After-School Club

[Benjamin Zimmer]

First OED3 cite for "After-School Club" (under "after-school") is 1929.
Here is one of several newspaperarchive.com cites from 1911:

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Atlanta Constitution, March 9, 1911, p. 10
The After-School Club of America, through the Woman's Department of The
Constitution, has presented to Mrs. Willet for the club school at Tallulah
for mountain boys and girls, membership for one year in the After-School
Club... Membership in the After-School Club, which has headquarters in
Philadelphia, opens a field of valuable instruction and literature for
grown-ups, especially those who are in any way directing the welfare of
children - mothers, teachers or students, while the department for
children, presided over by Mr. Nathaniel Dawson, is reaching thousands of
children all over the country.
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I'm not sure when the After-School Club of America was founded.  I have
found references to a multi-volume set called "The After School Library"
published in Philadelphia by The After School Club in 1909.


--Ben Zimmer