Evening star., 1941-03-02
1O7 Latin American
Students 10 Be Feted
During 2-DayVisit
Reception and Teu at
White House Tuesday
TO High Light Program

All eIdDOTdJe eilIertdlIlIneHl pro-
gram awaits l07 Latin American
students who will arrive here early
tomorrow for a two-day visit as
guests of the Pan-American Union
and a committee of prominent
Washington women, including the
wives of all Latin American Minis
ters and Ambassadors.
The visitors, who are now COM
pleting special courses of study at
the University of North Carolina,
are scheduled to 60 to Mount Ver-
non at 10 am, returning in time
for luncheons planned for them by
the committee. They will be lodged
at the Burlington Hotel during their
stay.
The group includes physicians,
lawyers, educators and undergrad
uate students of the liberal arts.
Thirty-four of them are from Chile,
IL from Ecuador, IS from Peru, II
from Colombia, 3 from Uruguay,
8 from Argentina and 20 from Brazil.
Tea at White House.
A high light of the full program
planned for the visitors is the recep-
ton and tea to be given by Mrs.
-Soosevelt at the White House at 4
pm. Tuesday. Climaxing the pro-
gram, reception and dance will be
held Tuesday night at the Pam
American Union, preceded by mu-
sical program of American music
and folk songs.
Doctors and medical students in
the group will be entertained at
luncheon tomorrow at pm. at the
Army Navy Club. DR.. Walter Bloc
dorm, dean of the Medical School
of George Washington University,
will be host.
At the same time, the library
science group will have lunch at
the Dodge Hotel, with Dr. Rodolfo
o. Rivers of the American Library
Association as host, while other
members of the party will lunch at
Howard Johns Inn near Alexandria.
Hosts for the latter fete include Mrs.
A. S. Shah, Mrs. John Donaldson,
Mrs Tomas Cajijas, who is chair
man Of the committee in charge of
entertainment; Mrs. Ross E. Fox,
Mrs. Bruce Uthus, Mrs, Frank
March, Mrs. William Shearer, Mrs.
Brison Norris and Mrs. Sadie Orr
Dunbar
Reception at Library.
A reception at the Library of
Congress will be held at 3 pm. to-
morrow. The visitors will be re-
ceived by DR.. Lewis Hanke, director
of the Hispanic Foundation, and
Archibald MacLeish, librarian of
Congress.
Georgetown University will well
come the visiting students at a
reception in Copley Lounge on the
campus at 4:45 pm. The Very Rev.
Arthur A. O'Leary, S. j., president,
and the Rev. John E. Grattan, S. j.,
dean of the college Of arts and
sciences, will receive the delegation
and DR.. Leo S. Rowe, director Of
the Pan-American Union, will pre-
sent the guests.
Assisting in the reception will be
representatives of the local univer-
sity chapters OF Pi Gamma Mu,
national honor society of social
sciences. Others in the receiving
line will be DR.. Andrew J. Kress,
governor of the district province of
the society; DR.. Howard S. Patter-
son of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, president of the society; DR..
John Donaldson of George Wash
ington University, national vice
president Dr.. James Hayden of
Catholic University, counsel for the
society, and Charles A. Thompson,
chief of the cultural relations divis-
ion Of the State Department.
Dinners Scheduled
Several dinners are scheduled for
tomorrow evening. Mrs. Lalla Corn
ish, member of the social science
honor society, will entertain one
group at the University Womens
Club at tbs o'clock. Sixteen liberal
arts students will dine at the Inter
national Students House, 1708 New
Hampshire avenue NV, at O'Clock.
At $3.50 o'clock the visitors will go
to the Capitol Theater as guests of
the women's foreign service sorority,
Phi Pi Epsilon, and the mems
foreign service fraternity, Delta Phi
Epsilon.
Educators in the group will be
guests of Miss Thelma Borchard of
the University Women's Club at a
dinner at the Admiral Club at 7
pm, while the medical group will
attend buffet supper at st. Eliza
beth's Hospital. DR.. and Mrs. VIM
fred Overholzer will be hosts at the
latter function.
The schedule for Tuesday includes
a tour of the National Archives
Building at 8 am, a visit to the
Capitol at 1890 am, with Vice
President Wallace and members of
the Senate and House Foreign Re
lations Committees acting as hosts;
visit to the Supreme Court for
luncheon at 1890 pm, the White
House reception and the reception
and musicale at the Pan American
Union Building.
The International Medical Society
will give a luncheon for the medical
students at pm, Tuesday, and the
educators will have luncheon at the
same hour at the National Catholic
School of Social Service.