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L'Enfant - Mother's statue

2010-08-01T18:16:47Z

Hilpgh: /* [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] */

== L'enfant was sculpted by Roger Bloche in 1899 and won second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. It was first located on the Mother's Walk in Phillips Park. It is now located at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street. ==

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[[Carrick Mural]] - A reflection on the L'enfant theme the mural currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]] is a current version of this 1899 sculture. Our current mother and child depicts modern symbolism but links our past with our most treasured art in the community.

== Scouts uncover 19th-century sculpture in Carrick ==

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] ==

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

By Jackie Day

A Boy Scout who rediscovered one of Carrick's most enduring treasures became determined to resurrect the life-sized statue obscured by decades of overgrown shrubbery and weeds.

"I always wondered what it was," Steven Horhut, 15, said of the figure he first noticed at age 5 on an island-divide between Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Avenue. "All I remember was a big circle of bushes with a head sticking out of the top."

It wasn't until his recent hunt for a community service Scout project that he approached the monument for the first time. His hunt was over after he beheld "L'Enfant," an 1899 bronze sculpture of a woman caressing her child. But his work had only begun.

Horhut developed an itinerary, organized a team of fellow Scouts for assistance, provided lunch and snacks for the crew and managed the week-long, seven-hour daily work schedule until the project's completion last week.

The team uprooted a row of 7-foot shrubbery, landscaped the area surrounding the statue and repaired its deteriorating stone and mortar foundation.

"It was overwhelming to begin with, but we just took it one step at a time until it got to the point it is now," Horhut said.

His helpers from Troop 224 were Paul Bourdess, Tim Davis, Danny White, Tony Amrhein, Jim O'Mara and Vince Schiarelli. Assistance also came from city employees, who removed debris and supplied a generator and power tools for grinding and removal of the stone's mortar. His father, Orest Horhut, helped guide him, especially in locating the statue's rightful owner.

Countless telephone calls, including being shuffled between various departments, officials and voice mail messages, provided the youth his first lesson in city politics.

While city officials verified the statue's ownership, its origin remains a mystery because they found no record of acquisition of the 19th-century sculpture by French artist Paul Roger-Bloche, whose name is inscribed on the statue.

The only surviving knowledge in city archives dates back to around 1928, when "L'Enfant" was removed from storage and placed at the entrance of Phillips Park by the [[Mothers' Club of Carrick]].

When the club, founded in 1913, relocated its headquarters to Overbrook Boulevard in 1963, the statute was delivered to its present location across from the clubhouse. But no current members could recall the transfer, former President Pearl Gansberger said.

The nonprofit club raises money for charitable contributions through weekly card parties. Its most recent endeavor was to provide five $300 college scholarships last fall for Carrick High School students.

The club welcomes the Scouts' effort to resurrect the hidden statue. "Nobody ever knew it was there before," Gansberger said.

Horhut's father said the most common remark from residents and countless passers-by has been, "Oh! Is that what it looks like?"

Steven Horhut's efforts left him with a sense of accomplishment and one step closer to becoming an Eagle Scout, a goal he has prized since he became a Tiger Cub in the first grade.

He said his claim from the project goes beyond the badge, "Scouting is a way of life. It grows on you."

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Jackie Day is a free-lance writer.

== Comments to the statue photo located on the web site [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17812437#7299058 panoramio]: ==

Carol Hamilton said:
This statue was originally in Phillips Park or as we called it Carrick Park on Spokane Ave, near Carrick High School. It was at the beginning of what we called the Mother's Path, a tree lined path that led to the interior of Phillips Park and the swimming pool. It has been 45 years since I have seen this statue. It brings back memories. I used to climb on it. What is the location now? cjhamilton08@hotmail.com

== [http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/0502_best.shtml Place to Celebrate Mother's Day] ==

Take Mom for a Sunday drive on Mother's Day (May 12) and check out L'Enfant, a little-known but sublime sculpture tucked away in the South Hills. How French sculptor Paul Roger-Bloche's 1899 life-size bronze of a woman and child got to Pittsburgh is a mystery. Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture (Vernon Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983) describes its entry into local history when the Mothers' Club of Carrick placed it at the entrance to Phillips Park around 1928. It survived a move, and was dedicated at its current site, Overbrook Boulevard and Ravella Avenue, Carrick, in 1967.

