Evening star., 1935-03-28
Wisconsin Society Dance
Follows Discussion Tonight.

Wisconsin Society Dance
Follows Discussion Tonight.
Hosts were announced today for the
program which the Wisconsin Society
will hold this evening at the Willard
Hotel to be followed by dance.
The meeting, designated as Wiscon-
sins contribution to government and
science, will be preceded by discus
sion by DR.. Edwin Witte. Wisconsin
professor and now member of the
Presidents Economic Security Com
mittee, on Wisconsin's contribution to
government; DR.. L. C. Gray of the
Agriculture Department on the Gov
ernment's land policy, and DR.. VIII
liam LeiserSon on a similar subject.
Hosts for the occasion will be Miss
Anna Halberg, Mr.. Peter van Most
land, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Miller,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Becker, Miss
Florence Horrigan, DR.. August App,
Miss Louise MCGUIRE. Mr.. Leonard
Holmes, DR.. and Mrs. Rene Pinto, Mr..
and Mrs. George Worthington, Mr..
and Mrs. George Zeutzius, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Fisher, Mr.. Julian Eyre
and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Sievers.
The receiving line will include Mrs.
Ellen Commons, DR.. and Mrs. George
Rutland Mr.. Leo T. Crowley, DR.. and
Mrs. L. c. Gray, Miss Malinda Havey,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Leiserson, Miss
Minnie NotZ, Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey
Williams, Mr.. Edwin White, Father
Francis Haas, Mr.. and Mrs. Basil
Manly and Mr.. and Mrs. Balthaser
Meyer.
The University of Iowa Alumni As
sociation will meet in the ball room
of the La Fayette Hotel at dinner
Wednesday evening, April 8, at z
o'clock.
Prof. Frederick G. Higbee, executive
secretary of the Iowa University
Alumni Association at Iowa City,
Iowa, who will be in Washington to
attend the convention of the Ameri-
can Alumni Council April As, will be
the principal speaker at the dinner.
In connection with the convention
there will be 18 local intercollegiate
club meetings.
Some of the prominent alumni and
former students of the University of
Iowa are United States Senator L. J.
Dickinson, Representative John w.
Gwynne, Commissioner c. w. Ram
Seyer of the United States Court of
Claims and former Iowa Congressman;
Representative Lloyd Thurston, Mr..
Seth Thomas, general counsel of the
Department of Agriculture; DR.. John
w. Studebaker, commissioner of edu-
cation; Miss Bess Goodykoontz, assist
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F. Dickinson Let's, associate justice of
the District of Columbia Supreme
Court; Rear Admiral Charles z. Riggs,
Mr.. James j. Lehman, Mr.. Edgar J.
Goodrich, former member of the Tax
Appeal Board; Maj. John L. Hull,
Lieut.. Col. w. A. Graham, Capt. w. M.
Carton of the Navy Yard and Col.
Nathan D. Ely.
The former president of the uni
versity, DR.. George E. Mclean, will be
guest of honor.
An interesting program is planned
by the committee, according to Mrs.
Ramona Evans Dietz, secretary of the
organization, and publicity is in charge
of Miss Helen Kennedy and Miss Julia
Wade. All former students and gradu-
be present. Reservations may be made
by calling Mrs Karl S. Hoffman.
Tremendous interest is being shown
by Washington music and dance lovers
in the program of dances and panto-
mines, to be given by the Washington
Composers Club and the Lisa Gardi-
ner Dancers Wednesday, April 3, at
$3.50 PM, in Mckinley Auditorium,
when original compositions by Mary
Howe. Edward c. Potter, Henry
Gregor, r. Deane Shure and La Sale
Spier will be given for the first time
on any stage by dance group with
the composers at the piano.
Miss Anne Hull, whose two-piano
programs with Mrs. Howe have given
them both Nationwide prominence,
will come to Washington for this con-
cert, at which they will play Mrs.
Howe's Three Spanish Dances" Miss
Gardiner will dance the "Habanera,"
rs transcribed by Mrs. Howe from an
old Spanish folk tune, and she will
be the first dancer to present the
"Habanera" in this form.
Among those who will attend the
concert will be Mrs. Charles G. Bene-