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Rh Author: “Winning Monologues,” “Platform Readings,” “Contest Winners,” “Strack Selections from Booth Tarkington's Stories,” “Strack Platform Readings from the Stories of Ella Parker Butler,” “Selected Readings from the Stories of Juliet Wilbor Tompkins,” etc. Member: League of American Pen Women, Associated Arts, San Diego Women's Civic Center, World Fellowship. Home: 2160 Pine Street, San Diego, Calif.

STRATTON, Alice Elenore (Mrs.), born in San Francisco, California, January 22, 1869, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Miller. Married to Georgo Malcolm Stratton. (Prof. Psychology, U. C.), Children: Dr. Malcolm, Florence, Mrs. E. R. Dewey. Educator. President of various church organizations. Member, Executive Board Mobilized Women of Berkeley. Member: Berkeley City Women's Club, Women's Faculty Club, Town and Gown, National League for Women's Service. Home: 55 Canyon Road, Berkeley, Calif.

SWEET, Blanche, born in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Charles and Pearl Alexander Sweet, a resident of Cali Marshall Neilan. Screen actress. Member of the motion picture profession for the past 14 years, during which time she has played leads and star roles in more than one hundred films. Home: Beverly Hills, Calif.

SYMMES, Eleanor Ann (Miss), born in Independence, Inyo County, California, daughter of John Willson and Jeanette (Burr) Symmes, a life-long resident of the state. Librarian, University of Redlands Library (since 1912). Attended Library School in 1906-07; connected with A. K. Smiley Public Library of Redlands, 1908-11. A. B., University of Redlands, 1917. Member: Contemporary Club. Home: 510 Alvarado St., Redlands, Calif.

TALMADGE, Norma (Mrs. J. M. Schenck), born May 26, 1897, in Niagara Falls, New York, daughter of Frederick and Margaret Talmadge, a resident of California for eleven years. Married to Joseph M. Schenck. Motion picture actress for seventeen years. Studio Address: 1041 N. Formosa St., Hollywood, Calif.

TAYLOR, Anna Leila, (Miss), a native of New Jersey, has travelled extensively over Europe and through the Orient, for 12 years a resident of California. Daughter of Edward Taylor, lineal descendant of the Norman Baron Taillerfer, who accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion of England in 1066 and who asked permission to open the battle of Hastings. Edward Taylor came to America in 1692, settled in New Jersey, where he purchased thousands of acres of land from the Indians. Interested in social service and relief work. Worked among war refugees in Italy, served during late war as volunteer Red Cross nurse in a Florence Military Hospital (awarded Italian R. C. Medal). Has worked among the poor in Mexico City and war refugees in Syria and Palestine (1926). Active Near East Relief worker; for 4 years special newspaper correspondent. Home: 1709 Church St., Ventura, Calif.

TAYLOR, Catherine F. (Mrs.), born in Toledo, Ohio. January 26, 1872, daughter of Danil J. and Anna M. Lynch, a former resident of New York, living in California for eight years. Married to John J. Taylor. Children: Loretta Marie Arend. Minister and Leader of Unity Truth Center. Active in welfare work in connection with Unity Truth work. Home: 348 S. Sycamore Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

TERRELL, Henrietta R. F. (Mrs. Harry Clay), born in Hillsboro, Ohio, daughter of John D. and Henrietta R. Fenner, the latter one of the early educators of Ohio, resident of California since 1891. Married to Harry Clay Terrell. Children: Lena M., John D., Harry Evans. Real estate broker. City Commissioner, (Member of Humane Treatment of Animals Department). Active in legislative, civic and social welfare work of Los Angeles. As Chairman of the Garden Committee of the Civic Ass'n, assisted in getting the Garden Work in the curriculum of the public schools of L. A. During her term of office as President of the Council of Presidents of P. T. A., helped to establish the Saner Fourth of July in our city. Member: Woman's City Club, Artland Club, President's Ass'n, Republican Study Club, Cliff Dwelling Club, California Congress of Mothers and P. T. A. (charter member and past officer). Home: 1357 Bellevue Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

TESSMANN, Jennie Lasby, (Mrs.), born in Castle Rock, Minnesota, August 23, 1883, former resident of Minnesota and Massachusettes living in California for the last 17 years. Married to John Tessmann. Teacher, Santa Ana Junior College since 1919;