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exerted by the local club.

Other projects on which the women worked included new school buildings and
legislation stressing requirements for state certification of teachers,
proper fire protection for schools and principals for elementary schools.
The fire protection bill was passed.

Nine traveling libraries came into existence and a pamphlet listing all
Florida trees, written by Dr. John Gifford of Miami, at the request of FFWC,
was used by foresters all over the country. A petition making it possible
for women to serve on school boards created a ripple which later would lead
to favorable action. The FFWC campaigned for Domestic Science in the schools.
The concerted effort of club women over the state to improve welfare, ed-
ucation and conservation in the state was taking effect. Urged by the Fed-
eration the Legislature appropriated an additional $5,000 each year making
$15,000 for the State Reform School.

Mrs. Shackleford, fondly called the "Dean of Past Presidents", was known all
over Florida for her constant effort to assist the Seminole Indians.

The momentum gained in the first years carried through the administration of
Mrs. A. E. Frederick of the Miami Woman's Club, and by 1914 loan scholarships
were being awarded and corrective legislature was being pushed. A book,
Laws for Women, was compiled and distributed.

While Mrs. William Hocker, Woman's Club of Ocala, was President, 1912-1914,
the Federation succeeded in having several bills passed. The legislation
changed the name of the State Reform School to the Industrial School For
Boys, made wife and child desertion a felony, provided a 14-year minimum age
limit in most occupations. A campaign for teacher tenure was begun. Art,
music and literature departments were formed in many clubs. By the twen-
tieth annual convention there were 70 clubs in FFWC.

Through the Federation, three sites of 100 acres were donated to the State
Industrial School For Girls at Ocala. The Endowment Fund was launched to
aid the work of the Federation. The grant for the Royal Palm State Fund was
divided among five district Vice-Presidents, each representing a section of
the state.

Mrs. W. B. Young of Jacksonville was Treasurer of GFWC. Mrs. Jennings was
elected First Vice-President of FWC at the Des Moines, Iowa convention in
1919.

The women dedicated themselves to war work during the adminstration of Mrs.
Edgar A. Lewis, Woman's Club of Fort Pierce, 1917-1919. A compulsory School