Evening star., 1938-02-04
Pen WOmen's
Board Meets
Monday
Mrs. Hoyt to
Help Plans for
Convention.

a Il RS. PHYLLIS FERGUS HOYT
nH Of Chicago, president Of the
IVI National League of American
4 4 Pen Women, will preside at
the meeting of the executive board
next Monday at 10:30 am. at the
Willard. when plans for the biennial
convention April 1928, also at the
Willard, will be discussed.
One of the features of the conven-
ton will be the authors breakfast"
on April %. 1t will be attended by
such well-known writer's as Faith
Baldwin, Margaret Culkin Banning,
Audrey Wurdeman Auslander, Mrs.
Royal Copeland and many others, who
will speak on writing and similar
topics.
The following national officers will
will make reports: Mrs. Lily r. Hunt,
first vice president; Mrs. Harriet H.
Chambers, second vice president; Mrs.
Francesca Falk Miller. third vice pres
tdent; Mrs. Louise Hartley Wassell,
fourth vice president; Mrs. Mathilda
Bartlett, treasurer; Mrs. Lila Wood
Daniels, recording secretary; Mrs.
Bess Heath Olmstead, chaplain; Mrs
Maria Croker, librarian and many of
the convention chairmen
A luncheon for out-of-toWn guests
will follow the board meeting at the
Willard. Mrs. Miller, national chair
. man of drama. will speak Of Drama
and tho Ieapuen
A final board meeting to be held
Tuesday at 10 am will be followed by
luncheon.
Prizes Are Awarded.
Prizes for the membership drive Of
the Washington Chapter of the
National Council of Jewish Juniors were
awarded to Miss Goldie Bachman and
Miss Irene Hirsch last night when the
group met at the Jewish Community
Center. The winners were announced
by Miss Paula Starr.
Plans for series of reciprocity"
meetings with the Baltimore Chapter
were discussed. The first OF these will
take place February 13 at pm. in
the Eutaw Place Temple Center, in
Baltimore. Meetings of this sort have
been contemplated for some time by
both groups with the idea Of establish
ing q closer bond between the two
chapters of the organization. WASH
ingtonians will provide some Of the
afternoons entertainment. A skit,
Council Reports" will be given by
Miss Goldie Bachman and Mrs. Char
1otte Boraskey. Miss Hannah Stolar
will give monologues.
A final report on the Dorothy Gold
smith Camp Fund benefit was given by
the chairman, Miss Jeannette Rosen-
berg. 1t will be called Casino Night"
and will be held at the La Fayette
Hotel, March 20.
Mrs. Charlotte Borasky, chairman of
the benefit supper bridge to be held
April q at the Fairfax Hotel, reported.
A tea, for members only, will be held
next Sunday from 3 to pm. at the
Metropolitan Apartments recreation
room, 200 Rhode Island avenue north
east, with Miss Sara Grossman as
chairman.
Many Activities Planned.
The program of activities scheduled
by the Woman's National Democratic
Club for the next few months includes
a series of lectures by Mrs. Oswald w.
McNeese. four dinners in the near
future and the usual bi-weekly teas
and bridge parties, with the Monday
forum luncheons continuing.
Beginning next Thursday and con-
tinuing every second Thursday through
June, Mrs. McNeese will discuss Nine
teenth Century Presidents and First
Ladies" at IL am, in the drawing
room Of the club house. Mrs. Nc
Neese is we'll know as a lecturer, as
she has spoken before many of the
women's clubs in Washington on sub
tects ranging from Our Constitution
and It's History" to Medieval Maids