Evening star., 1940-04-14
White House Fete
On {. A. R. Program
Opening Friday
Stunt Night and Visit
To Mount Vernon Also
On Events Schedule

Children of the American Revolu-
ton from ~ States and the Canal
Zone will attend the 45th annual
convention of the organization to
be held from Friday, April 10
through April % in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall.
Opening event on crowded cal
endar will be the White House re-
ception for the members. Two
year-old Barbara Kimberly of Har-
riett M. Lothrop Society in the Dis
trict, and Charles H. Williams, jr.,
6, of Richard Lord Jones Society in
the District, will present flowers to
Mrs. Roosevelt. The two will wear
colonial costumes for the presenta-
ton.
The children will 60 from the
White House to the Children's
Chapel in the Washington Cathe-
dral, where a dedication service for
a c. A. R. gift to the Cathedral will
take place at 5 pm. under the direc-
tion of the Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington.
The gift, memorial for Mrs.
Eleanor Washington Howard, in
cludes missal brass standsa prayer
book and a hymnal for the use of
the clergymen and So little hymnals
and prayer books for the SO seats
IN the chapel. During the service
the junior national officers and
junior State presidents will occupy
these seats.
Stunt Night Scheduled.
Final event on April 10 is the an
nual stunt night, to be held this
year at Epiphany Parish Hall. Young
people from New Mexico. Connecti-
cut, Arkansas, Tennessee, New Jer-
sey. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and
the District will compete for prizes.
Graham Smallwood will be master
of ceremonies. Mrs. Carl H. Giroux
is chairman for the stunt night and
William Carter Pennington is chair
man for the reception in the La
fayette Hotel which follows the
competition.
The formal opening ceremonies
will be held April 20, when the dele
gates will be officially welcomed by
Mrs. Henry M. Robert, jr, president
general of the D. A. r.; Messmore
Kendall, president of the S. A. r.,
and 1t. Col. John Bion Richards,
national president of the Sons of
the Revolution. Lyons Mills How
land, Junior national president and
a student at the University Of Mich
igan, will preside.
The work of the various G. A. r.
committees will be demonstrated at
the morning session on April 20.
The Patriotic Education Committee
will present 1t. Comdr. Bernard
Austin, u S. N who will speak on
"The Continental Navy" Children
who live at Tamassee, the mountain
school in South Carolina supported
by the D. A. R., will describe their
life at the school, A pageant, ex-
employing the work of the maga-
zine, will be presented by some of
the children. The pageant was
written by Mrs. Frank S. Ray, edi-
tor of the magazine, who also wrote
. song, America the Blest," which
will be sung at the meeting.
Will Visit Mount Vernon.
The yearly pilgrimage to Mount
Vernon will take place on April 81
under the supervision of Mrs. Will
liam T. Clerk. Wreaths will be laid
at the tombs of George and Martha
Washington and the young people
will gather under the tree planted by
the founder of their society, Mrs.
Daniel Lothrop, in 1895. On the
return trip, a stop will be made at
the Old Presbyterian Meeting House
in Alexandria, where memorial serv-
ices will be held, followed by cere-
mony at the Tomb of the Unknown
Revolutionary Soldier in the church
yard. The tomb was erected by the
c. A. r. in 1929. Ivy brought from
the Old Christ Church yard in Phil
adelphia will be planted beside the
tomb.
Among the questions which will be
discussed at this years convention
will be the furnishing of G. A. R.
room at Moore House, Yorktown.
Mrs. John Morrison Kerr, national
president of the G. A. r., will bring
greetings from the c. A. R. when
the D. A. r. opens its Continental
Congress tomorrow night. Two
year-old Martha Ashton Morrison
will serve as page for Mrs. Kerr at !
that time.