For reasons clear as sunlight, Joyce Porter Arneill has chosen to give what time she can spare from home and children to politics. "Because", she explained on her return from Chicago where she was elected president of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs, "politics comes right into my home and dares me to put it out. Politics is in everything - my budget, education of my sons, when we sit down to plan for the future we cannot disregard the tax collector - that dear child of politics."
"In my father's home in Stamford, Connecticut, politics formed a headline discussion group. My father, Louis H. Porter, corporation lawyer and manufacturer, and my uncle, Schuyler Merrit, who for years was a member of Congress, constantly talked politics and discussed government. Economics and government were as familiar to me as hair ribbons and birthday parties until I was old enough to go to college." There was a finishing school, then Bryn Mawr for two years - then taking life seriously Joyce Porter had two years of nurse's training in nursing school at Yale University. There she met young James Rae Arneill, Jr. of Denver, studying medicine and marriage followed.
National leaders of the Republican Party saw in the young Colorado woman qualities vitally needed for its renaissance. As a consequence she was elected president of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs. In this capacity she proposes with cooperative and active help of more experienced leaders to assist in organizing the country, state and county for better education in politics.
There is no "I, I, I," in Mrs. Arneill's program - "We propose to organize study forums throughout the state - we still study candidates as seriously as we study issues - we will find out about taxation, the why and wherefore of it- we will encourage thoughtful and patriotic women to run for office. Our organization is supplementary to the Party organization - we will encourage registration and give complete cooperation to our committeewomen when the block canvass begins - we are going to know about the amendments and stand of candidates - in other words we aim to become educated in what is most vital to our lives - the government under which we live. There is so much to rectify in our political life. There is so much to do to efface class hatreds which have been created in a country in which patriotism should be a common possession and not assigned to one group which unfortunately has nothing, and denied to another group which fortunately has something, merely because of that possession. We are going to work with might and main to bring the Republican Party back to where it belongs - to leadership in government."
From "History Colorado Federation of Republican Women" Mrs. Carl G. Schulken, Colorado Federation Historian
June 4, 1990
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