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DELPHIAN SOCIETY

Iota Phi Delta Chapter will meet
in Jelleff's Little Theater Thursday
at 1890. The vice president, Mrs. H.
H. Hulbirt, will preside and Mrs. R.
L. Spire will be the leader and give
the survey.
The program will be on "Restora-
ton Drama" with Mrs. Grace Yerger
reporting on 1.-The Relation OF Drama
to Political and Social Life" Mrs.
Ernest Ingle on Character Of Late
Stuart Drama" After Stuart Drama, /"
Mrs. w. B. Hutton, and TYPES Of
Later Stuart Drama" Mrs. H. H. HUI
brit. The following plays will be re-
viewed: "Congreve." Mrs. Z. R. Hor-
ton; Love for Love-" Mrs. William
Hills. and "The Country Doctor"
Mrs. J. H. Curry.
The members were given luncheon
by Mrs. E. R. Hutton and Mrs. w.
B. Hutton April 70. After lunch
charades of the plays studied during
the year were given by groups.
The George Washington group will
meet at the Georgetown Library next
Wednesday at 10 am. under the
leadership Of Mrs. John K. Freiot
The subject will be The Story OF
Judith" and topics will be covered by
Mrs. A. B. Manly, Mrs. William Liddle
Mrs. Eugene Brown, Mrs. Alex Bell,
Mrs. Clyde De Binder and Mrs. George
Lilly. Topic assignments by Mrs. A.
B. Manly.
A luncheon was given by Mrs
George Lilly at her home on Forty
fifth street to her group after the last
meeting. Mrs. Lowell P. Bradfeld and
Mrs. Carolyn Rask assisted.
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National Executive Committeema n
Joseph J. Malloy, at the last meeting,
outlined the new veterans preference
bill, which is now pending in Congress.
The next meeting of the Sons OF the
Legion Squadron will be held Tuesday
at 7:30 pm. at the twelfth precinct
police station, under the direction Of
Sons Of Legion Officer Ralph H.
Thrasher. The squadron plans to hold
. dance and card party next month.
The Vincent. B. Costello Post an
nual memorial services will be held
May % instead of May 80, As in former
years, due to congested trafic condi-
tions prevailing on the holiday They
are conducted at the grave Of Vincent
B. Costello in Arlington, will be under
the direction Of Past Comdr. Charles
Kohen
Music will be furnished by the
Washington Gas Light Co. Band, with
Senator Claude Pepper Of Florida as
principal speaker Also appearing on
this program will be the department
commanders Of the American Legion
and the Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
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RESERVES TO LOSE
TWO SUPPORTERS
Regulars on Duty Here to Be
Shifted to Sea in

Two regular naval oficers who have
been assigned here on duty in con-
nection with the training Of the
United States Naval Reserve for the
past several years have been ordered
to sea-
The officers are Capt. r. w. Math-
ewson, head of the Naval Reserve
Inspection Board, which conducts
annual inspections OF Reserve units
throughout the country to determine
their relative efficiency for service
with the fleet in time Of war, and
Capt. w. o. Spears, director Of the
Naval Reserve Division in the Bu-
reau Of Navigation at the Navy De-
partment, the division which has
general charge OF all Naval Reserve
activities throughout the country, in
Guiding the very important function
OF obtaining funds for the activities
each year.
Capt. Mathewson will 90 to COM
mand the cruiser Louisville, while Capt
Spears will command the battleship
West Virginia. Both changes are to
take effect in June. No indication has
been given as to who their success
sors will be.
Capt Mathewson was praised by
the Reservsts for the rigid inspec-
tions he conducted and which have
served to keep them in a high state
Of efnciency.
Reservists say Capt. Spears ha.
distinguished himself in the handling
Of . most difncult assignment, cover.
ing as it did the period when the
Naval Reservists were moving for 8
change in the law designed to i'm.
prove the operations of the Reserve
Capt. Spears, 1t was added, has done
considerable to build up the variou!
phases of Reserve activities, among
some Of which are the establishment
Of the aviation cadet system, designed
to provide naval aviators for tht
fleet; expansion OF the Fleet Reserve
units and the setting up more Ell
cient merchant marine reserve. Capt
Spears was one of the leaders in form
ulating the proposed amendments tx
the Naval Reserve act under difficul
opposition from some branches Of th'
Naval Reserve.
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$55,ooo REQUIRED
FOR GUARD CAMPS
D. c. Officers Send Estimates for
Funds to Baltimore Head
quarters.

