Evening star., 1948-02-29


Athens, Miss Wheeler will work
closely In the training Of women VINO
will extend her influence throughout
the land. Already the leaven Tor
widespread "Y" movement is work.
ing among small groups In Salonika
in Macedonia, in Patras In Pelopon-
nosus, in Rhodes and elsewhere,
according to enthusiastic appeals
and prophecies received here from
Mrs. S. Mavrogordato, president OF
the Greek National Council.
Mrs. Mavrogordato is making
all arrangements to receive Miss
Wheeler, only American to be
assigned Greece under the overseas
Reconstruction Program OF the
Foreign Division of the American
Council.
Headquarters Being Readied.
The Central Athens "Y college,"
as it might be termed, is to be
located In q house and grounds to
be made available through the gen.
erosity of an architect and two en-
gineers who believe whole -heartedly
in the movement. Before autumn
1t will be ready for 40 students. 1t
Is expected that eventually the pres
ent organization in Greece will be
afiliated with the world organiza-
ton of the Y. w. @. A.
OF the trail-blazing ideals of her
associates Mrs. Mavrogodato wrote
Tin English) to Miss Wheeler: I'VE
represent a small group of our
countrywomen who firmly believe
intensive work in character building
for our youth is the best contribu-
ton we can offer for reconstruction.
The horrors of war, and the hatreds
which were engendered by our sue
cessive subjugations under Bulgars,
Nazs and the Italians, linked with
the menace Of strange, new pana-
ceas foreign to our spirited, inde-
pendent people, have made us GER
tain that as patiotic women we must
do something about cherishing
democratic principles Of living with
this generation which is growing UP
after the war.
IF We can be helped with the
training of our leaders here on the
scene where they will meet condi-
tions as they actually are, we are
confident this will best help us to
meet our most acute. present needs" !"
A Heritage of Service.
The recipient of medal from
the King of England for her service
in the cause of freedom, with the
servicemen and women of the Brit
ish Dominion in her U. S. O. work
during the war, Clara Boyd Wheeler
goes to her new post in Greece
from a background OF warm-hearted
capable educational service for
others both in her own right and
that Of her family's. e..
She is a native of Clifton Forge,
Va, where her mother Tor many
years has been q pillar in church
and community welfare work, and
her father, Frank Hereford Wheeler,
is chairman Of the State Welfare
Board of Virginia. An elder brother,
DR.. Frank Wirtley Wheeler, is acting
dean of the School of Civil Engi-
neering at the University of Vir-
ginia, and a younger brother, Vim
cent Wheeler, is the civil engineer
ing inspector of the new C. a. o.
tunnel through the Pike Mountains
from Virginia to Kentucky. Her sister,
Olivia, who makes her home in this
city, is the wife of Maj. Charles F.
McCallum, U. s. A., member of
the Transportation Corps in Japan
under Gen. Frank Besson. With
their two children she is sailing to
join her husband in Tokyo about
the same time that Clara sails for
Greece.
Likes Recreational Activities.
Even during her freshman year
at Randolph Macon from which she
transferred to Mary Washington
College Of the University of Vir-
ginia to major in physical educa-
ton and the social sciences, Miss
Wheeler was intent upon career