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in music, literature and civics. Former president Arizona Fed. Women's Clubs; first president and now honorary president State Fed. of Music Clubs; member of the Board of Education, Tempe State Teachers College; member of Carnegie Library Board, also member of the Committee of One Hundred and City Planning Commission. Regular contributor to The Etude, The Musical Observer, The Musical Courier. Author: “A Musical Message for Mothers.” Verses published in several magazines. Member: Woman's Club, Musician Club, College Club, Bookfellow, Author's League of America. Home: 1219 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, Ariz.

SMITH, Nellie von Gerichten, (Mrs.), a native of Sierra County, California, a resident of Arizona for 35 years. Married to Barnaby Hathaway Smith. Pianist and composer. Published the following piano solos: “Calizona,” “Song of the Pines,” “Montezuma,” “A Storm in the Grand Canyon,” also the song, “Back to the West.” Member: Monday Club. Home: 519 W. Gurley Street, Prescott, Arizona.

SPARKES, Grace M., (Miss), a native of Lead, South Dakota; daughter of Thomas J. and Marian Martin Sparkes. Resident of Arizona since 1907. Executive Secretary, Yavapai County Chamber of Commerce. Editor and co-owner of “Yavapai Magazine”; president, Arizona State Chamber of Commerce Secretaries Organization; secretary and director of publicity campaign, Arizona-Blythe Bridge and Highway Ass'n.; secretary, Prescott Frontier Days. Active as newspaper correspondent. Member: National Association Commercial Organization Secretaries, Hassayampa Country Club, Monday Club, Business and Professional Women's Club, Arizona State Commercial Secretaries Organization. Home: 201 South Pleasant St., P. O. Box 618, Prescott, Arizona.

THOMAS, Vera Blanche, (Mrs.), born in Omaha, Nebraska, March 19, 1903, a former resident of Chicago, Illinois, living in Arizona for the last 7 years. Married to John Henry Thomas. Children: Mary Catherine. Graduate Registered Nurse. Confined exclusively to Professional Nursing; president District No. 2, Arizona State Nurses Ass'n., 1925-26; president, Arizona State Nurses' Ass'n., 1927-28. Member: D. A. R., Arizona State Nurses' Ass'n. Home: 1601 North Stone Ave., (P. O. Box 1161), Tucson, Arizona.

WESTOVER, J. H. (Mrs.), born in Williamstown, Kentucky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Musselman, a former resident of Kentucky, living in Arizona for twenty years. Married to J. H. Westover. Children: William H., Harry C. Representative of County in Legislature of 1919-21, and in a special session when women of Arizona were given the ballot. Member: Delta Club, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 837 Orange Avenue, Yuma, Arizona.

WICART, Norma Lawson, (Mrs.), a native of Cleveland, Ohio, former resident of Florida and Mississippi, living in Arizona for 8 years. Children: Ward L., Carlton B. Writer of Western Verse. Past president, Tucson Woman's Club. Member of Executive Board, Tucson Community Chest; very active in Social Service work; chairman. Advisory Board of Campers Y. W. C. A. of State University. Member: Woman's Club, Saturday Morning Music Club, Rhymers Club, Scribblers Club, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Home: 645 E. Third Street, Tucson, Ariz.

WILLIAMS, Mattie L., (Mrs.), a native of Sweet Springs, Missouri, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Greene, a resident of Arizona for 29 years. Married to the late J. A. Banks (died August 28, 1910). Children: Robert W. Banks, A. Erie Banks, Ethel L. Banks, Mrs. M. D. Savoy, Mrs. A. Sims. State president, Arizona Division United Daughters of Confederacy. President, Phoenix Branch, Arizona Children's Home Ass'n.; member of Arizona State Children's Home Ass'n. at Tucson; former president of Woman's Board, Florence Crittenton Home; in 1922, was president of local Robert E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C.; former treasurer of Maricopa County Democratic Central Committee. Member; Woman's Club of Phoenix, Rebekah Lodge, O. E. S., Security Benefit Ass'n., W. C. T. U. Home: 341 N. 6th Ave., Phoenix, Ariz.