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paid off the mortgage, renovated the building and, in 1922, dedicated the home as a public shrine.

Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, seventh president of the National Association of Colored Women, made the first appeal for a $50,000 Scholarship Loan Fund in 1922.  This fund is managed by its own board and provides help to juniors and seniors in any recognized college.

While Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was president, the National Association bought a building at 12th and O Streets, N. W., for $25,000.  Here, after renovation and improvement, a national headquarters was established.  Though this central location and, with the help of an executive secretary, the association maintained a speakers bureau, published National Notes, and collected the archives of the organization until the problem of war curtailed its activities.

The National Association of Colored Girls was organized by Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, its ninth president.  This department was established to orient colored girls into the methods of community work.

The first president of the National Association of Colored Women was Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D. C.  Other living presidents are Mrs. Elizabeth Carter Brooks, New Bedford, Mass.; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce, Ohio; Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart, Evansville, Ind.; and Dr. Mary Waring, Chicago, Illinois.  Among those deceased are Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Robert R. Moton, Mrs. A. B. Dement, Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, Mrs. Lucy Thurman, and Mrs. Mary B. Talbert.

Mrs. Ada Belle DeMent, the twelfth president of the National Association of Colored Women passed away in November 1945.  The vice-president and executive xecretary of the organization, Mrs. Christine S. Smith, became the interim president.