== Written for the Concord Chronicals a publication by Concord Elementary School ==

== [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/arcade_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=AR304000 Website documentation] ==

[[Image:L'Enfant enhanc.jpg]]

== L’Enfant – a reminder of a mother’s love for her child everyday in Carrick ==

By John Rudiak, Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society

Our cherished bronze sculpture rests on a traffic island at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street and is simply named “L’Enfant” or “The Child.” We also refer to it as “The Mother and Child” and we love them dearly. A very famous French artist named Roger Bloche sculpted it in 1899 and it garnered second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. As the mother cradles and lovingly kisses her child, she seems to come alive to anyone who observes them for long. What is she thinking as she looks at her child? Is the baby healthy, sick, or just sleeping? What is the story behind the sculpture? Your imagination is what the artist wants you to think and ask yourself; it is up to you to decide. What do you think?

But how did L’Enfant come to Carrick? This is a mystery. We know the City of Pittsburgh owns the statue but they have no record of how it was acquired and the only record dates back to 1928 when the Mothers Club of Carrick formally adopted it and put it on the Mothers Walk in Phillips Park. The Mothers Club was a group of women who did philanthropic deeds in Carrick for the good of the community beginning in 1913. In 1963, together with the park being changed and the Mothers Club house taken to build onto Carrick High School, they moved it to its present location. We think they took their beloved L’Enfant to watch over it below their new house.

The Mothers Club disbanded in the 1980s and no one was taking responsibility of the island. So in 2001 Boy Scout Troop 224, with the help of the City Public Works, cleaned the weeds and finally we saw our statue again. Today several residents lovingly take care of the flowers and grass to show off our anonymous gift from France. If you see them, give them a big “Bonjour” and a “Merci” for their hard work.

L'Enfant - Mother's statue

2010-08-01T18:16:12Z

Hilpgh: /* [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] */

== L'enfant was sculpted by Roger Bloche in 1899 and won second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. It was first located on the Mother's Walk in Phillips Park. It is now located at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street. ==

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[[Image:Le enfant 6.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 4.jpg]]

[[Image:Mothers club roto.jpg]]

[[Carrick Mural]] - A reflection on the L'enfant theme the mural currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]] is a current version of this 1899 sculture. Our current mother and child depicts modern symbolism but links our past with our most treasured art in the community.

== Scouts uncover 19th-century sculpture in Carrick ==

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] ==

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

By Jackie Day

A Boy Scout who rediscovered one of Carrick's most enduring treasures became determined to resurrect the life-sized statue obscured by decades of overgrown shrubbery and weeds.

"I always wondered what it was," Steven Horhut, 15, said of the figure he first noticed at age 5 on an island-divide between Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Avenue. "All I remember was a big circle of bushes with a head sticking out of the top."

It wasn't until his recent hunt for a community service Scout project that he approached the monument for the first time. His hunt was over after he beheld "L'Enfant," an 1899 bronze sculpture of a woman caressing her child. But his work had only begun.

Horhut developed an itinerary, organized a team of fellow Scouts for assistance, provided lunch and snacks for the crew and managed the week-long, seven-hour daily work schedule until the project's completion last week.

The team uprooted a row of 7-foot shrubbery, landscaped the area surrounding the statue and repaired its deteriorating stone and mortar foundation.

"It was overwhelming to begin with, but we just took it one step at a time until it got to the point it is now," Horhut said.

His helpers from Troop 224 were Paul Bourdess, Tim Davis, Danny White, Tony Amrhein, Jim O'Mara and Vince Schiarelli. Assistance also came from city employees, who removed debris and supplied a generator and power tools for grinding and removal of the stone's mortar. His father, Orest Horhut, helped guide him, especially in locating the statue's rightful owner.

Countless telephone calls, including being shuffled between various departments, officials and voice mail messages, provided the youth his first lesson in city politics.

While city officials verified the statue's ownership, its origin remains a mystery because they found no record of acquisition of the 19th-century sculpture by French artist Paul Roger-Bloche, whose name is inscribed on the statue.

The only surviving knowledge in city archives dates back to around 1928, when "L'Enfant" was removed from storage and placed at the entrance of Phillips Park by the [[Mothers' Club of Carrick]] of Carrick.

