Evening star., 1946-12-15


mann will conduct the band.
Carols will be sung by the Ma
tional Press Club Chorus, led by
Reinald Werrenrath. Washington
high school cadets will form a guard
of honor. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts
and Campfire Girls will act as
ushers and distribute programs and
carol sheets to the audience.
The ceremony Is sponsored by the
District of Columbia Recreation
Board, the National Capital Parks
Office of the Interior Department
the American Forestry Association
the Electric Institute Of Washing.
ton and the Greater National Capt.
tai COMMITTEES Of the Board ol
A chairman for the national com.
mittee in charge of the event ha,
not yet been appointed. Commis.
sioner Guy Mason and Harry 8
Wender, chairman of the District
Recreation Board, have been named
vice chairmen.
Committees Appointed.
Members of the committee are
James B. Burns, American Fedora
ton of Government Employees:
Senator Arthur Capper; Milo r,
Christensen, District of Columbia
Recreation Department; DR.. Hobart
M. Corning, superintendent of pub
lie schools; A. E. Demaray, National
Park Service; Mrs. La Fell Dickin-
son, General Federation of Women's
Clubs; DR.. Paul F. Douglass, presi-
dent, American University; Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, Board of Ed
ucation; Brig. Gen. Claude B. Fer
enbaugh, commanding Military Dis
trict of Washington; Walter L,
Fowler, Recreation Board.
Also, Mrs. George A. Garrett, Rec
reation Board; the Very Rev. Law
renee G. Goanan,, S. j., president,
Georgetown University; Maj. Gen.
U. s. Grant III, National Capital
Park and Planning Commission;
George E. C. Hayes, Board of Educa-
ton; DR.. Mordecai w. johnson,
president, Howard University; DR..
Cloyd Heck Marvin, president,
George Washington University; the
Rt. Rev. Patrick j. Mccormick,
president, Catholic University. Jo-
seph C. McGarraghy, washington
Board Of Trade; B. M. McKelway,
The Evening Star, and Eugene
Meyer, Washington Post.
Also, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
John O'Rourke, Washington Daily
News; Mrs. Eleanor Patterson,
Washington Times-Herald; Irving
c. Root, National Capital Parks; w.
S. Rosecrans, American Forestry
Association; James E. Schwab, Rec
reation Board; Luther c. Steward,
sr., National Federation of Federal
Employees; Gen. A. A. Vandegrift,
Marine Corps: Brig. Gen. Gordon
R. Young Engineer Commissioner
District of Columbia; j. Russell
Young, Board Of Commissioners.
The Executive Committee In
cludes Miss Sibyl Baker, Recrea-
ton Department, chairman, and
Ovid Butler, American Forestry As
sociation, and Edward Kelly, Ma
tional Capital Parks, vice chairmen.
Members are: Clarence Arata,
Greater National Capital Commit
tee; Col. H. o. Atwood, High School
Cadets, Divisions 1913; 1t. Col.
William E. Barkman, High School
Cadets, Divisions 1-9; Mrs. j. Blaise
de Sibour, Girl Scouts; Mrs. William
M. Calvin, War Hospitality Com
mittee; DR.. Ernest S. Griffith, Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies; Mrs. Alice G.
Hunter, Recreation Board; Mrs. o.
g. Hankins, District of Columbia
Congress of Parent Teacher Asso-
Citations; Ernest F. Henry, Recrea-
ton Committee, Washington Board
of Trade; Frank r. Jelleff, Com
munity Chest Federation.
Also, Shirley Mayors, National
Press Club Chorus; Ann Mclean,
Girl Scouts; Inspector Arthur E.
Miller, Metropolitan Police; Mrs.
Betty Moore, Greater National Cap
ital Committee; Edgar Morris,
Greater National Capital Commit
tee; Mrs. Elzie H. Payton, Fedora
ton. of Civic Associations; Mrs.
REQ Purcell, Campfire Girls; Capt
Mark H. Raspberry, Park Police;
Paul Rosenburg, Boy Scouts.
Also, G.. Melvin Sharpe, Recrea-
ton Board; Kenneth B. Spear, Boy
Scouts; Thomas S. Settle, National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission; Mrs. Carrie G. Smith, Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations;
Wayne Sommer, Council of Social
Agencies; Richard S. Tennyson
Recreation Department: John l.
Young, Recreation Department, and
G. L. Zuch, Federal Recreation
Committee.
Lighting Committee Listed.
The committee on lighting in
cludes William G. Hills, Emery s.
Samson, Norman H. Barnes, Lester
T. Souder and Frank T. Shull from
the Electric Institute of Washington
and Harold Snyder from the Recre-
alton Department.
The committee on television and
broadcasting includes G. r. Will
helm and j. A. Robertson, Potomac
Telephone Co.; j. ". H. Allen and
P. T. Cole, Naval Research Labora-
tory; Kenneth H. Berkeley and
Bryson Rash, American Broadcast
ing Co.; Carl j. Burkland and Rich
ard Linkroum, Columbia Broadcast
ing System; Merle S. Jones and
Arthur j. Casey, Mutual Broadcast
ing Co.; Carleton D. Smith and
william r. Andrews. National
Broadcasting Co.; r. G. ODonnel
and Richard c. McNamara, WINK;
Ben Strouse and Ira Walsh