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It was founded in 1885 by a group of 47 women who saw a need for communication and support between women writers.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The organization was incorporated on June 26, 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During May 1885, <a href="/wiki/Marion_A._McBride" title="Marion A. McBride">Marion A. McBride</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Boston_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Post">Boston Post</a></i>, press commissioner for the <a href="/wiki/World_Cotton_Centennial" title="World Cotton Centennial">World Cotton Centennial</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, shared her dream of a national association of women journalists with others at the exposition. With the country fragmented from the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> and a bleak economy that offered few opportunities for women journalists, benefits were nonexistent and working conditions dire.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After hearing McBride's message, Chicago press correspondent <a href="/wiki/Frances_Augusta_Hemingway_Conant" class="mw-redirect" title="Frances Augusta Hemingway Conant">Frances A. Conant</a> returned to Illinois and agreed to recruit other women writers for a local group. After meeting with <i>Chicago Evening Post</i> writer <a href="/wiki/Antoinette_Van_Hoesen_Wakeman" title="Antoinette Van Hoesen Wakeman">Antoinette Van Hoesen Wakeman</a>, author and publisher Alice Bunker Stockham, M.D., and others, Conant organized an auxiliary in Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group met at the law office of <a href="/wiki/Myra_Bradwell" title="Myra Bradwell">Myra Bradwell</a>, the founder and editor of <i>Legal News</i> and a publisher of law books. </p><p>Many of the original group went on to become notable in their fields with founder and member <a href="/wiki/Frances_Willard_(suffragist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frances Willard (suffragist)">Frances Willard</a> possibly the best known as an author, publisher, editor and writer and president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Many initial members belonged to the union. <a href="/wiki/Myra_Bradwell" title="Myra Bradwell">Myra Bradwell</a> became the first woman to be admitted to the Illinois bar. These women were authors, writers of creative fiction, factual reporters, magazine publishers, editors, publisher of the most important weekly legal publication in the Midwest, playwrights, novelists, medical research correspondents, short story writers, cookbook publishers, and children's book authors. Six female physicians would be counted among the founders.<sup id="cite_ref-Burt_2000_76_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burt_2000_76-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mary_Crowell_Van_Benschoten" title="Mary Crowell Van Benschoten">Mary Crowell Van Benschoten</a>, author, newspaper publisher, and clubwoman, was a charter member.<sup id="cite_ref-benschoten1907_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-benschoten1907-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>IWPA was firmly rooted in the women's club movement at the turn of the twentieth century. The association was linked with other professional and women's groups including the <a href="/wiki/National_Editorial_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="National Editorial Association">National Editorial Association</a> (NEA) and <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_League_of_Press_Clubs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International League of Press Clubs (page does not exist)">International League of Press Clubs</a>. It was an auxiliary to the Illinois Woman's Alliance which included twenty-four local communities, religious and professional organizations whose goal it was to establish a labor union for working women and children.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Initial_structure">Initial structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Initial structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The organizers of the Association designed it on a broad, liberal foundation with its Constitution drawn to admit writers of all classes: authors, contributors, correspondents and poets as well as journalists. Membership voted to include publishers and illustrators. Under the Illinois Woman's Press Association Constitution a slate of officers included a president, a single vice president, recording and corresponding secretaries, a treasurer, and two assistants. By 1890, the slate was expanded to include three vice presidents and two librarians. The executive committee consisted of general officers along with the chairwomen of standing committees: Membership, Literary Information and Program. It was also divided into divisions reflective of the issues of the era and work being done my members: Editors, Reporters, Authors, Correspondents and Contributors, and Publishers. The number of years an officer served was not mentioned in the bylaws of the early years.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidents">Presidents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Presidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have been 47 women sworn into office, and 49 presidencies with Elizabeth Armstrong Reed and Eunice W. Thompson both serving two non-consecutive terms. Reed is chronologically counted as the third and seventh president; Thompson as the 25th and 30th. </p><p>Those elected to lead IWPA throughout its history have been women with remarkable careers for the times. Among them: <a href="/wiki/Mary_Allen_West" title="Mary Allen West">Mary Allen West</a>, elected the first president of IWPA serving from January, 1886 until January, 1893. Born in <a href="/wiki/Galesburg,_Illinois" title="Galesburg, Illinois">Galesburg</a>, IL, West had been elected the county superintendent of schools in the state of Illinois in 1873 serving for nine years before moving to Chicago. She was also the editor of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union%27s_%27%27Union_Signal%27%27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Women's Christian Temperance Union's ''Union Signal'' (page does not exist)">Women's Christian Temperance Union's ''Union Signal''</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Burt_2000_76_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burt_2000_76-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Armstrong_Reed" title="Elizabeth Armstrong Reed">Elizabeth Armstrong Reed</a> was president of IWPA from January, 1894, to June, 1896, and again for the 1902–1904 term. Widely known as a book author and Oriental scholar, Reed was a member of the International Society of Orientalists, and chairwoman of the Woman's Congress of Philology.