According to the official club literature, the 20-20's (so named, because the club was limited to 20 members and they were "women of vision") formed in 1964 to counter-act the "vacuum of loneliness," boredom and lack of self-esteem that befalls "active career girls, when their busiest and most product years are over." The members met for cocktails and dinner on the third Friday of June and November with the women taking turns hosting. The Algonquin Club of Boston served as the setting for the majority of the meetings. Some of the members included Jean Avallone, owner of the Mam'selle boutique, located on Newbury St.; Marjorie Mills, Women's Page editor of the Boston Herald-Traveler; attorney Fiona Hale Cook; Dorothy Crandall, food editor for the Boston Globe; Freddie Seymour, on-air personality for radio station WBET-Am in Brockton; Barbara G. Keane, co-owner and producer for Beacon TV Features, Inc.; Louise Morgan, host of a TV show called Shopping-Vues, which aired on WNAC; Mildred Carlson Rutherford, vice president of M.S.P.C.A; Edna Somers, fashion director for the Jordan Marsh department store; and Rose Walsh, society columnist for the Record-American-Advertiser. In addition to the official club regulations, list of members and their addresses, and menus of club dinners, the Athenaeum copy, belonging to Alice Tirrell Knight, contains photographs of the member, and inserted letters, poems, a copy of the club song, photocopied newspaper articles and recipes. The last ms. annotation dates from 1981.
