Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
DINNER TOFEATURE
AMERICAN i. WEEK
Delegates to Methodist Edu-
cationaI Association to Be
Guests at College Dining Hall.

American University will be host mex
Thursday night to delegates Of thu
Methodist Educational Association at
banquet to be held in the college dining
hall. This will be an outstanding event
for American University in the serie:
of educational meetings to be held al
the Willard Hotel during the week.
Delegates from American University
will attend the sessions OF the Council
of Church Boards of Education, and OF
the Association of American Colleges
The delegates will be DR.. Lucius c
Clark, chancellor of the university; DR.
w. M. w. Splawn, dean of the Graduate
School and of the School Of the Politi-
cal Sciences, and DR.. George B. Woods
dean of the College Of Liberal Arts. II
Is expected also that some other repre-
sentatives from the university will at.
tend informally some of the sessions.
The principal function in which
American University will participate
however. is the banquet, which Is to be
given Thursday evening at $50 to
about 100 delegates to the Methodist
EuuCdblOIAA fASSOCldIlOh, WAiASA WAL NC
In conference here along with other
educational groups.
Faculties to Receive.
The members of the faculties of the
three schools of American University
will receive as hosts. DR.. Arlo Brown
president Of Drew University, will pre-
side, and DR.. Clark viii deliver the well
come address The principal speaker OF
the evening will be announced early
this week. Entertainment features OF
the evening win be furnished from the
college. The Girls Glee Club, under
direction of Dr.. Harold M. Dudley. viii
sing; the college orchestra. under d.
rection of DR.. G. H. Leineweber, will
play, and the male quartet, consisting of
Leon K. Bryner, Barrett Fuchs. Robert
Fuchs and j. Harold Riggle, will sing.
DR. Woods is a member Of the Uni
versity Senate of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church. affiliated with the Metho-
dist Educational Association.
In preparation for the annual dinner
of the Women's Guild of American
University to be given February z, Mrs.
Lucius c. Clark. wife of the chancel-
lor, entertained at tea at her home last
afternoon to group OF
women who will serve as hostesses at
the elaborate dinner. Plans for this
dinner are being rapidly completed by
the special committee in charge, and ii
is planned to present it as dinner Ia
a garden Presented for the benefit OF
the guild funds for scholarships and for
the women's residence, this
annual affair has been growing in inn
portance each year, and elaborate plans
this year include program Of tabieauX
and novel presentation of book reviews,
Already a number of tickets have been
sold and many reservations made
through Mrs. Clark.
Glee Club to Sing.
The Girls Glee Club will make their
first trip off the campus on Tuesday,
January 81. when they will sing for the
Business Woman'S Council. at the
Church of the Covenant. following the
regular dinner Of the council. Under
the direction Of Or. Dudley, the girls
gram, beginning at 8 o'clock.
The outstanding dramatic event OF
the college this week win be the ap-
pearance at two occasions of Prof
Frederick D. Losey Of New York City
who will speak at chapel Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock on the subject OF
Macbeth" On Tuesday
evening at o'clock at Hurst Hall. on
the campus, he will give readings from
Macbeth" The public has been in
vited and will be admitted without
charge to both of these occasions. Prof.
Losey appears in the students enter
tainment course. each number Of which
is open to the public. He was for many
years a professor at Syracuse Univer-
sity, but now devotes his entire time
to Shakespearean. Interpretation.
DR.. George s. Duncan. professor OF
Oriental literature OF the Graduate
School Of American University, has re-
turned from delivering two papers be-
fore learned societies. He spoke before
the American Institute Of Archaeology
at Boston University on prehistoric
Diseases and Medical Surgery" and be-
fore the Society of Biblical Literature
at Union Theological Seminary. in New
York. on Recent Archaeological Dis
coveries in Bible Lands"
Back From Vacation.
Miss Mary Mears Gait. assistant pro-
lessor of French, has returned from a
vacation at Norfolk. Va.
Miss Mary Louise Brown, dean OF
women. plans to attend the meetings
this week Of the conference on the
cause and cure Of war, as q delegate
from the American Association of Uni
versity Women.
DR.. Woods will deliver the principal
address at Central High School Friday
morning, January II, when honor stu
dents Of that institution are formally
indicted into the honor society.
will Hutchins, professor of art OF
American University. will deliver an
address before the Jewish Community
Center Dramatic Club next Wednesday
evening from the subject. Problems
of the Contemporary Theater."
The testers Club will give a dance at
the Wesley Heights Community Club
house on Friday night.