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An event known as the Kansas Day Club had existed for a long time of which purpose had been to celebrate Kansas statehood. In 1905, Monroe and her friends felt that a women's version of the event would be more gratifying than being passive observers of the men's club. Monroe was an officer in the new Women's Kansas Day Club.
She became the President of the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs in 1911, her second run for the position. [4] He survived his wife when she died in their home in Parsons November 10, 1916. [5] She was the president of the Women's Kansas Day club when she died, and had been the secretary of the National Federation of Women's clubs. [5]
She taught world affairs at a girls' camp in Elmdale, Kansas for three summers. [20] Eleanor Roosevelt wrote one of her "My Day" newspaper columns about Richardson's pamphlet, Your Community United Nations, in 1957. [21] In 1958, she was named one of fifty prominent Kansas women by the Women's Kansas Day Club. [22]
It’s an opportunity to put Kansas Day on the map when all people are thinking about is cold,” Radil said. Olathe resident Abby Gregory, 9, dances with Leavenworth resident Fiona Baxter, 11, at ...
Pawnee Rock, approaching from the east along the old Santa Fe Trail. Pawnee Rock, Kansas. Much of Pawnee Rock was destroyed in the 1870s by the railroad and by settlers for building stone. The remnant was acquired in 1908 by the Woman's Kansas Day Club. In 1909, was given to the State of Kansas as an historic site.
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He served as member of the Kansas State Senate from 1892 to 1896, and according to the 1903 Congressional Directory, "at different times has been president of the State Editorial Association, president of the Kansas League of Republican Clubs, and president of the Kansas Day Club, an organization of the young Republicans of the State". [1]