Evening star., 1947-10-26
Legion Auxiliary
Executive Board
Meets Tomorrow

NCcIS i OlIlOTIOW
The Executive Committee of the
American Legion Auxiliary will meet
at 8 pm. tomorrow at the Legion
Club, with Mrs. Mary c. Hilleary,
department president, presiding.
Amy unit president, unable to at
tend. Is requested to send a repre-
sentative.
The Auxiliary will participate in
the Navy Day exercises at the John
Paul Jones statue tomorrow at noon.
The department president will place
a wreath and the department colors
will be there.
= 1t is requested units have their
colors in the flag professional.
Mrs. Margaret Shallenberger, ma
tional representative of Branch 4 of
the Auxiliary's Volunteer Hospital
Workers, made up Of members from
the District, Maryland and Virginia,
was a guest speaker at the indoc-
trination class at Mount Alto Hos
pital last Wednesday.
Speakers were DR.. Charles M. Grit
fifth, manager of Mount Alto Hospi-
tai; E. w. Lawson, executive officer
of the hospital; DR.. w. P. kaufman,
chief of neurological service; DR..
T. j. Pekin, clinical director; Mrs.
Mary Galbally, chief nurse; j. r.
johnson, chief of rehabilitation;
Miss Sarah Moore, chief of social
service; DR.. T. M. Brown, chief of
general medicine; Miss Marjorie
Showers, medical librarian; Chap
lain Leighton E. Harrill, Miss Agnes
v. Brophy, recreational director. and
M. r. Brownlee, chief of special
services.
Cooley Mccullough Unit met We'd
nesday with Miss Mary E. McCabe
presiding.
Mrs. Ellen L. Warren, rehabilita-
ton chairman, announced party
to be held Thursday at Mount Alto
Hospital.
The unit will dedicate an emblem
light, used in the initiation cere-
mony, in memory of Mrs. Pauline B.
Miller, a charter member, who died
in August
The following units will give par
ties for the patients at Mount Alto
Hospital this week: Bunker Hill,
Tuesday; Cooley-McCullough, on
Thursday, and James E. Walker on
Friday. All these affairs are sched-
uled from 7 to pm.
A Halloween party will be given
in the Red Cross Building of St.
Elizabeths Hospital Friday at pm
A dinner will be held at the Fair
fax Hotel on November 4 at 6:15
pm. for the benefit of the Depart
ment Rehabilitation Fund. Tele-
phone Mrs. Dietsche at Republic
O692 regarding reservations and
tickets.
The appointment of Mrs. Isabel
C. Gourley as unit chairman of the
Auxiliary's Volunteer Hospital
Workers by Mrs. L. Estelle Stone,
president of United States Depart
ment of Agriculture Unit, was rati-
fled at the last meeting.
The following were accepted as
new members: Mrs. Mabel B. Gar
rett, Mrs. Grace Pjerrou, Mrs. Ger
trude M. Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Ellen
Smith and Mrs. Lorraine Stone
The transfer of Mrs. Elizabeth
Crumbaugh from Sergt. Jasper
Unit No. 13 to Agriculture Unit
was accepted.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty, department
building fund chairman, will pre-
side at a meeting of the members
of this committee at the Legion
Club at pm. Wednesday. Those
who plan to attend, telephone Mrs
Heagerty.
A meeting of the department
Child Welfare Committee has beer
called by the chairman, Mrs. Mar
garet E. Carroll, at 1890 am
Thursday at the Crippled Chill
dren's Clinic of Gallinger Hospital
Mrs. Hattie Moten. president oi
James E. Walker Unit, No. 26, hac
the committee chairmen appoint.
ments ratified at the last meeting
This unit meets on the secone
Friday OF each month at the YWCA
Annex, 17l9 Thirteenth street NV.
at pm.
: Mrs. Sabina White was accepted
as a new member of General Ac'
counting Office Unit at the las
meeting. Mrs. Mary E. Harris pre-
sided.
Hereafter, the regular meeting
night of the unit will be the thire
Wednesday of each month, at tn.
Legion Clubhouse.
Mrs. Bertha Fichthorn, depart
ment secretary, requests unit pres
idents to notify her of the regu'
lar meeting nights of their units
as we'll as the amount of annua
dues set for each unit member. Thi
information is to be turned in a
department headquarters as soor
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