The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will have a party to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York State League of Women Voters on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Library.
The state league was formed on Nov. 19, 1919, by 400 delegates gathered in Utica at the 51st convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, according to a release. The national league was formed three months later by the delegates of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at a convention in Chicago.
The local league’s 100th anniversary celebration committee — Estelle Gellman, Barbara McClancy, Martha Potter, Judi Roth, Cathy Peacock, and Susan Wilson, and Arlene Hinkemeyer, the chairwoman — will announce other 100th anniversary celebratory events planned for 2020 together with a discussion of issues tackled by the leagues through the decades.
