Evening star., 1935-01-13
-HE Smith College Club of Wash
ington will be hostess to the
National Alumnae Association
i at the Carlton Hotel January

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19.
The program opens with a visit to
the Folger Shakespeare Library, espe-
cially appropriate because Of the
scholarly contributions to the htera-
ture on Shakespeare made by Dr. Will
liam Allan Nelson, president of the
college. At noon Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt will receive the group at the
White House, following which will be
a luncheon at hotel headquarters, with
Mrs. Guider presiding. Dean Marjorie
H. Nicholson will be one Of the
SPEAKERS.
Tea Will Be Given.
Prospective students and their par
ents will be given an opportunity to
hear about the college during tea at
the club house of the American ASso-
citation of University Women at $3.50
o'clock. Speaking as member of the
senior class will be Constance Morrow,
daughter of Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow.
Mrs. Alice Wright Teagle of Cleveland,
Ohio, an aluname trustee. will discuss
how Smith College develops its cur
riculum to keep step with changes in
our social and economic life. Mean
while the alumnae will be guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ]. Hogan at their
home on Massachusetts, avenue. PreSi-
dent Nelson will comment on Mr..
Hogans collection of rare books.
The conference will close with a
banquet for alumnae, parents of stu
dents now attending Smith College
and distinguished guests. Mrs. Har-
riet Blissford, resident trustee, will
preside and addresses will be made by
President Nelson and William A.
Orton, professor of economics and an
authority on international affairs.
Prof. Orton will discuss The Guild
ance of Opinion Under Democracy"
Arrangements Committee.
Mrs. r. M. Kaufman is general
chairman of the Committee on Local
Arrangements Associated with her
are Mrs. William Chaplin Huntington,
president of the National Association;
Mrs. John w. Guider, president of the
Washington club, and as chairman of
various committees Mrs E. S. Land,
Mrs Karl Fenning, Mrs Parker Dodge,
Miss Elizabeth Bryan, Mrs. G. D. Nc
Kinney, Mrs. Clayton K. Haskell. Miss
Heloise Brainerd and Miss Ruth Van
Denman. Registrations are expected
from several hundred Smith alumnae.
District of Columbia Federation of
Women's Clubs-The speaker on the
radio program next Friday at lis
O'Clock will be Mrs. B. F. Langworthy
of Winnetka, ILL.,. president of the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers. She will speak from Sta
tion WRC.
The Radio Committee, with Mrs
Helen Morrison Hunter as chairman,
plans to present general federation
officers or department chairmen on
the radio during the mid-Winter ex-
ecutive board meetings soon to be
held at headquarters.
The next meeting of the local fed
GRAFTON will be held January % at the
Y W. C. A., with the Department of
Education, Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff,
chairman, in charge of the program.
Delta Sigma Chapter Delphians
met Monday at the Shoreham Hotel,
the prsident. Mrs. Frank Braden,
presiding. The literary program,
-Four Famous Books" was led by
Mrs. Ruth Snodgrass.
The following topics were given:
''The Golden Legend" Mrs. George
E. Quirk; THE Romance of the Rose"
Mrs. Bassett; Assassin and Nico-
lete," Mrs. John P. Evans; Travels
Of Marco Polo" Mrs. M. o. Hayes.
The next meeting will be held jan
uary 81 at 10 am, the subject being
Dante the Supreme Genius of Me-
dievalism."
Gamma Chapter Delphians met
Monday evening at the Shoreham
Hotel. The literary program was led
by Mrs. Pearl R. Friede, the subject
being Writers of the Renaissance
Period" Topics were given as fol-
lows: "Chaucer's Literary Appren-
ticeship," Miss Sophia Lunsford; THE
Canterbury Tales" Mrs. Mary G.
Mathiot: piers the Plowman,' Miss
Irene c. Westerman; "Petrarch, the
First of the Humanists," Miss Emma
Hoffer; THE Ascent" Mrs. o. N.
Fansler;; ITO Posterity," Miss Clara
j. Dickerson, and Laura and the
Sonnets," Mrs. j. LIE Roy Elliott.
The Columbia Heights Art Club met
Thursday at the home of Mrs. A. B.
McManus. 1405 Girard street, with
Mrs. Robert McFall as assistant
hostess.
A business session was conducted
by Mrs. M. A. Winter, vice president.
The study period, with Mrs. r. Bruce
Bare as chairman, consisted of two
papers, THE Phoenicians, Sea People
and Trading People" by Mrs. Winter,
and ARTS of Ancient Phoenicia," by
Mrs. Charles K. Hoover.
The hostess gave an impromptu
talk on some of her interesting art
objects which she collected from
many parts of the world.
The TakOma Park W0men's Club
Tomorrow at 10 o'clock, the literature
will feature a review of
Louis Bromfield's THE Farm" by Mrs.
M. G. Merrill. This meeting will be
held at the Takoma Park branch of
the Public Library.
The French department, under the
leadership of Mrs. F. A. Shumaker,
will meet at 7:30 pm. at the library.
The department is arranging a social
evening.
The government study department
Will present program at its meeting
tuesday. 10 am, at the library. THE
Pure Food Law" will be discussed by
Mrs. r. L. Whitman; THE State
Senate and Executives Other Than
the Governor" will be the subject of
Mrs. L. w. Biddle's talk, and the
Town Fire Department" will be dis
cussed by Mrs. Vernon Aud.
At ! o'clock Tuesday, the philan-
thropic department will meet at the
home of Mrs. j. N. Quinn, BOT Elm
avenue. The members are requested
to bring silk or rayon hose and worn
The homemakers' department will
meet Thursday at lis pm. at the
home of Mrs. John L. McKenney, 20
Carroll avenue. The hostess will be
assisted in receiving by Mrs. F. L.
Pratt, Mrs. M. T. Himmelwright and