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8 THE INDEX, Saturday, February 18, 1928
C L U B S - P H I L A N T H R O P I E S - C I V I C S
Friday afternoon, February twentyfourth
the Discussion Committee will be in
charge of the meeting of the College Club.
Mrs. Carroll Miller, Miss Sara Soffel and Mrs.
John 0. Miller will lead a discussion on
"Presidential Possibilities—Who is Your
Choice?" At a quarter past four o'clock
there will be a business meeting.
Hostesses for the day are Mrs. Erwin E.
Lanpher, Mrs. Thomas W. Chesebrough, Mrs.
James G. Geegan, Mrs. Frank R. Frost, Mrs.
B. D. Dunham, Mrs. W. A. Jordan and Mrs.
N. G. Afford. Mrs. Chesbrough and Mrs.
Ccegan will pour at the tea to follow the
meeting.
Mrs. Walter F. Cooley is chairman for the
meeting of the Woman's Club of Pittsburgh,
to be held Tuesday, February twenty-first, in
Congress Clubhouse. It will be drama day
and the Drama Committee, Mrs. Cooley, Mrs.
C. H. Paul, Mrs. George Weber, Mrs. Frances
S. Lane, Miss Miriam Schonfield and Mrs.
Grace Druitt Latus, will be in charge. Hostesses
will be Mrs. L. D. Walrath and Mrs.
C. H. Paul.
This afternoon the Woman's Club of Crafton
will have a bridge and cake sale in Congress
Clubhouse, the proceeds to go towards
the fund for a new club home. Mrs. Sherman
Massingham is in charge of the bridge.
Several years ago the club started a fund
for this purpose, the most recent addition
having been made by the Music Committee,
under the direction of Mrs. D. S. Taylor.
Mrs. William B. Lawton, Jr., is in charge
of the annual benefit bridge that Pittsburgh
Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa
Gamma Fraternity will give this afternoon
in the Pittsburgh Athletic Club Annex. Mrs.
James Muir, chairman of reservations, has as
her aides Mrs. Holgar Johnson, Mrs. E. R.
Loomis, Mrs. Karl W. Bohren, Mrs. Helena
Flinn-Gregg, Miss Margagret Meals, Mrs.
William Foraker, Mrs. T. B. McCafferty, Mrs.
Lewis Schryer, Mrs. John Emery and Mrs.
A. T. Briney.
Assisting Mrs. Harold Moore, chairman of
the Prize Committee, are Mrs. Norman Hartman,
Miss Betty Harold, Mrs. W. W. Ward,
Mrs. R. R. McFall, Miss Virginia Niemann
Mrs. Lawton, Mrs. Muir, Mrs. Lloyd Mahony,
Mrs. Wilfred Blackmore, Miss Janet
McLean, Mrs. Howard Krick and Mrs. William
Smyers.
At two o'clock Monday afternoon the Department
of Music of the Congress of
Clubs will give its annual card party for the
benefit of the Congress' Choral. Heading the
various committees are Mrs. Harry J. Gearheart,
Mrs. Earl McKnight, Mrs. C. W. Park­
er, Mrs. It. C, Burns, Mrs. J. S. Baird, Mrs.
Charles L. Brautigan, Mrs. E. Boyd Birch,
Mrs. Elsie Breese Mitchell and Mrs. W. B.
Carson.
Among the patronesses are Mrs. Carl E.
Cosolowsky, Mrs. John S. Sloan, Mrs. John
H. Phillips, Mrs. Carson, Mrs. Walter R.
Fleming, Mrs. Robert Alexander, Mrs. Chest­
er F. Johnston, Mrs. Emily D. Boydston, Mrs.
Earl B. Co'lins, Mrs. Gearhart, The Outlook
Alliance, Mrs. McKnight, Mrs. Birch, Mrs.
Burns, Mrs. Baird, Mrs. Edward Breese, Mrs.
Elsie Breese Mitchell, Mrs. Ross I. Davis,
Mrs. Brautigan, Miss Estelle Venn, Mrs. Eva
Baur, Mrs. S. B. Kelley, Mrs. J. C. Armor,
Mrs. John H. Bricker, Mrs. Joseph Calcateer,
Mrs. John Blair Elliott, Mrs. Elizabeth Starrett,
Mrs. Warren E. Trigg, Mrs. C. C. Elste,
Mrs. E. A. Ford Barnes, Miss Mayme Wirth
and Mrs. J. J. Schill.