Ofhcers of the District National
Guard have estimated it will take ap.
proximately $4,000 this Summer to
pay the expenses in connection with
the annual field training camps, in
cluding the transportation of person.
mel and equipment to and from the
camp sites. The detailed estimates
were completed last week and have
been sent to the headquarters OF the
Bird Army Corps area at Baltimore,
Md, for approval and ALLEGATION OF
the funds. The principal part is for
pay
All OF the troops, with the exception
OF the 260th Coast Artillery, will travel
by rail. The heavy baggage will be
sent by trucks. The Coast Artillery
will move to Fort Story, Va BY motor
caravan because it is a motorized unit.
At Camp Albert c. Ritchie, Cascade,
Md, plans have been made to train
So officers and 726 enlisted men. The
units to go there include the State
Stan and State Detachment, Head
quarters Detachment, 29th Division,
Special Troops: 29th Division. 12lst
Regiment Of Engineers; lst Battalion,
104th Quartermaster Regiment. and
Company A. 372d Infantry. The to-
tai cost of the Cascade encampment
will be $4,000, of which s24.85O will
be for pay for officers and men and
$4,000 for operation of 4S motor We
hicles which will be required for camp
service. Twelve thousand rations will
be required at the Army rate of so
cents each.
To the Artillery camp will 20 IS
officers and 425 enlisted men, from
July 10 to July "a, with an advance
guard Of officers and 81 enlisted
men to precede the main body Of
troops by three days to prepare the
camp for the reception Of the larger
unit. The pay for these troops will
total $4,000.
All of the Artillery field property
will move first, the motor equipment
returning to Washington to move the
troops. Six thousand two hundred
rations will be required for the artil-
lerymen.
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EIGHT AND FORTY

Mrs. ALollie 4. Averill, lie Chapeau
National, will arrive here next Friday
to participate ~ guest speaker on =
program for the commemorative OBJ
servance 1T the District World War
Memorial, May /. lie Chapeau De-
partmental Bess L. F'aine will extend
the greetings Of District Of Columbia
Salon. Mrs. Thelma Bailey, national
editor Of the Hatbox, ofncial organ OF
La Boutique. will also participate.
The salon has reserved \ table at
the testimonial dinner and dance at the
Broadmoor May / in honor Of C..
Francis Mccarthy. past commander
Of Sergt. Jasper Post, at which the
Chapeau National, Mollie Averill, and
Hotbox Editor Thelma Bailey will be
distinguished guests, also Past Ma
tional Chapeau Dorothy B. Harper and
e. Louise Warren, national chairman
Of public relations. Partners desiring
reservations call Ann Elliott, District
6642.
A bingo party will be given 1t the
home Of Ann Elliott, 1913 M street,
May s to help carry On the child vel
fare program Of the . and 20, which u
the major program Of de HUT Cha
psaux st ouAsants TemMes.
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D. A. \. WILL TAKE
PART IN CEREMONY
Department to Aid in Mass
ing OF CoIors on Mothers
Day.

