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of Woman's Club, San Mateo; secretary, Mills Memorial Hospital since 1919; church organist and accompanist; former Red Cross worker. Member: Woman's Club of San Mateo (president, 1907-08), S. F. Woman's City Club. Home: 234 Elm St., San Mateo, Calif.

DONOHOE, Nellie Lawrence (Mrs.), a native of San Francisco, California, a life long resident of the State. Married to Charles Landon Donohoe. First woman member of the Democratic National Committee for California. Interested in all civic and political activities. Member: Women's City Club, Berkeley Branch of State Democratic Club (charter member), American Penwomen. Home: 426 Lee St., Oakland, California.

DORAN, Regge (Mrs.), born in Scotland, a resident of Hollywood, California, for three years. Married to D. A. Doran Jr., former resident of New York. Director of Filmarte Theatre, Hollywood. One of the very few women theatre directors. Address: Filmarte Theatre, Vine St., Hollywood, Calif.

DORSEY, Susan M., (Mrs.), born in Penn Yan, New York, February 16, 1857, daughter of James and Hannah Benedict Miller, resident of California for the last 47 years. Children: Paul Howard. Superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools. Trustee of Scripps College, Claremont, Calif.; literary activities have been chiefly confined to lectures and articles for magazines on educational topics; at present, serving on the National Curriculum Commission of N. E. A., N. E. A. Committee on the Economic Status of the Teacher; Herman-Jordan Peace Plan Committee No. 5, of the Fed. of Education Ass'ns; the Daniel Guggenheim Fund Committee on Aeronautical Education; Women's Enforcement Committee; California School Code Commission and the Committee on Adult Education; member of: Advisory Committee of the Special Committee of the Calif. Conference of Social Work, the Committee on Parks, Playgrounds and Beaches, the Education and Art Committee, all in connection with the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Member: N. E. A., Women's University Club, Vassar Club and Alumnae Ass'n, Soroptimist Club, Woman's Athletic Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Lambda Theta, Laureate Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. Holds LL. D. degree from U. S. C, Pomona College, Occidental College, U. C. Home: 1506 Arapahoe St., Los Angeles, Calif.

DOWLER, Josephine Marie, (Miss), a native of Ontario, Canada, daughter of Frank and Jane Davis-Dowler, former resident of New York City, N. Y., living in California for the last 5 years. Singer and Vocal teacher. Founder and honorary president, “To Be” Club. President Beacon Players Ass'n. Home: 419 W. Washington St., Los Angeles, Calif.

DOWNING, Bernice C. (Miss), born in Newark, Missouri, daughter of Nathan H. and Ida R. Downing, a resident of California for forty years. Editor and newspaper woman. With her late sister, Miss Bertha Downing, they were the first women in California to actually own, edit, and publish their own newspaper, having inherited the Santa Clara Journal from their father on his death in 1905. Has held several offices in the League of American Pen Women and in the National Editorial Ass'n. In 1927, won a specially created prize by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce for the best paper written on a tour of Nebraska and Black Hills of South Dakota. This contest was open to all members of the National Editorial Ass'n. For several years member of Santa Clara County Republican Committee. Appointed postmaster of Santa Clara in 1928, by the late President Harding, and reappointed to office in 1927, by President Coolidge. Member: National Editorial Ass'n., American Pen Women, California Press Ass'n. Home: 1516 Franklin St., Santa Clara, Calif.

DOZIER, Carrie Castle (Mrs.), born in Whitehouse, Ohio, June, 1885, daughter of Jehile and Lorinda Norris Castle, a resident of California for nineteen years. Educator. Professor of Foods and Nutrition, Mills College (1927); Chairman, Department of Home Economics, Mills College; Dean of School of Home Economics, Utah Agricultural College (1923-27); member of Summer Session Faculty, University of California at Los Angeles (1922-23) and at Berkeley (1928). Author of numerous scientific articles. Member: Phi Upsilon Omicron, Alpha Nu, Phi Kappa Phi, American Ass'n of University Women. Home: Mills College, Oakland, Calif.

DRAKE, Jeannette M., (Miss), a native of Illinois, former resident of Iowa and residing in Pasadena for past 9 years. City librarian; B.L.S., University of Illinois 1903; president Iowa Library Ass'n 1915-16; president