A Great Tradition of Community Service

Mrs C LaFon Lash
1966 - 1967

• Established Translators and Interpreters Bureau, representing 19 languages.

Mrs Lloyd T Thurmond
1969 - 1971

• Roberta (Mrs. Walker J.) Bennett Library at Woman’s Club of Jacksonville dedicated.

• 100th birthday of the Woman’s Club of Jacksonville.

• First Club Gala, “Grande Dame of Riverside,” a fundraiser for the restoration of our historic building.

• Sale of the Riverside Avenue property to the Cummer Museum.

Laura Ward Crooks
2015 - 2017

2015

• Special Project: “Young Women in Leadership” provided one scholarship.
• Contributed to a female veteran who needed home repairs where she lived with two teenage daughters.
• Created a foundation with the Community Foundation for Northeast Florida to continue the Club’s charitable work in perpetuity.

2016

• Purchased sound system for West Jacksonville Elementary School ($1000),
• purchased a Special Reading Program to help children at risk for West Jacksonville Elementary School ($16,000.). 
•  Sponsors for “Tee Up For Pine Castle ($10,000),
• Gave scholarships to six high school or college women at $2,000. each.
• Awarded a grant of $3,500.00 to Fletcher High School to purchase sheet music for its choral groups and provide transportation to musical events.

2017

• Presented $ 6,000 grant to The Jacksonville to archive papers, photographs and other paraphernalia of The Woman's Club of Jacksonville.
• Purchased All-In-One Touch Screen Classroom Technology Unit Table and Chairs as part of a "Make-over" for the art room at West Riverside Elementary School,($5,100.).
• Granted $2,500 to Duncan U. Fletcher High School towards the purchase of new concert dresses for young women in the Concert Chorus
• Granted the Jacksonville Public Library $500 to purchase books for their Early Literacy Parent/Child Program
• Granted Theater Jacksonville $1,000  toward scholarships for their Summer Theater Camp Program for inner-city children
• Provided a $1,000 grant to "We Care" for medical supplies
• Scholarships were awarded to 9 students totaling  $14,000

Katherine Schnauss Naugle
2018 - 2021

• Awarded  $ 5,000 grant to The Jacksonville Historical Society  to continue archiving Woman’s Club Collection 
• Awarded $5,000 to Family Promise of Jacksonville in support to their mentoring program for women  who are head of household
• Awarded $5,000 to West Riverside Elementary School to provide musical instruments for the newly created music program
• Awarded $5,000 to Downtown Ecumenical Services Council- for woman's nutrition program; 
• Awarded $2,900 Ortega Elementary School  to be used for kindergarten reading program; 
• Awarded $2,000 to We Care to be used  towards education for women who prepare meals for family members with  chronic illness; 
• Awarded $40,0000 in scholarships to 20 students.

Sheriff Michael Williams
Guest Speaker

2019

• Awarded Scholarships of 2,000 each to 11 students totaling $22,000
• Donated $1,000 to Theatre Jacksonville in support of their 100 year anniversary fundraising campaign
• Donated $1,000 to North Florida School

• Awarded $5,000 to R.E.S.T.O.R.E in order to furnish 4 bedrooms in their second house.
• Donated $530.45 to West Riverside Elementary School for the purchase of Choir Bowties and Rossettes.
• Donated $820.00 to 24 students from Ruth N Upson Elementary School in the UNF Challenge Course.
• Awarded $1.851.00 to West Riversides Elementary School to purchase Music markerboard.
• Awarded $10,000 to Lend an Ear providing 20 Woman with hearing aids.