The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
Attendance
For OAR Conference
Continued From Pare One)

NSOutAlAucu FTOIH rage One
Chamber of Commerce will enter
tain the state executive board al
luncheon at the Queen Anne hotel.
At 2 pm, the opening session of
conference will be held in the main
auditorium of Centenary Methodist
church. AT 4 o'clock, there vii be
an informal tea at the public Ii.
brary given by the board of d.
rectors of tive New Bern Library
association of which Mrs. William
F. Dowdy is president. The library
was formerly the John Wright
Stanly house and President George
Washington spent two days and
nights there during his Southern
tour in 1871.
A major attraction will be the
open house plan for Tuesday after
noon. Open to visitors will be the
First Presbyterian church, built in
1922 from a design by Sir Chris
topher Wren and recognized as an
architectural gem. The garden o;
Mrs. Harold Maxwell will be open.
also the yard OF Mrs. S. W. Small
wood. where there is an historic
cypress tree, one of Americas &c
most famous trees. Washington
visited this tree because under
Richard Dobbs Spaight, later gov
ernor and for whom the New Bern
OAR chapter is named, stood
while promising financial assis
lance and moral support to Gen.
Nathaniel Greene during critical
Revolutionary days.
Lovely old homes all more than
a century old to be open are the
Lee home, Mrs. Wilson H. Lee
Jerkins-Duffy home, Mrs. Richard
N. Duffy; Fulshire-Ives home. Mrs.
G. Allen Ives; Slover-Guion home,
Mrs. W. B. r.. Guion; Jarvis
Slover-Hand home, Mrs. o. Hay.
wood Guion; Smallwood : Ward
nome, Mrs. D. L. Ward, Jr.; Tay-
FORWARD home, Mrs. William F.
Ward.
All Of these places are near to.
gether and members of the Mod
ernlstic club will act as accompa.
nylng h%ostesses to the visitors to
the home where their owners and
friends will receive.
From $50 to 7 pm, there will
be a High Tea" at the Woman's
clubhouse, courtesy of the New
Bern Woman's club. The evening
session will begin at $3.50 at Cen
tenary Methodist church.
Junior members will have a
breakfast meeting Wednesday
morning at the First Baptist
church with Mrs. Josephine A. Tur-
rentine of Greensboro and Norfolk,
state junior membership chairman,
in charge. Mrs. Julius Y. Tai
madge, President General and
Miss Carraway will be present part
of the time, leaving the state Off
GERS breakfast which will be held
at the same time at the Hotel New
Bernian.
A business session, memorial
service and dedication of a marker
at the grave Of Mrs. Mary Nash,
first state OAR regent of N. c..
will fill Wednesday morning. Cars
and buses will leave from the
cnurch at l p. M. for Cherry Point
where daughters will witness an
aerial exhibition, dedicate d mark
er to Revolutionary and World War
IL Marines, visit the Naval Dispen-
sary and dine at the Officers club
where short addresses will be
made by Marine officers. headed
oy Major Gen. Ralph J.. Mitchell.
The pages bail will be given at
the Officers club.
After a business session and
luncheon on Thursday, cars and
buses will leave from, the church
Tor a tour of Camp Lejeune with
a stop at the Naval hospital and
dinner at tht Officers club which
will be featured by a program Of
addresses by Marine officers under
the direction of Brig. Gen. Davie
R. Nimmer.
At a recent executive boart
meeting it was voted to give tn,
remainder of the money in the wa
projects fund for the purchase o
ra~dio-victrola for the wome.
nurses who are patients at Moor
General hospital. Daughters al
Hooking forward with interest
slseeing thu huge radio-victrols