First women President. Hopeton D. Atterbury elected FMTC President (1907,1909); Club has strong family tradition.

Hopeton D. Atterbury. First woman President of the Club, 1907, 1909
Hopeton D. Atterbury. First woman President of the Club, 1907, 1909
SI July 2 1909Br> Scarsdale Inquirer July 2, 1909

Hopeton Atterbury’s connections illustrate both the family nature of Fox Meadow Tennis Club and the continuity of many family ties with the organization.

The Club’s only woman president (1907-1909) to date1 was one of seven Atterbury daughters at “Woodlands,” a twenty-five-acre estate off the Baraud extension of Drake Road just over the New Rochelle border. A niece recalls her as a champion horsewoman and a commanding presence.

Hopeton Atterbury married Club member William Quaid, one of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, and both remained active members of Fox Meadow.

Quaid’s sister Vera married Francis (Frank) Ayres, a president of the Club from 1916 to 1919.

Hopeton Atterbury’s sister Isabel was the mother of member Anne Sanford.

Source: Diana Reische, Fox Meadow Tennis Club – The First Hundred Years, 1983

NOTE 1: Since Diana Reische wrote the book three other women have served as president, Barbara Wood (1989-1991), Sally D. Rogers (1998-2000), and Catherine C. Souther (2008-2010)