Boston Dartmouth Women's Club

The Christmas tea of the Boston Dartmouth Women's Club was one of the most delightful gatherings ever held by the club. Held in the lovely Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Italian Palace, it brought together wives, mothers, daughters and sisters of Dartmouth men of Greater Boston.

Founded in 1930 the club lists in its bylaws its primary purpose — to promote friendliness among the women of the Dartmouth family. To Dartmouth wives long convinced that women do not marry other men through choice but only because there are not enough Dartmouth men to go around; to Dartmouth daughters well grown before they learned that there are other colleges; and to Dartmouth mothers who had sent a teen-age boy off to college to have him become unmistakably a "Dartmouth Man," it was a natural association.

Two years after its founding by the gracious Mrs. Frank Ford Hill of Milton, the club decided that for such a group of women friendliness and hospitality were not enough. All efforts were bent toward establishing a scholarship fund and in 1932 the first award of $500 was. given. This was later increased to an annual grant of $1000 a year. A total amount of 517,300 has been raised and sent to Dartmouth for unrestricted scholarships.

On Saturday evening, February 27, the Dartmouth Glee Club will give a concert at New England Mutual Hall in Boston sponsored by the Dartmouth Women's Club to aid its scholarship fund. The club welcomes the support of all Dartmouth alumni and their families and friends in this very pleasant project.

Mrs. Wesley A. McSorley, president of the club, herself a Dartmouth wife and mother, will be delighted to meet prospective members of the club, that evening. The Club meets at the Hotel Vendome on the 3rd Wednesday of the month October through April. A coffee and dessert hour at 1:15 is followed at 2:00 o'clock by a short business meeting and an informative and entertaining program. But most of all it is a friendly, social gathering of attractive, gracious women, young and old, very conscious of their good fortune in being exactly what they are.

(Mrs. Samuel R. Carlisle '30) Club Historian