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EDNA FISCHEL GELLHORN (Mrs. George Gellhorn)
National Chairman of the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial, graduated from Bryn Mawr, 1900,
president of the Self-Government Association her Senior year and is permanent presi-
dent of her class. In 1903 she was married to Dr. George Gellhorn, of St. Louis.
They have three sons and a daughter, Martha, who is coming to Bryn Mawr in 1926.

Mrs. Gellhorn is a director in the National American Woman Suffrage Association
and chairman of the Missouri League of Women Voters. During the war she was
chairman for St. Louis of the Committee for State and City Relations of the Federal

00 TO BE RAISED BY JUNE;
‘APLATE NETS CITY’S QUOTA



_ What Bryn Mawr meant to Dr. Annh Howard Shaw has been recog-:
nized by suffragists and other believers in education for women to the detent
of $17,126 in toward a memorial to her in the Bryn Mawr Depart-,
os Politics. $ memorial will be part of the $2,000,000 Endowment

_ The cherished wish of the National Shaw Memorial Chairman, Edna
Fischel Gellhorn (Mrs. George Gellhorn) '00, of St. Louis, to open the cam-
paign with a dinner at which Ex-President Taft should be the guest of honor,
— _— 4 the — of Mr. oat physician, who would not allow him
make the trip. 0 of the campai
un Bs Side’ vist oe sa paign was consequently deferred
: one-hun ollar-a-plate luncheon in honor of Mrs, Slad.
given at the St. Code Club December 17th. The guests, twenty-eight in
number, included rominent suff workers and members of the Bryn
Mawr Club. A spirited appeal by Mrs. Slade brought in pledges amounting
ss cae gg entire quota of the St. Louis district for the Two Million
un

Illinois Suffrage League Endorses B. M. Memorial

Backing from the National Woman Suff Association for the B
Mawr Memorial will be secured, it is hoped, at their convention in Chicago,
February 10-17, when a motion will be introduced to make it the official
memorial of the association. The only rival project known is a memorial at
the Woman’s. Medical College, Philadelphia. Valuable advance work for
Bryn Mawr has been done by Mary Foulke Morrisson (Mrs. James W. Mor-
risson) ’99, of Chicago, who has obtained the endorsement of the Illinois
Suffrage Association for the Bryn Mawr Memorial Chair.

A stirring appeal to suffragists throughout the country to honor Dr.
Shaw by contributing to the Anna Howat! Shaw fund has been drawn up
by Mrs. Gellhorn, and will be sent out shortly. On account of the recent
appeal issued by Mrs, Catt for extra funds for ratification the Bryn: Mawr
letter has been temporarily held back. A test copy sent out to the Indiana
Suffrage League brought an instant and extremely. cordial reply.

Edith Wyatt Author of Campaign Book
“Dr. Anna Howard Shaw’s Connection with Bryn Mawr,” an attractive
campaign handbook by Edith Wyatt ex-’96, will be ready by the Suffrage
Convention in February. Material for this has been collected by Susan Fol-
lansbee Hibbard (Mrs. William G. Hibbard) ’97, Dr. Shaw’s close friend,




Food Administration.





HOW PRES. THOMAS STOOD BY SUFFRAGE CAUSE
TOLD BY DR. SHAW IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Miss Shaw and Susan B. Anthony Visited Bryn Maur to Get Help of Miss Thomas and

Miss Garrett in Making Baltimore Convention a Success—$60,000 Fund
Raised by Miss Thomas to Pay Salaries of Suffrage Officers



In her autobiography, “The Story of a
Pioneer,” Dr. Shaw tells of the help given
the suffrage cause by President Thomas of
Bryn Mawr at a critical time. She writes:

“One morning [Miss Anthony] said
abruptly, ‘Anna, let’s go and call on Presi-
dent M, Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr.’

“I wrote a note to Miss Thomas, telling
her of Miss Anthony's desire to see her,
and received an immediate reply inviting us
to luncheon the following day. We found
Miss Thomas deep in the work connected
with her new college buildings, over which
she showed us with much pride. Miss An-
thony, of course, gloried in the splendid re-
sults Miss Thomas had achieved, but she
was, for her, strangely silent and preoccu-
pied. At luncheon she said:

“*Miss Thomas, your buildings are beau-
tiful; your new library is a marvel, but
they are not the cause of our presence here.’

“No,’ Miss Thomas said, I know you
have something on your mind. I am wait-
ing for you to tell me what it is.

