Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-21
LEAGUE OF PEN WOMEN
HEARS REPORTS READ
Delegates to the Editorial AS
ISOLATION Convention
Elected.
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With the newly elected officers in at
tendance. the League of American Pen
Women held its last meeting at the Pub
lie Library and arranged a calendar Of
events for the ensuing year. The reports
of officers We're read. The vice president.
Mrs. Edith kingman Kern. gave an inter
esting account of the International Peace
Congress at Baltimore.
Mrs. Nannette B. Paul one of the
leagues representatives for the District
of Columbia, reported she had extended
the greetings of the organization to the
National Fairgrounds and Recreation
Association at the New Willard recently
and that vote of thanks was given her
and the league for cooperation in the
work of the association.
The Promotion of Opera in English
and the encouragement of American
Music in which Mrs Eleanor Everest
Freer composer and league member is
interested, was discussed.
Delegates to the National Editorial As
! ISOLATION, which convenues in Detroit
next July, were elected as follows
Mrs. Anna Sanborn Hamilton, Mrs
Edith kingman Kern Miss Mabel Louise
White of Washington, ID. c.: Mrs. Matte
Hamilton Flick, Okla homa City, Okla ::
Mrs. f. Cora De Puy. Detroit, Mich.
alternates, Mrs. Emma j. Hughes and
Miss Elizabeth Malotte Barnes, Wash
ington, -. G..
State Representatives Chosen.
The list of state representatives was
made complete by the election of the
following members:
Alabama. Mrs. Martha S. Gielow: Cali
forna. Mrs. Nellie Blessing Eyster; Colo
RADIO. Mrs. Ella Celeste Adams: Connect
E'tizahafb
of Columbia. Mrs Rachel Tongate Beck
Mrs. Virginia King Fry. Mrs. Nannette
B. Paul and Mrs. Phoebe Hamilton Sea-
brook; Florida. Mrs. Lewis b. Stafford
Illinois, Mrs Carrie Jacobs Bond: Ken
lucky, Mrs. Zylla Moore Cardin: Massa-
chusetts, Mrs. Alice Herring Christopher
Michigan. Mrs. L. Cora De Puy; Mime
sofa, Mile. Anna Dreyfus; Nebraska, Mrs
Amanda l.. Handlers: New Jersey, Miss
Marie f. Ryerson: New York eastern
Mrs Grace Gallatin Seton. New York
twestern), Mrs. Jessie Sanborn Connolly :;
Oklahoma. Mrs. Matte Hamilton Flick
Pennsylvania teastern), Mrs. Dora Har-
vey Deveifn: Pennsy lvania fwestern),
Mrs Mary Temple Jamison: Tennessee
Mrs. kathrin Haden Texas, Mrs Henrie
G. l. German. Virginia. Mrs. Lucy At
kinson Dudley: Washington, Mrs. Lura
l.. Brown Smith. Wyoming, Mrs. Viva
A. b. Henderson; South Dakota, Mrs. J..
r. Eastwood.
Representatives abroad elected for the
ensuing year are: India. Mrs. Alice
Northrup Evans. England, Miss Belle
Harpster HARNESS; Europe, Miss Ger
trude knipp.
The child welfare committee. compose j
OF four members, was APPOINTED. as fol-
lows: Mrs. Marie Graves Bonlan.. CHAIR
man; Miss Mabel Louise White, Miss
Elizabeth A. HYDE and Mrs. jeremiah
Curtin
Resolutions were passed extending the
sympathy of tho league u IT'S former
president. Mrs. "a Sale CorbeI Picket /,
in her late bereavement in the dea' h
of her son. Mai. George Pickett, L. S. A.
Mrs. Anna r. Wilder, who has been
historian of the league during the pa st
year. gave an exhaustive statement Of
work by members. most OF whom are
out-of-town residents. The work include s
the writing of poetry, sonnets. librettos.
music, editorials. book reviews. criti-
cisms, novels. newspaper articles and
other work in the field Of writing.