This curriculum allows us to meet the national guidelines and extend it for the focused development of our young people. We have extended our programming to include activities, which support the following curricular areas: Through our community service projects we seek to offer all children the same advantages, which we desire for our own. Nearly sixty years later in 2010, the Atlanta chapter continues to meet the aims of the national organization by providing experiences that aid mothers to learn more about their children by careful study. The mothers participated in the Polio March, and they adopted needy families. The project of the year for the mothers was an Annual Charity Ball to raise mothers. They carried gifts to hospitalized children. During this period the children sent woolen mittens to needy children in a foreign country selected by the American Friends Committee. There were monthly meetings with dramatics, soap carving, sewing, dancing music and games.īy the middle and late 1950’s, the chapter mothers and children were established in charity projects. Activity was a key word for the children who swam, played basketball, softball and other seasonal sports on Saturdays at the UYMCA. The Atlanta chapter children were the first Black children to participate in a then popular WSB-TV puppet shower called “ Woody Willow”.
Seay stressed the “value emotional stability and security play, in developing healthy and happy children” that would become the parents of tomorrow.Ī founder, Helen Robinson Brooks stated recently that finding activities for the children that were entertaining, education and mind grabbing was a real challenge for the mothers. Elizabeth Seay of Buffalo, New York, national president of the Jack and Jill of America for that year, flew in for the installation, as she was touring recently established chapters in the south. The first members were as follows- Betty Boyd Mapp, Ernestine Brazeal, Miriam Burney, Harriet Chisholm, Ernestine Comer, Billie Davis, Grace DeLorme, Louis Eagleson, Jacqueline Frye, Sadie Gaines, Ann Graves, Gertrude Hackney, Marge Harper, Freddye Henderson, Dorthea Hill, Juliette Jackson, Ruth Jackson, Gladys Powell, Ruth Scott, Marion Scott, Clara Singleton, Juanita Smith, Lavada Smith, Helen Westerfield, Virginia Whatley, Beatrice Williams and Irene Wilson. Johnnie Yancey, chairman of membership committee. Alice Holmes Washington reporter to the national organization, and Mrs. Jewel Simon and Toki Connally, co-chairman of program committee, Mrs. Helen Bell Robinson Brooks, treasurer Mrs.
The following were the first officers: Elizabeth Macomson, president Mrs. Helen Bell Robinson Brooks, a colleague, invited the group to organize in her home at 988 Westmoor Drive.īy installation time on September 16, 1951, there were 34 mothers in the Atlanta Chapter of Jack and Jill. Initially, it was a small group of mothers that were affiliated with the various schools in the Atlanta University consortium. An Albany chapter member suggested to her that our city should establish this mother’s organization. Elizabeth Macomson, a teacher at Spelman College. The Atlanta Chapter was organized in February of 1951 through the effort if Mrs.