Evening star., 1928-09-09

the fourth-floor dining room.
Miss Constance Porter of Whining
ton, N. c., who has been associated
for the last five years with the Colon
made Cafeteria Co. in Cleveland, Pitts
burgh and New York City, arrived on
Saturday to take charge of the food
service. Miss Porter was hostess and
director of one of the New York cafe
teriaS during the war
Miss Aleada Nelson, director Of the
Twentieth and B Center left Thurs
day for vacation in Minnesota. Miss
Nelson will return in time for the
conference September 26 and 27.
The last week of the 1928 season
at Kamp Kahlert opened, with 81
seniors and 70 juniors registered.
On Saturday evening the girls gath
cred around huge driftwood fire at
campfire point for a sing and good
night.
Labor day was a gala day. Early
In the day the entire camp, including
Juniors, seniors and members of the
staff, was divided into two teams, the
Blue and the White. The first contest
was a base ball game. Elizabeth
Corkins was captain of the Blue team
and audrey Turner captained the
White. The spirit of rivalry was keen
closed with a score of 7-3 in favor
OF the Blues The next event was a
track meet, with entrants from both
teams in 50-yard dash, three legged
race. wheelbarrow race, pillowcaSe race,
monEey-crab relay and newspaper race.
The tug-of-war closed the contest, with
ths BlueS victorious. The score was
2S-l7. At sunset time the entire camp
took launch ride out to the bay.
Another feature of the week was
the annual Kahlert prom, a very
formal affair, held in the recreation
hall on Wednesday evening. In the
receiving line were President and Mrs.
Coolidge, Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and Mrs. Taft and other dig
nitaries impersonated by the camp
counSelors. The music was furnished
by the Kamp Kahlert Orchestra, with
Miss Verna NJ. Schuster directing. The
instruments used by the orchestra were
COMBS, kazoos, banjos, ukuleles, drums
and cyTnbals. The ballroom was ar
tistically decorated with Fall flowers
and japanese lanterns. Among the
features OF the evening were a SPOT
dance, an elimination dance and a
prize waltz.
On Thursday the campers cooked
their supper at Campfire Point and
closed the evening with launch ride.
Early in the week committee was
appointed to make all plans for the
closing day. The committee was COM
posed of Martha Mercer, Amy Veerhoff,
Helen Tindiey, Betty Alexander, Vir-
ginia Everett and Virginia Daiker
1t was decided that all interest groups
should relate their programs to the
closing day. The music and dramatic
,ln,.
Miss Fox, Miss Elizabeth MolSter, Miss
Lois Howard and Miss Verna Schuster,
presented pageant, Maryland, Free
State, in Her Colonial Days" in six epi-
Sodes, on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The families Of the camp girls, the camp
neighbors and their friends were guests.
The pageant began at Camp Point with
the following program:
Prologue. The historical background.
Scene I. The landing of the Ark and
the Dove, st. Clements Island, 1884
(Wherein the land is blessed for reli-
gious freedom and purchased from the
Indians.)
Scene II. The administration of
1647. (Wherein intellectual equality and
woman's ability in affairs of government
are recognized)
Scene III. The Assembly of 1649 at
St. Marys. (Wherein Lord Baltimore's
principles of religious freedom are
| formulated into the Act of Toleration
| and the laws OF the colony are enacted.)
! Scene w. The laying of the corner
stone of King Williams the first free
school in the Colony in Annapolis, 1896.
| (Wherein free education is started, to
! furnish the youth of Maryland oppor-
tunity "in good letters and manners" y
Scene v. The repulsion of Zachariah
Hood, stamp collector in his majesty IS
service, King George III, Annapolis,
| l765. (Wherein the coloniStS forcefully
resist unjust taxation from England)
! Scene vi. The election returns and
parade of the freemen of Annapolis to
bury the coffin Of oppression, 1773
| (Wherein the spirit of rebellion to po-
litical oppression is made manifest)
Epilogue and Marylands songs Of lib
erty. Maryland, My Maryland" by
James Ryder Randall, 1861; THE Star
Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott
Key, 1914.
Between scenes I and II the audience
followed the prologue from Campfire
| Point to the big oak tree, where the
pageant was continued.
The leading characters were Edith
Bruce, Prologue Martha Mercer as
!
| Johnston as Zachariah Hood, Amy Veer-
hoff as Gov. Nicholson, Kate Reilly as
Gov Stone and Susan Mellichamp al
Gov Calvert. The members of the AS.
sembly we're Nell Griffith Rhoda Hal
ton, Julia Kleg, Sadah Ward. Audrey
Turner Ethel Quisenberry. Anne Baker
Louise Fenton, Florence Hodge, Heller
Bittinger and Sarah McElroy
The minuet was danced by France!
Douglas, Harriette Behrend, Virginia
Hunter, Marian Griffith, Leona Yoder
Betty Alexander and Lorraine Gerard
as ladies, and Eleanor McRae, june
Rose, Sudie Belle Rodier, Louise
Burgess, Mary Rose, Laura Dean Jen
kins and Marian Lum as gentlemen.
The closing banquet followed tht
pageant at $50 o'clock Miss Martha
Mercer. as toastmistress, introduced th'
honor guests, Mrs. Harold E. Doyle
chairman of the Kamp Kaflert com
mittee, and other members of the boarC
and staff.
under the leadership of Miss Edith vii
liams and Miss Mildred Louden com
bined early in the week to make plan
| for decorations and favors for the clos
ing evening. Yellow and lavender wer
the colors used at the banquet Th'
group made candles in these colorS
which fitted into rustic candle holders
also made by the girls. Brook marigold
and lavender thiStles were artisticail,
arranged by the nature group
The theme of the banquet was tn
theme used in all programs of worship