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mate_E._Palmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mate E. Palmer (page does not exist)">Mate E. Palmer</a>, president from June, 1907 until June, 1909, was the editor of the <i>Banner of Gold</i> and for whom the professional Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest would be named. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Leona_Alford_Malek" title="Leona Alford Malek">Leona Alford Malek</a>, a pioneer writer, lecturer and widely known food and home economist, served six years as IWPA president from June, 1929 until June, 1935. She was the editor of Home Economics for the <i>Herald-Examiner</i> and was known as "Prudence Penny" to thousands of American women. Her articles were published in the <i>Ladies' Home Journal</i>, <i>Modern National Women's Magazine</i>, <i>Popular Monthly</i>, <i>People's Home Journal</i>, <i>Modern Priscilla</i> and others. She orchestrated the home economics sections in 500 newspapers throughout the United States, using various pen names including "Theo Ayers" for different publications. She was the director of food economics for <a href="/wiki/Armour_%26_Co." class="mw-redirect" title="Armour & Co.">Armour & Co.</a> and lectured for the <a href="/wiki/National_Canners_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="National Canners Association">National Canners Association</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Grocers_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Grocers Association (page does not exist)">National Grocers Association</a>. Malek had also been the defense chairwoman for the Daughters of the American Revolution.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidents_(by_term_dates)"><span id="Presidents_.28by_term_dates.29"></span>Presidents (by term dates)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Presidents (by term dates)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <dl><dd>1. <a href="/wiki/Mary_Allen_West" title="Mary Allen West">Mary Allen West</a>, 1886 (January) - 1893 (January)</dd> <dd>2. <a href="/wiki/Helen_Ekin_Starrett" title="Helen Ekin Starrett">Helen Ekin Starrett</a>, 1893 (January) - 1894 (January)</dd> <dd>3. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Armstrong_Reed" title="Elizabeth Armstrong Reed">Elizabeth Armstrong Reed</a>, 1894 (January) - 1896 (June)</dd> <dd>4. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sallie_M._Moses&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sallie M. Moses (page does not exist)">Sallie M. Moses</a>, 1896 (June) - 1898 (June)</dd> <dd>5. <a href="/w/index.php?title=H._Effa_Webster&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="H. Effa Webster (page does not exist)">H. Effa Webster</a>, 1898 (June) - 1900 (June)</dd> <dd>6. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Amelia_Sheckelford_Sullivan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amelia Sheckelford Sullivan (page does not exist)">Amelia Sheckelford Sullivan</a>, 1900 (June) - 1902 (June)</dd> <dd>7. <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Armstrong_Reed" title="Elizabeth Armstrong Reed">Elizabeth Armstrong Reed</a>, 1902 (June) - 1904 (June)</dd> <dd>8. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ada_Barton_Bogg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ada Barton Bogg (page does not exist)">Ada Barton Bogg</a>, 1904 (June) - 1907 (June)</dd> <dd>9. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mate_E._Palmer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mate E. Palmer (page does not exist)">Mate E. Palmer</a>, 1907 (June) - 1909 (June)</dd> <dd>10. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cornelia_Templeton_Jewett_(Hatcher)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cornelia Templeton Jewett (Hatcher) (page does not exist)">Cornelia Templeton Jewett (Hatcher)</a>, 1909 (June) - 1910 (June)</dd> <dd>11. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Eleanor_O%27Donnell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Eleanor O'Donnell (page does not exist)">Mary Eleanor O'Donnell</a>, 1910 (June) - 1913 (June)</dd> <dd>12. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ethel_M._Colson_Brazelton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ethel M. Colson Brazelton (page does not exist)">Ethel M. Colson Brazelton</a>, 1913 (June) - 1917 (June)</dd> <dd>13. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Delaney_Holden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Delaney Holden (page does not exist)">Mary Delaney Holden</a>, 1917 (June) - 1919 (June)</dd> <dd>14. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maude_Swalm_Evans&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maude Swalm Evans (page does not exist)">Maude Swalm Evans</a>, 1919 (June) - 1923 (June)</dd> <dd>15. <a href="/wiki/Clara_Ingram_Judson" title="Clara Ingram Judson">Clara Ingram Judson</a>, 1923 (June) - 1925 (June)</dd> <dd>16. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Dickerson_Donahey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Dickerson Donahey (page does not exist)">Mary Dickerson Donahey</a>, 1925 (June) - 1927 (June)</dd> <dd>17. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Anne_Myers_Sergel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anne Myers Sergel (page does not exist)">Anne Myers Sergel</a>, 1927 (June) - 1927 (December)</dd> <dd>18. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Josephine_Bessoms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Josephine Bessoms (page does not exist)">Josephine Bessoms</a>, 1927 (December) - 1929 (June)</dd> <dd>19. <a href="/wiki/Leona_Alford_Malek" title="Leona Alford Malek">Leona Alford Malek</a>, 1929 (June) - 1935 (June)</dd> <dd>20. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Miller_Malloch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helen Miller Malloch (page does not exist)">Helen Miller Malloch</a>, 1935 (June) - 1941 (June)</dd> <dd>21. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bernadine_Bailey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bernadine Bailey (page does not exist)">Bernadine Bailey</a>, 1941 (June) - 1945 (June)</dd> <dd>22. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Stevens_Fisher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Helen Stevens Fisher (page does not exist)">Helen Stevens Fisher</a>, 1945 (June) - 1949 (June)</dd> <dd>23. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ruth_Rawlings_McGlone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ruth Rawlings McGlone (page does not exist)">Ruth Rawlings McGlone</a>, 1949 (June) - 1951 (June)</dd> <dd>24. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Minnie_Johnson_Schachner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Minnie Johnson Schachner (page does not exist)">Minnie Johnson Schachner</a>, 1951 (June) - 1953 (June)</dd> <dd>25. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eunice_W._Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eunice W. Thompson (page does not exist)">Eunice W. Thompson</a>, 1953 (June) - 1957 (June)</dd> <dd>26. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pearl_Dieck_Serbus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pearl Dieck Serbus (page does not exist)">Pearl Dieck Serbus</a>, 1957 (June) - 1960 (June)</dd> <dd>27. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kathryn_Winslow_Mecham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathryn Winslow Mecham (page does not exist)">Kathryn Winslow Mecham</a>, 1960 (June) - 1963 (June)</dd> <dd>28. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Michelle_Graf&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michelle Graf (page does not exist)">Michelle Graf</a>, 1963 (June) - 1963 (July)</dd> <dd>29. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Virginia_Novinger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Virginia Novinger (page does not exist)">Virginia Novinger</a>, 1963 (July) - 1964 (June)</dd> <dd>30. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eunice_W._Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eunice W. Thompson (page does not exist)">Eunice W. Thompson</a>, 1964 (June) - 1965 (June)</dd> <dd>31. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sallie_Whelan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sallie Whelan (page does not exist)">Sallie Whelan</a>, 1965 (June) - 1967 (June)</dd> <dd>32. <a href="/wiki/Laura_Riding" title="Laura Riding">Laura Jackson</a>, 1967 (June) - 1971 (June)</dd> <dd>33. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Millie_Vickery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Millie Vickery (page does not exist)">Millie Vickery</a>, 1971 (June) - 1973 (June)</dd> <dd>34. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lucille_Hecht&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lucille Hecht (page does not exist)">Lucille Hecht</a>, 1973 (June) - 1975 (June)</dd> <dd>35. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gladys_Erickson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gladys Erickson (page does not exist)">Gladys Erickson</a>, 1975 (June) - 1977 (June)</dd> <dd>36. <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Wilson" title="Victoria Wilson">Victoria Wilson</a>, 1977 (June) - 1979 (June)</dd> <dd>37. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Bengtson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margaret Bengtson (page does not exist)">Margaret Bengtson</a>, 1979 (June) - 1981 (June)</dd> <dd>38. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Olga_Gize_Carlile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Olga Gize Carlile (page does not exist)">Olga Gize Carlile</a>, 1981 (June) - 1983 (June)</dd> <dd>39. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Altman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frances Altman (page does not exist)">Frances Altman</a>, 1983 (June) - 1985 (June)</dd> <dd>40. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Marlene_Cook&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marlene Cook (page does not exist)">Marlene Cook</a>, 1985 (June) - 1989 (June)</dd> <dd>41. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Phyllis_Rohr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phyllis Rohr (page does not exist)">Phyllis Rohr</a>, 1989 (June) - 1991 (June)</dd> <dd>42. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Karen_Biesboer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Karen Biesboer (page does not exist)">Karen Biesboer</a>, 1991 (June) - 1993 (June)</dd> <dd>43. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecilia_Green&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecilia Green (page does not exist)">Cecilia Green</a>, 1993 (June) - 1996 (June)</dd> <dd>44. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peggy_Grillet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peggy Grillet (page does not exist)">Peggy Grillet</a>, 1996 (June) - 2001 (June)</dd> <dd>45. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Marion_E._Gold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marion E. Gold (page does not exist)">Marion E. Gold</a>, 2001 (June) - 2003 (June)</dd> <dd>46. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Val_Ensalaco&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Val Ensalaco (page does not exist)">Val Ensalaco</a>, 2003 (June) - 2005 (June)</dd> <dd>47. