BIRTH OF THE JOB’S DAUGHTERS’ FLAG

From the 1934 original writings of Mr. Mattrup Jensen, PASG

Edited by Tomilynn W. McManus, PHQ, PSG, Curator
Originally published in SNE On-line in May 2000.

The birth of the Job’s Daughters’ Flag was on August 22, 1934, in the City of Portland, Oregon, USA at which time the Supreme Guardian Council held their Annual Session. The presiding officers at this meeting were Mrs. Ida B. Smith, from San Francisco, California, Supreme Guardian, and Mr. Guy O. Henderson of Chicago, Illinois, Associate Supreme Guardian. At this session, THIS FLAG was adopted unanimously as the Official Job’s Daughters’ Flag.

“May this emblem, through the ages,

For our Daughters wave on high;

Ever upward, onward striving,

‘Til love shall rule in earth and sky.”

The designer of this flag was Mr. Mattrup Jensen, PAGG of California, Past Associate Supreme Guardian. In “History of Flag”, he has written the following.

“One day while sitting in my office, I looked up at the picture of George Washington, which hung upon the wall, just above my desk. On one corner of the frame there was fastened a small flag of the United States of America; on the other, a small flag of Denmark. The thought came to me, that both of these flags were not created or designed by chance, but that the color, cross, stripes and the very field, stood for something quite definite. Following this thought it occurred to me that the organization of Job’s Daughters should have a flag that was truly emblematical of the Order…I immediately stepped to my drafting table and proceeded to design such a flag.

“First, I made the field or background of purple; the basic color of the Order…second, I placed the triangle, the insignia of the Order, containing the likeness of the three daughters of Job…on the purple field, the width of a stripe from the standard, and the width of a stripe from the top and bottom of the flag. Third, I placed three white stripes, the second basic color of the Order, on the field of purple; one stripe emanating from each of the three points of the triangle, making five stripes starting at the triangle. This completed the arrangement; giving us a flag composed of three white stripes, five stripes emanating from the triangle and seven stripes in all, across the entire width. I present it to the “Fairest in all the Land’, and may it lead our Daughters upward and onward, that their influence may be the means of promoting and preserving the highest ideals of life.”


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