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Updating the City Club

The onetime women’s group moves ahead

by Grace Shackman

posted 1/27/2012

The Ann Arbor Women’s City Club was founded in 1951 out of necessity: the crush of students at the U-M after World War II had made it difficult for women’s groups to find meeting space at the university. “There wasn’t a place where women could go, where they could connect with each other and forge happy friendships,” recalls Mollie Dobson, a member from the

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