junior league of kansas city, missouri 100th anniversary spotlight 1914-1932

100th Anniversary Moment1914 – 1932

Kansas City 1914

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Our Beginning

"I am so delighted to hear you are thinking

of forming a Junior League in

Kansas City"

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World War I

Lurannah Harris and the Canteen

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Lurannah sailing to Europe and the entire YMCA Junior League canteen stationed in Germany.

Junior League Club House

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”The Junior League has now passed the years of infancy

and inexperience. The Ladies bountiful of the past,

scattering funds as their sympathies guided, have

become service women of the present, supervised by trained social workers and

building up from this experience and by volunteer and the efficient League of

today"

Community Focus

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An Early “Flower Power” Project

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Community Focus

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Florence Crittenton Home

Florence Crittenton Home, 1890 Florence Crittenton

Home, 1918

Crittenton Children’s Center, 2013

FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME

SPOTLIGHT ON THE COMMUNITY VIDEO

Partnership with Florence Crittenton Home

• 1914 - Volunteers began sewing and cooking classes

• 1921 to1929 – Took over full management of Crittenton• Members taught parenting technique classes and staffed the

daycare and nursery

• 1978 – Grant for $50,000 to build a new school

Countless hours and over $100,000 to the Florence Crittenton Home/Crittenton

Children’s Center

Countless mothers, children, and families helped

Era of Theater

Children’s Theater

Children’s Theater: The Land of Oz

Children’s Theater: The Patchwork Girl of Oz

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Children’s Theater: Snow White

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Children’s Theater

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Aladdin 1927

Steadfast Tin Soldier 1928

Children’s Theater:Mother Goose in Review 1931

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Children’s Theater

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Martha Belle Aikins Smith

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The Junior League Follies

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1st Follies: Campus Mouser - 1916

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“The Campus Mouser is the thing just now and every girl who is anyone

at all is in it.”

Campus Mouser Makes a Splash

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The Junior League Follies Continue

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“It is said to have more pep and snap than any amateur

production yet”

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Follies’ Fashion

Follies in the Roaring Twenties

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Junior League Follies: 1921 Cast

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Mrs. Wingate Bixby, chairman of the Junior League Follies traveled to New York to confer with Ned Wayburn who will direct the

“Follies” for the Junior League.

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JL Horse Show Ball and Cabaret

Follies: Junior League Night Club 1932

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And now we present

The Junior League of Kansas City,

Missouri’s

100th Anniversary Tribute to the Junior League

Follies