Socromento Lumberwomen Form Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 5; Elect

Florence ftlueller of Steiner's Retoil Yord First President

Sacramento, Calif.-Twenty charter members inaugu- rated the nation's fifth Hoo-Hoo-Ette club here Mav 23 with a dinner meeting in Le Sieur's Francais restauiant. The new Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 5 was preceded on the rolls of Hoo-Hoo by Hoo-Hoo-Ette Clubs No. 1, Los Angeles; No. 2, Eugene, Oregon; No. 3, San Francisco, and No. 4, San Diego, Calif.-all on the west coast.

A gloup of 11 Kittens was initiated at the May 23 meeting, following the special initiation a few days eailier of the new club's first officers. A get-acquainted hour at 6:29 p.m. preceded the initiation. Both Ida Cunner, then president of the Los Angeles club, and Anne Murray, a principal founder of these lumberwomen's clubs in the industry, made the trip from L. A. for the Club 5 founding and to iend their valuable assistance to the first meeting. Martha Greenfield, Winnifred Mentzer, Minnie Wicklund, Ray Dolsen and Barbara Fitzwater were also on hand from the San Frantisco Club 3.

Fol-lowing dinner, C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento publisher, past Snark of the lJniverse, and now Seer of the Hoo-Hoo House of Ancients, gave -the lumberwomen a short history of the industry's fraternal group, its high ethics and record of great leadership to properly indoctrinate them.

The Concatenation was then run off without a hitch under the direction of Ida Cunner and Anne Murray with assistance from Seer LeMaster, and Jack Berry, beputy State Snark for Northern California; Bill Fraser, pfesident of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109, and Marion T. "Chick" Cecchettini, that club's vice-president.

The offrcers of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 5 are: , President-Florence Mueller, Steiner Lumber Co.: First Vice-President-Mary Caplis, Setzer Forest Products ; Sec- retary-Claire Lockwood, Winton Lumber Sales: Treasurer-Barbara Adams, Sacramento Box and Lum6er Co.: and P_ublicity chairman-Genevieve M. Cupp, Winton Lum- ber Sales; Initiation chairman-Beverly -,,Joyce" Burns, Friend & Terry Lumber Co.; and Joan Cox, R. F. Nikkei l-upb_e_r Co.; Mar_g-aret Dawson, Diwson Distributing Co.; Lulu Mae llowe, Hedlund Lumber Sales. and Dolores" Renfree, Black Diamond Co.

The other charter members were Virigina Wood, \Minton Lumber Sales; Diane Cerates, L. J. CJrr & Co. ; Dorotha Cox, Hedlund Lumber Sales; Esthir Devere, Cal-b,ra Lumb_er Co.;Mitale Finch, McKuen Moulding Co.; Ardis Hart, C. & H. Lumber Co.;.Gene Scofield, Do'ian's;'Opat Slater, !. J. C"tt_& Co.; Marilyn White, Steiner Lumber Co., anci Audrey Whitney, David Ostin Moulding Corp.

It is understood that the Sacramento' lumber girls have already taken in two additional Hoo-Hoo-Ettes af a following meeting,:9 it looks as if Club No. 5 is going to be the one to beat, Clubs I, 2, 3 and 4 are warned.-