About Our Club
Club History


The Lafayette Garden Club was organized in May of 1930, by Mrs. John William Harrington.

The first officers elected were Mrs. John William Harrington, President; Mrs. Harold

Demanade, Vice President; Mrs. E. A. O’Brien, Secretary-Treasurer. They adopted as their

slogan “The Land Belongs to the Landowners, but the Landscape Belongs to the Eye of the

Beholder.”  The Club was Federated in 1944.



With this in view, the group undertook the beautification of the City of Lafayette. We, the
 
members of the Lafayette Garden Club, proudly begin our ninth decade of service to our

community. This year with our theme The Earth is Ours To Care For, we join with District III,

Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc. and National Garden Clubs, Inc. in a unified effort to

support their projects.