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Indiana
Branch Officers & Directors
Pictured above from left to right in the front row, Kathy Auxier, Branch President; Ramona McCallister, Shirley Schmidt, Sue Claphan, Sharlene Wagner, and Connie Bivens
From left to right in the back row are Angie McKinley, Cliff Duffer, Judy Hicks, and Rosie Rayer
Kathy
Auxier, Branch President
INDIANA BRANCH HISTORY
Miss
Condit, daughter of the Rev. Blackford Condit, pastor of the Central Presbyterian
Church of Terre Haute, Indiana, was a student at Wellesley College at
the birth of The King’s Daughters movement in New York. The nature
and value of the work strongly appealed to Miss Condit. After graduation
and in the fall of 1887, she organized, from a class of young girls of
the Central Presbyterian Church, the first circle in Indiana known as
The King’s Daughters Circle. The work of these girls was confined
mostly to the church, with some outside charity. At the death of Miss
Condit in February 1891, the youthful circle was disbanded.
The clarion
call of love reached from Margaret Bottome’s Circle in New York to
Miss Ella Runcie of Evansville. She became vitally interested, and in
the spring of 1888, she formed, in Evansville, the second circle in Indiana,
but the first of long duration. The initial work undertaken by this group
of ten earnest women known as the Ella Runcie Circle, was hospital and
charity work. After splendid service of thirty-one years, the circle was
disbanded in 1919.
In-As-Much Circle of Terre Haute was organized March 25,1897 with eight
women, and in May 1930 had a membership of 270, with the same leader.
Mrs. Lewis Orth, who had served in this capacity for thirty-three years,
had also been on the branch executive board for twenty-five years. The
circle was the largest in the Indiana Branch and was instrumental in the
formation of the Indiana Branch. The circle disbanded in 1977.
‘The Indiana Branch was organized in 1905 when the first state convention
was held March 27 and 28 in Terre Haute at the St. Stephen’s Parish
House. Up to this time, twenty-eight circles had been formed in Indiana.
In 1905 there were fifteen active circles over the state with a membership
of 594.
The King’s Daughters' Hospital at Madison was organized by Bethany
Circle of Madison and was endorsed as a Branch project in 1907. The home
for the hospital was bequeathed to The King’s Daughters of Madison
by Mrs. Drusilla Cravens in memory of her husband, Judge John Cravens.
The building was dedicated August 25, 1899.
The Indiana Branch established an annual Chautauqua Scholarship in 1923.
A one week camping period for Junior Girls was established in 1943 using
leased facilities approved by the Camp Committee and the Executive Board.
This continues as a successful Branch endorsed project staffed by volunteers
from throughout Indiana.
A Career Girls Home in Indianapolis was planned, but due to various reasons
the dream had to be given up. With the money accumulated for this project,
the Student Grant Program was established in 1960 as a Branch endorsed
project. This is a scholarship program available to college juniors and
seniors who are residents of the State of Indiana. Funds for this program
are derived from pledges from the circles in the Branch.
The Indiana Branch participates in the International King's Daughters
and Sons' North American Indian, Around the World, Student Ministry Scholarship,
and Health Careers Scholarship Programs.
Circles of members throughout the Indiana Branch continue to do great
amounts of individual service “IN HIS NAME."
IN
Branch Officers:
President Kathy Auxier
(812) 265-2855
kauxier@tls.net
Vice President
Rose Rayer
(317) 535-0887
randall.rayer@comcast.net
Recording Secretary
Angie McKinley
(317) 357-8849
angelamckinley@att.net
Treasurer Janet
Ellyson
(317) 826-1421
janetellyson@att.net
Directors:
Junior Activities
Nancy Gouloff Grabner
(260) 744-4341
Chautauqua
Wanda Heath
(812) 292-0773
wanda.l.heath@gmail.com
Historian &
Extension
Debbie Harker
(317) 576-9330
R.W.Harker@SBCGlobal.net
Scholarship & Student Grant
Sue Claphan
(260) 668-0662
MClaphan@aol.com
Around the World
&
North American Indian
Ramona McCallister
(317) 547-4025
rmmccallister@att.net
Editor, Purple
Streak
V. Clifford Duffer
(317) 485-4935
LittleHouse07@comcast.net
