Contributes verse and children's stories to several magazines of national circulation. Member: Woman's Century Club, American Legion Auxiliary. Home: 913 Broadway, Yakima, Washington.
NOEL, Jacqueline, (Miss), born in Washington, D. C., June 28, 1886, daughter of Jacob Edmond and Eleanor Freaneau Leadbeater Noel, former resident of New York City, living in Washington for the last 20 years. Librarian, Tacoma Public Library. Chairman, Division of Literature, Washington State Fed. of Women's Clubs; vice-president, Pacific Northwest Library Ass'n. Member: American Library Ass'n, Pacific Northwest Library Ass'n, D. A. R., Huguenot Society of New York, Aloha Club, Business and Professional Woman's Club. Home: 3020 North Alder Street, Tacoma, Washington.
NORMAN, Henderson Daingerfield (Mrs.), born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, daughter of Foxhall Alexander and Nettie Gray Daingerfield. Has lived in Kentucky, Illinois, Oregon, Tennessee and Alabama, living for nine years in the state of Washington. Married to Attilla Cox Norman. Children: Richard Beck. Writer. Contributed essays to Magazines. Translator of Edmond Rostand's plays (in the original verse forms), Active in church work. Address: 801 Skinner Bldg., Seattle, Washington. Home: Rolling Bay, Washington.
OBER, Caroline Haven (Miss), born May 3, 1866, in Beverly, Massachusetts, daughter of Andrew Kimball and Sarah A. Hadlock Ober, a resident of Washington for thirty-one years, formerly living in Nevada, Montana, Colorado, California and Argentina. Professor of Spanish, University of Washington. Has been instructor in several other states and was Regent and Vice-Directress of a Normal School in Argentina. Member: American Ass'n of Teachers of Spanish, Washington Education Ass'n, N. E. A., China Club of Seattle, Ass'n of University Instructors, Modern Language Ass'n, Faculty Women's Club, American Philological Ass'n, Alumnae Ass'n of Wheaton College, etc. Home: 4558 Thackeray Place, Seattle, Washington.
ODSON, Lenna B. (Mrs. John), born in Iowa, daughter of Lorenzo D. and Ann E. Blackmarr; a resident of Washington for 23 years. Married to the late John Odson. Children: Genevieve O. Boothe. Interior Decorator and Lecturer on the various phases of decorative work. Member: Women Decorators Club of New York City. Studio: 726 Peyton Bldg. Home: 820 Lincoln Place, Spokane, Washington.
OREN, Mae D., (Mrs. Clarence H.), a native of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of E. and Margaret Decker, a former resident of Minneapolis, living for thirteen years in the state of Washington. Married to Clarence Herbert Oren. Educational Director, Plymouth Church. School Principal, Minneapolis ten years. Instructor in Teachers' Summer State Training Schools, Minnesota, for ten years. For three years General Secretary Y. W. C.A., Seattle. Since 1924 Educational Director of Plymouth Church, where she has charge of Plymouth Girls' Club, Wednesday Night Industrial Girls' Club, and Plymouth Institute for Women. Member: Zonta, Kumtux, Women's City Club. Home: 305 Bellevue Avenue, North, Seattle, Washington.
ORTON, Virginia Keating (Mrs. C. W.), A.B., born in Virginia, daughter of Edward J. and Jewel Carter Davis Keating, a resident of the State of Washington for eight years. Married to Charles Waite Orton. Writer of verse and short stories. A leader in social, cultural, art and literary activities; active in welfare and charity work. Member of Board of Red Cross, Girl Scout Council, Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n, Board of Charities and Western Washington Art Ass'n. Vice-president of Washington State Fed. of Women's Clubs, Presidents Council. Member: Sumner Garden Club (president), Sumner Civic Club, Tacoma Garden Club, Tacoma Tennis Club, Tacoma Country Club, Tacoma Fine Arts Club, Tacoma Bohemian Club, Tacoma Drama League (Vicepresident), Seattle Free Lance Writers' Club, Linden Golf Club. Home: "Orton Place," Elhi Road, Sumner, Washington.
PARKER, Maud (Miss), M. D. (degree from Cornell), a native of Whitehall, Mich., daughter of William Elbridge and Lily Ruth Elbridge, a resident of Washington for thirty years. Physician and surgeon. A.B., Univ. of Wash. Lecturer on social and medical subjects. At one time lecturer on Hygiene, University of Washington and lecturer on General Medicine, Nurses Training of Seattle General Hospital. Has done research work at Stanford University. Past Secretary of Medical Women's National Ass'n. Member: County, State and American Medical Society, Women's University Club of Seattle, Zonta Club of Seattle (Past President), Med-
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