sement of women and now a new generation, under the
guidance of the older workers who remained, was bravely taking up
another great task, that of bringing about cooperation among women in
the effective use of this supreme power for the highest welfare of the
State. On the last afternoon of the convention the National American
Woman Suffrage Association and the League of Women Voters held a joint
session for discussion of matters in which they had a mutual interest.
On the last evening, just before the beginning of the first session of
the School for Political Education in the Florentine Room, Mrs. Catt,
with suitable ceremony formally adjourned the Victory Convention, the
last of a series held for fifty years by the old association.
FOOTNOTES:
[121] Following are the officers of the association who were elected
at the convention in St. Louis in 1919 and re-elected in Chicago in
1920 to remain in office until the association should go out of
existence: President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt; first vice-president,
Mrs. Katharine Dexter McCormick; second vice-president, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay; third vice-president, Mrs. Guilford Dudley; fourth
vice-president, Mrs. Raymond Brown; fifth vice-president, Mrs. Helen
H. Gardener; treasurer, Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Nettie R. Shuler; recording secretary, Mrs. Halsey W.
Wilson. All were of New York City except Mrs. Dudley of Tennessee and
Mrs. Gardener of the District of Columbia. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who
had been president from 1904 to 1915 and honorary president
thereafter, had died July 2, 1919.
Directors: Mrs. Charles H. Brooks (Kans.); Mrs. J. C. Cantrill (Ky.);
Mrs. Richard E. Edwards (Ind.); Mrs. George Gellhorn (Mo.); Mrs. Ben
Hooper (Wis.); Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore (N. Y.); Miss Esther G. Ogden
(N. Y.); Mrs. George A. Piersol (Penn.).
[122] Fraternal delegates were present from the Association of
Collegiate Alumnae; Florence Crittenden Mission; General Federation of
Women's Clubs; Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; National
Board of the Young Women's Christian Association; National Congress of
Mothers; Parent Teachers' Association; National Council of Jewish
Women; National Council of Women; National Council of College Women;
National Women's Trade Union League; National Women's Association of
Commerce; National Women's Relief Corps; National Women's Relief
Society; State Federation of Women's Clubs; State Trade Union League;
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