The Washington times., 1935-11-22
CATHOLIC UNIT
PLANS T0FETE
DELEGATE
BY MARY PADGETT

AICllUlSk1OP
apostolic delegate to the United
States, will be the guest of honor
at a meeting of the Convert
League, Catholic Daughters of
America, to be held on the after.
noon of December 8, at 2 o'clock,
in st. Roses School, 1900 Cali
fornia st. N. w.
Miss Florence Winter, chair
man of the league, urges the
members to bring their convert
and non-Catholic friends to this
meeting.
Court District of Columbia of
the Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea held a business meeting sew
eral evenings ago at the Willard
Hotel, at which time Miss Ger
trude Roche announced that
plans are being made for the
Christmas work of the welfare
committee. 1t was also announced
by Mrs. Margaret Smith that the
rummage sale, held recently, had
been a financial success. Miss
Grace Sprucebank, grand regent,
presided.
Drive for Members
Miss Marie Creshen and other
members of the junior council
have launched a drive for junior
members. Five troops Of girls be-
tween the ages of IL and II years
are in formation. Each troop, un-
der the guidance of a senior coun-
cillor, will select it's own particular
work in addition to the regular
activities.
Officers and several members of
Court District of Columbia will at
tend a formal reception in honor
of new members into Court Forest
Glen, Sunday afternoon in Silver
Spring, Md, and will be guests at
the tea which will follow. Miss
Alice Watts, grand regent of Court
Forest Glen, will preside during
the ritualistic ceremonies.
The civics committee of the
Womens City Club had three
outstanding guests at luncheon
today in the clubhouse, 736 Jack
son Pl. They were Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen, Capt. M. M.
Barnard, General Superintendent,
District of Columbia Penal Tnsti-
tutions, and Major Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent, Metropol-
itan Police.
Benson to Talk
George A. Benson, newspaper
correspondent, will talk on "The
Distracted World" at a meeting
of the current events section,
Tuesday at 5 O'Clock. Miss Flor
ence C. Bell, chairman, will pre-
side.
Miss Elva Mcnamara will be
hostess at the informal tea Sun
day afternoon.
Reservations are being received
for he clubs Thanksgiving din
ner and entertainment on Thurs
day at $50 o'clock.
Mrs. John M. Waters, travel
section chairman, will present
new film at a meeting of her
group, Wednesday night at 8:15.
Members of the Washington and
Baltimore chapters and alumnae
alliances of Delta Delta Delta, ma
tional sorority, will attend ban
quet in honor Of the forty-seventh
anniversary of the organization,
Monday night at 7 o'clock at the
Southern Hotel in Baltimore.
Founded in Boston on Thanks
giving Eve, 1888, the sorority has
a representation of many women
from all over the United States.
Mrs. Joseph D. Grigsby, promi-
nent figure in educational circles,
who recently moved to Washing
ton from Colorado, is national
president of Delta Delta Delta.
Twenty-three girls from the
chapter at College Park, around
so women from the Washington
Alliance, will be at the banquet,
in addition to 40 girls from the
active chapter at Goucher Col
lege for Women in Baltimore and
similar number from the Bal
timore alliance.
Corresponding gatherings to
celebrate the founding of the
sorority, which now numbers 81
active chapters and 145 alliances
throughout the country, will be
held in more than 200 towns and
cities,