Meet our founder: Mrs. Martha Poling
Circleville Junior Women's Club was founded by Martha Poling in 1948 and is a member of the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, the largest women’s organization in the country.
Junior Pledge
I pledge my loyalty to the Junior Clubwomen
by doing better than ever before what work I have to do.
By being prompt, honest, courteous.
By living each day trying to accomplish something, not merely to exist.
- Helen Cheney Kimberly
Just to give you a clue of what an amazing woman she was, read the news article below on why she was nominated for woman of the year.
February 2, 1960 - The Circleville Herald
Social Happenings
Mrs. Poling Is Candidate for 'Woman of the Year"
Members of the CJWC has selected Mrs. Martha Poling as a candidate for the 'Outstanding Woman of the Year'. This award is to be made on the state level in February and is sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Women's Club.
Contestants; however, need not be members of the organization to be eligible. This will be the first year the award has been made. Formerly, the award was made to the "Family of the Year."
Mrs. Poling lives with her husband and two children, Drexel age 13, and Lorna age 10 on Route 4 in Saltcreek Twp. She was born in New Holland and attended grade school and high school in Atlanta.
Mrs. Poling is entered in the contest in the status of homemaker. She makes and also designs most of her own clothes and many of the children's. As a cook, she is probably best known for her cakes, bread, mincemeat pies and relishes. She says she inherited her talent for frying chicken from her mother. The family garden provides food for the canning, freezing, pickeling and preserving. On the walls of her home are a number of her oil paintings. She also makes the family Christmas cards.
Church work has occupied many hours of Mrs. Poling's time. The Polings are members of the Circleville Methodist Church. She helps with the MYF and teaches a young adult class. The whole family has just completed a year of perfect Sunday School attendance.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Poling have been active in the Parent-Teachers Organization and have worked for their local school. Mrs. Poling was chairman and delegate of the Logan Elm district to the State House Conference on Education in 1958. She also served on the Interim Committee of delegates from all over Ohio.
Girl Scouts have also taken much of Mrs. Poling's time. She has been a Cub Scout Den mother and is now a Brownie troop leader. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Ohio Trefoil Council and is Registrar and Camp Site Chairman for Camp Miska.
She has been active in many other organizations on the local and state level. She is secretary to the Executive Committee in charge of the Pickaway County Sesquicentennial observance; has been a committee member of the Community Fund; was first president of the Pickaway County Association of Women's Clubs; is vice-president of the Circleville Forum; and corresponding secretary to the General Guild of Berger Hospital; and a member of the DAR. Mrs. Poling has been active in 4H and is presently compiling a county history of 4H work. She was instrumental in organizing the local Newcomers' Club and the Saltcreek Town and Country Club. She is service chairman of the Pumpkin Show department which includes home arts and crafts. From 1955-1958 she was editor of the "Buckeye."
February 2, 1960 - The Circleville Herald
Social Happenings
Mrs. Poling Is Candidate for 'Woman of the Year"
Members of the CJWC has selected Mrs. Martha Poling as a candidate for the 'Outstanding Woman of the Year'. This award is to be made on the state level in February and is sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Women's Club.
Contestants; however, need not be members of the organization to be eligible. This will be the first year the award has been made. Formerly, the award was made to the "Family of the Year."
Mrs. Poling lives with her husband and two children, Drexel age 13, and Lorna age 10 on Route 4 in Saltcreek Twp. She was born in New Holland and attended grade school and high school in Atlanta.
Mrs. Poling is entered in the contest in the status of homemaker. She makes and also designs most of her own clothes and many of the children's. As a cook, she is probably best known for her cakes, bread, mincemeat pies and relishes. She says she inherited her talent for frying chicken from her mother. The family garden provides food for the canning, freezing, pickeling and preserving. On the walls of her home are a number of her oil paintings. She also makes the family Christmas cards.
Church work has occupied many hours of Mrs. Poling's time. The Polings are members of the Circleville Methodist Church. She helps with the MYF and teaches a young adult class. The whole family has just completed a year of perfect Sunday School attendance.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Poling have been active in the Parent-Teachers Organization and have worked for their local school. Mrs. Poling was chairman and delegate of the Logan Elm district to the State House Conference on Education in 1958. She also served on the Interim Committee of delegates from all over Ohio.
Girl Scouts have also taken much of Mrs. Poling's time. She has been a Cub Scout Den mother and is now a Brownie troop leader. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Ohio Trefoil Council and is Registrar and Camp Site Chairman for Camp Miska.
She has been active in many other organizations on the local and state level. She is secretary to the Executive Committee in charge of the Pickaway County Sesquicentennial observance; has been a committee member of the Community Fund; was first president of the Pickaway County Association of Women's Clubs; is vice-president of the Circleville Forum; and corresponding secretary to the General Guild of Berger Hospital; and a member of the DAR. Mrs. Poling has been active in 4H and is presently compiling a county history of 4H work. She was instrumental in organizing the local Newcomers' Club and the Saltcreek Town and Country Club. She is service chairman of the Pumpkin Show department which includes home arts and crafts. From 1955-1958 she was editor of the "Buckeye."