MHS Centennial Organization: University Women’s Club of Winnipeg

The University Women’s Club of Winnipeg, founded on 14 April 1909, provides fellowship for members, leadership and effective action for community initiatives, and a voice for national issues through the Canadian Federation of University Women.

Presidents

Period	President
1909	Mary Elizabeth Crawford (1876-1953)
1910-1911	Margaret Jeannette Johnston (1862-1921)
1911-1912	Grace Laura Wikoff Hadcock (1876-1947)
1912	Eva Lilian Jones (1871-1948)
1912-1913	Mary Elizabeth Crawford (1876-1953)
1913-1915	Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875-1952)
1915-1917	Elsie Elizabeth Moore (1880-1965)
1917-1918	Winifred A. Locke Copeland (c1878-1918) Miss Margaret Springate
1918-1919	Miss Margaret Springate Mrs. G. L. Lennox
1919-1920	Mrs. G. L. Lennox
1920-1921	Mrs. Eldon Siddall
1921-1922	Miss E. M. MacDougall
1922-1923	Mrs. E. D. Honeyman
1923-1924	Myrtle Taylor Lewis (1888-1964)
1924-1926	Mrs. W. W. Cross
1926-1928	Mrs. C. A. Hallberg
1928-1930	Nell Irene Rundle (1894-1967, wife of Leonard Dunstan Heaton)
1930-1932	Miss Mary Stewart
1932-1934	Paulina Porter Fox (1878-?, wife of Justin Sarsfield Delury)
1934-1936	Louise Olive Cole (?-1965)
1936-1938	Mrs. F. G. Ritchie
1938-1939	Luella Gertrude Lick Smith (1896-1963)
1939-1941	Lottie Jean Chapman Duncan Sommerfeld (1887-1978)
1941-1943	Mrs. Norman James
1943-1945	Doris Boyce Saunders (1901-2003)
1945-1947	Avis Birdina Maude Clark (1883-?)
1947-1949	Lela Helen McKnight (1886-1954)
1949-1951	Aileen Motley Doerkson (1899-1971)
1951-1953	Mrs. C. Rhodes-Smith Margaret Turnbull Gow (1901-1989)
1953-1955	Margaret Turnbull Gow (1901-1989)
1955-1957	Mrs. Cyril Ashmore
1957-1959	Genevieve Brock Brownell (1901-1999)
1959-1961	Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1961-1963	Mrs. Harold A. Plant
1963-1965	Mrs. W. W. Smith
1965-1967	Mrs. James A. Clark
1967-1969	Mrs. Russell Woods
1970-1971	Mrs. C. A. E. Jensen
1971-1973	Merle Yvonne Whitehead (1913-1991)
1973-1975	Mrs. Ashley Thomson
1975-1977	Frances Arnett Bowles
1977-1979	Mrs. Freda Gray
1979-1981	Miss Shirley Bradshaw
1981-1983	Alice Mary Elizabeth Cheatley (1918-2017)
1983-1984	Mrs. A. T. (Nina) Phillips
1984-1986	Mrs. H. G. (Genevieve) Doidge
1986-1988	Elizabeth Feniak
1988-1990	Doris Mae Oulton
1990-1992	Joyce Patricia Hill (?-2014)
1992-1993	Elisabeth Bevis
1993-1995	Susan Irving
1995-1997	Donna Margaret Louise Crosland Blight (1936-2008)
1997-1999	Betty Shearer
1999-2001	Mary Scott
2001-2003	Lorraine Cook
2003-2005	Muriel Ann Lipsey Smith
2005-2007	Helen Norrie
2007-2009	Janet Goldack
2009-2011	Céline Marie Power Kear (?-2017)
2011-2013	Sylvia Marsh
2013-present	Sandra Millen

See also:

Manitoba Organization: University Women’s Club of Portage la Prairie

University Women’s Club of Winnipeg

Sources:

Obituary [Merle Yvonne Whitehead], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1991, page 32.

We thank the University Women’s Club of Winnipeg for providing a list of its Presidents through the years, and June Dutka and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 August 2023