The University Women’s Club of Winnipeg, founded on 14 April 1909, provides fellowship for members, leadership and effective action for community initiatives, and a voice for national issues through the Canadian Federation of University Women.
Period
President
1909
Mary Elizabeth Crawford (1876-1953)
1910-1911
Margaret Jeannette Johnston (1862-1921)
1911-1912
Grace Laura Wikoff Hadcock (1876-1947)
1912
Eva Lilian Jones (1871-1948)
1912-1913
Mary Elizabeth Crawford (1876-1953)
1913-1915
Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875-1952)
1915-1917
Elsie Elizabeth Moore (1880-1965)
1917-1918
Winifred A. Locke Copeland (c1878-1918)
Miss Margaret Springate1918-1919
Miss Margaret Springate
Mrs. G. L. Lennox1919-1920
Mrs. G. L. Lennox
1920-1921
Mrs. Eldon Siddall
1921-1922
Miss E. M. MacDougall
1922-1923
Mrs. E. D. Honeyman
1923-1924
Myrtle Taylor Lewis (1888-1964)
1924-1926
Mrs. W. W. Cross
1926-1928
Mrs. C. A. Hallberg
1928-1930
Nell Irene Rundle (1894-1967, wife of Leonard Dunstan Heaton)
1930-1932
Miss Mary Stewart
1932-1934
Paulina Porter Fox (1878-?, wife of Justin Sarsfield Delury)
1934-1936
Louise Olive Cole (1881-1965)
1936-1938
Josephine Eleanor Parkin Ritchie (1895-1979)
1938-1939
Luella Gertrude Lick Smith (1896-1963)
1939-1941
Lottie Jean Chapman Duncan Sommerfeld (1887-1978)
1941-1943
Mrs. Norman James
1943-1945
Doris Boyce Saunders (1901-2003)
1945-1947
Avis Birdina Maude Clark (1883-1971)
1947-1949
Lela Helen McKnight (1886-1954)
1949-1951
Aileen Motley Doerkson (1899-1971)
1951-1953
Mrs. C. Rhodes-Smith
Margaret Turnbull Gow (1901-1989)1953-1955
Margaret Turnbull Gow (1901-1989)
1955-1957
Ruth Slemmons Ashmore (1898-1995, wife of Cyril Frank Ashmore)
1957-1959
Genevieve Brock Brownell (1901-1999)
1959-1961
Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1961-1963
Gwendolyn Quest McLean Plant (1905-2000, wife of Harold A. Plant)
1963-1965
Mrs. W. W. Smith
1965-1967
Mrs. James A. Clark
1967-1969
Elinor Anne Dickson Woods (1911-1991, wife of Russell V. Woods)
1970-1971
Margaret Isobel Wilson Jensen (1925-2007, wife of Christian Andrew Edward Jensen)
1971-1973
Merle Yvonne Whitehead (1913-1991)
1973-1975
Muriel Bernice McIntosh Thomson (1922-2008, wife of Ashley Edwin Thomson)
1975-1977
Una Frances Arnett Bowles (1913-2016)
1977-1979
Freda Georgina Isaacs Gray (1919-2007)
1979-1981
Shirley Margaret Bradshaw (1922-2010)
1981-1983
Alice Mary Elizabeth Cheatley (1918-2017)
1983-1984
Nina Cameron Phillips (1924-2018, wife of Alfred Thomas Phillips)
1984-1986
Genevieve Anne Johns Doidge (1915-1998, wife of Henry George Doidge)
1986-1988
Elizabeth Hepworth “Betty” Feniak (1920-2013)
1988-1990
Doris Mae Oulton
1990-1992
Joyce Patricia Hill (?-2014)
1992-1993
Elisabeth Doreen Alexander “Liz” Bevis (1937-2012)
1993-1995
Susan Irving
1995-1997
Donna Margaret Louise Crosland Blight (1936-2008)
1997-1999
Betty Shearer
1999-2001
Mary Scott
2001-2003
Lorraine Cook
2003-2005
2005-2007
Helen Norrie
2007-2009
Janet Goldack
2009-2011
Céline Marie Power Kear (?-2017)
2011-2013
Sylvia Marsh
2013-present
Sandra Millen
See also:
Manitoba Organization: University Women’s Club of Portage la Prairie
Obituary [Merle Yvonne Whitehead], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1991, page 32.
We thank the University Women’s Club of Winnipeg for providing a list of its Presidents through the years, and June Dutka and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 May 2026