The District Department Of the Dis
abled American Veterans will take
part in the massing Of colors In the
amphitheater at Arlington National
Cemetery, in connection with the an
nual celebration Of Mothers day, at
2:30 pm. May 8.
Immediately after the program.
sponsored by the American War Moth
ers, the D. A. v. delegation will join
other organizations in tribute to the
Unknown Soldier. A wreath will be
placed on the tomb by Department
Commander John T. Chichester, who
will be escorted by his stafT.
At meeting OF the O. A. r. Me-
mortal Day Corp. At the United
States Civil Service Commission, prep
arations were made for Memorial day
services. Department Commander
Chichester was appointed on the Pro-
gram and Invitations Committee.
Other D. A. v. appointments were E.
Claude Babcock, chairman Of the
Budget Committee; Oscar G. Jones,
broadcasting, and Ralph Chambers,
Printing and Supplies.
Mrs. Marie Anderson, Mrs. Mary
Holt and Mrs. Sue sorenson OF the
Ladies' Auxiliary, visited Mount Alto
Hospital last Sunday to entertain
D. A. V. veterans
The Last Man Club met last Mon
day night at 1902 Meridian place. DR..
c. Hamilton Anderson. president, pre-
sided. Other officers are Ralph Leon
ard, hrst vice president; George D.
Berkalew. second vice president; Will
liam B. Covert, secretary.
The bylaws were amended to in
clude all World War veterans as mem
bers. No person shall be accepted
IS . member after February Is. 1899.
The annual ceremony will be observed
each year on February Is, the ami
versary Of the founding Of the club.
Federal and Rea Chapters are PLAN
ming 4 series OF dances At Rockville,
Nd, to be held in the hall OF John
e. Zetts. The department commander
visited Rockville to further the plans
arranged by Philip R. Belt and Burr
Lenhart, chairmen Of the two dance
committees.
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE

Russell B. Martin. dictator Of CO.
lumbia Lodge, has selected DR.. John
F. Donoghue, past dictator, to be in
stalling of1icer at meeting Tuesday
night. This meeting will be open to
all members and their friends.
Roy w. Whitehouse, great north
moose Of the Legion of the Moose has
invited all members Of the second de-
gree Of the order to be present in
Baltimore, Md, May at the Moose
home when large class will be in
itiated by the degree staff Of Balti-
more Legion.
Women Of the Moose.
At the meeting Of Columbia Chapter
last Friday evening 20 new members
were initiated in honor Of the annual
official visit Of Past Grand Regent
Mrs. Jane Debus.
Senior Regent Mrs. Susie Sorenson
made the presentation on behalf OF
the local chapter to past grand regent
of silver table decorations. Mrs. De-
bus spoke.
Grand Recorded Miss Katherine
Smith was also = guest and addressed
the chapter. She announced the ap-
pointment Of Junior Past Regent Mrs
Frances Mitchell as publicity chairman
for the Pilgrim Governors conference
to be held in Philadelphia May l:
and Is.
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Naval Reservists Are Up
For Inspection Tomorrow
Regular Officers to Put Local Battalion
Through Annual Tests at
Navy Yard
Navy Yard.

Orders were issued last week for
Lieut.. Snyder to report aboard the
battleship New York for training duty.
to sail from New York City on April
70 for England to represent the United
States Navy during the coronation
ceremonies.
Another oticer, it was said has
made application to make the cruise
aboard the battleship, but as yet his
orders have not arrived.
With the prospect that Congress will
grant further increase in the per-
sonnel of the three fleet divisions of the
battalion. officers are faced with the
serious problem Of proper housing, and
increased area for training and drills.
AS the size OF the organization makes
1t dimcult to carry on the drills and
exercises in satisfactory manner,
battalion officers are studying the
problem with q view to determining the
best method Of obtaining funds with
which to construct new building here.
FUNDS Will be needed only for con-
struction, as site is now available in
the Washington Navy Yard, which is
close to the Anacostia River water
front, where a small boat equipment
can be used on drill nights.
While tentative plans for such a
building which it is proposed also to
be used to house the Marine Corps
reserve Regiment have been drawn, it
has not been possible to obtain funds
from the governmental building agen.
cles, and to that extent the Reservists
are In much the same position as the
National Guard, which also is seeking
a permanent armory building here.
The building the Reservists now use
while in the Washington Navy Yard.
is an old commercial store building
which was acquired when the naval res.
ervation was expanded during the war.
Members Of the divisions are Begin
ming to turn their attention to Sum-
mer training on the Potomac. The only
noating equipment which the Reserv-
lists have 50-foot launch, which has
been converted into a cabin cruiser
with limited living accommodations for
overnight duty. While it serves to
instruct the men in the methods of
handling small boats, it is not possible
| to give them the wide range of naval
training which will fit them for serv-
ice aboard larger ships in time of ma
| tional emergency. The accommoda-
tions are so limited and the applica-
tions for the week end cruises are 30
great from the enlisted personnel, that
it usually is possible for a man to
get but one Summer cruise a year.
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NATIONAL UNION

