Evening star., 1938-06-26


American Pen Women, will be honor
guests at the founders day tea today
from 4 to s at the Martha Washington
Seminary. 3640 Sixteenth street NV
Oberlin Chapter, Delphian Society
held the final meeting of the season
Monday in Pierce Hall and, after q
program and election of officers, ad-
journed to the Highlands Apartment
for luncheon. Omcers elected were:
President, Mrs. w. e. Miller; vice
president. Mrs. H. E. Barnes; Sec
retary, Mrs. F. w. label; treasurer,
Mrs. r. j. Bates. and members of
the Seminar Board, Mrs. @. E. Middle
ton. Mrs. Otto Hammerlund and Mrs.
r. L. Holm. Mrs. c. T. Bright was
appointed parliamentarian and Mrs.
H. I. Quinn was appointed chairman
OF current events by the president.
Mrs. w. E. Miller sang, accompanied
at the piano by her niece, Miss Marie
Bruce.
Mrs. r. j. Bates acted as toast
mistress and each member responded
to toast. Mrs. Miller, the new pres
ldent. was given bouquet of roses
by the chapter. In addition to the
chapter members, Mrs. Theodore
Huntley and Mrs. M. w. Hoskins,
both Of whom are field secretaries
and Miss Marie Bruce Of Cleveland,
Ohio, were guests.
Meetings will be resumed Septem-
Der "a
District of Columbia Branch, League
OF American Pen Women, will hold 4
Founders Day tea today from 1 to 6
pm, at the Martha Washington Sem
mary. 3640 Sixteenth street NV.
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The Business and Professional
Women's Club banquet and installa-
ton Of oficers, will be held tomorrow
at pm, at the Congressional Coun-
try Club.
The American Association Of Uni
versity Women will hold tea Monday
at 4 pm. at the club house, 1884
street NV. Mrs. Albert Boles, hostess.
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Gen. Beck Circle. Ladies of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment OF the Potomac, will leave next
Saturday morning for an all-day trip
to the battlefield at Gettysburg in
honor Of the reunion of the Blue
and the Grey. A bus has been char.
tered and all members and their
friends are invited to communicate
with Mrs. Catherine Hood, phone Co.
lumbia TIA.
Burnside Woman's Relief Corps, No.
4, auxiliary to the G. A. r., will meet
tomorrow at the Thomas Circle Club
with the president, Mrs. ella Southland.
presiding. Plans for participation in
the patriotic exercises on the Wash
ington Monument grounds July 4th
are to be completed.
Mrs. Della L. O'Brien, past national
senior vice president, and CORDS Treas
urer Miss Mary A. Howarth, Miss Har-
net LEIGH and Miss Catherine LEIGH
nave planned pilgrimage to Gettys-
ourgh July to 4 to attend the Blue
and Gray reunion.
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The annual outdoor meeting of the
Washington Asbury Club was held at
the home Of DR.. and Mrs. Karl Dortz-
bach, 1905 Custer road, Bethesda. Md.
Ihirty-three persons from Washing
ton and vicinity attended. Plans for
banquet in November were discussed
With the close of the collegiate wear.
national sorority conventions are be.
ing held in various parts Of the coun-
try and number of them have taken
place in Washington since the BEGIN
ming of June. Some of these are high
school sororities, some of them are
social, and one, Phi Upsilon
Omlcron, which concluded its conclave
Yesterday at Wardman Park, is a pro-
lesslonal sorority, composed entirely
Of specialists in home economics.
At least four of the collegiate sorori-
fraternities, as the older groups
prefer to be called-will hold national
conventions this week in various parts
o1 the country. Active and alumnae
chapters in Washington will be repre-
sented at all Of them by stable dele
cations.
Members of Delta Delta Delta are
especially interested in the conven-
lion Of their fraternity being held in
Mass, because thev are
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary Of
'he foundation of the group. A me-
norial tablet for the four original
members was dedicated yesterday on
me campus Of Boston University by
Mrs. Joseph d. Grigsby of this city.
rational president of Delta Delta Delta
md special anniversary scholarship
Will be awarded at the convention
lnis afternoon in Boston Mrs. Lucille
'oster McMillin will be initiated and
tomorrow she will deliver the KEYNOTE
ADDRESS at the opening meeting. Voca-
'lonal guidance for college women il
II special interest to the fraternity at
he present time, and Mrs. GriRsbv ha.
'een perfecting plans for the estab-
ishment Of a vocational service for
'oliege women under the sponsorship
u the fraternity. It was hoped that
Mss Katharine F. Lenroot would b.
Initiated today with Mrs. McNillin
'ut 1t was found necessary to post
zone Miss Lenroot's initiation until 4
ater date.
Other women's fraternity conyen-
ions taking place this week are the
p Beta Phi conclave to be held at
Asheville, N. c.: Kappa Kappa Gam
mas convention at. Hot Springs, Va,
md the Alpha Phi convention at Pasa-
lena, Calf. These fraternities are
Imong the oldest of the women's Greek
etter groups. Pi Beta Phi, said to
'e the Oldest Of thet, all, was founded
It Monmouth College, Monmouth. M. |
Is was Kappa Kappa Gamma, eetab-
ished = few years later. Alpha Phi
vas founded at Syracuse University
n 1872, and the convention this vear
vii be centered around the only sur
living member of the ox,oar.l NJ.