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Vi/OMPI Inf'l<br />
Marks Clubs' Silver<br />
Anniversary at Dallas Conclave<br />
DALLAS—A record-breaking attendance<br />
was expected at the "Silver Anniversary"<br />
convention of the Women of the Motion<br />
Picture Industry at the Fairmont Hotel<br />
here Wednesday (6)-Sunday (10) with members<br />
and delegates coming from 14 clubs<br />
in the U.S. and Canada.<br />
Mrs. Esther Osley. WOMPI International<br />
president, arrived Sunday (3) for advance<br />
arrangements. She is just one of the 18<br />
international presidents from the past 25<br />
years who were in attendance and who were<br />
honored at a Sunday (10) breakfast in the<br />
International Room of the hotel. Others included<br />
Verlin Osborne. Dallas; Gene Barnctte.<br />
New Orleans; Mable Guinan. Dallas:<br />
Florence Long, Toronto: Myrtle Parker.<br />
Charlotte; Jean M. Roberts. Atlanta; Mary<br />
Hayslip. Kansas City; Lee Nickolaus, New<br />
Orleans; Viola Wister, Charlotte; Dorothy<br />
Reeves. New York; Anne Dillon: Jacksonville;<br />
Elsie Parish. Dallas; Mary Hart. Jacksonville:<br />
Hazel LeNoir. Kansas City; Hilda<br />
Frishman. Hollywood-Los Angeles; Amalic<br />
Gantt, Charlotte, and Gladys Melson, Kansas<br />
City.<br />
Bill Williams. Southern division manager<br />
of 20th Century-Fox was scheduled to serve<br />
as toastmaster for the Saturday (9) banquet.<br />
Mrs. Myrtle Parker. WOMPI Will Rogers<br />
chairman, gave a report on the organization's<br />
Will Rogers Institute participation<br />
to which Salah Hassanein. WRl president.<br />
gave a<br />
response.<br />
Gladys Melson Installs Officers<br />
Mrs. Gladys Melson. retiring member of<br />
the board, installed the 1978-79 officers,<br />
after which the following awards were<br />
given: The Mable Guinan convention attendance<br />
cup, the Verlin Osborne publicity<br />
award, the Lorainc Cass humanitarian service<br />
award, the R. J. O'Donnell industry<br />
service award, the Canada membership<br />
award, the Lee Nickolaus creativity yearbook<br />
award and the Will Rogers statuette.<br />
It was highly appropriate that the<br />
silver anniversary gathering of the Women<br />
of the Motion Picture Industry International<br />
be held here, since the organization, the<br />
brainchild of Col. H. A. Cole and R. J.<br />
Olionnell, was born here.<br />
I he two late industry veterans were<br />
known to converse daily about ihcir prob-<br />
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