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Conley's club is not alone. Across the U.S., the traditional women's club has become an endangered species, with a steadily aging membership. The number of club members has dropped by more than half since 1957, to fewer than half a million. Now that more jobs, organizations and opportunities are open to women of all ages, the clubs seem to be less attractive; many are faced with either making major changes or closing down. "We're in steady decline," admits Leigh Wintz, executive director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, "and it's a difficult process...
...recent years leagues in many cities have spent less time on cotillions and cookbooks and more energy on women's alcoholism, battered wives' shelters, rape-crisis centers and teen pregnancy. Many have also worked to make the growing membership more representative, but old pedigrees die hard. "We've stood on our heads to make people aware that Junior League is not a society organization," says Maria Trozzi, of Boston's Junior League, which has dropped virtually all barriers to admission, "but that image is hard to change...
...programs, schedules and rules in order * to survive. "I think we're waking up and deciding something needs to be done," says Carol Silvus, president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. Some groups are holding more events at night and on weekends and trying to broaden their membership base. The Virginia federation has established an organization for deaf women, while New Jersey has formed a group for the mentally retarded. All are working hard to attract younger members. Ironically, many hard-pressed clubs may find that a return to the activist spirit of the past holds the greatest...
America' s women' s clubs must revise their mission to attract a younger membership or risk having to close their doors for good...
...this a la carte approach to alliance membership confined to nuclear- deployment issues. France began the trend in 1966 when Charles de Gaulle closed down NATO bases and pulled his country out of the alliance's integrated command structure. Spain followed a similar tack in 1982: it joined NATO but kept its forces out of the chain of joint European command based outside Brussels. Last January, Madrid went a step further by ordering the U.S. to withdraw its 72 F-16 jet fighters from Torrejon air base. Greece has raised questions about U.S. bases on its soil. Such actions, says...