The large and enthusiastic meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary was held in a spacious room in the hotel [Heidelberg Inn, Flat Rock], and both here and at the meeting in East Carolina, it was surprising and encouraging to see in what a business-like manner the ladies conducted their meeting. Some of the sterner sex might well take notice, and learn a few lessons. So prompt were they, indeed, that the meeting was over before I arrived there, and so I could not tell them about the Orphanage, but I was told that they made substantial pledges towards our support. We always feel easy when the ladies are behind us.

(Source: The Rev. Walter J. Smith, Superintendent and Chaplain, Thompson Orphanage, The Carolina Churchman, August 1912, p. 18)