Evening star., 1947-06-29
Legion Auxiliary
National Meet
At n. Y. in August

! The department Executive Com.
mittee will meet tomorrow night a.
! the American Legion clubhouse
/ This will be the last meeting OF
the committee under the regime Of
Department President Lillian M
| Judd.
Through the combined efforts oi
various units, $500 has been raised
for the purchase of II cribs, a
dresser, three straight chairs and a
rocking chair for the new Children s
Hospital. A check will be presented
to Miss Matte Gibson, superintend
ent emeritus at Children's Hospital
by the department president on
Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Mrs. Judd will
be accompanied by Mrs. Margaret
e. Carroll, department child well
fare chairman, and many of the unit
chairmen.
Auxiliary members who took the
volunteer hospital workers indoctri-
nation course at Mount Alto Hos
pital are requested to contact M. R.
Brownlee, chief of special services
at that hospital. The workers can
be of use in many ways throughout
the hospital any afternoon or eve
ming.
At least 10 of the auxiliary women
have signed up for Saturday and
Sunday afternoons at which time
they visit the wards, arrange flow
ers, write letters, etc, or play cards,
checkers and other games with the
patients in the recreation room.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty and Mrs. Eva
Carrico are to confer with the super
in4endent of st. Elizabeth's Hos
pital some time this week to ar
range for an indoctrination course
there. All interested in the course
should contact Mrs. Heagerty, RA.
6645.
Miss Mary E. McCabe was elected
president of Cooley ey-McCullough
Unit. Other officers are: Mrs. Helen
z. Stokes, Mrs Myrtle Lanckton and
Mrs. Rose Cohen, vice presidents;
Mrs. Ethel Boughton, chaplain; Mrs.
Florence Dunbar, sergeant at arms !;
Mrs. Mildred Reiter, historian; Mrs.
Ruth Miller and Miss Mary C. Ware,
color bearers.
Mrs. Vestra Hocter will direct the
activities of Bunker Hill Unit. Those
elected to serve with her are: Mrs.
Elsie Engel, first vice president;
Mrs. Nema Ashford, second vice
president: Mrs. Lillian O.Neill, third
vice president; Mrs. Mildred Dod-
son, chaplain; Mrs. Bertha Fich-
thorn, historian; Mrs. Dorothy
Johnson, sergeant at arms; Mrs
Hester Stansbury and Mrs. Jose
phine Koelkebeck, color bearers
This unit has changed it's meeting
night from the first Tuesday to the
third Monday of the month at the
post clubhouse, 3736 Tenth street
NE.
New officers of General Account
ing Unit are: Mrs. Mary E. Harris
president; Mrs. Ida Orr, first vice
president; Miss Sonia Epstein, Sec
ond vice president; Mrs, Alice
O'Neill, chaplain; Mrs. Marguerite
Michael historian; Mrs. Annie
Wideman, sergeant at arms; Miss
Sarah Harris and Miss Olive Ander-
son, color bearers.
Mrs. May c. Hilleary was indorsed
by United States Maritime Unit
for the Office of department presi-
dent, with Mrs. Virginia M. De
Force as vice president.
Election of officers was as fol-
lows: Mrs. Fannie Linder, president;
Mrs. Edna Koontz, Mrs. Trula Muir
ply and Mrs Clara Davis, vice pres
idents; Mrs. Mary D. Spence, chap
lain; Mrs. Jessie Clark, historian;
Mrs. Emily Hanna, sergeant at
arms; Mrs. Florence Bryant and
Mrs. Eloise Johnstsn, color bearers;
Miss Lydia Neinans, treasurer; Mrs
Mildred McCans, secretary; Mrs
Veronica Donovan, assistant secre-
tary; Mrs. Gertrude Carleton, Mrs
Dolores Shields and Mrs. Barbara
Weinberg, Executive Committee.
All units holding meetings during
July and August are requested tc
notify Mrs. Alberta Lacy, depart
ment publicity chairman, 1905 Po-
tomac street NV, in order that
the correct schedule of meetings
may be announced. Lists of dele
gates and alternates should be fur
nished Mrs. Lacy and also Miss
Mabel F. Staub, convention chair
man.
Mrs. Lena Roux of George E
Killeen Unit was the winner of q
$3.50 prize given by Mrs. Pear
Heagerty at the membership meet
ing last Tuesday. Four prizes are
being offered to the units turning
in the most renewals between now
and midnight of July IL, the date
for the closing of the books fol-
this year,
A special meeting of Government
Printing Office Unit has been called
for Wednesday night in the guard
room.
Meetings this week:
Monday - Department Executive
Committee, Legion Club, 8 pm.
Tuesday-Department and unit
child welfare chairmen, for pres
entation of Gift at ChiIdren's Hos