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

The first meeting of the season OF
the executive board of the twentieth
Century Club will be held at the
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K streets,
September 26 at IL o'clock. The preSi,,
dent, Mrs. George F. BoWerman, Will
preside. The new executive board IS
composed Of: President, Mrs. George r.
Bowerman; first vice president, MRS
Will c. Barnes; second vice president
Mrs. William Walter Husband; record
ing secretary Mrs, Sidney H. Thomp-
son; corresponding secretary, MRS.
Geoffrey Creyke; treasurer, Miss Jane
Randolph Young; assistant treasurer,
Mrs. Frank r. Rutter; board of direc--
tors. Mrs. Phillip S. Smith. Mrs. Ernest
p. Ricknell, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, Mrs.
Lyman B. SwormStedt, Mrs. Caleb s.
Miller, Mrs. Glenn s. Smith, Mrs.
Ernest r. McComas. Miss Joy L. Web
ster, Miss Myra TIendley, Mrs. Francis
M. Goodwin Chairman of standing
Smith; membership, Mrs. Joshua
Evans, jr.; finance, Mrs. James K, NC
Clintock hospitality, Mrs. Edward G.
Thomas, vice chairman, Mrs. Samuel
M. Brosius; press, Mrs. Edward B.
Clark. vice chairman, Mrs. Ernest r
McComas; printing, Mrs. Alfred II
Brooks usherS, Mrs. Leonard L. Harter;
legislative, Mrs. Ellwood p. Morey; So
cial. Mrs. Paul Brockett. Chairmen OF
sections: Archaeology, Mrs. Josephine d
Lowe; art, Mrs. o. L. Veerhoff; bust
ness, Mrs. Louis A. Simon: civics. Mrs
Charles Thomas Watson; education
Frederic e. harrington; garden. Mrs
Benjamin Smith; international outlook
Mrs. william Walter Husband litera-
ture, Mrs. George r. Putnam: music
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes: nature, Mrs. Lee
D. Miner; parliamentary law, Miss
Emma Strider. The garden section has
been holding monthly meetings through
the Summer The secretary. Mrs. How
ard G. Knight, is giving much Thought
to the collection of comprehensive file
of garden literature, catalogues and
members.
In addition to the garden clinic there
is an exchange department and an OPP
portunity for group buying, which has
been most cordially offered by several
important nurserymen.
The Winter program, beginning IN
October, will follow simple plan OF
garden activities, with the possibility
Of developing several lines Of special
garden interests. Officers OF the sec
! ton are: Mrs. Benjamin E. Smith,
chairman; Mrs. John o. Johnson. vice
chairman, and Mrs. Howard L. Knight,
secretary-treasurer.
The initial meeting Of the season OF
| the executive board of the American
Association of University Women. Wash
ington branch, was held at the club.
| house Monday. Luncheon was followed
k.tci
Fenning, the president, presiding. II
was decided that the fourth Monday OF
the month at o'clock should be the
regular meeting date of the board. The
president announced that Mrs. Lyman
3. Swormstedt had accepted the chair
manship Of the finance committee, MRS.
Albert l.. Barrows, who has recently
been appointed secretary for womens
activities at George Washington Uni
chairman of hospitality. This was &C
cepted with regret. Miss elizabeth
Eastman will assume the duties OF re-
cording secretary during the absence
of Mrs. Alan E. Gray in Europe. Miss
| Belle Rankin, national executive secre-
tary, announced that the national
board of directors would meet in
Washington November 1921. The
weekly bridge followed by tea will be
| nelo tomorrow
The Executive Board of the Business
and Professional WOman'S Club OF the
District of Columbia held its first meet
| ing at the Hamilton Hotel Wednesday
evening, Mrs. Sheppard Knapp Haynes
presiding. Activities for the coming
season were discussed. While all the
chairmen for the year 1929-1930 have
not been appointed because of their alb
kA nifr tbncn f1rpcpI1t
enthusiastic. Officers elected for 1929
1880 are: President, Mrs. Sheppard
Knapp Haynes, Riverdale, Md; first
vice president, Miss Mary Anderson,
director Women's Bureau, Department
of Labor; second vice president. Miss
Marie Obenauer, director Industrial
Survey and Research Service; treas
urer, Miss Penelope w. Cobb, secretary
Commissioner Ferguson, Federal Trade
| Commission; recording secretary, DR..
Florence A. Everhart; corresponding
secretary, Miss Stella I. Clodfelter, Sec
rotary Senator Dale, Vermont; direc-
tor, Miss Mary Stewart, Office Indian
Affairs Chairmen appointed to date
Personal research, Maj. Julia c. Slim
son. major Army Nurse Corps, superin-
tendent; resolutions, Miss Eleanor
Gregg, superintendent nurses bureau,
Indian Affairs; legislation. Miss Stella
I. Clodfelter, secretary Senator Dale.
Vermont; health, Miss j. Beatrice
Bowman, superintendent Navy Nurses
Corps; house, Miss Eta D. Oakley
private secretary.
ID. C. VOtelesS League Of Women
Voters-Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, business
manager of the bulletin which is issued
each Month by the league to its mem
berslip, was hostess at picnic lunch
con meeting last Monday, in Rock
Creek Park Members of the committee
| through whose activities the bulletin
will be enlarged, starting with the
| first issue, which goes to press October
/, are Mrs. Jennie o. Berliner, Mrs
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