When the club, founded in 1913, relocated its headquarters to Overbrook Boulevard in 1963, the statute was delivered to its present location across from the clubhouse. But no current members could recall the transfer, former President Pearl Gansberger said.

The nonprofit club raises money for charitable contributions through weekly card parties. Its most recent endeavor was to provide five $300 college scholarships last fall for Carrick High School students.

The club welcomes the Scouts' effort to resurrect the hidden statue. "Nobody ever knew it was there before," Gansberger said.

Horhut's father said the most common remark from residents and countless passers-by has been, "Oh! Is that what it looks like?"

Steven Horhut's efforts left him with a sense of accomplishment and one step closer to becoming an Eagle Scout, a goal he has prized since he became a Tiger Cub in the first grade.

He said his claim from the project goes beyond the badge, "Scouting is a way of life. It grows on you."

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Jackie Day is a free-lance writer.

== Comments to the statue photo located on the web site [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17812437#7299058 panoramio]: ==

Carol Hamilton said:
This statue was originally in Phillips Park or as we called it Carrick Park on Spokane Ave, near Carrick High School. It was at the beginning of what we called the Mother's Path, a tree lined path that led to the interior of Phillips Park and the swimming pool. It has been 45 years since I have seen this statue. It brings back memories. I used to climb on it. What is the location now? cjhamilton08@hotmail.com

== [http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/0502_best.shtml Place to Celebrate Mother's Day] ==

Take Mom for a Sunday drive on Mother's Day (May 12) and check out L'Enfant, a little-known but sublime sculpture tucked away in the South Hills. How French sculptor Paul Roger-Bloche's 1899 life-size bronze of a woman and child got to Pittsburgh is a mystery. Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture (Vernon Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983) describes its entry into local history when the Mothers' Club of Carrick placed it at the entrance to Phillips Park around 1928. It survived a move, and was dedicated at its current site, Overbrook Boulevard and Ravella Avenue, Carrick, in 1967.

== Written for the Concord Chronicals a publication by Concord Elementary School ==

== [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/arcade_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=AR304000 Website documentation] ==

[[Image:L'Enfant enhanc.jpg]]

== L’Enfant – a reminder of a mother’s love for her child everyday in Carrick ==

By John Rudiak, Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society

Our cherished bronze sculpture rests on a traffic island at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street and is simply named “L’Enfant” or “The Child.” We also refer to it as “The Mother and Child” and we love them dearly. A very famous French artist named Roger Bloche sculpted it in 1899 and it garnered second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. As the mother cradles and lovingly kisses her child, she seems to come alive to anyone who observes them for long. What is she thinking as she looks at her child? Is the baby healthy, sick, or just sleeping? What is the story behind the sculpture? Your imagination is what the artist wants you to think and ask yourself; it is up to you to decide. What do you think?

But how did L’Enfant come to Carrick? This is a mystery. We know the City of Pittsburgh owns the statue but they have no record of how it was acquired and the only record dates back to 1928 when the Mothers Club of Carrick formally adopted it and put it on the Mothers Walk in Phillips Park. The Mothers Club was a group of women who did philanthropic deeds in Carrick for the good of the community beginning in 1913. In 1963, together with the park being changed and the Mothers Club house taken to build onto Carrick High School, they moved it to its present location. We think they took their beloved L’Enfant to watch over it below their new house.

The Mothers Club disbanded in the 1980s and no one was taking responsibility of the island. So in 2001 Boy Scout Troop 224, with the help of the City Public Works, cleaned the weeds and finally we saw our statue again. Today several residents lovingly take care of the flowers and grass to show off our anonymous gift from France. If you see them, give them a big “Bonjour” and a “Merci” for their hard work.

L'Enfant - Mother's statue

2010-08-01T18:15:21Z

Hilpgh: /* [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] */

== L'enfant was sculpted by Roger Bloche in 1899 and won second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. It was first located on the Mother's Walk in Phillips Park. It is now located at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street. ==

[[Image:Le enfant 7.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 5.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 3.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 2.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 1.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 6.jpg]]

[[Image:Le enfant 4.jpg]]

[[Image:Mothers club roto.jpg]]

[[Carrick Mural]] - A reflection on the L'enfant theme the mural currrently being painted on [[Vern's Electric Building]] is a current version of this 1899 sculture. Our current mother and child depicts modern symbolism but links our past with our most treasured art in the community.

