A new era dawns with the opening of the new clubhouse in 1927

Club Secretary Hynson spoke of a “renewal of activity worthy of the traditions of the oldest tennis club in Westchester County.” By June 1927 the directors were able to report: “On the strength of the new clubhouse and the good management of our officers, we have obtained about twenty-five or thirty additional active members” for a total of about one hundred active members. The plan was for a club of between 125 and 150 members “to guarantee us an income sufficient to pay the fixed charges and relieve us of the necessity of selling more property.”

Sally Jackson Rasmussen, who grew up in the new Jackson house on Church Lane, says that it always seemed to her to be sunny and peaceful at Fox Meadow Tennis Club. From the house, the Jacksons could see not only the Club, but the cows and sheep grazing next to it on Crane Meadow.

“There was nothing but sheep, cows, and the windmill,” Rasmussen recalls. “It was just too lovely. Richard Crane used to cavort along the meadow on his horse.”

Though life-styles were changing and life’s tempo increasing, the pace was still more leisurely than it is today. Sally Rasmussen remembers the Edmund Pearsons, good friends of her parents, who on Sundays would pack a lunch, walk to Scarsdale from their apartment in the Riverdale section of New York, and play tennis and picnic at Fox Meadow. Small and informal, the Club was still an oasis of tradition and time-honored formalities. Tennis whites were to be worn on the courts. And in 1927, shortly after the clubhouse opened, the Fox Meadow Tennis Club announced that it would hold a tea for members on Wednesday afternoons.

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