The Kingfisher Study Club met Nov. 3 at the First United Methodist Church.

Terri Peck served donuts and coffee to members Joyce Brown, Martha Burditt, Nancy Cravens, Melda Fischer, Nancy Hasenfratz, Dawn Ann Mendenhall, Judy Pannell, Gerry Plummer and Karen Norton, guest of Hasenfratz.

Fischer, president, opened the meeting with an inspirational reading. Each member present shared a time when faced with adversity and how they responded to it.

Mendenhall made a motion to bring a favorite children’s book to the December meeting to be donated to the Department of Human Services.

Brown seconded and the motion was approved.

Section leaders will notify members in their group and will ask for email addresses and/or cell phone numbers.

Continuing the study how one lady can make a difference, Mendenhall presented the program on Mattie Mallory and Kate Barnard.

Information was found on the Oklahoma Historical Society’s website and in “This Land is Herland.”

Mallory had come to Oklahoma to do evangelistic work among Indian and white settlers.

In 1898, she opened a small orphanage in Oklahoma City and her work led to the founding of Bethany. The orphanage was relocated to what is the present site of The Children’s Center Rehabilitation Hospital.

Barnard became the first woman elected to a statewide government office and the nation before women had the right to vote.

She became Oklahoma’s first commissioner of corrections and charities.

She persuaded lawmakers to adopt laws governing compulsory education and for the establishment of several state agencies.

The meeting closed with the Club Women’s Collect.

The next meeting is Dec. 1.

Shauna Rupp, executive director of the Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce, will present the program.