Evening star., 1933-06-25
NEWS OF THE CLUBS

Washington the high school boy or
| girl who has gained recognition for
having performed some outstanding
he or she may live and where a
Soroptimist club exists.
Zonta CIub.-The weekly luncheon
was held Wednesday at the Y. w. c. A.,
with Secretary Thelma Barnard presid-
ing. Miss Edna Moreland was the guest
of her Aunt Stella Whiting. Master
George Amouri gave violin solo.
Edith Salisbury, who was leaving for
California, was feted by Carolyn Long
fellow, Esther Guide, Hattie Anderson
and Ethel Hess. Zontians leaving for
the Zonta International Convention in
Chicago were Edith Salisbury, Jane
Bartlett. Emma T. Hahn, Mary Linds-
ley, Mannda Harvey, Francis Gutelius,
May Meyers McElroy, Dr.. Edith Seville
Coale.
The monthly board meeting was an
nounced for June n with DR.. Edith
Seville Coale, Hay Adams House.
District Of Columbia League of Amer
ican Penwomen.-Mrs. Aaron Newman,
assisted by her daughter, Mrs Gerald
Brooks and her granddaughter, Miss
Helen Brooks, entertained the Executive
Board at her home, Wellington Villa, on
the Potomac, June "a.
Chairman of the creative groups for
the 1884 season were announced as
follows: Art, Elise Thomson Clark;
drama, Minnie Frost Rands; fiction,
Phyllis Moore Gallagher; non-f1ction,
Margaret ]. Bailey; journalism, Ada
Lillian Bush; music, Elena de Sayn;
poetry, Irene Shirley Moran: markets,
Myrta Ethel Cawood. Chairman for
the special group: Fellowship, Mrs.
Richard Gasch; Les Causeries Fran
caises, Nine. Felian Garzia; radio. Miss
Alice Hutchins Drake: reception. Mrs.
Bessie Wells Palm and Miss Cozart
Harralson.
Mrs. Newman's guests were Mrs.
William Walton Badgley, DR.. Frances
Moon Butts, Mrs. Lucia Hanna Hadley,
Miss Marguerite Merigold, Mrs. William
Manchester, Miss Ruth Wilson Forney.
Miss Katherine Jacobs, Miss Susan
Baker, Miss Dorothy Clendenning
Gatchell. DR.. Jean Stephenson, Mrs.
Blaine Free Moore, Mrs. Edison Briggs,
Mrs. Estelle Maloy Moses, Mrs. John
Welch, Mrs. LarZ Anderson and Miss
Annabel Lee Glenn.
The Cercle des Precieuses Ridicules
held the last meeting Of its sixty-f1rst
season at the home of M. and Mime.
Pierre de Chauny, near Falls Church,
Va. A buffet supper was served. A
review Of the years activities was
given by the president, M. William J:
Wallis; reading, La France de 1913,
Louis Gilet, Mile Ondine Livaudais;
monologue, "Un monsieur qui va dams
lie monde" by A. Alfred Mayer, M.
Carlos Blume; vocal solos, "Barcarolle, -
by Mendelssohn, and "L'amour dune
Femme" by Schumann, Nine Pierre de
Chauny, accompanied at the piano by
Mile. Marie de Porry; reading. "Contes
amusants," anonymous, M Henri Laz-
ard; jingles complimentary to mem
bers Of the cercle, composed and read
by M William ]. Wallis; comedy, Entire
soeurs," by Dreyfus, Nine. Manuel
Cambouri and Mile. Patricia Hunt.
Business and Professional Women's
secretary of the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs, delivered an address of welcome
to the incoming officers of the local
club at their annual dinner at the Will
lard Hotel, Monday evening. Miss
Stella I. Clodfelter, retiring president,
presented her successor, Miss nellie L.
Ingels, with gavel
The committee chairmen appointed
for the coming year are: Education,
Mrs. Arthur Charles Watkins; Emblem,
Mrs. Myrtle L. Carver; Housing, Miss
Edith lockwood; Legislation. Mrs.
Alice Fay; Magazine, Miss Esther Col
vim; Research, Miss Adeline Taylor;
Reception, Mrs. Julia F1icke; Pub
lie Relations, Mrs. D. Priscilla Edger-
ton; Program, Miss Emily Clark, and
Membership, Mrs. Catherine Slaves.
Miss Mae Murray was reappointed
chairman of the Finance, Miss. Eliza
beth Haney Of the Transportation, and
Mrs. Jessie Eliot Perez Of the Publicity
Committees.
Members and their friends made a
pilgrimage to the historic old home Of
Wade Ellis. near Pohick Church, yes
terday. The proceeds Of this benefit
will 60 the the clubs relief fund for
the benefit of unemployed women.
The monthly meetings have been dis.
continued until September.