Catholic Woman's Club History

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History of the Catholic Woman’s Club
...as I remember it By Diane Jones
May, 2009

The St. Anthony’s Catholic Woman’s Club, as we know it today, was preceded in the earlier days by The Mama Margaret Guild, which acted in the same capacity. To serve the parish needs and support the school. However, that group dissolved some time in the 1940's - perhaps during the war years. Although, I have heard about the women of the parish making bandages, etc for the war effort.

My earliest recollection is 1949 or 1950. A group of parish ladies decided to re-start a support group after a number of years of inactivity. The meetings were held in the school basement/cafeteria. As I recall …show more content…
A team was assigned for each month and their duties were to wash the altar linens, dust the sanctuary and the sacristy, pick and arrange flowers and then come back a few days later to remove them. There was a room in the building behind the church with a sink and lots of shelves with every shape of flower vases. For those with beautiful gardens this was no problem. Some of us picked “weeds” along the railroad track which we mistook for flowers (but we thought they were pretty) and were politely chastised! We also sponsored a yearly volunteer clean-up of the church.

One of the group’s best fund raisers was to co-sponsor with the Knights of Columbus the serving of chicken Pilau cooked by Hugh Dunne at the county fair each year. The women made homemade soups, cakes and pies and did most of the serving. The booth was a huge hit with the carnival ride employees who seldom got home made foods.

The organization was active in the West Coast Deanery, a group of Catholic Women’s Clubs sponsored by the diocese. I recall once when we were hostesses we presented a comical skit on how NOT to be a good Catholic. The mother bemoaned having to get the boys up and to the church before day-light for altar boy duties and how it wasn’t important to send religious cards at Christmas time because the others were usually cheaper, etc. Sadly, two ladies from the west coast were killed at Gower’s Corner on U.S. #42 & S.R. #52 returning home from that …show more content…
This was a huge undertaking and took a number of years to pay off. However, the children were being served delicious hot meals and never to be forgotten cinnamon rolls whose smell permeated the school and the children must have found it difficult to keep their mind on their studies. Two ladies were hired to cook: Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Hindman, later on Mrs. Nellie McLoone. The work table was a covered pool table discarded by someone. Later on, we added a steam table and a freezer.

Another early project was a library. It was located in the downstairs of the Jovita Building in the north end, which is now part of Johnson and Beall Surveyors. Books were donated by all the members and a few were even purchased. The avid readers soon had read everything in the library and there was also a problem keeping someone there to check out the books. The library lasted only a few
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