Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
WOMEN VOTERS
NAME HONOR ROLL
70 IIIustrious Leaders of Suf-
frage Movement Are Paid
Tribute.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May Under a
leave of absence plan, with the proviso
that all vice presidents take turns" at
Washington headquarters, Miss Belle
Sherwin of Cleveland, Ohio, today &C
cepted the nomination to succeed her
self for the seventh and eighth years as
national president of the League OF
Women Voters.
Since nomination through the regu-
lar league channel is tantamount to cleo
ton, Miss Sherwin thus will be left
free, as president, to rest in her famous
garden, as Carrie Chapman Gait sug-
gested in her Anniversary Book" trib-
ute to Miss Sherwin. That volume,
filled with appreciations of Miss Sher-
wins six years service, was presented
to her at brilliant fete held last night
in her honor.
The shoulders on which Miss Sher-
wins presidential mantle will success
sively fall will be we'll trained to the
tasks, since all but one of the vice presi-
dents nominated will be succeeding her
self when elected.
Miss Wells Is Nominated.
Miss Marguerite M. Wells of Mime
apolis was nominated fifth vice presi-
dent to succeed Mrs. w. w. Ramsey of
Chicago.
The present vice presidents renomi-
mated to serve during Miss Sherwin' S
leave Of absence as rotating presidents
were: Miss Katharine Ludington of
Lyme, Conn; Mrs. Roscoe Anderson of
st. Louis, Mo-; Miss Ruth Morgan of
New York City and Miss Elizabeth j.
Houser of Girard, Ohio.
Mrs. Henry Steffens, jr.. of Detroit,
Mich, was nominated to succeed her
self as secretary. Mrs. Elsie A. Zins-
meister of Louisville, KY, was nomi-
mated to succeed Mrs. Frank P. Hixon
Of Lake Forest H.. as treasurer.
Seven regional directors were nomi-
mated as follows: Miss Mary Buckley
Of Hartford, Conn, to succeed Mrs.
Conn; Mrs. Andrew j. Steelman of
Montclair, N. j.. to succeed Mrs. Henry
Whitney of Overlook, Pa; Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle of Washington, D. c., to
succeed Mrs. r. l.. thurman, Georgia /;
Mrs. John Hewitt Rosentiel of Chicago,
H., renominated Mrs. A. j. Mcguire of
st. Paul. Mimi, to succeed Miss Mar
guerite M. Wells; Mrs. George H. Hoxie
Of Kansas City, Mo. and Mrs. George
p. Costigan, jr., Of Berkeley, Calf, re-
nominated.
Illustrious Leaders Are HonOred.
The woman labor leader and the
mllllOndueS VIE were SISTERS, sharing
homage today when the league an
nounced the 20 illustrious names of its
national roll of honor.
women's hall of fame for the full
sweep of the suffrage movement. 1t
honored almost equally the living and
the dead in the tenth anniversary cele-
bration of the victory of "the cause"
Just in time for the celebration came
DR.. Harriet B. Jones, "a, of Glendale,
w. Va, radiant because the honor roll
included her career-a lifetime spent as
q pioneer physician in a small town.
Mrs Robert M. La Toilette was hon
ored in her own right for the women Of
Wisconsin.
Two league officers granddaughters
Gladys and Florence Harrison, and a
speaker stepson, DR.. Richard Gliding
Beard, shared the triumph of Mrs. H.
q. Harrison, 80, of Minneapolis
An honor roll poster displaying photos
OF the 70 was brought from Washington
headquarters to the convention hall
The strong face of Mrs. Florence Kelley
Of New York, labor leader, was right
beside the very feminine photo of Mrs
Guilford Dudley, who directed the rati-
hcation campaign of Tennessee. Credit
for that victory also went to the late
Mrs. Frank Leslie, who left her estate
Of about 100000 to the suffrage cause
Thus was the suffrage story told-in
20 personality chapters-women edu-
Gators, preachers, journalists. Echoes