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