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Croissant, director; Mrs. e. L. Keyser.
director; Mrs. Donald Young, chair
man newcomers; Mrs. w. P. Briggs,
chairman membership; Miss Anna p.
! Cooper, chairman program; Mrs. Dud-
ley w. Willard, chairman publicity;
Mrs. Henry G. Doyle, chairman stu
dent relations; Mrs. w. j. Cooper,
chairman hospitality.
Washington Research Club met
Tuesday evening at the Thomson
School. Plans for the year were dis
cussed. The subject for discussion and
study this year is Character Educa-
ton"
The following officers were elected:
| President, Miss Hilda M. Diller; vice
president, Miss Irene Raver; record
ing secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth s. White;
corresponding secretary, Miss Flor
ence Gregory, and treasurer, Mrs. Mary
| H. Gutchell.
The Woman's Club Of Sixteenth
Street Highlands met october 8 at the
home Of Mrs Percy I. Balch, 5706 Six
teenth street. The president, Mrs.
Lewis j. Battle, presided. The spe-
cial feature was paper entitled "Vo-
cations in Radio" read by Mrs. Paul
F. Grover. The program chairman,
Mrs. Minott E. Porter, gave a review Of
the book My Story" by Mary Rob-
ertS Rinehart.
Refreshments were served, with Mrs.
Charles F. Anderson, Mrs. William H.
Hessick and Mrs. George G.. Shoe
maker assisting the hostess.
Social Club Of Washington Council,
No. %, Ladies Of the u. C. C. of E.
The last meeting was held at the home
of Mrs. Jones. The president, Mrs.
Hipsley. being Ill. Mrs. Burton pre-
sided.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Toberman, 1872 North
Spruce street, Lyon Village, Va. Lunch
will be served at IL o'clock.
The District Of Columbia AIumnae
Club Of Alpha Chi Omega met at the
home Of Miss Bettina Sargeant, 3142
Nineteenth street, October 2, with
Dorothy Perkins, Edwerta Boyer and
Winifred Freiot as assistant hoStesses.
New officers are: President, Mrs.
Parry Grub; vice president, Mrs James
Jardine; treasurer. Mrs. Paul Hay
ward; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Owen Scott: recording secretary, Mrs.
Leland Sutherland, and Pan-Hellenic
delegate, Mrs. Scott w. Hovey. The
delegate is the president of the Wash
ington Hellenic Council.
New members affiliated are Ruth
GosS, Mrs. Carl Gerber, Mrs. David
Nelson, Mrs. Ray C. Muller and Miss
Tomena Thoreson. Miss Thoreson
from the New York Alumnae Chapter
and Miss Sue Lockhart from the Will
liam and Mary Chapter were visitors.
Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 3,
Ladies of the G. A. r., met Monday
! at the New willard Hotel, Miss Nellie
Colclazier presided.
The general orders Of the new ma
, tional president, Mrs. Pearl c. Cooke,
and the decisions and recommends
tions of the forty-eighth national
COllNCAtlOIl 1oouCu 4lOll1 tklG x4dt4Olldl
headquarters were read.
The absence of Mrs. Sarah E. Deeds,
a past president, caused disappoint-
ment, as those present had planned a
surprise testimonial in acknowledg-
ment of her long service, which she
recently resigned on account Of Illness
Miss Jessie D. Patton was installed as
secretary.
Mrs. Della A. C. Goodrich was initi-
ated new member and flowers were
sent her father, Mai. Edward r.
Campbell, Vermont veteran.
Twentieth Century Club-The ma
ture section will meet Wednesday for
a walk through Wesley Heights to the
reservoir. Take bus marked Wesley
Heights to American University at
Eighteenth and Pennsylvani avenue at
10 am.
The civic section will meet Thursday
for luncheon at 1890 pm. at the
Y. w. C. A. John Ihlder, secretary
of the Washington Commission on
Housing and executive director Of the
Boston Housing Association, will speak
on Housing Conditions In Washing
ton"
Section leaders for 1e34-5 are: Art
Mrs. Stanley c. Sears; civics Mrs. Wal
ter W. Husband; education, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle; French, Mrs. Camille
Hindmarsh; garden, Mrs. Benjamin E.
Smith; international outlook, Mrs. Will
liam F. Notz; literature, Mrs. William
r. Maxon; music, Mrs. Walter E. Hill
ton, and nature, Mrs. Leo D. Miner.
The following were elected to mem
bership October 4: Mrs. j. c. Hemp
hill, Mrs. McFall Kerby, Mrs. LIE Verne
Beales, Miss Harriet M. Cushing and
Mrs William Aspinwall.
There will be no meetings Of the
music section in October.
Soroptimist CIub.-Miss Hilda Cum
niff, who has Just returned from Siam,
was the guest of honor at the lunch
con or Wednesday at the Willard
Hotel, Mrs. Edna Knight Gasch, pres
ident, presiding. She told Of her trip.
Mary Katherine Lewis told of plans
to establish another Soroptimist Club
In Trenton, N. j. i
Another guest was Mrs. Ethel Dud-
ley, president of the Burlington Coun-
ty, Moorestown, N. j., Club. Mrs.
Betsy Fisher accompanied the club at
the piano while singing the club songs.
The Pleasant Hour Club met Sep
tember 80 at 2610 University place.
Topics OF current and special interest
were discussed.
District Of Columbia Daughters of
| American Colonists met at the home
OF the State regent, Mrs. John F. Lit
tie, 1910 Varnum street, September AZ.
Mrs. Little spoke of attending the
ceremony commemorating the 350th
anniversary of the landing of John
White, Governor of the Lost Colony
and grandfather of Virginia Dare, at
Roanoke Island on August 10. Mrs.
Harry c. Grove, chairman Of the Com
mittee for the Revision of Bylaws. re-
ported. Mrs. David D. Caldwell, chair
man OF the Program Committee, pre-
sented a tentative program. Mrs.
Grace Meeks, chairman of the Seth
Parker Club. spoke