Mrs. Helen Furness Worthing makes a motion to appoint some women to the usher committee at Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle, immediately before the downtown church's long-anticipated dedication services. The motion coincided with noticeable progress for women through appointments to prominent positions at The Mother Church, with recognition of the fulfillment of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy's design for her church of equality of the sexes. Coincidentally, a new phase of the women's rights movement begins, starting with a proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.

Season 2 of "Dedication: A Centennial Story" is a review draft for Part 2: 1929 to 1979. The book of Part 1: 1889 to 1929 of Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy's Church, A Centennial Story by Cindy Peyser Safronoff is available on Amazon, through Powell's Books, or by special order through your favorite local book store.

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Mr. Roy Olmstead, notorious locally as "King of the Bootleggers" and nationally for his wiretapping case in the US Supreme Court, applies for membership at Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle in the Spring of 1936, after years of effort by the Christian Science church to support laws prohibiting sale of alcohol including the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution and prison ministry work by Christian Scientists like Mrs. Margaret M. Walker at McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary, the Alcatraz of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Norvall E. Mallahan, Mayor of the City of Bothell, recounts his healing of the desire for alcohol after a visit to a Christian Science Reading Room.

Season 2 of "Dedication: A Centennial Story" is a review draft for Part 2: 1929 to 1979. The book of Part 1: 1889 to 1929 of Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy's Church, A Centennial Story by Cindy Peyser Safronoff is available on Amazon, through Powell's Books, or by special order through your favorite local book store.

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Mrs. Agnes Healy Anderson hosts a tea party on July 17, 1935, at the Sunset Club in Seattle for Eleanor Thomason, a Principia College sophomore who lives in Anderson Hall on the new Principia College campus in Elsah, Illinois, one of many Christian Science schools with campuses by 1935, including one in Seattle, Open Vista School, near Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Seattle.

Photo: Anderson Hall, Principia College. (032371_01_19_College Anderson Dormitory Exterior 1934. Courtesy of the Principia Archives, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois.)

Season 2 of "Dedication: A Centennial Story" is a review draft for Part 2: 1929 to 1979. The book of Part 1: 1889 to 1929 of Dedication: Building the Seattle Branches of Mary Baker Eddy's Church, A Centennial Story by Cindy Peyser Safronoff is available on Amazon, through Powell's Books, or by special order through your favorite local book store.

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