Evening star., 1946-04-28
Pan Hellenic Group Revives
Famous Luncheons Saturday
By Jessie Font Eyons

Mrs. Robert M. De Shazo of Beta
Sigma Omricon.
Summer Camps Sponsored.
For the last Is summers Alpha
Gamma Delta and Gamma Phi Beta
have specialized in summer camps
for underprivileged children in vari-
GUS parts of the country, with
members making clothes for the
campers and serving as volunteer
workers.
Theta Epsilon helps maintain the
dental and baby clinics at Berea
College in Kentucky. zeta Tau AL
pha supports health centers in the
mountains of Virginia, and Kappa
Delta's program of medical, str
gical and convalescent care for
crippled children is notable. For a
quarter OF century Beta Sigma
Omicron has fostered the Pine
Mountain School in Harlan Coun-
ty, KY. Mrs. Alexander Mathis,
the schools national chairman. is
to be honored at the luncheon. An
other distinguished member is Miss
Veryl Schult, president-elect OF
Panhellenic and mathematics su-
pervisor In the District public
schools.
For nearly rs years, remote
Smoky Mountain families have
been brought a new outlook through
ri Beta Phi's settlement school at
Gatlinburg, Tenn. Its settlement
girls often go on to college on its
scholarships and become Pi Beta
Phis themselves. Among its many
prominent members are Carrie
Chapman Gait, Mrs. Calvin Cool
idee. Mrs. Tom Clark and Miss Mar
garet Truman.
Fights tuberculosis.
Pi Mus is helping fight tubercu-
losis in the poorer regions of Georgia
with its healthmobile and is meeting
the national postwar demand for
training personnel in rehabilitation
f1eleds through its -Four Roads to
Reconstruction" scholarships.
Sigma Kappa helps the children oi
remote lighthouse keepers. Promi-
nent local members are LIT. Col
Mary Agnes Brown and Mrs. Harold
Burton. Alpha Phi, with Mrs
Eugene Meyer and Mrs. William o
Douglas as members, is interested
in supplying religious and recrea-
tional equipment to the personnel
of American service and maritime
ships.
Visibility Unlimited" might well
be the slogan of Alpha XII Delta
Phi Omega Pi and Delta Gamma
in their sight conservation programs
and their aid to the blind. Delta
Gamma helps the Washington
National Library for the Blind, only
library in this country carried on
for the blind and stated by them
Among its members are Mrs. Arthur
Bradenburg, Mrs. Cloyd H. Marvin
and Miss Ann Larabee, assistant di-
rector of the Women's Bureau,
Labor Department..
Delta Zeta buys hearing aids for
ucdl cCIlUUl Cllllultll WllOSc pdItIltS
cannot afford to pay for them, so
that the youngsters may take their
rightful places in school and in
society.
The plight of war-torn China is
lent helping hand by Delta Delta
Delta, Alpha Delta Pi and Zeta
Tau Alpha in cooperation with
the China Relief Society. Miss
Katharine Lenroot, chief of the
Children's Bureau, Labor Depart
ment, is Delta Delta Delta and
Judge Ellen K. Ready of Municipal
Court, is Zeta Tau Alpha. Alpha
Delta Pts honor luncheon guest
will be Miss Nellie Lee. field secre-
tary for the China Nutritional Aid
Council, now in this country on one
of the sororitys fellowship awards.
Kappa Kappa Gamma is another
group which stands for international
cooperation with its gift of 500
layettes to the children of Norway
and its establishment of the Nora
Vain fund for refugee children