Evening star., 1940-04-08
$50 Will Be Pages
For 49th Congress
Of D. A. R.
Ball Will Be High Light
For Young Women
Aiding at Convention

NOIc ClldIl OCU W1lltc.lIOChcU
young women will serve as pages
during the 49th Continental Con-
gress of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution, which opens April |
Is in Constitution Hall.
Constantly on. duty at all sessions |
OF the Congress, the pages perform
hundreds of odd jobs and partici-
pate in many of the colorful cere-
monies of the Congress.
Miss Martha Morris of Cleveland, |
Ohio, is national chairman of the |
Pages Committee. Many of the
pages are assigned to serve as per-
sonal attendants for the various Of
ficerS, while others act as uShers |
and messengers.
The only time they are off duty
will be the night of April 16, when
the pages ball is held at the May
flower Hotel. The president general
and the other national officers will
visit the affair after the annual
president generals reception earlier |
in the evening at Constitution Hall |
Escorts for the pages at the ball |
are drawn mainly from the service |
schools. Mrs. w. M. Carrigan is
chairman of the committee in
charge of the ball.
Many From District.
A number of pages will come from
the District. They include Mrs.
Harriet Haig Green, Mrs. Virginia
M. Lambert and Miss Helen Towner,
platform pages, and the following
floor pages:
Mrs. Sarah Louise Berry, Miss
Rosalyn Buchanan, Mrs. Marion
Lund Buvinger, Mrs. jeanette Glib
son Caldwell, Miss Elizabeth Marie
Cupp, Mrs. Evelyn H. DAILY, Miss
Miriam Wallace Dreifus, Miss Helen
Lois Hamblin, Miss Mary Eleanor
Hawkins, Miss Evelyn Markham,
Miss Edna Millward, Mrs. Regina
R. Robey, Miss Caroline Schaller,
Mrs. Marguerite Shore, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Kincaid Taylor, Miss Mar
garet A. Turner, Mrs. Virginia G.
Whitney and Miss Aileen Wright
son.
The four pages serving as attend
ants for Mrs. Henry NJ. Robert, jr.,
president general, are Miss Ruth |
S. Madden, Alabama; Miss Jane E.
Robertson, Beatrice, Nebr. Miss |
Mary Jane Stanley, Laurel, Md,
and Miss Mary Bashie Steele, Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
The personal pages serving men,
bers 'of the cabinet are:
Miss Phyllis Forshee, Ulysses,
Kans, for the chaplain general, Mrs.
Loren Edgar Rex: Miss Leann K.
Donahue, Shaker Heights, Ohio, for
the recording secretary general, Mrs.
John S. Heaume; Miss Mary Eliza
beth Herrin Clarksdale, Miss, for
the corresponding secretary general, |
Mrs. William Kennedy Herrin, jr.; |
Miss Jeanne Marie Candy, Evanston,
ILL.,, for the organizing secretary gen.
eral, Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn:
Miss Miriam Lewis, TarrytoWn, N.
Y, for the treasurer general, Miss
Page SchWarzWaelder; Miss Grace
c. Cummings. Newton, Mass, for the
registrar general, Mrs. Frank Leon
Mason; Miss Mary Louise Sager,
Hopkins, Mimi, for the historian |
general, Mrs. Leland Stanford Dux-
bury; Mrs. Virginia Holland, Oak |
Park, ILL.,, for the librarian general |
Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson; Miss Jane
Blair Webb, Cleveland, Tenn, for |
the curator general, Mrs. Willard |
Steele, and Miss Louise Janice Nc
Nary, Santa Monica. Calf, for the
reporter general to Smithsonian In
stitution, Mrs. Joseph Taylor Young.
Pages on Stage.
Pages assigned to duty upon the
stage of Constitution Hall during
the congress besides those from the
District include:
Miss Sarah Belk. Charlotte, N c.;
Miss Sarah R. Binford, Roxbury,
Me-; Miss Ruth Vance Clement,
Joliet, ILL.,; Miss Mary Virginia
Clogg, Baltimore, Md; Mrs. Martha |
Hightower Davis, Savannah, Ga;
Miss Bettyann Geagley. Lansing,
Mich; Mrs. Florence C. Harris, Ra-
cine, Wis; Miss Edith Elaine
knight, Lincoln, Nebr; Miss Mary
Elizabeth Lamprecht, Cleveland
Heights, Ohio; Miss Nancy Lusk,
Peoria, Ill; Miss Della 10 Mar
shall, South Carolina; Miss Dor
othy H. Miller, Shenandoah, Pa;
Miss Helen Moss, St. Louis, Mo-;
Miss Virginia Peyser, Portsmouth,
N. H.; Mrs. Helen Voorhees, Plant,
Jersey City, N. j.; Miss Helen M.
Scott, Wilmington, Del; Miss Brad
ley Slayton, Annapolis, Md; Miss
Ann Mullins Smith, Fayetteville,
Ark; Miss Natalie Stirling, New
Haven, Conn.,; Miss Edith Nancy
Stone, Lookout Mountain, Tenn;
Mrs. Virginia Minson Taylor, Char
lotte, N. c., and Mrs. Frances Cat
ling Wilson, Crosse Pointe, Mich.