Evening star., 1935-08-11
1886 BUDGET UNIT
FOR CHEST FORMS
Finnan Is Chairman of
Group 3, Victory of
Group 2.

With the appointment of c. Mar
shall Finnan as chairman of Group 8,
Character Building Agencies, and
John F. Victory as chairman of Group
2, Institutions and Hospitals, the Or
@ganization of the Community Chest
Budget Committee for 1896 is prac-
tically complete.
The committee, composed of 70
Washingtonians, all volunteers, will
have the task of looking into the de-
tails and passing on the budgets to be
spent by the 64 agencies of the Com
munity Chest during the year 1886.
Friendship House.
A group of six women, wives of F..
E. r. A. workers, meet at the house
every week to take sewing lessons
under the instruction of Mrs. San
dersons.
A group of Community Center play
ers of the Children's Guild will pre-
sent three scenes from the Tanning
of the Shrew," under the direction Of
Mrs. Helen Burton.
Florence Crittenton Home.
Takoma Park Mothers Group, under
the leadership of Mrs. Hobart w. Rut-
ledge, presented an evening of story
telling and music last Tuesday. Re-
freshments were served.
Northeast Boys Club.
Overnight hikes are still in great
demand at the club. A group of II
boys, under adult leadership, will leave
Saturday for week end trip to Cabin
John. The group swimming team,
with Jake Hengstler, took part in a
swimming meet in Cumberland, Md,
last Thursday.
Twenty boys will leave for Camp
Reeder tomorrow to take part in the
camp activities for the last two-week
period. Most of these boys are guests
of the Junior Board of Commerce and
the Optimist Club
Washington Boys Club.
A camp committee of the board Of
trustees, composed of Mr. Horn, Joe
kaufman and William E. Russell, will
visit Camp Reeder next Thursday
with view to looking over the many
Improvements made this season.
The last group of boys are leaving
for camp tomorrow. Practically all of
this group are guests of the Junior
Board of Commerce, Optimist Club
and Rotary Club, as the money has
been donated by these three clubs for
the two-week period. The following
representatives of these clubs will be
on hand to see the boys off: Roland
Whitehurst of Rotary, Corcoran Thorn
OF the Junior Board of Commerce
and Henry Schaffert, past president of
Optimist International, of Optimist.
Southwest House.
The closing exercises of the Sum-
mer school, with an exhibition of work,
were held at the George Bell School
last Thursday. The display in arts
and crafts. carpentry and steel metal
work showed the progress the children
made during the Summer months. A
presentation of dramatics and music
was also given by the group.
Joint Projects.
Under the part-time staff, Is moth
ers have registered in the class for
lomemaking at Georgetown Childrens
House.
The Settlement Camp site at Fort
Foote will have as its next group 80
boys from the Christ Child Society.
They will be camping from August IL
to % under the direction of John w.
Carey, boys worker of the Christ
Child Society.
The swimming pool at the E Street
Y. w. C. A., the opening of which
was made possible by The Evening
Star, Y. w. C. A. and Central Neigh
borhood Council, being operated by a
staff of volunteers, makes it possible
for rs children day to have place
to swim.
A medical examination given by a
staff of volunteer physicians is check
ing up on the health of these chill
dren, which will make a follow-up
service possible.
Southeast House.
Volunteer leaders of Howard Uni
versity have organized into group
for the purpose of supervising outings
at regular periods for clubs Of boys
from the settlement. T.