Coronado Eagle, Volume 6, Number 43, 1 November 1995 — Coron ado Democratic Club Observes 50th Year [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Coron ado Democratic Club Observes 50th Year

The Coronado Democratic Club marked the beginning of its 50th year with a buffet dinner at Oakwood Gardens on The fiftieth anniversary observance will be a year-long event, culminating in Oct. 1996 The actual date will come during the final days before the 1996 elections; the Club decided to observe the anniversary year rather than the date, to avoid its being lost among the 1996 election activities. “We think the Club rates a time of its own,” Maureen Steinger, Club president, said. “We’ve had fifty years of history worth honoring.” In acknowledgement, Coronado Mayor Mary Herron presented the Club with a proclamation thanking it for its history of participation in civic affairs, on a nonpartisan basis. Ms. Steiner, in her second term, is the 20th president the CDC has had since it was founded in 1946 by Charles Young. At the

dinner, the Club historian, Mrs. Peggy Chilton, reviewed the varied backgrounds of the subsequent presidents. “There was no common denominator,” she said. “One was a Baptist minister, another the wife of a U.S. Surgeon-General, several were businessmen, some were housewives. The current president, Ms. Steiner, trained as an attorney and an anthropologist. “One past president who might be singled out as being strikingly different was Mrs. Polly Mclntire, wife of Admiral Ross Mclntire who had been FDR’s personal physician before becoming Surgeon General,” Mrs. Chilton said as she reviewed the Club’s history. “Polly Mclntire was a person with no inhibitions. As evidence, she’d met her husband-to-be-for the first time in a store on Orange Avenue, invited him home for tea and to meet her mother, and married him before the year (1922) was out.” Mrs. Mclntire followed a life of public service, especially directed to helping young people with their education and to aiding the blind. She was active in those areas up to the time of her death in 1986, at the age of 86. Another past president, Mrs. Lulu Coleman, was recalled fondly by Karl Steinhauser, himself a past-president. Mrs. Coleman, he said, was famous in Coronado for getting things done in unorthodox ways. Ms. Midge Constanza, assistant to President Jimmy Carter —and the first woman to hold the position of presidential assistant—was MC for the dinner.

Mayor Mary Herron presents a proclamation thanking the Coronado ' president • 50 year history of nonpartisan civic contributions to (from left) Maureen S e , P Phyllis Kraus and Dr. Lou Mone, both candidates for the 78th District elections.