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7.B. - Page 26 of 54 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation of the Redwood City Woman Club 1912. Beginning this year (as far as is known) the club served teas on the porch or verandah in front of the building. The teas were held during the spring and fall months. 1912. The 1910 vaudeville fundraiser "A Night at the Orpheum" had revealed an uninhibited side of the Woman's Club. By contrast, a club resolution of April 1912 indicated another side. The "staid matrons" (according to the San Francisco Chronicle of April 6, 1912) now prohibited "ragging" at their dances; that is, dances to ragtime music. As a substitute, Miss Anita Peters of San Francisco would perform the presumably more proper "lithesome spring dance" of Gertrude Hoffinan. Ca. 1920s into the 1980s. Each year the club put on a Jinks event where members dressed in costumes and put on skits and performances. Several group photos of these events from the club's early years hang on its walls. 1929 to 1956. During these years, and perhaps earlier, the club sponsored a Well Baby Clinic. In 1929 Dr. Adelaide Brown of the Affiliated Colleges in San Francisco came down every Friday during 3 to 4 p.m. to give free exams, advice, and formulas. She was assisted by Miss Margaret Loftus, a county nurse, and volunteer club members. During 1937-1940 the clinic was held at Washington School and the physician was Mrs. Nelson (Bertha) Andrews. In addition to exams, she gave immunizations against diphtheria and small pox. During these years and World War II visits by mothers to this clinic approached 700 per year. In 1950 visits numbered 817. In 1956, polio shots were given. In his article "Who Were Woman's Club Founding Mothers?" in the Journal of Local History, James O. Clifford, Sr. surmises that the county took over the clinic's services after that year. 1929-1931. Scrapbooks for these years reveal many other events. They included: • an annual picnic at Bear Gulch, • a benefit to supply free Braille books for the American Brotherhood of Free Reading for the Blind, *an open house each Thursday afternoon during the summer, when refreshments were served and score cards for whist and bridge were sold as a fundraiser for buying a new piano • a business meeting, reception, and musical program at which over 200 were present • a lecture by Mr. L. L. Brown on the "growth, development and manufacture of the telephone" • a "study section" to read all of the books of Sigrid Undset • a music study section, and a talk by Mrs. R. Hobberger on "How to Listen to Music" • a flower show, and *joint meetings with the California Federation of Women's Clubs. 19 534