The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-06
FEDERATION OF
WOMEN'S CLUBS
General Meeting of Council to Be
Held in Washington
City.
DATES APRIL 81, %, %, "a
Great Gathering Expectc d.
Sketches of Those Prominent
in Official Life.
DATES APRIL 81, %, %, "a

Club women all over the United
States are beginning to look forward
to the council meetings of the General
Federation of Womens Clubs, to be
held in Washington April 81, 22, 90 and
"a. Added interest Is lent to the occa-
sion because 1t is the twenty-third an
niversary of the formal launching of
the General Federation OF Women's
Clubs. On April % and "a, 1890, the
federations constitution was adopted
by the ratification convention held at
the old Scottish Rite Hall, on Madison
Avenue. New York. year later the
first council meeting in the fedora :
TONS history was called at East Or
ange. N. j., by invitation Of the Orange
Womens Club. In the twenty-three
years Of It's history as an organization
the federation has grown to it's present
remarkable proportions, and the "coun-
Gil meetings have become of tremen-
dous Importance to the more than a
million" women in the federation
The April meeting takes on especial
character because of being held I'm the
national capital. To-day, when wo-
lie questions and their own relation
thereto. Washington. they admit, is
particularly allurng. not only for its
historic interest. but az the theatre
of discussion OF matters of great pub
lie concern. Presiding over the Wash
ington deliberations will be Mrs Percy
V. Pennypacker, elected at San Fran
cisco last July to lead the federated
forces for the biennial period of 1912
1914. Mrs. Pennypacker Is rapidly
winning all over the United States the
reputation for business ability, tireless
energy, charm OF manner and excep-
tional oratorfcal powers that she has
long had In her OWL, State of Texas
one OF the new standards that she has
set for the general federation is a.
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national bodies, and one of the. ways
In which she Is securing il la by
a monthly letter to cover and grip to-
gether matters OF vital interest to club
women.
With Mrs. Pennypacker Will be the
Blankcnburg and Mrs. Samuel B.
Sheath. Mrs. Blankenhurg the aret
Vice-presidcnt, wife of the Mayor of
Philadelphia, is a Quakeress and comes
from family identified with advanced
ideas. She was formerly president OF
the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION. and has been on the board of
the general federation since 1908 hav-
ing served both as auditor and second
vice president. Mrs. Sheath. the sec
ond vice president, is serving her first
term on the board, but has been pres
ident OF the Ohio federation and has
long been we'll known in both State
and national club councils
The two secretaries OF the general
federation are Mrs. Eugene Reilly, of
North Carolina, and Mrs II. L. Keefe
OF Nebraska. Mrs. Reilly. the CORE
spending secretary. is also chairman Of
the program committee for the Wash
ington 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 Englishman who was
associated with Bright and Golden in
the anticorn-law agitation
In addition TO the FIVE officers named,
scores OF other women of national rep
utation Will be present at the council
meeting. Mrs. Frances Squire Potter.
of the literature department, accounted
one OF the orators of the womans
movement and an exemplar Of democ-
racy; Miss Zona Gale. of the civic de-
partment, known to story readers as
the author of Friendship Village:
Miss Helen Varick 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. eX-president of the
federation-these are a few OF the wo-
men who will be prominent in the coun-
CHS deliberations at the Washington
meeting. y brilliant general program
is promised, too. There also will be
trip to Mount Vernon. a day in Bal
timore, as guests OF the Maryland fed
Grafton. and numerous other features.