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REPORT OF THE

TWENTY·SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING

Officers of the American Ramabai Association 1923-1924

President MRS. ARTHUR PERRY, Boston, Mass.

V ice-Presidents REV. D. D. ADDISON, D.D., Brookline REV. GEORGE A. GORDON, D.D., Boston REV. ALEXANDER MANN, D.D., Boston REV. HOMER A. WARK, D.D., Boston

Treasurer MR. EDGAR C. LINN, 1318 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass.

Corresponding Secretary MISS OLEMENTINA BUTLER, Wesleyan Building, Boston, Mass.

Recording Secretary MISS ALICE H. BALDWIN, 233 Fisher Avenue, Brookline, Mass.

MISS CLEMENTIN A BUTLER MISS ANNA H. CHACE MRS. J. A. HOVEY MRS. E. C. DORIAN

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MISS ANTOINETTE P. GRAINGER MRS. C. O. DORCHESTER MR. A. M. FRITCHLEY MISS S. B. RICH MR. HENRY FAIRBANKS MRS. THEODORE S. LEE MRS. S. W. MORTIMER MRS. HENRY W. PEABODY MRS. W. H. THURBER ARTHUR K. STONE, M.D.

Repre.~entative8 in India REV. HENRY FAIRBANKS, Ahmednagar BISHOP B. F. BODLEY, Bombay

Executive Committee MISS CLEMENTINA BUTLER, Chairman MISS ANNA H. CHACE MR. EDGAR C. LINN MRS. THEODORE S. LEE MISS ALICE H. BALDWIN

Principal of Mukti Mission MISS LISSA HASTIE, Kedgaon

1'ice-President of Sharada Sadal! (to be appointed)

The Annual Meeting

The Adjourned Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Ramabai Association was held in the Committee room, Wesleyan building, 581 Boylston St., Boston, on Wednesday, July 8, 1925, at 2 :30 p.m.

The President, Mrs. Arthur Perry, presided, and called upon Miss Butler to open the meeting with prayer.

The minutes of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting and the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting were read by the Recording Secretary and were approved.

The Treasurer's report was read. It was accepted and placed on file.

Mr. Linn read a note from the Germantown Trust Co., conveying a bequest of $10,000 to Pandita Ramabai's work for women and child-widows of India from 1irs. Charlesanna Lukens Huston of Philadelphia through the Germantown Circle of the American Ramabai Association.

Mr. Mason, Mr. Linn's attorney, read the part of Mrs. Huston's will relating to the bequest, stating the terms under which the gift would be made. Miss Butler said that upon the adjournment of the Annual Meeting of the American Ramabai Association, she would immediately call a meeting of the Executive Committee for the purpose of accepting the bequest of Mrs. Charlesanna Lukens Huston.

The election of officers then took place. The names of the officers to be voted upon were presented, and upon motion, duly seconded, the Secretary was instructed to cast one ballot for the persons named as officers. The Secretary deposited the ballot as authorized, and the

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persons nominated were declared to be unanimously elected to serve as officers for the ensuing year.

President, Mrs. Arthur Perry; Vice-Presidents, Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D., Rev. D. D., Addison, D.D., Rev. Alexander Mann, D.D., Rev. Homer E. Wark; Treasurer, Mr. Edgar C. Linn; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Clementina Butler; Recording Secretary, Miss Alice H. Baldwin; Managers, Ivliss Clementina Butler, Miss Anna H. Chase, Mrs. J. A. Hovey, Mrs. E. C. E. Dorien, Miss Antoinette P. Granger, Mrs. C. O. Dorchester, Mrs. S. B. Rich, Mr. A. M. Fritchley, Mr. Henry Fairbanks, Mrs. Theodore S. Lee, Mrs. 1. W Lee-Mortimer, lVlrs. Henry \71/ Peabody, Dr. Julia M. Plummer, Mrs. W. H. Thurber, Rev. Robert A. Hume; Executive Committee, Miss Clementina Butler, chairman; Miss Anna H. Chase. Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Mrs. Theodore I. Lee, Mr. Edgar C. Linn, Miss Alice H. Baldwin; Principal of 11ukti l\iission, Miss Lissa Hastie; Vice-Principal of Sharada Sadan.

