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Members of the national board or
the association were as delighted
with the Lafayette Square building
as was Mrs Morgan. and they bent
every energy to obtain 1t. Alter the
negotiations were well under way
a national clubhouse committee was
appointed, of which Mrs Phiilp North
Moore, president of the Womahs fe"-
Grafton of Clubs. is chairman ana
the following women are memNeis'
Mrs A. Ross Hill. Missouri Mrs
Walker ID. Hines, New York: Mrs,
Herbert C. Hoover California; Mrs
Oryille II. Martin. Missouri; Mrs,
Edgerton Parsons, New YORK; Mrs
Raymond b. Morgan, District OF Co.
lumbia; Mrs. Sumner F.. Fear'na'"'
Boston: Miss Helen Taft. Bryn Ma"r
College, and Mrs. william Morton
Wheeler. Massachusetts,.
The president, the treasurer and the
secretary of the national associa tion are
ex ofiicio also on this committee, while
the following group of women comprises
the advisory committee: Mrs. Robert
Lansing, Miss Julia Lathrop. Dean brr-
tha NJ. Boody, Radcliffe College; Dean
Ada Comstock, Smith College: l'ean
Virginia c. Gilders!ecve. Barnard col
legc: Dean NJ A. Harris, Imira Col
lege: Dean Ida Shaw King. Woman's
College in Brown University Dean Ella
McCaleb, Vassar College: President
Mary l.. Wooley, Mount Holyoke Col
ege President NJ. Carey Thomas, Rr!n
Mawr College.
At an expense OF several thousand
dollars the necessary alterations and re-
pairs were made to restore the old house
to it's original charm and beauty The
house committee, of which Mrs. Morgan
was chairman, gave many weeks in
planning. remodeling and cquipping the
building. This committee is comprised
of the following. in addition to Mrs
Morgan Mrs. Glen l.. Swigseti vice
president south Atlantic section; Miss
Sibyl Baker, president Washington
branch; Mrs. Theodore l., Cole. coun-
cilor Washington branch Mrs. Carl F..
kellcrmtn. Mrs. David L. Wing, Miss
Olive Davis, Washington; Mrs William
Guth. Baltimore Miss Elizabeth B.
Kirkbride, Philadelphia Miss Valentine
l.. Chandor, New York, and Mrs. Sum
ner B. I'earnan, Boston.
The historic old house has been con-
verted into modern clubhouse for
college women. The house itself WAS
all that could be desired for this pur-
pose-spacious apartments on the first
floor for assembly rooms, library. lounge,
reading and dining rooms. There are
porches and a garden, and beyond it an
annex, connected with the house. in
which there is a quiet rest room, read
ing and writing quarters and on the
second floor OF both the main building
and the annex commodious restful bed
rooms.
These rooms are being furnished by
women's colleges and associatonai
branches throughout the country. and
will be continuous delight to the
thousands of college women who visit
Washington annually.
Many famous families have lived
Washngton's philanthropist. W. w.
cOrcoran, built the mansion in the
late forties. Thomas Ritchie occu-
pied it next. The Elijah Wards the
Slidells. the Stocktons and the Ew-
ings helped to make it's history. 1t
has been cabinet home several
times, and it was Mrs. Lamont. the
wife OF President Cleveland's War
Secretary, who first Transformed the
old garden into a bower OF loveliness
and often served tea in the afternoons
of the early summer beneath the
branches Of It's overhanging trees
1t is one of the pleasant incidents
Of the new clubhouse that nearly all
the rooms are being furnished by i'm
dividual associational branches or by
individual college women. and in this
way there Is an atmosphere of charm
Ing personality that otherwise would
be impossible. The association IL re-
storing the old garden also. and with
the house 1t will regain the loveliness
1t possessed under the distinguished
hoStesseS Of other days and again be-
come center Of charming hospital
ity. ABBY GUNN BAKER.
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