Ancestor Artifacts - H & H Club Programs - Overview

 

Ancestor Artifacts - H & H Club Programs - Overview

In one of Mom’s (Eileen Smith) boxes of (totally random) artifacts and memorabilia, there is a zippered notebook, like we used in 1950/60s filled with stuff related to the H & H Social Club of women in the Star/Coon Rapids Community for the early 1940s thru the 1980s and perhaps beyond. I believe the first of the programs filed there, actually in order, pasted to pages in the notebook, is 1942-1943. This is an overview, so we’ll take a brief look at them from that perspective.

Those first two programs are 42-43 and 44-45. On further examination, it appears these programs were gathered and filed like this for the 25th Anniversary of the club in 1967. I’ll have more on this theory in the next post.

The first page has the scheduled fall 1942 program…

The next page has the spring of 1943 program dates and hostesses.

The next page goes into 1944… it looks like these may have been added by hand, later…

I’ve also included here the next pages, with the next year’ programs.

Any artifact like these tend to raise more questions than they answer, of course. Are these from when the club was organized? Do they relate to the 25th Anniversary? Why was the group organized? Who was invited? Was membership a formal thing? Were there dues? What would the programs be that were hosted by the various members? 

These were the “adults” as I was growing up, so I find great interest in each individual name. Some, but not all, were affiliated with the Star Methodist Church, but others lived in the nearby town of Coon Rapids. These are the questions we will work on in future H & H Club posts. 

I welcome comments at this point, and will reply to any questions in future posts. 

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