Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12
CLUB CELEBRATES
10th ANNIVERSARY
Elaborate Preparations Are
Made by Committees of
Women's City Club.

Elaborate preparations have been
made by the reception and entertain
ment committees of the Women's City
Club to make the celebration, of the
clubs tenth birthday anniversary today
the gayest of all its anniversaries.
A reception and tea will be held at
4:3O this afternoon and the birthday
party" will be given this evening at .
O'Clock.
pr A. Frances Foye is chairman OF
the afternoon reception, at which Mrs.
Merritt O. Chance, president OF the
club. will be hostess, assisted by Rep
resentative Ruth Hanna Mccormick OF
Illinois Mrs. A. G. McClintock, Mrs.
Hugh s. Cumming, Mrs. Louis G. Cram
ton, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, MRS.
]. Leo Kolb. Mrs Bessie Parker Bruegge-
man of the Employees Compensation
Commission, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, MIS-
Floyd p. Waggaman, Mrs. Peter Drury'
Miss Mary Y. Wheeler and the past
presidents, Judge Mary O'Toole, MRS.
LYMAN B. Swormstedt, Mrs. William Z.
Chamberlin, DR.. Foye and Mrs. j. Gar
field Riley.
Mrs. Hoover Sends Regrets.
IT was hoped that Mrs. Hoover, who
IA a charter member of the club, would
be present, but at the last minute MrS.
Hoover was obliged to send word that
she would be unable to attend, at the
same time expressing her regrets ana
extending warmest congratulations 10
Ten wears ago today the founders and
first members of the Women'S City
Club gathered for the first time in the
rooms of their new home, % jackson
place, which they had just purchased
the week previously from the daughter
of Representative William Scott OF
Z Erie, Pa.
At the evenings entertainment two
minute talks will be given. by the club
founders and early members on histori-
cal events and early work of the club.
There will also be number of sketches
of past, present and future events by
Mrs. Swormstedt and Mrs. Chamberlin
presented by the drama unit, led by
Mrs. Gladys Ball Middlemiss. Judge
C'Toole will give a historic outline.
An outstanding event of the evening
will be the presentation of the birthday
cake to the club president, Mrs. Chance,
by a number of the younger members,
who, dressed in white, will form pro-
ceSsion, bearing aloft the birthday cake
aglitter with 10 candles. After the cut
ting of the cake by Mrs. Chance re-
freshments will be served.
Place Birthday Box.
A birthday box will be placed in a
prominent part of the reception room
this afternoon and evening, where mem
bers may place their birthday gifts to
the house.
1t is expected that between three
and four hundred members and guests
will be present at the afternoon and
evening entertainments.
A surprise reception was given last
night In honor of Judge Mary O'Toole
of Municipal Court. at the Women's
City Club, % Jackson place. Judge
O'Toole was the first president of the
club and the occasion last night was
the eve of the tenth anniversary of
its organization. Approximately 200
women were in attendance at the, club
house, and many gifts were rendered
the former president, who is at present
financial chairman of the club. Mrs.
Merit o. Chance is the president now
Addresses we're made last night by
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, honorary
president, and Mrs. George Eastment
The reception was arranged by DR.. A.
Frances Foye and Miss Alice Heaven.