Evening star., 1938-04-17

II it has grown to membership of
5000 scattered all over the world
While all the members are Americans,
as the name indicates, many of them
live in Japan, Honolulu or in Euro
pean countries.
The league maintains year-around
headquarters at the Willard and nearly
ence will be held there. The program
is full of "highlights' and as scheduled
plenty of entertainment will be pro-
vided. The election of complete new
slate of officers will take place on
Wednesday. 1t seems safe to predict
that Mrs. Joseph Auslander will be the
next president as she is the unoppoSed
candidate for the position.
The present president, Mrs. Phyllis
Fergus Hoyt of Chicago and Vermont
is musician. Mrs. AuSlander is a
poet and is known to thousands of
readers as Audrey Wurdemann, VIM
ner of the 1885 Pulitzer Prize for
poetry. She is the wife of Dr. Joseph
Auslander, consultant in poetry at the
Congressional Library and resident
of Washington.
One of the features of this years
convention is the Book Fair" which
will be under the direction of Mrs.
Dorothy De Muth Watson. 1t is the
first book fair to be held by the league
for some years Books written by
penWomen from all over the country
will be on display and for sale. 1t
Willard room and will remain open
until Wednesday evening.
As the sessions draw to close
prizes are to be awarded for the best
work produced by members within the
past two years. Mrs. Grace Seton
Thompson is the chairman of the
awards and the list of prizes is an
inclusive one. There will be awards
for novels, poetry, plays, short stories,
short shorts and for stencils. water
colors and oils and this year. for the
first time, an award will be given to
the "penwomen" producing the finest
piece of sculpture.
Social events are crowded thick and
fast into the siX-day session. tea
has been scheduled for every day eX-
cept the closing one and there will be
three banquets. The teas begin on
Saturday. when Mr.. Hoyt will receive
the newly arrived officers and dele
gates and alternates at the Willard.
The District of Columbia branch,
which is one of the largest in the
league. will entertain in honor Of Mrs.
Hoyt Sunday in the studio in the
Grafton Hotel, when Miss Marguerite
Merigold, president of the branch, will
be assisted by all of the officers in re-
ceiving. This will be followed by
buffet supper at the Arts Club.
One OF the highest of the high lights
will take place on Monday afternoon,
when Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
is member of the league, will enter
tain the visitors at tea at the White
House
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
president of the General Federation of
Womens Clubs, will entertain for Mrs.
Hoyt on Tuesday at the federation
headquarters, 1884 N street NV The
Spanish Ambassador, Senor Dr. Don
de los Rios and Sonora de los Rios
will be hosts at the Embassy, We'd
nesday afternoon.
Each of the three banquets. which
will be held at the Willard, Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Will be given
over to special field of interest. Mon
day night the program will center
around drama, features and the radio.
Tuesday will be devoted to compos-
ers, lecturers and the motion pic
lures, and will be followed by a COM
poser's Cancert.
The concluding banquet, which will
be cllmaxed by the distribution of the
prize awards will be centered around
poetry, markets, short stories and
juveniles.
The installation breakfast, Under
the direction Of Mrs Bess Heath Ohm
stead, will be held Thursday morn
ing and will be followed by a final
business session.
While it is difficult to predict lust
who the honor guests at the installa-
tlon banquet will be, as this depends
on the election, there is no doubt
about the honor guests at the opening
breakfast. They are Mrs. Roosevelt,
Mrs. Carrie Jacobs Bond, DR.. Preston
Bradley, Mrs Margaret Culkin Ban
ming. Dudley Crafts Watson, Mr.. JUS
tlce Edouard, surveyor Of the Supreme
Court OF Canada: Sister Esther Car
lotta, DR.. James Francis Cooke, Dorc-
inca Brande, Miss Allene Corlis. DR.,
Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurde-
mann.
Mrs. Hoyt is general chairman of
the convention. She will be assisted
by Mrs. Anna B. Cajigas of Wash
1ngton and Miss F1oelle Youngblood
Bonner. Mrs. Lilly Ramsden Hunt
Will De the hostess chairman, repre-
senting the national board. and Mrs
Harriet Hawkins Chambers will be
hostess chairman for the District of
Columbia. Miss Marguerite Merirold
Of Washington is chairman of the con-
vention program and, incidently, can
didate for the Office of State vice
president for the District of Columbia.
Several Washington women are
candidates for Office in the national
league. The complete list of candi-
dates, as announced, is: Audrey
Wurdemann. Washington, president;
Mrs. Theodore Cunningham. WASH
ington: Mrs. Harriet Hawkins Cham
bers, first vice president; Mrs.
Francesca Falk Miller, Chicago,
second vice president: Mrs. Grace
Boles Hedge, San Francisco. third vice
president: Mrs Mathilde, Kolo Bart
lett. Washington, and Mrs. May West
Owen, Denver, Colo, fourth vice
president; Mrs. Clyde Burke Mills
paugh, Nashville, Tenn. and Mrs.
Beulah Russell Morgan, Kansas City,
Mo-, fifth vice president; Miss Clara
Manderschied, Washington, recording
secretary: Mrs. Claudia Rice Scott,
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