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Rh Harbor Civic, Sorosis and Writers Club. Home: 1004 W. Heron St. Aberdeen, Wash.

MKEE, Ruth Karr (Mrs. James S.), born in Hoquiam, Washington, March 28, 1874. Married James S. McKee, Honolulu, May 6, 1902. B. A., M. A., University of Washington, 1895. President, Washington State Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1913-15. Director, General Fed. 1916. Member, State Council of Defense, 1917-19. Member of Board of Regents, University of Washington, 1917-26, president of Board, 1923. Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta, Pi Sigma Gamma. Member: Ass'n University Women, Round Robin Club, Longview Community Service Club, Mary Richardson Walker Chapter, D. A. R., American Academy of Political and Social Science, National Economic League. Home: Box 806, Longview, Wash.

MLOUTH, Mildred E. (Mrs.), born in New York, 1891, daughter of Charles Henry and Anna F. Brahe, a resident of Seattle since September, 1927. Married to the late Farley Doten McLouth. Children: Farley Doten III. Art Curator. Special correspondent (Art), Christian Science Monitor. Contributes to the Seattle Daily Times, Sunday Edition, Art Column. Former Assistant Art Curator of the Los Angeles Museum. Acting Executive Secretary of the Western Ass'n of Museum Directors. At present Art Curator, Seattle Fine Arts Society. Member: Pro Musica, Arts and Crafts (Los Angeles). Home: 919 13th Ave., N., Seattle, Washington.

MEYER, Estelle Reel, (Mrs. Cort. F.), born in Pittsfield, Illinois, 1862, daughter of Mal and Jane R. Reel. Married to Cort. Frederick Meyer. Educator and writer. Former teacher, county and state superintendent of schools; national superintendent of Indian Schools at Washington, D. C., for twelve years. Former secretary of State Board of Charities and Reforms; Registrar of Land Office; Special Disbursing Agent in U. S. Indian Service. Member N. E. A. Home: Box 371, Toppenish, Washington.

MILLER, Blanche Funk (Mrs. M.), born in Springfield, Ohio, December 15, 1874, daughter of Christian C. and Ida Olive Corbly Funk, a resident of Washington for 22 years. Married to Mortimer Miller. Attorney at Law and Justice of the Peace. Always interested in civic affairs and political issues. Advocates holding of offices by women as the best way to inject the woman's viewpoint into the affairs of government. Was appointed, 1918, Tacoma's first woman City Clerk. Elected Justice of the Peace in 1920, reelected in 1926 for term of 4 years. Especially interested in a prison reform program and laws protecting and assisting the deserted mother. Member: American Association of University Women, Phi Delta Law Sorority, State Federation of Women's Clubs, American Bar Association, American Prison Association, D. A. R. Tacoma Woman's Club House Association, Business and Professional Women's Club, Tacoma Woman's Club. Home: 301 North Fourth St., Tacoma, Washington.

MULLEN, Katharine Maria, (Mrs.), born March 21, 1880, in Madison, Connecticut, daughter of William and Almira Bailey Mullen, a resident of Washington for the last 5 years. Married to Edward Moray Archibald. Children: Catherine Whitney Archibald. Journalist. Former teacher in grade and normal schools in the state of Connecticut; has been identified with the organization work of the National Suffrage and Woman's Party. As Almira Bailey feature writer of San Francisco Journal. Author: "Vignettes of San Francisco", "Seattle, Her Faults, Her Virtues" (penname, Almira Bailey). At present feature writer on Post-Intelligencer. As Kate Mullen, has contributed articles and stories to Forum, Mercury, Nation, New Republic. Home: 3250 48th Ave., S. W., Seattle, Wash.

MYERS, Mary B., (Mrs. George T.), born in Monmouth, Illinois, October 13, 1874, daughter of William Wells and Rose Belle Chapin. Resident of Washington for the last 20 years. Married to George Tobias Myers. Children: Walter Chapin Ramseyer. Active in club and welfare work. Former vice-president of Sunset Club; president, The Children's Orthopaedic Hospital (11th year); member of Board of Trustees, Seattle Children's Home, The Lighthouse for the Blind; (vice-president); past vice-president, The Music and Art Foundation Fund. Member: Sunset Club, National Fed. of Music Clubs, Seattle Fine Arts Soc'y, Garden Club. Home: 1204 Boren Ave., Seattle, Washington.

NEILL, Isabel, (Mrs.), daughter of William Alan and Marie Strachey Perry. Resident of Yakima, Washington, for the last 7 years. Married to Paul Neill. Newspaper writer.