New York Junior League

The New York Junior League is an organization of women committed to improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

History : Mary Harriman, daughter of Union Pacific Railroad titan and financier E. H. Harriman, was a nineteen-year-old Barnard College student in New York City in 1901, but she had much more on her mind than "coming out" teas and dances. It was a time of great social change in New York as thousands of immigrants arrived each day at Ellis Island, coming to America to find work in the often...