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Suzanne_Hanney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Suzanne Hanney (page does not exist)">Suzanne Hanney</a>, 2005 (June) - 2009 (June)</dd> <dd>48. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Marianne_Wolf-Astrauskas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas (page does not exist)">Marianne Wolf-Astrauskas</a>, 2009 (June) - 2013 (June)</dd> <dd>49. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Becky_Sarwate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Becky Sarwate (page does not exist)">Becky Sarwate</a>, 2013 (June) - 2017 (June)</dd> <dd>50. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cora_Weisenberger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cora Weisenberger (page does not exist)">Cora Weisenberger</a>, 2017 (June) - 2021 (June)</dd> <dd>51. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_Brauer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art Brauer (page does not exist)">Art Brauer</a>, 2021 (June) - present</dd></dl> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_members">Notable members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Fanny_Butcher" title="Fanny Butcher">Fanny Butcher</a>, longtime literary editor and critic for the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> began her career at the newspaper after first meeting Mary Eleanor O'Donnell, IWPAs 11th president, who was also the women's editor of the 'Tribune'. Impressed by Butcher's featured stories published in short-lived publications Morrison's Weekly and Chicago, O'Donnell offered Butcher the opportunity to write the column, "How to Earn Money at Home." From the success of that column Butcher's fifty-year career at the newspaper began and she would continue to write for each of the newspaper departments.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is credited with suggesting the tabloid book review in the Sunday edition of the paper. Butcher focused on discussions with writers and reviewing bestseller books. Throughout her career, Butcher maintained lifelong friendships with many prominent authors and other literary figures. The Newberry Library in Chicago contains a special collection of Butcher's correspondence with those authors and other literary figures, including <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, Willa Cather, H. L. Mencken, <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis" title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" title="Carl Sandburg">Carl Sandburg</a> who referred to her as "Miss Chicago, Lady Midwest." Likewise, the collection contains many publicity portraits of authors and other literary figures sent to Fanny for use in her columns and reviews. She acquired a reputation as the dean of Chicago's Literary critics and would be the first woman honored by the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. At the age of 93, she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Chicago Press Club.<sup id="cite_ref-Special_Collections_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Special_Collections-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Carrie_Ashton_Johnson" title="Carrie Ashton Johnson">Carrie Ashton Johnson</a>, who wrote about the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States" title="Women's suffrage in the United States">suffrage</a> and <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Temperance movement in the United States">temperance</a> movements of the day, was a member for five decades.<sup id="cite_ref-ThePantagraph1940_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ThePantagraph1940-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jennie_Murray_Kemp" title="Jennie Murray Kemp">Jennie Murray Kemp</a> was the editor and publisher of <i>Our Messenger</i>, 1889–1903; circulation manager of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Union_Signal" title="The Union Signal">The Union Signal</a></i>, and <i>The Young Crusader</i>, 1903–12; and National <a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union" title="Woman's Christian Temperance Union">Woman's Christian Temperance Union</a> press superintendent.<sup id="cite_ref-Leonard1914_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leonard1914-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to being a poet and hymnwriter, <a href="/wiki/Julia_H._Thayer" title="Julia H. Thayer">Julia H. Thayer</a> served as president of the Chicago Female College. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The earliest publication produced by the organization was <i>The Stylus, A Journal for Writers</i>, from 1905 - 1908, with Carolyn Alding Huling as editor.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A quarterly publication, <i>PenPoints</i> appeared in February 1920, which continues to this day. In 1914, the Illinois Woman's Press Association published a hardbound anthology entitled <i>The Memory Book</i>. It is a collection of stories, poems, essays, commentary and illustrations that reflected the era and lives of 97 of its members. It was published by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Fletcher_Seymour" title="Ralph Fletcher Seymour">Ralph Fletcher Seymour</a>, an American artist, author, and publisher based in Chicago. In 1932, the organization published the <i>Prominent Women of Illinois 1885-1932</i>. The profit from the sale of this book raised money during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> "to be used as a permanent loan fund for the benefit of needy women."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Federation">Federation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Federation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>IWPA is believed to be the oldest organization of women writers<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is the founding mother of the <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Press_Women" title="National Federation of Press Women">National Federation of Press Women</a>. In 1935, with Helen Miller Malloch as its 20th president, IWPA was interested in getting copyright legislation through Congress that would protect women writers whose creative work was being used on radio broadcasts without monetary compensation.