Winter, Alice Ames (1865–1944)
Winter, Alice Ames (1865–1944)
American reformer and novelist. Name variations: Alice Vivian Ames Winter. Born Alice Vivian Ames, Nov 28, 1865, in Albany, NY; died April 5, 1944, in Pasadena, CA; dau. of Charles Gordon Ames (Unitarian minister) and Fanny Baker Ames (1840–1931, social activist and reformer); m. Thomas Gerald Winter (grain firm president), June 25, 1892; children: 1 son, 1 daughter.
Was president of Minneapolis Kindergarten Association (1890s); published romantic novels The Prize to the Hardy (1905) and Jewel Weed (1906); was 1st president of Woman's Club of Minneapolis (1907–15); chaired Department of Literature (1916) and Americanization Division of General Federation of Women's Clubs (1919) and served as president (1920–24); helped create Women's Joint Congressional Committee (1920); appointed by President Warren Harding to advisory committee of Washington Conference on naval disarmament (1921–22); published The Business of Being a Club Woman (1925) and The Heritage of Women (1927); worked as liaison between women's groups and movie industry for Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (1929–42).