The Washington times., 1937-01-04
TO HEAR
LIBRARIAN
TONIGHT
By MARY PADGETT

who is chairman OF the library
committee of the District Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, will speak
tonight before members Of the Pet
worth Woman's Club at meeting
in the Petworth School, Eighth
and Shepherd SITS. N. w.
THE Evolution of the Library"
will be Miss Downey'S subject. An
other speaker will be Mrs. Ernest
Grant, managing director of the
Tubercular Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who will talk
about the sale of tuberculosis
seals.
Members of the education Sec
ton will be hosteSSes at tonlghts
meeting.
A varied program is on the Jan.
uary calendar of Court District OF
Columbia, Catholic Daughters OF
America.
The Court will meet tomorrow
night at the Willard Hotel at which
time reports of the team captains
in the membership drive Will be
heard. An address will be given
by the Rev. Edward H. Roach,
chaplain of the group.
Under sponsorship of the ways
and means committee, Of which
Miss Dorothy E. Barrett is chair
man. a silver tea will be held
next Sunday afternoon at the
Thomas Circle Club, from $3.50 to
6 O'Clock.
An evening of recollection will
be held at the Washington Retreat
House, 1000 HARDWOOD Rd., Thurs
day night, January IA, at 6 o'clock,
conducted by the Rev. Aloys1us
Burggraff, c. S. P. Miss Jeannette
Mallon is chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge.
The Court will conduct its an
nual vesper service Sunday eve
ming, January II, at the Church
of st. Thomas the Apostle. The
Rev. Joseph Moran, pastor of the
church, will officiate at the bene.
diction, and the Rev. j. Maurice
King, administrator at st. AIMS
Church, will deliver the sermon.
This service is being arranged by
a committee headed by Miss Kath'
crime Lynch.
Members of the Court will hold
their social meeting at the Willard
Hotel, Monday night, January %.
The Converts League will meet
Tuesday night, January 26, at the
Willard Hotel, with the Most Rev.
Michael j. Curley, archbishop Of
Baltimore, as the guest speaker.
In carrying out another of its
many civic and charitable prof.
ectS, the SoroptimiSt Club OF
Washington has presented a new
library of more than 300 books to
the tuberculosis Hospital, at -Four.
teenth and Tpshur SITS. N. W.
The presentation was made by
Miss Ella :. Werner, the retiring
president of the club, and accepted
by DR.. j. Winthrop Peabody, super
intendent of the hospital. The
books will be used at this hospital
until the completion of the new
tuberculosis sanatorium for adults
at Glenn Dale, Md.
A brass plate reading, Glenn Dale
Sanatorium Library, presented by
the Soroptimist Club of Washing.
ton, D. c., December, 1885," &C
companied the books.
The library was assembled under
the direction of the clubs civic
committee, Of which Mrs. Edna
Knight Gasch is chairman, and
Mrs. Edna Hoffman is vice chair.
man.
This is the third library given
by the local Soroptimists, the first
in 1884 to the Columbia Hospital
and the second in 1885 to the
Woman'S Bureau.
Plans are being completed for
the installation of officers which
will take place at a banquet Satur.
day night at the Willard Hotel
Mrs. Laura Waters is chairman OF
the banquet committee. Miss Wer,
ner will be the POSTMASTER.
Officers will be officially in
stalled by Mrs. Jean Bennett, di
rector of the SoroptimiSt Clubs in
the South Atlantic region.
The Alexandria Soroptimist
Club will hold its installation OF
officers tonight at the George
Mason Hotel. The Washington
president, Miss Werner, will be
the installing officer.
Miss Werner, along with other
local club members, will also at
tend the installation of the Mont
gomery County CMdO Soroptimist
Club, which takes place Wednes
day night at Mrs. KS Toll House
Tavern, and the Baltimore Club
installation, Friday night, in that
city.
The Roosevelt Chapter of the
Delphian Society will meet tomor
row morning at the Parrot Tee
Room. Mrs. William Earl Clark
will have charge of the meeting.
Subject for discussion will bt
"The Aspects of the Medieva
Social Life" under the Leadership
of Mrs. Lawrence Auburn Meyer