The Washington times., 1937-01-28
POET CONTEST
SPONSORED BY
CLUBW0MEN
BY MARY PADGETT


receive recognition, as the annual
poetry contest sponsored by the
District Of Columbia Federation Of
Women's Clubs is under way for
the fifth consecutive year.
Eligible for the contest are men
and women living in Washington
and in nearby Maryland and Vir.
giria. Entries should be mailed
to Mrs. Inez Tyler, 1928 Ninteenth
st. N. W., D. C. Federation Poetry
Contest chairman, not later than
midnight Of April 10.
Rules Of the contest are that
poems must be original and un'
published, written in any form
and on any subject, but no con-
testant may submit more than 100
lines to each poem, although he
may submit as many separate
poems as he wishes.
Manuscripts should be type
written If possible. Names of the
entrants should not appear on
manuscripts, but attached to 1t
should be a small sealed envelope
containing the name and address
Of the author and the title Of
poem or poems. The outside Of
this envelope should bear the
title Of the poem or poems only.
One copy Of a poem is all that Is
necessary.
Winning poems will become
the property Of the federation.
No manuscripts will be returned,
but poems which do not receive
recognition may be submitted
elsewhere by the authors after
the contest is over. Prize win
nerS in previous contests are not
being barred from this. years
contest.
There will be three cash prizes
-$15, SO and IS, and several
book prizes for honorable men.
tionS. Awards will be made at
the federation meeting in May.
All contestants will also gather
for q poetry week banquet, the
date Of which will be set later.
Anyone wishing further infor.
nation from Mrs. Tyler may
write to her, enclosing a Self-ad.
dressed and stamped envelope.
After their meeting tonight at
8:15 o'clock in the Continental
Hotel, members Of the Curley
Club will dance.
At a recent meeting the club
outlined plans for its mid.winter
activities, the first event sched-
uled being dance at the Shore
ham Hotel, on February 5. ~
Under the auspices Of the Ma
this Club, a card party and dance
will be held February 4, at the
Mayflower Hotel, for the benefit
of the Holy Cross Foreign Mission
aries.
Mrs. Lee D. Ritter, philan.
thropic chairman of the Marietta
Park Woman's Club, and her
group will be hoSteSseS at a tea
and program for the WPA Won.
ems Sewing Club at the Y. w.
C. A. building at 614 E st. N. W.
Pledges recently initiated into
the National Honor Society of
naIEo Yapy1o Houoy,oo GaroS.if1y 1Va
clude Miss Maude Alton, Miss
Louise Albright, Mrs. Elizabeth
Clark Cawood, Mrs. Mabel s.
Hutchinson, Miss Margaret Pat
terson, DR.. Estelle Phillips, Mrs.
Maude Roby, Mrs. Eugene Defend
Saugstad, and Mrs. Carol John.
son Schaffer.
New chairmen of the Women's
City Club, appointed recently by
the president, Mrs. Harvey W.
Wiley, include Mrs. Grace Dexter
Bryan, Civics Section; Mrs. Her.
bert Campbell, chairman Of the
Women's City Club Branch of the
Needlework Guild; Mrs. Herbert
Barnes, chairman Of the Book Re.
view Hour, and Mrs. Edgar T.
Brown, chairman Of ways and
means.
Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle, president
Of the District Federation of
Women's Clubs, recently ap.
pointed three new chairmen-
Mrs. Lloyd A. Morrison, fine arts
chairman; Mrs. Raleigh Gilchrist,
education chairman, and Mrs.
Grattan Kerans, publicity chair.
man.
Members of the art section
of the Petworth Woman's Club
met for luncheon today at 1890
o'clock in the PetWorth Metho-
dist Church. Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, president of the Women's
City Club, gave an illustrated lee.
ture on her Caribbean trip. Mrs.
R. K. Bailey and her committee
was in charge Of the luncheon.
New pledges Of Theta Rhod
Sigma Sorority will be enter.
tanned at a tea, Sunday, February
Z, by Miss Agnes Crivella at her
home.
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