Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-07
Mrs. Lea Will Retire
As Board President
OF Episcopal Home
Hos Worked to Advance
ChiIdren's Welfare for
Quarter Of Century

Mrs. David Meade Lea. ZIP Mas
eacnusetts avenue NV, is scheduled
TO retire Thursday as president of
the Board OF Lady Managers of the
episcopal Home for Children. Ne
oraska and Utah avenues NV.
after having served as head of the
board for more than Is years.
While she plans to remain active
AS a member of the board. Mrs.
Lea has announced she will not
permit her name to be placed
again in nomination for the post
OF president when the board meets
to elect officers Thursday. Her
successor as president is to be
named at that time.
AS head Of the board, a position
she was urged to take in 1917 by
the late Bishop Allied Harding, Mrs.
Lea has been active in looking after
the homes welfare. She watched
the new buildings for the home as
they were being erected more than
IL years ago, preparatory to the
home occupying it's new quarters
and moving from its former building
on Talbert street Sc She made
numerous trips in anticipation of
seeing the home completed with its
greater accommodations for some IS
children for whom it cares.
How Home Operates.
Always. Mrs. Lea has taken deep
interest in the welfare of the chill
dren living in the home. Until It
moved to its new buildings the home
cared for about so children in its
Anacostia building. 1t was founded
4 few years before the turn Of the
century and was the outgrowth of
summer outing place for children
conducted by Washington Episcopal
women at Colonial Beach, Va.
Children who occupy the home are
those whose father or mother or
both parents are dead. The children
range from years to those finish
ing high school. They are sent to
local public schools while being
taken care of at the home. After
they have finished school, the home
finds them jobs and places to live,
Mrs. Lea pointed out. 1t also keeps
IN touch with them while they are
getting established.
The Episcopal Home for Children,
now a Community Chest agency,
was established through large con-
tributions. It's buildings cost APP
proximately s350000. The late
Edwin Gould of New York gave the
land for the home.
Resident Here 50 Years.
Mrs. Lea, native of Kentucky,
has been a Washington resident for
more than so years and long has
been prominently identified also
with the Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital. She now is a
member of the hospitals Board of
Lady Managers. which earlier she
served seven years as president, fol-
lowing service of four years as
vice president All told. she has
been a member of that board for
some 80 years and also a member of
the hospitals Board of Governors
for many years. 4
While she plans to continue active
with the several boards on which she
has seen the many years of service,
Mrs. Lea said, she feels she has
more than served her term as presi-
dent Of the Board Of Lady Managers
OF the Episcopal Home for Children
and feels that now younger person
should take over the Office as presi-
dent.
Originally. she said, she had
agreed to take the Office as president
Of the homes Board Of Lady Man.
ayers for year only. That service
has been continuous, however, since
1917.