambridge School of Drama, Director of the Summer School of Theatre, White Plains, N.Y. The Contribution of the Press will be discussed by WILLIAM E. HARRIS, Critic Dramatic Staff of the Boston Evening Transcript, Lecturer at Chamberlain School of Everyday Art, Contributing Editor of The Writer's Magazine. Should any member desire to bring a guest, will she please notify Dr. Barbara Ring by October 26th? Subway to Harvard Sq., Arlington Heights car to Park Avenue, where Dr. Ring's automobiles will be waiting. November 4 GRACE MORRISON POOLE RALLY The Press Association is co-operating with the other Clubs in the State Federation by taking tables at the Bridge Party, by attending the luncheon and by making reservations for the evening concert. Make your own reservations early. Chairman: MRS. C. ANTOINETTE WOOD Vice-Chairman: MRS. LOTT MANSFIELD November 25 ANNIVERSARY DAY Past Presidents in charge Chairman: MISS HELENA B. SHIPMAN Vice-Chairman: MRS. NORAH JOHNSON BARBOUR Hostesses: MRS. JESSIE LEONARD MRS. JOSEPH MAHONEY Subject: THE NEWSPAPER WOMAN - THEN AND NOW Speakers: MRS. MYRA B. LORD MISS HELEN M. WINSLOW MRS. PAULA PATTERSON Tea Lighting of Birthday Candles December 23 CHRISTMAS PARTY (For children and grandchildren of members) Chairman: MRS. ETHEL W. BEACH Vice-Chairman: MRS. ELEANOR WOOD WHITMAN Tea Hostesses: MRS. HENRY ARMSTRONG MRS. ITTA FELLNER January 27 THE INTERNATIONAL POINT OF VIEW Chairman: MRS. HENRY H. MEYER Vice-Chairman: MISS ESTHER WILLARD BATES Speakers: DR. CORA B. REEVES, Nanking, China "The Writing of the Medical Article" DR. TILLY AMPIOAMLAN of India (Exchange Professor at Wellesley) "The Writer Looks at America" Tea Hostesses: MRS. NELSON HOWARD DR. EDWINA LANG February 19 GUEST NIGHT Dinner promptly at 7 P.M. Tickets: MRS. A. LOUISE GILLETTE Decorations: MRS. ANTOINETTE WOOD Chairman: MRS. FRANCIS J. FLAGG Vice-Chairman: MISS ALICE GWENDOLINE ALBEE This dinner will be in the nature of a George Washington Party Eight Minute Speakers: MRS. ELIZABETH TOWNE MRS. MARGARET DELAND MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL MR. MAGRUDER MAURY MRS. RUSSELL WILLIAM MAGNA A one-act play, written by Mrs. Antoinette Wood and staged by Mrs. Helen B. Shaw, will be produced. February 24 "THE GENTLE ART OF INTERVIEWING" Chairman: MISS STELLA O. LIBBEY Vice-Chairman: MRS. ELIZABETH W. GOSSE Speaker: MRS. JEAN WEST MAURY Miss Libbey is arranging a mock interview for this afternoon also. Tea Hostesses: MRS. RALPH KIRKLAND MRS. ARVILLA CHEYNER.J. Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae The third meeting of the year will be held Saturday March 9th, at the Handicraft Club, 42 College St. Business meeting 2:30 to 3:00 o'clock. BOSTON UNIVERSITY DAY address on MADAME BRESHKOVSKY by MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL author of "The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution" At Pembroke Hall at 3:00 o'clock on Saturday, April 20, under the auspices of this Association a meeting will be held for the purpose of interesting High School girls in further education. A. C. A. members are invited and are asked to notify Miss E. Helena Gregory, Classical High School if they can be present. You are cordially invited to attend to A.C.A. meeting of March ninth, and on the evening of March ninth, at eight o'clock, to meet other Boston University Alumni at the home of Mrs. James W. Algeo, 394 Angell Street, to consider the formation of a Rhode Island Boston University Alumni Association. Dean Warren of the College of Liberal Arts, will be present at the meeting. . .ALICE STONE BLACKWELL SPEAKS ON MOTHER'S LIFE Mrs M. Talbot Lane of Brookline presided at a meeting of the Massachusetts National Colonial Association in the Twentieth Century Club yesterday afternoon. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell spoke on "Things Old and New," reviewing some of the things and events connected with the life of her mother, Lucy Stone, pioneer woman suffragist. Mrs Edward Gaylord spoke on "Citizenship". NEWPORT HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1923. TELLS OF WOMEN'S EARLY STRUGGLES Miss Blackwell Speaks to Women Republicans HER MOTHER'S WORK FOR SUFFRAGE League of Women Voters Invite Republicans Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Lucy Stone, was the speaker yesterday afternoon at the regular monthly meeting of the Newport County Women's Republican club. Her subject was the change that has been wrought in the past century with regard to the position of women Mrs. Emma A. Buckhout was in the chair. The reports of the secretary, Mrs. Morrill, and the treasurer, Mrs. A. C. Landers, Jr., were read and approved. Mrs. Marshall W. Hall was admitted as a member of the club. Miss Blackwell said that one phase of history little known to the men and women of today is that which