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NATIONAL CONVENTION OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Captain Shreve Hotel, Shreveport, La. August 8-11 1978 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Monday, August 7, 1978 Registration Begins Meeting of Policies and Procedures Handbook Revision Committee Local Hospitality Tuesday, August 8, 1978 Meeting of Board of Directors Branch President's Seminar Opening Plenary Session Wednesday, August 9, 1978 Reports of National Officers Reports of Committees President's State of the Association Report Thursday, August 10, 1978 Business Sessions Continue Convention Picture Tours of City Annual Convention Banquet Friday, August 11, 1978 Final Business Session Closing Luncheon Meeting of Board of Directors [[image]] [[caption]] Trudelle Willetta Wimbush Chairman Convention Planning Committee 2nd National Vice President [[/caption]] Shreveport Branch Planning Committee For National Convention of National Association of University Women - August 8-11, 1978 [[caption]] Reading Left to Right: (Seated) Mrs. Carrie Kellum, Mrs. Jearlyn R. Bates, Mrs. Emma L. Williams; (Standing) Mrs. Clotiel Thomas, Mrs. Emma Pearl Bibbons, Branch Convention Coordinator, Mrs. Marjorie R. Myres, Branch President, Mrs. Clodia M. Dansby, Mrs. Erma R. Brock; (Seated) Mrs. Elvira B. Anthony, Mrs. Doris Tisdom and Mrs. Johnnye S. Martin. [[/caption]] [[image - photograph of a group of women]] History of the National Association of University Women, Incorporated THE COLLEGE ALUMNAE CLUB was organized March 11, 1910 in the home of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell in Washington, D.C. Twenty-four University graduates joined her, elected officers and set up a program. The new club desired to stimulate young women to attain professional excellence, to exert influence in various movements for the civic good, and to promote a close personal and intellectual fellowship among women. For nine years, the club grew and participated in many activities to raise the standards of Negro colleges and to achieve woman suffrage. In 1919 the Club invited the first group of university graduates who lived outside of the District to organize. Baltimore accepted the invitation. In the early 1920's the District of Columbia Club organized seven branches in cities where it found interested college women. In 1922 representatives of the newly organized Branches were called to Washington to discuss incorporation but it 244
