Evening star., 1951-10-18
Society News:
Junior League Lunch Sets
Tempo by Speech and Style

WAVE problems and then prob
lens faced by a liberal arts coll
Ilege. The drawing of such paral-
Ilels, she referred to as Junior
leagueitis." disease she had
suffered ever since serving as
business manager of the Junior
Leagues of America for IA years.
Turnover of personnel was a major
problem for both the league and
the Navy; bylaws caused annual
league brow-knitting as did Navy
regulations and the leagues pro-
visional training course was like
the WAVES rapid training course.
Miss Palmer then set forth in
amusing style punctuated by seri-
GUS points the strain put upon
liberal arts colleges by the in
creased requests for vocational
training resulting from the high
cost of living. But the liberal
arts college is educating people
to live in their community and
assume the responsibility that
goes with education, whereas, she
affirmed. the vocational education
is preparing people mainly to live
for themselves alone. Union work.
ers. she observed from her ex-
periences with negotiating with
the unions. wanted better hours,
better pay but no responsibility
for their work.
In discussing education with
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower dur
ing his presidency of Columbia
University. she discovered he felt
very strongly about the impor-
tance Of "a liberal arts background
because so many men in the war
had revealed they didn't know
enough about their country or
why they were fighting.
Volunteer Service Need
Despite the lack of leisure time
compared to early days of the
Junior League. members needed
to budget their time and continued
to do volunteer work because.
Miss Palmer quoted, 1.-THE health
OF a community is as good as theI
of the volunteer service|
in the community" With its edu-l
cational course and welfare pro-
gram, the Junior League offers
the best way to expose its mem
berS to the needs and problemsI
Of their community and with
such background education, asI
with the liberal arts college, It'll
imposes upon the trained mind
the responsibility to apply its
training to help others.
League members, she ended
should not get attacks OF plethapy
which is the current ailment In
stead OF apathy. "Plethapy" is
her own word for attempting to
do a plethora of things. instead
OF doing a few things well. Which
reminded her of a saying they
used to have in the Navy: when
in danger. when in doubt, run in
circles. scream and shout"
Following Miss Palmer's speech
Mrs. West made some presenta-
ticns to outstanding league work.
ers. She presented a gift to Mrs.
Landon Banf1eld for her work on
the spring carnival which was
given on the Landon School
grounds. The Lacquer Beaver
a plastic beaver oscar" went to
Mrs. John Fl. Kaufman for her
excellent Craftsmanship of the
carnival, and another beaver went
to Mrs. Marshall Diggs for her
committees work on the land
scaping for the new clubhouse.
Past presidents seated at the
head table were Mrs. G. Rowland
Chase. Mrs. Montgomery Blair
Miss Anne Carter Greene, Miss
Virginia Hunt and Mrs. Charles
Runyon. Others besides them
were Miss Jean Parker, Mrs.
Arnold Wilcox. Mrs. Henry S.
Huidekoper, Mrs. Robert H. Boor-
man, Mrs. Emmett Echols, Mrs.
Kenneth M. Hoeffel, Mrs. Robert
w. Wilson, Mrs. Francis Almirall,
Mrs. Randall Hagner, Mrs. c.
Worth Sprunt and Mrs. James r.
Lynn.