The meeting then adjourned.

ALICE H. BALDWIN,

Recording Secretar)'.

REPORT OF MISS HASTIE

Ramabai Mukti Mission, Kedgaon, Poona Dist., India.

Jan., 1925. :My Dear Friends and Fellow-Workers:

I know you will be looking for a report of the Sharada Sadan and Mukti work, so, I am seeking to write it, though it has to be done with many interruptions and many times my pen has to be laid down while other things have to be seen to, so I trust you'll forgive any disjointedness that may appear.

The years seem to fly more swiftly than ever and 1924 seems to have gone like a flash, but as we look back, we can see how we have been making impresses on the lives around us, here a little and there a little, line upon line, and surely Indian Womanhood is changing and changing for the better, in fact, anyone returning to India after a few years at home would find a very changed India; women want equal rights with men and are eager for education and want more liberty and freedom.

In these days many are no longer willing to be mere household drudges and to be kept in Purdah, and in the towns and cities one is struck with the bright intelligent faces and the different expression on them now, no longer the dulllifeless look they used to bear, they have begun to enjoy life. While this is true of the towns and cities we have to remember that ninety per cent of the people live in the villages, but even so, our educated girls are taking up Infant VVelfare \\lork and teaching, etc., in the country places, so soon we may hope that through its women, the womanhood of India, will ere long wear a different aspect everywhere.

As we see the change gradually taking place, it en-


courages us to go on with the work among women and girls and as we pour out our lives in the training of them, often among disappointments and great difficulties, yet we feel it is worth while to keep at it, and we are so grateful to you for the money you send which enables us to keep at it, and for your continued help, without which we would be unable to do so much that is being done.

It has seemed to us as though Sharada Sadan had gone back to the early days, when many high caste, ill-used wives and widows were taken in and sheltered and educated. This past year, we have had several widows and others, who have come and asked us to take them in and protect them and allow them to keep their caste and cook for themselves. We made arrangements for them to do this, and they have been so touched by the love and help given that they have of their own accord asked if they might come to Church on Sundays, to which we gladly consented and now they never miss a Sunday without coming.

I must tell you of one very pathetic case. In a city not far away from here was a Brahman widow who was left with five children, four girls and a boy. Bravely she worked for them, and earned enough to keep her family and little home together but at last she took ill and was in sore straits. For a time the Hindu people helped her, then they got tired and the children had nothing to eat and were crying for sheer hunger. Just at this stage the woman got in touch with one of our old Sharada Sadan girls who is working in a Christian Training College. She fed them and then went around to all the different Missions to seek help for the starving family, but no one was able to take in so many.

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Then at last the thought came "\iVhy they will take them all in at Mukti if the woman is willing to go." She was willing, but even then it was not so easy as it looked, for when the people around found she was in touch with Christians, they did all they could to hinder her, and refused to let her out of their sight until her rent, which was in arrears, was paid. This was done, and then other difficulties were put in the way, but finally they were got away to the station at midnight and the family arrived here one Sunday morning. Such a pathetic group, but I wish you could see them now, they have their own little home and mother and children all live together. The girls go to school and they are so happy and bright, and so eager to get on. The mother helps the doctor in the dispensary and she does not know how to be grateful enough. They have a Bible and are reading it and seem very much inclined to Christianity. It is good to hear the woman encouraging other newly come caste people, and she tells them that they are quite at liberty to keep their caste and that no one will compel them to become Christians, it must be quite of their own accord.

Next d@or to this family is another high caste young girl, a badly used wife. She, too, had to be got away at night, and is so happy to be here in a safe place. She is going to school every day and promises to be a good student. Recently she asked if she might come to our serVIces.

I think I told you last year about a young Brahman widow who came to us. She now is pleading to be baptised. She is getting on well at school and one day we hope she will be ready to help her Indian sisters. These are just one or two instances to show you how we are


using the money you send and how you are helping the women of India by ~tanding by Sharada Sadan.

One of our Sharada Sadan girls went to Madras to the "Women's Christian College" for training. She passed one examination last year and hopes to pass another this year and she asks if she may return and take up teaching in our Sharada Sadan School, which we have gladly promised to allow her to do.

