A woman returns to the FMTC Board of Governors for the first time since early 1900s

Phoebe Creamer became the first woman to serve on the Board since the early 1900’s: “I think they thought that if they had to have a woman on the board they would take an old-time conservative person who wouldn’t rock the boat too much,” she said.

The club’s constitution had been re-written in 1913 and women were excluded from the governance of the club. Prior th the change Hopeton Atterbury had served as President in 1907 and 1909.

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