Evening star., 1947-12-07
HoHdayEuemts
Listed BY OAR
For the Week

With Christmas less than three
weeks away, District OAR chapters
have arranged a series of Christmas
parties and gift showers for the chill
dren in the mountain schools aided
by the OAR.
Gifts for the children of the
Hindman (Ky) Mountain School
will be brought by members Of the
E Pluribus Unum Chapter to a
party on Thursday at the home of
Miss Grace Hurd, 1926 Eighteenth
street NV.
The Persian story of Christmas
will be told by Miss Alice Hutchins
Drake. past president of the Column
bian Women of George Washington
University, at the Christmas meet
ing of the Capt. Wendell Wolfe
Chapter on Tuesday. The meeting
will follow dinner at $50 pm. ct
the Highlands Cafe. There also will
be small sale of suitable articles
for Christmas gifts, the proceeds to
go toward the Tamassee scholarship
fund.
The Deborah Knapp Chapter will
hold party at pm. tomorrow at
the home of DR.. Ella R. Fales, 1914
Grace Church road, Silver Spring
Guest speakers will be Mrs. Dor
othy Baldwin, jr., and Mrs. w. H
Schreinert. Dinner will be served
at 6 pm.
A card party will also be held at
DR.. Fales home at pm. Saturday
for the benefit of the chapter.
Poetry, gifts, music and Christ
mas tree will be featured at the
Approved Schools Christmas party
to be given by the Susan Riviere
Hetzel Chapter at pm. Friday at
the OAR Chapter House.
Members will place gayly wrapped
Christmas gifts beneath a table
tree for their scholarship girl at
Tamassee, S. c. A generous check
will represent the gift from tie
chapter. The scholarship girl, Mar
garet Alexander, IA, received her
scholarship through gift presented
to the chapter by Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade Ellis. The chapter has also
sent check gift to the veterans at
Walter Reed Hospital.
christmas Legends" will be the
subject of a talk by Mrs. Lee Webster
Self at the annual party of the
Eleanor Wilson Chapter tomorrow
night at the Chapter House. Mrs.
Wilfred J. Chairman. District state
regent, and Mrs. Charles Carroll
Haig, president of the Chapter
House Corp, will be honor guests.
| A Christmas play, The Scarlet
Ball" will be read by Mrs. Jacob S.
Payton at the annual party of the
Dolly Madison Chapter at pm
Tuesday at the Chapter House.
Members will also bring gifts for the
chapters Tamassee scholarship girl.
Contributions for the American
Red Cross and packaged gifts for
hospitalized veterans will be donated
by members of the Samuel Gorton
Chapter at Christmas party at 8
pm. Wednesday at the Chapter
House. Inc party Will also feature
a program of carols sung by the
Junior OAR Chorus and talk by
Mrs. Haig.
Gifts for the OAR approved
schools will be brought by members
of the Thomas Marshall Chez II
meeting at pm, Thursday at the
Chapter House. MIS-. Dc.~... -.
Ragan, State chairman of the Ad-
vancement of American Music Com
mittee, and Mrs. Charles H. Plotner,
State chairman of press relations,
will be guests of honor.
Mrs. Ragan will also be hostess
on the same evening at a benefit
card party to be given by the Ad-
vancement of American Music Com
mittee at 8 pm. at the Chapter
House. The vice chairmen OF the
committee, Miss Helen Belt, Mrs.
Buren, j. Smith, Miss Jane E. Maglll
and Mrs. Herbert Leeman, will assist
Mrs. Ragan.