Evening star., 1947-10-27
Volunteer Speakers
Give Impetus 10 Drive
For Community Chest

For Community Chest
Volunteers of the Community
Chest Federation's Speakers Blu
reau have addressed about It's
meetings in recent weeks on the
services provided by Red Feather
agencies of six Community Chests
in the Washington area, it was re-
ported yesterday.
Campaign leaders said more than
200 engagements are booked for the
near future and requests are
pouring in" daily.
Under the direction of the Rev
DR.. Charles w. Sheerin, chairman
of the bureau, the speakers are ap-
pearing at meetings of citizens as
sociatlons, clubs, professional fra
ternities, Parent Teacher Associa-
tions, American Legion posts and
Sunday School classes.
300 Volunteers Speak.
More than 300 men and women,
especially trained to serve as speak
ers for the federation, are helping
in the campaign to oversubscribe
the goal of $3,900,000, DR.. Sheerin
reports.
Supplementing the campaign
talks is the showing of the cam
paign film, "The Red Feather" with
Melvyn Douglas and Peggy Cum
minis, describing the services sup
, ported by the drive.
Following is a partial list of en-
, gagements to be filled during the
coming week by volunteer Chest
Federation speakers: ~',--'--"~-
f---=--@-- Today. {
2 pm, Navy Bureau of Aero,
nautics, Room S, Navy Building
Nineteenth street and Constitution
avenue NV.
2 pm, and 3 pm, two groups oi
employees of the Army Institute o1
Pathology, Seventh street at, Inde.
pendence avenue S.W.
8 pm, Bank Women's Club oi
Washington, Maxine's Restaurant
1871 Connecticut avenue NV.
8 pm, Grace Lutheran Church
1900 Sixteenth street NV.
. Bpm, Jewish Community Center
) 1929 Sixteenth street NV.
8p.m., Georgetown Citizens Asso.
; citation, at St. Johns Parish Hall
Potomac street at o street NV.
$50 pm, Mid-City Citizens Asso.
citation, Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets NV.
8:15 pm, joint meeting of Won.
ems Clubs of Barney Neighborhooc
, House at the house. 470 N street Sc
g pm, District of Columbia So
ciety of Natives, at Mayflower Hotel
$3.50 pm, Parent Teacher Associa.
, tion of Syphax School, at the school
Half street, between N and o street:
S.W.
9pm., Daughters of America, Ode
Fellows Hall, Seventh street, between
, D and E. streets NV.
Tomorrow.
9 am, employees of G. M. P
| Murphy Co., 1923 Fourteenth stree
5 NV.
1890 pm, Association of Retail
Credit Men of Washington. CHECKER
Hut, Eleventh street. between Penn
: sylvania avenue and E street NV
1:3O pm, Associates of Nationa
Home for Jewish Children, Jewish
! Community Center, Sixteenth ant
@ streets NV.
! $3.50 pm, Hampshire Heights Cit
l liens Association, Barnard School
} 420 Decatur street NV.
: $50 pm, Parent Teacher Asso
E citation of Lovejoy School, at tht
2 school at Twelfth and D streets NE
2 $3.50 pm. the District Osteopatf
} Association, at Kennesaw Apart
! ments, Sixteenth and Irving street,
: NV.
$3.50 pm, Jewish Community
Council, at Jewish Community Cen
? ter, 1929 Sixteenth street NV.
9 pm, Washington Metropolitan
Council of Negro Women, 1918 Ver'
mont avenue NV.
$50 pm, Jewish Consumptive Re-
lief Society, at Hamilton Hotel.
Wednesday.
1:10 pm, Yale Club of Washing.
ton, Willard Hotel.
2:15 pm, B'nai Birth Auxiliary
Jewish Community Center, 1925
: Sixteenth street NV.
| Thursday.
7 2:10 pm, Department of Agricul.
ture campaigners, in the cafeteria
Room 6512, Fourteenth and In.
, dependence avenue S.W.
!, s pm, Parent Teacher Associa.
: ton, Phyllis Wormley School, at the
= school, Twenty seventh and n
5 streets NV.
8 pm, Parent-Teacher Associa-
; ton OF Payne School, at the school
! Fifteenth and c streets S.E.
! 8:15 pm, Northeast Business.
7 mems Association, American Secur-
/. ity & Trust Co., Eighth and II
streets NE.
$3.50 pm, Parent-Teacher Asso-
5 citation of Sumner -Magruder School
the school, at Seventeenth and N
streets NV.
! 9 pm, Arts Club Of Washington
| 2017 I street NV.
9p.m., Ladies' Auxiliary OF District
, of Columbia Hebrew Beneficial Asso-
citation, 1910 Georgia avenue NV.