Report, Annual

Archive

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Report, Annual

Entry/Object ID

2016.072

Scope and Content

The collection consists of various annual reports for the years 1949-1950, 1950-1951, 1951-1952, 1953-1954, 1962-1963, 1963-1964, 1964-1965. In 1923, 17 women, friends, and neighbors, gathered together to work together to support their community. The original members of the Junior League of Jacksonville were:Mrs. Katherine Acosta Mrs. Clementine Baker Mrs. Nadia L’Engle Barnett Mrs. Ella Slemons Bisbee Mrs. Katherine W. Christie Mrs. Elizabeth P. Clarkson Mrs. Mary Goff Daniel Mrs. Miriam Lee Doggett Mrs. Frances Anderson Ewell Mrs. Alva Tupper Heintz Mrs. Susan Floyd Fort Jeffreys Mrs. Madeleine Downing Knight Mrs. Marian Adams Mitchell Mrs. Florence Stockton Rogers Mrs. Helen Harvey Veith Mrs. Sarah Denham Warren Mrs. Elizabeth R. Young The early projects of the Junior League of Jacksonville, then called “The League,” included a childcare center for working mothers, a well baby clinic, a clothes chest for needy families, and a milk fund for babies. The League has stayed true to its roots – today, our primary focus areas are public education and at-risk children.During World War II, after realizing the need for additional community support, the Junior League members joined the Women’s Motor Corps Service for relief workers and were active in the Blanket Drive, the Community Chest, the Filer Center and the Red Cross and Civilian Defense programs. The League’s focus turned to the needs of children when members equipped and maintained the girls’ ward at Hope Haven Hospital and helped establish the Speech Correction Clinic, known today as the Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center. The decades of the 1950s through the 1970s brought unprecedented growth to the Junior League. League members focused their efforts on developing and supporting programs benefiting women and children, while specifically focusing on education, the arts, the environment, community health and community service. In 1952, the League helped establish Carol Gonzalez Hearing Department, a unit of the Child Guidance Clinic, which provided for a speech therapist and purchased audio equipment. During these decades, the Junior League also contributed to many Jacksonville area capital projects, providing funding for the ground-breaking of the Jacksonville Children’s Museum in 1965, the YWCA, and the Hubbard House in 1978. In addition, League projects helped provide equipment, furnishing and renovating facilities for the Pine Castle School for Retarded Children, daniel Memorial, the Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, the Duval Medical Center (now Shands Hospital), and the Visiting Nurses Association.

Collection

Junior League of Jacksonville, Florida Inc. Region V

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Report, Annual

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Report, Administrative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Report

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Administrative Records

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1949 - 1965