Evening star., 1942-05-26
Federation
|OfClubs to
Hold Meeting
Annual Session
Thursday to Hear
F. B. |. Official

The annual meeting of the Dis
trict Federation of Women's Clubs
will be held Thursday at 2600 Six
teenth street, with Mrs. Arthur C.
Watkins, the president, presiding.
The meeting will be called to order
at 1890 am, with the session de-
voted to reports of officers and COM
mittee chairmen.
S. X. Mackee, special investigator
Of the F. B. l., will discuss "Our
Present Task" Luncheon will follow.
The department of fine arts will
make awards for the Penny Art
Fund in the afternoon, when the
session will conclude with reports of
presidents of affiliated clubs.
The award of prizes to university
students, winners in the religious
essay contest conducted by the fed
Grafton. will be made at 8 pm.
Thursday in the ballroom of the
Kennedy-Warren. Judges will in
clude Daniel C. Roper, the Rev. John
K. Cartwright and Mrs. Watkins,
chairman. The program will in
clude musical selections by the
George Washington Glee Club.
The final session will be held Fri
day at the Mayf1ower with reports
of standing committee chairmen
and other business transactions in
the morning.
Luncheon will be held at / O'Clock
at the MayflOWer, with Mrs. John l..
Whitehurst, president of the gen.
eral federation, as guest speaker.
Her subject will be Women in a
World of War" Mrs. Watkins will
introduce the speaker. The invoca-
ton will be given by Mrs. Ellis
Logan, past president. A program
of music will be featured by the
choral group of the Takoma Park
Club. with Mrs. Edmund Green,
director, and Mrs. Waldo Schmitt,
accompanist. Miss Helen Yurley,
contralto, will offer several selec-
tions, accompanied by Mrs. Lor-
raine Sternberg.
Honor guests at the luncheon in
clude Mrs. Walter E. Kriel, president
of the Maryland State Federation of
Women's Clubs: Mrs. r. G. Boat
wright, president of the Virginia
State Federation of Women's Clubs;
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Eleanor
Patterson and Mrs. Nancy Rupley
Armstrong, general federation chair
man OF international relations. Mrs.
Lloyd w. Biddle, past president of
the federation, will have as her spe-
cial guest Representative Katharine
Byron of Maryland
Mrs. Frank M. Stewart is chair
man Of pages with Mrs. Richard
Meadows, Mrs. Oscar E. Hagberg,
Mrs. William c. Dulin and Mrs
Leland ]. Stump assisting.
The committee in charge Of the
luncheon includes Mrs. Watkins.
Mrs. Charles P. Keyser, Mrs. Charles
H. Pierce, Miss Mabel B. Hayes, Mrs
Harvey P. Baxter, Mrs Ludo c.
Pickett, Mrs. Henry F. Sawtelle, Mrs.
John Shaw and Mrs. Ernest H
Daniel, officers of the federation.
Special committee chairmen and
their assistants are: Arrangements,
Mrs. Keyser, chairman: Mrs. Tilman
Bacon Parks, Mrs. Sawtelle and Mrs.
Lee D. Ritter; decorations, Miss
Hayes, chairman; Mrs. James H.
Underwood, Mrs. William w. Scott,
Mrs. Malcolm ]. johnson, Mrs. Will
liam o. Gale and Mrs. o. G. Han
kins: hospitality, Mrs. Harvey w.
Wiley, Mrs. Lloyd w. Biddle and
Mrs. Daniel, past presidents of the
federation; music, Mrs. Edward c.
Magdeburger and Mrs. D. L. Selke;
printing, Mrs. Pierce; publicity, Mrs.
Leo Kasehagen and Mrs. Thomas H.
Faris; invitations, Mrs. Ludo C.
Pickett; reservations, Mrs. Ivan H.
Sims.