== Scouts uncover 19th-century sculpture in Carrick ==

== [http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010815s51statue0815p6.asp Article Link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] ==

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

By Jackie Day

A Boy Scout who rediscovered one of Carrick's most enduring treasures became determined to resurrect the life-sized statue obscured by decades of overgrown shrubbery and weeds.

"I always wondered what it was," Steven Horhut, 15, said of the figure he first noticed at age 5 on an island-divide between Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Avenue. "All I remember was a big circle of bushes with a head sticking out of the top."

It wasn't until his recent hunt for a community service Scout project that he approached the monument for the first time. His hunt was over after he beheld "L'Enfant," an 1899 bronze sculpture of a woman caressing her child. But his work had only begun.

Horhut developed an itinerary, organized a team of fellow Scouts for assistance, provided lunch and snacks for the crew and managed the week-long, seven-hour daily work schedule until the project's completion last week.

The team uprooted a row of 7-foot shrubbery, landscaped the area surrounding the statue and repaired its deteriorating stone and mortar foundation.

"It was overwhelming to begin with, but we just took it one step at a time until it got to the point it is now," Horhut said.

His helpers from Troop 224 were Paul Bourdess, Tim Davis, Danny White, Tony Amrhein, Jim O'Mara and Vince Schiarelli. Assistance also came from city employees, who removed debris and supplied a generator and power tools for grinding and removal of the stone's mortar. His father, Orest Horhut, helped guide him, especially in locating the statue's rightful owner.

Countless telephone calls, including being shuffled between various departments, officials and voice mail messages, provided the youth his first lesson in city politics.

While city officials verified the statue's ownership, its origin remains a mystery because they found no record of acquisition of the 19th-century sculpture by French artist Paul Roger-Bloche, whose name is inscribed on the statue.

The only surviving knowledge in city archives dates back to around 1928, when "L'Enfant" was removed from storage and placed at the entrance of Phillips Park by the [Mothers Club] of Carrick.

When the club, founded in 1913, relocated its headquarters to Overbrook Boulevard in 1963, the statute was delivered to its present location across from the clubhouse. But no current members could recall the transfer, former President Pearl Gansberger said.

The nonprofit club raises money for charitable contributions through weekly card parties. Its most recent endeavor was to provide five $300 college scholarships last fall for Carrick High School students.

The club welcomes the Scouts' effort to resurrect the hidden statue. "Nobody ever knew it was there before," Gansberger said.

Horhut's father said the most common remark from residents and countless passers-by has been, "Oh! Is that what it looks like?"

Steven Horhut's efforts left him with a sense of accomplishment and one step closer to becoming an Eagle Scout, a goal he has prized since he became a Tiger Cub in the first grade.

He said his claim from the project goes beyond the badge, "Scouting is a way of life. It grows on you."

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jackie Day is a free-lance writer.

== Comments to the statue photo located on the web site [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/17812437#7299058 panoramio]: ==

Carol Hamilton said:
This statue was originally in Phillips Park or as we called it Carrick Park on Spokane Ave, near Carrick High School. It was at the beginning of what we called the Mother's Path, a tree lined path that led to the interior of Phillips Park and the swimming pool. It has been 45 years since I have seen this statue. It brings back memories. I used to climb on it. What is the location now? cjhamilton08@hotmail.com

== [http://www.wqed.org/mag/features/0502_best.shtml Place to Celebrate Mother's Day] ==

Take Mom for a Sunday drive on Mother's Day (May 12) and check out L'Enfant, a little-known but sublime sculpture tucked away in the South Hills. How French sculptor Paul Roger-Bloche's 1899 life-size bronze of a woman and child got to Pittsburgh is a mystery. Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture (Vernon Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983) describes its entry into local history when the Mothers' Club of Carrick placed it at the entrance to Phillips Park around 1928. It survived a move, and was dedicated at its current site, Overbrook Boulevard and Ravella Avenue, Carrick, in 1967.