This afternoon a meeting of the Wellesley
Club will be held in the home of Miss Eda
McCoy, South Negley Avenue. Mrs. Roswell
Johnson will speak of a recent visit to Wellesley
for the meeting of graduate counsellors
and plans will be discussed for sponsoring
the opening night of "The Mikado," which
comes to the Alvin Theatre the evening of
March nineteenth in a repertoire of the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas.
For the benefit of its fund the Women's
Scholarship Organization of Carnegie Institute
of Technology will sponsor a performance
of "Oh Kay" in the Alvin Theatre Monday
evening, February twenty-seventh.
Included in the list of patrons are Miss Mary
Watson Green, Miss Mary B. Breed, Mrs.
John L. Porter, Mrs. Samuel Harden Church,
Miss Ida M. Allerton, Mrs. Carroll Miller,
Miss Martha S. Nutall and Glendenning
Keeble.
recording secretary, and Mrs. Philip S.
Schouert, treasurer.
Wednesday afternoon, February twentysecond,
the Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, will give their
annual luncheon in celebration of George
Washington's Birthday, in the Hotel Schenley,
at one o'clock. The Rev. Dr. Henry R.
Browne, pastor of the Shields Presbyterian
Church, will pronounce the invocation;
Thomas Patterson will make an address on
"George Washington" and there will be music
in charge of Victor Saudek. Mrs. Biddle
Arthurs, regent of the chapter, will preside
and Mrs. Howard H. McClintic, fourth vice
regent, is in charge of the luncheon.
In honor of its president, Mrs. James
Myers, the Business and Professional Women's
Club will give a reception after Mrs.
Myers returns from her wedding trip. Plans
were discussed at a meeting of the club Tuesday
evening in The Fort Pitt with the first
vice president, Mrs. Alberta Hull, in the
chair. Mrs. Myers, before her marriage in
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church Monday
afternoon, was Miss Mary Jane Clark.
Monday evening the Women's Press Club
of Pittsburgh celebrated its thirty-seventh
anniversary at a dinner in the Womans City
Club, The William Penn, with Mrs. Madeline
Young Love, the president, presiding. Miss
Helen Donnelly was chairman of the committee
in charge of the dinner and Mrs. Anne
Ryan Lesh was editor-in-chief of the biannual
edition of The Waste Basket, the
club's paper. Members represented books.
The cleverest characterization prize went to
Miss Gertrude Gordon and Miss Bernice
Shine won the prize for guessing the greatest
number of titles.
Mrs. Stephen L. Goodale, Mrs. J. Faber
Haupt, Mrs. Howard N. Eavenson, Mrs.
Ralph E. Davis, Mrs. Maurice D. Cooper and
Mrs. Robert F. Metcalfe, president of the
Pittsburgh Chapter United Daughters of the
Mrs. Thomas Nunan have gone to New York
to attend the annual meeting of the Ameri­
Confederacy, presided at the business and
social meeting of the chapter held at the
can Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Hotel Schenley yesterday afternoon. Several
Engineers, which will open February twenty- proposed changes in the By-laws and Constifirst.
The Woman's Auxiliary expects to tution were voted on.
elect Mrs. Herbert Hoover for its National
president. The convention will last several
days and there will be numerous dinners and Thursday, June seventh has been chosen
luncheons, with a banquet and ball to close by the Civic Club of Allegheny County as the
festivities.
At the recent annual meeting of the Pittsburgh
Section of the Woman's Auxiliary of
date for the annual Flower Market.
the Institute, the following officers were Washington's Birthday will be observed by
elected: Mrs. Frederick Crabtree, chairman; The Tourists at their meeting Monday after­
Mrs. Tom M. Girdler, Mrs. James C. Rea, vice noon, February twentieth, in Congress Club­
chairmen; Mrs. Charles J. Angstrum, corhouse. Mrs. J. Charles Wilson is in charge
responding secretary; Mrs. Russell McMillen, of the program. , i