[citation needed] Mrs. C. W. Trowbridge was the first State president of the ISS, and Baumhoff acted as treasurer and secretary, also superintendent of junior work.

[1] The ISS accomplished a wonderful amount of good in places where the regularly organized charitable associations could not readily reach.

They were always quick to respond to appeals for assistance, taking methods for placing the sick and afflicted in immediate touch with the best care and attention from physicians, placing them in hospitals, and rendering any assistance that may be needed in any direction, ranging from temporary relief from poverty to long treatments for chronic cases of disease of body and mind.

[1] While the work was general, yet in 1914, Baumhoff's special plan was to reach, through her Missouri Division, all the people possible by the press, pulpit, free lectures — which she gave by traveling all through the State — correspondence and sending out of literature on the subject, on the prevention of blindness, and to give those already blind opportunities of education to enable them to become self-respecting and independent.

[1] Baumhoff also gave, during 1914, a series of lectures to young women to help them look out for themselves, and eliminate, as far as possible, the foundation of trouble, illness, or wrong, caused by the words, "I did not know.

[1] Before adopting Baumhoff's seven-year studied plan of intelligent mothering, care and training of blind children under school age in their own homes, as far as it is deemed advisable, it was considered wisest to protect all of the Sunshine interests by incorporating the Missouri Division, ISS, which was accomplished January 25, 1912.