{ "id": "news-1921-08-27-2", "title": "“A charter member of the reorganized Emblem club”", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin, 1921-08-27, page 2; Historic Oregon Newspapers", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn90051770/1921-08-27/ed-1/seq-2/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-16", "notes": "A society column reporting a bridge party at the clubhouse in honour of Mrs. T. A. McCann, and calling her a charter member of the reorganized Emblem club. The one row of this archive's own table of what the paper called the club's women that was marked “not filed”.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/news-1921-08-27-2/", "evidence": { "id": "news-1921-08-27-2", "kind": "history", "date": "1921-08-27", "summary": "A society column calls Mrs. T. A. McCann a charter member of the reorganized Emblem club, at a bridge party held for her at the clubhouse.", "findings": [ "The paper calls a woman “a charter member of the reorganized Emblem club”, which is the strongest formal standing any of this archive's sources gives a woman in the club.", "The party is at the clubhouse and is given by “the club women”, which is the paper's own phrase for a body it elsewhere calls an informal organization and an auxiliary.", "Mrs. J. C. Vandevert, who took a prize, is the wife of the secretary of the women's organization founded in June 1920.", "The McCanns left Bend for Minneapolis after this. T. A. McCann was trustee of the reorganized club in 1919." ], "limitations": [ "A society column is not a membership roll. “Charter member” may be the paper's courtesy rather than the club's word.", "No constitution or roll of the reorganized club of 1919 has been located, so nothing here says whether the 1913 cap of forty men survived it.", "The OCR was read first and the page image second; the transcription here is from the page image at 144 dpi.", "The column names no emblem and shows no drawing. 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In March 1920 they are “the lady-members of the Emblem club”, set against “the men members”. In June 1920 twenty-five women whose husbands are members form “an informal organization”, “merely for convenience in planning affairs of a social nature”. In August they are “the ladies' auxiliary of the club”. In November 1921 a woman chairs the club's music committee.", "One row of that table was marked “not filed”, and this is it. On 27 August 1921 the paper reports a bridge party at the clubhouse in honour of Mrs. T. A. McCann, who is leaving for Minneapolis, and describes her as “a charter member of the reorganized Emblem club”.", "It does not settle the question. A society column is not a roll, “charter member” in a Saturday paper may be a courtesy, and the reorganized club of 1919 left no constitution this project has found. What it does is put the strongest of the competing usages on the record with a date and a name, beside the weakest, and let a reader see that the paper itself was not consistent.", "The club's own founding document caps membership at forty men and says nothing about women. Whether that cap survived the reorganization is the open question this bears on." ], "related": [ "news-1920-06-05-2", "news-1921-11-19-2", "book-1913" ], "date": "1921-08-27", "collection": "club-life", "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "quote": "The smartest social function of the week, was the Bridge party at the Emblem club on Wednesday afternoon at which time the club women honored Mrs. T. A. McCann. The spacious rooms were made unusually attractive with floral decorations, color scheme in the living room was brown and yellow, nature's favorite tones at this season and by way of contrast shades of lavender and pink were effectively used in the dining room.\n\nPrizes were awarded to Mrs. J. C. 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