Evening star., 1932-04-03
Women i'm Official Life
Hostesses in Washington
MRS. RAY LYMAN WILBUR.

plenty of kisses and tuckings in OF the
blankets. These are important-ln fact
very important, she says. But a motn-
er's Job is never finished with them; II
has only begun.
we have always felt that others
could look after many of the physical
needs of our children Mrs. Wilbur SAID
earnestly. But there is one thing that
we would allow no one else to co for
them. Both Dr. Wilbur and I made
the intellectual needs of our children
our own special care.
Training from earliest childhood is
very important" she continued, land
the mind of the child is the most fertile
field in which to plant that training"
There are three sons and two daugh-
ters to which this mother who pre-
ferred to guide her own children intel
lectually" may point with pride. DR..
Blake Colburn Wilbur is a surgeon in
California; DR.. Dwight Locke Wilbur is
a member of the permanent staff of the
Mayo Clinic; Ray Lyman Wilbur, jr, is
a junior at Stanford; Mrs. Jessica Ely
is the wife of an orthopedic surgeon in
San Francisco, and Mrs. Lois Hopper is
the wife of a graduate of the Harvard
School of Business Administration who
is now employed in bank.
When a woman marries, her biggest
job becomes playing her husbands
game" Mrs. Wilbur declared with con-
viction. You see, We have always
looked on life as sort of game. We
are pitted against different things that
come along, and we always play to win.
to play that game with her husband
THAT game" has had lot of va
riety in it for this interesting little
woman.
At first it was as the wife of doc
tor who soon was to gain prominence
in his profession that she took up her
relationships with people outside her
home. There we're the sick who came
under the healing care of her ply
icion-husband. toward whom she often
opened her heart and extended her
sympathy.
After a time his alma mater called
Ray Lyman Wilbur TO be its president.
The cultivated woman who was play
ing the game" by his side then left
the tasks with which she was employed
to enter the new field of endeavor with
her husband.
There are many things one can do
as the wife of a university president,
and they all center about people" Mrs.
Wilbur pointed out. You like to meet
the students and become friendly with
them. OF course, it is difficult to know
many students intimately but I do
know a few Of those who are outstand-
ing. And I make it a point each year
to entertain as many of the students
as possible"
There was another pleasant occupa-
ton in connection with her life at the
university to which Mrs Wilbur devoted
considerable energy. That had to do
with making friends with members of
the faculty.
1T is very interesting part Of the
work Of university presidents wife to
become acquainted with the faculty."
she went on. Then, of course, there
are friends who come to visit the uni
versity and you set about to make them
think that it is as worth while an in
stitution as you feel it is"
When the college chums of the Will
burs, the two students in geology, were
elevated to the White House in 1928 as
Land. the bond of friendship between
the two couples was evident. DR.. Will
bur was persuaded to leave his univer-
sity duties for a time and come to
Washington as Secretary of the Interior.
And Mrs. Wilbur added to her success
fully acted roles of the pasta new one
that of an official hostess Of the
cabinet.
But I find many of my duties here
in Washington similar to those I had
on the campus at Stanford" she said
with smile, "for it Is interesting peo-
pie you are dealing with here, too, and
friends you are making, which. after
all, counts for the most in either Job"
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From her pinnacle of vantage on the
Stanford campus, Mrs. Wilbur has been
able to view some Of the trials and
tribulations of the so-called modern
youth. Looking at these young men
and women frankly, without prejudice
or sentiment, she revealed her observa-
tions
Il feel a very great deal of conf
Gence in this Younger generation" she