Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Convention
Plans Occupy
Legion Group

called a meeting of chairmen OF
committees for the department con-
vention at pm. tomorrow at the
Legion clubhouse.
They include: Mrs. Amos A. Fries,
resolutions: Mrs. Alberta A. Lacy.
permanent organization; Mrs. Ada
Riley, credentials, and Mrs. Pearl
Heagerty, rules.
The department members hon.
ored Mrs. Judd at the preconven-
ton dinner last Thursday and pre-
sented her with a white gold watch.
Fifty-two members of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary from the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia De-
partments attended an indoctrina-
ton class at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
on Tuesday, with DR.. Winfred Over
holser, hospital superintendent, and
Miss Alice c. Stone, assistant d.
rector of nurses, as principal
speakers.
Members of the auxiliary's volun-
teer hospital workers who can serve
at this hospital, daily or Sundays,
are requested to report to Miss
Marion Delano in the Red Cross
Building for assignment to various
duties.
Those who were unable to attend
this initial class are requested to
contact Mrs. Pearl Heagerty, d.
rector of the volunteer hospital
workers, or Mrs. Eva Carrico, the
auxiliary's contact councillor at st.
Elizabeth's.
The Past Presidents Farley will
hold it's annual luncheon meeting
at the Washington Hotel on Satur-
day at 1870 am. Mrs. Emily
Schiller is general chairman, with
Mrs. Edythe O'Connor assisting
with reservations. Reservations
should be made with either Of them
not later than Tuesday.
Miss Katherine Clarke. depart
ment vice president, delivered 5
dozen all-bracket ash trays to
Mount Alto Hospital yesterday.
This gift was a donation from the
department.
Mrs. Eveline B. Starnes was in
dorsed by Kenneth H. Nash Unit
as candidate for department
chaplain on the ticket of Mrs. May
c.. Hilleary. She was also elected
as a delegate to the convention.
Other units which elected dele
gates to the convention were: Sergt.
Jasper: Delegates. Oda D. Lee,
Helena Bonner, Estella Mead, Rose
Kaucher, Merle Cerrulla, Elizabeth
Crumbaugh, Louisa Knoll, Mary
Stickley, Helen G. Sullivan, Gather
inc Smith, Hedevig Almfeldt, Regina
Brady; delegates at large, Edythe
O'Connor and Mary Noonan; alter
mates, Ella Hook. Anna Gilbert,
Mabel Talbot, Sylvia Mclaughlin,
Lillian Howard, Ann Goodwin,
Maude Hanna, Agnes Brady, Erma
Lester, Louise Goodacre, Emile
Schiller. Emily Mae Cotton and Vir-
ginia Mccarthy.
David Icenhower, Washington's
1947 Soap Box Derby champion,
and Edward Diehl, class B cham
pion, were the guests of the unit
and post on its annual boat ride
last Friday evening.
Woodbridge: Delegates. Mrs. Florrie
Morgan, Mrs. Louise Luton, Mrs.
Estelle Beard, Mrs. Gladys Day, Mrs.
Harriette Montgomery, with Mrs.
Gertrude Pierce as delegate at large;
alternates, Mrs. Vina G.. st. Peter,
Mrs. Margaret H. Hall, Miss Mary
Lois Luton and Mrs. B. Marie
Richards.
Twenty-Five dollars has been ap-
propriated to send boy to the
summer camp at the Central Union
Mission for two weeks.
Mrs. Georgiana S. Dudley. presi-
dent of James Reese Europe, Unit.
has been Endorsed for the Office of
department vice president with Mrs.
May Hilleary.
Delegates, Mrs. Georgisna Dudley,
Mrs. Rose Anderson, Mrs. Celonia
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Elizabeth Branford, Mrs. Estelle
Branson, Mrs. Beatrice Braxton,
Mrs. Margaret Brown, Mrs. Irene
Brown, Mrs. Mignonette Carpenter,
Mrs. Cordelia Carson, Mrs. Pearl
Chapman, Mrs. Ernestine Davis.
Mrs. Henrietta Early, Mrs. Anita
Ellis, Mrs. Hattie Farrell. Mrs. Jessie
Fields, Mrs. Bertha Fillmore, Mrs.
Elizabeth Fisher, Mrs. Mary Frank
lin, Mrs. Eula Mae Hammond, Mrs.
Addie M. Hardy, Mrs. Nellie Hayes,
Mrs. Sadie Hopkins, Mrs. Gertrude
H. johnson, Mrs. Ruth E. johnson,
Mrs. Marie Jumper. Mrs. Mary Ken
erson, Mrs. Charlotte Lancaster,
Mrs. Hattie M Lea, Mrs. Elva Nc
Lane, Mrs. Golden Mckenzie, Mrs.
Mamie Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Miller,
Mrs. Margaret Nelson, Mrs. Amanda
Newton, Mrs. Maude Nichols, Mrs.
Susie Pegram, Mrs. Abbie F. Rid
dick, Mrs. Edith M. Smith, Mrs.
Ruth Taylor, Mrs. Mary j. Tolan,
n,rs- 1Jn