Woman's Club anniversary plans featuring Wibberley and Gazin

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Woman's Club celebrates 60th
By David Asper Johnson
This is a great month for local Woman's Clubs.
Earlier this month we helped the Redondo Beach
Woman's Club celebrate its 75th anniversary and
now the Woman's Club of Hermosa Beach is
getting ready for its big 60th anniversary bash next
week.
Hermosa's own Leonard Wibberley, author of
The Mouse That Roared, will be the star attraction
at the birthday party at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday,
November 30th, at Cafe
Courtney.
Hermosa history will be
discussed by Patricia A.
Gazin, who was Her-
mosa's first woman
mayor, later a county
grand jury member and
even later president of the
County Grand Jury
Association. Somehow, in
her spare time, Pat found
time to pen her own
book, Castles on the Sand.
The Hermosa Beach Woman's Club was founded
before World War I, disbanded during the war, was
revived in 1921 and incorporated in 1923.
Club founders included Mmes - Mmes was
prominent in those days - Theodore Haneman,
wife of an early prominent real estate developer,
Carrie A. McGrew, Henry Kinsley and Frances
Rice. 1983
Cleo Lindner, president emeritus of the club and
who recently celebrated her 92nd birthday, will be a
special honoree at the party. See our calendar
of events for reservation info.
Each year about this time we get the tally on the
beach summer attendance, with reports of all the
visitors our county lifeguards have saved.
This week we learned a little bit more about why
our county beaches have such a great safety record.
Our lifeguards do a little "preventive mainte-
nance" of their own.
Steve Voorhees of the local county lifeguard
office spotted a beach visitor last Saturday and
watched the fellow as he began to peel off his
clothes.
"By the time he got down to his swimming
trunks, I could see he was lilly white," Steve told
us.
"Better watch that guy. He looks like he's from
Iowa," Voorhees told his lifeguards.
The lifeguards did and, sure enough, the fellow
had to be pulled out of a riptide a short time later.
Voorhees said he could tell from the lack of
suntan that the beach visitor was not a regular to
our beaches.
After the swimmer was saved, the story came
tumbling out.
Yes, the swimmer was new to the area. It was his
first visit to the Pacific Ocean.
And, where was the visitor from?
"Des Moines, Iowa," Voorhees laughed.
Now, the crew around the county lifeguard
headquarters is kidding Voorhees about his ability
to pick out prospective problems and predict where
the beach visitors are from.