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=History=
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== The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]]. ==
  
The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by [[Harriet Duff Phillips]].
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== In a 1931 Post-Gazette article she is noted as the founder of the [[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] ==
  
<blockquote>"On Friday afternoon, in February 1913, the exact date uncertain, a group of mothers whose children were in the Concord School, held a meeting to talk over ways and means to improve school conditions and to stimulate interest among parents.  ...In October, a reorganization meeting was held and it was decided to have women's club which would be open to all women of the community.  The meeting was held at the Phillips home, and the name of the Mothers Club was decided upon."  (The Mothers' Club of Carrick History - Up to 20th Anniversary 1933)</blockquote>
 
  
== Club Facts ==
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[[Image:Harriet phillips 1931.jpg]]
  
<b>Club Motto:  Mutual helpfulness
 
  
Club Colors:  Yellow and White
 
  
Federation:  1916
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== This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues. The site is now an expansion building and gym of [[Carrick High School]]. ==
  
Congress of Clubs:   1919</b>
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[[Image:Mothers club building.jpg]]
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== The current view of this site: ==
  
{| style= border="0" width="600pt"
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[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 1.jpg]]
|align="center" |<b>HONORARY PRESIDENT</b>
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|colspan="2" align="center" |<b>PAST PRESIDENTS</b>
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|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
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|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
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|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
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|-
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|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
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|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
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|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
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|align="center" |1919 - 1920
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|}
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[[Image:Mothers club roto.jpg]]
{| style= border="0" width="600pt"
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|+colspan="2" |<b>OFFICERS 1919 - 1920</b>
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|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
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|align="center"|President
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|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
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|align="center"|First Vice President
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|-
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|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
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|align="center"|Second Vice President
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|-
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|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
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|align="center"|Recording Secretary
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|-
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|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
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|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
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|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
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|align="center"|Treasurer
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|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
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|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
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|}
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== This video was transferred from a 16mm real found in the home of the former Mothers Club of Carrick, PA. This real was donated to the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society and then converted to DVD. Currently this footage is the only home movie of the Carrick Community in this early time period of the 1940s. This movie also contains the original entrance to Carrick Park which was later renamed "Phillips Park."  Also featured is the original Mothers Club house which was demolished for Pittsburgh Carrick High School’s first addition.  This film was very rare for its time since it was in color and originally there was sound recorded onto a phonograph. At this present time we are unable to locate the audio that was recorded.==
  
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== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ==
  
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
 
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
 
|+<b>Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920</b>
 
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet.jpg|325px]]
 
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 2.jpg|325px]]
 
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 3.jpg|325px]]<!--
 
  --><br> Executive Committee <br /> and Committee Memberships<br />
 
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]
 
  
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]
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== [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2] ==
  
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]]<!--
 
  --><br>Constitution and By-Laws<br />
 
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 8.jpg|325px]]
 
  
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 9.jpg|325px]]
 
  
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 10.jpg|325px]]
 
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| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
 
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet.jpg]]
  
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 2.jpg]]
  
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 3.jpg]]
  
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg]]
  
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg]]
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|+rowspan="2" |<b>Events of 1922</b>
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|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
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*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
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*Oil scandals made their appearance.
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*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
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*Pope Benedict XV died.
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*Carrick High School built.
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*Anderson bought their home.
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*M.C.of C. got their home.
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*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
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==Mothers' Club Houses==
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg]]
  
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 8.jpg]]
  
{|
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 9.jpg]]
|<b>Toast To Our Club House</b>
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|rowspan="2"|By:  Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 <br>"(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" <br />
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It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, <br>
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First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. <br>
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Partitions taken out: more windows put in, <br>
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Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. <br>
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It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru,<br>
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And all on her committee were faithful and true. <br>
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Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too<br>
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So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do.<br>
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By your generosity these dreams were realized <br>
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The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized.<br>
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A Symbol to our city of greater things to come,<br>
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It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home.<br>
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</blockquote>
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|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]]<!--
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  --><br> First Mothers' Club meeting house.<br />
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|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]]<!--
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  --><br> The current view of first house site<br>Carrick High School.<br />
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|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]]
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|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 10.jpg]]
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=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=
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[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg]]
  
==Anniversary Events==
 
  
=== Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933===
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== Mother's Club Photo? ==
  
<i>"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, <br>and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."</i>
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[[Image:Mother's club photo.jpg]]
  
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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== Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933==
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
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[[Image:Club History P1.jpg]]
<!--
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
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<i>"Plans for Club House"</i>
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
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[[Image:Club History P2.jpg]]
  
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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[[Image:Club History P3.jpg]]
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
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|+ <b> 35th Anniversary, 1948</b>
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]
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|}
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[[Image:Club History P4.jpg]]
  
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[[Image:Club History P5.jpg]]
  
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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== The Events of The Year, 1922 ==
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|+ <b> 40th Anniversary, 1953</b>
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| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
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|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]
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|}
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[[Image:1922 Events.jpg]]
  
==President Receptions==
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==Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ==
  
==Service Activities==
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[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg]]
  