Another girl, who has chC!.rge of the school Manoramabai opened at Gulberga, has got a scholarship and hopes to go to the Isabella Thoburn College at Lucknow in July for Secondary Training. We have had testimony about both these, that their influence is good on other girls, and it is a cheer.

Three of our Sharada Sadan girls have gone to be trained as nurses, and we have very good reports of their work. They ask us continually to pray that they may be well pleasing to God. It is good to find that this is their ideal. \\le hope that when their training is finished, they will be real workers among their own people.

Our Sharada Sadan School is going on as usual with Krishnabai in chargd and an Indian staff of teachers. The attendance has increased since last year. Vve have 75 Hindu boys attending, most of them come to us because there is no other high school in Kedgaon and they are very keen to go on with their studies. Some of them are especially bright and it is good to see how they are reaching out after higher ideals as they come in contact with Christian teaching as well as the Government Curriculum. They seem to enjoy the Bible lessons very much and ask most intelligent questions, which shows that they think about what they are taught.

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We have just had a big blow. Miss Craddock, who came back from furlough two years ago and took charge of the Blind Girls' department and has done such wonders with them, has been ordered out of the country at once. This will be a great loss. VVe have no one to put in her place. Will you join us in prayer that God Himself will send some one to fill in this gap?

Last June Miss Wakeford, who was in charge of Krupa Sadan, passed on to Higher service and we have had no one for the work there, but, just recently a lady has offered to come out who has Rescue work on her heart and has been specially trained for it.

One girl in the Rescue Home, a Brahman, was a veritable virago. N ow she is quite changed and is doing good work in the needlework department. Everyone is delighted to see the transformation in her and we do praise God for we know this is His doing. He still works His miracles of grace as we look to Him

For the past year we have had an Indian lady doctor resident with us. \Ve do like to keep the work as Indian as possible and we are glad when Indian helpers come forward.

Pandita's translation of the whole Marathi Bible has been finished, both printing and binding being done by Sharada Sadan girls and the work has been well done. The Bible is being circulated now, and many people have written letters of appreciation, saying what a help it is. The 11arathi is simple but correct and the people understand it much better than other translations.

On Christmas morning each girl here was presented with a copy and their genuine. delight was very touching to see. One recipient clasped it to her breast and said, "Oh, my mother's Bible."


Dear friends, you who have stood by the work through fair weather and foul and who have done so much for it, must be filled with rejoicing as you hear how it is going on. The girls are now concentrating on a 10,000 edition of the Marathi New Testament, which we pray may be a great blessing to the country.

You will be interested to know that during the year 29 girls have been married and have gone to make Christian homes in different parts. Several of these are Sharada Sadan girls. One married a Brahman convert in the American Marathi Mission. He is a schoolmaster. They seem so happy and the missionary there says how orderly and neat their home is.

Twenty-four girls have been sent out for other purposes than marriage. Of these one Sharada Sadan girl has gone as a teacher to Berar and is doing well; another has gone to be a co-worker with a Swedish missionary, and others have gone to be trained as nurses.

You may have seen notices in the various papers about a Public Memorial to Pandita Ramabai, but so far nothing has materialised and very many say "The work is the best memorial."

It is gratifying to know' that you out there and we here have been privileged to have a share in that memorial. Surely it is the one of all others that the two great souls who were called to lay down the work would ha ve desired.

As to the financial side of the work, we can testify that our wonder-working God has, according to His promise, supplied our every need. Several times our treasury has been emptied of its last anna, and there have been queries such as "Now what are you going to do?" but as we kept looking upward, money has come


in, and the great family has been fed and clothed by the Hand that faileth not. We have been most grateful to you, dear friends, that you have continued to minister to the work and pray for it. It takes all our united forces to carryon amid the great pressure of today, and loss of prayer or support of one member is felt very much.

It is a source of great cheer to us to know that the past year, when the whole world seems to have been going through a finimcial crisis and when other Missions have been hard hit and had big deficits, we can say, "We have lacked nothing." True, there are some things we would liked to have done that we could not do, and some improvements we would like to have made that we could not make, but, we have no debts and all our needs have been met, the girls are well fed and well clothed and happy. We have, too, a delightful lot of young girls that are coming on, as many of the older ones pass out into other spheres.

