The Waco Citizen (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 71, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1980 Page: 3 of 50
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THE WACO CITIZEN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1980 PAGE 3
Waco Shakespeare Club Helping Waco, Providing Culture
The Waco Shakespeare
Club is one of the oldest clubs
in Waco. It is also one of the
most popular.
Organized November 27,
1899, in the home of it’s
founder, Miss Kate Friend,
the club year lasted from
November 1st to May 1st.
Miss Friend was paid for her
work with the club and the
regular meeting took place
in her home. Two plays were
studied each year, with Miss
Friend teaching and the
women listening. In ad-
dition, the women presented
Shakespeare plays.
In 1899, the Texas
Federation of Women’s
Clubs was organized in
Waco. Mrs. Edward Rotan
of Waco was the first
president. The Waco
Shakespeare Club affiliated
with the T.F.W.C. and the
General Federation of
Women’s Clubs in 1900.
Between the two world
wars, during which the club
members supported the war
effort, came the Great
Depression. Mrs. F. M.
Compton, who was the
president of the Club from
1933 through 1935, left this
written statement: “The
years that I was president of
the Shakespeare Club were
the saddest years of my life
and the Club was kept alive
only by a little handful of old
members that hung together
and tried to carry on. After
all the years of being the
outstanding Club of Waco
with fifty members and a
fine paid director, it began to
dwindle away in the
depression. Our director
gave up the Club and we
moved to the Federation
Club House. Without a
director we hardly knew
which way to turn. Mrs.
Hawley McCall, Mrs. John
D. Mayfield, Mrs. Jennie
Burhl, Mrs. P. F. Boyer and
myself were all that
remained of the old mem-
bers. Afew others stayed in
a little while and went out,
but this little hand-ful of
women finally worked out a
program whereby we could
enlarge our membership.
Little by little we revived
and made a brave fight in-
creasing in our number and
regaining our poise; we
gradually became recon-
ciled and are happy that we
carried on.”
On January 20, 1934,
despite the hard times,
BH Lions Strong On
Community Service
Speaking about Com-
munity Service you would
surely have to include every
service organization in town
and every church. Also the
Cooper Foundation and other
such charities.
But today the Citizen is
going to talk about one club
in town that we think
probably touches more
people’s lives than any other,
for its size, than a lot of
groups.
Remember this is no race
for who does the most but it’s
a spotlight on one club that
we know helps a lot of people
in Waco and all over the
world.
The Beverly Hills Lions
maintains a role of only
about 30 members and with
any such group only about
half are active at any one
time.
The group gives out
around $5,000 a year to
various scholarships, Little
League, Boy Scouts, etc.
during the year. But they
don’t stop there. They
participate in the Lions Sight
Conservation project,
(helping people to see),
Crippled Children’s Camp in
Kerrville, Lions In-
ternational Foundation
which has $4 million ready
for any disaster anywhere in
the world, (where there is a
Lions Club) and the many,
many other good things that
Lions do all over the world.
Still the members of the
Beverly Hills Lions don’t
stop there. They help on
individual cases when help is
not forthcoming from any
other source as when the hot
water heater went out at the
rehab center and $800 was
needed right away for a new
one.
The Lions Club received a
letter about it which is
touching. In fact the Beverly
Hills Lions receive a lot of
touching letters. Kenneth
Boen today is president but
here’s a few letters that
came in while Bill Donaldson
was at the reins.
Reicher Scholarship Fund
Dear Lions Members:
Again I thank you for your
most generous & loving gift
to Reicher Scholarship fund
in the name of my beloved
UJHS Scholarship
Dear Sirs,
We at University Junior
High School would like to say
thank you for the check you
sent us for the scholarship.
We hope it will help us win
first place in the contest.
Speaking for the students
that will get these
Scholarships, we say thank
you very much.
Mrs. Doris Kroll
Scholarsgip Chairman
University Junior High
$50 Was The Start
Dear Mr. Donaldson,
On behalf of the Reicher
Scholarship Committee, I
take this opportunity to
thank you for your generous
contribution of $100.00 to our
fund.
Our Committee was
organized in 1973, in March
of that year your
organization donated $50.00
which was the start of our
fund. We who have been
associated with the fund are
Hot Water Heater
Dear Members of Beverly
Hills Lions Club,
When I saw the picture in
the Waco paper of this year’s
Easter Seal Poster Child, I
thought of your members.
This child is stronger and
happier as a direct result of
his swimming therapy. I too
swim in the Central Texas
Rehabilitation pool as often
as I can-five days a week if
possible.
