The officers were elected for the coming year, and after a handsome
collation bountifully served, the society parted for the evening,
filled with additional enthusiasm for the success of their Alma Mater.
President, Mr. John G. O’Connell; Vice Presidents, Mr. M. S. Turrell,
Mrs. M. J. Pyle, Miss Mary E. Dunaway; Corresponding Secretary, Mr.
Clifford Lakeman; Recording Secretary, Miss Julia Kolbe; Treasurer, Miss
Selina Wood.
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=Illinois= (Mattoon).—This is the first year of the C. L. S. C. of
Mattoon. We organized the last of September, and have an enthusiastic
membership of over twenty. We take the lessons as given in THE
CHAUTAUQUAN, sometimes assigning the work to individuals, and again we
have general recitations. During the winter we had an afternoon with
Longfellow; also a lecture upon the History of Greece, and one upon the
Sun, with diagrams. Most of us have completed the work for the year, and
have written the memoranda. Our meetings have been both profitable and
interesting.
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=Iowa= (Anamoso).—Our C. L. S. C. circle was organized in January, 1883,
with a membership of nine ladies, all of whom have taken up the four
years’ course of study. The order of exercises varies somewhat, but is
always exceedingly interesting, each study receiving due investigation
and research. Generally, however, our president assigns the different
subjects to the members on the preceding meeting, thus giving each leader
time to prepare questions which will bring out all the points of interest
in the lesson. Amid crowding duties we are glad to note in our membership
an increasing enthusiasm over the C. L. S. C. work.
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=Iowa= (Quasqueton).—We are a struggling little company of two regular
members of the C. L. S. C. We have not been lacking in interest ourselves
and are heartily in sympathy with the C. L. S. C.; think it is a grand,
good thing.
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=Missouri= (Kansas City).—The Kansas City local circle was reorganized
on September 25, and was ready to begin work promptly the first week in
October. We have at present forty-four members. Our circle has propagated
the Chautauqua Idea, and sent off branches until now there are at least
six circles in the city, and about three hundred of our citizens are
reading the course.
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=Missouri= (Independence).—A local circle was organized here in September
with forty-seven regular members. We have a president, vice president,
secretary, treasurer, and board of managers. We meet every Friday
evening, and thus far have followed the conversational plan. All are
interested, and the Chautauqua enthusiasm has the true ring. Already
the ’87s are looking forward to the day when they will pass through the
Arches.