Evening star., 1935-03-17
News of Local Clubs

ger were initiated. Miss Leibensperger
was appointed circle musician.
Honorary members accepted into
the circle by initiation were Clarence
Rubesam and F. I. Edwards.
Chaplin w. C. T. U. met Wednesday
evening at the home of Mrs. p. w.
Keys, sos Connecticut avenue. Mrs.
D. T Richardson presided. Miss
Phoebe Howell led the devotions.
Guest speakers we're Mrs. Jennie
Bailey Wadleigh, president of District
Of Columbia w. c. T. u, and Mrs.
N. M. Pulloch, director Of motion pic
lures.
Chapter d, p. E. O.-Members and
guests we're entertained at the home
of Mrs E. L. Newly, 1922 Euclid street,
with Miss Myrta Reynolds. assisting
hostess.
Miss Myrtle Seidler introduced the
following artists: Mrs. Nancy Linton.
soprano; Granville Leef, tenor;
Thomas Leef, baSso, and Raymond
Rapp, accompanist
The next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. j. w. Edwards, 1917
Hobart street, March rs at 8 o'clock.
National League of American Pen
Women.-Mrs Victoria Faber Steven
son, national president. is arranging
a varied program to be given during
the midadministration Congress, to be
held from March 80 through April 5,
at the Miami Biltmore Hotel, Coral
Gables, Fla.
The District Society of the Danes
Of the Loyal Legion met at the May
flower Hotel, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker,
president. presiding.
Mrs. Henry M Robert and Miss
Florence Wilcox were appointed dele
gates to the forthcoming annual meet
ing of the National Society Danes OF
the Loyal Legion. April IL and 13, in
the Mayflower Hotel.
Mrs. John Otto johnson gave a
reading from Valley Forge" Maxwell
Anderson's outstanding play.
The society Endorsed "a declaration
Of principles" submitted by the Amer
lean coalition.
Burnside WOman'S Relief Corps,
Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the
Republic, met March Is at the Hamil-
ton Hotel with the president, Mrs. B.
Brown, presiding. The president, De-
partment Of the Potomac Woman's
Relief Corps, Miss Mary A. Howarth,
and staff we're received with all honors.
All members are invited to attend
a reception March % from 8 to 10
pm. at the home of Mrs. Rosalie Nc
Kee Shelton, 1886 Porter street, given
by the corps in honor Of the depart
ment president and staff.
A bingo party, for the benefit OF the
Department of Potomac. Woman's
Relief Corps. will be held May at
the Northeast Masonic Temple.
Chapter b, p. E. O., met at the
home Of Mrs. Sidney r. Jacobs, 1473
Harvard street, Tuesday evening, the
hostess having assisting her Mrs.
Eleanor S. Ramsay. Mrs. Horton H.
McKeever, Mrs Margaret B. Denni-
son, Miss Jessie o. Elting, Mrs.
Charles Marvin Jones and Mrs. Edgar
B. Merritt. The president. Mrs. War
ner w. Stockberger, presided over the
business meeting.
Mrs. E. T LOmas, delegate to Co.
operative Committee, announced a
cooperative luncheon during the week
of the D. A. R. Congress for the dele
gates attending who are P E. O.S,
the date IN he announced
Mrs. Sidney r. Jacobs, treasurer of
the District Of Columbia Club House
Cooperation, offered a resolution ask
ing that any money contributed by
members of Chapter B toward that
organization be turned back to the use
OF the federation, which resolution was
adopted
Mrs. Alice B. Curtis, who was initi-
ated in the P. E o. sisterhood in 1872,
was voted a life member OF Chap
ter B.
The following officers were elected:
President, Mrs. Warner w. Stock
berger. reelected: vice president, Mrs.
Robert McMillen, reelected; record
ing secretary, Mrs. R. NJ. Wolfe, re-
elected; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Elliott F. Brumbaugh; treasurer. Miss
Myrtle Mccoy, reelected; chaplain.
Mrs. Worthy P. Sterns; guard, Mrs.
Sidney r. Jacobs, reelected; delegate
to Cooperative Committee. Mrs. Hor-
ton H. McKeever. Delegate to su-
preme convention, Mrs. Warner w.
Stockberger; alternate, Miss Jessie o.
Elting.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs Charles Marvin
Jones, 1908 Garrison street March "a
at 1890 pm, with a program on Our
Educational Interests" under the
leadership Of Mrs. Eugene H. Pitcher,
chairman.
Gamma Chapter, Delphian Society,
will meet at the Shoreham Hotel to-
morrow at BIS pm. The subject of
the literary program will be Literary
Figures of the Late Renaissance" led
by Mrs. Wanifred Davis.
Topics for report will be given as
follows: 'Villon, Father of French
Poetry" Miss Lulu Adams; "Villon's
Ballads" Miss Clara ]. Dickerson;
"Gargantua," Mrs. Evelyn Bright
Buckley; "Montaigne," Miss Irene
Westerman; "Montaigne's Essays"
Miss Ellen Bulger; Thomas More"
Mrs. Jessie Krause, and Utopia"
Mrs. Ella G. Prescott. A resume Of
the lesson will be given by the presi-
dent, Miss Julia Gilbert. The meet
ing will be preceded by dinner at
6:45 pm. at the Shoreham.
The W0men's Alliance of All Souls
Unitarian Church will meet March %
at IL o'clock. Mrs. Lucille Foster Nc
Millin. civil service commissioner, will
talk on Opportunities for Women in
Civil Service" After the lecture the
speaker will answer questions At l
O'Clock luncheon will be served. Mrs
Lawrence c. Staples, hostess,
Kit Carson Women'S Relief Corps
held a business meeting at the home
of Mrs Margaret Marsh. 431 Ran
dolph street. Plans were made for a
card and bingo party the evening of
April at Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines' Club.
Tho Auditing Cnr,n,ittao will r,aat