Asked Miss Thomas to Arrange

: “College Night”

“We want your cooperation, and that of
Miss Garrett,’ began Miss Anthony, prompt-
ly; ‘to make our Baltimore Convention a
success. We want you to persuade the
Arundel Club of Baltimore, the most fash-
ionable club in the city, to give a reception
to the delegates; and we want you to ar-
range a college night on the programme—a
great college night, with the best college
speakers ever brought together.’ '

“These were large commissions for two
extremely busy women, but both Miss
Thomas and Miss Garrett—realizing Miss



Anthony’s intense earnestness—promised to
think over the suggestion and see what they
could do. The next morning we received
a telegram from them stating that Miss
Thomas would arrange the college evening,
and that Miss Garrett would reopen her
Baltimore home, which she had closed, dur-
ing the convention. .

“‘Aunt Susan’ was overjoyed. . She
knew that whatever Miss Thomas and Miss
Garrett undertook would be accomplished,
and rightly regarded the success of the con-
vention as already assured.” (pp. 221-223.)

Raised $10,000 to Pay Suffrage Salaries

“One day at luncheon Miss Thomas asked
me, casually:

“‘By the way, how do you raise the
money to carry on your work?’

“When I told her the work was wholly
dependent on voluntary contributions and
on the services of those who were willing
to give themselves gratuitously to it, Miss
Thomas was surprised. She and Miss Gar-
rett asked a number of questions, and at the
end of our talk they looked at each other.

“‘T don’t think,’ said Miss Thomas, ‘that
we have quite done our duty in this matter.’

“The next day they invited a number of
us to dinner, to again discuss the situation;
and they admitted that they had sat up
throughout the previous night, talking the
matter over and trying to find some way
to help us. They had also discussed the
situation with Miss Anthony, to her vast
content, and had finally decided that they
‘would try to raise a fund of $60,000 to be
paid in yearly instalments of $12,000 for five
years—part of these annual instalments to be
used as salaries for active officers.” (p. 225.)



Miss Lucy Anthony, Professor Kingsbury, and Isabel Foster ’15.
Several personal belongings of Miss Shaw’s have been turned over by

Miss Anthony to be used in the campaign as the committee sees fit.

Among

them are an ermine tippet which Miss Shaw purchased in Sweden—her one

luxury, which she always kept carefully wra
mond crescent pin; and a twenty-dollar bill,

in a piece of cloth; a dia-

given her by the first woman

bank president of Rochester, which Miss Shaw kept for luck.
Every Woman Student Asked to Contribute

Subscription blanks will be sent out to schools, colleges and universities
in order to give every woman student in the country the chance to contribute.
Every donor will have his or her name enrolled in a set of bound volumes to
be kept on exhibition in the college library.

Stickers pasted on the subscription blanks will differentiate the Anna
Howard Shaw pledges from those to the general fund. Whatever is raised

for the Shaw memorial will be credited toward the whole

for the district.

Bryn Mawr quota





NATIONAL COMMITTEE
Prominent men and women who have
consented to serve on the National Advis-
ory Committee are:

Hon. William Howard Taft.

President M. Carey Thomas.

Miss Lucy E. Anthony.

Mrs, George Bass, of Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, of Chicago,

Mrs, Henry Fawcett.

Mr. Cecil Gregg, of St. Louis,

Bishop John W. Hamilton, of Washing-
ton, D. C.

Mrs. Stanley McCormick, of New York.

Mrs. N. A. McMillan, of St. Louis.

Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, of St, Louis.

Mary Foulke Morrisson (Mrs. James W.
Morrisson) '99, of Chicago.

Miss Hannah Patterson, of Pittsburgh,

Caroline McCormick Slade (Mrs. F.
Louis Slade) ex-’96, of New York.

Katrina Ely Tiffany (Mrs. Charles Tif-
fany), "97, of New York.

Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, of Chicago.

Rachel Costello Strachey (Mrs, Oliver
Strachey), graduate 1908-09, of Lon-
doa.



DISTRICT CHAIRMEN

District chairmen for the Anna Howard
Shaw Fund are:

New York—
Katrina Ely Tiffany (Mrs. Charles
Tiffany) "97.
Philadelphia—

Boston—
Susan Walker FitzGerald (Mrs. Rich-
ard FitzGerald) '93.
Chicago—
Mary Foulke Morrisson (Mrs. James
W. Morrisson) '99.
St. Louis—
Edna Fischel Gellhorn (Mrs. George
Gellhorn) ’00.
Minneapolis—
Grace Clarke Wright (Mrs. Vernon
Wright) ex-'98.
Indiana—
Julia Landers '94.
lowa—
Mrs. Malcolm McBride.
California—
Harriet Bradford ‘15.