Evening star., 1941-07-31


Two women bank officers OF Wash
lneton are serving on committees
to plan the nineteenth annual con-
yention of the Association of Bank
Women in Chicago, September rs
to %, the same dates as the Amerl-
can Bankers Association conven-
tion.
They are Miss S. Winifred Bur-
well assistant trust officer of Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank, who is
q member of the Convention Com
tnittee, and Mrs. Helen r. Sharpe,
vecretary of the Bank of Commerce
g. Savings, who is member OF
the convention Entertainment and
Hospitality Committee.
Study Banking Trends.
In announcing plans for the con-
eention to be held at the Congress
Hotel, Miss Emma E. Claus of Gary,
Ind, president of the association,
said:
I'm a world changing drastically
at the rate of speed that is breath
taking, problems each day seem to
reach the heights of compleXity
only to assume a new and different
aspect tomorrow. - 1t is of para
mount Importance to give serious
consideration and study to trends
In banking development in this
country; to keep ourselves informed
of such developments in the coun-
try as whole, and In the commu-
nities we serve"
Another Washington organiza-
tion of bank women, known as the
Bank Women's Club, welcomed two
new members at its recent dinner
meeting at the Chamberlain. They
Rre Miss Helen Gallagher of Wash
ington Loan & Trust Co., and Miss
Corinne B. Kearney of Security
Savings g. Commercial Bank. Win
hers in competitions were Miss Edna
Oney Of National Savings & Trust
Go. and Miss Eva Kicker of Riggs
National Bank. Presiding was Miss
Helen Healy Of National Savings &
Trust Co, club president. The next
meeting will be held August 25.
Won 1naden 10 Leave Slty.
Arthur H. Won Thaden, manager
Of the insurance department of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States. will become assistant to the
president of the Excess Insurance Co.
of America, New York City, of which
Frank F. Winans recently was
elected president.
This was announced today by the
Chamber of Commerce, where Mr..
yon Thaden has been staff men,
Der since 1926 Prior to his affilia-
tion with the chamber he was sta
tistician for the Commercial Cas-
Galty Co. of Newark, and before that
assistant statistician for the Fidel-
tty & Casualty Co. of New York
City. He studied at New York Uni
Sersity and Lafayette College and
rhtained his law degree from the
Washington College of Law. He is
b member of the District of Colum-
bia bar.
Capital Traction first SIS moved at
pO4Ea on the Washington Stock Ex-
thange today Mergenthaler Linotype
went at "a. Capital Transit stock
gold at 155s and Potomac Electric
Power 517 per cent preferred went al
tlsA.
Financial District Notes.
Charles H Doing, vice president fr
charge of the Western Office of the
Washington Loan & Trust Co, is
planning to return Monday from his
vacation at Cape May, N. J.
D. J. Needham of this city, genera
counsel of the American Bankers
Association is on the West Coast
where he plans to deliver an i'm
portant address at Seattle, Wash.
during the regional conference Of
the Pacific Coast and Rocky Noun.
tain section of the Trust Division
A. B. A.
Mrs. Helena D. Reed, assistant
trust officer of Lincoln Nationa
Bank. is planning to attend the
ennual meeting of Kappa Beta p
international women's legal sorority
ct White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
August s to 10. She is chairman o.
program for the convention. Mis-!
Elizabeth F. Reed of the Surety
Bonds Division. Treasury Depart
ment, is grand dean of the sorority