TUSCALOOSA JUNIOR WELFARE CHARITY HORSE SHOW SET JUNE 12-13
The Tuscaloosa Junior Welfare Charity Horse Show is scheduled for June 12 and 13 at the Tuscaloosa Riding Club.
Announcement of plans for the third annual event has been made by Mrs. E. S. Brannon Jr., show chairman. She is being assisted by Mrs. Leon Patton, co-chairman and Mrs. William I. Owen, assistant co-chairman.
Proceeds from the show will be used by the group to maintain an extensive program for needy children in Tuscaloosa county. Their volunteer activities include maintaining white and colored children’ s clinics, dental clinics, well baby clinic, Tuscaloosa Little Theater, aid at the Christmas Store and sponsorship of a Girl Scout troop at Partlow School.
In the past years the organization of young matrons has held fund raising drives by sponsoring local talent presentations, The JWA Follies, and also fine arts presentations.
Since sponsorship of the horse show became the major fund raising project, the organization has invested several thousand dollars in improvements into the Tuscaloosa Riding Club.
Last year the group built three permanent barns, constructed an auxiliary ring, improved the existing ring, built bleachers, constructed a concession stand, added two baths, improved the roads and built a ticket house.
The group now has more interest than ever in the club, since being presented a gift of 86 shares in the Riding Club from Samuel
MAY, 1961
READY FOR THE SHOW... Mrs. Leon Patten, co-chairman of the JWA Charity Horse Show- is shown with SUN’ S BARBARA ANN, a Walking Mare, and Mr. S. W. Swaim, lonp-time lover of horses who has aided this cause considerably and Mrs. Earl Brandon. President of the JWA.
S. Swaim. In accepting the gift from Mr. Swaim, Mrs. Earl Brandon. JWA president, expressed the members’ deep appreciation for his interest and also for that of James C. Austin who has donated five shares of stock in the club to the association.
Gifts by these two local men have made it possible for the charitable organization to become the largest single stockholder in the Tuscaloosa Riding Club.
The JWA horse show is a member of the Mid-South Horseman’ s Association, the Alabama Horseman’ s Association, the Hunter and Jumper Association of Alabama, and is affiliated with the American Horse Show Association.
“ WALKER” l
I didn ' t tie this time BUT I ' ll bet he remembers me!
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