United Council entertained the Ex-
ecutive Board, delegates and members
from other councils. District Man
ager Arthur S. Brown spoke of forma-
ton of . class Of 80 candidates to be
initiated the early part Of July. sen-
ator Michael J. Kindsfather and
Morris J. Hole, former chairman Of
the Executive Board, spoke. John B.
Dickman rendered several selections.
Events for the week are: Wednes-
day, Hospital Service Association,
room SOL, Washington Loan Il Trust
Co. Building; Thursday, National
Union Bowling League, Convention
Hall.
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P. E. 0. SISTERHOOD

Chapter met at the home OF
Mrs Sterling Bockoven, with Mrs.
Ruth Douglas as assistant hostess.
Mrs. Foster Elliott and Mrs. Adolphus
Mckenzie, delegates, gave reports on
the recent convention. The hostesses
gave . surprise birthday anniversary
party in honor OF Miss Alma Berthon,
first president of Chapter F.
Guests were Mrs. Brooten. Chapter
D, Arcadia, La, and Mrs. Marie Ran
dali, Toledo, Ohio.
Chapter I met Wednesday with Mrs
Orwell johnson at the Mayfiower Hotel
for luncheon. The business meeting
was presided over by Mrs. Bert Peck,
president.
Mrs Orwell johnson was elected and
installed recording secretary in place
Of Mrs. Floyd Reynolds, who resigned,
having been elected recording secre.
tary Of the District Of Columbia Chap
ter Of P. E. o.
The next meeting will be April 20
at the home Of Mrs. Floyd Reynolds,
600l Utah avenue.
Chapter N met Wednesday for
luncheon at the home Of Mrs. L. H.
Mitchell 1893 Gist avenue, Silver
Spring, Md. Mrs. P. J. Hegwer, pres.
ident, presided. Mrs. Nettie Watts
was initiated.
The next meeting will be at ths
home Of Mrs. P. J. Hegwer, 1915 Mont
gomery lane.
Mrs. Willis R. Adams. Ontario
| Apartments, was hostess to Chapter
o last Tuesday evening. Miss Julia
Macmillan. president, presided at
the business meeting. Arrangements
were made for the presentation Of
Peggy Norris Hutson, lyric soprano, in
recital at Pierce Hall May l8 at .
o'clock. She will be assisted by Ray.
mond Baines, tenor, and Marvin
Gardner, baritone.
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ARTILLERY FACES
SHOOTING MEETS
Veteran and New Unit to Com.
pete for Supremacy This
Year,

