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Rh School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Fellowship in Tiffany Foundation, 1924. Exhibited in New York, Washington, D. C., Spokane, and Missoula, also abroad. Well known as a portrait and landscape painter, also as sculptor and mural decorator. Active in social and intellectual life, "Little Theatre" movement. Member: American Association of University Women, Spokane Art Association, Boston Students' Union, Tiffany Foundation. Home: 2941 Summit Boulevard, Spokane, Washington.

BARNARD, Floy Tolbert (Mrs.), born April 10, 1886, in Hunter, Ohio, daughter of Isaac J. and Sarah Lisle Tolbert, a resident of Washington for twenty years. Married to Dr. Leslie Orville Barnard. Short story writer. Her stories have been published in McCall's, Harper's, Century, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Home Companion, and other American magazines, also, in several English magazines. Author: "In The Fields of Boaz", "A Surprise in Perspective", "The Beloved Meddler", "An Amateur Missionary", "A Man and A Maid and A Miniature", etc. Home: 1705 Belmont Ave., Seattle, Washington.

BARNHART, Berta R. (Mrs.), born in Ackley, Iowa, April 1, 1880, daughter of Frank and Lucretia Roybar, a resident of Washington for eighteen years. Married to Walter Ernest Barnhart. Children: Harold, Marget, Marian. Active in club affairs. For seven years a church organist. Member of City Planning Commission. Member: Coterie Club, City Fed. of Women's Clubs (former president) Women's City Club. Home: 5722 East Green Lake Way, Seattle, Wash.

BARRINGTON, Minerva Jane (Miss), born in Waupaca, Wisconsin, December 12, 1885, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Barrington, a former resident of Idaho and Wisconsin, living in Washington for twelve years. Secretary-Manager, Kinman Business University. Active in civic affairs; has acted on various committees of Spokane Advertising Club; interested in work among former students who are now employed. Member: Spokane Advertising Club, Wisconsin Society of Inland Empire (Sec'y-Treasurer). Home: S. 2903 Manito Boulevard, Spokane, Wash.

BARTON, Lorna Durnford (Miss), born September 1, 1905, in Victoria, B. C., Canada, daughter of William Henry and Evelyn L. D. Barton, a resident of the state of Washington for two years. Librarian. At present Senior Assistant, Circulation Dept., University of Washington Library. Attended University of British Columbia; graduated with honors in French, 1926. Attended University of Washington Library School, 1926-27. Member: Pacific Northwest Library Ass'n. Home: 5236 17th N. E., Seattle, Washington.

BATTERSON, Mary A., (Miss), born on a farm near Portsmouth, Ohio, daughter of John and Sarah J. (Richardson) Batterson, a resident of Washington for eighteen years. Librarian (Head of Circulation Dept. and Branches), Tacoma Public Library, Past president, Puget Sound Library Club; former president, Alumni Ass'n, University of Illinois Library School, Bachelor of Philosophy, Ohio University; Bachelor Library Science, University of Illinois. Member: American Ass'n of University Women, P.E.O., American Library Ass'n, Pacific Northwest Library Ass'n, Puget Sound Library Club. Home: 1109 N. Seventh Street, Tacoma, Washington.

BEALS, Othilia G. C. (Mrs. Walter B.), born in New Orleans, Louisiana, daughter of P. P. and Sarah J. Talbott Carroll, a resident of Seattle for thirty-five years. Married to Supreme Court Judge Walter Burges Beals. Lawyer. First woman to engage in active practice of law in Seattle; one of incorporators of Seattle Fruit and Flower Mission. Appointed Justice of Peace in 1917, to replace man who entered army; later elected for four year term, and resigned unexpired term in favor of returned soldier. Past National Vice President Women Lawyers' Ass'n. Past National Vice President, American Legion Auxiliary. In 1926 French Government conferred title of "Officier de l'Instruction Publique". Member: Seattle Tennis Club, Seattle Bar Ass'n, Washington State Bar Ass'n, Phi Delta Delta, Women's City Club. Home: 1707 Sunset Ave., Seattle, Washington.

BEAN, Margaret (Miss), born in Spokane, Washington, 1888, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walker Lindsley Bean. Newspaper Feature writer, magazine contributor. Member of a Spokane pioneer family. Graduate, Capen School, Northampton, 1909; Smith College, 1913. Member of Smith College Relief Unit in World war, serving in France. Feature writer for The Spokesman-Review. Member: Smith College. Home: 507 Sound Ave., Spokane, Washington.