isa-normaladvance-1913-00346

Description:	346 THE NORMAL ADVANCEQtfje Cqual Suffrage league of tfje ^>tate formal ikfjool/^\N Friday noon, December 5, 1912, was organized the largest and most democratic body^k- in the State Normal School—The Equal Suffrage League of the Indiana State NormalSchool. The league includes both men and women of the student body and of the faculty,and has a charter membership of over two hundred to begin its work. Four-fifths of thefaculty have signed its constitution. The purpose of the organization as set forth in the constitution is the dissipation of the ignorance and indifference which exists with regard to theequal suffrage movement. Its membership is composed of those who believe in the necessity,justice and beneficence of extending the suffrage to women.The officers of the league are: President, Louise Barbour vice-president, Sara King secretary, Winifred Ray treasurer, Mrs. Dorothy Byrn.These together with not less than twenty leaders constitute the governing body. Theleague is unique in its governing body, in that the four main officers are elected by ballotfrom the league as a whole while the twenty or more leaders are volunteers, who pledgedthemselves to bring into the league within two weeks of its inception and before its formal organization ten members from within the student body, and to organize similar leagues intheir respective places of residence in the state of Indiana and to act as the presidents cabinetin determining the nature and method of the extension work.The leaders, who constitute the presidents cabinet are: Rosalie Mitchell. Mayme Brown,Matilda Reifel, Zoe Wininger, Cecilia Rubin, Anna R. Black, Viola Llewellyn. Emma DeanWright, Winifred Ray, Louise Barbour, Sara King, Alice Cowgill Edna Wallace Mrs.Dorothy Byrn, Bertha Coakley, Emalene Always, Catherine Staff. Edna Vineberg, ClaraHill, and Miss Rush.There are no fixed dues, merely voluntary contributions to defray the expenses of theleague in carrying on its educational work, such as literature, badges, buttons, entertainments. Literature and Votes for Women buttons have already been distributed amongst themembers and on Friday evening, December 12, a little farce entitled, How the Votes WereWon, by Cicely Hamilton, was presented by the Terre Haute Equal Franchise League in theauditorium of the training school. This was preceded by an able exposition of the subject ofEqual Suffrage. by Miss Louise Peters, of the Terre Haute High School.During the winter and spring quarters there have been bi-monthly meetings of theleague three of these have been evening meetings, the others mid-day gatherings. At thesecond evening meeting Professors Rettger, Wisely, Lynch and McBeth gave each an exposition of the reasons for extending the franchise to women at the third, Miss Bertha Pratt Kingof the Classical School discussed the same subject, and met arguments against it, and answered questions concerning it. At the mid-day meetings, besides the business side, Mrs.Shryer, Miss Jennie McMullen. Mrs. U. O. Cox and Prof. Chas. M. Curry discussed variousphases of the subject.Votes for Women buttons are now worn by over three hundred fifty students: uTheWomans Journal has been placed in the library and a general spirit of interest and inquiryinto the subject has been awakened among the student body, that will yield fruit in an intelligent use of the franchise when it comes to Indiana in 1916!
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Collection:	Indiana State University Archives

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