The Washington times., 1936-11-12
MOOSE WOMEN
PLAN DINNER
FOR FUNDS
BY MARY PADGETT

committee, will give benefit tur-
KEY dinner Monday evening, from
S to 7 o'clock, at Moose Hall, 14l4
Eye st. N. w.
Proceeds will be used for the
Christmas fund for Moosehaven
Home, the institution near JACK
sonville, Fla, where aged and de-
pendent members of the Women
of the Moose and the Moose Lodge
are housed.
Mrs. Margaret Deegan, past re
gent. is chairman of the dinner.
Friends of the organization are
invited to attend.
Final arrangements for this din
ner will be made tonight at a
meeting of the committee at Mrs
Deegan's home, 1412 Chaplin st.
NV.
A special education program
will be held at meeting OF the
women of the Moose tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock in Moose Hall.
The program will be in observance
of National Education Week. IL
will also be the occasion OF the
annual book shower for Moose
heart, the organizations "Chllo
CITY" located near Chicago.
Miss Louise Nichols, chairman
of the library committee. vii!
discuss "The Importance OF
Books" and a review of Gone
with the Wind" by Margaret
Mitchell, will be given by MRS
Anna Wagner, past regent. A
review of other current BOOKS
will be given by Mrs. Pauline
Miller, assistant library chairman;
There will also be a roll call ana
ali members will respond With
their favorite quotations.
Arrangements are also oelng
made by the organization for an
appropriate Thanksgiving pro
gram for their meeting on Friday
night, November 27, in Moose
Hall.
A complete reorganization OF
the Washington Retreat League
catholic women's organization,
was announced by the director
general, Father John S. Spence
of Sacred Heart Church, at the
leagues meeting Tuesday night
in the Retreat House, 1000 Hare
wood Road, Brookland, D. c.
The league will now be entirely
in the hands of the women, al
though Father Spence will con-
tinue as director general, and Sis
ter Vinsentia, S. A., will continue
as chairman.
Officers appointed are Mrs.
Kathryn Kirk, president; Mrs.
Florence K. Younger, vice presl-
dent, and Mrs. Mary E. Dlgglns,
secretary. -
Meetings will take place every
second Tuesday of the month at
the retreat house. Among pur'
poses of the league is to Spon-
sor evenings of recollection and
days of retreat for the various
Catholic women's organizations
and the parishes.
Father Spence also announced
that he will appoint a captain
and lieutenant in each parish OF
Washington to assist the league
in its work.
At the next meeting of the
league, December 8, at 8 p. M,
Father Spence will give an illus
trated lecture on the paintings
of the Catacombs of Rome.
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
president of the General Fedora,
tion of Women's Clubs; Miss Charl
Ormond Williams, president OF the
National Federation of Business
and Professional Women, and Mrs
Florence Bayard Hilles, chairman
of the board of the National Wom'
ans Party, three well-known club
leaders of Washington. are among
the hundreds of key women
throughout the country who are
planning to attend a nationwide
forum in New Y York city on Decem
ber 2, 3, and 4, to discuss "The
Contribution of Women in Amer.
lean Life"
The three organizations which
the above women represent are
among the many and influential
women's organizations in the
United States that are affiliated
with the National Council OF
Women, sponsorers of the forum
The Council represents approxi
mately five million women.
NationaLly-known authorities in
a wide variety of fields will come
before the forum as speakers
Topics of discussion will include
citizenship, consumer interests
crime prevention, the economic
status of women, education, inter
national affairs, inter-racial af
fairs, public health, social hygiene
and other subjects.
The project is the most ambi
tious the Council has undertaken
since its International Congress o1
Women in connection with the
Chicago Century of Progress Ex
position in 1888, and clubwomer
everywhere will be interested in
questions that will be discussed.
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