Miss Virginia Turford, 1925-1926

MIss Virginia Larford 1922-26Miss Virginia Turford

Year:                                                       1922-1924, 1925-1926

League Name:                                      Junior League of Trenton

President:                                              Miss Virginia Turford

Vice President                                      Mrs. J. Cornell Murray

 

Officers & committees:

Corresponding Secretary – Miss Elizabeth Bowman

Recording Secretary – Mrs. S. Kissam Kerr

Treasurer – Mrs. Guy Oliphant

Chairman of Charities – Miss Mildred Apgar

Entertainment – Miss Dorothy Wilson

Motor – Mrs. Alexander Oliphant Jr.

Program – Miss Elizabeth Case

Training Courses – Mrs. John Raymond Jr.

 

Total Membership:                     67 ladies

 

 

Programs & Activities:

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE BABY SHELTER – 1925

Copied from the Trenton Historical website – http://www.trentonhistory.org/His/charitable.html

The Junior League of Trenton, a member of the Association of Junior Leagues of America, after contributing to and working with many of the social agencies of Trenton found that there was a glaring need in this city for an institution to give temporary care to babies and children under three years of age who were deprived of the normal home surroundings.

In the daily rounds of the social worker were found children of deceased parents, of ill parents, foundlings, and many others in distressing conditions. With the idea of sheltering and improving the health of these unfortunates until they were adopted or until their home conditions were bettered, the Junior League opened on June 1, 1925, the Junior League Baby Shelter at 211 East Front Street, occupying the second and third floors with a capacity of nine beds and with a resident graduate nurse in charge.

These children, under medical supervision, are given the finest opportunity for physical improvement. Under the growing demand for more beds, the shelter was moved on July 1, 1926, to 82 North Clinton Avenue its present home, which now has sixteen beds. This institution is supported by the Junior League through its various entertainments and other money-making enterprises.

The baby shelter had a waiting list, shortly after opening.

Card Party at Trenton Country Club- raised $268

Dance- Crescent Temple – raised $700

Christmas Shop- open November/December – raised $612

“Stepping Out Revue”- January 20-24, 1925 raised  $9231

Colonel Norman Schwatzkopf attended a meeting

Sewing Committee made 120+ garments & diapers for needy children & Baby Shelter

Mending Committee accrued 92+ hours of work

Read a book titled “Montessori Children” and applied methods to children at the Baby Shelter