== Written for the Concord Chronicals a publication by Concord Elementary School ==

== [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/arcade_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=REF&VALUE_1=AR304000 Website documentation] ==

[[Image:L'Enfant enhanc.jpg]]

== L’Enfant – a reminder of a mother’s love for her child everyday in Carrick ==

By John Rudiak, Carrick-Overbrook Historical Society

Our cherished bronze sculpture rests on a traffic island at the intersection of Overbrook Boulevard and Ravilla Street and is simply named “L’Enfant” or “The Child.” We also refer to it as “The Mother and Child” and we love them dearly. A very famous French artist named Roger Bloche sculpted it in 1899 and it garnered second prize at a Paris Art Show in the first part of the 20th Century - 1900s. As the mother cradles and lovingly kisses her child, she seems to come alive to anyone who observes them for long. What is she thinking as she looks at her child? Is the baby healthy, sick, or just sleeping? What is the story behind the sculpture? Your imagination is what the artist wants you to think and ask yourself; it is up to you to decide. What do you think?

But how did L’Enfant come to Carrick? This is a mystery. We know the City of Pittsburgh owns the statue but they have no record of how it was acquired and the only record dates back to 1928 when the Mothers Club of Carrick formally adopted it and put it on the Mothers Walk in Phillips Park. The Mothers Club was a group of women who did philanthropic deeds in Carrick for the good of the community beginning in 1913. In 1963, together with the park being changed and the Mothers Club house taken to build onto Carrick High School, they moved it to its present location. We think they took their beloved L’Enfant to watch over it below their new house.

The Mothers Club disbanded in the 1980s and no one was taking responsibility of the island. So in 2001 Boy Scout Troop 224, with the help of the City Public Works, cleaned the weeds and finally we saw our statue again. Today several residents lovingly take care of the flowers and grass to show off our anonymous gift from France. If you see them, give them a big “Bonjour” and a “Merci” for their hard work.

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Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-08-01T17:36:53Z

Hilpgh: /* Club Facts */

=History=

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

== Presidents ==
{| style= border="0"
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. Sarah R. Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|-
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" |Mrs. Susan B. Kirk
|align="center" |1920 - 1921
|-
|align="center" |Mrs. Frank B. Beech
|align="center" |1921 - 1922
|-
|align="center" |Mrs. John T. Anderson
|align="center" |1922 - 1923
|-
|align="center" |Mrs. Wm. Colteryahn
|align="center" |1923 - 1924

|}

{| style= border="0"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT

|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

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|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
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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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{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA. - Year unknown
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg|350px]]
|Eleanore Schneider, Peg Berger, Irene Kerr, Frieda Anderson, Catherine Funk
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg|350px]]
|Kay Dunbar, Mae Dean, Mrs. Graf, Mrs. Robeson, Lydia Taylor
|}

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=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA. - Year unknown
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg|350px]]
|Eleanore Schneider, Peg Berger, Irene Kerr, Frieda Anderson, Catherine Funk
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg|350px]]
|Kay Dunbar, Mae Dean, Mrs. Graf, Mrs. Robeson, Lydia Taylor
|}

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Mothers' Club of Carrick

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=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA. - Year unknown
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg|350px]]
|Eleanore Schneider, Peg Berger, Irene Kerr, Frieda Anderson, Catherine Funk
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg|350px]]
|Kay Dunbar, Mae Dean, Mrs. Rasser, Mrs. Robeson, Lydia Taylor
|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-31T20:23:54Z

Hilpgh:

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA. - Year unknown
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg|350px]]
|Eleanore Schneider, Peg Berger, Irene Kerr, Frieda Anderson, Catherine Funk
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg|350px]]
|Kay Dunbar, Mae Dean, Mrs. Graf, Mrs. Robeson, Lydia Taylor
|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-31T20:23:13Z

Hilpgh:

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA. - Year unknown
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg|350px]]
|Elenanore, Schneider, Peg Berger, Irene Kerr, Frieda Anderson, Catherine Funk
|-
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg|350px]]
|Kay Dunbar, Mae Dean, Mrs. Graf, Mrs. Robeson, Lydia Taylor
|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-31T20:11:26Z

Hilpgh: /* Photos */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="2" |Past Presidents of Carrick Mothers' Club at Schneiders 3926 Browsville Road. Brentwood, PA.
|[[Image:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg|350px]]
|Top Row - Left to Right
Peg Berger, Catherine Funk, Mae Dean, Kay Dunbar, Eleanore Schneider, Irene Kerr 
 
Lydia Taylor, Mrs. Robeson, Mrs. Rasser, Freida Anderson
|}

File:Past Presidents Dinner3.jpg

2010-07-31T20:00:50Z

Hilpgh:

