Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
Y. w. C. A. News

The regular twilight music hour will
Seventeenth and K streets. The pro-
gram will be given by Flora Clayton,
violinist, teacher at the Institute OF
Musical Art, who will be assisted by
students of the institute. The stan
hostess will be Miss Marion l.. Meigs.
Visitors are cordially invited to attend.
Further plans have been developed for
the Fall association conference of the
staff to be held at Ramp Kahlert Sep
TENDER 1920 and for the Joint confer
ence of staff and volunteer workers to
be held at the administration building,
Seventeenth and X streets, Septem-
Der 80.
The sessions are planned to bring in
spiration and information to forward
the plans of each department for thu
coming year and will include discussions
and suggestions from the entire group.
Since association interest will center
about the work In South America be-
cause of the recent association pledge
to support Miss Stella Orr, secretary Of
the association in Montevideo, there
for arousing international interest IN
the different departments. Members of
the staff will leave for camp by bus
Friday evening, and will have a get
acquainted" party for the new members
of the staff at that time. The regular
sessions of the conference will open
Saturday morning and will continue
from $50 to IL and from 2 to $3.50, fol-
lowed by an outdoor gathering and a
campfire supper. On Sunday the ses-
sions will be from 1890 to 2:30 and
from 2:So to $3.50. Miss Helen Thoburn
Of the education and research depart
ment of the national board of the Y. w.
C. A. will be the guest of the conference
and the speaker at the different sessions.
Miss Thoburn has had wide interna-
tional experience and Is particularly
qualified to emphasize world relation
ships of the Y. w. C. A.
At the joint conference of the lay
workers with the staff on Monday, Mrs.
T. E. Brown, the president, will preside
at the opening session at 4:3O. A devo-
tional service will be led by Miss Mabel
N. ThurSton. The theme of the confer
ence will be on Association Thinking
in Relation to the Individual. the Com
munity and the World" Mrs. Edwin
B. Parker, first vice president. will pre-
side at the dinner meeting at $50, when
Mrs. Frederic Paist, former president of
the National Young Women's Christian
Association, will be the speaker. Volun-
teer workers are urged to register with
the education Office as soon as possible.
There will bea meeting of the finance
committee September "a, at 1890 am.
The membership committee will meet
September % at 4:45 in the board room
All members are urged to be present.
Miss Mary j. Wright of the e Street
Center left last week for months va
cation trip. Miss Ardell Payne will sub
stitute at E street during her absence
Secretaries who have returned to the
city from vacation include: Miss Ger
trude Ennes, Miss Saida L. Hartman,
Mrs. Naomi B. Hunt, Miss Katherine
MoritZ, Mrs. Bessie Stewart, Miss Vir-
GINA Wingfleld and Mrs. Elizabeth
Tanner. The staff of the Washington
association will entertain at luncheon
tomorrow at 1890 in honor of former
Y. w. c. A. secretaries now living In
Washington. Among those whom it has
been possible to reach are Miss Mabel
Turner, Miss Lois Kugler, Miss Abbie
Kennedy, Miss Roslyn Lynn, Miss Edna
Pyle, Miss Elizabeth Dean, Miss Helen
Treudley, Mrs Mary C. Stevens, Mrs.
William Adams Slade. Mrs. j. Hillman
HOLSTER. Mrs. Charles Sperry, Miss
Marie Alice Bates, Miss Jean Campbell,
Miss Katherine Whitley. Miss Chloe M.
Leavitt, Mrs. Harry e. Hull, Mrs. Lorna
w. Smith. Miss Ludema Sayer. Mrs
Harry B. Cation, Mrs. E. E. Danly, Dr.
Agnes Conrad, Miss Helen Hudson. Mrs
Mary S. C. Leute, Miss Beatrice Hodg-
son. Mrs T. r. Buchanan. Mrs. Roswell
B. Daggett and Miss Annie Marchand.
Education Department.
Glasses in Sneed uritin0 and dicta.