ll, Providence. Dr. Valeria H. Parker addressed the
annual convention on Women as Civil Guardians.

In 1914 a series of lectures on the Modern Woman of Various Countries
was given by the State association which called out large audiences.
The three organizations united in a celebration of "suffrage week" in
May, closing with a meeting in the Casino at Roger Williams Park with
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise as the principal speaker. Miss Yates, after
serving five years, was obliged on account of other demands on her
time to decline reelection and was made honorary president. No
president being elected at the annual meeting, Agnes M. (Mrs. Barton
P.) Jenks was chosen later by the Executive Committee to fill the
vacancy and afterwards was elected and held the office until May,
1918. In December representatives of the three organizations met and
formed a Cooperative Council to secure economy of effort and increased
efficiency. The work of the College League had been of distinctive
value in Providence, the seat of Brown University with its Woman's
College. During the years of its independent existence it had been
well served by its presidents, Miss Garvin, Mrs. Von Klenze, Mrs.
Algeo and Miss Helen Emerson. It presented speakers of national
reputation; published special leaflets, notably What Rhode Island
Women Ought to Know; conducted study clubs and gave generous
cooperation in the undertakings of the other organizations.

During the winter of 1915 a special series of lectures was given for
the council on political and economic subjects by professors of the
University. The joint endeavors of the three organizations this winter
proving successful they amalgamated under the name of the Rhode Island
Equal Suffrage Association and the annual meeting was changed from
fall to spring. Most of the officers of the State association were
retained. Others were Miss Emerson and Mrs. Carl Barus,
vice-presidents; Mrs. John A. Cross, treasurer; Mrs. Barton A. Ballou,
Mrs. Gerald A. Cooper and Mrs. Gilbert C. Carpenter, auditors; Mrs.
Dunbar and Mrs. Helen Dougherty, chairman and secretary of the Woman
Suffrage Party. In accordance with the plan of the National
Association, the State's members of Congress, U. S. Senators LeBaron
B. Colt and Henry F. Lippitt; Representatives Walter R. Stiness,
George F. O'Shaughnessy and Ambrose Kennedy, were interviewed on the
Federal Amendment with encouraging results. Weekly suffrage teas were
established at h