Evening star., 1936-05-10
League Secretary to Talk
IT To University Women
Present Status of Geneva Council Will Be
rs Discussed After Tea Tomorrow.
Walks Are Resumed.

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Sniegocka and r. K. Heandrich. A
dance followed.
The Culture Club met Tuesday ut
the home Of Mrs. Daniel q. Davis.
After luncheon the meeting was called
to order by the president. Mrs. Lucy
Copeland. A paper n the Belgian
colonies was given by Mrs. William
A. Kinnan and one on Italian colonies
by Mrs. Paris Brengle.
Political Study Cuban Executive
Board meeting will be held at the May
flower Hotel tomorrow at II an.
The annual meeting will be held
Saturday at the Washington Club at
2:3O pm. There viii be election OF
officers. with the polls open at l:30 pm.
A memorial service will be held.
The annual breakfast will be held
May %. at 10 O'Clock. at the Maynower
Hotel, with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
guest speaker. Ethel Pyne. soprano. will
be the guest artist. accompanied by
Thora Henshaw Seaton.
At the Business Women's Council
meeting in the chapel Of the Covenant
First Presbyterian Church. Tuesday
evening, Miss Louise L. Newell will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on Con-
temporary American Sculptors." A fea-
ture will be an Interpretation Of the
frieze in the court room of the Su-
preme Court Building and Of several
pediments OF our new public buildings.
Cary Weisiger, missionary for lepcrs
in Naini, India, will speak at the de-
votional period at 6:45.
The Writers League viii meet at
Thomson School next Thursday at
8:l5 pm. when the short-short con-
test will close.
There will be q program Of verse by
Miss Ivy Lindsey. travel notes by
Charles Cottingham and stories by
Mrs. lone Lee Mooney, Mrs. D. w.
Thayer, Mrs. Emma Sutton, Miss
Elizabeth Laymon. Miss Gladys Gar
raway Smith.
The previous meeting featured q de-
tective story by Mrs. Hugh M. Irish.
poems by Miss Georgia Redway and a
prize story, Life as Life Is Not" by
Miss Katherine M. Hopson.
The Washington section Of the Ma
tional Council of Jewish Women held
its annual meeting last Monday at the
Jewish Community Center, with Mrs
William G. Illch presiding. Mrs. Mar
tin Mendelsohn gave the opening
prayer.
The new officers we're installed by
Mrs. Alexander Wolf, past president,
third vice president of National Coun-
Gil, as follows: President. Mrs. Louis
A. Gutenberg; first vice president. Mrs
George Nordlinger; second vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Edward Sonneborn; third
vice president. Mrs. Emanuel I. Haas;
recording secretary, Mrs. Mark Lans.
burgh; corresponding secretary, Mrs
Leo S. Diamond: treasurer, Mrs. Henry
Jaffee; financial secretary. Miss Flor
ence Cohn: directors, Mrs. Samuel S
Kaufman. Mrs. Bertram Lobred. Mrs
Carl Linker. Mrs. Adolph Krechel
Mrs. Joseph Kaminsky. Mrs. Lads
laus Detre, Mrs Gilbert Hahn. Mrs
Isidore Kahn, Mrs. William Stephan
Mrs. S. Dodecker and Mrs. Arthur
Stevens; auditors. Mrs. James Lans-
burgh and Mrs. j. S. Kann.
A token of appreciation and q gift
was rendered Mrs. nlch by the as
sembly.
A series of luncheons through the
Summer were planned. in charge OF
Mrs. George Nordlinger.
A reception and tea In honor Of Mrs
Charles Goldsmith followed the busi-
ness meeting. Mrs. Adolph Krechel
and Miss Rickie Cans presided at the
tea table.
Takoma Park Women's Club.-H. G
Byrd, president of the University OF
Maryland, was the guest speaker al
the May meeting. Music was fur
nished by the club chorus. under the
direction Of Mrs Edmund L. Green
and Margaret Birch SWEET, guest
artist, played a violin concerto accom-
panied by Mrs. w. w. SWEET. Mrs
Byron N. Coon presided. The follow
ing officers were elected: Mrs. Byron
M. Coon, president; Mrs. Walter p
Harmon, first vice president; Mrs
Thomas w. Marshall, second vice
president; Mrs Paul Burk, recording
secretary; Mrs. Gordon S. Parker, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Frank j.
Hopkins, treasurer; Mrs. Frederick L
Pratt, Mrs. Clarence S. Ross and Mrs.
Frank F. Zundel, directors.
The government study department
visited the Archives Building in An
napolis on Thursday and following q
tour of the building went to the home
of Mrs. James A. Robertson. former
president. for a picnic luncheon.
The literature department will meet
at the home Of Mrs. Frederick G.
Umhau. 1859 Alaska avenue. TO,
luncheon tomorrow at pm. Mem
bers planning to attend the luncheon
are requested to call Mrs. F. j. Hop
kins.
Mrs. Frederick Hawkes. will enter
tain the art department at luncheon
at her home, lis Takoma avenue
Thursday at pm. Assisting host
esses are Mrs. Robert Lake, Mrs. S
Edward Widdefleld, Mrs. Edmund H
Fraser. Following the luncheon the
group will hear a talk on Javanese
arts and crafts at the home Of Mrs
Minnie Frost Rands, 1880 Floral
street.
The Executive Board will meet at
the home Of Mrs. Irwin L. Clark, 502
Mississippi avenue, Silver Spring, May
Is at pm.
The District of Columbia League oi
American Pen Women will hold a
special meeting May IS at 8 O'Clock
ut the Burlington Hotel. Annual re-
ports for the year 1856 will be
given by chairnen Of special activi-
ties under Marguerite Merigold and
the creative groups under Inez Shell
don Tyler. Bess Heath Olmstead
president, will preside. =.
Prizes will be awarded to the win