Evening star., 1940-04-13
D. A. R. Maps
Final Plans
|For Session
Delegates Arriving:
Management
| Bourd Meets

AS delegates to the 49th CONT
mental Congress of the Daughters Of
the American Revolution started
filling Washington hotels and ar
irving on every train, the National
Board OF Management of the d. A.
r. held its annual pre-congress
meeting in its boardroom of
Memorial Continental Hall today,
The meeting, at which Mrs. Henry
M. Robert. jr.. president general,
presided, was to be followed by
luncheon in the banquet hall OF the
D. A. r. Building.
Meanwhile, scores of committees
for the annual five-day session of
the D. A. r. made last-minute ar
rangements for the Continental
Congress, which opens Monday night
at Constitution Hall.
Memorial Services.
Thousands of the delegates will
attend the memorial services in
Memorial Continental Hall tomor-
row at 2 pm. Following the serv-
ices, special tribute will be paid at
the Founders Memorial, since this
is the Golden Jubilee year of the
society. Pilgrimages also will be
made in the afternoon to the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier at Arling-
ton and the tombs of George and
Martha Washington at Mount Yer
non.
Another event of tomorrow will BE-
a supper meeting Of the Executive
Board of the National Junior AS
sembly Of the D. A. r. Mrs. George
D. Schermerhorn, national chair
man of the Junior Membership
Committee, will preside at the sup
per, which will be held at the May
flower.
The busiest young people in Wash
ington today were the senior high
school girls who won the D. A. r.
Good Citizenship Pilgrimage con-
test and arrived here yesterday for
a four-day stay.
Today they were to visit the Lii
brary of Congress, the Folger Lii
brary, the Smithsonian Institution,
the Lincoln Memorial, the Wash
ington Monument and the Pan
American Union, where they were
to be received by DR.. L. S. Rowe,
director general.
Will Tour Cathedral.
Tomorrow they will tour the
Washington Cathedral and attend
services there. They will be Mrs.
Roberts guests at luncheon at the
Mayflower, where the Good Citizen
ship pins will be presented.
After luncheon they will journey
by buses to Arlington and Mount
Vernon. Tomorrow night they will
organize the National Pilgrim Club
of 1910 and will hear talk by Mrs.
Russell William Magma, honorary
president general. They will be pre-
sented to the D. A. r. delegates at
the opening session.
Other young people looking for
ward with special interest to the
D. A. r. Congress are the $50 pages,
for whom ball will be given at the
Mayflower Hotel Tuesday night.
Plans were completed yesterday at
a meeting of the Pages Ball Com
mittee, of which Mrs. William M.
Carrigan Of the District is chairman.
Committee Vice Chairmen.
Vice chairmen of the Ball Com
mittee are Mrs. c. S. Schermerhorn
of the District, Miss Martha Morris
OF Ohio, Miss Elizabeth Sherier of
Alexandria, Va; Miss Sarah H.
Hawkes. of Florida, Miss Thema lie
Bar Brown of New York and Miss
Ross T. McIntire of the District.
Committee members include Mrs.
Sterling P. Eagleton, Mrs. Catherine
Barney Strong, Mrs. B. Harrison
Lingo and Mrs. Willard L. Hart, all
OF Washington; Miss Mary Jane
Stanley of Laurel, Md, and Mrs.
James w. Pierce and Mrs. Lawrence
M. Brown of Virginia.
Capt. S. B. Sightler, U. S. Army,
will serve as chairman of the Floor
Committee of Young Men. Special
escorts will be provided for the pres
ident general and the national off,
GERS who will attend the ball fol-
lowing the president generals re-
ception at Constitution Hall.