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Rh in California for the last 50 years. Married to Abraham Lincoln Phillips. Children: Eleanor. Writer. Garden Editor. First district chairman of gardens, S. F. District; first P. T. A. president in Petaluma, also first president of Delphian Club; for 2 years president, Petaluma Women's Club. Garden Editor, Home Designer and Garden Beautiful, Oakland; Pacific Grower, San Jose; Western Homes and Gardens, San Jose. Author: “Practical Gardening on the Pacific Coast.” Member: Petaluma Women's Club, Petaluma Garden Club, S. F. Women's Club. Home: 706 B. St., Petaluma, Calif.

PICKFORD, Mary (Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks), born April 8, 1893, in Toronto, Canada. Her family name was Smith and her mother who passed away recently, was a well known character actress. Married to Douglas Fairbanks. Made her debut on the legitimate stage at the age of five; met with wonderful success but has since devoted many years to screen work and is today the leading motion picture star of this country. A few of her best known film productions are: “Stella Maris,” “Daddy Long Legs,” “Tess of the Storm Country,” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “Poor Little Rich Girl,” “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall,” “My Best Girl.” Home: Beverly Hills, Calif.

PIERCE, Julietto, (Miss), a native of Delaware, Iowa, daughter of Montraville and Barbara Ann Garfield Pierce, resident of California for the last 20 years. Principal, San Pedro Senior High School. Graduate of. Iowa State Teachers College and State University; later studied at Columbia University. Interested in all activities that make for better citizenship; sponsors progressive movements in Education that tend toward civic, social and racial betterment. Member: Phi Beta Kappa; P. E. O. Sisterhood; Woman's University Club; City, Statfe and National Educational Ass'ns.; Chamber of Commerce, San Pedro; Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 538 14th St., San Pedro, Calif.

PIERCE, Minerva, (Mrs.), a native of Trinidad, Colorado, daughter of George and Martha Lockwood. A former resident of Reno, Nevada, living for 3 months in California. Married to Charles William Pierce. Children: Charles Victor. Landscape Artist. Teacher of landscape painting. Paints pictures for exhibits and sales; successful in Nevada Desert scenes. Member: Twentieth Century Club, Latinur Art Club, League of American Penwomen. Home: 55 Greenwood Ave., San Francisco, California.

PLACE, Corene Bain (Mrs.), born in Sammoth, Illinois, daughter of Abner and Martha C. Bain, a resident of California for twelve years. Married to Edward Ransom Place. Founder of Allied Arts Club of San Francisco (organized to assist young musicians and students in all the arts), State chairman for young artists' contests for National Federation Music Clubs. , Always interested in musical activities. Music chairman. Pacific Foreign Trade and Travel Exposition, S. F., 1927. Member: Western Women's Club, Allied Arts Club, Fruit and Flower Mission. Home: 726 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Calif.

PLAISTER, Cornelia D., (Miss), born December 22, 1889, in Dubuque, Iowa, daughter of Joseph D. and Winona F. Plaister, a resident of California for two years. Librarian S. D. Public Library. State Chairman, Educational Committee, Business and Professional Women's Club; on Board of Directors of S. D. Open Forum, also on Civic Committee of local Chamber of Commerce. Member: D. A. R., P. E. O., American Ass'n of University Women, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 3660 Pio Pico St., Point Loma, San Diego, California.

PLUMMER, Edna Covert (Mrs.), born in Wisconsin, daughter of George Hamilton and Harriot Blanchard Hunnewell Covert, a resident of California for seven years. Married to Thomas Francis Plummer. Attorney-at-law. First woman District Attorney in the United States. Specializes in Corporation and Banking Law; only woman who has organized and established a National Bank. County Food Administrator during last war. Only woman County Director of Council of Defense during the war. Member: Women Lawyers' Club (president). Women's Athletic Club, Three Arts Club, Deauville Beach Club, Artland, Phi Delta Delta. Office address: 311 Security Building, Los Angeles, Calif.

POPPY, Dorothy Belle (Miss), born in Kendallville, Indiana, daughter of Henry and Susanna Poppy, a resident of Glendale, California, for eighteen years. High school teacher. B. A. from Michigan University; post graduate work at University of Chicago and University of California. Principal of Grafton High School and