File:Past Presidents Dinner2.jpg

2010-07-31T19:57:49Z

Hilpgh:

File:Past Presidents Dinner1.jpg

2010-07-31T19:57:20Z

Hilpgh:

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-31T19:39:28Z

Hilpgh: /* Mothers' Club Houses */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]] Carrick Mothers' Club, July 1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]

|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-31T19:38:50Z

Hilpgh: /* Mothers' Club Houses */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]]]] Carrick Mothers' Club 7-1958 

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]

|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-05T16:04:32Z

Hilpgh: /* Mothers' Club Notables */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]]

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]
|-
|Mrs. Mary Colbert, "Mother of the Year"
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. Vernon Colbert.jpg|400px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]

|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-05T15:59:35Z

Hilpgh: /* President Receptions */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]]

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. J.C. Torbitt, Year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|[[Image:Letter to the Editor 1947.jpg|150px]]
| valign="center"|<blockquote>"I was so interested that I presented it to the womans' club of which I am a member in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

|}

==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
{| 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
|-
| 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, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
|}

{| style="float: right; border: 4px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
| valign="top"|[[Image:Americas Mother 1944.jpg|300px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Gardening 1944.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]

|}

====Carrickulum Vol. 10 - January 23, 1935====
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Carrickulum Vol10.JPG|400px]]
"Bird House Contest for Hill-Top Students Sponsored by the Mother's Club of Carrick" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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.

{|
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6hMJ2GW0g&feature=related Part 1] ||
![http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIXfkVv1his&feature=related Part 2]
|}

===Photos===

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album Anne Cherry.jpg|200px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:Photo Album June 1953.jpg|325px]]

|}

Mothers' Club of Carrick

2010-07-05T15:58:19Z

Hilpgh: /* President Receptions */

=History=

----

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

<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 ==

Club Motto: Mutual helpfulness

Club Colors: Yellow and White

Federation: 1916

Congress of Clubs: 1919
 

{| style= border="0" width="850pt"
|align="center" |HONORARY PRESIDENT
|colspan="2" align="center" |PAST PRESIDENTS
|colspan="2" align="center" |OFFICERS 1919 - 1920
|-
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | Mrs. John M. Phillips
|align="center" | 1913 - 1918
|align="center"|Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center"|President
|-
|
|align="center" | Mrs. Daniel Pierce
|align="center" | 1918 - 1919
|align="center"|Mrs. M. J. Gannon
|align="center"|First Vice President
|-
|
|align="center" |Mrs. Ellsworth C. Trott
|align="center" |1919 - 1920
|align="center"|Mrs. Edward R. Davis
|align="center"|Second Vice President
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. Leonard J. Seiferth
|align="center"|Recording Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. William Steward
|align="center"|Corresponding Secretary
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Mrs. George L. Gearing
|align="center"|Treasurer
|-
|
|
|
|align="center"|Miss Marie Gurtner
|align="center"|Pres. Young Ladies' Auxillary
|}

 

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+Mothers' Club Booklet 1919 - 1920
| 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]] Executive Committee and Committee Memberships 
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 4.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 5.jpg|325px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 7.jpg|325px]] Constitution and By-Laws 
|-
| 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]]
|-
| valign="bottom"|[[Image:Mothers club booklet page 11.jpg|325px]]
|}
----

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+rowspan="2" |Events of 1922
|[[Image:1922 Events.jpg|350px]]
|
*United States Supreme Court upheld the suffrage movement.
*Oil scandals made their appearance.
*Mrs. Millie Penfield was the first woman juror drawn in Allegheny County.
*Pope Benedict XV died.
*Carrick High School built.
*Anderson bought their home.
*M.C.of C. got their home.
*Congress of Clubs opened its building - "we gave them $15.00 they ask[sic] for 50.
|}

==Mothers' Club Houses==

{|
|Toast To Our Club House
|- valign="top"
|rowspan="2"|By: Frieda McKelvey Anderson, June 1924 "(with apologies to Edgar Guest.)" 
<blockquote>
It took a heap o'fixin', to make that house a Home, 
First of all, a place to put it, never more to roam. 
 
Partitions taken out: more windows put in, 
Plaster, paint and flooring, and even some new tin. 
 
