- November 27, 2024
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The Flagler Woman’s Club celebrated its 65th birthday Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Flagler Beach.
The group was founded in 1946, as the Flagler Civic Club, by a group of 13 women, in Flagler Beach. When they joined the Federal Federation of Women’s Clubs January 1948, they changed the club’s name to the Flagler Woman’s Club.
They gave their first scholarship a year later, $10 to a Bunnell High School band student.
In 1956, the club purchased two lots, where their clubhouse stands today, for $1,500. Throughout the years, that clubhouse has been used for many community events, including Boy and Girl Scouts meetings and Flagler Beach United Methodist and St. Stephens Catholic church services. Teen dances were also held there, as well as the first Flagler Beach library, in 1962.
The women in the club were also responsible for numbering the streets and houses in Flagler Beach, in 1985.
The Miss Flagler County Pageant was started by the club and continued for 30 years, until 1994, when they passed the responsibilities to other groups.
Last year, the Flagler Woman’s Club gave out $6,000 in scholarships to local seniors and another $7,000 to organizations.
