Evening star., 1944-04-30

viii head the club following cleo
tons, to be held tomorrow.
While Texas has been her home
for many years, Mrs Clayton is a
daughter of Kentucky. having been
born in Clinton, where she was mar
Eried to William Clayton. also a ma
tive Kentuckian.
/ The Women's Democratic Club
will have strong leader in the COM
! Clayton declares will be of para
mount interest to her organization
The soft-voiced. gentle faced Ken
| tuckian declares she has been a
fighter for Women's rights ever since
her children were in the nursery.
The first thing that interested
me after the baby carriage days was
woman's suffrage" she smiled.
First and foremost of her inter-
eStS, however, is her home and her
four daughters. who are all married
and very much scattered in different
directions. The oldest daughter.
Mrs. Maurice MacAshan, is married
to the vice president of the rubber
development industry in Brazil and
is now living in Rio de Janeiro
where she spends much of her time,
according to her mother, teaching
Red Cross in Portuguese.
A second daughter, Mrs. John M.
Johnson. lives in Houston, Tex.
where her husband is engaged in
several defense industries; a third
daughter, Mrs. st. John GarWood
is married to naval officer; and
her fourth daughter, Mrs. Benjamin
Baker, is studying law at the Uni
verSity of Virginia while her Army
doctor husband is flying with the
surgeon general of the South Pacific
in that area. Mrs. Baker, who is
living with her small daughter in
Charlottesville, expects, to receive
her degree in law this June when
her mother will attend the gradua-
ton exercises.
Mrs. Clayton'S many activities in
clude the recent chairmanship of
the Finance Committee of the
Womens National Democratic Club,
the Craftsmanship of the Womens
Division of the Texas Democratic
Committee, and service as men,
ber of the board of directors of the
Houston Museum of Art.
The new president of Washing
toms Zonta Club, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cox is a lawyer by profession and
diSarmingly feminine. Born in
Fairfax County, Va, and educated
in Richmond, Mrs. Cox declares she
didn't know the South had lost
the Civil War" until she came to
Washington, where she attended
Central High School.
Pretty, petite, with dark eyes,
slightly CRAVING dark hair and
beWitching dimple when she smiles,
one is frankly surprised when meet
ing Lawyer Cox for the first time.
why law?" one asks.
MY husband is a lawyer" she
explains, "and I first read law with
him"
Mrs. Cox left Washington after
her marriage, living with her hus-
band at various places where he was
called on business including Cali
fornia, Nebraska and Colorado.
Returning to Washington several
years ago, she entered George
Washington University as soon as
her children were large enough for
her to take up her law studies. She
had the unique distinction of grad
uating in law the same year her son
graduated from high school and her
daughter from junior high school.
Mrs. Cox'S daughter Eleanor is
the youngest member of Zonta,
qualifying for membership as sculp-
treSs. Her son. now married and
living in the West, is the father of
three small children of whom
Grandma Cox is justly proud.
The new Zonta president, who
was president of the Women's Bar
Association for two terms, who is
member of Kappa Beta Pi and past
corresponding secretary general of
the OAR, hopes to carry on the work
OF the club in its war activities with
efforts centered on raising funds for
medical equipment for the services
and contributing to tho b1nod booLy