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The Junior
League of Youngstown throughout the years:
1930's
- The JLY Shop and Workroom
for the Blind and Disabled was opened on Rayen Avenue
- "Scribblers" was organized
The League first heard on WKBN radio station
- Dental Clinic at Youngstown
Hospital became a project for the League
- Weekly broadcasts of
children's plays presented over WKBN
1940's
- Organized a volunteer
bureau which developed into Civil Defense Volunteer office
- Organized Advisory
Committee
- Dental clinic turned over
the the Youngstown Hospital
- Sponsored "Junior Town
Meeting of the Air"
- Age limit for membership
raised to 35
- The 1st year of the
"Follies"
- "Wishing Well" Gift Shop
opened at Northside Hospital as a permanent money-raising project
- The 2nd "Follies" presented
1950's
- Age limit for membership
changed to 32
- Written excuses required
for absence of meetings
- The 3rd "Follies" presented
- Opened the Child Guidance
Center
- Four new Board positions
were established: Gift Shop, Legislation, Social and Children's' Theatre
- Established Civic
Children's Theatre
- First JLY "PR" flyer
distributed
- TV debut with "Parents and
Children" on WKBN and "Storytime" on WFMJ-TV
- Mrs. Robert Massman elected
director of Region IV and later elected secretary to AJLI
- 20-week TV series
"Spotlight on Music" produced for the Symphony Society
Sustainers Group formed
- Public Relations TV program
done as a part of the Adelaide Snyder show
- Volunteer Service Bureau
began
- Voted to sponsor Lecture
Series as a money-raising project
1960's
- Children's Arts Festival at
the Butler Art Gallery
- Office of Corresponding
Secretary created
- Drawing account of $1,000
given to Civic Children's Theater
- Complete history of
Youngstown League's compiled
- Mrs. John F. Tyler elected
Director of Region IV and later elected Association Secretary
- Voted to terminate
Volunteer Service Bureau with a final grant of $6,000
- Age limit for membership
changed to 34
- Members vote to establish a
children's zoo in Mill Creek Park
- The League is forced to
withdraw proposal
- Arts Committee presents
Pageant of Ohio Painters and gala premiere at the Butler Institute of
American Art
- Voted to accept The Steel
Valley Home for Girls and renovation of the Library Learning Center
- 1968 - The Steel Valley
Home for Girls opened
- Membership voted $10,000 to
the Youngstown Symphony Society to raise the floor of the Warner Theatre
1970's
- First Bargain Bonanza
initiated
- Provisional worked for
passage of Children's Levy
- Drug Education &
Environmental Action Committee formed
- Membership voted to grant
$5,000 to open Ford Nature Education Center
- Arts Holiday expanded to
cover 6,356 children in city schools
- Town Hall's 15th
Anniversary
- Voted to hold summer
program for children with learning disabilities
- SAIL program launched
- Minimum age for membership
raised to 20
- Realia and Suitcase Museum
projects began
- Worked on government
funding for Daybreak runaway shelter
- Purchased property for the
Daybreak shelter
- Plans laid for Career
Development Center and seed money provided
- Established Child Advocacy
Committee
- $11,400 in foundation
grants received for Daybreak
- Tandem meetings instituted
- Published "Reflections"
brochure to highlight community leisure activities
1980's
- Equipment for Therapeutic
Playground at Tod's Babies Hospital approved Daybreak II Deeded to
Children's and Family Service Board - mortgage free
- New admissions procedure
and year-long Provisional Course instituted
- Grant Review Committee
formed and awarded $5,725 to eight community agencies
- Future Planning Committee
created -- first Future Plan written
- Weekly directory for the
jobless published by Provisionals in The Vindicator and the YWCA
- Focus areas in education,
downtown revitalization and effective community leadership
- First PSA produced
- Leadership Youngstown
became a reality
- YSU Hands-On Museum
- Membership admission age
increased to 38
- Historic survey, downtown
banner and Youngstown Calendar projects approved
- Arts Holiday celebrated
25th anniversary with takeover by Youngstown Area Arts Council
- Ad-Hoc Committee studies
President-Elect system and recommends continuing 2-year presidency
- Membership approved
"Women-to-Women" Phase I
- Suitcase museum transitions
with Arms Museum
- "This is Youngstown"
calendar sell-out of 13,300
- Tod Parent House dedicated
as a Ronald McDonald House
- JLY funds $2,000 for
Leadership Youngstown scholarships
- Provisionals rejuvenate
Battered Persons Crisis Center
- SPAC produces Children's
Legislative Handbook
- Hallmark's Kaleidoscope
delights 2500 children
- Women Helping Women
collaborates with Westlake Terrace Tenants Assn. to provide training and
self-help seminars
- New cookbook presented
- $4,260 given in Mini-Grants
to six area agencies
- Town Hall celebrate 30
years
- Women-to-Women begins Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome Program
- New By-Law: 3 years active
membership before going sustaining
1990's
- Women-to-Women sponsors
"Women of Color"
- Pictures added to the
Yearbook
- Members serve on Mayor's
Task Force for Drug Prevention
- JLY Cookbook reissued
- Dues increase approved
Our Work continues ....
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