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Henry M. Robert's Parliamentary Law Club, United Daughters of the Confederacy, League of Women Voters. Home: 3793 Wisconsin St., Los Angeles, Calif.

COMAN, Mary M. (Mrs.), born in Bulgaria, daughter of William Ward and Susan Dimond Meriam (Missionaries). Resident of California for 34 years. Widow of the late Charles W. Coman. Children: William M., Ellis S., Edward C., Carol Coman Holt, Harriet M. Dolcater. Editor and writer, also grower of Sunkist Oranges. Member, Los Angeles County Public Welfare Commission; past president, Pasadena Shakespeare Club; lecturer on current events and books. For 25 years editor of “Southern California White Ribbon”; actively engaged in P. T. A. work. Member: Covina Woman's Club, Pasadena Shakespeare Club, American Ass'n. of University Women, Wellesley Club of Southern California, W. C. T. U., Y. W. C. A. Home: P. O. Box 847, Covina, Calif.

COOKE, Grace MacGowan, (Mrs.), a native of Ohio, former resident of Tennessee and for the last 19 years living in California. Children: Helen, Katherine. Taught school in early life; author of about twenty novels, the following three with Calif. background: “The Straight Road,” “Wild Apples,” “The Man Behind the Mask.” Home: Box 357, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.

COOLIDGE, Mary Roberts, (Mrs. Dane), a native of Indiana, former resident of New York and Ithaca, N. Y., living in California for the last 35 years. Married to Dane Coolidge. Professor of Sociology, Mills College, 1918-26; formerly instructor at Wellesley College and Stanford University. Public Speaker on social questions; .president of California Civic League 1915-17. Author: “Almshouse Women,” “Statistics of College and Non-College Women,” “Chinese Immigration,” “Why Women are So,” “The Residuum of Relief, a Study of the Aged and Infirm in San Francisco,” “Sage Foundation.” Member: American Ass'n of University Women, League of Women Voters, National Economic League, Ass'n of University Professors, Indian Defense Ass'n, California Writers Club, California Conference of Social Work. Home: Dwight Way End, East, Berkeley, Calif.

COOPER, Anne D. (Mrs.), born March 30, 1884, in Livermore, California, a daughter of John and Etta Gruwell, a resident of the state for forty-four years. Children: Thomas Henry, John Stanley, Elizabeth Anne. Has been the owner of a department store for seven years. Member: Parlor Lecture Club, Fresno Parthenon, Business and Professional Women's Club, Veterans Foreign Wars (honorary member). Social Betterment Committee of Community Chest, Vocational Committee of Fresno High School, P. T. A., Merchants' Ass'n., Better Business Bureau, Y. W. C. A. Home: Box 924, Fresno, Calif.

COTTLE, Cassius C. (Mrs.), born in New York State, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Church, a resident of California for twenty-three years. Married to Dr. Cassius C. Cottle. Children: William W., Mrs. William Rose Gibbon. Club woman. Interested in patriotic societies; past California State Regent, D. A. R. Member: L. A. Ebell, D. A. R., Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Daughters of Barons of Runnymede, Americans of Royal Descent, National Officers (vice-president). Daughters of 1812, etc. Home: 1412 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

COWAN, Ruth Marie, (Miss), born in Marshfield, Oregon, 1900, daughter of James and Mary E. Cowan, a former resident of Portland, Oregon, living in California for six years. Concert manager. As Southern California Manager for the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau of New York, Inc. has managed the tours and Los Angeles appearances of the following artists: Jascha Heifetz, San Cark Grand Opera Co., Louise Homer, Reginald Werrenrath, Albert Spalding, London String Quartette, Roland Hayes, Charles Hackett, Mabel Garrison, Toscha Seidel, Margaret Matzenauer, Eva Gauthier, Isa Kremer, and many others. Member: Women's University Club, Pro-Musica, Delta Gamma National Sorority. Address: 429 Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, Calif.

CRAIL, (Mrs. Charles S.), born November 17, 1880, in Fairfield, lowa, daughter of Congressman M. A. and Mrs. Helen Irland McCoid, a resident of California for the last 15 years. Married to Judge Charles Sheward Crail. Children: Gladys Jane, Joe, Jr., Charles, Jr. Active in civic and club affairs. Chairman, President's Council of Los Angeles P. T. A. Parliamentarian of Tenth District, P. T. A.; now curator of Law Department of Ebell Club; member of Juvenile Court Committee; former member