Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-15

80 Mrs. John F. Sippel, president, VIII
: be in the chair during the meeting ano
will preside over preliminary meetings
s of the executive committee as well. Mrs
Robert j. Burdette will preside over the
! meetings of the board of trustees, to be
held Monday and Tuesday, January
. and 7; Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, dean OF
! the department chairmen, Will meet
) with her group in preliminary sessions
and Miss Emily Louise Plumley, presl-
! dent of the State Presidents, will preside
. over the meetings OF her group to DC
! held Monday and Tuesday.
The principal social event will be the
reception to be held Tuesday evening
On this occasion the club leaders
throughout the country receive their
Senators and Representatives and their
wives, and other representative leaders
! in the social and offlcial life of Wash
ington. Invitations to this function are
extended in the name Of the federation,
and in the case Of SeatorS and Repre-
Sentatives the cards Of the club women
. from their respective States are also in
closed.
The sessions of the board will begin
: Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock The
reports and other business matters will
be interspersed with addresses by some
Washington notables. 1t is expected
that Colorado will have a goodly dele
: cation to extend personal invitation
70 the biennial to be held there next
June, this delegation to be headed by
the general federation director, Mrs. H.
q. Bogert, and the local biennial chari-
man, Mrs. G. H. Morian.
Mrs. william N. Harder Of Marion,
president of the Ohio Federation of
Women's Clubs and general federation
director, Is chairman of the program
committee for the biennial, and while
plans are only just beginning to be
formulated, she has some interesting
ideas which she will present.
The board consists of the officers,
State directors trustees and depart
nnent chairmen. State presidents and
division chairmen attend the board
expected that the board meeting will
! bring to the Capital between rs and
100 of the leading club women Of the
I. country X X X
! IMPORTANT officials and staff mem
bers Of the National League of Women
Voters have been in Washington the
past week for a meeting Of the ex-
ecutive board and an organization con-
{ ference. All sections Of the country
were represented through the regional
directors and their secretaries. Mrs.
George p. CoStigan, jr., Of Berkeley,
Calf, the director Of the seventh
region comprising the Far Western
states, made the longest journey. with
her came Miss Edna Boyd, also of
Berkeley, the new secretary for that
region.
Miss Belle sherwin of Cleveland, the
president of the national league, pre-
sided at the sessions of the board from
Monday to Thursday. The board had
I three big jobs on its agenda, the as
Sembling of the proposed program of
work for 193o-3l, the development of
plans for a national roll of honor and
memorial to women leaders and the
sitting and approval of plans for the
tenth anniversary convention in Louis
vile next April.
{ The regional directors and secretaries
Washington for an annual conference
on methods of furthertng league organ
. ization. The eight chairmen Of depart
3nentS and standing committees were
on the program with the board and
. Joined In the conference for some
sessions.
Those who attended included Mrs.
Roscoe Anderson Of st. Louis, second
vice president; Miss Ruth Morgan Of
! New York city, third vice president:
Miss Elizabeth J. Hsuser Of Girard,
Ohio, fourth vice president; Mrs. w. w.
Ramsey of Chicago, NTH vice preSi-
dent; Mrs. Henry Steffens, ir., of De-
troit, secretary; Mrs. Frank P. Hixon
Of Lake City, Fla, treasurer; Miss Ger
trude Ely of Bryn Mawr, Pa, counselor
. for new voters; Mrs. Percy T. Walden
Of New Haven, Conn., chairman of the
child welfare committee; Mrs. Mary
. Tenney Healy of Boston, Mass, chair
man Of the education committee; Mrs.
Harris T. Baldwin of Washington,
D. c., chairman living costs committee;
. Mrs. Avis Ring Ninabuck OF Winnetka,
H.. chairman women in industry COM
inittee: Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith OF
Pennington. Conn; director first re-
gion; Mrs. Harry Whitney of Philadel-
. phia, director second region; Mrs. r.
J l.. thurman of Atlanta, Ca, director
third region Mrs. John Hewitt RoSen-
stiel Of Chicago, director fourth re-
) zion: Mrs. George H. Hoxie of Kansas
City, Mo, director sixth region; Mrs.
George p. Costigan, jr., of Berkeley,
Calf, director seventh region; Miss
Huldah Moorhead of Atlanta, secretary
of third region; Miss Florence Harrison
Of Chicago, III, secretary OF fourth
region; Mrs. John r. ParkeS of Min
= neapolis. secretary Of fifth region; Miss
Elizabeth Longan of Kansas City, sec
rotary Of sixth region; Miss Edna Boyd
of Berkeley, secretary Of seventh re-
glen, and Miss NJ. Louise Grif1th OF
New York City.
A N interesting contest is being car
q n ried on by the National League Of
q American Pen Women this month, the
awards to be made at the third Celeb
rity breakfast Of the league December
3 2s. Contestants must answer in 20
!. words the question, why Is your IA
gVorite magazine your favorite maya
z zisae?" The answers must be submitted
by December 81 to Mrs. Nina Swain
Reed at the national headquarters OF
the league in the Willard Hotel. Only
" those who are to attend the breakfast
are expected to compete, as the winning
answers, each of which will be awarded
q wears subscription to the magazine
described, will be read at the breakfast
by the writers of the answers. These
awards will be three in number, to the
best three answers, and there Will be
selected also three for honorable men
ton.
~ This contest is expected to stimulate
! thought as to why one chooses the
!. magazine she does choose for constant
Z reading and also to arouse interest in
reading Of the greatest cultural value.
/ The contest Is now under way, and the
d 3udges selected by the national presi-
: dent, Mrs. Clarence NJ. Busch, for the
!. work of choosing the writer's who have
most aptly made use Of 20 words are
: the members OF the Bulletin stan OF
81 the league-MTs. Nina Swain Reed,
editor, and her associates, Miss Patricia
Poe Bennett and Miss Agnes VIM.
1.-THE successes being achieved by this
syears series of Celebrity breakfasts is
most gratifying to the Pen Women, who
through these elsents are bringing into
closer touch the reacsr and the author
: % the mutual advantage OF both, and
4. furnishing a monthly literary sympo-
SUM that Is becoming one Of the ctty's
most -talked-of occasions. The break
fasts are given for the benef1t of the