Evening star., 1948-10-31
Legion Auxiliary
Plans Benefit
Party Tomorrow

f1El 1CO4OO1S O1lU O4 U1lC &%lot4 NV VA
Columbia Department, American
Legion Auxiliary. will hold a bene-
fit party for the department build
ing fund tomorrow night at the
home of the chairman, Mrs. Goldie
Mirabello, $500 Fourteenth street
NV, Apartment Alb. Members
and friends are invited.
Mrs. Loretta Reed. Department
rehabilitation chairman. presided
at a meeting of her committee last
Tuesday when tentative plans were
discussed for the auxiliary's re-
habilitation program for the year.
The first activity scheduled will
be a party for some 200 patients
on Tuesday at st. Elizabeths Hos
pital from Z to 9 o'clock. when a
dance will be held in the Red Cross
Building.
All unit rehabilitation chairmen
are requested to be present to help
entertain the patients.
Mrs. Reed, Mrs. Eva Carrico, Mrs.
Marie Punches and Mrs. Frances
OWeeI Will De III CnaTSe.
The committee also voted to hold
at least two coffee hours at Mount
Alto Hospital, one on November 21
and the other shortly after the first
Of the year.
Units which have agreed to spon-
sor monthly visits of their rehabili-
tatior committees at Mount Alto
and the wards assigned them are as
follows: Victory Unit, Ward F-2;
James Reese Europe and James E.
Walker, Wards C and E-2; Kenneth
H. Nash Unit, Ward B; National
Cathedral. Ward 3; Sergeant JAS
per, Ward D; Vincent B. Costello,
Ward Ell; George S. Patton, Jr.-
Tank Corps, Ward F-3; Cooley-Mc-
Cullough, Ward A; George E. Kill
leen, Ward F-2 Second Division,
Ward E-3: Police and Fire, E-2;
Stanley Church DePue, F-3; Bunker
Hill, Ward G; Fort Stevens, Ward
E-3; Government Printing Office,
Ward G.; United States Treasury,
Ward E-3; United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, Ward F-3;
Gen. U. G. McAlexander, Ward F-2;
Potomac, Ward Ell; Department of
Labor, Ward D; Department of
Commerce, Ward B; Capital Tran
sit. Ward 8: United States Mari
time, Ward F-3; General Account
ing Office, Ward G; Woodbridge
Ward D.. and D. O. Taxi, Ward D.
Monthly birthday parties will be
held In the wards at Mount Alto
Hospital on the last Sunday of each
month and patients whose birth
days occur during the current
month will be remembered with
gifts by the units concerned.
Vincent B. Costello Unit will hold
q party in Ward Ell at Mount
Alto Hospital tomorrow from 7 to
8 o'clock and Bunker Hill will give
a perty in the Recreation Hall
Thursday night.
Mrs. Grace M. Cotton of Maple
wood, N. j., was elected lie chapeau
national of Eight and Forty at La
Marche Nationale in Miami, Fla.
The Department Child Welfare
Committee met last Monday night
at the Legion clubhouse with Miss
Katherine T. Clarke, chairman,
presiding.
The committee decided to use as
its main objective this year the sup
plying Of the immediate needs Of
the children at the Crippled Chill
drens' Clinic of Gallinger Hospital.
Miss Clarke will visit, the clinic this
week to consult with the director of
the clinic to ascertain what Is espe-
cially needed at this time and ar
range . schedule Of activities.
The Department Of Commerce
Unit will be held tomorrow night in
Room 1851 Of Commerce Building
with Miss Helen Hardenbrook
president, presiding.
Chairmen of the units Standing
Committees are: Americanism, Miss
Marie Ricketts,; building fund, Mrs.
Loretta Reed; child welfare, Mrs.
Rachel Davis; cheerio, Mrs. jose
phine McCurley; community service,
Red Cross and Seal sales, Mrs. Ger
trude Beck; childrens receiving
home, Mrs. Gertrude Beck; consti-
tuition and by laws, Mrs. Mary B.
Lucas; gift shop, Mrs. Loretta Reed !;
education of orphans Of veterans,
Mrs. Rachel Davis; juniors and girls
state, Mrs. Marie w. Murphy; legis-
lation, Mrs. Mary B. Lucas;
membership, Mrs. Ellen Harlow;
memorials, Mrs Virginia I. Moore;
music, Mrs. Virginia I. Moore; ma
tional defense, Mrs. Claire w. Tally;
past presidents parley, Mrs. Loretta
Reed; Pan American study, Mrs.
Bette Ellenberg; poppies, Mrs. Ger
trude Beck; publicity and radio,
Mrs. Helen C. Barry, and rehabilita-
tion, Mrs Helen A. Wynne.
Mrs. Marie w. Murphy and Mrs.
Bette r. Ellenberg have been ap-
pointed secretary and treasurer, re-
spectively.
Mrs. Marie T. Lince, president,
will preside over George z. Killeen
O4AV 4uCc0oy 1lASllC dI nlllCell
Clubrooms, 1904 M street NV. A
community service program will be
presented and there will be speak
er from the local Community Chest
organization.
Meetings this week:
Monday Vincent B. Costello
Unit, party, Ward Ell, Mount Alto
Hospital, pm; United States De-
partment of Agriculture Unit, bene-
fit party, $500 Fourteenth street
NV, Sis pm; Department of
Commerce Unit, Room 1851, Com
merce Building, pm.
Tuesday-Georee e. Killeen Unit,
1904 M street NV, pm; Depart
ment Rehabilitation Committee,
party, at st. Elizabeths Hospital, Z
to 9 pm.
Wednesday-Kenneth H. Nash
Unit, 224 D street Sc. 8 pm: Sec
ond Division Unit, Colonial Hotel,
s pm; Government Printing Once
Unit, GPO Building, 8 pm; Fort
Dupont Unit, 7 Fourth street NE,
8 pm.
Thursday-Bunker Hill Unit. re-
habilitation party, Mount Alto Hos
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