New Bern’s Business and Professional Women’s Club will lend a hand in raising what is to be known as the “Elsie Riddick Loan Fund,” designed to assist young girls in obtaining business education, it was announced last night following a meeting of the local club in the Chamber of Commerce.
The Riddick Fund was started by the Greensboro business and professional women with a contribution of $100, and the suggestion was that other organizations in the state cooperate in establishing a sizeable fund that may be used to make loans to girls to enable them to obtain business training.
The local organization did not fix the amount of the contribution it will make, but it was agreed tentatively that an effort would be made in the near future to raise a sum of money for the purpose. Some indoor event will probably be decided on as a means of carrying this out, it was stated.
Mrs. Mattie B. Moore, president of the club, who attended the recent meeting of the executive council of the state federation of business and professional women’s clubs held in Greensboro, gave an interesting report on the sessions.
The enrollment of the New Bern club was increased by one last night with the reception of Miss Caroline Bracy of Rowland who recently accepted a position with the Maxwell Company.
From the front page of The New Bernian, Saturday Morning, November 29, 1924.
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