The guardian., 1953-03-07
SOCIAL CALENDAR
BY ALMIRA PARK

Leaue him tUho has Offend
ed you in the hands of time,
for time and fortune tDill
eventually aUenge you.
WIN. SHAW McCALLUM.
The above is what her friends
are telling the editor who has
70 disliked the chore of trying
10 work with traitors whom the
City appointed to work with the
Equal Rights League for the OBJ
servance of the Boston Massacre
anniversary. Under a Mayor Cur
ley or a Mayor Tobin, Kerri-
gan, and further back Fitz-
gerald, a Peters or a Nichols,
this would never have happened.
The present Mayor, of course,
has not the tradition of the long
steady pull of the Equal Rights
League which for 40 odd years
carried out the Boston Massacre
Day exercises through wind and
rain, snow and sleet, journeying
downtown to the sacred spots TO
honor the martyrs of Mar. S, ITO
-CRISPUS ATTUCKS, an Ana
erican of African descent. SAM
UEL MAVERICK, JAMES CALD-
WELL, SAMUEL GRAY and
PATRICK CARR. The city's
sponsorship of the day is very
recent thing. It was some years
after the death of the man who
initiated the observance that the
city was asked to make an ap-
preparation for the expenses Incl
dent to the Day. Before that
the Equal Rights League had
borne the whole expense, con-
tributing the wreaths for each
sacred spot. What am I talking
about? About the treaehery of
a man by the name of Banks,
one-time member of the Equal
Rights League who made noun
tain of an innocent remark of
the secretary on the Common a
couple OF years ago and got the
city to delegate to his POLITIC-
AL committee the chore of ar
ranging the annual observance
and this year, having miserably |
faded last year, the city called |
on the Equal Rights League to
help out.
MUSECANA-The list of Spon-
sors of Arimae Burrell's debut in
Jordan Hall, April 26, includes
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Hayes, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Greenwood, Mr..
and Mrs. George Barner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmore Cappers, Concord I
Baptist Church, Mrs. Anna Bob |
lit Gardner, Mrs. Cleo Hoffman,
DR.. William A. Rhodes, Mrs. |
Mabelle B. Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. !
Julian ID. Steele. The annual |
coast to coast concert tour of
Anderson will bring her
to A and T College, Greensboro,
~ c., for an appearance on We'd
nesday, March 18. Toward the
end of April after completing her
50th concert of this season, the
contralto will leave
for her first tour of the Far East.
She will give a series Of concerts
in Japan. Last October Miss
Anderson returned from ten
week tour of England and Scan
dinavia. In Sweden King Justav
Adolph presented her with the |
'Litteris ct Artibus" medal one
of the nations highest awards.
Aristo members enjoyed a reg
ular meeting Sunday, March /, at
the beautiful home of the hostess,
Mrs. Theodore Roberts, in Allston.
Those present were: Miss Joseph
inc Williams, president; the
Mesdames Theodore Rob berts,
Muriel Turk, Marion Sheppard,
Alberta Valentine, Toni Bullock,
Rowena Taylor and Josephine
Howard; and the Misses Gerald
inc Barker, Gladys Gray, Flor
ence Lewis and Claudia Williams.
Chairman Valentine gave a re-
port of her committee for the
Observance of Colored American
History Week held Sunday Feb.
8 and received congratulations for
the fine program. Clippings were
read from the Greensboro Daily
News dated last October, about
the Inauguration of Aristo's
Founder, Miss Wilhelmina Cros-
son, as President of Sedalia's
Palmer Memorial Institute, North
Carolina, succeeding retiring Dr.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Aris-
tos are each writing letters to
the beloved Miss Crosson. Schol-
arship plans and those for A
Mothers Tea in May with a clos
ing meeting in June at Mrs. JOS
ephine Howard's cottage, Oak
Bluffs. completed the business.
A delicious dinner was served
with beautiful st. Patrick deco
rations. The next meeting in
April will be held in Cambridge