Evening star., 1944-03-26

Walter Reed Hospital. Incidentally,
she always remembers to bring the
magazines she has pledged for con-
valescent reading. Almost every
Thursday evening after her duties
are behind her at the Sulgrave Club,
she is also one Of the popular chap
erons for group of teen-age Jangos
and their laudable activities in nurs-
ing circles. A member of the Susan
Revere Hetzell Chapter Of the OAR,
she Is chairman of its Educational
Loan Committee.
The Sulgrave Club, according to
Miss Anderson, is serving a very
helpful wartime need in providing
meeting place for various patriotic,
war emergency and defense groups
here that might not otherwise be en-
abled to add their services to the.
general cause. 1t is also set up as a
feeding and shelter center and as a
night air raid warden depot.
Supervises 700 Members.
Miss Anderson is gratified that the
PEG sisterhood is rated as a de-
fense organization. The TOO men,
bers under her jurisdiction have
their own surgical dressings unit at
Walsh House, their special blood
donor group, and have donated and
are maintaining several clubmobiles
for the Red Cross. They hold their
meetings in chapter groups semi
monthly in the homes of members.
PEG, which today ranks as
one of the largest women's organ
izations in this country" Miss An
derson told us, twas organized rs
years ago at Wesleyan College,
Mount Pleasant, Iowa"
Originally a Greek letter group,
it subsequently left the campus be-
cause it felt that a Greek letter
organization was not sufficiently
democratic in it's ideals. 1t is still
a secret letter society, however.
True to the ideals of its founding,
it maintains its educational slant
Today PEG controls student
loan fund for women of nearly ST.
100000. 1t also owns and main
tains Cotty College in Missouri, and
has Jurisdiction over a PEG Me-
mortal Library at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa.
Home Economics Expert.
Miss Anderson's affiliation with
the PEG began during her own
student days at Stephens College,
Missouri. She became active in
the Washington group while she
was doing graduate work at the
George Washington University.
Intending to specialize in music
and major in English, she found her
attention being turned toward food
land household management prob
lens in the field of her home eco
nomics. Today she is one of the
city's feminine experts in this pro-
fession. She still plays the piano
for diversion in her leisure hours
with a pet canary to sing to her
accompaniment in her little suite
lat the Sulgrave Club.
Formerly an assistant to the man.
ager of the Cosmos Club for four
years, Miss Anderson left Wash
lington to become a confidential and
executive secretary to Mrs. Louis
K Liggett of Boston, whom she
helped in the administration of her
wide and diffused civic and philan-
thropic responsibilities. After her
death came two years experience
in the managing of summer club
at Point Lookout, Me. From this
post she returned to assume the
management of the Sulgrave Club
when it was organized IL years ago
She is the only manager the club
has ever had.
Personal Courtesy Essential.
Asked if she had a recipe for
meeting the days exigencies as they
arose, she said: 1T helps perhaps
| if one learns to look for assistance
in the most unexpected quarters, for
there great spheres of usefulness
may occasionally be found. Per-
sonal courtesy. adaptability and con-