Evening star., 1926-12-08
$15Q,ODO HOSPITAL
FUND TOBE SOUGHT
Citizens Committee Formed
to Conduct Campaign for
Columbia.

Organization of the citizens COM
mittee in charge OF the campaign to
raise $150,O0O for Columbia Hospital
was completed last night at a meet
lit Myers. 23lO s street. Fifty mem.
bers were present. Gen. John A.
Johnston presided.
Rabbi Abram Simon, president of
the hospital, opened the meeting.
Gen. Johnston spoke briefly, after
which Dr.. w. NJ. Sprig and DIR. j.
Wesley Bovee gave the history of
the hospital from it's establishment
in 1866.
Judge Frederick l.. Siddons paid
tribute to the work of the hospital,
saying that the life of his daughter
in-law had been saved by the eff
cheney of the staff Two young
mothers, who were former patients,
spoke Of the hospital and its work.
Needs Are Outlined.
Henry =. Blair told of the needs of
the institution which the present
campaign seeks to meet.
The committee then organized, with
Gen. Johnston chairman; Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman and Rabbi A. Simon, vice
chairmen; DIR. w. p. Morrill,, secre-
tary; National Metropolitan Bank.
treasurer; Col. Arthur O'Brien. chair
man of the executive committee: Vic
tor b. Deyber. chairman of the teams
COMMITTEES, and Arthur HELEN, chair
man of the estimates committee.
Mrs. Tuckerman was also named
chairman of the women's board com
mittee and will direct the work of the
womens orga MIA tion during the CAM
paign, which is to close with an in
tensive effort early in February.
Personnel of Committee.
The personnel of the citizens com
mittee, to which will be added addi-
tional names at the next meeting, to
be held at the call of the chairman,
follows: Clarence A. Aspinwall, G. w.
Ayers, DR.. Frank W. Ballou, David F.,
Berry, Rudolph B. Behrend. Henry
p. Blair, Mrs. Delos Abiel Blodgett,
Mrs. Thomas Bradley, Frank s.
Bright, Charles Henry Butler, Senator
Arthur Capper, Edward F. Colladay,
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. L. r. Chatham,
Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, AS
sistant Secretary of War and Mrs. F..
Trubee Dawson. Mrs. Alvin F.. Dodd,
Commissioner Proctor l.. Dougherty.
Victor B. Deyber, Col. James s Easily
Smith. Joshua l. Evans, Robert "
Fleming. Right Rev. James f. Free
man, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Amos A.
Fries, Julius Garfinckel, Charles A.
Goldsmith, Admiral and Mrs. Cary T.
Grayson. l.. w. Groomes, Col. and
Mrs. kensey Hampton. Arthur Hell
len, Richard w. Hynson, Maj. Gen.
2n6 MrS NJ w 10
and Mrs. Edgar Jadwin, Gen. John A.
Johnston, Mrs. Simon Kann, r.. l.
Kaufman, John r. Larner, Ladislas s
Lazaro, Mrs. H. r. Learned, Ralph
w. Lee, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune,
Luther w. Linkins.
Mrs. Morton j. Luchs, Mr.. and Mrs.
Simon Lyon, Assistant Secretary of
War and Mrs. Hanford MacNider.
Arthur ID. Marks, Mrs. Charles
Graves Matthews, Judge and Mrs. Nc
Chord, John r. Meany, Mrs. Virginia
Blake Miller, c. F. Norment, sr.; Sen
ator Lawrence G. Phipps. r. l.. Quig-
ley, Brig. Gen. George Richards. Rab-
hi Abram Simon, Judge Frederick l..
Siddons, DIR. G. j. Skinner, DIR. William
Mercer SpriGg, Admiral F.. r. Stitt,
John G. Weldon. Rear Admiral Spen-
Ger S. Wood, James Morris Wood
ward, Representative Frederick Zill-
man, DIR. William Mather Lewis. Rev.
c. w. Lyons, Col. Arthur O'Brien, Dr.
and Mrs. G.. Brown Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold n. Marsh, Mr.. and Mrs.
A B. Butler, Mrs. Samuel r. Schwartz,
Mrs. Cresson Newbold, Mrs. Henry G.
Morris, Mrs. Frank B. F'reyer, Mr..
and Mrs. Barry Mohun, Mrs. William
Fitch Kelley, Mrs. John w. Gulick,
Mrs. J. W. Mac Murray, Mrs. Dwight
Mrs. Charles II. Bradley, Mrs. Frank
Mrs. William T. Davis, Mrs. E. j..
Robert V: Fleming, Mrs. Arthur
Foraker, Mrs. Elliot H. Goodwin,
Mrs. Frazier D. HeHad. Mrs.
William A. Hill, Mrs. Thomas
Holcomb, Mrs. George l.. Huntress,
Mrs. f. Newlands Johnston, Mrs.
Samuel II. Kaufman. Mrs. Har-
ry A. Kite, Mrs. Herbert II. knight,
Mrs. Dudley Knox, Mrs. Reeve Lewis,
Mrs. Malcolm McConihe, Mrs. Ed
ward B. Meigs. Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers, Mrs. George J. Newgarden,
Mrs. Stanton c. Peelle, Mrs. Clarence
w. Perley, Mrs. Walter G. Peter, Mrs.
Francis Pope, Miss Ruth Putnam,
Mrs. Case B. Rafter, Mrs. Robert c..
Ransdell, Mrs. Thomas H. Reed. Mrs.
Henry c.. Rowland, Mrs. Robert N.
Stanield, Mrs. c.. A. Stedman, Mrs.
Forde Todd, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman,
Mrs. Robert c. Watson. Mrs. Chester
Wells and Mrs. Myron w. Whitney.