Evening star., 1941-04-08
48 Gins 10 Arrive
In CAPITAL Friday
To Be D. A. R. Guests
Good Citizenship Pilgrims
To Remain Four Duys;
Program Arranged

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Good citizenship pilgrims. select
ed from tie 48 States and the Dis
trict, will converge on Washington
Friday fol four-day visit as guests
of the Daughters o. the American
Revolution.
Consideed by their hostess Or
ganizatior as a "cross section OF
representative American girls of the
highest tpe," the 40 pilgrims are
senior hith school girls chosen for
four qualities of good citizenship
dependabiity, service, leadership
and patriotism.
The girs from Maine TO California
will be joined here by the winner OF
the Distrtt contest, Louise G.. Win
field of 409 Fifth street NV.
Climax of the visit will be the
presentation of the pilgrims to the
1000 delegates and alternates of the
5Oth Continental Congress Of the
D. A. r. at Constitution Hall next
Monday light, when the Daughters
open ther SiX-day meeting.
Will Tour ID. A. r. Buildings.
After registering at the Washing
ton Hotl Friday, the girls will
spend The evening making a tour
of the D A. R. buildings. They will
be addressed by Mrs. Henry M. Rob-
ert, jr., retiring president general
of the D.A. r.
Saturday will be spent visiting
the LibrTy of Congress, the Folger
Library the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, the Pan-American Union and
the Washington Monument. At din
ner that evening they will hear
William Tyler Page, minority clerk
of the Hmse of Representatives, de-
scribe congressional procedure.
On Sunday morning the pilgrims
will visitth Lincoln Memorial and
attend Easter services at st.
Thomas Episcopal Church. They
will be guests of Mrs. Robert at a
luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel
and in tie afternoon will visit Ar
lington National Cemetery and
Mount Vernon, where they will place
a wreatl at the tomb of the first
Presiden. At dinner Sunday eve
ming thy will organize their Ma
tional Pilgrims Club under the di-
rection d Mrs. Eugene N Davis, ma
tional chairman of the club, and
will hes a talk by Mrs. Russell
William Magma, honorary president
general If the D. A. r.
On Monday, the pilgrims will be
receivedby Justice Stanley Reed at
the Supreme Court. Mrs. Ruth
Bryan Gwen Rohde, former member
of Congess and former Minister to
= DenmaT, will conduct them on a
tour of The House and Senate. In
the afternoon, the girls will visit the
Nationa Gallery of Art.
PilgimS to Leave Tuesday.
Mondly evening the girls, each
carrying bouquet of flowers, will
lineup On the stage of Constitution
Hall. Iach will curtsey as she is
present,d by Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne,
nationa chairman of the Good Citi-
nshipPilgrimage Committee. The
pilgrim; will leave for their homes
Tuesday.
The drls coming here have won
many bnors in their home States.
Helen NcElroy of Iowa, daughter of
q farmer, was chosen the best
groomee girl in her county in 1899
and wa, the county health cham
pion in 1910. Anne Vending of
Oregon, won the music cup of her
high school and South Dakota's
pilgrim, Edna E. Billups, is a lino-
type OPERATOR and plays the flute.
Betsy Kendrick Ewing of Kentucky
was voted best all-round girl. in
her senior class, has won two ath-
letic Awards and had the lead in
her schtol play.
The good citizenship pilgrims are
Camille Wright, Alabama; Anna
Wallace Arizona; Ethel 10 Dyer,
Arkansas; Marilea Hanson, Califor-
mia; LDy Lair Hartshorn, Colorado;
Pearl Braun, Connecticut; Elizabeth
Roselle, Delaware; Miss Winfield,
Barbari Moffat, Florida; Margene
Benfield, Georgia; Mildred Coy
Swanson. Idaho; Ruth Maloney, Il
linois; Maxine McColgin, Indiana;
Miss McElroy, Frances Hawkinson,
Kansas; Miss Ewing, Margie Wag-
ley, louisiana; Beverly Spaulding,
Maine; Mary Virginia Webb, Mary
land; Sophie R. Starzyk, Mas
sachusetts; Lucille Barnes, Mich
igan; Betty Lilligren, Mime
sofa; Gloria Ramey Sisk, Mis-
sissippi; Dorothy Rae Pines, Mis-
souri,; Harriet Sather, Montana;
Dolores Bellamy, Nebraska; Bonnie
Scott, Nevada; Priscilla Katharine
Gilchrist, New Hampshire; Marian
Hunter Powelson, New Jersey: Jessie
Lee williams, New Mexico; Jane
Thorn Belden, New York; Martha
Nicholson, North Carolina; Dorothy
Alice Naugle, North Dakota; Mary
Kathryn Selby, Ohio; Bobbie June
Brendle, Oklahoma; Miss Vending;
Mary Jay Dickerson, Pennsylvania;
Shirley E. Holley, Rhode Island;
Anne Pinckney, South Carolina;
Miss Billups; Sara Lee Spann, Ten
nessee; Merle Brooks, Texas; Bar
bara Coburn, Utah; Ruth Jordan,
Vermont; Katherine Carlton Byrne,
Virginia; Dorothy Mae Drew, WASH
ington; Phyllis Ingraham, West Vir-
ginia; Lois Jane Barton, wisconsin;
Joyce Reeve, Wyoming.