Twenty-five Years of the Philadelphia Orchestra

Appendix K

The Women’s Committees for the
Philadelphia Orchestra
1924-1925

(Formed March, 1904)

Miss Frances A. Wister, President
Mrs. Harold Ellis Yarnall, Vice-president
Mrs. Charles W. Henry, Vice-president
Mrs. Charles R. Wood, Recording Secretary
Mrs. William W. Arnett, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Alfred Reginald Allen, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
Honorary Vice-presidents
Mrs. Alexander W. Biddle	Mrs. Arthur E. Newbold
Mrs. John Cadwalader	Mrs. Morris Pfaelzer
Mrs. A. J. Dallas Dixon	Miss Anne Thomson
Mrs. George W. C. Drexel	Mrs. Wm. Austin Slaughter
Miss Mary K. Gibson	Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury
Mrs. Austin S. Heckscher	Mrs. Charlemagne Tower
Mrs. Charles E. Ingersoll	Mrs. Alex. Van Rensselaer
Mrs. C. Hartman Kuhn	Mrs. J. William White
Mrs. James McCrea	Mrs. Charlton Yarnall
Mrs. Thomas McKean
Directors
Mrs. Thomas G. Ashton	Miss Nina Lea
Mrs. Russell Duane	Mrs. Joseph Leidy
Miss Gertrude Ely	Mrs. Thomas Robins
Mrs. Simon B. Fleisher	Mrs. John B. Thayer, 3d
Mrs. Joseph M. Gazzam	Mrs. Sydney Thayer
Mrs. Frank T. Griswold	Mrs. John B. Townsend
Mrs. Henry S. Jeanes	Mrs. George F. Tyler
Ex-officio
Germantown—Countess of Santa Eulalia
West Philadelphia—Mrs. L. Howard Weatherly
Delaware County—Mrs. Matthew H. Cryer

Germantown and Chestnut Hill Women’s Committee

(Formed March, 1905)

Countess of Santa Eulalia, President
Mrs. Charles E. Morgan, First Vice-president
Mrs. Henry W. Raymond, Second Vice-president
Mrs. William Jay Turner, Third Vice-president
Miss Rossmässler, Recording Secretary
Mrs. W. Beaumont Whitney, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Richard Rossmässler, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
Directors
Mrs. Franklin Baker, Jr.	Mrs. Theron I. Crane
Mrs. Wm. L. Barclay	Mrs. Norton Downs, Jr.
Mrs. George C. Bowker	Mrs. Wm. W. Frazier, 3d
Mrs. Wm. P. M. Braun	Mrs. Frederic Gardiner
Mrs. Henry W. Butterworth	Mrs. George Horace Lorimer
Mrs. Charles S. Cheston	Mrs. Joseph A. Louchheim
Mrs. J. Hamilton Cheston	Mrs. Wm. Price Newhall
Mrs. Edw. W. Clark, 3d	Mrs. Edward A. Schumann
Mrs. Morris Llewellyn Cooke

West Philadelphia Women’s Committee

(Formed April, 1905)

Officers
Mrs. L. Howard Weatherly, President
Mrs. C. Lincoln Furbush, First Vice-president
Mrs. William S. Newcomet, Second Vice-president
Mrs. Alfred H. Peiffer, Recording Secretary
Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell, Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Samuel S. Fels, Treasurer
Miss Frances A. Wister, General Secretary for the Endowment Fund
Directors
Mrs. Perley Dunn Aldrich	Mrs. John S. W. Holton
Miss Marguerite Bement	Mrs. Wyllis K. Ingersoll
Mrs. Harold Boericke	Miss Amelia Justi
Mrs. John J. Boericke	Mrs. John M. Kennedy, Jr.
Mrs. Edward W. Bok	Mrs. H. McKnight Moore
Mrs. John F. Braun	Mrs. Edward L. Perkins
Miss Mary Burnham	Mrs. Frank Read, Jr.
Mrs. Charles Carver	Mrs. Harold E. Roberts
Mrs. Lewis R. Dick	Mrs. A. M. Starr
Mrs. F. W. Ferguson	Mrs. William A. Sullivan
Mrs. G. W. B. Fletcher	Mrs. W. Moseley Swain
Mrs. Collin Foulkrod	Mrs. Arthur Wilson
Mrs. James Woods Fry	Mrs. Camille Zeckwer
Mrs. Herbert T. Herr

Delaware County Women’s Committee

(Formed May, 1911)

BOARD OF MANAGERS

Officers
Mrs. Matthew H. Cryer, President
Mrs. Samuel S. Burgin, First Vice-president
Mrs. J. S. C. Harvey, Second Vice-president
Mrs. Harry H. Battles, Third Vice-president
Mrs. Henry Volkmar Gummere, Secretary
Miss Beulah C. Garretson, Treasurer
Directors
Mrs. Frank Aydelotte	Mrs. S. Leonard Kent, Jr.
Mrs. J. Claude Bedford	Mrs. Gibson McIlvaine
Mrs. William H. Biester	Mrs. Robert L. McLean
Mrs. Samuel Dyer Clyde	Mrs. John A. Miller
Mrs. Morton P. Dickeson	Mrs. T. Haldean Moore
Mrs. William Easby	Mrs. Charles Musser
Mrs. Albert Fox	Mrs. George Bispham Page
Mrs. Harold C. Goddard	Mrs. A. A. Parker
Mrs. Edward F. Hitchcock	Miss Edith Peters
Mrs. Benjamin R. Hoffman	Mrs. Richard Peters, Jr.
Mrs. Edward K. Innes	Mrs. J. Frederick Petry
Mrs. Robert F. Irwin	Mrs. J. Lord Rigby
Mrs. Willis D. Jameson	Mrs. John David Shattuck
Mrs. E. R. Keller	Mrs. Channing Way
Mrs. N. B. Kelly	Mrs. Henry M. Wirz

