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Grover, Alice, Gordon. Teacher. Past president of Woman's Improvement Club; for 4 years active as High School trustee; Principal of Hoffman School; member of Imperial County Board of Education. Member: Woman's Improvement Club, College Women's Club, O. E. S. Home: Route A, Box 102, Calexico, California.

FERRITER, Mary C. (Mrs.), born in Aurora, Indiana, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Johnson, a resident of California for forty-one years. Children: George E., Mrs. Charles Patterson McCan. Author, educator and lecturer. President, since 1916, of the Universal School of Suggested Therapy. Author: “Truth of Life,” “Love and Liberty,” “Psychology of Fasting,” “Psychology of Life.” Was identified with social uplift and prison work from 1906-18. Member: Professional Woman's Club, O. E. S. Home: 1700 Linden St., Oakland, Calif.

FINKELDEY, Stella A. H. (Miss), born in Santa Cruz, daughter of Werner and Amalie A. Finkeldey, a life-long resident of Santa Cruz. Educator and Social Service Worker. Interested in all civic affairs; former teacher in Santa Cruz City Schools for thirty years, acting as Principal of Laurel School for seventeen years; Secretary of Santa Cruz Chapter of American Red Cross; Treasurer of the Santa Cruz Tuberculosis Ass'n; Past Grand President of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Member: Santa Cruz Woman's Club (Charter Member and Past President), Monday Musical Club. Home: 127 Front St., Santa Cruz, California.

FISK, Helen G., (Miss), born July 27, 1895, in Redlands, California, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Fisk, a resident of Pasadena since 1922. Vocational Director. A. B., Mount Holyoke College 1917. Formerly in industrial personnel work. At present, assistant director. Vocation Bureau of Pasadena and Bureau of Vocational Service of Los Angeles. Member of the Board of Directors, Pasadena Council of Social AgencesAgencies [sic] and the California Conference of Social Work. Former Vocational Chairman, California State Division, American Association of University Women. Active in all civic and club affairs. Member: Pasadena Business and Professional Women's Club (past president). College Women's Club of Pasadena (former vice-president), Mount Holyoke College Club of Southern California (past president), L. A. Business Women's Service League, Contemporary Club of Redlands, Country Club of Redlands, Survey Club of Los Angeles, Woman's Civic League of Pasadena, Women's University Club of Los Angeles. Address: 110 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, California.

FITHIAN, Cora B. (Mrs.), born in Iowa, daughter of John and Mary Ann Brooks, a resident of California for twenty years. Married to Edward Chalmers Fithian. Children: Chalmers B., Theodore Brooks. Manager Woman's Dept., John Newton Russell Agency, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. Head of the largest department of women underwriters in the United States. Former school teacher. Contributes to Insurance magazines. Member: Women's Athletic Club, Soroptimist Club, Million Dollar Club, Big Tree Club, Underwriters Ass'n. Office Address: 322 Pacific Mutual Bldg. Home: 140 So. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

FLETCHER, Inglis (Mrs. John G.), a native of Alton, Illinois, daughter of Maurice W. and Flora Chapman Clark, a resident of San Francisco for three years. Married to John G. Fletcher. Children: Stuart. Manager of famous lecturers. Co-manager with Alice Seckles in “Seckles-Fletcher Popular Lecture Series,” San Francisco and Oakland; also associated in management for 1928-29 season in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Originator of Junior Red Cross Hospital program in Spokane Public Schools, now in general use. Has published verse and publicity material. Book reviewer of S. F. Women's City Club magazine. At present, on a six months' trek to the interior of British East Africa, unaccompanied by any white person, to a region never visited by a white woman—and by very few white men—for the study of native “Voodoo” and other pagan religious practices. Member: AmercianAmerican [sic] Pen Women, D.A.R. Home: 2442 Leavenworth St., San Francisco Calif.

FLUSS, Stella D. (Mrs. William S.), born on a farm in Minnesota, in 1892, a daughter of Henry A. and Caroline Mabel Doty, a resident of California for three years. Former Kindergarten teacher. Organized St. Paul Goodwill Day Nursery in 1920, East End Library, Winona, Minn., 1921. For two years president of Woman's Club of Davidson City. Graduated from Winona State Teachers' College; studied at Hamline University, U. C.