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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Santa Cruz Woman's Club records
Creator:
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
Creator:
Saturday Afternoon Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.073
Physical Description:
10 Linear Feet
10 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1907-1982
Abstract: This collection contains scrapbooks,
minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the club.
Physical Location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice
is required for access to the papers.
Language of Material:
English .
Collection open for research.
Gift of the Santa Cruz Woman's Club in 2004.
The Santa Cruz Woman's Club was organized in 1907 as the Saturday Afternoon Club. The
founders were Mrs. M. Tanner Gushee [Minnie M. Tanner], Mrs. J.P. Twist, Mrs. W. H.
Williamson [Grace E DeLamater], Mrs F. W. Swanton [Stanley Pope Hall] and Mrs. Ella Vivienne
Noe Phillips. Mrs. Alexander McLean [May McLean] served as the first President from
1907-1909. The club became affiliated with the California Federation of Women's Clubs in
March 1908 and with the national organization, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in
March 1912. The Santa Cruz Woman's Club incorporated in 1954.
At the end of 1926, the name was changed to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club. According to the
1927-1928 Yearbook, Twentieth Program Year: "This is the close of the first decade of the
local Woman's Club. For nineteen years it has been valued and loved as the Saturday
Afternoon Club. But a decade brings changes. The automobile and highway development have
made it possible for sons and daughters to come home for the week-ends, and for old friends
to meet again. Our hills and beaches have their own magnetism and our hospitable club
members found it necessary to be in their homes over the weekends. So at the close of the
nineteenth year the members voted to change the name to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club, and the
meeting days to the second and fourth Thursdays."
Santa Cruz Woman's Club gives scholarships, and supports various philanthropies, such as
the Veterans and active military with Christmas gift bags. They are also a social club with
quarterly meetings, social programs and activities from September through June.
Santa Cruz Woman's Club records. MS 73. Special Collections and Archives, University
Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Finding aid revision statement
This finding aid was revised in the Reparative Archival Redescription Project in 2021-2022.
Previous versions of this finding aid are available upon request.
MS11 - California Federation of Women's Clubs records
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains scrapbooks, minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the
club.
Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs.
Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair
use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to
determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more
information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women -- California -- Societies and clubs -- History
California Federation of
Women's Clubs
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
Saturday Afternoon Club (Santa Cruz, Calif.)