Women of The West
New Mexico
ent of Schools. Chairman, Council of State Defense; chairman, Legislative Committee, State Fed. of Women's Clubs; Colonel on Governor Dillon's Staff; first woman Inspector in Indian Service; first woman chairman, State Board of Health; chairman, State Board of Public Welfare. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club, State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Home: Santa Fe. New Mexico.
PRICHARD, Maude Hancock, (Mrs. Geo. W.), born in Neoga, Illinois, April 16, 1876, a resident of New Mexico for 18 years. Married to George W. Prichard. Graduated in piano and vocal music, Illinois Wesleyan. Taught in High School. Degrees of Bachelor and Master of Pedagogy; for 3 years a member of New Mexico Normal University Faculty; has directed several church choirs; past president Santa Fe Woman's Club; former State president of Republican Women's Club. Appointed on Board of Directors of State Girls' Welfare Home. Member: Santa Fe Woman's Club, League of Women Voters, Capital City Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 126 Lincoln Ave., Santa Fe, New Mex.
RANDOLPH, Lois (Miss), born in Washington, Arkansas, daughter of John Newton and Nancy Beane Vandever Randolph, former resident of Oklahoma, Arizona, and Arkansas, living in New Mexico for twenty-four years. Superintendent of Public Instruction. Active in educational work; three years experience in Government schools, four years in rural schools of New Mexico; established the Opportunity School, Gallup, New Mexico; former County Superintendent of McKinley County; served as State Chairman of Americanization under the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs for past seven years; organized the Southwestern Educational Association between the border states and the Republic of Mexico. Was one of three State Superintendents invited as guests of Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, to the educational conference in Honolulu (1927). At one time speaker for various State Teachers Associations. Contributes to educational magazines. Member: O.E.S, New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs. Address: Capitol Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
REEVES, Margaret, (Miss), born in Carthage, South Dakota, September 10, 1893, former resident of New York City, living in New Mexico for the last 4 years. Social Worker. Director, State Bureau of Child Welfare; chairman, Child Welfare Division, New Mexico Fed. of Women's Clubs; member, Children's Committee, National Conference of Social Work; member of Board of Inter-City Conference on Illegitimacy; also on the executive committee of Southwest Regional Conference on Child Welfare. Author of a book being published by the Russell Sage Foundation, dealing with the subject of juvenile delinquency. Member: Santa Fe Woman's Club, Capitol City Business and Professional Woman's Club, Santa Fe League of Woman Voters. Address: State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ROBEY, Roberta, (Miss), born in Hillsboro, Texas, August 7, 1888. Resident of New Mexico since 1922. Owner and Manager Villagra Book Shop. Takes active part in all civic affairs. Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico.
RUOFF, Margaret C. (Mrs. George D.), born in Newport, Kentucky, September 10, 1876, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth McNicoll, a former resident of Indiana, living in New Mexico for ten years. Married to George D. Ruoff. Children: Robert McNicoll, Walter Willard. President of New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs. Active in club affairs; for three years President of Albuquerque Woman’s Club; Chairman, Writers' Class and Literature Department, Woman's Club; member of New Mexico Library Board of Directors. Member: Woman's Club of Alburquerque, American Ass’n of University Women, O. E. S. (Past Matron). Home: 1102 North 2nd street, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
RUSE, Margaret, (Miss), born in Dawson, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1895; former resident of New York, living in New Mexico for the last 3 years. Former High School art teacher; for 3 years assistant to Ezra Winter, mural painter of New York; alumna, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.; owner and proprietor of The Apache Restaurant. Member: Pittsburgh Artists Ass'n., Santa Fe Business Woman's Club. Home: 112 Palace Ave., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
RUSH, Olive (Miss), a native of Fairmount, Indiana, former resident of New York City, living in New Mexico for the last 8 years. Artist. Specializes in canvas, oil, water-color and research in fresco, also stained glass windows; has exhibited in Boston, New York, Washington, etc. Home:
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