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ITEM 3 · TRI KAPPA 1968, EASTERN STAR 1972, THE RELIEF CORPS 1895 — AND NO LWV OR YWCA UNIT HERE
The documented three: the Woman's Relief Corps post of 1895, the Grand Army's women's auxiliary — the Civil War generation's organized womanhood, seated in Walkerton while the veterans themselves still marched (this history's register; Wars & Military Service's frame); the Tri Kappa chapter ruled in February 1968, the Indiana-born philanthropic sorority whose chapters raise scholarship money town by town — the school era's club, its course running with the town's whole charitable register; and the Eastern Star chapter of 1972, the Masonic family's women's order, seated late and standing with the lodge course of this history. Against them, the tests: no League of Women Voters unit and no YWCA branch is documented for Walkerton at any date — both are, in this county, South Bend institutions (the YWCA's county seat and the League's county unit are that city's whole), and the town's women joined the county bodies or none. The item closes DUG: three chapters at register strength, two national forms tested negative, and the club record's shape stated — devotional, philanthropic, and auxiliary, in that chronological order, which is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' own order.
Principal sources: this history's register (the three chapters' dates); the LWV and YWCA county records at boundary size.