We trust that you will all continue to work with us and pray for us and may we each one be deeper, wider channels through which the Lord can go on with His work of rescuing and uplifting India's daughters and soon we hope they will be stretching out helping hands everywhere, so that the village women of India, also, may be enlightened and taught how to be happy and how to make the most of life in this world and how to get ready for the life hereafter.

How I wish you could see the change that comes into the faces of these widows and young child wives that keep coming to us, when the Light dawns into their hearts. They look like different beings. I t seems so wonderful to them that we love them and not only that,


but to learn that women though they are, God loves them and Jesus can save them and fill them with joy that they have never known before. How we long for the day when India's women throughout the length and breadth of the land shall, everyone, know the blessed emancipation that Jesus is waiting to give them.

Dear friends, it is only as you hold the ropes at home that we can continue here. We often get very weary in the hard battle against Satan and sin, but as we think of you all praying for us and as' your cheering gifts come to remind us that you are living to help us, out here, to seek India's daughters, we take courage and go on, for "Prayer does change things."

As a band of workers we send you our very loving, grateful thanks, and we trust that as the days come and go with all their opportunities of uplifting souls and of leading them to Jesus, you may enter int6 something of the joy that it is-a joy often wrought through pain-to carryon this work as a memorial to Pandita and Manoramabai and also to carryon for the glory of God. As we are linked together in the Lord Jesus Christ, may we ever seek to be His lightbearers.

With heartfelt gratitude, M. LISSA HASTIE.

REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

No word from our committee has gone to the members of the Association concerning future plans for the Sharada Sadan and a suitable memorial for our beloved Pandita because our procedure for the future has not been definitely decided. We must remember that Ramabai began her work with but one single purpose, which was to establish a school for the education of high caste child-widows, and with the intent was that this should be built in or near Poona City and $25,000 was asked for the purchase or toward the erection of a suitable building.

At the first public meeting held in Boston December 13, 1887, her plans were set forth and on the 27th day of February, 1889, the Association was incorporated under the laws of the State 6f Massachusetts with the name of "The Ramabai Association" "for the Purpose of Assisting in the Education of the Child-widows in India, which shall be entirely unsectarian in character." Ten years later, Ramabai, after starting her work under this constitution, returned to the United States and formally asked the association for permission to change this constitution, which was being construed by certain people in India as obliging her to omit all Christian teaching. She asked for the omission of the word "unsectarian." To meet her request the first association was legally dissolved and under permission of the Legislation, was immediately incorporated again under the name of the "American Ramabai Association for the Purpose of Promoting and Assisting in the Education and to ameliorate the condition of widows. deserted

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wives and unmarried women and girls, all of the high caste."

Under this Act of Incorporation we have been acting and still function. On page 38 of the report for 1898, the resolutions effecting this change are on file. Paragraph 2 states that at that time all the real estate of the Association should be conveyed to Ramabai with a view to its application by her to the purposes of the Association.

On page 11 of the 1899 report, the following resolution was adopted :-"That this Association acquire the property now belonging to the Ramabai Association

. that the officers of the Association are authorized and directed to execute in the name of and on behalf of the Association, all papers legally necessary to acquire the said property."

Ramabai's work was extended by the call which came to her sympathetic heart through the terrible destitution arising from the famine, and she opened her doors to other than high-caste children. In the address of the chairman of the executive committee, Mrs. J. W Andrews, recorded on page 14 of the 1900 report is the answer to the question-"Has not Ramabai broken her pledge?" Vve answer "That the Sharada Sadan is today what it has ever been, a secular school, as Ramabai has promised her people it should be, but in which there is perfect religious freedom. In the Mukti Home she has an outlet for her religious fervor. Her~ she is unrestricted. Here the children have no parents to be pleased or displeased. At the risk of her own life she has gathered them and is still gathering them from the jungles and villages of the famine district."

This quotation shows the difference between the two


institutions, the one established by this Association at the request of Pandita Ramabai, the other an independent work, for which she herself collected the funds. In her report she always recognizes the difference between the two institutions. At the bottom of page 23 of the 1900 report, she mentions, "50 little children, all belonging to Mukti but sent to Sharada Sadan to benefit by its educational advantages." On page 26 of the same report, she says "150 girls are at Sharada Sadan and 312 are living at Mukti. . the plague is fiercely increasing and may break out in Poona, as it did last year. It will then be necessary to close Sharada Sadan and take the girls to Kedgaum."

