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Show These are also the years of faithful service of some who should receive special mention. Miss Mary McClees, Treasurer from 1905- 1911, Mrs. E. R. Wagner from 1906, Mrs. Charles R. Brown, director for many years, resigning when she moved to Connecticut, Mrs. S. P. Bufford, who resigned in 1910 after serving for twelve years as recording secretary, leaving perfect records and a position hard to fill. 1913 saw the fortieth anniversary, celebrated with backward looks over the years that had seen many hopes and ambitions accomplished in spite of difficulties of m^any sorts that might have been truly discouraging but for the faith and courage and wisdom of the devoted women who had founded and worked and encouraged, until the women of the Board of the Pacific faced the future and the decade that would complete a Jubilee Fifty Years, with the hopes and the faith for the greatest of all celebrations in 1923. 1913-1923. Headquarters and Secretary are the words that spell the greatest improvement in organization and efficiency in this decade. With the establishment of a regular office in 1914, the immediate demand was a secretary, which need was filled for a few months by Miss Hilda Howard and then by Miss Elisabeth Benton who served most acceptably until the present year. Thus equipped, the executive work has been systematized, careful files established, and the office serves as distributor for a largely increased amount of missionary literature; opens new avenues of contact with the Board and auxiliaries; furnishes a meeting place for the executive body and a greatly enlarged number of committees; and is a bureau for incoming and outgoing missionaries from all the Boards. During Mrs. Cherington's term of office as president, which she held until 1917, the weekly prayer meetings held at the Board rooms m charge of the Prayer Committee were initiated in 1914; an Advisory Board of seven women not members of the Directorate was [ 25 1 |