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根据你的看法，洛杉矶的Wellesley College Club俱乐部已亚博永久官网经24年或早期一年。俱乐部开始在2020年开始庆祝百年周年纪念日，但今年的开球活动不久，WCLA董事会成员Avanti Prasanna '17变得好奇。

“Someone made a comment saying they weren’t sure when the club even started,” Avanti says. The Alumnae Association put the founding of the club in 1920, but it didn’t have a specific start date. “There was no real concrete evidence, so for some reason, I thought I could Google it,” she laughs. Several searches later, Avanti realized that she was finding references to the club prior to 1920, going all the way back to the late 1800s. She switched to digging into the Wellesley digital repository, and that’s when she found it: a brief mention in The Wellesley Magazine published April 18, 1896. Avanti then emailed the WCLA club president: “I think we’re celebrating the wrong thing.”

事实证明，他们是。“3月28日下午，”洛杉矶举行了一场非常热情的Wellesley会议“杂志通知读。“在来自萨尔马大陆的这一大陆的这一大陆的Wellesley人民中融合在过去的两次或三次会议上已经令人愉快，在此场合，它决定形成一个南加州Wellesley Club。”洛杉矶的Wellesley Club俱乐部以及圣地亚哥和帕萨迪纳圣地亚哥和帕萨迪纳的俱乐部，在南加州Wellesley Club队成立于1896年......意思是它的125周年将在2021年。

“我们被幻想了，”洛里德·弗雷迪斯赫梅尔（WCLA）总裁洛瑞·德雷迪斯赫梅尔说。他们的结构化2020年是一年的庆祝百年里程碑，这结果是毕竟不是一个里程碑。然后，俱乐部随后向其他三个俱乐部与新闻联系，并形成了125周年纪念委员会，以便在俱乐部正式改变俱乐部的开始日期，并制定历史上市的计划。

“所有四个俱乐部都聚集在一起尊重这个，所以当我们做125日时，它将与所有四个俱乐部和不仅仅是洛杉矶，”洛里说。“在这个历史上画作并感觉统一真的很令人兴奋。”

The clubs are marking the anniversary in a variety of ways, with the pandemic keeping things still a bit unsettled. Work is already underway for a 125th anniversary magazine that will highlight the “lost years” and include profiles of early club members that Avanti discovered in her research. In addition, “our goal is to have 125 profiles of current alums in Southern California,” Lori says. The publication will be online primarily, although the committee hopes to be able to do a limited print run. They are also producing a commemorative t-shirt, and at the time of publication, still hoped to be able to do some kind of in-person celebration of the anniversary and this historic discovery.

“It’s a lot of work, but it’s fun,” Avanti says. “I’m just glad we could find this now. I’m curious how many other clubs might have their own histories that they don’t know about.”

然而。