Ramabai's book "The High Caste Hindoo \Vidow" was the source of information for most of the early members who did not meet Ramabai personally. The Sharada Sadan in its unique work for the hitherto unreached child-widow was their one and only institution. On page 23 of the report for 1901, after the Corresponding Secretary announced the return of 1\1anoramabai after her graduation from Chesboro Seminary and her appointment to the Sharada Sadan with a salary of $300 a year, Mrs. Andrews says that it was expected that "in less than three years the Sharada Sadan would contain 161 pupils, while at the farm at Kedgaum there would be another institution protecting and educating more than 1500 widows and \vomen, Christian pure and simple in its policy and government, industrial in its character (fast becoming a little village in itself)." On page 15 of the 1902 report, Dr. Edward Everett Hale has a word which shows the difference in standing between the Sharada Sadan supported by this Association, and Mukti and Kripa Sadan. He says, "These


are Ramabai's faith works, her appeals for them are to God alone, and most singularly have her prayers been answer~d."

It is not necessary to say more to illustrate the difference between the two parts of the work. In Ramabai's will she has expressly left all her Mukti work to a committee of the Christian Alliance Mission and soon it will be desirable to forward directly to the Alliance all funds designed for lVlukti or Kripa. All memberships and gifts designated for the original work must be administered by this Association, at least until any legal action is taken to make it possible to pass over such funds for any other work. We are at present sending all money received to Miss Lissa Hastie and she is carrying on a school for girls under the name of the Sharada Sadan. As to whether this school now complies with the conditions under which the work was started, and for which bequests are now being received were given must be decided. The matter is being very carefully studied, and we are requesting from Miss Hastie a report of how the funds are expended in detail.

On page 13 of the report for 1903 the fact is established that all Sharada Sadan property remains· in the hands of this Association. A vote had been taken, as recorded, to pass it over to Ramabai, but she had al\vays declined to hold the property. When the vote \,\ras made known to her, she at once sought the British Consul's advice as to the manner in which the transfer could be made, but she suddenly left for India and nothing was accomplished and the Association still holds this property. Just now the British Government acknowledges, in a communication dated on the 17th day of October, 1925, that the securities for the fund from

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the sale of the buildin e Sharada Sadan in oona, now deposited in the Nat" al &tflc: Af ~ci.a long to the American Ramabai Assocla· r representative in India, Dr. Robert A. Hume, has been successful in securing exemption from taxes for the securities.

Investigation is being made, both in this country and India, concerning the best possible use of the funds so entrusted to us. Meanwhile it may be understood that the work at Mukti outside of the Sharada Sadan is now by Ramabai's will in the care of the Christian Alliance Mission and that those who desire to contribute to the blind school, the Industrial Work, the Rescue Mission, or any of the other fine activities of that Christian village, may send the money either directly through the Christian Alliance, or, if sent to our treasurer, should be clearly indicated as for these dep3.lrtments of the work. Those of our members who prefer to send the money for the Sharada Sadan, the original school for highcaste girls and child-widows should send to the treasurer of this Association, indicating their desire to have it used according to Ramabai's first plan. By the time the next report is issued, we hope to be able to make a full statement as to t,he division of funds between these two forms of service. As will be seen by the report of the treasurer, some have contributed to the Sharada Sadan and some for the general work. We urge all donors to be explicit regarding the division of their gifts.

Our only desire is to fulfill the pledges made to the contributors under Ramabai's explicit plea and plan. She was a woman of a great vision and her work was unique. While conditions are changing slowly in India and her influence has undoubtedly ameliorated the con-


ditions and influenced public opinion toward the childwidow, there maybe still room for a peculiar institution like the Sharada Sadan as established by Ramabai in Poona, as well as for the broad, far-reaching mission work carried on at Mukti.

We expect Dr. Hume to arrive early in the spring of 1926. The Annual 11eeting will probably be adjourned in order to hear his report and to accept his counsel regarding our future cooperation with the Mukti work.

Respectfully submitted,

CLEMENTINA BUTLER, Chairman,

Executive C01n11tittee.

