Evening star., 1938-09-04
Mrs. Henry ". Draper Busy
In activities for Georgetown,
Schoolgirl Zeal Still Ap.
parent in Spite Of
Many Duties.
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.
Get Elizabeth to do it. She will
manage to find the time" used to be
a saying of her classmates in George
town, when as Elizabeth Kohl. she was
a pupil in the eighth grade of the old
Curtis School, in the very same class
room which now serves as the admin
lstratlve office for her husband. Henry
W. Draper, supervising principal for
the Georgetown area Of the District
of Columbia public schools.
Getting Elizabeth to do it, and help
ing her do it, has been the engrossing
task of the Progressive Citizens As
sociation of Georgetown during the
two terms Of her Office as president.
ending in September
AS homemaker in their charm
ingly rehabilitated old Georgetown
residence at 1921 Thirty-hfth street,
teacher Of English and chairman of
a committee on dramatics at the Cor
don Junior High School; and a citizen
who has increasingly labored for
GeorgetoWn's interests in season and
out, the Mrs. Elizabeth Draper of to-
day continues to find time for the sue
cessful accomplishment of a variety of
activities that would be beyond the
ken of one less systematic or less ac-
customed to coping with them.
interviewing her in the mist of their
homes fascinating drawing room an
fTnlloS tp lo1, ,0l1 ~
mony with its high old mirrors that
too olmly reflect Mrs. Draper's slender.
vibrant personality, We asked whether
there had been "a magic recipe" to
guide her.
Great Believer in Lists.
Disclahmng formula. this alert,
but very feminine woman executive
said. Il simply try to attack problems
from the standpoint of their relative
Importance, plan my time rather care
fuliy with due allowance for the un-
expected. and am great believer in
lists to keep one from wandering of
from main objectives."
She happens" to be the president
OF a Georgetown citizens association.
She tells you, because as recently as a
little over a decade ago the woman
cltlzens OF Georgetown rose up against
the pre-revolutionary custom still in
vogue IN this one-time famous Colonial
New World shipping center prohibiting
their sex from joining its citizens
association"
Under the leadership of Miss Eta
Iaegart, whose hobby is suffrage for
and national representation for the
citizens OF the District. they deter
mined if they could not immediately
acnleVe a vote in the District and
voice in Congress. they could at least
nave one in a local citizens associa-
tlon' so they organized the Progressive
Citizens Association of Georgetown.
with the old Peabody room in the
Curtis School as their meeting place
the new association promptly ex-
pressed itself as not only willing but
eager to have as large a masculine
contingent upon its rolls as might
care to join.
heenly approaching the historic
charm OF historic Georgetown and it's
ancient and honorable traditions. Mrs
Draper has had as her goal the i'm
proVement OF conditions not so desir-
able. Her policy, too, has been the
broad, cooperative one of bringing to
the associations membership all mat
ters OF vital concern to the citizens
OF Georgetown and of welcoming to
its discussions any one who comes
with a matter of consequence to him
self or herself and the community in
general.
Its membership today" she re-
minds you. includes the general rank
and file of Georgetowns citizens, rep
resentatlves from GeorgetoWn's most
important business concerns as well
as many small businesses and such civic
recruits from its prominent residents
as Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts Woods Bliss,
Gen. and Mrs. r. H. Jordan, Mrs.
Robert F. Whitehead, Mrs. Drew Pear
son, Col. and Mrs. H. C. Davidson,
Mrs. Charles Adams Baker Mrs. F.
Lammot Belin, Mr.. and Mrs. David
E. Finley, Mrs. Dean Acheson, Mrs
William Corcoran Eustis, Miss Rose
Greely, Maj. and Mrs. Henry Leonard
Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mrs. Chandler Hale,
Miss Mamie Hallerith. John Ihlder,
Miss Frances A. SortWell, Ralph Snow
den Hill, Mrs. Edward Finkenstaedt
and many Others"
In conjunction with her fellow Of
ficers and board members of the
Progressive Citizens Association of
Georgetown, Mrs Draper has organ
lied general committees which func-
ton on national representation and
suffrage, public health, public utilities
and education in the District. Other
special committees have been set up
to deal with Georgetowns particular
alley issues, water pollution, junk
shops business nuisance privileges,
zoning problems. Children's House,
boys and girls clubs. sidewalk repairs
and the Georgetown Public Library.
I'VE of Georgetown have very
special interest in the Georgetown
Public Library and its Peabody Me-
mortal room, Mrs. Draper says, be-
cause the latter represents one of the
many beneficences of George Peabody,
merchant prince of old Georgetown,
who attained world en1inence as a