1915-1954

1915-1935 |1935-1954

1915-1925

• First Junior League of Milwaukee (JLM) project was Confidential Exchange, which was later turned over to a forerunner of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee.
• Wartime required all members to work for the Red Cross.
• Opened Workshop for Occupational Therapy, which became Junior League Curative Workshop at Columbia Hospital with the League financing and directing its operation.
• Opened Junior League Paint Shop to sell toys made by handicapped children at the Curative Workshop, which lasted until 1937.

1925-1935

• JLM Welfare Exhibit won first prize at AJLA Regional Conference held in Milwaukee.
• Started News sheet and developed it from a three page brochure into a magazine by 1935.
• Made three year funding commitment to the Visiting Nurse Association for its Occupational Therapy Department.
• Funded Bethany Home for psychiatric care of delinquent children.
• Began Children’s Theater, a community activity until 1975.
  

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1935-1945

• Continued involvement with Curative Workshop (now Curative Care Network). Highlights included:

  Began Sheltered Workshop for adults and children with special needs. Raised $137,636 for a new building. Workshop first in the United States to be accepted by the American Hospital Association. Workshop participated in Federal Rehabilitation Program and started speech clinic.

• Started Garden Club which evolved into Garden and Conservation and later the Environment Committee.

1945-1954

• · Funded, organized and opened the Blood Center. Additional highlights:
  

  Supported new building construction. The Blood Center became financially self-supporting prior to turning it over to the community within this ten year period.

• Sponsored first Wisconsin Exhibition of Art and co-sponsored the Children’s Art Program with Milwaukee Art Center.
  

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