Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-22
THEY GIVE THEIR TINE
THEY GIVE THEIR TIME
Falls Church Club HELPS
Others Hell Themselves
By RUTH DEAN
Star Stan Writer

Inc woman S CIuD OF rails
Church is in the business Of
helping others.
Consistently, month after
month, the $50 members Of
the club chalk up an average
of 600 hours Of work, invest
ing their time in welfare prof.
ects that have gained a re-
markable reputation for the
club. of which Mrs. James T.
McBroom is president.
One of the requirements
for maintenance of member
ship is working two hours a
month on the clubs welfare
program. More often men,
bers give much more Of their
time.
AS one member succinctly
described the program, IT'S
easy to give a few dollars and
remember children at Christ
mas with toys, but it's your
time they really need"
Probably the biggest job
the club does is tranSporta-
tion-cancer patients to doc
tors offices, blind teachers to
the homes of pre-school blind
children, cerebral palsied
youngsters to homes often far
distant from the CP clinic,
and food baskets and cloth
ing to needy families.
To accomplish all that
does, Of course, take money.
The club literally raises sew
eral thousand dollars every
year from two major fund
raising projects to foot the
bill. Bridge-playing members
also kick in additional
amounts to purchase supplies
for the clubs sickroom closet.
With the winnings from
one month of bridge games
the club purchased a needed
wheelchair.
Annual "FOllieS"
Right now the club Is get
ting into high gear on its big
spring fund-raiser, its an
nual "FollieS" show, which
will be held March Is, II and
Is in the auditorium of the
Falls Church High School. A
professional director from
New York is hired to direct
the show. For the next six
weeks members will drop
everything to work for the
shows success. Even husbands
are pressed into service.
Needless to say, the re-
spouse from the community
has been one of amazement.
One 82-year-old woman can
Ger patient said she'd never
heard of such thing" when
she was offered daily trans
portation to and from the
doctors Office for X-rayS. Be-
cause she was almost blind
with cataracts she was fur
Their touched by the solicitouS
attention shown in guiding
her steps in and out of the
car.
From May to December,
1859, members averaged 1872
hours in transporting cancer
patients, and 235 in making
cancer dressings from Sep
TENDER to December the same
year. One member, Mrs.
Clarence M. Yeatman, MAIN
tains a sort of cancer sick
room closet in her own home.
In addition, the club aids
the Fairfax Chapter of the
American Cancer Society by
maintaining a fund for pur-
chase of medicine for indi-
gent cancer patients. 1t also
donated a collapsible Wheel
chair and aspirator to the
chapter last year.
The moving spirit behind
the clubs welfare program
is its chairman, Mrs. Cor
don Walter, who gives much
of her own time to it's va
rious aspects in addition to
shouldering heavy home re-
sponsibilitieS. AS a matter of
fact, the club members who
give so generously of their
time and effort do it in addi-
ton to full home duties. A
number of them have as
many as four children; some
even larger families.
The clubs contribution to
easing the plight of the cere-