1924

TREASURER'S REPORT AMERICAN RAMABAI ASSOCIATION

March 17, 1925

GENERAL FUND

Receipts

March 17 Balance on hand ................ $1,829.15 1925

March 17 Interest on Deposits ........... . 53.75 Subscription for support of Sha-

rada Sadan .................. . Subscription for support of Mukti

School ....................... . Donations to General Fund ..... . Proceeds from Sale of "Pandita

Ramabai" .................... .

Payments 1925

583.50

27.00 1,769.30

103.50 $4,366.20

March 17 Remittance for support of Sha-

1924 June

rada Sadan ................... $1,973.00 Remittance for support of Mukti

School ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.00 Miscellaneous Expenses ......... 233.23 General Expenses including cleri-

cal assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00 --- $2,333.23

Balance, March 17, 1925, In Bank 2,032.97

$4,366.20 GENERAL ACCOUNT

Receipts Balance on March 17, 1924 ...... $1,829.15 Interest on Deposits '............. 53.75 Deposits ...... ... .. .. . . ... . ..... 2,483.30 $4,366.20

Disbursements

6 Geo. M. Blandford auditing to March 17, 1924 ....

6 Prof. J. ]. Cornelius, address annual meeting ............... .

23 Boston Transcript Company, advertising annual meeting

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$ 10.00

10.00

2.45


July 2

Sept. 13

Oct. 30

1925 lfarch 4

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Old Colony Trust Company, rent of safe deposit box ............ 10.00

Vermont Printing Company, bill 4/24/24 ........................ 85.50

Vernon Mason, Atty., expenses and fees for getting certified copy of charter ................ 6.75

Vermont Printing Company, bilI 1/31/25 ........................ 108.53

Edgar C. Linn, general expenses including legal and clerical services .............. . . . . . . . . . 100.00 333.23

LEGAL AND MEDICAL FUND 1924

March 17 Balance ......................... $ 308.33 Sept. 2 Deposit-Coupons on Bonds 50.75

1925

$4,032.97

March 17 Deposit-Coupons on bonds ...... 50.75 $ 409.83

RANDALL TRUST ACCOUNT 1924

March 17 Balance ......................... $ 176.05 Sept. 2 Deposit-Coupons on Bonds $ 12.25

1925 lhrch 17 Deposjt-Coupons on Bonds ...... 12.25 $ 200.55

MARGARET F. WAITE FUND ACCOUNT 1924

M4rch 17 Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $ 547.67 Sept. 2 Deposit-Coupons 011 Bonds 39.38

1925 March 17 Deposit-Coupons on Bonds ...... 39.37

17 Interest on bank balance ....... 2.57 $ 628.99

A USTRALIAN FUND FOR LEGAL AND MEDICAL AID OF LITTLE WIVES OF INDIA

1925 1924 March 17 Balance .. $3,184.83 March 17 Balance .. $3,083.33

Sept. 2 Interest.. 50.75 1925

l1arch 17 Interest .. $3.184.83

50.75

$3,184.83


RANDALL TRUST ACCOUNT 1925 1924

March 17 Balance .. $ 900.55 $ 900.55

March 17 Balance.. $ 876.05 Sept. 2 Interest.. 12.25

1925 March 17 Interest .. 12.25

$ 900.55 MARGARET F. WAITE FUND

1925 1924 March 17 Balance .. $2,753.99 March 17 Balance .. $2,672.67

Sept. 2 Interest 39.38 $2,753.99 1925

March 17 Interest.. 41.94

$2,753.99

SUMMARY OF BALANCES

Legal and Medical Cash ....................................... $ 409.83 Liberty Bonds .......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900.00 Boston & Albany Bonds .............. ,...... 1,875.00 $3.184.83

Randall Trust Cash ....................................... $ 200.55 Liberty Bonds ............................. 700.00 $900.55

Margaret F. Waite Trust Cash ....................................... $ 628.99 Liberty Bonds .......... • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250.00 Boston & Albany Bonds ................... 1,875.00 $2,753.99

A UDITOR'S REPORT

Brookline, Mass., April 14, 1925. Mr. Edgar C. Linn, Treasurer,

American Ramabai Association, Brookline, Mass.

