Evening star., 1938-02-27

/ as the Southern Women'S Edu-
small sealed envelope. sent with the
entry Manuscripts should be addressed
to Federation Contest, Inez Sheldon
Taylor, chairman of poetry, 1926 Nine
teenth street NV.
Winners in the annual feature article
contest. sponsored by the Society OF
Free Lance Writers, were: Miss Nellie
Bordeaux. for "One Of Our Last From
tiers; w. H. Burrows for The Secret
of Maggott Magic: Parke Arnold for
I'VE Name Our Towns and Mrs.
Sterling Bockoven for Pirate Patriot
of Fredericksburg"
The women of the Curley Club will
attend week end retreat next Friday,
Saturday and Sunday at the Washing
ton Retreat House. The Rev. John
Carter Smyth, pastor of the Shrine Of
the Sacred Heart, will be the retreat
master.
The car from the Retreat House will
meet retreatants at Michigan avenue
and Hardwood road NE. between S
and 6 o'clock on Friday, to take them
to the house, where supper will be
served at 6 o'clock. The retreat will
close with benediction at 7:30 pm. on
Sunday.
Miss Kathryn Bowers is in charge of
arrangements
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The Congregational Club of Wash
ington will hold its winter meeting and
dinner at All Souls Church on Tues
day at $50. Charles w. Eliot. I'd,
executive officer of the National Re-
cources Committee, will be the guest
speaker. The Rev. Joseph S. Lough-
ran, assistant director of the Debt Of
Honor Commission of the Congrega-
tional and Christian Churches, will
preside.
Reservations may be made with Will
bur L. Gray, secretary, Peoples Life
Insurance Building
Members of the poetry group Of
the District of Columbia Branch Of
the League of American Pen Women
will respond to roll call with spring
verse at the meeting Tuesday evening
at the studio. Poems, written by
members, will be criticized and there
will be discussion both about mar
keting poetry and about getting it
set to music. The contest this month
will be on lyrics. Mrs. Marion Ever
ett, Hayn. vice chairman, is in charge
of the contest Entries should be
sent to her at Wardman Park Hotel
Miss Ida Hoyt Chamberlain will
represent the local pen women in
broadcast over WJSV on the Civic
Forum program next Saturday at
$50 pm. She will speak on wash
ington as an Inspiration for Music"
and will play, among other things,
two of her own compositions.
At the end of the week the three
one-act prize plays will be presented
by the Laboratory Little Theater at
the Grafton Hotel. These are to be
given Friday and Saturday evenings.
They are The Bridge of Rama"
This Is Drama" and Duet in Man
haitian"
Felix Morley will be the speaker
at the tea tomorrow afternoon of the
Washington Branch of the American
Association Of University Women at
1884 I street NV He will speak on
international Efforts Toward Peace
in 1887"
Mrs. Noble Boaz will be the hostess.
She will be assisted by Mrs. w. L.
Alexander, Miss Margaret Moore,
Mrs. Robert S. Pickins, Mrs. ]. Aus
tin Stone. Mrs. George c. Warner,
Miss Mathilde D. Williams, Mrs.
Mary E. Woodward Mrs. Harry
zehner and Mrs. Fred G. Tryon.
Miss Faith Williams will speak on
THE Maintenance OF Purchasing
Power in the Recession" in the lounge
of the clubhouse Tuesday at 8 pm.
"Columnists of Today" was the title
OF paper read last Wednesday at the
meeting of the Capitol Hill History
Club, by Mrs. Homer N. Link. Mrs.
William M. Collins discussed Colonial
Pewter and Silver" The meeting was
held with Mrs. Collins. los Summer
field road, Chevy Chase, Nd, with
Mrs. Link as assistant hostess.
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Final arrangements for the luncheon
and card party to be given by the La
dies Auxiliary of the District of Co.
lumbia Fire Department March "a at
Furhams Inn will be announced at
the meeting tomorrow night. by Mrs.
Albert j. Lipski.
Installation of the 9th chapter of
Mortar Board, senior honor society
for women, took place yesterday after
noon at George Washington Univer-
sity at Strong Hall. The installing
officer was Mrs. F. D. Coleman of
Lincoln, Nebr She was assisted by
Miss Eleanor Broughton, president of
the chapter at the University of Mary
land. and Miss Nancy Fish, president
of the Washington Alumnae Associa-
ton
The members who constitute the
active chapter are the Misses Susan
Slater, Tatyana Jasny, Esther Yanov-
sky. Catherine Baart, Katherine
Porter, Ruth Brewer, Jane Saezmuller,
Jane Ramsyer and Allison Clafiin.
Mrs. Winnie G. Barrows, dean of
women, and Miss Myrna sedgwick,
secretary to the president of the uni
versity, were initiated as honorary
members.
There were AZ alumnae members of
Hour Glass, the local honor society,
who were also initiated: Mrs. Ralph
Mccoy, Mrs. Paul Bowman Mrs,
Archie p. Burgess, Miss Amanda Chit
tum, Mrs. Hillary Tolson, Miss Helen
Bunten, Mrs Raymond Robinson, Miss
Bertha Lockhart, Miss Margaret
Loeffier, Miss Dorothy Ruth, Mrs.
Noble Boaz, Miss Marguerite E. Smith,
Miss Ethel Nelson, Miss Katherine e,
Black, Miss Anne Hill, Mrs. Augustus
s. Goodyear, Miss Leila Fern, Mrs.