Women now
have own

exclusive club

By STEVE MERTL

CALGARY (CP) — The
newest ‘exclusive .club in
town isn't lined with dark
wood paneling or filled with
pungent cigar smoke.

Inter Se — Latin for
among ourselves — is a quiet
retreat a fow steps off the
main foyer of the silvery new
Gulf Canada Ltd. building in
downtown Calgary. The
walls are done in soft shades
of blue and, green and are
huhg with‘modern ‘art. The
fur: ire dp the little dining

robmi is‘French provincial.

And jf you are an unac-

alae male the recep-

tionist at the front desk will
politely ask you to leave.

Inter Seis the brainchild
of two. women who decided
Calgary's female * ‘ business
community, barred ‘from
membership in the city's
traditional exclusive hang-
outs, needed a club of its
own.

Ann Wesley, an accoun-
tant, “and Helene Haladaa,
who owns an interior design
firm, thought up Inter Se two

years ago and together with |

lawyer Gail Vickery and a
handful of investors saw it to

its official opening in early’

October.
SLOW START .

After a alow start, mem-
bership has climbed to about
200 women, although the
target is 450. The original
investors, who paid $2,000
for the privilege of being

founders, helped cover start-

up expenses but more mem-
bers are needed if the club is
to survive.

Full membership costs
$400 annually, plus a $400
initiation fee. That gets you

access to the lounge and din-"

ing room, the sauna, steam
room and whirlpool and exer-

cise room and various fitness -

programs.
Like Calgary’s famous

men's preserves, the Ranch- ‘ff

man’s Club and the Petro-

leum Club, the opposite sex.

can come to Inter Se as
guests of members. Vickery,

club secretary-treasurer, °

says fully half the people in
the 95-séat diningroom at
Tuneh‘are™

“nds dedociates df the women
members,

-* "What the men can’t do
-after. polishing off their tour-
endos forestiers or steak
dianne flambe is adjourn for.a
little steam with the mem-
bers. The’ recreation area is
off limits to men, just as
women are restricted to cer-
tain parts of the Ranchman’s
Cl

Inter Se isn't the first
women's club of its.kind in
Canada but it is the ‘first in
Alberta. Calgary, whose ex-
ecutive community is grow:
ing steadily, is a logical
location. -

‘Although a couple of the *.

members are retired career
women, most members work
full time. Inter Se’is actively
recruiting non- working
women.

Vickery wouldn't ven- |

ture a guess on the incomes
./ of club members but. said
Most are professionals or
own their own businesses,

“so you can draw some con- .

clusions from that.”

Besides being a female
preserve, Inter So offers a
couple of things the’ men's
clubs don’t. Neither the Pet+
roleum Club nor the Ranch-
man's have extensive fitness
facilities with a full-time in-
structor. They are basically
restaurants and~ bars for

their members, And ‘while it”

might not interest Ranch-
man’s Club members, Inter
Se members'can attend per-

iodic ‘fashion shows at their.

club,

Inter Se, like its male-
only counterparts, brings in
luncheon speakers and ofgan-
izes functions. In Tact, says

Vickery, it's not much differ- fi

ent from the older establish-
ments across town.

“I think that you see
almost exactly the same kind
of people you'd see at the
Petroleum Club, except
they're a little better
dressed,” she says.

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