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Woman's National and Tennis Club. Home: Forest View Road, Burlingame, Calif.

ARNOLD, Gertrude Thomas, (Mrs. Edwin C.), born in Iowa, October 3, 1876, former resident of Iowa and South Dakota, living in California for the last 21 years. Married to Edwin C. Arnold. Children: Gertrude Thomas, Elwood F. (stepson). Owner and proprietor, Art and Photographic Salon. Degrees: A. B. (1903), A. M. (1910), Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, A. B. Stanford University; student of Spanish and art; High School teacher and Principal in South Dakota (1903-06), teacher in California 1908-16. Very active in Eisteddfod, art societies and as a teacher of art; instrumental in starting art collections in Ventura Co. Several articles and poems have been published in magazines and newspapers. Specializes at present in art photography. Member: Business Women's Club, Ventura Co. Art Ass'n, Pacific Arts Ass'n, O. E. S., Ojai Woman's Club, Carmel Art Ass'n. Home: Ventura and Aliso Sts., Ojai, Calif.

ARNOLD, Margaret Adelaide (Mrs. C. C.), daughter of Joseph and Viola Eaton Wilson Rogers, a resident of California for twenty five years. Married to Charles C. Arnold. Writer. Has contributed stories and verse to Scribner's, Atlantic, Yale Review, Poetry, Villager and other magazines. Home: Victoria Hill, Riverside, California.

ARNSTEIN, Alice Sussman (Mrs. W.), born in San Francisco, California, November 21, 1884, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sussman, a life-long resident of California. Married to Walter Arnstein. Children: Eugene, Richard, Katherine, Peter. Active in civic affairs; Director of San Francisco Community Chest; leader, San Francisco Camp Fire Girls; member of Juvenile Probation Committee. Member: Woman's Athletic Club, Woman's City Club, Beresford Country Club, Mt. Diablo Country Club. Homes: 2211 Washington Street, San Francisco, Calif.

ATHERTON, Gertrude (Mrs.), born in San Francisco, California, October 30, 1857, daughter of Thomas L. and Gertrude Franklin Horn; great granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. Children: Murel Atherton Russell. Novelist, short story writer, publicist, Author: “The Conqueror,” “The Immortal Marriage,” “Rezanov,” “California: an Intimate History,” “Tower of Ivory,” “The Doomswoman,” “The Splendid Idle Forties,” “American Wives and English Husbands (Transplanted),” “The Californians,” “Patience Sparhawk and Her Times,” “Sisters-in-Law,” “Black Oxen,” “Perch of the Devil,” “Rulers of Kings,” “The Bell in the Fog,” “The Crystal Cup,” “The Jealous Gods” (in preparation). Member: Ladies' Atheneum, London, England. Home: 2101 California St., San Francisco, Calif.

AUSTIN, Will Lee, (Mrs.), born in Kansas City, Missouri, November 18, 1880, daughter of Frank A. and Carrie (Jillham Payne, a resident of California for seven years. Married to Will Lee Austin. Active in civic and club affairs. Her grandfather, Col. Milton J. Payne, was mayor of Kansas City for six terms; he was mayor when the first railroad entered Kansas City. A musician by profession, being a concert-organist but not active in this work at the present time. Member: West Ebell Club (President), General Henry M. Robert Parliamentary Law Club. Home: 618 W. 124th Street, Los Angeles, California.

AYDELOTT, Clio Lee, (Mrs.), a native of Nashville, Tennessee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lee, a resident of California for 29 years. Married to George Cortner Aydelott. Children: Lee, James, George, Jr. Reader. Originator of the Children's Hour; a splendid innovation for the purpose of developing among children their normal instincts for self expression. Author: “The Message of the Poets.” Member: Hanford Woman's Club, S. F. Woman's Athletic Club, Daughters of the Confederacy. Home: Kilmers Trees, Hanford, Calif.

BABCOCK, Julia G. (Mrs.), born in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Betsy Ruggles Gazeley, a resident of California for 18 years. Children: Arthur James, Mrs. Julia Erwin Freeburn. Librarian, Kern County Free Library (since January, 1916). Formerly librarian in Painesville, Ohio, and in Woodland, California. Contributes occasionally to magazines. Member Woman's Club, Business and Professional Women's Club, American Library Ass'n, P.E.O., California Library Ass'n, Kern County Humane Society, The Garden Club. Home: 1722 Forest Street, Bakersfield, Calif.

BACKUS, Joyce (Miss), born October 31, 1895, in Omaha, Nebraska, daughter of Clyde J. and Victoria Backus, a resident of California for seven years. Librarian, State Teachers College. B. S., Simmons College,