Evening star., 1951-04-01
Legion Auxiliary
National Officer
|0n Official Visit

The Department of the District
lof Columbia, American Legion
Auxiliary, will hold a dinner al
the Willard Hotel Saturday al
$50 pm. in honor of the ma
tional Eastern vice president, Mrs
Earle r. Poorbaugh of Baltimore
Md, on the occasion of her off,
Icial visitation.
Mrs. Mabel Pugliese, depart
ment chaplain, is chairman OF
the Dinner Committee and will
be assisted by Mrs. Ida c. Orr,
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty. Mrs. Merle
Cerulla, Mrs. Sarah Deery and
Mrs. Lillian Judd. Reservations
must be paid for by April 4.
Following the dinner, Mrs
Bertha Fichthorn, department
president. will preside at a meet
ing when the department chair
men will make reports. Mrs. Poor
baugh will speak on national
phases of the auxiliary's projects.
Mrs. Heagerty. department men,
bership chairman. reports that
there are 1892 paid-up members
for 1851. or IS per cent of the
quota set for the year, and only
800 more need be enrolled to
reach 100 per cent of quota. The
current drive for renewals will
end May IL, and units are urged
to send in their per capita sheets
before that date.
The department Executive Com
mittee has approved the following
donations: $25 to the May Day
Corp. and $40 to the II Am an
American" day fund.
Miss Mary Ellen McCabe has
been. named co-chairman of
juniors.
A meeting of the Building Fund
Committee. scheduled for April
at the Legion Club, has been post
poned. Instead, Mrs. Heagerty
chairman, has arranged meeting
for April Is in Room 1851 of the
Commerce Building.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Fries. pam
American study chairman, has
completed plans for the auxiliary's
observance of pan-American day,
April IA, in the Department of
Commerce Auditorium. The Am
bassador of Uruguay, Jose Mora,
will be principal speaker. Music
will be furnished by the 679th
Army Air Force Band under direc-
ton of Chief Warrant Officer
Frank c. Reed.
Mrs. Edythe O'Connor, depart
ment convention chairman, will
preside at meeting of the COM
mittee Friday night at the Legion
Club. Preliminary plans for the
department convention set for
August 2. and 4 will be dis
cuSSed.
Mrs. Fichthorn and her staff
will make an official visitation to-
morrow night to Vincent B. Cos
tello Unit at the Legion Club.
Mrs. Leona Schrout, president.
will preside.
Rehabilitation activities at
Mount Alto Hospital this week
are: Today, Police and Fire Unit.
coffee hour, 7 pm; Thursday.
Bunker Hill Unit, games party.
1880 pm; Friday, Department of
Agriculture Unit, visit to Ward
F-3, 7:30 pm.
A child welfare program, di-
rected by Mrs. Matte Hardison.
will be presented at the meeting
Of General Accounting Office
Unit at the Epworth Methodist
Church, Thirteenth and North
Carolina avenue NE, tomorrow
night. Mrs. Florence Harrill, pres
ident, will preside. The public is
invited.
An American flag, donated by
Mrs. Gertrude Humbles Smith,
president of the James E. Walker
Unit, will be presented to the new
Walker Jones School by Mrs.
Marian r. Burke, past president,
at the school dedication cere-
mony Wednesday at 1870 pm.
Mrs. Smith will preside at a
of the Executive Commit
tee of the unit Wednesday night
at her home, 2 S street NE.
Williams Heads Group
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