Woman's Club Of El Paso - 1948
Club de la Mujer de El Paso - 1948

Woman's Club Of El Paso - 1948

The Woman's Club of El Paso is located at 1400 North Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas. These women were determined to bring culture and the arts to this wild and wooly town. They were movers and shakers in the community, determined to improve educational opportunities, beautify the city, and bring the finer aspects of life to a border town. They established the first kindergarten in the public schools in Texas, they paid for the first PE teacher in the high school, and they worked diligently for the pure food laws, city sanitation, food inspections, weed eradication, and preservation of San Jacinto Plaza. They sponsored, installed and maintained soup kitchens in the schools during the Depression to feed undernourished children. During World War II they sold war bonds, housed the Red Cross and Surgical Dressing Unit, and loaned the clubhouse for all war bond rallies, free of charge. They held the first art show, first flower show and first fashion show in the city. http://wcoep.org/history/

Area: Central / El Paso High

Source: UTEP Special Collections

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

Comments

Add a comment
Thank you for your comment

Report this entry

Choose the most important reason for this report

Your name

Your email address

Optional detail

Thank you for your report

More from the same community-collection

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Football field after the ceremony - class of 2016.

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Photograph of flowers on the football field during the ceremony.

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Photograph of flowers on the football field during the ceremony.

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Alexander Appelzoller and Danya Muro after the ceremony for the ...

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Alexander Appelzoller and Danya Muro after the ceremony for the ...

Centennial Graduation - EPHS - 2016

Photograph: Danya Muro standing next to flowers arranged in the ...

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Danya Muro standing next to flowers arranged in the number 100 ...

Centennial Graduation - El Paso High School - 2016

Alexander Appelzoller and Danya Muro after the ceremony for the ...

El Paso High School Vs. Austin High school

El Paso high school attempts to break a Guinness world record of ...

El Paso High School Vs. Austin High school

El Paso high school attempts to break a Guinness world record of ...

El Paso High School Vs. Austin High School

El Paso High School attempts to break a Guinness world record of ...

Cathedral High School Alumni Association - 2016

Cathedral High School El Paso Texas Alumni Association - 2016 - ...

hiking the Franklin Mountains

Took my girlfriend and my dog Serenity Midnight, up a hike ...

St. Patrick Cathedral - 1920

The architectural plans for St. Patrick, designed to seat 720 ...

Saint Patrick Cathedral - 1920

Located downtown, the Cathedral is a work of art and it is an El ...

Bishop Armando Xavier Ochoa - 1996

Bishop Armando Xavier Ochoa was born in Oxnard, California, in ...

Raymundo Joseph Peña - 1980

Raymundo Joseph Peña (born 19 February 1934) is an American ...

Bishop Patrick Flores - 1978

Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores in 1978 - Bishop Patrick ...

Bishop S. M. Metzger - 1940

S. M. Metzger became bishop in 1940, he found it necessary to ...

Bishop Anthony J. Schuler - 1915

SCHULER, ANTHONY J. (1869–1944). Anthony J. Schuler, bishop of ...

Bishop Seitz - 2013

On May 6, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Seitz the 6th Bishop of ...

EPHS Class of 1986 at El Paso High Centennial

EPHS Class of 1986 at the El Paso High Centennial football game ...

home.search_collection