It took our Mrs. Gearing to see the whole thing thru, 
And all on her committee were faithful and true. 
 
Furnishings and draperies, attention needed too 
So Mrs. Trott and her committee had their bit to do. 
 
By your generosity these dreams were realized 
The Club House stands completed, a treasure to be prized. 
 
A Symbol to our city of greater things to come, 
It takes a heap o' fixin' to make a house a Home. 
</blockquote>
|[[Image:Postcard Front.jpg|200px]] First Mothers' Club meeting house. 
|[[Image:Carrick High School Parkfield and Spokane 2.jpg|200px]] The current view of first house site Carrick High School. 
|-
|valign="top"|[[Image:House postcard.jpg|150px]]

|valign="top"|[[Image:House 1997.jpg|150px]]
|}

=Mothers' Club Events and Activities=

==Anniversary Events==

"...and so it seemed wise to attempt a civic club inviting the men into membership, and having the Mothers Club as a department specializing particularly in the things of interest to women."

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mother's Club History Up To 20th Anniversary, 1933
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P2.jpg|300px]]
Events 1917 - 1921
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P3.jpg|300px]]
Events 1921 - 1932
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P4.jpg|300px]]
"Plans for Club House"
| valign="top"|[[Image:Club History P5.jpg|300px]]
|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 35th Anniversary, 1948
| valign="top"|[[Image:Tea Party 1948.jpg|150px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:35 Years.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Thirty-fifth Anniversary.jpg|500px]]

|}

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ 40th Anniversary, 1953
| valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 1.jpg|450px]]
|valign="top"|[[Image:40th Anniv Part 2.jpg|350px]]

|}

==President Receptions==

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ October, year unknown
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044a.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044b.jpg|200px]]
|-
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044c.jpg|400px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:MCC0044d.jpg|400px]]
|}

 

{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
|+ Mrs. George Korpa, 1955
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa 1955.jpg|350px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Mrs. George Korpa July 13 1955.jpg|400px]]

|}

==Service Activities==

===Letter and Ordinance for Soldiers' Memorial, 1927 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance Letter.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P1.jpg|300px]]

| valign="top"|[[Image:Ordinance P2.jpg|300px]]
|}

===Soldiers' Memorial Dedication, May 1928 ===
{| style="float: left; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"

| valign="top"|[[Image:Dedication Invitation.jpg|275px]]
| valign="top"|[[Image:Memorial Dedication.jpg|350px]]

|}

===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 has established the custom of marking a tree in the Carrick Park in memory of those who served it as president."
|}

===Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press 1947===
{| style="align: center; border: 0px solid #BBB; align: right; margin: .46em 0 0 .2em;""
|- style="font-size: 86%;"
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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 in another part of the city, which, after a serious discussion, voted to co-operate by making a $10 contribution." - Mrs. Frieda M. Anderson</blockquote>

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==Mothers' Club Notables==

 
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! March 8, 1916
! March 11, 1928
! October 8, 1931
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[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tcMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QEkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3524%2C2470192 Pittsburg Press]
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[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F_oaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L0oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2787%2C5766995 Pittsburgh Press]
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This 1931 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, notes Harriet Duff Phillips as the founder of the Mothers' Club of Carrick. 
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|+colspan="3"; align="center"|Mrs. John M. Phillips, America's Mother, May 1944
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| valign="top"|[[Image:Sun Telegraph May 12 1944.jpg|350px]]

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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" 

===The Club Journal===
====Vol. 1 No. 1 - April 3, 1940====
[[Club Journal Vol. 1]] 
 Headlines 
 M.C.C. Progress Traced from 1913 - Pages 1-2 
Meet The Mothers - Page 3 
Mrs. Phillips Forms Boys' Recreation Club - Page 3 
Fifteen Women Enter, Swell Club Membership - Page 4 

====Vol. 1 No. 3 - Sept. 4, 1940====
[[Club Journal No. 3]] 
 Headlines 
Neighboring Clubs To Be Honored At Guest Day Next Wednesday 
One Hundred Garments Completed For Red Cross At Summer Sewings Page 1 
Committee Chatter Page 2 
Meet The Mothers Page 3 
Club Represented By Six Delegates At State College Page 4 

=Photo and Media Gallery=

===Video Clips===
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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===Photos===

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