Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-13
Y. W. G.. A.

directors held on Monday the follow
ing officers were elected for 1927:
Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president:
Mrs. Albert II. Putney. first vice presi-
dent; Miss Mildred J. Bartholow. sec
ond vice president: Mrs. Luke !. VII
son. recording secretary: Mrs. Robert
Lansing, corresponding secretary, and
Miss Margaret r.. Fox, treasurer. The
regular meeting Of the board OF di
rectors will be held Thursday at 1890
am. 614 f street.
Tomorrow morning there will he
a meeting of the executive COMMITTEES
at II o'clock and Of the seCretarial
committee at noon.
The food service committee for the
new building will meet tomorrow.
1890 am. 614 r street. Mrs. Ed
mund Morgan and Mrs. Charles q.
Roberts are recent additions tn this
committee.
The membership committee WI
have its regular meeting tomorrow
evening. The business meeting at I
o'clock will he preceded by a. cafeteria
supper.
On Tuesday morning at 40 there
will he a. meeting of the rooms regis
try committee at headquarters. Mrs
Margaret Ford, the new executive sec
rotary of the Travellers Aid. Will
speak.
The plans for dedication week I'm
connection with the opening Of the
new administration and activities
building of the Y. w. G. A. are now
being made. A general committee Is
in charge of the arrangements, with
Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, the
president, as chairman. Working
with this committee are various sub
committees. The dedication service
will be held March 81 and the com
mittee making the arrangements. of
which Mrs. William Adams Slade Is
chairman. had its first meeting Tues
day of last week. Plans for the open
house scheduled for March 90 are
being worked out under a committee
with Mrs. r. r. Brown as chairman.
The first meeting of this committee
will be held Tuesday. February Is, at
1890 am. Membership day will he
observed on Thursday. March 81. and
the committee in charge is headed nv
Miss Ilena Bailey as chairman. The
first meeting will be held Tuesday at
4:30 pm.
The $50 women who are serving as
members of the board of directors and
on the committees of the Y. w. G.. A.
were entertained at tea yesterday aft
ernoon by the president. Mrs. 7. E.
Brown. at her home. 1870 Wyoming
avenue.
Members of the staff will address
two meetings at Douglass Memorial
Church Tuesday. Miss NJ. Florence
Dunlay. camp director. will speak be-
fore the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society at IL am. and Miss Mary
j. Wright, rooms registry secretary.
will bring the work of the association
before the Young Peoples Missionary
Society at 1870 in hte evening. Miss
Marian Casey. Girl Reserve secretary.
will address the Evening Mission Club
at Calvary Baptist Church tomorrow
at 8 PM. and Miss Mabel Cook. as
sistant Girl Reserve secretary. will
speak to the Columbian Girls in DIR.
Millikens office i'm the Woodward
Building at pm. Tuesday.
Young Business and Professional
Women.
This afternoon at O'Clock the In
ternational Club will meet at the home
of Miss Bertha E. Pabst.
On Tuesday evening young business
women interested in the general sub
ject Appreciation of Good Litera
ture,' will listen to a presentation of
Tendencies in Modern Poetry" The
speaker will be Miss Constance
Churchyard of Mount Vernon Semi
nary. The meeting will he held at
GA e street and will begin at 7 o'clock.
The Blue Triangle Club of young
girls employed in business will have
Valentine party at the Blue Triangle
Hut Tuesday at pm. Thew will hold
their regular meeting on Thursday
night at 1894 M street. After supper.
together. they will have a word game.
and discussion.
Industrial Department.
The Industrial department will have
tea at GA f street this afternoon
from 4:30 to o'clock for girls en-
ployed i'm homes. The members of
this group who are from England
will be hostesses at this time.
The monthly dinner of the Women's
Trade Union League and the indus
trial department of the Y. w. c. A.
will be held Thursday at $50. Mrs.
Chase Going Woodhouse, Bureau of
Home Economics. Department of Agri-
culture, will speak on Wages" Pre-
ceding the dinner. at pm. there will
be an informal Sing" led by Miss
Imogene Ireland. Miss Selma Bor-
chardt will preside.
The February meeting of the Indus
trial committee, postponed from Feb
rury II. has been set for February,
Is at 1890 pm.
Girl Reserves.
Tomorrow at noon the Girl Reserve
Club, composed of those i'm the sew
enth and eighth grades at Columbia
Junior High School, will have a VAL
entine luncheon party at the school.
On Friday at 5 pm. the Girl Reserve,
Clubs of all the junicr high schools
will have a club supper at GA f street,
when the club from Mcfarland Junior
High will act as hostesses.
Education Department.
The second of series of talks on
Words will be given by Miss Alice
Hutchins Drake before Y. w. c. A.
Booklovers at the Mount Pleasant
Public Library tomorrow at 8 pm.
The talk will include discussion of
books that are helpful to those who
wish to speak correctly.
Miss ireland, music director, visited
the Germantown Y. w. G. A. Febru,
airy IL to talk on the place of music
in the Y. w. G.. A. before the young
business and professional women's de-
partment and to lead their singing.
Registrations are still being received
for the classes in ukulele, guitar, man
dOlin, banjo, cooking, story telling and
The music class is held
at 7:30 on Wednesday evenings. cook
ing on Tuesday and Thursday from
to 9, story telling Wednesday at and
expression on Friday at Z pm.
The Elizabeth Somers Residence.
The speaker for the vesper service
at the Elizabeth Somera residence will
be DIR. John l.. Lind psychiatrist a st.
Eliza beth's Hospital. who will have as
his subject, Appreciation of Poetry"