Evening star., 1926-04-20
PERSONALITIES AT THE D. A. r. CONGRESS

president general, gave a tea at
the Willard on Sunday afternoon TOT
Mrs. Ross. Other entertainments
given were the tea of the Michigan
chapter on Sunday and the dinner
Minnesota gave at the Maynower,
| under the personal direction OF Mrs
William d. Mitchell Of lie Roy place.
Ohio dimes tonight, and West Vir-
ginia is receiving at luncheon today,
both at the same place.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. George
, Wharton Pepper and Mrs. David
Aiken Reed, wives of the Senators
| from Pennsylvania, are entertaining
| the Pennsylvania delegates at tea.
| Mrs. John Brown Heron, State re-
gent, and their candidate for vice
| president general, received them in
formally Sunday afternoon at the
| New Willard, while Mrs. Thomas w.
| Phillips of Butler is to be hostess
this afternoon at o'clock in honor
of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook and
| the Pennsylvania State officers.
An important Sunday tea was given
| by Mrs. Lucius r. Holland, State re-
gent Of MICHIGAN and chairman OF the
auditorium committee there, at the
Mayfiower, in honor of Mrs. Cook and
| Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau and Miss
Alice Louise McDuffie, who are Michi-
gan's candidates: Mrs. Brosseau for
president general and Miss McDuffie
| for a place on her ticket. Assisting
Mrs. Holland were Mrs. Charles i.
| Bathrick, State vice regent; Mrs. Il.
| Victor Seydel, Mrs. Malinda Breband,
| and the Michigan pages-Misses Alice
Helen Holland, Frances Louise Seydel,
Lucille Whittier and Helen Hudson.
The vice president general from
Minnesota, Mrs. James T. Norris, Will
be the honor guest at dinner tonight.
the hostesses being Mrs. w. l.. Jane
son and Mrs. w. s. Lindsey. Among
| the guests will be Mrs. Albert w.
Strong. Mrs Kenneth Harrison, Miss
| Frances Jordan, Mrs. Cyrus Wells,
Mrs. Edgar Henry Loyhed, State can
dldate for vice president general, and
Mrs. William Mitchell.
Scholarship Proposed.
To return from the lighter side OF
| the congress to the more serious: An
| interesting announcement has been
made by Mrs. Bertha Taylor Voor-
horst, director of the National Society
for Accredited Secretaries, to the ef-
! feet that her organization Is present
ing a permanent scholarship in It's
school to the Daughters in honor Of
Mrs. Alice Frye Briggs, retiring sec
retary general.
From Albany, n. y, presented by
| the Gansevoort, Mohawk and Tawa-
sentha Chapters of Albany County,
as their candidate for the high OFFICE
of president general to succeed Mrs.
Cook, comes Mrs. Charles White Nash,
a very courteous and gracious lady.
! She has been in public life for many
years, having done much non-profes-
sional concert playing as a pianist:
and having been active in committee
work with the d. A. r. since 1913.
She has held all the important chapter
| and State offices, and has been ma
tional chairman of the Anne Rogers
| Minor prize committee in 19221923;
and from 1923-1926, national chair
man of the d. A. r. Magazine COM
mittee. For six years she has been
q member of the National Board of
Management. She was born at Erie,
Pa; daughter of the late Capt. James
| Tilton Tupper, and she can number
| Mayflower voyageurS and colonial
| governors among her ancestry. She
| is q member of the Colonial Danes.
| Mrs. John Brown Heron of Pitts
! burgh, whose name Pennsylvania is
| offering for vice president generalcy,
has been prominent in patriotic, civic,
and society work. Her activities in
clude charter membership in the Civic
Club of Allegheny County and the
first Wash House and Baths Associa-
ton of Pittsburgh; as did chairman of
the committee which opened the first
public Fairgrounds there, and as one
of the founders of it's Eye and Ear
| Hospital. In the war. she was the
organizer of the Preparedness Branch
of the American Red Cross of her city:
of its women's section of the Navy
League. becoming its president; chair
man OF the Duryea War Relief COM
4 mfttee. on the executive committees
4 for food conservation and thrift, the
Pennsylvania Council for national
defense; and the General Council of
War Camp Community Service She
was a member for Western PennsyI-
vania of the National War Savings
committee, chairman of the Booth
committee for the sale of war savings
stamps, and on the mayors committee
| for welcoming Homecoming troops.
She is at present State regent of the
| Daughters.