The Washington times., 1929-07-13
NEWS OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY
Women Members of Foreign Service
GiUen Posts abroad as Vice COnSuLs
Miss Stogsdall Goes to
Syria and Miss Warner
to Geneva

The "new girls in the U.
s. Foreign Service have been
given assignments abroad
and will leave some time
this month to assume the
role Of diplomats.
Miss nellie B. StogsdalI
will go to Beirut. Syria,
where she will serve as vice
consul. And Miss Margaret
Warner will journey to Gem
eva, Switzerland, also to
serve as vice consul.
Drew Prizes
Both young women seem to
have drawn prizes for their
first attempt to represent Uncle
Sam in the foreign field. Beirut
is highly desirable as q place Of
: residences delightful that the
Arabs have a tradition that it is
theNsite of the--original Garden
of Eden. And they point with
pride to various landmarks
featured in the early legend.
When George Brandt went to
Beirut to be in charge Of the
American consulate he remarked
that of all the posts offered by
our foreign service he much
preferred the one given him in
Syria.
international
Geneva has become rather the
international center since the
League of Nations has its head.
quarters there. In the course Of
a year more world leaders per.
haps are visitors In the Swiss
city than In any metropolis on
the earth's surface.
Miss Stogsdall Is from South
Bend. Ind. She is a graduate of
Wellesley College and later studied
at the Sorbonne and Ecole Libre
in Paris.
Miss Warner gives Lincoln,
Mass. as her home. And Rad
cliffe Is her alma mater. She
was recommended for the service
by former Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes.
Both girls took the examlna-
tions for the foreign service a
few months ago, and having
passed the written and oral tests,
were assigned to the service school
In the State Department, where
instruction is given to new out
going members Of the service.
Not Many
: 1t doesn't look as IL women
will ever clutter up the service
numerically. Three is the larg.
est number thus far on the State
Department list at one time. This
peak is reached with the addition
of Miss Warner and Miss etogs.
dali.
Miss Pattie Field, OF Denver,
who was appointed as vice consul
at Amsterdam in 1925, has re-
signed from the service and is
now in New York, where she
gives her address as 11s Waverly
Place. care James B. Field. She
returned to this country recently,
having served only at the one
post.
Trail Blazer
Miss Lucille Atcherson, Of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, blazed the trail-a
difficult one at the tine-and
began her service in 1922. She
was finally assigned abroad, get
ting the American Legation in
Berne as her first post, and later
being transferred to the Ameri-
can Legation in Panama. She re.
signed in 1927 to become Mrs.
George M. Curtis, of Chicago. And
now is proud mother.
That leaves Miss Frances VIII.
lis, of Redlands, Calf, as the
only other woman now in the
service. She was given the post
as vice consul in Valparaiso,
Chile, a year ago-having passed
the examinations with flying
coiors late in 1927.
Cabinet
Secretary Of War James w.
Good, who has an apartment at
the Willard, left Washington last
evening for Boston, where he will
join his family who are passing
the summer on the North Shore.
Secretary Good plans to be away
rERf at
The italian Ambassador, Mr..
MARITIME, is passing a few days
at the Ritz-Carlton in Atlantic
City.
The Ambassador of Germany
and Nine. Won Prittwitz and their
little daughter, Marisa, will not
return to this country until au.
umn. They are sailing from New
York today on the Hamburg for
Germany to pass the remainder
OF the summer at their home
there.
DR.. Alexandra Rivas-Vazguez
with Sonora Riyas- -Vazguez and
their son and two daughters are
passing some time at the Ward
man Park Hotel. DR.. Rivas-
Vazguez is prominent lawyer in
Havana, Cuba.
kAh
The Military Attaehe of the
Spanish Embassy, Major Victor.
iano Casajus, will be Joined here
next week at the Wardman Park
Hotel by his daughter. Miss F'lory-
Casajus, who is visiting in Vir-
ginia.
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Going North
Gen. and Mrs. Samuel Warren
Miller will go to Williamstown,