The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-06-01
Women's City
Club Ready
ForSummer
By MARY PADGETT

Club, so many interesting activi-
ties scheduled, this month is Ger.
tain to furnish many happy times
for members Of the club.
If the weather is fair next Sun
day, members of the club will hike
through Rock Greek Park. The
group will meet at the reservoir
at Sixteenth and Kennedy Streets
at 3 p. m, and will enter the park
at that point, taking the path
along the creek, and probably leav-
ing the park at Calvert Street.
Florence C. Bell is chairman Of
this walking party.
When the business and profes-
sional section holds its regular din
ner this month, Miss Janet Rich
ards will be the speaker. Her sub
ject will be Affairs Political and
International"
Dinner Wednesday
The dinner will take place We'd
nesday, June 10, at $50 b. M, and
as at this date the Republican Ma
tional Convention will be in ses-
sion in Cleveland, it will be of
especial interest to the members
to have Miss Richards comment
upon the affair during her talk.
Miss Marjorie Wooster, chair
man Of the business and profes-
sional section, will be out of town
at the time of this dinner. Mrs.
Wiley will preside in her place.
A review Of new and amusing
books will be held Tuesday after
noon. June is, at o'clock.
Cruises Planned
During the summer months, sew
eral short cruises and weekend
visits to the seashore and noun
tains are being planned under the
auspices of the travel section. The
first journey will be a visit to his
tortc Yorktown, jamestown, and
Williamsburg, sailing from Balti-
more Saturday, June 20, and re-
turning early Monday morning,
June %.
Members of the club will attend
the performance of Around the
World in Eighty Days" at the
Roadside Theater, on the Rock
vile Pike, the evening OF Friday,
June %.
The following new members of
the club are announced: Mrs. Ran
dolph C. Bishop, Mrs. Freda L.
WONa n1InrToh Mics Ann CinO1otOn
Mrs. CORTLAND D. Ferguson, Mrs.
Arthur j. Seaton, Mrs. Martha
w. Mayo, Miss Adrienne Louise
Low, Mrs. Estelle zirkin, Miss
Frances Sicily, Mrs. Eleanor M.
Patterson, Miss Edna M. Ander-
son, Mrs. John w. Edwards, Mrs.
Rex Hays Rhoades, Miss Irene M.
Sheehan, Miss Anna May Houck,
Mrs. Russell j. Fields, Mrs. Rob-
ert Davis, Mrs. Frances T. North
cross, Mrs. Gordon Arnett, Mrs.
Bob Ell Graves, Mrs. Frances S.
Dean, Mrs. Bessie I. Koehl, Miss
Velma E. Knettle, Miss Madeline
Padgett, Miss Anna CumpSton,
Mrs. Ernest v. Brown, Mrs. Gwen
dolyn S. Belfield.
Mrs. Eva C. Ruff, Miss Bertha
Butts, Miss N. M. Kennedy, Miss
Ella McVey, Miss A. M. McNutt,
Mrs. Mary Roberts Staley, Miss
Mabel Harvey, Mrs. Dorothy Ma
honey, Mrs. Ann Saba Parmelee,
Mrs. G. F. Callister, Mrs. Maxi
MILAN Layne, Mrs. Mabel S.
White, Mrs. Helen C. Collier,
Mrs. Helen E. Beiswanger, Mrs.
Alan B. Smith. Miss Christine
Riley, Mrs. Marie L. Tedrow,
Mrs. William Hurd Hill, Mrs.
Alfred D. Micott, Mrs. Elizabeth
w. Enterline, Miss Marie l.. Sic
bold, Mrs. Sarah J. Wilson, Miss
Anna A. O'Neil, Miss Elizabeth L.
Trachsel, Mrs. Christine Whittier
more, Mrs. Mary Hardy Up
church, Mrs. Sarah w. Malcolm,
Miss Blanche M. Grape.
At its annual meeting, the
Roosevelt High School Parent
Teacher Association elected the
following officers:
President, Mrs. H. E. Lowry;
first vice president, Miss May P.
Bradshaw; second vice president,
Mrs. George E. Bares; correspond
ing secretary, Miss May Brook;
recording secretary, Mrs. Verna
thinner, and treasurer, Guy
Goodman.
In his annual report, Ernest
H. Pullman, retiring president,
noted that the association sue
ceeded in its campaign inaugu-
rated year ago to have the old
tuberculosis hospital area at
Fourteenth and Upshur Streets
Northwest, designated as a future
educational, recreational and ad-
miniStrative center. Mr.. Pullman
also pointed out that the organi-
zation is having success in its re-
Gently instituted campaign for
Identification Of school grounds.
And he said that the cooperative
efforts of the association to Sc
cure a branch public library near
the school have been successful.
In connection with the cam
paign by the association to beau
tify the school grounds of the
city, suggestion was made at the
meeting that the lawns of such
areas would be more easily pre-
served if proper place for play is
provided in other sections of the
grounds. The suggestion was ad-
vanced by Mrs. B. c. McIlwee,
chairman of the legislative COM
mittee and author Of the beauti-