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Women of The West
California

keley for fifteen years. A. B., 1917, University of California. Assistant Manager, Peoples Finance & Thrift Co. (for the last six years). Member: Women's City Club, Soroptimist, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 2321 Dwight Way, Berkeley, Calif.

GILBERT, Aletha, (Mrs.), born in El Monte, California, January 17, 1870, daughter of Warren Woodson and Lucy Maxey. Children: Hilda B. Staininger. A resident of Los Angeles for 50 years. City Mother. Connected with L. A. Police Department for 36 years; founder of City Mother's Bureau, September 1, 1914. Charter member and chairman of Board of Directors, Soroptimist Club. Member: O. E. S., Woman's City Club, Soroptimist Club, Fraternal Brotherhood. Home: 600 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, Calif.

GILLILAND, Mary Leota, M. D., born in Missouri, January 4, 1892, daughter of John T. and Ida Hinds Gilliland, a resident of California for four years. Physician and surgeon. Former teacher S. B., University of Chicago. M. D., Rush Medical College. From 1924-26 on the house staff of the Los Angeles General Hospital; at present in general practice; specializes in Obstetrics. Member: L. A. County Medical Society, California State Medical Society, Alpha Epsilon Iota. Address: 649 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, Calif.

GILMORE, Adelaide H., (Mrs.), bom in Washington, D. C., 1875, resident of California for 52 years. Married to Francis Edward Gilmore. Children: Francis, Marcus, Harry, Dora, Anna, Roy, Jean, Katherine. President, P. T. A., past president Saturday Afternoon Club. Member: Saturday Afternoon Club, P. T. A., Cultus Club. Home: 536 N. State St., Ukiah, Calif.

GILMORE, Betty (Vera Aleece E., Mrs.), daughter of James and Margaret MacIndoe, old South Carolina pioneers of Scotch ancestry, a resident of California for about seventeen years. Married to George Davidson Gilmore. Children: Doris Lee. Writer—editorial, short stories, newspapers, feature material and general publicity. Editor, Deauville Magazine. A patron of art, music and drama. Herself an artist, having studied under the best New York, Paris and Berlin teachers and artists. Member: L. A. Ebell, L. A. Woman's City Club (first vice-president), Artland Club (life member). Matinee Musical Club (director), Scribbler's League (second vice-president), Southern California Woman's Press Club (press chairman), Opera and Fine Arts Club, Euterpe Opera Club, Republican Study Club, League of Women Voters, Big Sister's League, Deauville Beach Club, etc. Home: 6366 Maryland Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.

GILMORE, Elizabeth McCabe, born in Tipton, Iowa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCabe, a resident of California for fifteen years. Lyric writer, author and artist. Wrote lyrics for “Skies Are Dark When You're Away” (music by Ernest R. Ball); “Is it You?” (music by Charles Wakefield Cadman); “Because I Walk With Thee'” (sacred song, music by J. Harold Forshaw). Author: “Musical Musings.” Member: Southern Calif. Women's Press Club, Matinee Musical Club, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York City. Studio: 612 Southern California Music Building, Los Angeles, Calif.

GILRAY, Dorothea, born in Toronto, Canada, April 29, 1888, daughter of William and Amelia Gilray. A resident of Berkeley, California, for eleven years. Specializes in window display arrangements for the Western Union Telegraph Co., San Francisco. One of her articles, entitled, “Selling Telegrams Through Glass,” was published in the May, 1927 issue of 'business.” Member: San Francisco Advertising Club (served as Director for two years), Women's City Club, San Francisco. Home: 1039 Sierra Street, Berkeley, Calif.

GILSTRAP, Lillian M. (Mrs.), born in Umatilla County, Oregon, January 19, 1875, daughter of Sidney Edward and Jane Finch, a resident of California for fifteen years. Married to William G. Gilstrap. Children: Louis Frederic, Cosby L., Eloise. Very active in educational and social welfare work. Now serving second term as a member of Alhambra Board of Education. Past Matron of O. E. S. and Order of the Amaranth. Member: Alhambra Woman's Club (president), O. E. S., P. T. A., Daughters of the Confederacy. Home: 112 E. Alhambra Road, Alhambra, Calif.

GOETZ, Margaret (Miss), born 1863, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of German parentage, a resident of California for 21 years. Reader of Pictured Opera Reviews. Has studied here and in Europe. Charter Member of New York and L. A. McDowell Clubs. For nine years engaged as lecturer of Song Recitals for New York Board

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