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THE INDEX, Saturday, March 17, 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
With "Around the World to Observe an
Eclipse of the Sun" as his subject, Dr. II. D.
Curtis, director of the Allegheny Observatory,
will give an illustrated lecture before
the College Club of Pittsburgh at its meeting-
Friday afternoon, March twenty-third. Hostesses
for the day will be Mrs. Edward J.
Deckerman, chairman, Mrs. Charles C. Cooper,
Mrs. Frank D. Newbury, Mrs. Joseph H.
Barach, Mrs. William H. Phillips and Miss
Roberta Tener Johns. Mrs. Cooper and Mrs.
Newbury will pour at the tea that will follow
Dr. Curtis' lecture.
Pittsburgh Chapter of Goucher Alumnae
Association will give its annual Spring luncheon
in the University Club at one o'clock
Saturday, March twenty-fourth. Mrs. Carl
T. Johnston is chairman of the committee
and assisting her are Miss Mary Freese, Mrs.
C. D. W. Birmingham and Mrs. F. C. Hoenniger.
The Department of Philanthropy of the
Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley is sponsoring
the presentation of a group of short
plays in the Edgeworth Club at three o'clock
Monday afternoon, March nineteenth, by
forty children of the Industrial Home for
Crippled Children. Mrs. James W. Arrott,
III., is chairman for the afternoon.
April seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
Pittsburgh will observe its fifth week
for the blind, under auspices of the Pennsylvania
Association for the Blind, with headquarters
in the Wabash Building. April nineteenth
has been chosen as Protestant day and
plans for it were made Wednesday when
women of several Protestant denominations
met in the Workshop for the Blind.
Mrs. Edwin S. Fickes was appointed chairman,
with Mrs. John S. Gibson, Jr., and Mrs.
Joseph Home Holmes as first and second
assistants. The following special chairmen
have been appointed for the day: Mrs. Harry
Graham, sales chairman; Mrs. N. C. McQuillan,
tea-room; Mrs. A. S. Houston, checkroom;
Mrs. D. M. Kinzer, escort; Mrs. J. M.
Crumrine, receipts; Mrs. R. H. Lee, information;
Mrs. T. S. Loring, press, and Mrs.
Albert Apfelbach, publicity.
A St. Patrick's Day dinner will be given
this evening in the Parish House of St.
Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Fifth
and Craft Avenues. Following the dinner
Katherine Mayo's book, "Mother India," will
be the subject of a debate at eight o'clock
between Mrs. Annette Thackwell Johnson, a
member of the Authors' Club, who spent her
childhood in India, the daughter of Missionary
parents, and Prafulla Mukerji, a Hindu
graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.
The committee in charge, David Friedman,
chairman, Professor Oscar I. Harter, Nathan
B. Jacobs, Richard S. Rauh, Joseph Goldhammer,
Israel Greenberger, David Lencher, Dr.
Louis Markowitz, Miss Frances Silverman
and Miss Florence Middleman, has arranged
a program.
Mrs. Paul Farragher, chairman of the
Finance Committee of the Woman's Club of
Oakmont, has announced a concert to be
given in the auditorium of the Oakmont High
School Friday evening, March twenty-third,
by the Pitt Glee Club. The Juniors' Department
of the club is planning a mothers' tea
for April, also a meeting of the Tri-Boroughs
Girls' Club lor April second.
Tuesday, March twenty-seventh, the club
will give its annual musicale in the peacockroom
at The Willows, when the presidents of
out of town clubs will be honor guests.
The Womans City Club regular Sunday
afternoon musicale and tea will be given to­
MISS ELIZABETH LUPTON SCOTT
morrow under the direction of the Program
Has been added to the Stage and Play Society Committee. cast The artist guest will be Joseph
that will produce "The Romantic Age" Wednesday
Esposito, one of the younger musicians of
evening, March twenty-first, in Carnegie Music Hall.
the city. The program will be given prompt­
In honor of the seventieth birthday annily at five o'clock and a social hour, with tea,
versary of Mrs. Moses Ruslander, alumni and will follow, at six. Mr. Esposito has arranged
former teachers of the McKees Rocks Re­
the following program:
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ligious School will give a dinner in Webster
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Hall at seven o'clock tomorrow evening. In
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1905 Mrs. Ruslander organized the first of
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cil of Jewish Women at McKees Rocks where Etude C sharp minor Op. 25
she then made her home. Under her guid­ Scherzo C shaip minor
ance it speedily became a model for other re­ Juggleres.s Moszkowski
ligious schools in Western Pennsylvania. Waldesrauehen - Liszt
Mrs. W. E. Hamnett and Mrs. Verner Gaggin
will preside at the tea table. The following
aides will assist: Mrs. George Seibel, Mrs.
A. P. Brill, Mrs. Jasper C. Ackerman, Miss
Marion Jobson, Miss Dorothy Liggett, Miss
Mary Creque, Miss Karen Fladoes and Miss
Mary Hulsman. Mrs. George S. Baton is in
charge of the Program Committee.
A business session at ten o'clock this
morning brings to a close the fourth annual
council of the Alumnae Association of the
Pennsylvania College for Women. The Friday
meeting opened with an address of welcome
by President Cora Helen Coolidge, followed'by
reports from the Association officers
and faculty and student representatives from
the National conferences. Official reports included
statements from Mrs. George Swan,
vice president; Mrs. Ralph Frank, recording
secretary; Miss Helen Minor, corresponding
secretary, and Miss Janet Hill, treasurer.
The alumnae were guests of Miss Coolidge
at a luncheon and of the faculty at tea. Last
MRS. ALBERT P. RIGHTO^
evening they attended the initial performance
of the original play "The Adventurer,"
Is president of the Wilson College Club, vhich
written by Margaret Woolridge and Kath-
have its annual Easier luncheon March twenty-fourth
eryn Watkins, students in the college.
in the Hotel Schenley.