UPDATE: 1995-05-21

(Check for certificate)

!BIRTH: Cert.[?]; Passport; Personal account

!CHRISTENING: Parish record p. 222. Fr P.J.McGuire, wit. John F. Lynch, Anna L. Kiefer.

MAR: News accounts; certs. (2 - Church & State)

!DEATH: Cert.; obit in Birmingham News [?]; Personal knowledge

BURIAL: The following signed the guest register at the funeral home:
Mrs. Al C. Garber
L Frazer Banks[?]
Mrs Felton Wimberly Jr
Mrs H. C. Ryding
Mr & Mrs Biddle Worthington
Mr & Mrs John E. Roberts
Kathy Franklin
D. Ramsern[?], Jr.
John S. Roberts Jr.
James S. Sutherland
Malcolm M. Grant
Jack B. Smith
J. C. Mumford
Viola Mumford
Chas & Marion Blair

BURIAL: The following signed the page headed "Floral Tributes":
Mrs Cecil Gaston
Mrs. Edward Ward Smith

!CULTURAL ACTIVITIES: Was active in the Birmingham Little Theatre in the 1920's and '30's. Was Secretary of the Birmingham Drama Study Club from its founding 22 August 1928.The Club was an apparently short-lived organization of dissidents who deplored something in the then current directions of the Little Theatre, perhaps related to the departure of the Director, "Buddy" Szold. She describes the organizers as "the frayed remnants of a group formerly associated with the Birmingham Little Theatre; recently escaped with their bare souls from a difference of opinion with the presidednt of that organization -- a lineal descendant of Anthony Comstock." She notes her qualifications as "never having been a secretary before..." and "having always slept through the reading of the minutes of the only CLUB to which..." she had previously belonged. Among the organizers were David Solomon, who wrote the Constitution, Isobel and Richard Sexton, who hosted the first and several subsequent meetings, Sybil and Erwin ("Rusty") Caldwell. The Priestley Toulmin Srs were members, as were Jack London and Madeleine Jacobs. The Club met at least fourteen times to discuss, read, and occasionally enact plays. There was held at her house on Monday 7 December presumably 1928, the "tenth meeting, and therefore our wooden anniversary, [at which] the hostess and secretary displayed an appropriate article of that material, namely her head, and went to the kitchen while the rest of the business went forward; and the proceedings remain without official record." The following four meetings, though described, are undated. A letter from Mr. S. F. Clabaugh to her as secretary, dated 3 June 1929, on letterhead of the Protective Life Insurance Company, of which he was President, thanks her for "...the copy of resolutions of the Drama Study Club. The cooperation of the Drama Study Club and its members will be cordially welcomed, I am sure, by the entire membership of the Little Theatre." No further minutes seem to have been preserved, and the Club presumably dissolved.

Was a member of the Progress Study Club for many years.