Evening star., 1936-08-21
FIVE D. c. WOMEN
T0ATTEND PARLEY
University Group Meets
With Other Delegates at
CracoW Conference.

When the International Federation
Of University Women meets in Cracow,
Poland, next week, five Washington
country. DR.. Kathryn McHale, general
director of the American Association
of University Women, will be one of
the five voting delegates from the
United States. She and Mrs F. G.
Atkinson, chairman of the Committee
of Fellowship Endowment, sailed on
the Queen Mary July to visit Eng
land, Norway, Sweden and Russia be-
fore going to the Cracow meeting,
starting Sunday.
The four women who will represent
the Washington branch at the con-
ference are DR.. Esther Brunauer
national research associate in inter-
national education and secretary of
the Committee on International Re-
lations; Mrs. Gregor Hankin. Mrs
Mitchell Carroll and Miss Anna Hal
berg, a teacher at Wilson Teachers
College.
Mrs. Hankin has been abroad since
June on one of the IA fellowships for
graduate study and research given
each year by the American Association
of University Women. Assisted by the
American Embassy in Moscow, she is
studying the Soviet constitution.
Finishing her work there, she will go
to Poland to attend the meeting and
learn more about the constitution of
that country and the powers the judi
cial courts have over it.
Returns Next Year.
Before returning to Washington next
year, she expects to visit Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, France and England to
make comparative study of the ex-
tent of judicial review over govern
mental action.
The first yearly International Fed
Grafton of University Women Confer
ence was held in London in 1920 with
the United States. Canada, France,
Spain and Holland represented. In
the next five years, sixteen other
nations Joined, including India, Nor
way, Sweden, Australia, Austria. Bel
gium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Fin
land, Italy and New Zealand. BY 1885
the membership had increased to So
Germany and Italy withdrew last
Winter, reducing the membership to
"a. The purpose of the association,
which is primarily to increase educa-
tional facilities for women, was not
looked upon favorably by either
government, so the associations in
both countries we're asked to dissolve
and their leaders affiliate themselves
with government organizations hold
ing different ideals for women.
The conferences will be held at the
historic University of Cracow and
opportunity will be given visiting dele
gates to learn first hand about the
educational facilities offered Polish
women. The 1884 meeting was held
in Budapest and at that time the
visitors observed what Hungary is
doing for the education of her women.
DR.. Erzsebet Kol, botany teacher at
the University of Hungary, is now on
an international crusade fellowship
doing research in American national
parks. The 1882 conference was held
at Wellesley College and at that time
tours were arranged to Washington,
New York and other educational CEN
ters for the foreign delegates.
The program of the federation in
cludes international understanding, in
tellectual cooperation, international
fellowships, exchange of teachers, ex-
change of information and hospitality
and triennial conference.
Club houses of the various univer-
sity women's organizations are open
to members from other countries. Each
nation is working toward the estab-
lishment of a national club house in
its capital. Washington is one of the
four cities already maintaining one.
The others are London, Paris and
Brussels.