Based on an interview Recorded on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at Carrington House, Present: Marion Sharpe, Mary Macdonald; interviewer Sharon Syrette

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What do you know about the Comet Club? I heard it referred to, or see it in old newspapers but have no idea what they were about.

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Retired librarian Marion Sharpe remembers being involved in the 1940's 

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MS: actually it was a group of young women, some of them just past high school age and some married women and they used to get together just for meetings and to do certain amount of charity work. 

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... The Plumridges used to live on Second Street in the old Plumridge House, and Gladys Plumridge was very active, and she was the one who had a room there for the clothing for the people who needed it, they did a lot of that, and they had a lot of fun, I guess, they played cards. 

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And that is where we started plaing... What is that Chinese game? . Mah Jong. Until we were pretty well finished high school and then... I don't understand all the background. I guess it was during the war, and preparations for that, they became active, and the other groups disbanded, and they continued. 

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Was this just one group, or were there chapters?

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Ms: no, it was just one group... It was an official group, it was just a group that met and decided what they could do. MM: they were a service club

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S: yes, it was. When there was a need, Gladys Plumridges home was the depot for clothing that was turned, and people like Mr Windebank would name a family that needed help, and they would go to the depot

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SS do you remember names or anyone else who was active? 

 

MS I think every young woman who was interested in Mission and in public affairs, in what was going on... There weren't that many occupations for women of that age in Mission in those days. 

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Jessie McEwan was active, Winnie Larson, Emily Bannister, Mrs. Catherwood... They elected an executive each year and had information published regularly in the local newspaper. 

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Alice Cox? I don't know, I think that Alice Cox was one of those women who were kind of left behind after the war. This was the sad thing, a whole bunch of women of that age group had never married. The guys that had gone to was just didn't come back. Alice, she was a teacher for 2 years then she was a clerk in Desbrisays Store for many years, the rest of her life... She stayed single. 

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MS: they had pretty well disbanded when we got active with the museum and archives, nobody ever knows what happens to those old records.