Broo, Ida S.

Francis, Anna G.

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Woman C.P.A. Volume 21 Issue 1 Article 1 12-1958 Messages from the Founding Presidents Anna G. Francis Ida S. Broo Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/wcpa  Part of the Accounting Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Francis, Anna G. and Broo, Ida S. (1958) "Messages from the Founding Presidents," Woman C.P.A.: Vol. 21 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/wcpa/vol21/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archival Digital Accounting Collection at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Woman C.P.A. by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. MEET SOME OF THE FOUNDERSIda S. Broo, Founder of ASWA, Ruth Peabody Waschau, Mary Gildea, Georgia E. Davis, Anne M. Lord, charter members of AWSCPA and Anna G. Francis, founding president of AWSCPA. Other founders of AWSCPA not present at the meeting were Grace Schwartz Keats, whose confinement in a hospital prevented her attendance, Josephine A. Kroll, Clara R. Stahl and Adrianne van Kooy. Miss Frances, Mrs. Keats and Mrs. Broo are the three members of AWSCPA who have been elected to honorary membership.MESSAGES FROM THE FOUNDING PRESIDENTSAWSCPAIn some ways the Eighteenth Joint Annual Meet­ing of AWSCPA and ASWA was the greatest I ever attended:The largest attendanceThe first to be greeted and commended by the President of the United StatesExtra fine leadershipProcedure necessary to handle a larger group.In other ways I think it paralleled past conven­tions.To me it always was and still is the most wonder­ful group of women in the whole world.Anna G. FrancisASWAIn 1933 a balance sheet of the AWSCPA con­sisted mostly of deferred assets—plans to interest women in accounting, hope for increased opportunity in the field, and for recognition of the part women could hold in the accounting world. A discussion of mutual problems and hopes covered the activity of the national meeting.In 1958 our assets include 400 active, interested women CPAs; an affiliated group of 3000 women  actively interested in accounting, with 63 chapters in 27 states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii: wide opportunity for women in the profession, and recognition by the public of the place women now hold in accounting.In 1958 our meeting stressed—not our problems, but the problems of the profession, and the respon­sibility of the woman CPA as a fully accepted mem­ber of an honored profession.Truly a quarter of a century of progress.Ida S. BrooEDITORIAL STAFF CHANGESS. Madonna Kabbes takes over as literary editor with this issue. She is an associate professor in accounting at the University of Illinois, Navy Pier, Chicago, and will bring to our attention accounting writings of current interest.Virginia O’Hern takes an assignment on the editorial board, which reviews manu­scripts submitted for publication. She is a senior accountant on the staff of the Los Angeles office of L. H. Penney & Co.They replace Catherine Miles and Hazel Brooks Scott, who have contributed yeoman service to the publication during the past year.3

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