For the first time in the history
of the 260th Coast Artillery OF the
District Guard, this Summers en-
campment at Fort Story. Va, will
provide an opportunity for rivalry
in anti-aircraft machine-gun target
practice between the veteran Bat
terry E, commanded by Capt William
F. Bulls. and the newly-organized
Battery F, commanded by Capt A. B.
c. Graves.
During the past two years more
than 20 ofIicers have been commits
stoned by competitive examinations
from the ranks. Some OF them will
by the time the organization starts
for the camp have risen to the grade
of captain.
With the expansion planned by the
War Department for the next hscal
year, this anti-arcraft regiment will
require an even larger number Of new
officers, and those enlisting now will
be afforded an opportunity to COM
pete for these vacancies. All COM
missioned officers are selected from
the enlisted personnel of the orga-
MIA ton. Onicers point out young
men, anxious to get commissioned
rank, should enlist at the present
time, while the organization Is facing
expansion, as when the unit Is COM
pleted as a regiment commissioned
vacancies are few and far between.
Machine-gun fire this year will en-
ploy the most modern equipment and
methods.
Many officers of the anti-aircraft
regiment attended a banquet and
training lecture, at which the princi-
pal speaker was Maj. Oscar D. Nc
Neely, United States Army. He has
recently finished the annual armory
inspection of anti-aircraft Artillery
unit, and was en- route to his home
station as instructor of the 2l3th
Coast Artillery Of the Pennsylvania
National Guard.
Maj. McNeely describe q method OF
mixing bullets different colors, so that
individual gunner's hits may be dis
tinguished on the towed targets and
unit commanders thereby enabled to
pick specially qualified men. He
pointed out each gunner must be vel
qualified and highly trained to instan.
taneosuly put to work the combined
effort Of the entire battery, which Il
transmitted to the gunners by tele.
phone.
Maj. McNeely supplemented his re-
marks by distributing sets Of tnstruc.
tions for gunners, suggested aids ant
short cuts for handling the compli'
Gated anti-aircraft scoring systems.
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.HE lst Battalion. United States
Naval Reserve In the District
Of Columbia, will be formally

~ HE lSt 6attAllOn, Unlted Statea
Naval Reserve in the District
OF Columbia, will be formally
L presented" tomorrow night tc
the Board OF Inspection, composed Of
Regular Navy officers, to receive theil
annual check-up to determine theil
progress during the closing drill year
and their relative efficiency among the
divisions and battalions Of the coun.
try. The board will put them through
. series OF rigid tests.
With civilian friends Of the men or
the sidelines. the inspectors will take
the personnel through series Of
drills, amid the blare Of bugle calls
and the sounding Of general alarms
Stimulating, ~ far As possible under
the unsatisfactory and inadequate
armory conditions, the conditions
aboard ship. After the usual inspec-
tion to determine whether they are
properly uniformed and equipped, the
drills will extend from abandon ship
to the most important OF them all, a
battle problem in which the men will
be required to show just what they
would do II assigned to a destroyer in
time Of war and which had run afoul
Of an enemy ship.
In preparation for this ordeal the
battalion spent all of last Tuesday
evening in q rehearsal inspection
under the eyes OF Lieut.. Comdr
Charles B. McVay, jr., instructor OF
the battalion. Every branch of the
unit had been impressed during the
year with the Importance Of learning
every detail Of their duties, and they
have had the benefit Of q sea cruise
on q destroyer as well as drills aboard
the destroyer Leary.
While the men await anxiously the
reports to ascertain their marks, all OF
them will turn their attention to max
ing preparations for the annual cruise
which will be held aboard destroyers
Seagoing equipment has been over.
hauled, so that when the destroye,
arrives here they will be ready fol-
the two weeks Of steaming to some
port as yet unknown. Members Of
the battalion generally hope it will b<
possible to make Q cruise to Bermuds
or to the West Indies, although there
is a possibility they might 60 to some
New England port for the midcruise
liberty.
Before this time arrives one officer
Of the battalion, Lieut.. E. r. Snyder
a member Of the staff Of the battalion
commander. will have completed q
cruise to England. during which he
will have an opportunity of witnessing
the coronation of the new King
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REUNION PLANNED

A reunion Of the men who served
with the Fifth School Squadron and
the 119 Air Squadron to celebrate the
twentieth anniversary Of the founding
Of these squadrons at Langley Field,
Va, during June, 1917, is being planned
for some time in June 1t is planned
to have q boat trip from this city
back to Langley Field at that time as
a part Of the celebration.
Any men who served with either of
these squadrons during the war and
are interested in taking part in the
anniversary celebration write for par
ticulars to Charles M. Mculton, 20
South Pershing drive, Arlington, Va,
or to Sergt. Elmer Costello, who Is now
stationed at Boiling Field, Warrington,
d. c.
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FIVE APPLICATIONS
TO POST ACCEPTED
Washington, No. 20, Will Hold
Dance Friday. at 1925 Massa-
chusetts Avenue.

