Evening star., 1952-03-06
By Betty BeoIe

Oy petty Oeute
The Junior League Of Washing
ton staged a spring luncheon yes
terday that packed the Terrace
Room of the Shoreham Hotel for
two main reasons. Members
thronged to elect their new Of
flcers and to hear DR.. Arnold l..
Gesell. noted authority on child
development. AS Mrs. Richard
Marsh said when introducing the
speaker, he came in the nick Of
time; after a winter of child
troubles, colds, etc., they needed
to know that their children were
normal.
Blond, attractive Mrs. T. Perry
Lippitt. jr., was elected the new
president Of the Junior League of
Washington to be installed at the
May meeting for the two-year
term. Originally from Chicago,
she is married to a native WASH
ingtonian who is the assistant
marshal of the Supreme Court
and the court crier. They have
just bought a house in Maryland
and will move there from their
present Connecticut avenue ad-
dress the first of April.
She has an excellent record Of
welfare work in her adopted city.
She is currently administrative
chairman Of the league and a
member of the board of directors,
secretary of the board of trustees
for the House of Mercy, and o.
member of the Ladies Board there
and chairman Of the Colleges and
Universities Committee for the
National Symphony Fund Drive.
Miss Agnes Birney. better
known as "Bitsey." was elected
first vice president: Mrs. Randall
H. Hagner, jr., second vice presi-
dent. and Mrs. John H. Kauff-
mann, secretary. All will serve for
a one-year term.
Pre-Luncheon MineIing
Before the luncheon began
there was a half hour for greet
ings, gay chatter and a glass of
sherry. You could tell a lot by just
running your eye over league
members and guests. The sun
tanned ones were obviously just
back from southern climes; the
pale ones just getting over the flu.
You could also tell that there
wasn't much spring in the air.
Straw and floral millinery was evi-
dent but not predominating.
Mrs. Millard West, league pres
ident, said her red straw hat was
not indicative of the condition of
the treasury but a reminder that
this is Red Cross month and every
member, who hadn't already done
so in the current drive, should give
a pint of blood.
Young Mrs. Wilson Pritchett,
'Frenchie," one of those with
a beach treated complexion, is just
back from Florida. Shirley Temple
Black, who was invited to hear
DR.. Gessell because of her special
intereSt-She has a 4-year-oldt
offspring and is expecting another
in May-said she is just over the
flu. She was the guest of Mrs.
Hugh Smith who was very chic
in a fitted jersey dress and black |
straw with a velvet-edged pink |
rose.
CopitoIites Present
There was Mrs. Carson Frailey
in a cloche Of white hyacinths
dotted with rhinestones. Mrs.
George Ferris, Mrs. Mccullough
Darlington. Mrs. George Petticord.
Mrs. Robert Reside in a grayI
knitted wool hat with the four
knitting needles still in tim
tentionally unfinished; Mrs. Will
liam Ritchie who leaves next week
for a dude ranch in Phoenix. Ariz.,
for a two weeks vacation with 10
other members Of her family, in
cluding husband, children, brother,
nieces, nephews and uncle and
aunt (the latter Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Conger Pratt); Miss Anne
Carter Green, Mrs. Adrian Fisher
and Mrs. Thacher WinSlow in a |
chatty group. Mrs. Murray Pres
ton and Mrs. Jack Evan who said
down in Nassau she heard some
one say you can always recognize |
a girl from Washington because
she's neither overdressed or under
dressed but always looks nice
better on the whole than New
York. (Take that! Manhattan.)
Mrs. Minnegerode Allen, chair
man Of special arrangements, had
on a new wrinkle. Clipped at her
neck was a perfect, fan-shaped
seashell sprinkled with colored
stones - diamonds, emeralds, 81
etc. She made it herself, she said. |
Mrs. Charles Gibson had al
stand outside the Terrace Room
selling tickets to the Children's
Theater of Washington presenta-