Evening star., 1920-02-01
GOOD DHEA[THCL
SEEKING MEMBERS
5000 Cooperative and
1000 Sustaining Enroll
r ments Are Sought.

At a meeting or the Doard OF dlrec-
tors of the Woman's Evening Clinic,
TO be held Monday afternoon, Feb
ruary 9, in clinic headquarters, 720
18th street northwest. plans will be
completed and committees named for
obtaining 5000 cooperative and 1000
sustaining members of the Good
Health club and for raising guar
anteed building fund.
Plans of organization of the club
provide for central organization
committee of ten members and a
chairman, each of whom will be chair
man of division committee. The di-
vision committee will include five
chairmen of units of membership and
each unit is to comprise 100 co-opera-
tive members or fifty sustaining MEM
berS. Each unit of cooperative mem
berS will have patroness who will
contribute s25 to the building fla d
for each year that the unit member
ship is full.
Committee Membership.
Mrs Maynard Crane Burrell. 1901
18th street. Somerset House. is chair
man of the central committee. Some
of the committee members are Mrs. ].
W. Littel. Soldiers Home; Mrs. WeS-
ley Martin Stoner. 1927 Rhode Island
avenue. and Mrs. T.. q SiggerS. 800 +
street northwest. Miss Bessie Crone
DR.. Nina Sharp and Mrs. l.. G. Derr are
unit chairmen in Mrs. Siggers' divi-
sion Mrs. Charles Whitman Wetm ore,
Miss l. O Wells. Miss Georgia Robert
son and DIR. Elnora c. Folkmar are
pledged as patronesseS for member
ship units.
At the annual meeting Of tha Wom-
ans Evening Clinic at Rauschers last
Tuesday these were elected to the
board of directors:
For terms of two years: Mrs. Henry
C. Perkins. Mrs. Seaton Perry. Mrs.
Edward G. Siggers. Mrs Richard
Wainwright, Mrs Charles Boughton
Wood and Mrs. s. V. B. Young. to
succeed themselves and Mrs. Cato
Sells and Mrs. J. Lynn Yeagle.
For terms of three years: Mrs.
Samuel g. Blythe. Mrs. julius Lans-
burgh, Miss I. c. Wells, Mrs. Charles
Is. Drake. Mrs. l. w. LitteIl. Mrs.
James B. Turner. Mrs. Harry L. Rust.
Miss Bliss and Mrs. ]. A Dougherty
Officers Who Were Elected.
The annual election of officers. held
at the directors meeting following
the annual meeting. resulted as fol-
lows. President, Mrs Charles Whit
man Wetmore; vice presidents. Mrs.
II. L. Rust, Mrs. ]. A. Dougherty Mrs
Charles B. Drake. Mrs. Richard Vain
wright and Mrs. c. c. Calhoun; Secre-
tary. Mrs. julius Lansburgh; assist
y, ,
corresponding secretary. Mrs. 7. w.
Lttell: treasurer. Mrs. Samuel Blythe;
first assistant treasurer. to have
charge of all funds for the building
fund. Good Health Home. Mrs. Hen
~ W. Fitch: second assistant treas
urer, to have charge of membership
dues and donations to the Good
Health Club during the organization
period. Miss Bliss.
DR.. Elnora c. Folkmar was elected
superintendent of the clinic for an
other year.
In her annual report Mrs. Blythe. the
treasurer. said the Woman'S Evening
Clinic is self-supporting through an
nual dues and donations of members
and small fees paid by patients. The
S04 members contribute about S2,4O0
year to the clinic. Fees paid by pa
tients last year amounted to S1,100.
The clinic has never had a deficit, and
now has about $4,000 in it's treasury
about $500 of which was obtained
for enlargement of work. No appeal
has ever been made TO the public for
given for the benefit of the fund for
enlargement of work, which netted
about S1,150.
In her report as superintendent Dr.
Folkmar showed that visits to the
clinic last year totaled more than
$500. The number of visits the first
year the clinic was in operation, 1914,
was over 1.S0O, anG the yearly average
for six years was about $500 the
average cost per visit, to the patients.
being 30 cents. DR.. Folkmar reported
that during the last year patients
were cared for at Sibley. Georgetown
and George Washington University
hospitals. In most of the hospital cases
patients Were able to repay the clinic
the money advanced for their care