News Room

In The News
      Press Releases

Media Resources
      
Awards & Acclaims

  >>Fun Facts

      
Slide Show for 2006-07

      
Permissions

      AJLI Website


      JLOEB Kids in the
      Kitchen, 2006 Campaign

Demographics

JLOEB Corporate Video

Contact Us
      Media Relations Team

      
Address, Hours, & Emails

Home

 

Fun Facts

 

Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, Inc. (JLOEB) has contributed more than 7 million hours and approximately $3 million to community agendcies in Alameda and Contra Costa who serve vulnerable children and their families.

JLOEB celebrated their 70th Anniversary in 2005.

Fashion critic, Steven Cojocaru, spoke at JLOEB's May Annual Dinner in 2004.

Our Sustainer member, Maridel M. Moulton, was President of JLOEB in 1981-1982 and later went on to be the President of the Association of Junior Leagues International from 1988-1990.

First Lady Laura Bush met with our chair of the committee Teach for America in 2001 to recognize our work.

Diablo Publications awarded JLOEB member Carla Koren and Super Stars Literacy Program as winners of Threads of Hope Award 2005.

Famous AJLI Members:

Member Position and Community Service Junior League
Mary Harriman Rumsey Founder of the Junior League--1901; First defender of consumer rights as Chair of the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Resource Administration in President Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, 1933 The City of New York
Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady; social reformer; humanitarian; author. As U.S. Delegate to the United Nations, she shaired the Human Rights Commission during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights--adopted 1948 The City of New York
Oveta Culp Hobby First Commander of Women's Army Corps 1941; First U.S. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare 1953 Houston, TX
Sandra Day O'Connor First female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, appointed 1981 Phoenix, AZ
Barbara Bush First Lady; literacy activist Houston, TX
Laura Bush First Lady; literacy activist Austin, TX
Betty Ford First Lady; substance abuse prevention activist Grand Rapids, MI
Nancy Reagan First Lady; substance abuse prevention activist Los Angeles, CA
Eudora Welty Author; Pulitzer prize for The Optimist's Daughter, 1972 Jackson, MS
Shirley Temple Black Child actress; Delegate to the United Nations (1969); U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; Czech and Slovak Republics Palo Alto, CA
Katherine Hepburn Actress; women's issues activist Hartford, CT
Sarah Palfrey Cook Danzig Tennis champion; two-time Wimbledon champion The City of New York
Elected to Gov't U.S. House of Representatives Junior League
Ruth Baker Sears Pratt Served 1929-1933; first woman elected by NY The City of New York
Isabella Selmes Greenway Served 1934-1937 The City of New York
Frances Payne Bolton Served 1940-1969 Cleveland, OH
Mary E. Pruett Farrington Served 1954-1957 Honolulu, HI
Lynn Martin Served 1981-1985; U.S. Secretary of Labor 1991-1993 Rockford, IL
Tillie Fowler 1993-2001 Jacksonville, FL
Jennifer Dunn 1993-2005 Seattle, WA
Anna Eshoo 1993-present Palo Alto, CA
Carolyn Maloney 1993-present The City of New York
Judy Biggert 1998-present Chicago, IL
Elected to Gov't U.S. Senate Junior League
Margaret Chase Smith First woman elected to the Senate Bangor, ME
Elected to Gov't Canadian Parliament Junior League
Margaret McTavish Konantz Member, Canadian Parliament, 1963-1968 Winnipeg, MB
Florence Bird Member, Canadian Parliament, 1978-1983 Winnipeg, MB
Bobbie Sparrow Member, Canadian Parliament, 1984-1988 Calgary, AB