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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | JUNE 2024 51 We continue to plan a variety of activities for the enjoyment of our Rainbow Group members. Events are scheduled for Saturday, July 20, and Saturday, Oct. 26. Please mark your calendars so that you can join us on those days. As we get closer, details on both events will be available on our Facebook page or via our email (rainbowgroup@myyahoo. com). We are also in the process of scheduling other activities. So, stay tuned! This month our selection for the Famous LGBT Americans series is Jane Addams, a pioneer in the social-work profession. Addams was born in 1860. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary, she went to Toynbee Hall, an English settlement house, where Oxford and Cambridge graduates lived and worked among the poor. She subsequently established in Chicago, America's first settlement house, Hull House. Settlement houses involved college graduates sharing their education and values to help the poor and immigrants overcome their personal handicaps. This ref lected the understanding at that time of how to address poverty and the assimilation of immigrants. Addams was a strong suffragist and believed that the right to vote among women would improve the lives of families in poverty. She was a prohibitionist, based on her awareness of the damage caused by alcohol on families. She opposed the war in the Philippines, lynchings in the South and race riots in Atlanta and Springfield. She published 11 books on topics that included the mental health of children, social ethics, and her experiences at Hull House. She died in 1935. An article entitled, "Jane Addams: A Hero for Our Time," published in the fall 2021 issue of HUMANITIES: e Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, addressed the issue of Addams' relationship with Mary Rozet Smith as follows: "Addams's closest companion was Mary Rozet Smith, a tall and attractive debutante, trustee of Hull House and one of its leading benefactors. e two lived and traveled together and owned a house in Maine. Addams referred to their relationship, which lasted 37 years, as a 'marriage.' She destroyed many of Smith's letters. In our less reticent age, skeptical of affectionate female friendships, there is speculation among historians about their relationship. … Recently she was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame." For more information on Jane Addams, please go to the Rainbow Group's Facebook page or request a copy via our email. ~ Dan Hazeltine and Frank Galvan Rainbow Group Seasoned Singles In April, the Singles enjoyed a breakfast at Crazy Yolk. Some of the activities we planned in May were a tour of John Rains House in Rancho Cucamonga, seeing Fiddler on the Roof at LifeHouse Theatre, an outing to the Getty Museum in Malibu, a visit to the Columbia Shuttle Museum in Bellflower, and a get together on Memorial Day. If you're single and would like to join us for outings like these, we meet on the first Friday of the month in The Lodge Arts & Crafts Room at 6 pm. For more information, please contact Monica Sarafian at (626) 862-8215. ~ Phyllis Kates Some of the Singles enjoyed seeing LifeHouse eater's production of Fiddler on the Roof A group of the Singles took a tour of John Rains House in Rancho Cucamonga

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