The Washington times., 1936-10-08
Catholic Club
Plans Varied
Program


Daughters of America, is plan
ming a varied program of meet
ingS and other events this year to
celebrate the tenth anniversary Of
the organization formation.
The league will hold its first
public meeting Wednesday, OcJo-
ber 81, at the Willard Hotel, when
Msgr. Fulton j. Sheen will speak.
A large class of new members
will be admitted into the organi-
Zation at a celebration on Sun
day, October 25. The program will
include a meeting, reception, ban
quet and entertainment. The Rev.
Louis OLeary, o. p, will speak.
Columbia Chapter, Women of
the Moose, will hold meeting and
entertainment tomorrow night in
Moose Hall, 1414 st. N. w.
A SiX-weekS membership cam
paign will end on october %, at
which time the largest class OF
new members in the history of the
chapter will be initiated. The ini.
tiation ceremonies will be con-
Quoted in honor of Mrs. Eva
Starkey, of Lynn, Mass, grand re-
gent of the Women of the Moose,
who will make her annual vista
ton at that time.
Arrangements are also being
made for a card party later this
month, and for the celebration on
Mooseheart Day, october. 27, hon
oring the birthday of the founder
of the Mooseheart establishment,
James j. Davis, senior Senator
from Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Arthur D. Condor, presi-
dent of the Democratic Women'S
National Council, will leave Wash
ington tomorrow to spend the week
end in New York, during which
time she will visit the national
committee headquarters at the
Hotel Biltmore and will present
to the treasurer, w. Forbes Nor
gan, a check raised through the
sale of the councils prosperity
certificates"
Miss Catherine Holbrook is chair
man of the prosper. y certificate
committee for the council.
Mrs. Condor will go to New
York on a. special train arranged
by the official Democratic Absentee
Voters Bureau. conducted by the
council under the auspices of the
Democratic national committee to
take absentee voters home to reg
lister so that they may vote here
in November.
The bureau will send three
special trains for absentee voters
to New York this weekend.
Mrs. S. j. Asbury, director of
the absentee bureau, and Mrs.
Harry Steiner, director of the
New York unit of the bureau, will
also go on this train. Mrs. Dan |
Hefferman is another member
of the council who will go on this
special train and spend the
weekend in New York.
Each member should bring an
original quatrain to the meeting |
of the Poetry Group of the League
of American Pen Women, Friday
night at o'clock in the league
studio at the Hotel Grafton. Eve
lyn NorcroSS Sheriff., chairman,
will preside over the group.
Inez Sheldon Tyler, editor of
Blue Moon, will tell the world
of the late Harriet Monroe.
Althea Anderson will review some
Of the important new books by
major poets. Mrs. Sheriff. will
describe the course in poetry
which she studied under Robert |
Frost at the University of Miami
this past winter.
Plans for a poetry work shop
will be discussed at the meeting,
and a list of poetry markets
and contests will be announced.
District OF Columbia Salon De-
partment, Eight and Forty, in
stalled officers for the coming
year last night at the ceremonies
in the Washington Hotel.
New officers are Mrs. Bess
Faine, lie. chapeau; Mrs. Helen Nc
NdUO cLA4A A4Oo N4dA AC oCOhC1G y, 1CO
demi-chapeaux; Mrs. Anna Elliott,
l'aumonier; Miss Ann Nevitt, la
Surintendante; Mrs. Edith Land
voigt, la concierge; Mrs. Virginia
Mccarthy, parchiviste.
New officers of Alpha Zeta
Chapter of Chi Sigma Sorority
are Dorothy Luckett, president;
Helene McCarty, vice president;
Lily Baumgartner, recording Sec
retary; Marjorie Hoskins, secre-
tary: Thelma Thayer, treasurer;
Yvonne HoSkins, historian and
Nancy Morris, sergeant-at-arms.
Members of the Women's City
Club will meet for the first tea of
the season, Sunday afternoon at
the clubhouse, 1876 Jackson Pl. N.