Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club Meeting Minutes

if a member of the executive board should be absent for three consecutive meetings without just cause, she should be dropped from the Board. The second was a change in the guest fee, advancing it from twenty-five to thirty-five cents. Places were discussed for the "celebrations" to be held in honor of the cancellation of the mortgage on the Loring Greenough House and also the Mother Goose Village activites. It was decided that the motor trip to visit the Pendleton Collection at Providence should take place Monday, October thirty-first. Adjournment followed.

Respectfully submitted, (signed) Lucy E. Henderson Sec. Pro Tem.

copied by Blanch U. Eldridge Rec. Sec.

The Trustees of the Loring-Greenough House announce the cancellation of the mortgage and cordially invite you to a reception in honor of all contributors to the Fund Tuesday, the twenty-seventh of September nineteen hundred and twenty-seven from three until five o'clock Special exercises at four o'clock Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Present at the gate

Boston Evening Transcript, Wednesday September 28, 1927 Historic Mansion Preserved for All Time

Tuesday Club of Jamaica Plain Completes Three Years of Untiring Labor to Buy Loring-Greenough House and Burns Mortgage on the Property

By invitation of the Loring-Greenough House trustees, a notable group assembled in the mansion at 12 South street, Jamaica Plain, yesterday afternoon, to celebrate an achievement of the Tuesday Club, and organization of 400 women. Mrs. Thomas G. Rees, the president, was in charge of the exercises. A letter of regret was recevied from Governor Fuller. Mayor Nichols was among the guests and a pituresque figure was John Greenough of New York city, a representative of the family whose home this was for six generations. His mother was married there and lived sixty-four years beneath its roof. Mr. Greenough was among the most generous contributors to the fund for purchasing the property. Mrs. Frederick Glazier Smith, General Federation director for Massachusetts and Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, General Federation secretary were among those who congratulated the club on the cancellation of the debt. In three years this club has raised $64,000 for this purpose. The largest contribution was $5000 and the smallest fifty cents, given by a wage-earning woman who for years took a car at the corner of the beautiful garden. The ceremont of burning the mortgage constituted the chief feature of the open house program. It was in July 1924, that the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club started on a venture with a very definite end, the saving of the only remaining historic mansion in that section of Boston. The first year, led by Mrs. Albert W. Goodnow, found the plan well organized. Under the guidance of Mrs. Thomas G. Rees, the second year brought even greater encouragement, and during the third year, with Mrs. Rees still in the presidency, the goal was reached. The beginning of the season of 1924 found this club of women with a house, whose purchase price was $53,000. In September, local painters, decorators, carpenters and other tradesmen assumed responsibility for the renovation of certain parts of the house as their gift to the good cause. Many and varied activities of the club members during the year brought the mortgage down to $30,000. With renewed vigor and courage the members in 1925 repeated their efforts of the previous year and again attacked the problem of reducing the mortgage and the indebtedness was reduced to $23,000. Last January a "special gifts" committee with Mrs. Arthur N. Broughton, Mrs. Gaspar G. Bacon and Mrs. Rees as joint chairmen, was formed to carry through a campaign to clear the remaining $20,000 of the mortgage. As originally planned there were fifty on the committee, each asked to raise $400, assisted by three others of her own choosing. A few men in the community gave valiant co-operation. A number of the committee fell by the wayside but there were thirty-eight whole held out to the end and with varying success did their best. Twentytwo of these exceeded the quote assigned, some of them many times over. The total expense of the drive was $127.75, a low figure which indicates that numerous incidental expenses were met by the individual members of the committee. Miss Elizabeth W. George, treasurer of the club, managed the funds. Sixty-four thousand dollars has passed through her hands for the house in three years, which represents the price paid for the property and all running expenses which include heat, light, taxes, insurance, interest, and repairs. On Aug. 1 the cancelled mortgage was returned to her.

Hospitality Committee and be cordial in their greetings to members and guests at the club meetings.

Adjournment followed.

Respectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge. Rec. Sec.

Recital Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club October 25, 1927

Gertrude Ehrhard, Soprano Nicolas Slonimsky, Pianist

Program Soprano Deh Vieni.......Mozart Du bist die Ruh.......Schubert Der Engel.......Wagner Standchen.......Strauss

Piano Berceuse.......Chopin Ballade No. 3.......Chopin

Soprano Le temps des lilas.......Chausson Les Berceaux.......Faure Sur la mer.......Gaubert Air de Lia- "L'Enfant Prodigue".......Debussy

Piano Magic Fire from Valkurien.......Wagner-Brassin Le vent dans la plaine.......Debussy Prelude.......Slonimsky

Soprano April.......Black At a window.......Hammond Starry Night.......Slonimsky At the Well.......Hageman

Mason & Hamlin Piano

October 25, 1927.

The first meeting of the year 1927-1928 of the Jamaifa Plain Tuesday Club, Inc. was held in the Unitarian Parish House Ocotber twenty-fifth, the President presiding. This meeting was New Members' Day and Mrs. Rees welcomed the twenty-eight new members into the Club. The President stated that the financial returns from the Mother Goose Village Party had been $542.75. Mrs. Walter B. Leach, Director of the Fourth District was our Guest of Honor for the afternoon. She spoke to the members of the Club calling our attention especially to the new departments in the State Federation and emphasizing the need of our attending federation meetings and also the district conferences. Mrs. Grabill, Chairman of the Hospitality Committee introduced Miss Ehrhart,soprano and Mr. Slonimsky, pianist who rendered an hour of delightful music. Frappe and coffee were served in the Loring Greenough House by Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Lees, Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Partridge. The tables were decorated with yellow button chrysanthemums and lighted candles.

Respectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge Rec. Sec.

October 31, 1927.

Thirty members of the Club under the leadership of Mrs. Edric Eldridhe, Chairman of the History and Travel Department, went to Providence October thirty-first by motor. They visited the museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and found particularly interesting the Pendleton Collection of Colonial Furniture exhibited there. The Arts and Crafts Club entertained our members at luncheon served in their club house. Later they were afforded an opportunity to view the house which was built about eighteen hundred twenty-four. The members visited the John Hay Library and were given an opportunity to see the Harris collections of early American poetry and the Lincoln and Napoleon collections. They also visited the John Carter Brown Library.

Respectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge Rec. Sec.

November 15, 1927 An open meeting of the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club was held in the Unitarian Parish House November fifteenth, the President presiding. Attention of the members of the Club was called by Mrs. Rees to the pictures and postcards of the Loring Greenough House which are for sale. Mrs. George Derby appealed to the members to join the Red Cross. We should renew our membership as we must not fall below the five million dollar memberships. Mrs. Russell S. Hyde, Chairman of the Social Service and Legislative Department, introduced Mrs. Alice Pattison Merritt, the speaker, whose subject was "Pioneering in Politics." Mrs. Merritt, as the first woman senator of Connecticut, has found that men are not superior in politics but that they have had more experience, that women are not interested in politics and that they must change their practices, that they should be interested in their neighbors and they must think of the generations to come. The problem is to choose men and women of character who are to be our executives. The speaker gave us as the keynote of good womanhood that we cannot have a good home unless we attend to the

other things. Tea was served in the Loring Greenough House by Mrs. Blackmer, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Grabill and Mrs. Robinson at the tables decorated with yellow chrysanthemums and yellow candles.

Respectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge Rec. Sec.

their country. There is much music and dancing in Spain and the folk songs entertaining. The speaker visited the summer home of the King which was damaged by fire some years ago and related interesting incidents concerning the King and his family. The speaker, who is an artist of note, exhibited some of his paintings which were enjoyed by the members.

Tea was served in the Loring-?Greenough House at tables decorated with red carnations, holly, laurel and red candles by Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. May and Mrs. Rider.

Respoectfully submitted, Blanche U. Eldridge. Rec. Sec.