deals with the struggles which finally ended in the recognition of the equal rights of women with men. It is hard to realize just how impossible any such gathering as the one yesterday afternoon would have been 100 years ago. The pioneers, among whom was the mother of Miss Blackwell, won for women the right to speak before audiences. Deeply as many women felt the necessity of the movement for women's rights, it was not this but the movement for the abolition of human slavery that was the scene of their first victory. At that time the anti-slavery society was composed solely of the most extreme radicals of the times. Nevertheless when a woman was put on the board, the society was split at what most, called "an amazing impropriety." The ministers got together and fulminated against "female orators" who would soon drag their sex to perdition. There were no colleges, no high schools in the country to which women were admitted. Everywhere it was a man's legal right to beat his wife "in moderation." Miss Blackwell described her mother's struggles at Oberlin college, which was one of the first to admit women. The professors were inclined to be liberal, but their wives objected and it was necessary for the girls who wished to debate to do so in the woods. They were denied the privileges of the college platform. So deep was the feeling against education for women that a prominent woman missionary said "No refined Christian mother can ever send her daughter to Vassar college," and it was the general sentiment. The first women doctors were considered either bad characters or lunatics. Any woman who sought ordination must be an infidel. Against all these difficulties the devoted band struggled. At length success crowned their efforts and we of today reap the results. "We can do nothing for the pioneers save to use the rights that they won for us." From the days when it was unwomanly to join even a temperance society to the present is a far-cry, but the goal is not entirely achieved. Women do not receive equal wages with men for the same work. It is no time to rest on laurels already won. Miss Blackwell was given a rising vote of thanks. An invitation from the League of Women Voters was received to attend a meeting to be held at the home of Mrs. Warren T. Berry on the 22nd of this month. Tea was served at the conclusion of the address under the direction of Mrs. Charles Cottrell. Mrs. Greenlaw and Mrs. Buckhout poured.SCIENCE MONITOR, BOSTON, FRIDAY, D CHILEAN WOMAN LEADERSHIP PRAISED TO CASTILIAN CLUB Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, in Address on Gabriela Mistral, Poetess, Relates Accomplishments and Deeds of Bravery of South American Women Chile has had a number of remarkable women. According to Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, in her recent address before the Castilian Club of Boston, the Latin-American woman is by no means so lazy as she has sometimes been supposed to be. She thinks it is inconsistent with her dignity to hurry, and she will not hurry; but she accomplishes a great deal. On occasion she can show extraordinary energy. After the civil war in Chile, more than 30 years ago, 29 young men, sons of the "first families," were condemned to execution because they had taken the losing side. The poetess, Mercedes Marin del Solar, a woman of high character, much respected, made great effort to save them. After exhausting all other means, she took a step unprecedented for a Spanish-Amerian woman. She asked permission to speak before the Parliament of Chile. Although warned that she was taking great risk, she made aplea of extraordinary eloquence. When she left the Parliament House she carried with her the pardons of the 29 young men. The subject was "Gabriela Mistral," a few years ago an obscure country school teacher, now known and loved for her poems wherever the Spanish language is spoken. Miss Blackwell read translations from her works, including a passage from an article published in "Inter-America." Deprecating the ill-will toward North America felt by many Latin Americans, Gabriela Mistral said: "The Yankee is conquering us, he is overwhelming us, by our own fault, because of our torrid languor, because of our Indian fatalism. He is disintegrating us through the agency of some of his virtues and all our racial vices." Mrs. Ernest Howard Crosby, president of the Castilian Club, read the invocation pronounced by Gabriela Mistral at the tomb of George Washington, when she visited Mount Vernon during her brief sojourn in this country last spring: "May the memory of Washington be a living presence among his countrymen! "May war, to the United States, never be other than it was to Washington- the last and most grievous resource! "May the memory of Washington be our advocate, inspiring his people to deal justly with us!"