Dear Sir: Acting under your instructions, I have made an audit of the

books of this Association, covering the fiscal year ending March 17, 1925, and have found. the same correct.

Yours truly, G. M. BLANDFORD,

Auditor.


., AMERICAN RAMABAI ASSOCIATION

LIST OF DONORS

March 18, 1924, to March 17, 1925, inclusive.

Donors Sharada Mukti General Sadan Fund

Mothers' Meeting Club, Central "BaPt~st ~urch, Hartford, Conn. A FrIend .................•...

Miss E. H. Howard, Hartford, Conn ........................ .

Ramabai Club of Bellevue Reformed Church, Schenectady, N. Y ........................ .

Record of Christian Work, E. Northfield, Mass. . ........... .

Pinkham Class of First Baptist Church. Wollaston, Mass. . ...

Mrs. Elvira S. Moore, E. Orange, N. J ......................... .

Plainville Ramabai Circle, Plain-ville, Conn. . ................ .

Mrs. A. W. Parker, Brooklyn, N. Y ........................ .

Mary B. Bull, Quincy, 111. . .... . St. Andrews· Ministering Circle

of King's Daughters, Philadel-phia, Pa ..................... .

Roselle, N. J., Ramabai Circle .. Bryn Mawr Ramabai Circle, Ha-

verford, Pa. . ................ . Mrs. Geo. Wellwood Murray,

Montclair, N. J .............. . Providence, R. 1., Ramabai Circle A. S. Wallace, Montclair, N. J ... Mrs. Walter Kidde, Montclair,

N. J ........................ .. Helping Hand Circle, Wesleyan

Methodist Church, Syracuse, N. Y ........................ .

New Haven Circle of the American Ramabai Association .....

American Ramabai Circle, Can-andaigua, N. Y. . ............ .

Estate of Amelia A. Jennings... $50.00 Friends Church, Washington,

D. C ........................ .

$27.00 $27.00 $100.00 100.00

100.00 100.00

30.00 30.00

11.05 11.05

36.00 36.00

5.00 5.00

17.00 17.00

5.00 5.00 1.00 1.00

5.00 5.00 38.00 38.00

120.00 120.00

5.00 5.00 87.00 87.00 25.00 25.00

10.00 10.00

13.00 13.00

85.00 85.00

16.00 16.00 50.00

21.50 21.50


AMERICAN RAMABAI ASSOCIATION

List of Donors

March 18, 1924, to March 17, 1925, inclusive.

Donors Shfu-ad§. M ukti General Sadan Fund

Franklin Del. Co. N. Y. Ramabai Association ................. .

M. B. Scringeour, Calgary, Alta., Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00

Mary A. Bennett, Boston, Mass. 2.50 Miss M. Adele Brewer, Stock-

bridge, Mass. ................ 2.00 Carrie L. Cooper, St. Petersburg,

Fla. .......................... 25.00 Will of Mattie A.. Gould, Peta-

luma, Calif ................... 500.00 Dorchester Ramabai Circle, Bos-

ton, Mass .................... . G. S. Blakeslee, Chicago, Ill. ... . Rosamond Connor, Augusta, Me. 1.00 Miss A. Frank Shumard, Shelby-

ville, Tenn. . ................. . Margaret M. Forsythe ......... . Germantown, Pa., Ramabai Circle Roselle, N. J., Ramabai Circle Mrs. H. P. Palmer, So. Hadley,

Mass ........................ . Rose ]. Topliff, So. Hadley, Mass. Mrs. Christian Keener, Orlando,

Fla .......................... . Manorama Circle, Moylan, Pa .. . Class of '88, Smith College Amanda E. Hewitt, No. Stoning-

ton, Conn .................... . Women's Board of Missions,

Honolulu, Hawaii ........... . Wilmington, Del., Ramabai Circle Perkins Ramabai Circle, Cleve-

land, Ohio .................. . Bertha L. Ross, Lumberton, N. J. Annie L. Vickery, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Peter Gabriel, Bridgeport,

