City club of cleveland president biography
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CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND
The CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND, often referred to as "Cleveland's Citadel of Free Speech," provides a central meeting place for members of diverse beliefs and opinions to participate in free and open discussions on the social, political, and economic problems of the city, the state, the nation, and the world. The idea of a city club for Cleveland was formulated at an organizational luncheon on 14 June 1912. When the committee formed to consider the project returned a favorable report, the City Club was established, and at its first meeting on 30 Oct. DANIEL E. MORGAN was elected president; EDWARD M. BAKER, vice president; Amasa Stone Mather, treasurer; and MAYO FESLER, secretary. In addition to the president, vice president and treasurer, the club's Board of Directors included Dr. ROBT. H. BISHOP, JR., Walter L. Flory, Geo. A. Welch, Arthur D. Baldwin, Rabbi MOSES J. GRIES, Rev. Worth M. Tippy, STARR CADWALLADER, ERIE C. HOPWOOD, and Augustus R. Hatton. Fro
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WOMEN'S CITY CLUB
The WOMEN'S CITY CLUB of Cleveland was founded to encourage women’s interest in civic affairs, to provide women with a place to meet for public discussions, and to promote Cleveland’s welfare. It was an outgrowth of the powerful club movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that energized and politicized women who aspired to play a public role even without the vote or admission into all-male political and civic organizations.
The club originated with a group of women who held their first planning meeting on 18 Jan. 1916 at the Statler Hilton Hotel (now the Cleveland Plaza). In Feb. 1916 members merged with the Downtown Club, moved into its quarters in the Flatiron Bldg., and incorporated "for the purpose of . . . maintaining an open forum for the discussion of topics of civic and public interest and promoting the welfare of the City of Cleveland." Later that year the club moved its quarters to the Stillman Bldg. Early members of th
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The seed for The City Club of Cleveland was planted in June 1912 when Mayo Fesler, sekreterare of the Municipal Association, and Western Reserve University professor Augustus Hatton invited a group of civic-minded young dock to discuss the possibility of a city club in Cleveland. Throughout the Progressive Era, citizens organized city clubs in many major cities—New York, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and many others who, similar to Cleveland, had a citizenry that cared about improving municipal governance and strengthening the community. Fesler and Hatton believed a city club would help Cleveland citizens find solutions to some of the problems vexing the city. Six weeks later, the committee formed to investigate the idea reported: “A city club will furnish a meeting place for men of all shades of opinion, political beliefs, and social relations,” adding that “accurate information on public questions is a fundamental need in all our cities, and … a free, ope