Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
$50 WAR ORPHANS
INVITED TO PARTY
"Get-Acquainted" Affair Will
y Be Given by Legion
Tuesday Night.

Approximately 100 war orphans of
the District of Columbia, sens and
daughters of service men and officers
who died during and since the World
War, have been invited to "get-ac-
painted" party Tuesday night at the
Washington Hotel by the American
Legion, through whose efforts many Of
them are receiving their education.
- The eldest Of these war orphans is
NOW % and the youngest 10. A record
OF their addresses and guardians has
been carefully compiled by the Legion
Committee on Education of War
Orphans. The party Tuesday evening
Is being arranged not only as a big
family reunion, but also to enable
the Legion workers to renew their
friendships service.
With the dedication next year Of the
District OF Columbias World War Me-
mortal, now being erected in West Po-
tonac Park, interest centers more than
ever on the children OF the men whose
memory the public will ncnor on that
occasion.
Project Progresses Rapidly.
Education of war orphans, a move
ment initiated by the American Legion
through Maj. Gen. P. G. Harris, adju-
tant general of the Army during the
World War, has made rapid strides in
its three years of action. From the
Washington Office systematic legis-
lative campaign has brought about
scholarship aid in Is States, although
the District of Columbia is not repre-
sented en- this list. The States Offering
, this aid to war orphans are Utah,
Connecticut. Maryland Delaware, Vir-
gtn1a, Kentucky, New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts,, South Carolina. Arizona,
Idaho, Vermont, North Carolina and
California, with several other States
Legislatures still in session
Plans are now afoot to create inter-
est In behalf of the Districts World
War orphans. and the Legion Commit
will be available for them in the col
leges OF the National Capital.
Originally there were 1856 District
war orphans that might nave had COL
lege advantages had the plan been
started earlier. At present there are
100 such orphans who might benefit
from the friendly scholarship guidance.
Under recently enacted legislation
the President can now appoint from
fhe war orphans of the country 40
cadets to the Military Academy and 40
to the Naval Academy.
d. C. War Orphans Listed.
The list Of war orphans in Washing
ton. with the years of their birth, is
as follows:
a 1sos-Alice McDonoush. Elizabeth F.
\ Margin, James w. Mercer, Orlando C.
TroXel and Louise Walker
l909-Jane C. De Lesdernier. Cert
rude c. Drescher. Flora Louise Fisher,
Mary Louise Kyle. Bradford S. Magill,
George Peters and Melven e. Tyrrel.
l9l0-Warren Black, Arthur Gle
phane, Ellery H. Ellis. Jean Eyre, John
Green, Arn1inter Harding, Dorothy
Herbsleb, Martha L. Mercer, Oma Bat
taile Scott, Clara Z. Sorrell, Margaret
P. Sumner and Othello Washington.
19l1-Margaret Bourke. Robert Frank
lin. Norwood Havener, Joseph j. Jack
son. Sylvester Phoenix. Marjorie Poll
man, Robert 8. Sharp, Eleanor P. Tay-
Tor, Ethel Washington and Odell Long
Whipple
1912-Helen Black, Columbia Brand
enburg. Mildred j. Cullen, Andrew S.
Donnan, Bertrand L. Ellis William Ed
ward Kendall. jr.; Stanley Matthews,
Caroline Miller, Marjorie o. Murphy
and George H. Shelton.
l9l3-Mary Bourke, Murray Cox
Brown. John B. Castle, William Rogers
Coleman, Virginia Drescher, Gladis
Franklin, Dorothy E. Kelvin, Catherine
Hutchins, Katherine B. Knox and Edith
Washington.
1sl4-Nellie Virginia Barnes, Anne
Bourke. Louis F. Delesdernier, Francis
G. Donovan. Winfield @. Ellis. Norman
Tickling, Richard Giles, Henry Clay
Goldman, Elizabeth r. Martin, Iretha
Means, Virginia L. Palmer, Julius c.
Pogue, Dana Dick Post, Jessie w. Ross,
Caroline Sheridan and John Turner.
1915-Barbara Baker. Alice Bland,
Charles E. Cain, Guy w. 8. Castle, jr
.Aohn F. Connors, jr.: Albert r. Ores
cher, Eda Celesta Fisher, Robert c. Gill
dart, Juanita Giles. Louis S. Goldman,
Mary Ellen Jackson. Charles T. King,
Lucy Lee Knox, Kathleen r. Lathrop,
Arthur H. Marsh, jr.; Catherine M
Martin, Dorothy Phelps, Alma Helen
{ Smith and Joseph Stewart
1916-Robert r. Bruce, Betty May
Buzzard Lawrence A. Cooke, Forrest L.
Cromwell, Evelyn Fickling, Ernest c.
Gilbert, Mason w. Gray. jr.: William
E. Hardy. Ida Hutchins, Fred Lee,
Lawrence McFadden. Richard M. Marsh,
John Willard Ross. Philip H. Sheridan
and Charles Harden Walton.
1917-Mary Black, Margaret z. Gil
bert, Catherine A. Kelvin, Sarah Jack
son and Rollins Howell Sharp.
19la-Eva Katherine Bruce. Essie
Robert Buzzard, Willie Cain, jr.: Ben
tamin H. Corbett, Ray Haskell Ellis
George B. Foote, William j. Gilhart
Mary E. Grant, Sherman Greene,
Ernest Halton. Edward Warner Hardy,
Hubert A. Johnson, jr.; Charles r.
Keith, Ora Holden Lathrop. Katherine
) Rudy, Helen Stamford Ryan. Katherine
E sale. Richard MICA. Stanley and
Helen G. Smith.
l9l9-Letitia Moore Knox. Albert N.
Iange. jr.. and George T. Sewall.
192O-Teresa M Chisley and Ruth
Hazel Rollerson.
1921-Marion Z. Mortimer.