d, making nine instead of eight, the former
number. The new officers elected were Mrs. Breckenridge of Kentucky,
the great-granddaughter of Henry Clay, and Mrs. Catherine Ruutz-Rees
of Greenwich, Connecticut. The old officers were re-elected--Miss Jane
Addams as first vice-president, Mrs. Breckenridge and Mrs. Ruutz-Rees
as second and third vice-presidents, Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett as
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Susan Fitzgerald as recording secretary,
Mrs. Stanley McCormack as treasurer, Mrs. Joseph Bowen of Chicago and
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw of New York City as auditors.

It would be difficult to secure a group of women of more marked
ability, or better-known workers in various lines of philanthropic and
educational work, than the members composing this admirable board. At
the convention of 1914, held in Nashville, several of them resigned, and
at present (in 1914) the "National's" affairs are in the hands of this
inspiring group, again headed by the much-criticized and chastened
writer of these reminiscences:

Mrs. Stanley McCormack, first vice-president.
Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, second vice-president.
Dr. Katharine B. Davis, third vice-president.
Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, treasurer.
Mrs. John Clark, corresponding secretary.
Mrs. Susan Walker Fitzgerald, recording secretary.
Mrs. Medill McCormack, }
} Auditors
Mrs. Walter McNabb Miller, of Missouri }

In a book of this size, and covering the details of my own life as well
as the development of the great Cause, it is, of course, impossible
to mention by name each woman who has worked for us--though, indeed,
I would like to make a roll of honor and give them all their due. In
looking back I am surprised to see how little I have said about many
women with whom I have worked most closely--Rachel Foster Avery, for
example, with whom I lived happily for several years; Ida Husted Harper,
the historian of the suffrage movement and the biographer of Miss
Anthony, with whom I made many delightful voyages to Europe; Alice Stone
Blackwell, Rev. Mary Saffard, Jane Addams, Katharine Waugh McCullough,
Ella Stewart, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, Mrs. Mary S. Sperry, Mary Cogshall,
Florence Kelly, Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid and Mrs. Norman Whitehouse (to
mention only two of the younger "live wires" in our New York work),
Sophonisba Breckenridge, Mrs. Clara B. Arthur, Rev. Caroline Bartlett