Maude Miner Hadden

[6] Through her work with young women in the courts, Miner came to believe in legal and education reform to end prostitution.

By enacting adequate laws against prostitution and securing honest enforcement of laws, by dealing wisely and effectively with offenders when they come into the courts, by doing preventive work to lessen both demand and supply, and by arousing and sustaining a public demand that prostitution shall be suppressed.In 1908, Hadden and her sister, Stella Miner, opened Waverly House for Girls at 165 West 10th Street in Manhattan.

Upon arriving, inmates were questioned about their family and sexual histories; they were subjected to primitive IQ tests; and they were scrutinized for STIs.

[13] Pamphlets at the time promoting Waverly House purportedly instructed the inmates in Victorian sexual ethics, sewing, housework and hat-making[14] and helped the girls to return home or gain safe employment.

[2][17] After the United States entered World War I, Miner established the Committee on Protective Work for Girls (CPWG) to address the problem of prostitution and venereal disease around military training camps.

[18] Eventually the interest in policing military camps increased, and the CPWG was placed under the War Department's Division of Law Enforcement.

Miner resigned as director of the committee, and in a private letter she stated that the War Department was placing the well-being of soldiers over that of the women.

The Round Table began as casual meetings in private homes, and eventually moved to the Everglades Club.

Speakers at the Round Table have included Jonathan Wainwright, John Mason Brown, H. R. Knickerbocker, Barbara Cartland, Omar Bradley, James W. Fulbright, Maria von Trapp, Douglas MacArthur, Richard Nixon, Ralph Nader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Bob Dole.

[2] Hadden died April 14, 1967, in Palm Beach, Florida, and was buried in St. Thomas Cemetery, Manhattan, New York City.