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director who will begin work ir
September. A joint committee, con.
sistiug of three representatives ot
Reid Hall, Inc; Dean Virginia C. Gil.
/ dersleeve, Mrs. Ogden Reid and Mis-.
Virginia Newcomb and three repre-.
senting' the A. A. U. w, Mrs. Adam
Leroy Jones, Mrs. John F. Lewis ane
Mrs. Gertrude Cooper, who is the
director, will consider the offer,
The purpose of the hall is to provide
residence in Paris for university
women who are attending the Sor.
bonne, the College de France anc
other academic institutions of high
standing, and to bring them in touch
with university men and women OF
other nations.
French and British women students
as Well as Americans are in residence
The hall is affiliated with the Inter.
national Federation of University
Women, which has its headquarters
IN the hall. 1t is also affiliated with
the American Association of Univer.
slty women and with the American
University Union in Paris.
The buildings, entrusted to the
committee by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid fo,
term of years, are in the Latir
quarter near the Luxembourg Gar.
dens and not far from the Sorboune
There is a main building with dinins
rooms. living rooms. library and con-
ference hall. sun parlor and bed
rooms; an annex and an infirmary.
Mrs. Lloyd A. Morrison chairman
OF the department of American citi-
zenship for the D. c. Federation of
Women's Clubs, will take personal
charge of promoting the resolution
for national representation for the
District of Columbia during the term
of her office.
Although the resolution has not
vet been Endorsed by the General
Federation of Women's Clubs it has
been accepted for study. The resolu-
ton Will be referred for futher action
to Mrs. F. A. Clausen of Horizon Wis.
who Is the newly appointed chairman
OF the general federation's department
of American citizenship.
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Nine. Cantacuzene, president of the
League of Republican Women. left
here Friday to make two visits en-
route to New York. She will sail
from New York on July % for Eng
land to visit her daughter, Mrs. Han
bury-Williams, for a few weeks. Later
she plans to visit some of her Russian
relatives near Beauvais. France. going
from there to Aix-le-Bains in Savoy,
where she will take the cure Before
returning to the United States late
in October, Mime. Cantacuzene will
spend some time in Paris with Mrs,
Charles Sheriff..
In the meantime Mrs. Frank W.
Mondell, the first vice president, who
plans to spend most of the summer
in Washington, will be in charge OF
the activities of the league. Plans
Tor the coming season are being made
and the league headquarters at 1901
Seventeenth street NV. will be kept
open for members staying in town.
Mrs. w. w Hubbard, president of
the National Woman's Democratic
Club, is spending the summer at
her home in Chestertown, Md, on
the Eastern Shore, where she is doing
good deal of quiet entertaining.
Activities at the club are at a low
ebb with SO many of the members out
of town. Mrs. Alethea F.. Grimsley,
the manager of the club, is visiting her
son-in-law and daughter, 1t. Comdr.
and Mrs. Edward c. Seibert, at
Alameda, Calf, where he is in charge
OF the construction of the new air.
port. Mrs. Samuel Herrick, past pres
ident, is spending the summer in
Mansonville. Quebec, Canada Mrs.
Ellis Meredith, one of the officers, is
sending the summer in town.
The garden section of the Takoma
Park Women's Club will hold its July
meeting at the Weathered Oak Herb
Gardens, Bradley Hills, Md, tomor-
row morning. After a tour of the
gardens the members and guests will
motor to the home of Mrs George M
Pryor, 36 Poplar avenue, Takoma
Park, for lunch.
What is described as IAN informal
get-together" of Zonta Club members
from Washington, Annapolis, Hagers-
town, Frederick and Philadelphia will
he held tomorrow at $50 o'clock at
the Brooke Tea House There will be
no speaker, but program of songs
games and stunts will be supplied by
hosts and visitors
Miss Mary Sigmund is the chair
man of the committee in charge and
Mrs. May Meyers McElroy is the vice
chairman. Other committee members
are Miss S. Winifred Burwell, i'm
mediate past president of the club;
Miss Alice Terrell, Dr. Frances Mar
shall, DR.. Mildred Dickerson, Mrs
Amelia Guide Thomas, Miss Esther
GUIDE, Mrs. Frances Gutelius Smith
Mrs. Florence Sindell, Miss Frances
Powell Hill, Mrs. Adelaide Courtney
Flanagan and the clubs program chair
man, Miss Elizabeth Haney.
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An outing at North Beach, Md
will be held today for members of the
Curley Club and their friends. The
entertainment will include games and
swimming. Refreshments will be served
in the early evening Members are
requested to meet at the Continental
Hotel at 1:30 pm. and proceed to
North Beach in automobiles. William
Boyd is in charge of the arrangements.
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