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THE INDEX, Saturday, January 14, 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
at the First Baptist Church, will give a recital
of old songs, with harp accompaniments
by Mr. Caughey.
In honor of Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman,
president of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, trees are being planted all
over the country by State federations, d'strict
and county federations and individual
club members. The idea originated with Miss
Vida Newsom, of Columbus, Indiana, chairman
of highways and memorial tree planting.
The plan is specially appropriate as Mrs.
Sherman, before becoming president of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs, was
known as "National Park Lady" on account
of the large and definite part she took in the
creation of Rocky Mountain National Park
and Grand Canyon National Park, also in the
creation of National Park service.
Dr. Ransom E. Somers, geologist and consulting
engineer, will speak on "Earthquakes
and Volcanoes" at the meeting of the College
Club Friday afternoon, January twentieth.
Mrs. Walter S. Church will be chairman of
hostesses and assisting her will be Mrs. Martin
N. Ballard, Mrs. Thomas W. Pomeroy,
Mrs. H. Ryerson Decker, Mrs. Austin L.
George and Miss Eleanor Clark. Mrs. Ballard
and Mrs. Pomeroy will pour at the tea
following Dr. Somers' talk.
Friday, January twentieth, the Woman's
Club of Crafton will have an evening with
the Juniors in Craft Club Hall, with the
Junior Section serving as hostesses and the
Woman's Club giving the program. Mrs. L.
B. Perrin will be the leader. Mrs. J. R. Barclay
will give a "History of Pennsylvania
Newspapers" and Mrs. L. G. Wentz will have
as her subject "Historical Sketch of Allegheny
County." There will be music and a
book review, Mrs. E. V. Braden contributing
the latter.
The January twentieth meeting of the
Woman's Club of Oakland in the Hotel Schenley
will be in charge of the Civic Juvenile
Court Committee which includes Mrs. Carrie
McCandless, Mrs. J. Salisbury, Mrs. J. W.
Burnett, Mrs. W. G. Mullen, Mrs. P. J. Mc-
Donough, Mrs. H. F. Marker, Mrs. A. Reagan
and Mrs. E. M. Robbins. The ushers will be
Mrs. C. C. McCarthy and Miss Marie Mc­
Gregor.
Wednesday morning, January eighteenth,
Shirley Mason will address the Woman's Alliance
of the First Unitarian Church, Morewood
and Ellsworth Avenue, at eleven
o'clock, with "Romance of the Rocks" as his
subject. Mr. Mason is the son of the Rev.
Dr. and Mrs. L. Walter Mason. The former
is pastor of the church. The usual luncheon
will follow Mr. Mason's talk.
The annual election of officers is to take
place at the meeting of the Woman's Club of
Pittsburgh January seventeenth in Congress
Clubhouse. The hostesses will be Mrs. George
L. Price and Mrs. Edward Rahm.
On account of the death on Monday of Mrs.
Martyn K. Coster, one of its vice presidents,
tion ; Mrs. Robert Heppenstall vice president;
Miss Elizabeth Daugherty secretary and Miss
Julia Ellis treasurer.
March fifth the Association will give a
bridge party for members.
Mrs. Agnes M. Scandrett, of Tenafly, New
Jersey, is spending the week in Pittsburgh
visiting friends and will be the guest of Mrs.
Alfred R. Hamilton, of Woodland Road, over
the week-end. The last of January Mrs.
Scandrett, who is a sister of Mr. Dwight
Morrow, United States Ambassador to Mexico,
leaves for a cruise to South America and
Africa.
Branch, Chatham Street last night officially
opened the campaign which is to close January
twenty-third. Mrs. Henry Clay McEldowney,
a member of the Metropolitan Board
of Directors of the Y. W. C. A. in Pittsburgh,
heads the budget week Executive Committee
and John W. Thompson, of the Union bank,
will be the treasurer. Nearly four hundred
women are working on the teams. The assignment
of team captains follows:
No. 1—Mrs. R. D. Campbell and Mrs.
James McCann. No. 2—Mrs. T. U. Chesebrough
and Mrs. James G. Geegan. No. 3—
Mrs. Anna McQuiston Collins and Mrs.
Thomas Hannah. No. 4—Miss Eleanor
Demmler. No. 5—Miss Mildred Eiler. No.
6—Mrs. Clinton Fisher and Miss Jean Mc-
Kinney. No. 7—Mrs. Elmer W. Flaccus. No.
8—Mrs. John M. Irwin. No. 9—Miss Roberta
T. Johns. No. 10—Mrs. Walter Leonard and
Miss Gertrude Bradshaw. No. 11—Miss
Edna Love. No. 12—Mrs. W. Clark Maxwell
and Mrs. A. E. Duckham. No. 13—Mrs. Howard
Power and Mrs. W. J. Gilmore. No. 14—
Mrs. James C. Rea. No. 15—Mrs. Frank E.
Willson and Mrs. C. K. Robinson. No. 16—
Mrs. C. B. Aylesworth. No. 18—Mrs. Arthur
W. Taylor.
Team No. 17 is known as the business
women's division. Captains are Mrs. J. Mc-
Intire, Miss Laura Hoffman, Miss Genevieve
Miller, Miss Geraldine Ohnmeis, Miss Ann
MRS. CORNELIA STRATTON PARKER Schmidt, Mrs. Helen Keller, Miss Zara Archi­
Will speak in Carnegie Music Hall the evening bald, Miss of Ann Olson and Miss Mildred Dud­
Tuesday, January seventeenth, under the auspices of ley.
the Young Women's Christian Association, Central
Branch.
The January meeting of the American As­
the Southern Club postponed the meeting
sociation of University Women, has been
that was to have been held yesterday in the
postponed from the twelfth of the month to
Hotel Schenley.
the twenty-first, when Arthur Sterry Coggeshall,
curator of Public Education at Car­
Mrs. Evan Jones has been re-elected presinegie Museum, will speak on "Turning Back
dent of the Ellis School Alumnae Associa­ the Clock Ten Million Years."
With Miss Ida M. Allerton as general
chairman, eighteen teams yesterday went
into action to raise .f 140,000 in eleven days
for the Young Women's Christian Association,
to cover the 1928 budget for the Y. W.
C. A. in Pittsburgh. A dinner in Central
Mrs. Edgar R. Wall will be hostess at the
January nineteenth meeting of the Epoch
Club. The following program has been arranged
for the day: "Historical Ruins," Mrs.
George Oliver; "Food," Mrs. Lamont H. Button;
"Music and Other Arts," Mrs. Edward
E. Baker; "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer"—
G. H. Palmer, Mrs. Morris Slocum.
Monday evening, January sixteenth, the
Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Panhellenic
Association will meet in Congress Clubhouse
at eight o'clock. Plans will be completed
for the benefit card party to be given
at Gimbel's February fourth.
The second quarterly meeting- of the Congress
of Clubs and club women of Western
Pennsylvania will be held Wednesday, January
twenty-fifth, beginning at ten o'clock in
the morning. The Nominating Committee