Evening star., 1934-04-22
Schools and Colleges
Events of Interesting Student and Faculty
Act;v't;es in Washington Leading
Educational Institutions.
Mrs. Ickes Addresses A. U. Women

Mrs. Ickes Addresses A. U. Women.
IRIS. HAROLD L. ICKES. wife
VI of the Secretary Of the Interior,
will be guest speaker at
luncheon given by the women of the
faculty of American University Grad
uate School Thursday. She will speak
on "The Adventures Of Lady Legis-
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The luncheon. which will be given
at the home of Mrs. H. NJ. johnson
in Lyon Village, is being arranged by
a committee consisting of Mrs. Lucius
C. Clark, Mrs. w. C. John and Mrs.
Frank w. Collier.
The science departments OF the
College of Liberal Arts will hold their
annual open house" and exhibition
in Hurst Hall Thursday and Friday
afternoon and evening. The exhibi-
ton is open to the public.
Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray de-
livered the chief address at the inter
scholastic banquet of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church last week.
The conference is meeting in Will
Transport. Today Chancellor Gray
will speak at the annual meeting Of
the Wyoming Conference at Forty
Fort, Pa.
Nominees for the District High
School scholarships from Central and
Western high schools were interviewed
by college authorities yesterday. Each
school was represented by six students
selected by their hign school facul-
ties. A four-year scholarship is
awarded each year to a member OF
the graduating class from each OF the
local high schools.
The Brecky and Westerner clubs
Friday evening, at which delegations
of students from Central and West
ern High Schools were guests. Students
at the college who are graduates Of
Central and Western High Schools
comprise the membership of the
clubs.
Worthington Houghton and Helen
Shenton were elected president and
vice president Of the French Club
this week Miss Mary NJ Gait. as
sistant professor of French, is the
faculty adviser of the club.
The annual College Honor Society
address was delivered Tuesday even
ing by DR.. Paul r. Heyl. chief Of the
sound division of the Bureau Of
Standards. His topic was Dreams
and Visions of a Scientific Man"
G.. w. U. Law Group to Dine.
"HE annual dinner for faculty.
alumni and students of the
George Washington University
Law School, sponsored by the Law
Alumni Association. will be held next
Saturday at 730 pm. at the Willard
Hotel.
John Garland Pollard, former Gov
ernor of Virginia and a member OF
the law class of 1898, will speak.
Guests of honor will be Gov and
Mrs. Pollard, Commissioner James M
Lands of the Federal Trade Commits
sion and Harvard Law School, and
Mrs Lands, and Dr. Cloyd H Marvin,
president of the university, and Mrs.
Marvin. Members Of the faculty of
the Law School with their families
and officers of the George Washington
Law Association will be with the
honor group. Matthew H OBrien.
president Of the association, will
preside.
Following the dinner there will be
dancing An ensemble from the uni
versity orchestra will provide music
during the dinner
The Alumni Committee, which is
assisting in the arrangements, is head
oI NV Alhar4 oh
Miss Olive Geiger, Miss Vivian Simp-
son, Paul E Shorb. Clarence Miller,
H. Clay Espey, Thomas Lodge, Fred
Bradley. Gilbert Hall, G. Kirby Mum
son, William Warfield Ross, Charles
Allen and H. c. Fitzpatrick.
Officers of the Law Association are
Mr.. O'Brien. president; Mr.. Miller,
Miss Geiger and Mr.. Shorb. vice presi-
dents Mrs Albert E. Conradis, secre-
tary-treasurer, and Mr.. Espey, Miss
Vivian Simpson and Thomas Lodge,
members of the Executive Committee
With group Of women in public
life as guests Of honor and speakers.
the twenty-sixth annual banquet of
Columbian Women of the George
Washington University will take place
Friday night at the Chevy Chase Club.
The list of honor guests and speakers
includes Mrs. George H. Dern, wife
Of the Secretary of War; Mrs. Harold
L. Ickes, wife Of the Secretary of the
Interior; Mrs. Emily Newell Blair.
well-known author and lecturer and
member of the Democratic National
Committee; Representative Virginia
Jenckes of Indiana. Representative
Marion Clark of New York, Mrs. Lu-
cille Foster McMillin, civil service
commissioner; Miss Fay Bentley, judge
Of the Juvenile Court of the District
Of Columbia, and Mrs. Elwood P.
Morey, president of the Twentieth
Century Club. Mrs. w. Hayes Yeager,
president of Columbian Women, will
preside. Mrs. Joshua Evans jr., mem-
Der of the board of trustees of the uni
versity, who is in charge of the pro-
gram, will introduce the speakers.
Cue and Curtain Club, student
drama group, will give its third
production of the year Thursday and
Friday of this week at the Wardman
Park Theater, presenting r. c. Sher-
riffs famous war play, Journeys
End" Leading roles will be taken by
Leonard Stevens, Walter Pick, Har-
old Stepler. Stanley Peterson, Kenn
Roomney, William Claudy, Sylvan
Lappan, Karl Gay. Stuart Abraham,
James Kinsella and George Conn.
The play is directed by Constance
Connor Brown, member Of the facul-
ty of the Public Speaking Department
and director of Cue and Curtain
plays.
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