Washington Post, No. 20, Regular
Veterans Association, Comdr. Walter
p Boehm presiding, met at 1903
Fourteenth street Tuesday night.
Earl G. Schryer Of the recruiting
board presented the following appli-
cations, which were accepted: Lester
Harris, F. S. La Rue, Robert B. Cans,
H. B. Jones and j. A. Roberts.
The post will hold 4 dance at 1925
Massachusetts, avenue next Friday.
The post accepted a petition au-
thorizing the formation of q ladies'
auxiliary. National Comdr. Walter
johnson spoke.
General Winfield Scott Post, No. 3,
Comdr. Daniel R. Mckay presiding,
met in Stanley Hall Monday night.
George A. Hicks Of the Recruiting
Committee presented fve new appli-
cations for membership.
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THIRD DIVISION VETS
TO MEET WEDNESDAY
Col. Edmund L. Daley Will
Present Charter to President
of Washington Branch.

of Washington Branch.
Veterans Of the Sd Division will
meet next Wednesday at 8 pm. at
the Wardman Park Hotel to greet
Col. Edmund L. Daley, national presi-
dent OF the Sd Division. He will pre-
sent charter to the president of the
Washington branch. A A. Wotier. All
former Marine men are invited to at
tend.
Col. Daley served with the 6th En-
gineers in France and received aADis-
tinguthed Service Medal for service
under fire in the front lines.
Members Of the Reception Commit
tee are as follows: Maj. Gen. P. c.
Harris, Maj Holland L. Robb, Lieut.
Col. Fred L. Walker, Russell Sizemore
DR.. Grayson, Maj. Mais. Maj. Russell
F. Lyons and William A. Shoemaker
Maj. Ittai A. Luke, formerly opera.
tions officer with the 10th Field Ar
tillery, is compiling roster Of al
officers and enlisted men of the 10th
Field Artillery and would like to gel
the names and former outfits Of al
men in Washington and vicinity. Hi
address is 21s Elm street, Chevy
Chase, Md.
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SORORITY NEWS

The Washington Alumnae Asoscia-
tion Of Kappa Kappa Gamma will hold
4 joint meeting with the Canaan Psi
Chapter Tuesday at the chapter house
in College Park. Supper will be served
1t 6 O'Clock. Mrs. william Denton
and Mrs. Dorothy Douglas will act as
hostesses.
Beta Gamma Phi National Sorority
celebrated Founders day with . cock
tail party last Monday evening at the
Ambassador HotelA
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Comdr. Herbert Manning presided
over Harden Camp, Spanish War Vet
Grams. Jerry M. Connor and DR..
Emlyn J. Britton were reinstated to
membership. Past Comdr. Allan M.
Russell was transferred to Calumpity
Camp, No. 26, California.
The quartermaster general reported
an order had been placed for bronze
memorial tablet for Past Comdr. in
Chief Daniel v. Chisholm, which had
been ordered by the camp.
The department publicity oficer,
Nelson B. Durfee, is in Fall River,
Mass, attending the thirty ninth re-
union of Battery M, lst Regiment OF
Massachusetts,, In which he served
Department Adjt. Robert Washburne
of E Battery of New Bedford was in
New Bedford for the same purpose
last night.
President Helen Grissam presided
at the meeting of Henry w. Lawton
Auxiliary. Department President Mrs
Esther Erhardt and her stan made
her annual visitation. She was pre-
sented with a gift by President
Grissam. The charter WAS draped fol
80 days in memory Of Carrie Robb.
The auxiliary will have = bingc
party May 7.
Col. James S. Petit Auxiliary was
presided over by President Marie A
Lucas. Arrangements were made fol
a bus trip to the Electric Dairy Farm
in Virginia on April %.
The following were elected delegate.
to the department encampment ir
July: Delegates, Mary c. Pollard, Bes.
sic Afford, Dorothy Afford, Kathryn
Stahl, Mary Holt and Emma Deck
and alternates were Ida Meier, Lille
May league, Mildred Rhodes, Lilliar
Selby. Dorothy Green, Katie Bocoskey
and Elizabeth Brashears.