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Rh of Western Auto Supply Company, one of the largest retail auto supply houses in the world; vastly interested in Personnel work for the purpose of building up an organization of better men and women. Member: Soroptimist Club, Sunset Canyon Country Club, Pasadena Tournament of Roses. Address: 1100 So. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

PEREGO, Grace Greenwood (Mrs.), born in Garden City, Kansas, daughter of H. C. and Delia Beals, a resident of California for twenty-one years. Children: Jackson Beals. Builder and Realtor. Sometimes called the “First Woman Builder of California.” Took over her husband's business and was most successful She possesses unique powers of invention. Specializes in the building of apartment houses. Ona of her first big achievements was the construction of a seventy-eight room building on the crest of one of San Francisco's hifrhest hills. Member: O. E. S., City and County Fed. of Women's Clubs, City Club, Real Estate Board, Home Builders Ass'n., Western Women's Club. Address: 160 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif.

PETERS, Aimee Marguerite (Miss), born in Elmira, New York, daughter of William Henry and Caroline Boak Peters, a resident of California since 1924. Librarian. Head cataloger, Public Library, Palo Alto. B. L. E. Syracuse University. Studiefd at Elmira College. Chairman of book section, American Association of University Women. Head cataloger of Kern County Library, 1924-27. Formerly connected with Johns Hopkins University Library, Syracuse University Library and Air Service Library; organizer of the Air Service Library at Langley Field, Va. From 1921-23, head cataloger, Public Library, Tulsa, Okla. Member: American Library Ass'n, California Library Ass'n, American Ass'n of University Women. Home: Cowper Courts, Palo Alto, Calif.

PETERS, Lulu Hunt (Mrs. L. H.), M. D., born in Milford, Maine, daughter of Thomas Albert and Alice Marsh Hunt. Married to Louis H. Peters. Began practicing medicine in Los Angeles in 1915. Writer of syndicated health feature articles for magazines. Did splendid war work in the Balkan States and was decorated by various governments. Author: “Diet and Health, with Key to the Calories,” “Diet for Children.” Member: Authors League of America, Friday Morning Club, L. A. Woman's Press Club, Alpha Epsilon Iota, New York State Medical Society, American Medical Ass'n. Home: 4947 Melrose Hill, Los Angeles, Calif.

PETRIE, Minnie E., (Mrs. A. L.), born in Allendale, Michigan, February 22, 1869; former resident of Portland, Oregon; living for the last 16 years in California. Married to Arthur Lee Petrie. Retiring president. Girls Reserve Board; fifth vice-president Santa Rosa P. T. A. Council. Member: Roseland Literary Club, P. T. A. Home: 517 Olive Street, Santa Rosa, Calif.

PEYCKE, Frieda (Miss), a native of Omaha, Nebraska, daughter of Edmund and Christine Sturne Peycke, a resident of California for fifteen years. Composer and interpreter. Does whole programs of own musically illustrated settings to poems and stories by American authors for all clubs, schools, and private musicals. Has sixty-five compositions published by Clayton F. Summy Co., Harold Flammer Inc., Oliver Ditson Co., T. S. Denison Co., Lorenz Publishing Co. Member: Philadelphia Matinee Musicale Club, Dominant Club, Women's Lyric Club, L.A. Women's Athletic Club, St. Cecelia Club. Home: 1207 West Third Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

PHELPS, Edith Allen (Miss), born in Springfield, Missouri, daughter of John Elisha and Margaret Jane White Phelps, a resident of California for eight years. Librarian, Paso Robles Public Library. For four years connected with the Library of the University of Missouri; for 12 years (190416), Librarian, Oklahoma City Carnegie Library. Twice president of Oklahoma Library Ass'n. For two years Librarian Tyler, Texas, Public Library Cataloguer (1919) in Kansas City Public Library. Member: Paso Robles Woman's Club, American Library Ass'n, California Library Ass'n, Oklahoma Library Ass'n, D.A.R., P.E.O., Colonial Dames of America. Home: Paso Robles, Calif.

PHILBIN, Mary (Miss), born in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of John J. and Blanche Philbin, a resident of California for six years. Motion picture actress. Has starred in numerous productions, scoring her first success with Lon Chaney in “The Phantom of the Opera.” Home: 1332 N. Fairfax Avenue, Hollywood, Calif.

PHILLIPS, Martha, (Mrs.), a native of Modoc County, California, daughter of William E. and Prudence Jane Basey Cole, former resident of Nevada,