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Saint Louis Association of Colored Woman
Affiliated with State, Central and National A. C. W.

Motto: "Lifting as We Climb"
Organized 1904

MRS. EMMA I. DICKSON
President
4917a Highland, FO. 3009
St. Louis 13, Mo.

MISS ELOISE GRIFFIN
First Vice-President

MRS. MARGARET R. MAITEN
Second Vice-President

MRS. ALMA ALLEN
Recording Secretary

MRS. JESSIE P. MITCHELL
Assistant Secretary

MRS. LOUISE THOMAS
Corresponding Secretary

MRS. BEULAR STARKS
Treasurer
4015 Finney
St. Louis 13, Mo.

MRS. BESSIE BUCKNER
Chrm. Executive Brd.

MRS. EMILY R. WILLIAMS
V.-Chrm. Executive Brd.

MRS. WILLA J. RIDLEY
Organizer

MISS JULIA DAVIS
Historian

MISS ARSANIA M. WILLIAMS
Historian Emeritus

MRS. IDA McKAY
Parliamentarian

MRS. QUEENIE L. CARTER
Statistician

MRS. MARY GRAHAM
Chaplain

MRS. ERRA STANTON
Music

MRS. MARGARET R. MAITEN
Girls Dept., Nat. and State

MRS. VIRGIE CARROLL
City Girls

MRS. ROSA PAUL BROOKS
Program Chairman

MRS. JAMES T. BUSH
Club House

MRS. ADDIE MAY SMITH
Mother, Home and Child

MRS. GENEVA ROBINSON
Arts and Crafts

MRS. LULA FREEMAN
Publicity

MRS. MARY GRAHAM
Health and Hygiene

MRS. E. C. GRADY
Public Affairs

MRS. VANDOLIA MARTIN
Social Welfare

MRS. MATTIE E. MALONE
Courtesy

MRS. VELMA DUNCAN
Auditor

For a number of years the Douglass Trustees have depended upon certain people to give donations and memberships to carry on the Douglass Home work. This has not proven the best method, as negroes are great starters but not much on sticking to a finished job. They like a life of ease. They are much like the story of Brother Rabbit and the Tortoise. They think they can run faster than other after they rest awhile, but it the steady pace of Brother Tortoise that will win the race of our success.

The aims and plans of the Trustees is to make the home of Mr. Douglass the kind of shrine it should be. In 1949 the Trustees and a Douglass Committee came to Washington in a three days conference to make plans for a long range program, to make the Douglass Home a similar place as Mount Vernon. The major problem was then and is now, finance greatly needed.

You must have seen the building going on there at Cedar Hill. This is the Trustees first step towards establishing a fund that will bring in some annual cash.

I expect to be in Washington soon this year to plan a program for dedicating these new buildings. We need your help and thinking w these plans. Please send me your ideas of what you think might help in these plans.

I can assure you that all money raised, or donated to the Douglass House will be used in a proper manner for upkeep and improvements much needed to the house and grounds. Thanking you for your interest and help I am waiting for your early reply.

Yours for Lifting as we climb,
Emma I. Dickson, President