Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
Alumnae Units Join
In Campaign to Raise
Scholarship Funds
'Vassar and Mount Holyoke
Groups Plan Series of
Benefit Plays, Opening To-
morrow at Poll s.

The vassar Alumnae Association Of
Washington holds benefit for its local
scholarship fund each year, as does the
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Association.
Both groups of prominent washington
women have had great success in the
past, not only financially but artitSti-
cally, for their separate BENEFITS have
always been unusual and delightful.
This season the two groups have ar
ranged joint affair, and the committee
representing both alumnae associations
has taken over two performances in
the series of plays to be given this week,
beginning Wednesday. by the New York
Theater Guild in Polls Theater, when
this master organization appears here
in its Spring season.
The two plays selected for the Mount
Holyoke- Vassar benefit are perhaps the
most outstanding plays in the career OF
this most famous of American mstitu-
ton of the the present-day theater, for
John Ferguson" by ST. John IRVINE, Is
the piece which brought the guild its
first great success, and Bernard Shaw'S
THE Doctors Dilemma" is regarded
everywhere as one of the most brilliant
satires ever penned by England's great
est Satirist.
Prominent Medical Men
Listed Among Patrons.
Many leading members Of the medi-
cal profession in the Capital City are
taking tickets for the Friday night per-
Torrance, when THE Doctors Dl-
lemma" is scheduled, just as the lead
ing doctors have done in every city In
which the play has been given. For the
Saturday matinee, when John Fergu-
son" is to be the bill, there will be large
numbers Of girls schools present, sew
eral of them having already taken large
blocks for both performances, notably
Chevy Chase School, Miss Madeira's
School, Mount Vernon Seminary and
National Park Seminary at Forest
Glen, Md.
Boxes are being reserved rapidly by
well known hostesSeS and many theater
parties are being arranged for both
performances, to be preceded by dinner
or luncheon parties. Mrs. Walter l..
Clark, representing Mount Holyoke on
the box committee, Of which she is
chairman, is likewise chairman of pa
tronesses for the benefit. Mrs. Mason
M. Patrick is vice chairman of the COM
mittee on boxes, representing Vassar
on the committe. which includes also
Mrs. Emmett Gudger, Mrs. Alvin Dodd,
Mrs. j. Kelly Parsons, Baroness van
BoetZelaer, Mrs. Jesse r. Hildbrand and
Mrs. Henry White.
Among the Washington women who
are expressing interest in the benefit
and who are prominent members Of the
vassar alumnae here is Mrs: Avery
Coonley, who with her sister, Mrs. Elon
Hooker of Greenwich, Conn, gave to
Vassar its beautiful alunnae house, one
Of the outstanding features Of the
campus. Mrs. David L. Wing, also
known as Mrs. Lucy Madeira Wing and
founder of the Madeira School for Girls |
in this city, is among the prominent To- |
cal women interested in the benefit. |
Mrs. Wing is glad to acknowledge that
she was the first one Of the Vassar girls
who benefited by the scholarship fund, |
as administered by the local group. |
Mrs. Frances Fenton Barnard, who until |
last year was dean at Smith College. is |
another Vassar graduate who was glad |
to receive assistance from the alumnae |
associations scholarship fund in past |
years Since 1911 Mrs. Thomas Sidwell, |
another well known educator and social |
leader Of the Capital City. has been the
custodian Of the Vassar scholarship |
fund here Mrs. Herbert c. Woolley, /
another well known woman, is inter-
ested in the Vassar fund, being branch
representative of the local alumnae as
ISOLATION.
Miss Jean Dean Cole Heads
Mount Holyoke Committee.
Miss Jean Dean Cole, head mistress of |
Mount Vernon Seminary in this city, Is |
the chairman Of the Mount Holyoke |
scholarship fund, and associated with |
her on this committee are Mrs. Laura
Rising Parker and Miss Catherine s.
Blakeslee. Mount Holyoke, a pioneer
college, was opened In 1887 by Mary
Lyon as the first institution In this
country exclusively designed for the
higher education Of women, and since
that day Mount Holyoke has enrolled
approximately $4,000 students and sent
over 1000 graduates, among whom are
pioneer educators, founders of schools
in this country and in other lands,
women Of literary and professional
prominence and leaders In important
social and religious movements. The
president of the local Mount Holyoke
Alumnae Association Is Mrs. Frederic E.
Harrington, prominent in the city be-
cause Of her work along social, educa-
tional, club and artistic lines in associ-
alton with the Twentieth Century Club,
the Arts Club and others.