Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-12-15
Ynletide Parties
.Cr0ud Calendars
.OfClHb Women

National Society of Patriotic
Women of America, Inc, will hold
its Christmas party tomorrow night
at Hotel 2400. Gifts will be brought
by each member for the mountain
school children of Louisa, KY.
Mrs. Irene Caldwell, District
chairman of the Save The Children
Federation, will be the guest Of
honor and will receive the presents
for forwarding to Kentucky.
Miss Alice Hutchins Drake, chap
lain of the District Council, will
read an original Christmas play
Mrs. John Morrison Kerr is chair
man of arrangements fer the party.
Mrs. Harold H. Burton will be
the narrator of a Christmas story
at the annual Christmas party of
the Ohio Girls Club to be given
at 8 o'clock tonight at St. Johns
Hospitality Center, 82l Sixteenth
street NV Miss Helen M. Boyer.
accompanied by Miss Frances He'd
dleston, will be the vocalist. There
will be a distribution of gifts by
Mrs. Roger Stoner as Santa Claus.
A Christmas party for the chill
dren of members will be given by
the Lyon Park Woman's Club at
8 pm. Wednesday at the Lyon
Park club house. The program
will include a Christmas play and
carols. Hostesses for the meeting
include Mrs. Calvin I. Kephart,
Mrs. Thurman Sewers, Mrs. Don
Looney, Mrs. Russell M. King, Mrs
James Strickland and Mrs Lam
sing G. Simmons
The club has contributed so
Christmas gifts to the Red Cross
Community Service to camps and
hospitals.
Members of the Junior Woman'S
Club of Chevy Chase are complet-
ing plans for Christmas projects.
One of its most important events
of the season will be its dance Fri
day night at the clubhouse.
The monthly meeting of the club,
scheduled for Thursday, will have
a Christmas theme. The welfare
group will donate gifts for patients
at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, and
is preparing decorations for the
trays of patients at the Suburban
Hospital. The project for next year
will be announced at Thursdays
meeting by Mrs. Betty Stricken,
president of the club.
Members of the Washington Alum
nae Chapter of Alpha Phi Inter-
national Fraternity will hold their
annual Christmas party following
a buffet supper at $50 pm. We'd
nesday at the home of Mrs. r. C.
Turner, 1914 Preston road, Park
fairfax, Alexandria.
Plans for the fraternity's Christmas
gift project for children in one of
the city's hospitals will be completed
and a report of the chapters local
participation in Alpha Phi's ma
tional pnilanthropic project, Cardiac
Aid, will be given by Mrs. M. L.
Palmer. A fund of more than S., 900
for cardiac aid was raised this year
by Alpha Phi chapters throughout
the country, and great amount of
volunteer work was done individu-
ally for institutions offering cardiac
aid for children.
A musical Skit, based on Babes
in Toyland," will feature the Christ
mas program of the Arlington Crea-
| tive Arts Club at pm. tomorrow
at the home of Mrs. M. P. Ayers,
4l9 North Norwood street. The
program has been arranged by the
music and drama groups of the
club under the Craftsmanship of
Mrs. J. L. McIlhenny, jr.
Instead of the usual exchange of
Christmas gifts, members will give
cash donations for providing sup
plies to needy family. Mrs. Will
liam D. Martin and Mrs. George
Hooven are in charge of this project.
Chi Omega alumnae will give a
Christmas party at pm. Wednes-
day evening at the Columbian
House. Funds and donations will
provide gift of walkers, strollers
and toys to be given to the young
sters at the Children's Country
Home, Eighteenth street and
Bunker Hill road. NE.
A program for the evening has
been arranged by committee con-
sisting of Miss Geraldine Stowell
Mrs. Maud Campbell, Mrs. H. E.
Underhill and Miss Ruth Roosevelt
The National Mothers Memory
Club will meet at the Aged Woman's
Home of Georgetown, 1855 Wiscon-
sin avenue NV, at 2 pm. Thurs
day. The meeting will take the
form OF party for the ladies of the
home. A program will be presented
by Donald Mccormick, dramatic
reader; Mrs. Maui Tormohlen. pian-
list, and Miss Carlyn Schoenthall,
soprano.