Sertoma installs first female member

The Carson Sertoma Club on Wednesday installed Barbara Larson as the first female member.

The organization is dedicated to raising funds for local children with hearing and speech problems, cancer, and diabetes, and also supports the senior center.

It recently revised its by-laws, opening membership in the club to women and youths. When Sertoma was founded in Carson City in 1964, the by-laws were provided by Sertoma National, which at that time was a national male-only charitable organization. The club had not gotten around to changing them, even when Sertoma National went co-ed in the 1980s.

"We never had a formal application from a woman to become a member, so we never thought about," current president Frank Taylor said.

For more information, call Taylor at 885-7579 or come as a guest any Wednesday at Q's restaurant, 230 Fairview Dr., to observe the program and meet members, while enjoying lunch and the program.