===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
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[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg]]
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]
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[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg]]
  
| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]
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==Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ==
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[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg]]
  
| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
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[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg]]
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===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
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==Mothers' Club of Carrick Postcard Oct. 21, 1931 ==
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
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[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]
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[[Image:Postcard Back.jpg]]
  
===Tree Dedication Letter, September 30, 1936===
 
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
 
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
 
|[[Image:Tree Dedication.jpg|350px]]
 
| valign="center"|"The Mothers' Club of Carrick <br> has established the custom <br>of marking a tree in the Carrick Park <br>in memory of those who served it as president."
 
|}
 
  
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==Other Mothers' Club Houses over the years ==
  
===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
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[[Image:Houses.jpg]]
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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|- style="font-size: 86%;"
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|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
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| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member<br> in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by <br>making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>
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|}
 
  
==Mothers' Club Notables==
 
  
<br>
 
{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
 
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
 
! March 8, 1916
 
! March 11, 1928
 
! October 8, 1931
 
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| valign="top"|[[Image:PG Mothers Article 1.JPG|200px]]
 
<!--
 
  -->[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tcMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QEkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3524%2C2470192 Pittsburg Press]
 
| valign="top"|[[Image:PG Mothers Article 2.JPG|200px]]
 
<!--
 
  -->[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F_oaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L0oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2787%2C5766995 Pittsburgh Press]
 
| valign="top"|[[Image:Harriet phillips 1931.jpg|250px]]
 
<!--
 
  -->This 1931 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, <br> notes Harriet Duff as the founder<br /> of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. <br />
 
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{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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==Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935==
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'''Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick'''
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|<b>America's Mother, May 1944</b>
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
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[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG]]
  
====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
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==Tree Dedication Letter, September 30, 1936==
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
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[[Image:Tree Dedication.jpg]]
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  -->"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students <br> Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick"<br />
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===The Club Journal===
 
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
 
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]]<br>
 
<b> Headlines </b><br>
 
<i> M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2</i><br>
 
<i>Meet The Mothers - Page 3</i><br>
 
<i>Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3</i><br>
 
<i>Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4</i><br>
 
  
====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
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==The Club Journal Vol. 1 - April 3, 1940==
[[Club Journal No. 3]]<br>
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<b> Headlines </b> <br>
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<i>Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday</i><br>
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<i>One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1</i><br>
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<i>Committee Chatter Page 2</i><br>
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<i>Meet The Mothers Page 3</i><br>
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<i>Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4</i><br>
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=Photo and Media Gallery=
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[[Image:Club Journal P1.jpg]]
 
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===Video Clips===
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This video was transferred from a 16mm reel found in the home of the former Mothers Club of Carrick, PA. This reel was donated to the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society and then converted to DVD. Currently this footage is the only home movie of the Carrick Community in this early time period of the 1940s. This movie also contains the original entrance to Carrick Park which was later renamed "Phillips Park."  Also featured is the original Mothers Club house which was demolished for Pittsburgh Carrick High School’s first addition.  This film was very rare for its time since it was in color and originally there was sound recorded onto a phonograph. At this present time we are unable to locate the audio that was recorded.
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{|
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![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
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![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
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===Photos===
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{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
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|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
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|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
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Latest revision as of 09:58, 30 June 2010


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The Mothers’ Club of Carrick was a philanthropic organization founded by Harriet Duff Phillips.

In a 1931 Post-Gazette article she is noted as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick

Harriet phillips 1931.jpg


This is the location of their first meeting house that was located at the corner of current Spokane and Parkfield Avenues. The site is now an expansion building and gym of Carrick High School.

Mothers club building.jpg


The current view of this site:

Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 1.jpg

Mothers club roto.jpg

This video was transferred from a 16mm real found in the home of the former Mothers Club of Carrick, PA. This real was donated to the Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society and then converted to DVD. Currently this footage is the only home movie of the Carrick Community in this early time period of the 1940s. This movie also contains the original entrance to Carrick Park which was later renamed "Phillips Park." Also featured is the original Mothers Club house which was demolished for Pittsburgh Carrick High School’s first addition. This film was very rare for its time since it was in color and originally there was sound recorded onto a phonograph. At this present time we are unable to locate the audio that was recorded.

Part 1

Part 2

Mothers club booklet.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 2.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 3.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 8.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 9.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 10.jpg

Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg


Mother's Club Photo?

Mother's club photo.jpg

Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933

Club History P1.jpg

Club History P2.jpg

Club History P3.jpg

Club History P4.jpg

Club History P5.jpg

The Events of The Year, 1922

1922 Events.jpg

Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927

Ordinance Letter.jpg

Ordinance P1.jpg

Ordinance P2.jpg

Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928

Dedication Invitation.jpg

Memorial Dedication.jpg

Mothers' Club of Carrick Postcard Oct. 21, 1931

Postcard Front.jpg

Postcard Back.jpg


Other Mothers' Club Houses over the years

Houses.jpg



Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935

Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick


Carrickulum Vol10.JPG

Tree Dedication Letter, September 30, 1936

Tree Dedication.jpg


The Club Journal Vol. 1 - April 3, 1940

Club Journal P1.jpg