Evening star., 1952-09-07
Workers Recruited
For Chest Campaign
Wives of District Commissioners
Sign Up for Active Participation

e PQrtICIPQtlOn
for volunteer solicitors opens to-
Iday-with the largest goal in
history.
A total Of 5000 women will be
needed to ring doorbells in resi-
dental Washington during the
coming campaign for Community
Chest-USO funds, according to Of
lf1cials. This is double the num-
ber of volunteer solicitors last
year.
The campaign officially opens
on October 6. BY that time, it
lis hoped, the 5000 workers in the
Special Solicitation Unit will be
armed with facts on the 81 Red
Feather agencies and supplied
with pledge cards SO they can
begin a door-to-door canvass
which will reach every home
apartment or house-before the
end of the drive on November Is.
A quota of 1901 900 has been
assigned to the residential areas.
Charged with the responsibility
|of collecting $4,000 of that
amount is the Advance Gifts Com
mittee on which the Commission
erS' wives are serving.
The committee is under the
Craftsmanship of Mrs. Maurice A.
Hacke, a veteran of the "a pre-
vious Community Chest cam
paignS. Mrs. Hacke has called a
meeting of her team captains for
September 10 at her Dorchester
House apartment. Also meeting
with the group will be Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Freer, chairman of the
Special Solicitation Unit, and
members of the Administrative
Committee.
The Advance Gifts Committee,
$50 strong, will start soliciting
gifts of $3.50 or more on Septem-
ber Is.
In addition to Mrs. Donohue
and Mrs. Robinson, the team cap
tains include Mrs. William Coul-
son, Mrs. Charles c. Glover III.
Mrs. Edward Cafritz, Mrs. Jack
Kotz, Mrs. James r. Hunt, Mrs.
Edward Wootton, Mrs. Joseph D.
Kaufman, Mrs. Garfield Kass, Mrs.
L. E. Harris, Mrs. Montgomery
Blair, Mrs. Hugh Duffield and
Mrs. Hiram Mallinson.
Appeal for Support
All of the Commissioners wives
have joined in the appeal for sup
port of the 1858 campaign.
"The needy of the community,
those who are unable to take care
of themselves, are not the re-
sponsibility of some, but Of all
who make up this, the Capital
City of the Nation" Mrs. Donohue
pointed out. 1.-THE Community
Chest drive for funds gives each Of
us our opportunity to discharge
that responsibility"
Mrs. Camalier said she believes
in the Community Chest because
it brings every person into the
effort to give relief to the less
fortunate. Every one should join
one should contribute" I"
she declared. 1.-THE success of the
Forthcoming campaign must be
overwhelming"
Mrs. Robinson, who has par
ticipated in Community Chest
campaigns in various cities in
which her Army officer husband
has been stationed. spoke from ex-
perience when she declared:
Giving time to Community Chest
work is a wonderful way to feel
that one is doing something for
our city and to feel a part Of it.
'1 do hope that the response
will be immediate and enthusiastic
to this call for workers for this
vital cause" she added. "The
Community Chest needs all the
money it can get and the small
contributions which might not be
sent in but which home home
canvassing can get are so neces-
sary."
Volunteers may enlist their
services any week day from 9 am.
to S pm. at the Community Chest
headquarters at 1101 M street
NV, or they may call Decatur
1880 and ask for Miss Herr.
Mrs. Ezekiel G. Stoddard is
chairman of volunteer recruitment
of the Special Solicitation Unit,
with Mrs. A. L. Spencer serving
as co-chairman.
Other chairmen serving on Mrs.
Freer's Administrative Committee,
in addition to Mrs. Hacke. include
Mrs. Theodore o. Wedel. train
ing: Mrs. Dalton B. Myers, pub
licity and public relations; Mrs.
Michael j. Calvin, program, and
Mrs. Edward j. Keyes, contributor
records.