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Louise Truitt Jackson
Dench
the Mother
who conceived the idea of Jack & Jill -- because she wanted Christmas
to last all year long!
"I went to Brooklyn once to visit a friend. She was telling me what a wonderful Christmas they had had with all their visiting friends who had moved away into various boroughs and cities. They had all these children now and everyone came back and had a Christmas party. I enjoyed the story and I said, 'Gee, Philadelphia could enjoy something like that, but I want our group to be a club permanently, not just get-togethers at Christmas."
Marion Turner Stubbs
Thomas
Founder
Jack &
Jill of America
January
1938
Philadelphia,
PA
"To us
as mothers, it [Jack and Jill] has become a means of furthering an inherent
and natural de sire... to bestow upon our children all the opportunities
possible for a normal and graceful approach to a beautiful adulthood."
