The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-17
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Mrs David Weaving of Piedmont street. Mrs Walter White of Chest nut avenue, Mrs George Manville of Ridgewood street, Mrs William l.. Clarke of Vernon street, Mrs Willis Blakeslee of Chipman street, Mrs Lester Flood of Glenridge street. Mrs Edward E. Hayward of Wood l lawn terrace, Mrs John Hollings- worth of Highland avenue and Mrs Alice Dockum of Watertown have been in Bridgeport attending the | state convention of the Rebekah as- sembly of Connecticut at the Hotel l Stratfield. representing Winona Re- bekah lodge of htis city. l Mrs Mildred West of New Haven was elected president of the Rebek- ah State Assembly. to succeed Mrs | Harriet Wilson of Bridgeport. at the annual business session Wednesday afternoon in odd Fellows temple. 1 Other officers elected were: Vice. Bridgeport; warden, Mrs Emma president, Miss Josephine Kuhl of | Southard of Stratford; secretary. l Mrs Mary Johnson of Torrington; treasurer, Mrs Clara B. Douglas of 1 Forestville.
 At the business session diamond | ring was presented to the retiring l president. Each state officer was presented with a corsage of flowers l and a gift. M
 The .appointive officers are: Mar shall. Lena Klein of New Haven conductor, Nettie Russell of Dan- | bury; chaplain, Grace Pierson of New Haven; inside guardian, Eliza | beth Woodruff of Guilford; outside guard, Minnie Richardson of East Hartford; assistant marshall. Sabra Stoughton of Willimantic; assistant | conductor, Rose Blosvern of New Haven: left support to president, Johanna oVos of Hamden; assistant secretary, Mabel Johnson of Tor rington.
 State committee: Pearl Thomas of Rowayton, Anna Vance of PIaill- cilie. Anna Hotchkiss of New Ha- ven, Margaret Guernsey of Stamford and Clara Elder of Windsor. | Credential committee: Eva Brad 1 ford of Danielson: Gertrude Bantle of Glastonbury; Jessie Manthorne of Bristol: Elfrieda Schmidt of Stafford Springs.
 Finance committee: Cora Allen of New Haven; Louise Jenkins of Ansonia: Martha Cook of Milford; Eda Kemp of Hartford; and Jennie Sores of Meriden.
 l. O. O.. F. home committed: Mill dred J. West of Hamden; Josephine Kuhl of Bridgeport; Mary E. John son of Torrington; and Clara B. M. Douglas of Forestville.
 Assistant committee on home: Frances Packer of Groton and LiI- lian Larnt of Mystic.
 Committee on laws: Hattie J. Fisher of New Haven: Elizabeth | Manville of Waterbury: Lillian Smith of Walilngford, and Emma Geralds of Cheshire. Special committee on printing: Mary E. Johnson, Nila Olcott. Min- nie Bushnell. Zelda Doty and Ethel Pearl.
 Necrology committee: Mary E. Johnson, Elizabeth Watrous, Lucia Hoyt, Eva Penaltnd and Esther Butler.
 Courtesy committee, Ellen T. Hutchinson, Hattie Sickle. Rachael Davis. Bessie Pratt and Minnie Hoadley.
 Membership book: Maude c. Griggs. foreign correspondence: Mrs Emma Southard of Stratford.
 Press correspondence: Mary E. Johnson. Committee for religious service at I. o. o. F. home: Grace E. Wiley, Elizabeth Fargo, Caroline Fish. Anne Watrous and Ann Ship man.
 District deputy presidents: Caro- lyn Kuhl. Augusta Schnidel, Mary Foley, Elizabeth Meyer, Lavina Peck, Maude Benson, Susan White, Bertha Bender. Clara Nyack, Eu- genia Wilder, Hazel Nelson. Daisy Fl Chase, Amelia Bennett, Ruth Ray mond, Ethel M. Fishe, Martha Reb- stock, Helen Quinn and Anna Phelps.
 The final event of the three day convention was the luncheon yester- l day noon in Odd Fellows temple for the past presidents. Virginia Carrington-T Thomas. na- tionaly known concert organist. and .t formerly org.nist of the United church in New Haven, vii play for the 10th Continental Congress of the D. A. R. ir Washington. April 20- 25th. Mrs Darlington Thomas. oe- sides having q prominent position as a., organist in New York. with a s. .udio at Carnegie Hall, is active in D. A. R. work. While in New Haven she was member of the St Am prose society and won the annual organ prize of the Yale School of Music. During her stay in Wash ington she will be the guest of Col onel and Mrs A. J. Cooper.
 Miss Margaretta Jones of Willow street will leave. tomorrow Tor Cleveland to attend the 3Sth annual convention of the Association for Childhood Education to be held April 20 to 24 Miss Jones will repre- sent the local Kindergarten Associa- ton of which she is president.
 This is the first year that this group wil convene under its new name, as t was formerly the Inter-
 rational Kindergarten Union with large membership of those inter ested in Kindergarten work all over the United States and In several for eign countries.
 The International Kindergarten
 Union was the oldest organization
 Of t.lc kind in the field of early
 childhood education and in keeping
 w.th the modern trend of education t was found Mdyisable. to enlarge