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This list is drawn from a one-page document given me by one of my informants, who wishes to remain anonymous. The document states that the founding members signed the original statutes on January 30, 1942, at the home of Josefa T[oledo] de Aguerri. (This appears to contradict the 1939 founding date given by Margarita López Miranda, or it could be that the organization was started informally in 1939 and formally in 1942.) Rosibel Aguilar, Soledad de Arriola, Yolanda Caligaris, Mary Coco de Callejas, Esperanza Centeno, Ana M. de Cortés, Justina de Espinoza, Leonor de Estrada, Carmela de Flores, Isaura de Flores, Angela de Fox, María de Frawley, M[aría] Luisa de Gertsch, Estela Herrera, Inés de Hurtado, Mercedes de Hurtado, Coco de Knoepºer, Isabel de Maltez, Ana de Mendieta, Julieta de Miranda, Anita Mora, Olga Núñez Abaunza, Sofía de Ocón, Carlota de Pereira, Julia de Pereira, Soledad de Pérez, Elena de Picasso, Margot de Ré, Carmen de Recalde, Amalia de Reyes, Elena de Riguero, Marta de Rodríguez, Pina de Romero Rojas, Tryni de Rosales, Emigdia de Salomón, Polina de Salomón, Berta de Solís, Celina de Tellería, Josefa T[oledo] de Aguerri, Joaquina Vega, Arcadia de Vijil, Carlota de Vijil, Isabel de Westtein, and Leonor de Wheelock. A P P E N D I X A : U N I O N D E M U J E R E S A M E R I C A N A S ( U M A ) F O U N D I N G M E M B E R S ...

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