Sylmar Woman’s Club History
As we start our 2007 - 2008 year we will be celebrating 67 years of service to our community!
Looking back over the last 67 years we must reflect on our humble beginnings. What started as a sewing circle with eight members with a goal to meet and become acquainted with their neighbors, to know the community better and to foster a spirit of friendliness, neighborliness and helpfulness has grown to our present day Sylmar Woman's Club with approximately 100 members. Each one of the women present at that first meeting pledged to bring at least one new member to the next meeting and the membership was tripled the first year. This is still a good pledge for us to consider.The symbol then, as now, was a true circle, no breaks, no points and no corners.
The objectives of the Sylmar Woman’s Club:
- A social communion of its members.
- Discussion of subjects of common interest which would serve as intellectual uplift but in no way to conflict with personal views.
- That the circle never be a dress or eating occasion and shall always be conducted very simply.
- That no gossiping and no hard feelings shall enter its bounds, but all things be taken in good faith as coming from the circle.
Because there was no other organized group in Sylmar and the community needed improvements and because a Woman's Club had more prestige than a Sewing Circle, we became the Sylmar Woman's Club in 1941.