Evening star., 1932-03-06
Pi Beta Phi Alumnae
Plan Reception and
Dinner on Tuesday
Other Sororities of Capital
Also Announce A Social
Events for Week.

The Washington Alumnae Club of Pi
Beta Phi will meet at dinner in the
Y. w. c. A. at Seventeenth and K
streets Tuesday evening at o'clock.
An informal reception between 6 and
$50 o'clock will precede the dinner.
Wnen the members will have the pleas
ure OF greeting Mrs. William A. Slade,
who Is to be the guest speaker of the
evening. and the patro1esSes of Colum-
bia Alpha Chapter of George Wash
ington University.
The patronesSes who have been in
vlted to be guests of the club are Mrs.
Howard HodgkinS, Mrs. William A.
Wilbur. Mrs. Cloyd Marvin, Mrs.
Herbert Schoenfeld. Mrs Thomas Little
page. Mrs. Charles F. Stockton. Mrs.
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mrs. Joseph
Stewart and Mrs. George P. Merrill.
A short program of music at o'clock
will precede the talk by Mrs. Slade.
There will be a trio by Mrs. Ben S.
Fisher, Mrs. James w. Cliff and Mrs.
Robert McFall, and solos by Mrs. Cliff
and Mrs McFall.
Mrs. R. w. Hynson and Mrs. F. D.
Shelton are taking reservations for the
dinner.
Miss Jean Watkins will ntertain the
members of the George Washington
Alumnae Chapter of the Alpha Delta
Pi Sorority Tuesday in her home at
38l7 street.
The Grand Council of Lambda Chi,
National Sorority, is arranging the an
nual st. Patrick frolic to be held at
Indian Spring Golf Club Saturday,
from 10 to l o'clock. Arrangements for
the dance are in the hands of COM
mittee composed of representatives Of
each OF the Washington chapters, with
Miss Evelyn White as chairman.
Alpha Chapter of Lambda Chi
Sorority gave banquet Thursday eve
ming at the Kennedy-Warren The two
other Washington chapters, Beta and
Delta, were represented. Following the
banquet Miss Helen Fry, president Of
the chapter, formally initiated MBs
May Cronin, Miss Elsie Phillips and
Miss Adele Klein. Each of the new
members was presented with a corSage
bouquet of white carnations.
The twenty-ninth anniversary of the
installation of Phi Alpha Chapter of
Chi Omega, at George Washington Uni
versity, was celebrated Wednesday
CNClllllS Will a D1llQucG Tie RdTQPn
room of the Mayflower Hotel. when so
members of the fraternity from the
Washington City Alumnae Chapter. the
active members and pledges of Phi
Alpha Chapter and members from other
colleges joined in commemoration of
this eleventh installation, in the roster
Of the 88 chapters of the fraternity.
The horseshoe shaped table, beau
tifully decorated in the cardinal and
straw colors of the fraternity was
presided over by Miss Mary Temple Hill
toaStmiStreSS, who was assisted in the
program by Miss Ruth de Vane, presi-
dent of Phi Alpha Chapter; Mrs Charles
Shelton of the Alumnae Chapter, Miss
Helen Newman, secretary of the George
Washington University Law School. and
Miss Charl Williams, former president
and present field secretary of the Ma
tional Education Association, who is also
prominently identified with women's ac-
tivities in several other national organ
izations. Following the toasts. Miss
Helen Lawrence of the faculty of George
Washington University and a new
initiate of the local chapter, was pre-
Sented, as well as the PLEDGES of the
chapter. The annual award to the
most outstanding girl in the latter
Christine Short.
Miss Helen Lupton, chairman of the
committee in charge of arrangements.
was assisted by Mrs. George Reginal
Heine, president of the Washington City
Alumnae Chapter, and Miss Dorothy
Gray.
The regular biweekly meeting of Pi
Chapter, Beta Chi Sorority, was held
Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Verna
Tucker. at GIT Oneida place northwest.
with the chapters new pledge, Miss
Josephine Hummer, attending her first
full meeting
Final arrangements were completed
for card party, to be given by Pi
Chapter, in the Chestnut Farms Dairy,
at 2l03 Rhode Island avenue northeast,
Tuesday. The committee in charge has
arranged a door prize, in addition to
prizes for each table. Candy and re-
freShmentS also are to be on sale. The
committee in charge of the affair is
composed of Mrs Mae TaylOr Mrs