Conn ........................ . Unknown .....................•

65.00 65.00

3.00 2.50

1.75 3.75

25.00

500.00

45.00 45.00 20.00 20.00

1.00 2.00

5.00 5.00 14.00 14.00

100.00 100.00 203.00 203.00

5.00 5.00

10.00 163.00

6.00

5.00

5.00 S.OO

10.00 163.00

6.00

S.OO

307.00 307.00 17.00 17.00

55.00 55.00 2.00 2.00 5.00 5.00

2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00

Totals .................. $583.50 $27.00 $1769.30 $2379.80

BY-LAWS

ARTICLE 1. The members of the Association shall be such persons as shall from time to time be elected by the Association or by the Board of Managers, and such persons as shall be selected for membership by the Ramabat Circles now or hereafter existing, provided that no more than one person shall be selected by each circle in anyone year, and that no person so selected shall become a member of the Association till notice of the selection has been received by the Recording Secretary of the Association.

ART. II. The officers of the Association shall consist of a President, not less than five Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, a Treasurer: and Twenty Managers, all of which officers together shall constitute a Board of Managers. All said officers shall be elected at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold their office one year, and until others are elected and qualified in their stead. The election of officers shall be by ballot, and all or any of them may be voted for on the same ballot. Any vacancy occurring in any of the offices may be filled by the Board of Managers, or the Executive Committee in consultation with the President.

ART. III. The Board of Managers shall manage and control all the property, business, and affairs of the Association. The President of the Association shall be Chairman of the Board. The Board shall meet at such ·times and places as the President shall appoint. The Board shall make an annual report to the Association.

ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association for the election of officers and the transaction of any business shall be held in March of each year at such time and place in Boston as the President shall appoint. Special meetings of the Association may be called by the President or by the Board of Managers, notice of the purpose of the meeting being included in the notice of the meeting. Notice of the time and place of the Annual Meeting or of any special meeting shall be given by publication in. two Boston newspapers at least a week before the meeting.

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ART. V. Seven members shall constitute a quorum of the Board of Managers.

ART. VI. Voting by proxy shall be allowed at meetings of the Association.

ART. VII. The Ramabai Circles shall be such voluntary and unincorporated Associations as now do or hereafter may exist in different localities for the purpose of maintaining interest in, and providing funds for, the work of this Association.

ART. VIII. The By-laws may be amended by vote of twothirds of the members present and voting, provided that notice of the proposed amendment shall be included in the notice of the meeting.

ART. IX. There shall be on the Board of Managers representatives, not exceeding six, from societies contributing to the funds of the Association.

ART. X. There shall be an Executive Committee of the Association, consisting of not less than five members of the Board of Managers. In the interim of the meetings of the Board of Managers the Executive Committee shall possess all the Powers of said Board and shall manage and control all the Property, business and affairs of the Association in consultation with the President.

QIommonwtaltq of :dilu.s.ssrqunrttn BE IT KNOWN, That whereas E. Winchester Donald, E. Hay

ward Ferry, pauline Agassiz Shaw, Judith H. Andrews, Antoinette P. Granger, Clementina Butler, Catherine E. Russell, Abbie B. Child, William V Kellen, Martha Silsbee, Cornelia C. Donald, Meta Neilson, Mary Rogers Bangs, Clarence John Blake, Josephine Dexter, and others, have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of THE AMERICAN RAMABAI ASSOCIATION for the purpose of promoting and assisting in the education, and to ameliorate the condition of widows, deserted wives, and unmarried women and girls, all of the higher castes, in India, and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the proper officers of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations, and recorded in this office:

Now, THEREFORE, I, vVilliam M. Olin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that said E. Winchester Donald, E. Hayward Ferry, Pauline Agassiz Shaw, Judith \\'. Andrews, Antoinette P. Granger, Clementina Butler, Catherine E. Russell, Abbie B. Child, William V. Kellen, Martha Silsbee, Cornelia C. Donald, Meta Neilson, Mary Rogers Bangs, Clarence John Blake, Josephine Dexter, and others, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as and are hereby made an existing corporation under the name of THE AMERICAN RAMABAI ASSOCIATION, with the powers, rights, and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties, and restrictions which by law appertain thereto.

[SEAL]

\VITNESS my official -signature hereto subscribed and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed this twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WILLIAM M. OLIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth

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FORM OF BEQUEST I give, devise and bequeath to the American Ramabai

Association, a corporation duly established under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the sum of Dollars, to be expended for the purposes of the corporation under the direction of its Board of Managers.

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