1921 - 2015
The University of Michigan
Faculty Women’s Club
Remembrance of Things Past
By Jane Warner, FWC Historian
Did you know that FWC once furnished a room in Paris?
In 1923, H. P. Thieme, a U of M professor spending a year in Paris, wrote to Mrs. Marion LeRoy Burton (president of FWC and wife of the University President informing her of a dormitory in Paris for American girls studying there and expressing the hope that the FWC would consider furnishing a room which “with the present value of the franc…could be done nicely for $75.”
After carefully going over the budget, the Board decided that “with very close management” it could comply with Prof. Thieme’s request and voted unanimously to send $75 to furnish the room, which was to be known as the “Room of the Faculty Women’s Club of Michigan.”
Vive FWC!!!
