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Missouri State Association of Colored Women AFFILIATED WITH NATIONAL AND CENTRAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN SLOGAN--"Dependable and On Time" April 26, 1955 LIFTING AS WE CLIMB Organized 1900 M. BERENICE BUSH, President 4200 W. Page Blvd. Tel. JE. 3-4234 St. Louis 13, Mo. ETTA C. FIELDS First Vice President 2614 Brooklyn Ave. LI. 1274 Kansas City, Mo. EMMA I. DICKSON Second Vice President 4917a Highland FO. 7-3009 St. Louis, Mo. MARCIA HAMMONDS Third Vice President 409 Lafayette St. Jefferson City, Mo. BERTHA PRINGLE Recording Secretary 334 W. Lockwood Ave. WO. 2-2772 Webster Groves, Mo. A. VEATRICE CLARK Assistant Recording Secretary 541 Mable St. Kinloch, Mo. MILDRED A. SMITH Corresponding Secretary 2705 E. 23rd St. Kansas City, Mo. BESSIS BUCKNER Assistant Corresponding Secretay 3940 W. Belle St. Louis, Mo. M. LOUISE THOMAS 220 S. Geyer Road Financial Secretary Kirkwood, Mo. ELOISE GRIFFIN Assistant Financial Secretary 4144 Cook Ave. St. Louis, Mo. HAZEL OUTLAW Treasurer 3968 Enright Ave. St. Louis, Mo. MARJORIE BANKS Chairman of Executive Board 302 E. Second St. Chillicothe, Mo. MARGARET R. MAITEN Supervisor of Girls Department 1731 Cora Ave. St. Louis, Mo. ROBERTA D. AIKENS Organizer 2337 Olive St. Kansas City, Mo. QUEENIE L. CARTER Parliamentarian 4226 W. St. Ferdinand Ave. St. Louis, Mo. BERTHA BLACK RHODA Auditor 782a Bayard Ave. St. Louis, Mo. LILA MULLINS Historian 1002 Milwaukee St. Kirkwood, Mo. LAURA WIMBERLY Chaplain 2810 Olive St. Kansas City, Mo. MARY DREER Statistician 4435 Enright Ave. St. Louis, Mo. CLAIRE HOWARD Chairman of Arts and Crafts Elmwood Park Clayton, Mo. WILLA J. RIDLEY Co-Chairman of Arts and Crafts 1826 Cora Ave. St. Louis, Mo. My dear Dr. Quarles: I am trying to answer your letters of March 12th and this April 19th. I am very grateful to you for both letters. Thanks for the copy of your letter, sent out with sticker to be worn by the person who gives donation to your paint job. This is our answer to one of my prayers of the past. Since 1945 I have wondered how I could interest some of our race people of Anacostia to do just the thing you and your Committee are planning to do. May I congratulate you for the interest which you are taking in Frederick Douglass Home. The Trustees are very grateful to all of you for the proposed paint job. I was most happy to hear your voice on February 17, 21155. Funny I had made a wish prayer that I could hear your voice over the phone. When you called I almost fell away from the phone as the answer came so soon after I had wished it. The first thing I must answer your question in both letters about the film. The cost of the film was $100.00. Last year at my February Douglass Day I received a small part of this amount, I put my own cash with this to make up balance and bought the film. Everyone is anxious to see it and they enjoy it when they see it but they will not give any money on the cost. At first Mr. Moss and I hoped to receive a loan price of $10.00 per showing but since then we decided
