New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-03-27
Committees Submit Ac-
counts at Yearly Meeting
This Afternoon in Chapel
of First Church.

Reports OF committees oil the WON
ans club, submitted at this after
moons annual meeting at the First
church chapel by Mrs. Ada n. Burr
recording secretary. show that splen.
did results have attended the efforts
OF the members during the past year
Mrs. Burr's report includes the acti.
vities of the committees. prepared by
their respective leaders.
The year has been one of progress
Recognizing the fact that nothing
stands still, that Il must either go
ahead or retrogress, the Woman's club
has chosen to go forward and its
achievements are worthy of note.
The complete reports for the year
follow:
"The close of this long winter sea-
son and the welcome hints Of warm
spring days bring us to the close of
our years work and to the reading of
the Attn annual report of the Wom-
ans club.
During the past year no changes
were made in the board of officers
and Mrs. James E. Cooper and Mrs.
John II. Kirkham were elected lirec-
tors for the term expiring in 1925.
"One of the first questions to be de-
cided was the club meeting place for
the coming year, and since there
seemed to be a great difference of
opinion. the board thought it wise to
give each member of the club a
chance to express her choice in the
matter. Return postcards were sent
to all members of the club and of the
1913 cards returned to the secretary
there were rs votes for the Camp
school and 100 for the First church
chapel. While this was not an over
whelming majority, and while more
than one-third of the club members
had failed to respond, the choice
seemed to be in favor of the First
church chapel which was accordingly
adopted as our meeting place. AS a
result there has been a happy COM
bination of literary and social nle-
ments at our meetings and this has
been a source of great satisfaction to
many
THE years program began with a
reception held from until o'clock
on October II. The officers and di-
rectors of the club were in the re-
ceiving line and welcomed large
number of women, among them many
new members. During the afternoon,
delightful musical program was rem
dered by Theron Hart, Marcus Fleit-
ger and Mrs. Stuart Epson.
AT the second meeting in October
the club listened to a lecture by Miss
Mary Sandal of New York city whose
subjec was The Great Gift This,
she interpreted as growth or develop
ment-the goal towards which we all
should strive.
ION November IA, the club meeting
was held at the New Britain Institute
where an exhibition of modern paint
ings was given under the direction of
Mrs. Elisha Cooper. Mr.. Truman E.
Fassett, one of the exhibitors, was
present and added much to the en-
joyment of the occasion by his ex-
plantations and descriptions. The pic
tubes were all painted by members of
the art colony at Lyme, Connecticut:
with the exception of those by Mr..
Fassett and his friend, Mr.. Jonas Lie,
of New York. The exhibit was open
to the public for period of more
than two weeks, and during this time
approximately 5000 people viewed
the paintings.
ION November IS the club met at
the Y. w. G. A. hall where two one
act plays were presented under the
direction of Mrs. William T. Wells.
The first was The Florist Shop by
members of the club; the second
Hearts to Mend by three students of
Emerson college, whose coming was
arranged by Miss Ruth Bassette, one
of the cast. Highest praise should be
accorded each one who took part and
the gracious giving of so much time
and talent was heartily appreciated by
the club.
According to our custom of the
past few years, the meeting immedi-
ately preceding Christmas was given
over to a lecture on Some Recent
Books Worth Reading Miss Corinne
Bacon spoke interestingly and with
authority upon this subject, and
through the courtesy of the New Brit
ain Institute and the Dickinson Drug
company many of the books reviewed
were displayed on the tables for our
inspection.
ION January 2, Henry T. Burr lee
tured upon The Photography of
Connecticut He spoke of the three
parts into which Connecticut is di-
vidcd, geographically and geologically,
and explained the different kinds of
rocks found in these divisions and the
reasons for their presence. He ex-
planned the formation of the red sand
stone of the Connecticut valley and
gave a brief account of the glacial
epoch to which SO many of New Eng
lands lakes and waterfalls owe their
existence and upon which the pros
perity of New England SO largely de-
ponds.
1T was disappointment to many
that Mrs. Maurice Milcke who intend
ed to sing for us on January 16 was
unable to be present. We were most
fortunate however in being able to
listen to delightful musicale by the
Mendelssohn Trio with Theron Hart,
pianist, Herbert Anderson, violinist,
and Henry Schauffter, 'celist. The
trio numbers and the solos were
varied, and played in the artistic man
ner which marks the thorough must |
clan.
Guest night was observed on Janu-
airy 80 and the speaker was Marcus
White, whose subject was, Fact and
Fancy in Psychology Mr.. White
dwelt upon the two types of human
ity--the credulous and the doubling
and gave numerous examples of Gre