[Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn]@TWC D-Link bookMemories and Anecdotes CHAPTER VII 2/26
It is all planned, and if all the women's clubs carry such a program as the one which Miss Sanborn has planned, and that means that it will be carried out, the winter's history of women's clubs will be one of unprecedented prosperity. If New Hampshire's daughters now living out of their own State do not keep track of each other, and become acquainted into the bargain, it will not be the fault of their president, who has carried on correspondence with almost every one of them, and who has planned a winter's work that will enable them to learn something about their own State, as well as to meet for the promoting of acquaintance. OUR FIRST MEETING This meeting was presided over by our much loved First-President, Kate Sanborn, and it was the most informal, spontaneous, and altogether enjoyable organization meeting that could be imagined, and the happy spirit came that has guided our way and helped us over the rough places leading us always to the light. Our first resolve was to enjoy to the utmost the pleasure of being together, and with it to do everything possible to help our native State.
To these two objects we have been steadfastly true in all the years; and how we have planned, and what we have done has been recorded to our credit, so that we may now say in looking back, "We have kept the faith and been true." At this time there are so many memories, all equally precious and worthy of mention here, but we must be brief and only a few can be recalled. In our early years _our_ Kate Sanborn led us through so many pleasant paths, and with her "twin President," Julia K.Dyer, brought the real New Hampshire atmosphere into it all. That was a grand Dartmouth Day, when the good man, Eleazar Wheelock, came down from his accustomed wall space to grace our program and the Dartmouth Sons brought their flag and delighted us with their college songs. Since then have come to us governors, senators, judges, mayors, and many celebrities, all glad to bring some story with the breath of the hills to New Hampshire's Daughters.
Kate Sanborn first called for our county tributes, to renew old acquaintances and promote rivalry among the members.
We adorned ourselves with the gold buttercup badges, and adopted the grey and garnet as our colors. NEW HAMPSHIRE'S DAUGHTERS _Members of the Society Hold an Experience Meeting._ The first meeting of the season of New Hampshire's Daughters was held at the Hotel Vendome, Boston, Saturday afternoon, and was a most successful gathering, both in point of attendance and of general interest.
The business of the association was transacted under the direction of the president, Miss Kate Sanborn, whose free construction of parliamentary law and independent adherence to common sense as against narrow conventionality, results in satisfactory progress and rapid action.
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