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Rh In literature the work of the women of the West has won wide recognition. California's beloved Poet Laureate is only one of the many women in California whose literary work has achieved lasting fame. In law, medicine and business, as well as in statesmanship, they occupy national positions. And so on, their story would require unlimited time and space in the telling. The pages of our western history, past and in the making, are filled with the names of notable women.

As a group-venture and because of its unique scheme of financing, the magnificent Western Women's Club building in San Francisco, dedicated to the Womanhood of the West, conceived and built by women for women, costing one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is an outstanding civic and business venture. There, a minimum of two thousand enter its doors daily; club members number over nine thousand, and, together with membership of the tenant organizations, represent over twenty-five thousand women dedicating themselves daily to the welfare, betterment and happiness of humanity.

The western woman, like the wise physician, has her finger on the popular pulse of national as well as international affairs.

Patriots, imbued with and loyal to America's spirit of freedom—history shows that the women of our American civilization, moving westward, recognized a duty in evolving their own enfranchisement, and drew ever for their inspiration on the courage of the first settlers of America whence came the projectile force of achievement in this our commonwealth.

The spirit of the pioneer found written in hardships and cradled by the freedom of America, has been faithfully helped on by women, and their achievements stand today as a monument to the power of their faith and service and a heritage to the coming generations of the West.

Forty-two years ago, the San Francisco Bay Branch of the American Association of University Women was organized as a California Branch of the American Collegiate Association. The Boston Branch, only, is older, having been organized in 1882. For a long time, it was the only organization in California for university women. Many of the founders are still