Hospital, Community Hospital Clinic Fund, furniture for Community Hospital and Hospital Equipment Fund (through memo¬ rials to deceased members). At present the meetings are held monthly - none in July or August. The Club year ends October 31. At present (1992) twenty- nine members are enrolled. WOMEN'S INSTITUTE Exactly when the first Women's Institute in O'Leary was formed is difficult to determine. However, there was a W.I . in O'Leary in 1923. A newspaper article reported elsewhere in this book states that in 1925 the O'Leary Women's Institute raised $33 from a bean supper which was contributed to the building of sidewalks. The present Women's Institute was first organized on September 11, 1947. This meeting was held at the home of Jean Dewar . The officers appointed were as follows: President - Lulu MacWilliam , Vice-President - Bessie Dumville , Secretary/Treasurer - Lulu Turner , Secretary - Eva Noonan , Overseas Secretary - Verna Vatcher , Directors - Alice Seaman , Isabelle Campbell , Jean Dewar , Auditors - Verna Vatcher and Frances MacWilliam . Centennial Project 1973. There were eleven members who joined at this meeting: Bessie Dumville , Isabelle Campbell , Velda Matthews , Mrs. A.E. Wilson , Lulu MacWilliam , Frances MacWilliam , Dorothy Bernard , Jean Dewar , Alice Seaman , Eva Noonan and Lulu Turner . A registration fee of twenty-five cents was paid upon joining. Later that year seventeen additional members joined the Institute. These first meetings were held at the homes of members and later, as membership increased, meetings were held at the school. The first committees that were appointed were: , sick committee, program planning committee and school committee. 182