Evening star., 1941-05-18
Memorial Service
By District VT. W.
Set for Nays
Department Session
To Be Held in June
At Roosevelt School

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The Department of the District o.
Columbia, Veterans of Foreign Wars
will hold its annual memorial serv'
ices May 25 at 10:30 am. at Cedar
Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Howard
E. Snyder, department chaplain anC
pastor of the Lutheran Church o
the Atonement, will officiate. 4
memorial address will be delivered
by a member of Congress. All mem
bers, their families and friends ar,
invited.
The department encampment viii
be held at Roosevelt High Schoo
on the evenings of June %, "a anc
25. The opening session will b,
open to the public. Guest speakers
representatives from other organi.
cations and military and naval rep.
resentatives will be recognized.
tableau will be presented under the
direction of Carl Pribek. Past De.
partment Comdr. George G. Nc
Leish is chairman of the Genera
Committee.
Follow Me-Defense Post will
conduct memorial services May "a
in McKendree Methodist Church
Omar B. Ketchum, national legis-
lative representative. will make the
memorial address. The Rev. Samuel
Rose, pastor of the church, and the
Rev. Howard E. Snyder, pastor OF
the Lutheran Church of the Atone
ment, will take part in, the cere-
monies. The degree team will take
charge of all the ritual work.
At the last meeting delegates to
the department encampment were
elected, as follows: Joseph l.
Luyster. Ross L. Spencer. Julius
Wolfe. Newton L. Sayers, Sidney R
Snider, John A. Metzger. Charles
j. Goodheart and Fred C. Kelly
Alternates are: James R. Cruise
Paul A. Swearingen, John w
Thompson, Addison w. Grant, Selby
c. Harr. Walter C. Whitcraft, Sam
uel E. Mastin and H. A. J. Fogle
Elmer w. Williams and P. L.
Haislip were elected to sit on the
Council of Administration for the
remainder of the current term.
Comrade Belt, chairman of the
Committee to Contact the Ladies
Club, reported that there are now
81 members of the club and a num-
Der OF applications are to be acted
upon at the next meeting. The
club has adopted the name Club
Eighteen Thirty"
Monthly socials, usually held stag
at Klein's Tavern, have been dis
continued and in the future will
be called by the commander. A
social will be held next Friday eve
ming at the home of President
Grubb, 427 Garfield avenue, Hyatts-
vile, Md.
The next post meeting will be
held June - at 2020 Rhode Island
avenue NE.
Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards
Post will hold installation cere-
monies Wednesday evening at 729
Fifteenth street NV. Officers to
be installed are: Commander, James
F. Mccain; senior vice commander,
Joseph P. Jordan; junior vice COM
mander, Dave Stambler; quarter
master adjutant, B. B. Aiken; chap
lain, John Caswell; post advocate
Byron G. Carson; surgeon, Frank
D. Norton, and officer of the day.
Paul L. HutchinS. Comdr. ELECT
McCann has announced the follow
ing appointments: Patriotic instruc-
tor, Eugene G. Anderson; historian.
Alfred j. Bartram; service officer,
Edgar r. Baker; sergeant major,
John S. Gibson; quartermaster SER
geant, Alfred ]. Bartram; color SER
geants, Eric Stearns and Everett
Hall, and publicity officer, B. B.
Aiken.
Front Line Post met last Mon
day evening, with Comdr. Busada
presiding. Among the guests were
Department Comdr. Bacon and
Comdr. Neville e-Thompson of Follow
Me-Defense Post.
Philip A. Fox, who served with
the 23d United States Engineers
in France during the World War,
was accepted to membership.
Emory O'Berry, Victor c. Gull
lermain, Frank Werner, Frank Ben
edetto and Edward T. Spedden
were elected delegates to the de-
partment encampment and DR.. A.
Victor Cercell, Frank T. Fleura,
Garnett M. Mattingly, c. G. Cox
and Joseph Moffett as slternates.
Joseph Moffett was elected to
serve on the Council of Administra-
tion for the remainder of the pres
ent term.
Memorial services will be held
May 26.
The post will participate in the
of the colors next Sunday
afternoon at Mount st. Albans.
All = American Auxiliary elected
the following to the department en-
campment at Roosevelt High School
June %, "a and Is: Blanche Mel
ton, Grace Fields, Hattie Byram,
Sarah Wynkoop, Clara Campbell
and Patrice Kelly as delegates;
BERTHE Lewis, Locke Morrow, Mae
Embrey, Julia Hooker, Gladys Ger
vais and Sadie Ward as alternates.
The meeting was conducted by
president Mary Schaunlefne.
Dorothy Yarbrough, Dorothy Hess