The Woman’s Club of Claremont is celebrating its 100-year anniversary with an open house at 5 p.m. on March 27 at its clubhouse, 343 W. 12th St.

The event will include appetizers and sparkling beverages for a toasting, and ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Mayor Corey Calaycay, along with members of the Claremont Chamber of Commerce, will be on hand, along with the Gordon Jazz Collective.

Formed in 1919 as part of a national consortium of clubs that marched for women’s suffrage, by 1925, it had 100 members. The club bought the 12th Street property from Sarah Bixby Smith, the founder of Scripps College.

“These days, during outreach in the community, the board members joke that we’re ‘a secret society of women that redistributes wealth,’” read a Woman’s Club press release. “But we would like to be a little less secret. The group’s more official motto is ‘fun, friendship and philanthropy.’”

The organization funds charitable contributions, including donations to local nonprofits and college scholarships to Claremont students, by raising money through renting its clubhouse for events.

More information is at womansclubofclaremont.com.