The Washington times., 1937-05-05
W0NEN'S CITY
CLUB HOLDS
ELECTION
By MARY PADGETT

Annual election Of officers by
the Women's City Club will be held
today, with polls open from to
8p. m. at the club house, 1876 Jack
son Pl. N. w.
Members will vote for a second
vice president, q treasurer, and q
corresponding secretary, each for
a term of two years. and for five
directors, for q three year term.
The following candidates have
been submitted by the nominating
committee:
For second vice president
Judge Mary OToole and Mrs.
Ruth H. Snodgrass; for treasurer
Miss Miriam Edwards and Miss
May Belle Raymond; for CORE
spending secretary-Miss Isabel
Allen and Miss Margaret Vail; for
directorS-Mrs. Grace Dexter
Bryan, Mrs. Julia Benton Hopkins,
Miss Elva Mcnamara, Miss Ruby
Nevins, Mrs. George C. Rutland,
Mrs. Gus Schuldt, Mrs. Thomas
A. Sherman, Mrs. Frederic I. Swift
and Miss Clara j. Widger.
The annual business meeting,
when elections will be announced,
will be held tonight at 8 o'clock.
Miss Ethel Bagley, second vice
president, will preside in the alb
Sence of the president, Mrs. Har-
vey Wiley. Mrs. Wiley is on va
cation tour to Mexico.
A card party for the benefit of
the Woman's Clinic, sponsored by
the clinic board, is being held to-
day at 2 p. m. in the Thomas
Circle Club, 1925 Massachusetts,
Ave. N. w.
One of the gayeSt parties the
board has ever held is expected.
Much Of the credit for the success
Of the party goes to Mrs. Ruth II.
SnodgrasS, chairman of the ways
and means committee, and to her
aSsiStants-MrS. Edgar T. Brown,
vice chairman; Mrs. Frank Gold
en-, Mrs. Frank j. Mann, Mrs.
Meta Cole, Mrs. II. e. Rogers,
Mrs. Calvin Lucas and Mrs. Fred
P. Trott.
Tea was to be served during
the party by the hostess of the
club, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Barnette.
The next meeting of the board
will be held at the clinic head
quarters, 4704 Georgia Ave. N. W.,
next Monday at 8 p. m. Mrs. II.
E. Rogers, chairman of the house
committee, will give a complete
report on repairs which have just
been completed on the building.
Mrs. Henry M. Robert, IT,, Of
Annapolis, has received the first
official endorsement as a candi-
date for the office of president
general Of the National Society,
Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton, to succeed Mrs. william A.
Becker, whose three-year-term as
president general expires next
year.
Mrs. Robert was endorsed at a
meeting of the Maryland State
Board Of Management, held yes
terday in the Southern Hotel,
Baltimore.
The election in which Mrs. Rob-
ert will be a candidate for the
highest office in the national so
ciety will be held during the forty
seventh Continental Congress,
April, 1888, in the Capital.
Mrs. Robert at present is the
treasurer general of the national
society. She also is chairman of
the important Building and
Grounds Committee.
Having been national chairman
for the patriotic education COM
mittee and the credentials COM
mittee, as well as having served
on many national committees,
Mrs. Robert has wide experience,
is widely known and is skilled as
a public speaker and a presiding
officer.
A bfngo party, sponsored by the
ritualiStic committee of the Won
en- Of the Moose, will be held to-
morrow at $50 p. m. in Moose
Hall, 1414 I st. N. w.
Proceeds will be used for the
committees uniform
fund Mrs. Anna Wagner is chair
man Of arrangements, assisted by
Mrs. Mary Richards, Miss Myrtle
Turpin and Mrs. Marie Clark.
One Of the most successful dance
and card parties ever given by
the Washington Chapter of the
International Federation of Cath.
Ole Alumnae was held last night
at the Wardman Park Hotel, with
more than 300 persons attending.
The party was held to raise
funds for three additional scholar.
ships. Much Of the success was
due to the work Of Miss Regina
Hartnett, who was general chair.