Show Mrs Corbin in Contest for Club Woman of Year Honors Mrs J. J W Corbin has been named candidate for the thel honor of Club Woman of the Year as 89 representative of the Women's Wo Woo Women's mens men's Literary club it was announced announced an an- this week She will wl compete for tor a state I prize of which will go to the club against one selection from each of 11 districts in the state A committee of nine at Salt Lake take City will select the winner win ner net to vie for national honors Mrs John Helen Redd of the Rebus Rota club of Monticello has also been selected These two are the only entries from the eastern The activities listed must be beva va rifled by two people one from the club and one Me from the com coma These are Mrs William Hayes of the club and Mrs Helen M. M Knight of the community Mrs Corbin lists her club work as first joining the Women's Literary Literary Lit Lit- club In 1925 and has the longest membership Her lIer first office held was journalist journal 1st in 1928 In 1929 she Was w a r rA rf A f k ry rys rya s a Ec r rr r r rR rJ a b R y J MRS J. J W W. CORBIN elected secretary Between 1930 and 1936 1930 she held posts as vice vice- president and treasurer and In 1936 was elected president for two terms In 1913 she he was again elected president and was reelected reelected re re- elected three times She has held the office of historian and made the first history book with items from the origin of the club on Mar 9 1898 The first state convention she attended was at Cedar City in 1936 1036 and up to three years ago she had attended most of the state conventions In 1950 she was elected r state second vice-president vice and had held the state chairmanship chairmanship chairman ship of international relations She attended two national conventions conventions con can as a delegate In 1938 1933 she was elected to the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of secretary of the eastern district made up of Carbon Emery Em Em- ery cry San Juan and Grand counties In 1910 she was elected district treasurer and In 1942 to the office of director In 1941 she was district chairman chair man of press and publicity and defense defense de de- de recreation In 1946 she was elected district vice-president vice and andIn andin andin in 1947 she became president During these years she held every office in the local club but auditor and in the district all allbut allbut allbut but auditor historian and second vice In 1950 Mrs Corbin was selected select select- ed by the Deseret News as the Woman of the Week I During the second world was she was active In bond scrap metal met meta al ai paper and clothing drives At this time A. A Reed Somerville was county chairman and Mrs Corbin chairman of the women's division of the metal drive that ranked second in the state per capita With the late D. D E. E Baldwin she was vice-chairman vice of the bond drive and won for the county statewide recognition for selling more bonds per capita than any other county Together with Mrs Jack Mary Pogue in 1945 Grand county S set a national record for old paper and clothing gathered and sorted under their direction The past 18 years she has been working for the cancer society and for the past 15 years has been county chairman In 1940 the he Grand Grams county health organization was formed with Mrs Leser Les Les- Lester ter er Taylor as u chairman and Mrs Corbin secretary After Mrs Taylor resigned Mrs Corbin was put In as chairman a position she I still holds She was county chairman of the he Infantile paralysis drive and treasurer for five years For two years she was chairman of the Heart Association and the Crusade for Cor or Freedon She was a member of or the Girl Scouts committee and anda a den mother for Cub Scouts Active In politics she was for many years a member of the State Central committee vice-chairman vice secretary and precinct chairman of her party Few elections found her absent as a judge her only paid job As a member of the Community Baptist church she has been active as Sunday School Se-hool superintendent and teacher as chairman of com coma This year ear she was elected elected elected elect elect- ed to the office of historian the first for the church She was elected three times as vice dent of the Mary-Martha Mary Mission Society and has held the office of state vice-president vice of the Baptist Bap Bap- 1st Women She was also state vice-president vice of the Utah State Baptist convention At the present time she Is a member of the man four-man board for mosquito abatement for Grand and east Emery county She is chairman of the Cancer Society a director of the state cancer board of 60 members For the past jast five years she has been a member of the board of managers of lof the state Baptist group She is s county chairman of the women for civil defense She was sponsor co-sponsor of the newly newty newy new- new ty ly y formed Newcomers clu club She has written to numerous boys in service and sent out thousands of get well cards |