About Job's Daughters
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Job's Daughters International is the ONLY international organization for girls that requires ALL OF ITS MEMBERS to have a relationship to a Master Mason.
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Founded in 1920 by Mrs. Ethel T. Wead Mick, Job's Daughters International is an organization of young women with members in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines and Brazil.
Members have fun together at activities such as swimming parties, dances, family picnics, slumber parties, miniature golf, marching in parades and so much more. In Job's Daughters you will make new friends that will last a lifetime.
Job's Daughters perform service projects to help their community and the less fortunate. We actively support the Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment (HIKE) Fund, which purchases hearing assistive devices for hearing impaired children.
Job's Daughters can qualify for various scholarships that are offered on a state and national level. We also gain valuable leadership experience, serve as part of a team, and learn democratic principles as they run their own meetings, decide our own activities, and plan our own events.
In short, Job's Daughters International offers the qualities that today's young women want and need from organizations that earn their commitment: fun, friendship, helping others and the chance to learn organizational and leadership skills.
For information on how to join Job's Daughters, please contact the Executive Manager at sgc@iojd.org. Make sure you let your parents know that you are interested in joining.
With thousands of members across the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and Brazil, Job's Daughters offers you a limitless array of opportunities. If you are a young lady between the ages of 10 and 20, and would like more information on how you can join in the fun, be sure to talk to your parents and then e-mail the Executive Manager at sgc@iojd.org with your name, age, address, and phone number, and we will do the rest. Remember to tell your parents that you are interested in joining, and that someone will be contacting you soon to give you more information.
Brother, William Henry Mick M.D. co-founder of Job’s Daughters Born in Howell, Nebraska, November 14, 1877 Dr. Mick made valuable contribution to medical science through original work on diagnosis of head conditions and through cooperation with factories in the perfection and development of the. X-ray machines. Dr. Mick completed his more specifically literary education in Fremont College, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the Bachelor of Science degree. He taught school for two years before he took up the study of medicine, which he completed in the John A. Creighton Medical College of Omaha with the class of 1903. On the 25th of May, 1904, in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Mick was united in marriage to Miss Ethel T. Wead, daughter of Mrs. E. D. Wead, of Omaha. On the 24th of August, 1907, he became a resident of Omaha, where he has been engaged in the exclusive practice of Roentgenology, conducting a private X-rav laboratory in the Brandeis building. Dr. and Mrs. Mick held membership in the First Methodist church of Omaha and he is serving on the official board. He was also a member of the Omaha Athletic Club and of the Masonic fraternity, but his associations are largely in the path of his profession. Dr. William H. Mick, a Master Mason, had volunteered for service with the United States forces in World War I and was shipped to France in Nov. 1917. When he arrived back in the United States in January 1919, and was reunited with his wife and two daughters, Ethel and Ruth, he told his family how proud he had been to have been elected President of the Masonic Club in Paris, and telling her about the work that the Masonic organizations had done during the war. In his view, Freemasonry had done more good for the men in the service than any other organization. But he felt something lacking in the Masonic based organizations, because the children of Masons had no chance to learn anything about the basic principles of Masonry. Mrs. Mick, for her part, spoke about her own mother's teachings and the strong influence she had had in the lives of her children, and suggested that it would be a good idea to start an organization for girls based on the Book of Job. There was much conversation about starting a new organization for girls. The Book of Job was studied very thoroughly. Mrs. Mick was particularly taken with a passage from the 42nd chapter, 15th verse: "And in all the land there were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren." In no small part, the new organization was based on this verse and naturally the name chosen was Job's Daughters. ~~ References: “History of Job’s Daughters” by Dr. William H. Mick, pg. 7-25 in Suggestive Ideas by E.T.W. Mick. Publication date unknown; out of print. “Official History of the IOJD SGC 1961" by SGC Committee 1961 and 1966, published by the SGC. Copies available from the SGC Office. Omaha: the Gate city, and Douglas County, Nebraska; (Volume 2) . (page 78 of 99)
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