Milford chronicle., 1951-03-02
v. F. w. Auxiliary
Planning For Visit Of
National President

Plans are being completed this
week for the visit to Delaware of
Mrs. Sue Ilg, National President
of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars; Mrs. Ilg
will arrive in Delaware on Mon
day afternoon and her two-day Wis
it to the Wilmington area will be
climaxed by banquet at the Speer
Post Home, 320S Market street,
Wilmington, on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Priscilla Lank, a resident of
Frederick and a member of the
Blue Hen Auxiliary, Milford, will,
as president of the Delaware De-
partment, Ladies' Auxiliary, V. F.
w, be official hostess to Mrs. Ilg
and party.
According to Mrs. Gertrude
Rhind, Delaware Department Pub
lie Relations officer, National Pres
ident Ilg will arrive in Wilmington
at Asa p. m. Monday and on Tues
day morning will begin a tour of
all VA and VFW installations in
the Wilmington area. At ten o'clock
Tuesday morning, Mrs. Ilg will Wis
it the DUPONT de NemOurs Hospi-
tai, and at IL a. m. the new Veter-
ans Administration Hospital at
Brack-Ex will be visited.
Following luncheon at the Hotel
Rodney at 100 p. m, Mrs. Ilg
will do a broadcast over WDEL
and will then preside over a La
dies Auxiliary rally, scheduled for
the AtteTbury Post Home, Will
mington, at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday.
The testimonial dinner at the Speer
Post Home, scheduled to begin at
$3.50 p. m. will climax Mrs. Ilg's
visit to the state.
Mrs. Ilg, as the National Presi-
dent of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the
VFW, is firmly grounded in aux
iliary affairs. She entered the S.
S. Payne Auxiliary No. ia of the
VFW in 1924 through the military
service of her husband, George A.
Ilg, a member of the Rhode Island
State Legislature, who served in
World War / as a sergeant in the
649th Aero Squadron, u. S. Air
Force, AEF. In 1886, she became
a charter member of the Captain J.
Carleton Davis Auxiliary No. 2296,
and subsequently served in all of
the offices of that auxiliary and of
the Department of Rhode Island,
becoming Department President in
1941.
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LED to her election in 1943 as a
National Council Member from Dis
trict No. 1. Since that time she
has successfully served the nation
al organization as guard, cOnduc-
tress, chaplain, junior and senior
vice president, the latter office be-
ing held just prior to her election
as National President.
Mrs. Ilg is we'll prepared for
her duties of leadership by her
schooling at Bryant College and
through extension work at PrOvi-
dence College. In addition to her
Ladies' Auxiliary activities Mrs
Ilg takes an active interest in
civic and church affairs. She took
part IN U. s. o. work during World
War II and has actively aided the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis; she holds membership
in the. Emblem Club, an auxiliary
of the B. P. o. E., Veridames of
Providence College, and Salve Re-
gina Guild.
While National Senior Vice Pres
ident, Mrs. Ilg was national chair
man of the Let Freedom Ring Com
mittees, sponsoring a program de-
signed to build better citizenship
through health, recreational, Am
ericanism, and educational projects
for youth. AS National President
Of the Auxiliary, she is continuing
her interest in developing leader |
ship for civic responsibilities among
members.