This photograph of the founding members of Anti -Rust was taken in 1894. The women pictured include Katherine Dresser White, founder and first president; her mother, Mrs. Thomas Dresser; Mrs. J. D. Lloyd; Mrs. Lewis Miller, Mrs. H.N. Cunningham, Mrs. E.R. Ulrich, Miss Henrietta Ulrich, Miss Maude Thayer, Miss E. Vredenburgh, Miss K. Brown, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Lucy Bowen.
In addition, Misses Clara Buck, Abbie Vredenburgh, Clara Miller, Mary Stokes, Clementine Cowgill, Nealie Brinkerhoff and Cornelia Bowen. Miss Carrie Garritt came in later that year.
"The Anti Rust Club was the direct result of my drive to study, and keep in touch with current topics, more than I would be apt to do without the incentive of a regular program and the interest of meeting and discussing it with others."
— Katherine Dresser White, 1944
The first meeting was held in February, 1894, at the home of Katherine Dresser White's father, Dr. Dresser, at the corner of 3rd and Monroe. A plan for a Club was presented and adopted; the Constitution was adopted on March 3rd by 18 members.