The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-05
W0MAN'5 club
APRIL PROGRAM
IS DISCUSSED
Two Educational Inspee-
tion Visits on List
of Activities

With five new activities slated to
begin during the month of April,
plans for these occupied the atten-
ton of the Juneau Woman's Club
during its monthly business session
held yesterday at the pent house,
with a large attendance.
Under the sponsorship of the AM
erican Home Department two edu-
cational visits of inspection will be
made during the month. The first
of these will be in response to an
invitation from Mrs. Magnhild Oy-
gard, and will be a visit to the
Health Center in the Territorial
Building next Wednesday. All wom-
en- in Juneau who. are interested in
learning what the Health Center
is doing for Juneau, are urged to
join club members on this visit,
which promises to be both interest
ing and educational. - eaH
On April let club, will sponsor
a visit of inspection to the Alaska
Laundry. This is in response to an
invitation from S. j. .MacKinnon,
Manager, who has. adopted this
method as unique publicity feature
of his place of business. For each
woman attending. whether club
member on not. Mr.. MacKinnon will
pay the, club Is cents, which will
be added to the general fund. 1t is
expected that q large party OF
Juneau women will be organized for
this event, which will give Milady
opportunity, not only to see how
commercial laundering is done, but
also to hear an interesting talk on
the subject by Mr. MacKinnon. who
will personally conduct the group on
its tour of inspection, and explain
the separate steps in the laundering
process.
Sponsored by the Publicity De-
partment newswriting class will be
organized in the near future, for the
purpose of developing newswriting
ability, especially as it relates to
publiciay for organizations, among
its members, and incidentally dis
closing some latent ability. Mrs. r
R. Hermann will have general
charge of this class, for which a
number of club women have already
signed up.
The club will take over the spon-
sorship of younger group OF girl
scouts in the immediate future. and
an advisory committee to look after
the details of this work will be ap-
pointed in the near future.
The club will also take part in the
annual Cleanup campaign sponsored
by the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce, which is to be a particularly
ambitious effort this year due to the
fact that three large conventions
are scheduled to visit the Capital
City during the late spring and
early summer. Mrs. Ray G. Day has
been appointed at the head of a
group of club women to handle this
work for the club.
Reports of special activities for
the month of March were climaxed
by the report covering the annual
issue of the club special edition.
A rising vote of thanks was given
to the committee in charge of this
work, which succeeded in issuing
the best of all its special editions
this year, and also to the business
men of Juneau, and Seattle, whose
generous subscriptions for advertis-
ing space made possible its isue.
The annual May Day fete. which
ushers in Child, Health Week, for
Juneau will be under the depart
ment of Civic. Improvement of
which Mrs Walter Hellan is Chair
man. Plans for this special occasion,