Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-22
Ten Thousand Club Beqins
Year With Fine Program

With a splendid program, record
attendance, delightful tea hour,
the Ten Thousand club Thursday
began its year under the presidency
of Mrs. w. A. Tondro with every
indication pointing to one of the
most successful years in the club
history.
Two exceptionally fine speakers,
DR.. Alta B. Hall of the department
of speech, use, and Miss Helen Fay
of New York, ably assisted by DR..
Halls mother, Mrs. Emily Hall,
were presented through the court
esy of Mrs. Tondro who arranged
the program.
DR.. Hall proved by her own de-
lightful presentation that speech is
your personality in sound, the
topic of her talk being, Your
Speech is Your Calling Card.
Sketching the possibilities for
education and also, for entertain
ment, in voice testing CDR Hall gave
her audiences The essentials of
voice training, proper breathing
and the proper use of breathing.
With this foundation, she declared,
imagination and intelligence are
the necessary requisites for sue
cessful speakers.
AS proof of the qualities of imag-
ination and the intelligent use of
the voice, Dr.. Hall presented her
94-year-old mother, Mrs. Emily
Hall, who charmed her audience
with her skilful recitationS, display
ing a beautiful voice and remark
able fire and tone color.
Miss Helen Fay in her fascinat-
ing talk whose theme was" reading
is fun" commented informally on a
number of books, both new and old,
pointing out that" any book you
have not read is new book.
READING is FUN
Not only is reading fun for Miss
Fay but she made it inviting and
enticing to her audience by the
contagious enthusiasm, her keen
comments and her own magnetic
personality. She listed many
books leaving in her audience a
desire to read all of them, and gave
much emphasis to the fine books
being put out for young people to-
day---books that are we'll written
and beautifully illustrated.
Some of the books for adults
were: Vast Horizons" MARY S.
Lucas, Come In" (Robert Frost
"Wings at My Window" ada
Govan), Doctors of the Mind"
marie B. Ray, Madame Curie"
(Eve Curie), U. S. Foreign oPlicy"
(Walter Lippmann.
Among the juvenile listings, many
of which would be equally enjoy
able for adults, were Ray Bald
ridges beautiful illustrated book of
the Bible parallels; the books of
w. w. and Irene Robinson, Mol
mars THE Blue-Eyed Lady with
illustrations by Helen Sewell;
Michael the Colt" by Katherine and
Bernard Barbutt, Margare
Leighton's fine books for young
people, while Stars of Freedom"
THE Child's Book of Prayer" and
many others.
Magazines for young people were
also discussed as we'll as publish
ers' guides. Many copies of books
were on display and proved of vital
interest to the audience, many eX-
amining them after the talk and
consulting Miss Fay in regard to
various publications.
NEW MEMBERS
Curing the business meeting the
following new members were well
coined: Mesdames Wilson Maroon,
John Salassi, Emil Faure, T. W..
Holmes, Phillip Knights, C. E..
Parker, Felix Lehman, w. M.
Houston, Lev Mcintosh, Albert
Nichols, Edwin Palrang, Clyde
Duringer, w. E. Whitacre, Don
Johnson, E. r. Shaw. Frederick
Powers Heald, Walter w. Kessler,
Karl E. Voelter.
Mrs. F. D. Jacobs reported on the
annual Southern District summer
conference held in La Jolla, en-
phasizing the address by Mrs. Earl
Shoesmi+h, president of the Cali