The Washington herald., 1913-03-14
W0MEN'S COUNCIL TO
meet next MONTH
Twenty-third Anniversary Will Be
Celebrated in This City by
Federation Clubs.
. MRS. PENNYBAcKER PREsIDEs

The council meeting of the General Fed
April 21-24, inclusive. The dates will mark
the twenty-third anniversary of the fed
Grafton, organized in New York, and now
including more than million women
The April meeting takes on especial
character because OF being held in the
National Capital. To-day, when women
are Increasingly alive to all pubic
q questions and their own relation thereto,
Washington, they admit, is particularly
allurins, not only for its historic inter-
est, but as the theater of discussion of
matters of great public concern. Pro-
siding over the Washington deliberations
will be Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, elect
ed at San Francisco last July TO lead the
federated forces for the biennial period
ISls-l9l4
With Mrs. Pennybacker will be the two
vice presidents. Mrs. Lucretia l. Blank
enburg and Mrs Samuel 3. Sheath. Mrs
Blankenburg, the first vice president, wife
of the Mayor of Philadelphia. is a Quak-
eress, and comes from family identified
with advanced ideas.
Ohio Woman an Official.
Mrs. Sheath, the second vice president,
is serving her first term on the board.
but has been president of the Ohio Fed
Grafton and has long been well known
in both State and national club coun-
ellis The practical side of club life has
especially appealed to her. and, with the
aid Of her husband, she has been able
TO secure exceptional advantages in the
way of parks and Fairgrounds for her
home town. Mrs. Sheath is in charge of
the programme for the biennial of 1911,
considered a position of great response
bility.
The two secretaries of the General Fed
Grafton are Mrs. Eugene Reilly, of North
Carolina, and Mrs. H. L. Keefc. of Ne
braska. Mrs. Reilly. the corresponding
secretary, is also chairman of the pro-
gramme committee for the Washington
Council She has been on the board since
1910 and was formerly president of her
own State federation. Mrs. keefe, the
recording secretary, was born in York,
England, and is the daughter of an Eng
lLshman who was associated with Bright
and Golden in the anti-Corn law agitation
She has been president of the Nebraska
State Federation, her term having been
distinguished by unusual activity in legis-
iative reforms.
Club Is Many sided.
All these women are held up as illus
trations of the many-sidedness of club
women and of the fact that clubwomen
in general are more and more appealed
cause they have had the training and
have learned the lesson of social serv-
ice. In addition to the five officers named,
scores of other women of national repu-
tation will be present at the council meet
ing. Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, of the
literature department, accounted one OF
the orators of the wornans movement
and an exemplar of democracy; Miss
Zona Gale. OF the civics department.
known TO story readers as the author OF
Friendship VILLAGE" Miss Helen Narick
Boswell, whom Roosevelt and Taft sent
TO Panama to organize the women into
clubs. so that the canal work could go
on Mrs. Philip n. Moore, eN-presldent
of the federation-these are few of the
women who will he prominent in the coun-
ellis deliberations at the Washington
meeting 4 brilliant general programme
is promised. too. There also will be trip
to Mount Vernon, a day in Baltimore,
as guests Of the Maryland Federation,
and numerous other features. On to
WASHINGTON is the slogan for the women
,,f the great federation.