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Women of The West
Colorado
Denver Bar Ass'n. Member: Quota Club (President), American Bar Ass'n, Denver Bar Ass'n, Woman's Law Club, Young Ladies Clio Club. Home: 1004 St. Paul St., Denver, Colorado.
RITTER, Anne Gregory (Mrs.), born July 11, 1868, in Plattsburgh, New York, daughter of Silas Wright and Grace E. V. Hopkins Gregory, a resident of Colorado for twenty-eight years. Married to Etienne A. Ritter. Artist. Instructor in Life Class, Chappell School of Art. Formerly President and Art Director of Van Briggle Pottery, Colorado Springs. Member: Master Craftsman, Boston Arts and Crafts, Broadmoor Art Academy (professional member), Denver Art Museum. Home: 1152 York St., Denver, Colorado.
RITTER, Margaret Tod, (Miss), born in Frederick, Maryland, December 15, 1893, daughter of Alfred and Martha Lacy Tod Ritter, resident of Colorado for the last 18 years. Poet. Her first book of collected poems, "Mirrors," was published by the Macmillan Co., Spring 1925; her second book of collected poems, "Wind Out of Betelgeuse," was published by the Macmillan Co., Spring, 1928. Has had poems appearing in The Century, Art and Archaeology, The Bookman, The Nation, The Commonweal, The Southwest Review, The Forum, etc. Her work also appears in David Morton's "The Sonnet Today and Yesterday," William W. Ellsworth's "Readings from the New Poets," Jessie B. Rittenhouse's "Third Book of Modern Verse" and many Anthologies. Member: Poetry Society of America, National Woman's Party. Home: 1107 Wood Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo.
SCHLENZIG, Maude E., (Miss), born in Toronto, Canada, May 24, 1886, a resident of Colorado for 38 years. Designer and part owner of one of the most unique machineless factories in the United States, manufacturing artistic products, consisting of flowers and ornaments made of sugar. Member: Altrusa Service Club. Business Address: 1022 W. 8th Ave. Home: 801 E. 10th Ave., Denver, Colo.
SHAW, Dorothy Stott, (Mrs.), born in Denver, Colorado, November 26, 1891, daughter of Jere B. and Laura Cory Stott, a life-long resident of the state. Married to Lloyd Shaw. Children: Doli. Writer. Poetry published in a variety of magazines. Actively engaged in public speaking on subjects connected with the arts and education; at present a teacher of French. Has been connected with P. T. A. work in both county and local offices for some time; primarily interested in the evolution of public school education. Member: Portia Club, P. T. A., American Ass'n. of University Women. Home: 1527 Winfield Ave., Broadmoor Park, Colorado Springs, Colo.
SHELLABARGER, M. Elizabeth (Miss) born in Moffat, Colorado, 1879, daughter of Adam and Abigal Wales Shellabarger (Colorado pioneers). Graduate nurse. B. S. Columbia University, 1920. At present making a survey of Schools of Nursing in Arkansas for the State Board of Nurse Examiners. Former president, Wyoming State Nurses Ass'n. On Committee of the Delano Art Memorial, Washington, D. C. Army nurse overseas during the World War. Director of Red Cross Nursing in Albania and Montenegro, 1921-22. Superintendent, Pershing Memorial Hospital 1925-27. Member: American. Legion Auxiliary, Cheyenne College Club, American League of Nursing Education, American Public Health Ass'n., Bellevue Alumni, N. Y. Home: Rito Alto Ranch, Moffat, Colorado.
SPALDING, Elizabeth (Miss), born in Erie, Pennsylvania, daughter of Right Reverend J. F. and Mrs. Lavinia D. Spencer Spalding, a resident of Colorado since 1874. Artist. Charter member of Denver Artists' Club and interested in its development into Denver Art Museum; started the first Church Art Commission of the Colorado Diocese. Active in church, art and civic affairs. Has exhibited at Erie Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Oberlin Art Museum, N. Y., Chicago, Philadelphia, Paris (Spring Salon, 1928), etc., also represented in California exhibitions at Oakland and Laguna Beach Art Galleries. Has been awarded several prizes. Member: New York Water Color Club, Washington Water Color Club, Providence Water Color Club, Denver Artists' Club. Home: 853 Washington St., Denver, Colo.
SPENCER, Lilian White, (Mrs.), born in Albany, New York, a resident of Colorado since her youth. Her father, Frederick W. White, was a distinguished western journalist. Writer, translator and poet. Has specialized somewhat in Indian Lore and in birds and beasts of legend, and these subjects are frequent in her work. Her poem, "The Dryads," won the Lyric West blank verse prize of 1925; her "Stars" was listed by Braithwaite as
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