Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
MEET THIS WEEK
Noted Guests to Attend Din.
ner Friday Evening at
MaTIower Hotel.

Prominent Government officials and
memhers OF the diplomatic corps will
DO among the honor guests at the in
ternational dinner of the American
Association of University Women at
the Mayfiower Hotel Friday evening.
The dinner will be one of the most
important events of the fifth national
convention of the association which is
representative Of about $4,000 college
women. Sessions open Thursday and
will continue through April 2.
Women college deans and educa-
tional leaders will discuss at the. din.
ner the widening influence Of women
from an international viewpoint.
Guests of Honor.
The British Amba ssador and Lady
Isabella Howard and the Italian Am
bassador and Nobil Donna de MARITIME
will be guests of honor. Mrs. William
NJ. Jardine, wife of the Secretary of
Agriculture. and Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebra ndt, assistant Attorney Gen
eral, will receive the guests with DIR.
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of
Mills College, Calf, and president also
of the association.
President Ellen Fitz Pendleton of
Wellesley College will preside and
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve Of Barnard
College will deliver an address on THE
International Point Of View"
Prominent members of the associa-
ton, who will attend the dinner, are:
President Ada L. Comstock of Rad
cliffe. President Marion E. Park,
Bryn Mawr; Mile. Marguerite Mes
poulet. former vice president of the
international Federation of Universe
ty Women; President Mary e. Wool
ley, Mt. Holyoke; Dean Florence Pur-
rington, Mt. Hoiyoke; Dean Frances
Fenton Bernard, Smith College; Mrs.
Maud Wood Park, Dean Georgia L.
White, Carlton College; President
Cora Helen Coolidge, Pennsylvania
College for Women; Dean Mary Yost,
Leland Stanford University: DR.. Agnes
Low Rogers, Bryn Mawr; Mrs. A.
Ross Hill. Kansas City; Mrs. Edger.
ton Parsons, New York: President
Meta Glass, Sweet Briar College;
Dean Emily H. Dutton, Sweet Briar
College.
Women i'm Turkey.
Arrangements for the dinner have
been made by Mrs. Joshua Evans and
Mrs. Merle Thorpe. The dinner will
be the climax of a day devoted to the
discussion Of international relations
as part of the convention program.
The part university women are play
ing In the promotion Of friendly rela-
lions and a better understanding
among nations and international edu-
cational questions will be discussed at
meetings during the day. Miss Eleanor
!. Burns, dean Of the Constantinople
WOmen's College, will address the
afternoon conference on the Educa-
ton Of Women in Turkey
Members of the local branch, who
will attend, are: Miss Grace Abbott,
Maj. Julia Stimson, DIR. Margaret NJ.
Alltucker. Mrs. Wilson Compton, Mrs.
Luke Wilson, Mrs. Laurence C.
Staples. Miss Leona L. Clark, Agnes
e. Wells, Indiana University, Bloom
ington; DIR. Lois Hayden Meek, Mar
garet Erwin, executive secretary, Of
Graduate School of Yale. and Miss
Eleanore Boswell, executive secretary
II the national organization.
A practical method Of promoting in
fefnational cooperation by the es-
Enlistment of international fellow
ships will be considered by the asso-
citation. The award of the first fellow
ship OF this kind to be created to
Mile. Veillard of France was recently
announced by the association.