Evening star., 1948-07-11
SoroPtim1ists
Plan Meeting
InTOrOWtO
Regional Officers
Be Installed

Miss Ella G. Werner, who recently
was siscted director Of the South
Atlantic Region Of the American
Federation Of Soroptimist Clubs will
be formally installed at the 10Th
biennial convention Of the fedora
ton TO be held July $3.50 in To-
ronto, Canada.
The ceremony will take place at
the closing banquet on July 80,
when the elections of other regional
directors in the American Fedora
ton will also be confirmed.
Miss Werner, who is member
of the Soroptimist Club of Wash
ington, will leave for the conven-
ton on Thursday, July %, so that
she may be present for the pre-
convention meetings Of the national
board.
other officers from the South
Atlantic Region who expect to at
tend the conclave are Mrs. Kath-
arine Winston Of the Arlington
Soroptimist Club and regional sec
retary, and Mrs. Alice Moore of
the Prince Georges County Club,
regional treasurer. The other off,
GERS of this region are Miss Cecilia
Eareckson of the Baltimore Sorop-
timist Club and Miss Ann Carey
Clarke of the Westminster CMd)
Soroptimist Club, who are members
of the board.
Miss Werner, who is an accountant
with the Reconstruction Finance
CORPORATION, is the first Washington
Soroptimist since 1886 to be elected
regional director. Following her
installation in Toronto, she will be
member of the board Of the Amer
ican federation.
Leaving for Canada with her will
be Mrs. Edith C. Jarvis, new presi-
dent OF the Washington Soroptimist
Club, who will attend as a delegate.
Mrs. Rose Robson Cowen, imme-
diate past president, will also rep
resent the Washington Soroptimists
as delegate. Chosen to be alternates
are Mrs. Mary Catherine Lewis, a
past first vice president of the Amer
lean federation, and Miss Elisabeth
Mersheimer, first vice president of
the local club.
Election of new officers will be
the chief business of the convention,
over which Mrs. Hazel B. Hackett,
American federation president. will
preside. Reports on the national and
international work Of the organiza-
ton will also be given. A national
project of the federation is the
granting Of fellowships to outstand-
ing women for study in fields related
to the economic advancement of
women. In line with this project,
clubs in the South Atlantic region
recently presented $500 to George
Washington University for fellow
ship to be given to a candidate
selected by the university.
A preconvention feature will be
the biennial conference Of the
American Council of Venture
Clubs which will also be held in
Toronto, July 22-24. The Venture
Clubs, whose membership is COM
prised of young business and pro-
fessional women, are sponsored by
the Soroptimist Clubs.
Soroptimist Clubs in the United
States and Canada, South America,
China, Japan and Australia will be
represented at the American FEEDER
alton convention. At the close of
the conclave, many of the delegates
will attend the Soroptimist Inter-
national convention in Harrogate,
England.
The international conference,
which is called every four years,
will bring together the European
Federation of Soroptimist Clubs,
the Federation of Soroptimist Clubs
of England and Ireland and the
American Federation of Soropti-
mist Clubs