The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-03
Group
Plans Spring
Party
BY MARY PADGETT

When Court District Of Colum.
bia of the Catholic Daughters of
America meets Tuesday night at 8
O'Clock in the Willard Hotel, final
arrangements for the spring card
party and dance will be made.
The affair is scheduled for Tues.
day night, April II, at the Willard
Hotel. Mrs. Dorothy U. Corbe is
general chairman, and she is being
assisted by Miss Augusta Uhl, vice
chairman; Mrs. Rose Andrews,
hostess chairman; Miss Ramona
Raley, posters; Mrs. Margaret Sor.
rell and Mrs. Helen Ware, nro
gram; Miss Alma Marceron, pub
licity; Miss Sarah George, tickets;
Miss Rose Nikolai, cards and tai.
lies; Mrs. Mary U. Hamper, and
Miss Ann Doyle, patrons; Miss
Margaret Slater, prizes; Miss
Charlotte B. Urde, dance; Miss
Margaret Trammell, finance.
Miss Florence Winter, chairman
of the Convert League Of the Cath.
olic Daughters of America, is ar
ranging q public meeting of the
league to be held April "a, at which
time the principal speaker will be
Rev. James ]. ellis, C. s. p, ed.
itor of the Catholic World. Music
will be furnished by the George
town University Glee Club, under
the direction Of DR.. Edward P.
Donavan.
The Girls Friendly Society will
hold its quarterly diocesan meet
ing tonight at 1880 o'clock in the
parish hall Of the G Street
Epiphany Church.
After the business meeting,
members will be entertained with
an educational program-"A Tour
Of Mexico" This meeting will
stimulate interest in Mexico and
the coming Fiesta Day, May 4,
which will be nationally observed
by the Girls Friendly Society.
Miss Elsa Nedham, diocese
president, will introduce the guest
speaker, Laura Waters. who has
Just returned from a Six-week
tour of Mexico. Her talk will
be illustrated by colored slides
collected during the trip and a
motion picture showing the prin'
cipal cities and places of historic
interest. Miss Mildred Biondi
will wear a native costume and
there will be a program Of Mexi.
can songs and dances. The en-
tertainment will begin at 8:45 and
is open to the public.
New officers for the coming year
elected at the convention this week
of the District of Columbia State
Chapter, P. E. o. Sisterhood, are
the following:
President, Mrs. Kenneth D.
Jacob, Of Chapter E; first vice
president. DR.. Ella R. Fales. of
Chapter A; second vice president,
Mrs. Warner w. Stockberger,
Chapter B; organizer, Mrs. Rob
ert Ferguson, Chapter H: record
ing secretary, Miss Elizabeth Reyn-
olds, Chapter D: corresponding
secretary, Mrs. E. c. Higbie, Chap.
ter I; treasurer, Mrs. Harry L.
Underwood, Chapter c. The Off.
GERS were installed by Miss Laura
Van Duyn Hanson, retiring preSi-
dent.
President and delegates Of the IA
local chapters attended the con.
vention which was held Monday
and Tuesday in the Mayflower
Hotel.
DR.. Carl D. Wells, professor of
Sociology at George Washington
University, will discuss social prob
lens of the modern child before.
members of the John Marshall Par
ent-Teacher Association, Tuesday
night at o'clock in the school,
Livingston Heights. Va.
Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson.
president of the National League
Of American Pen Women, was to
speak on "Women'S Opportunities
in the Creative Arts" during the
broadcast of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, this after
noon at 2:45 o'clock over WMAL.
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