Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-23
COLLEGE WOMEN
ELECT OFFICERS
Miss Marie L. Wolfe Named
President of Organization at
Annual Meeting.

The annual meetin g OF the College
Womans Club of Essex County
was held last night at the Y. w.
C. A, Washington street. Miss
Marie L. Wolfe was elected presi-
dent. She succeeds Miss Christine
Van Wagene. Other officers elected
were: First president, Mrs.
George P. Dougherty; second vice.
president, Miss Elizabeth r. Sayre;
recording secretary. Miss Florence
K. Doll; corresponding secretary.
Miss Helen M. Sims; assistant CORE
spending secretary, Miss Agnes
Roche; treasurer, Miss Josephine
Hedden; historian, Miss Anna Bod
Ter; auditor, Miss Elizabeth Nc
Knight; program chairman, Miss
Florence e. Eddowes; social, Miss
Constance Pearson; civics, Miss
Mabel Denton; ways and means,
Mrs. William Plat Sutherland, jr.;
scholarship, Miss Jessie L. Dreamer;
membership, Miss Christine Van
Wagenen; nominating, Miss Alberta
Doremus; chairmen, Mrs. leonard H.
Robbins and Mrs. Clinton Pierson
King; Misunderstanding of the ex-
ecutive committee, Mrs. Oscar Flynn
and Mrs. Elwood Armitage.
Mrs. William A. Kirk. chairman of
the scholarship fund, reported that
since the founding of the fund in
19O7-190S the sum of 1888 has been
awarded to twelve individuals, $3.50
in gifts and the rest in loans. OF the
twelve receiving help from the club
five have been graduated, two were
obliged to leave college after one
year and five are now in college.
Two hundred and seventy-five dol
lars has been returned to the fund,
thus enabling the committee to help
one more student. 1t is expected
that the amount returned by Feb
ruary, 1915, will enable the club to
assist three more students.
incidentally we should be doing
good educational and civic work In
arousing a desire among New Jersey
girls for college education that will
| be realized in a State college for
I women" Mrs. Kirk concluded.
1t was reported that the list of
colleges whose graduates are eligible
for membership has been increased
by twenty-five, making a total of
! fifty-one. Twenty-one new members
nave DSeu LIZ SCdis
The members recently elected are:
Miss Rose Alden, Miss Jessie b. Colt,
Mrs. Kenneth Douglas. Miss Blanche
Emmons, Miss Ethel Taylor, Miss
NJ. Constance Wilson and Miss Ver-
non Halliday.
Miss Florence Doll, author and gen.
eral chairman of the pageant that
will be given Saturday afternoon,
June 10, announced that the pageant
will probably be held at Weequahic
Park instead of Branch Brook Park.
but that definite arrangements have
not yet been completed. Members
are rehearsing and making costumes
for the affair, which will be the
| largest of its kind held in New Jer-
sey It's object is to give greater
| publicity to the State College for
Women movement. The members
will meet Tuesday evening at the
homo of Miss Lydia Sayre, "A Broad
| street, to make garlands. An all
day sewing meeting will be held to-
day at East Side High School to
make costumes for the chorus and
dancers. Miss Sarah Morris and Miss
Mabel Denton will be In charge. At
the supper that preceded the business
aession tho hostess, Miss Helen M.
| Sims, was assisted by Miss Agnes
Roche, Miss Jessie Condit, Miss Eliza
beth Saype, Miss Cynthia MacKellar
and Miss ]. Isabelle Warrender.