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She saw it as one of many advantages that unification could offer its membership. The IWPA members endorsed the federation idea at its members meeting on March 20, 1936. In May, 1937, through Helen's efforts, 39 women from seven states gathered at the Chicago Women's Club to form the <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Press_Women" title="National Federation of Press Women">National Federation of Press Women</a> and set forth their goals: "To provide a means of communication between woman writers nationally; make possible the expression of a common voice in matters of national interest to press women, and otherwise advance the professional standards of press women." In uniting affiliates across the country, Miller Malloch and her board pressed to improve working conditions for all women writers, safeguard the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment" class="mw-redirect" title="First Amendment">First Amendment</a> and protect the United States Constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Miller Malloch served as president of NFPW and IWPA simultaneously in 1937. She asked to be relieved of the NFPW presidency at the 1938 convention and continued as IWPA president until 1941. She continued to serve NFPW as corresponding secretary, regional vice president, and first vice president and at the May 1942, conference in Topeka, Kan. was again elected president for the 1942–43 term.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Competitions">Competitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Competitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Today, IWPA represents an assemblage of diverse and capable communicators, both men and women. It continues to encourage communicators, who through their efforts enrich programs and activities each year including professional recognition by the Mate E. Palmer communications contest<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for members and the Illinois high school communications contest. The annual competition honors communications in a wide range of categories both in print and electronic media, books, photography, advertising as well as public relations. First place winning entries of the contest go on to compete for national recognition in the <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Press_Women" title="National Federation of Press Women">National Federation of Press Women</a>'s Professional Communications Contest.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Mate E. Palmer Awards were established in 1941 to publicize the media work of its statewide members. Rules governing the contest have expanded since its inception along with the categories. The rules and regulations parallel those set by the <a href="/wiki/National_Federation_of_Press_Women" title="National Federation of Press Women">National Federation of Press Women</a> and are published yearly. Named after IWPA's ninth president, Mrs. Mary E. (Mate) Palmer, she was considered a Life Member having joined the organization in 1895. At the time of her death in 1939, Palmer left a bequest of $500 to Sadie Quayle, who had cared for her during her last days. Quayle turned the bequest over to IWPA to establish a writing contest in Palmer's memory.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Silver Feather Award was established in 1972 by the Mate E. Palmer Award Contest committee to stimulate incentive in the awards program. The first winner was Dolores Haugh. The Silver Feather (Writer of the Year) is the result of contest entrants accumulating the most points earned in the state competition.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Editorial Writing Contest for High School Girls was first mentioned in the Sept. 1972 edition of <i>PenPoints</i>. By 1976, boys were included in the contest for the first time renaming it the High School Contest to connect with journalism students and their educators at the high school level. Today, the competition honoring excellence in student work is known as the High School Communications Contest.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First place winning entries compete in the National Federation of Press Women's High School Communications Contest where they earn nationwide recognition. The national contest is endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_male_member">First male member</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: First male member"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Though the founders would use the word woman is in its title, there was never a policy excluding men from membership. The first male member, Dr. Eugene Vickery, a poet, medical writer, and book author joined IWPA one hundred years later in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The IWPA "Communicator of the Year" award was presented to a male member for the first time in 1989 earning Dr. Vickery another first in the organization. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anniversary_milestones">Anniversary milestones</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Illinois_Woman%27s_Press_Association&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Anniversary milestones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>IWPA celebrated its 125th year by hosting the National Federation of Press Women 2010 Conference<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the <a href="/wiki/Union_League_Club_of_Chicago" title="Union League Club of Chicago">Union League Club of Chicago</a>. The Opening Reception was sponsored by the Chicago Office of Tourism and the Illinois Woman's Press Association on Thursday evening, August 26, 2010 at Maxim's: The Nancy Goldberg International Center, 24 East Goethe Street in Chicago. </p><p>In 2012, IWPA participated in co-sponsorship of the 75th anniversary celebration of the National Federation of Press Women during the annual confab September 20–22, in Scottsdale, Ariz. 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