COMMITTEES OUT-OF-TOWN

The Delaware Committee (1907-1508)

(Wilmington)
for
The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1905

Mrs. Lewis C. Vandegrift, President
Mrs. Joseph Swift, Vice-president
Mrs. William Betts, Secretary
Miss Annie T. Flinn, Treasurer
Mrs. Otho Nowland, Chairman Guarantee Fund
Mrs. Ellwood C. Jackson, Chairman Auxiliary Committee
Mrs. A. H. Berlin, Chairman Press Committee
Mrs. John Bancroft	Mrs. Alfred R. Jones
Mrs. John B. Bird	Mrs. A. E. Kruse
Miss Martha Bradfield	Miss Kurtz
Mrs. Daniel M. Bates	Miss Lore
Mrs. T. Leslie Carpenter	Mrs. D. J. Reinhardt
Mrs. Allan J. Colby	Mrs. J. E. Smith
Mrs. W. F. Curtis	Mrs. Harry J. Stoeckle
Mrs. William K. du Pont	Mrs. Calvin Swayne
Mrs. Harlan Gause	Mrs. William F. Sellers
Mrs Charles E. Griffith	Mrs. Henry B. Thompson
Mrs. Norman Huxley	Mrs. James P. Winchester

The Washington Committee (1907-1908)

for
The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1906

Miss Aileen Bell, Acting Chairman

(The names of a large Committee and a
list of Patronesses are unavailable.)

The Baltimore Committee (1907-1908)

for The Philadelphia Orchestra

Formed May, 1906

Lawrason Riggs, Esq., President
His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons
His Excellency Governor Edwin Warfield
Right Reverend Bishop William Paret, D.D.
Vice-presidents
Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte	Mrs. Bernard N. Baker
Bernard N. Baker, Esq.	Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte
Frank Frick, Esq.	Mrs. David L. Bartlett
J. Swan Frick, Esq.	Mrs. William Ellicott
Gaun M. Hutton, Esq.	Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett
Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs	Mrs. John Gill
Signor Pietro Minetti	Mrs. Gaun M. Hutton
Philip Ogden, Esq.	Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs
Wilson Patterson, Esq.	Mrs. Howard Munnikhuysen
Dr. Thomas L. Shearer	Mrs. William Paret
R. Manson Smith, Esq.	Mrs. Wilson Patterson
John Marshall Thomas, Esq.	Mrs. Nelson Perin
Edwin L. Turnbull, Esq.	Mrs. R. Manson Smith
Jere H. Wheelwright, Esq.	Mrs. James Madison Thompson
J. B. Noel Wyatt, Esq.	Mrs. Edwin Warfield
	Mrs. Jere Wheelwright
Miss Shearer, Chairman
Honorary Managers	Active Managers
Mrs. W. S. Belding	Miss Bloodgood
Mrs. John S. Berry	Miss Bessie Campbell Clark
Miss Octavia Bates	Mrs. Isaac Dixon
Mrs. Frederick M. Colston	Mrs. J. Hamsley Johnson
Mrs. J. S. Ellard	Mrs. Ernest Knabe
Mrs. Charles M. Franklin	Miss Lurman
Mrs. Richard Griffith	Mrs. Edward H. McKeon
Mrs. Paul Haupt	Mrs. S. C. Rowland
Mrs. David Hutzler	Mrs. Sigmund Sonneborn
Mrs. Grier Hersh	Mrs. Oscar A. Turner
Mrs. Charles Keidel	Mrs. Clarence Watson
Mrs. C. Manigault Morris	Mrs. Robert W. Wood
Miss Mary L. Parker	Mrs. George L. Zell
Mrs. Frederick B. Stieff	Frederick M. Colston, Esq.
Mrs. William S. Thayer	Charles E. Dohme, Esq.
Mrs. Sidney Turner	Frederick H. Gottlieb, Esq.
Rev. F. Ward Denys	Dr. John Hemmeter
Miles Farrow, Esq.	Rev. Oliver Huckel
Dr. Charles M. Franklin	Ernest Jenkins, Esq.
Edwin Frank, Esq.	Robert Oliver Lehr, Esq.
Maurice Gregg, Esq.	Theodore Marburg, Esq.
Dr. B. Merrill Hopkinson	Rev. John Timothy Stone
Edwin Schenck, Esq.
Charles Weber, Jr., Esq.

The Women’s Committee for the Philadelphia Orchestra
invites you to be present at a meeting in the interest of
The Philadelphia Orchestra
to be held at the
Arundell Club
1000 North Charles Street, Baltimore,
on
Thursday afternoon, December fourteenth (1905)
at half after three o’clock

Under the patronage of

Mrs. Josiah Law Blackwell

Mrs. Alexander Brown

Mrs. George Dallas Dixon

Mrs. S. Naudain Duer

Mrs. William M. Ellicott

Mrs. George T. Gibson

Mrs. Daniel C. Gilman

Mrs. John P. Poe

Mrs. Harold Randolph

Miss Mary Butler Shearer

Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart

Mrs. Jesse Tyson

Mrs. George L. Zell

Music by
Mrs. Thomas S. Kirkbride, Jr., Pianist
and
Mr. John Witzemann, Violinist
and Mr. Alfred Saal, Violoncellist
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra