Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
JUNIOR LEAGUE GOAL NEARED
IN CFfILDREN'S HOSPITAL WORK
Members, Desiring Own Completely De-
veloped Activity, Accept Opportunity
Offered by Jelle@'s.

tativeS from France, Belgium, Spain,
Hungary, Austria and Sweden on its
lists.
In its congressional set 1t numbers
members from many States. Likewise,
1t has many members representative OF
the Army, Navy and Marine set.
In connection with the possible inter-
national aspect of the league, it Is found
that the Junior League of Washington
has on its membership lists such adj
dresses as Warsaw, Essex, Buenos Aires.
Auckland, Cairo, Singapore, Panama,
Peking, Guatemala, and several In
Rome, London and Paris. It is not at
all impossible, 1t Is pointed out by the
league members, that a future interna-
tional Junior League may include these
cities and many more.
The league has many committees and
activities, in addition to its activity at
Children's Hospital. Among these are
the committee on the blind, which has
shellacked many thousand pages of
braille for the blind; its settlement
committee, which does clerical work at
the Associated Charities, as we'll as as
siSting at the three settlement houses:
the magazine committee, which con-
tributes to the Junior League Magazine
and issues q monthly news letter. and
the miscellaneous committee, which,
takes in activities in connection with
the Instructive Visiting Nurses Society,
the Girl Scouts, Home for Incurables.
Thrift Friendly Society, Y. w. C. A.,
Ladies of Walter Reed Hospital and the
Red Gross. The motor corps OF the
league stands ready to help at all times,
and the emergency committee covers q
wide field.
League Officers Named.
The present officers of the league are
as follows:
Mrs. Sidney Thomas, president; Mrs
G.. Rowland Chase, 3rd, frst vice preSi-
dent; Miss Sallie Hews Phillips, second
vice president; Mrs. A. McCook Dunlop,
corresponding secretary; Mrs Marshall
ExnicioS, recording secretary, and Mrs.
Leonard Block, treasurer.
The leagues list Of committee chair
men includes:
Mrs. George T. Summerlin, hospital
committee; Mrs. George Morris, COM
mittee on the blind; Mrs. Robert Rams
dell, magazine; Miss Catharine Dunlop,
miscellaneous; Mrs. Donald McKnew,
adjustments; Miss Elise Alexander, adj
missions; Mrs. H. L. Rust, jr., arts and
interests; Mrs. Lawrence A. Baker, club
room committee; Mrs. Gary T. Grayson.
entertainment, and Miss Marion Jar
dine, publicity.
The Junior League of Washington is
not q member of the community chest,
but is an independent organization and
a unit Of the Association of the Junior
Leagues Of America. The latter is Of
ficially described as follows:
"The Association Of Junior Leagues
Of America is an association for the ad.
vancement of civic welfare, organized
nv V0tInR unNaan m the FrfnRiFllaG Of
representative government. The pur-
pose of the league Is to further civic
progress throughout its branches in the
cities of the United States and Canada
through the maintenance OF various
civic projects. The association also
trains its members to cooperate in the
various branches of civic work. The
type Of welfare work to be undertaken
is left to the dissertation Of the indi-
vidual league.
1.-The nucleus of the present asSocia-
York College settlement, organized by
Miss Mary Hartman in 1900. This was
followed in 1905 by the founding of a
second league In Boston. Baltimore.
Brooklyn and Philadelphia having
meanwhile Joined the ranks, the first
general conference was held in 1911.
In 1920 the SO leagues then existing
were organized by Mrs. Willard Straight
dorothy Whitney, into the present as
ISOLATION. Six years later q national
headquarters was established in New
York City, and in the following year
an Anthology of Junior League Poetry
was published. In the same year the
Bulletin, since 1912 the ofi1cial organ,
was converted into the Junior League
Magazine. There were 101 leagues in
the United States, representing 80
Canada, in 1928. The same year q ma
tional club with ofices and exhibition
rooms was established in New York
City"