 On the list for 1914 and 1915 there were also Mischa Elman, violinist, with Maggie Teyte, soprano, in joint recital; David Mannes, and his wife Clara Mannes (sister of Walter Damrosch), for many years concertmaster of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy, lecturing on "The Heart and Hand", and the Kneisel Quartette, Fritz Kreisler, violinist, and Elizabeth Van Endert of the Royal Opera Company of Berlin, Sir Douglas Mawson, lecturer.Despite being a working woman, Gooding was of the position that women did not need suffrage.Despite her opinion, or maybe due to it, she was on the board of judges, with Charlotte Rumbold and Thekla M. Bernays, in the Votes-for-Women contest held by "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch".