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Women of The West
California

ident of Nevada, living in California for about four years. Married to Donald Barr Clayton. Musician and Teacher. Very active in all community affairs; County Chairman of Music; Accompanist for Kiwanis, Exchange and Hi 12; Music Chairman for Better Homes Week for past two years. Composer, teacher and concert accompanist; has taught music since 1913; organist at Methodist Church. Member: Monday Musical Club, Santa Cruz Woman's Club; Past President, Saturday Afternoon Club, MacDowell Club. Home: 157 Broadway Ave., Santa Cruz, Calif.

CLEMENTS, Edith S., (Mrs. Frederic E.), a native of Albany, New York, former resident of Tucson, Arizona, living in California for the last 4 years. Married to Frederic E. Clements. Illustrator and Investigator. Fellow in German, assistant in Botany, University of Nebraska; former instructor in Botany, University of Minnesota. Author: “The Relation of Leaf Structure to Physical Factors,” “Rocky Mountain Flowers” (also illustrator), “Flowers of Mountain and Plain.” Author and illustrator: “Herbarium Ecadium Californiae,” “Wild Flowers of the West” (in National Geographic Magazine), “Flower Families and Ancestors”; illustrations for “Experimental Pollination.” Member: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Ecological Society, American Ass'n. Advancement of Science. Home: Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara, Calif.

CLEMENTS, Zulu (Miss), born in Chicago, Ill., August 1, 1876, daughter of Charles R. and Anna M. Cadow Clements, former resident of Chicago, living in California for eighteen years. Traffic Manager Leslie-California Salt Co. Editor of Western Women's Club News (Monthly bulletin of the Western Women's Club), Active in club affairs; Past President, California Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs; Director, Treasurer and First-Vice President, San Francisco Business & Professional Women's Club; former editor of “The Business Woman and Business Women's News”. Member: Western Women's Club, Business and Professional Women's Club, Women's Traffic Club, East Bay Country Club. Home: 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Calif.

COFFIN, Bertha Lindley, (Mrs.), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a resident of California since 1875. Married to John Elihu Coffin. Past president Woman's Auxiliary, Whittier College. Has held various offices in Los Angeles Y. W. C. A.; charter member, L. A. Ebell Club. Past President, Whittier Woman's Club. Browning Dept. Curator of Ebell. Member: L. A. Ebell Club. Home: 202 S. Washington Ave., Whittier, California.

COLLAR, Floyd Judson (Mrs.), born in Arthursburg, New York, 1883, daughter of Frank James and Sarah Katherine Fackrell, a resident of California for thirty-five years. Married to Dr. Floyd Judson Collar, D.D.S. Soprano soloist and choral director. At present, director of six choral clubs, two women's club chorals of forty-five voices each and a choir of forty-five. Soprano soloist. First Congregational Church, Alameda. Does radio work and professional work in Oakland as member of the Bel Canto Trio, women's voices. Received B. M. at College of Pacific. Member: Adelphean Club, Alameda, Calif., Montclair Women's Club, Oakland, Pi Kappa Lambda, Alpha Theta Tau, East Bay Alumni Ass'n of C. P. Home: 4329 Leach Ave., Oakland, Calif.

COLLISON, Florence Parmelee (Mrs.), born in Los Angeles, daughter of Zetoes L. and Eliza Golds worthy Parmelee, a life-long resident of California with the exception of three years which she spent from 1922-25 as member of Life Service Commission of M. E. Church, in Chicago, Illinois. Married to the late John Clyde Collison. Educator and church missionary worker. High school teacher from 1914-17. Student secretary. Pacific Branch of the Woman's Foreign Society of the M. E. Church from 1919-22. Beginning with 1925, superintendent. Pacific Branch Young Peoples' Department of Woman's Foreign Society. M. E. Church. Home: 1420 Spruce St., South Pasadena, Calif.

COLWELL, Marie L. (Mrs. J. O.), born in Batesville, Arkansas, May 3, 1863, daughter of Aaron Woodruff and Cara J. Lyon, a resident of California for 46 years. Married to James Orlando Colwell. Children: Edwin Orlando, Elsie Colwell Tonge, Jeanette Colwell Houghton. Active in all civic affairs. For three years director of Los Angeles County Farm Bureau. Former president, Exposition Park Civic Ass'n., interested in several Improvement bodies. Vice-president, City Pension Commission (since 1925). Member: Wilshire Woman's Club (president), West Adams Women's Club (on Board of Directors), Gen.

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