Evening star., 1923-05-26
1aNeWS of the Clubs

original research in Washington will
bers rs' of the the national club and
Washington branch of the Amer
lean Association of University
president-elect of the Washington
branch. will preside for the first
time at the meeting, which will fol-
low dinner for the members at the
club house.
Opportunities open to women in
Washington for research were pre-
sented to members of the executive
committee of the club at A meeting
this week. Should the proposal be
accepted by the Washington branch.
they will be offered as national
program to the July convention of
the national association at Portland
Ore.
An increase of 25 per cent in mem
bership during the past five months
was reported to the executive COM
mittee by Mrs. Frank White. wife of
the United States treasurer. chair
man of the membership committee.
Mrs White will entertain the mem
bers of the committee and their hus-
bands Sunday night with supper at
the club house.
Miss Carrie Mcknight will be host
ess at the club on Memorial day.
Tea will be served during the after
noon and daily for university women
who will be in Washington during
the Shrine convention.
Students and alumni of Chicago
University will have a dinner dance
and bridge party at the club house
June 2.
Miss Lillian Fl. Bermann has an
nounced that members of the Welles-
ley Club will find n table reserved
for luncheon at the club house every
Wednesday.
The Sixteenth Street Heights Club
held its annual meeting. Tuesday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. Henry
Z. Allanson, III Maple avenue. Ia
koma Park. Luncheon was served
on the lawn and the meeting, which
followed. was held out of doors.
The following officers We're elected
for the coming year: President,
Mrs. S. James Dennis; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. James Lay; secretary, Mrs.
Charles B. Lingamfelter; treasurer,
Mrs. Charles Lind: director to the
District federation, Mrs. Roy Will
son.
Reports of the delegates to the
annual meeting of the District fed
Grafton were read and the club voted
unanimously to endorse the sugar
boycott recommended by the fedora
ton.
The treasurer was instructed to
send check to the Associated Chari !
ties for a tent at Camp Good VIII.
the second the club has been able
to provide this year.
Mrs c. c. Galloway. Mrs. f. NJ.
Maxwell, Mrs. Roy Potts and Mrs.
c. c. Thomas were guests.
The clubs annual picnic will be
held at Marshall Hall The date to
be announced later.
The Y. w. C. A. Bookioycrs' CIuI,
will give its fourth annual benefit
program Monday a S:15 at La Fayette
Hotel. The program will be given by
Mrs. Richard de Lambert. who is tenn
porarily living in Washington. Nine.
Paulette Greco will play the accom-
paniments and will also play a solo
number. Miss Alice Hutchins Drake
will give two groups of readings from
recently published book of poetry.
The proceeds derived from the benefit
will be devoted to the Louis Hamilton
BaylS fund, which the Booklovers
have maintained since the death of
Lieut.. Bayly, in France, four years
ago. The money thus secured pro-
vides monthly the food of a destitute
boy who lives at the Children's Emer-
gency Home maintained by the Cen
trail Union Mission.
Housekeerers' AlIiance.-The gen.
eral meeting was held Tuesday at the
Art Center, 1106 Connecticut avenue,
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ports We're received from officers and
committees. the presidents report
showing that the association has de-
voted itself. as for the past seventeen
years. to the interests of the home
and those who make it. Mrs. Fred
erick l.. Ransome, for the social hy-
giene committee, reported that the
film Science in Life" would be
shown at the studio of Mrs. Harriet
Hawley Locher some time after the
Shrine convention, through the cour-
tesy of the educational council of the
Social Hygiene Society and of Mrs.
Locher. The following resolution was
adopted: Resolved, That the House
keepers Alliance agree that every
effort should be made to economiZe in
the use of sugar and in the purchase
of articles made of sugar in the face
of the present sugar situation.
The following officers were elected: :
President. Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley;
vice presidents. Miss Ellen A. Vinton.
Mrs Flora Mcdonald Thompson. Mrs.
Frederick L. Ransome, Mrs. W: ID.
Bigelow. Mrs Wendell Phillips Staf-
ford, Mrs. Frederick H. Newell; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. o. r. Bra
ham; recording secretary Mrs. George
w. Eastment; treasurer, Mrs. j. G..
Kendrup; auditor, Mrs. J. Foster
Balm; directors District Federation of
Women's Clubs, Mrs. ]. c. Kendrup
and Miss Mary Heyler. Committee
chairmen-ways and means, Mrs. j.
w. Connolly; program. Mrs. William
E. Chamberlin; membership. Mrs. X.
3. Chalmers; press, Mrs. Henry Grat-
tan Doyle; employment, Miss Ellen
NJ. Rugg; social hygiene. Mrs. +. f.
Wagner; at large. Mrs. Edith c. Sails
bury, Mrs. Chauncy G. Williams, Mrs.
William Cabell Van Week. Mrs. Hugh
s. Cumming and DR.. Della R. Du Comb.
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final meeting of the season was held
Saturday at the American Association
of University Women. 1t was report
ed that through a sale. and as a re-
suit of gifts and pledges, the club
is credited with raising $4,000 for the
Radcliffe College endowment fund
Miss Elizabeth Brandeis. 1918. is chair
man of the endowment fund commit
tee for the district which includes
Washington. The following officers
were elected for the coming year:
President, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle
tary-treasurer. Mrs. J. Edward Ball.
retiring officers, Miss Florence A.
Armstrong, president, and Miss Mary
F. Griffin, secretary, were unable to
accept reelection, and were voted
the thanks of the club.
The Washington Readers Club
closed it's meetings for the season at
the College Women's Club, Tuesday
evening, with the president, Wiley o.
Ison, presiding. The program was
given by new members of the club
with Mrs. Isabel Pechin Macarthur,
chairman of the program committed
in charge. Those who gave readings
We're: Mrs. Bryan Gordon, William
F.. Bryant, Mrs. l.. t. Depue, Mrs. c.
c. Bennett. Victor Martin and Miss
Fanny Sweeney. There were also
numbers.
The club had a successful Shakes
peare banquet at the Women's City
Club, at which Charles B. Hanford