I am 62, have had
rheumatoid arthiritis for
seventeen years, and I am in
a wheel chair. My greatest
joy is the time I spend
swimming, for then I can
walk in water, move easily,
exercise. Actually, hot water
swimming is the only ac-
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members of the Shakespeare
Club, aided by Baylor and
the local talent presented
“Macbeth” in the Baylor
Little Theater.
In 1954, the new clubhouse
of the Waco Federation of
Women’s Clubs was com-
pleted and the Shakespeare
members decided to meet
there from October to May
on the second Thursday of
the month.
Du ing the month of
February, 1974, the Club
celebrated it’s 75th An-
niversary with a tea.
Hostesses for the day were
members belonging 25 years
or more: Mrs. Vernon Legg,
Mrs. Nelson Smith, Mrs. H.
A. Weddington, Mrs. H. B.
Bratton, Mrs. O. T. Collins,
Mrs.W.L. Gatlin,and Mrs. O.
R. Smith, Mrs. H.F. Saun-
ders, Mrs. Fred Williams
and Mrs. W. T. Clarke.
The group is also
responsible for furnishing
the Shakespeare Room in the
new building. Each year
some new Shakespeare
memorabilia is added to the
room and it has become a
source of pride as well as
research material.
Throughout the years, the
Shakespeare Club has ren-
dered service whenever and
wherever it is possible. The
Club has given 19 presidents
to Waco Federation of
Women’s Clubs, three of
them serving twice, which
makes 16 representations.
With no effort to observe
time or continuity in giving,
the Club gave generously to
the Browning-Armstrong
Library, contributed to the
Latin American Christian
School on Third Street,
donated books to the
Alabama-Coushatta Indian
Reservation and contributed
to the March of Dimes, Care
and War relief.
In the summer of 1974, the
Club, desiring to participate
in the Bicentennial of the
American Revolution
Celebration, asked Mrs.
Vernon Legg, a retired
teacher, to research and
write the history of the club
abd the paper was presented
in November, 1974.
The club still meets from
October to May on the
second Thursday, with one
called meeting in the
summer. The Club motto
remains the same, “First to
thine own self be true,” and
the flower remains the red,
red rose.
At the beginning of each
club year, the ad-
ministration prepares a
study of Shakespeare as well
as programs and projects to
support and teach the im-
portance of the current
issues at the local, state,
national and international
level.
The Club in its study has
given room to studies of
current interest, civic affairs
and cultural studies parallel
to the study of Shakespeare.
Through the years, the Club
has had such speakers as
Clara Dricoll, Pat M. Neff,
W. Lee O’Daniel, Dr. A. J.
Armstrong, Dr. L. C.
Courtney, Dr. E. Hudson
Long, Dr. Charles Smith and
Rev. Peter McLeod.
The Waco Shakespeare
Club has sponsored six
clubs: La Societe de Beaux
Artes, organized in 1927; The
Bards (former Junior
Shakespeare Club) in 1941;
The Colonial Study Club in
1963; The Capitol Club, a
regional organization, in
1973; and The Waco’s Junior
Women’s Club in 1980.
During the last two years,
the Club has sent essential
items such as wigs, dishes,
cooking utensils, etc., to the
M. D. Anderson Hospital.
Money-raising projects have
been numerous: book
reviews, style shows, bake
sales, game days, silver
teas, and cards and
“discard” sales, the
proceeds all going for a
worthy cause.
Mrs. H. A. Weddington of
400 Austin Avenue is the only
charter member of the Club
living. She is 102 years old.
Mrs. H. A. Bratton of the
Shaoespeare Club has been
President of the Texas
Federation of Women’s
Clubs for the past two years.
Mrs. Ruby Ballard is now
president of the Club. The
theme for this year is
“Progress through Unified
Effort.”
History is never com-
pleted. It grows from day to
day. It is the written record
of man’s deeds, and every
day we begin a new page for
the record, and so it is with
the Shakespeare Club. What
Jack. This means more to
me than I can tell you &
thanks so much I love & miss
you all.
Mrs. Rectenwald
most appreciative of your
contributions since that
time. We are able to function
as a helping Committee only
through efforts of generous
peolpe like yourselves.
Mrs. Rectenwald has been
notified of your gift. Once
again, our thanks to you for
helping us do our job.
Gratefully,
Polly Lokken-Treasurer
Reicher Scholarship Com-
mittee
tivity that will keep me from
being a total bed patient. I
wish you could see the
happiness you bring to
people with broken bones,
strokes, and to crippled
children, etc.
When you bought the
heater for the Rehab pool,
you blessed many of us.
Thank you for caring.
Several have told me that
Beverly Hills Lions Club
reaches out to many people.
Thank you for being special
to those of us who swim.
Gratefully,
Evelyn Brashears
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