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THE INDEX, Saturday, May 26, 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
LILLIAN Fresh Air Home, at Valencia,
has made out its vacation list for the
season and those who dwell in the
tenement districts of the city and are fortunate
enough to be among those who will be
given a ten-day outing in the country, are
anxiously waiting for the time of their departures.
The first party will be at the Plome
from June twenty-fifth to July sixth; the
second from July ninth to twentieth; the
third, July twenty-third to August third; the
fourth, August sixth to seventeenth and the
last group goes August twentieth, to return
the last day of that month.
More than four months ago requests for
information about the Fresh Air Home began
coming into Kingsley House, proof in itself
of what Lillian Home means to the mothers
and their small children. Each Summer it is
a question of grave concern whether Kingsley
House shall have only four parties in the
country, or risk the fifth, with the probability
of a large deficit.
Cards have been sent out by the Board of
Managers of the Protestant Home for Incurables
for the forty-third anniversary and
annual reception at the Home, Thursday
afternoon, May thirty-first, from two until
five o'clock. Mrs. William E. McKelvy, of
Westminster Place, is treasurer of the Board.
Mrs. William Thaw has been re-elected
president of the Women's Auxiliary Board to
the Association for the Improvement of the
Poor; Miss Sara Frazer has been elected to
the Women's Board; E. W. Smith and A. W.
Robertson have been elected to the Board of
Trustees. The other officers of the Association,
all re-elected, are: President, Daniel M.
Clemson; vice presidents, I. W. Frank, S. L.
Tone, Norwood Johnston and E. E. McCoy;
treasurer, Howard Irish; the Rev. Dr. Maitland
Alexander, Reade W. Bailey, R. D.
Campbell, A. P. Childs, H. L. Childs, W. St.
Clair Childs, Dr. W. M. Davidson, George D.
Edwards, Dr. Ogden M. Edwards, Jr., James
D. Hailman, John W. Herron, W. A. Harbison,
W. W. Matson, the Rev. Dr. Clarence E.
McCartney, the Rev. Dr. William L. McEwan,
Frank C. Pierson, Dr. F. V. Wooldridge, H.
W. Shepard, secretary and general manager.
On the Women's Board, in addition to Mrs.
Thaw, are Mrs. James Hay Reed, acting president;
Mrs. William H. Cassidy, Mrs. R. E.
Brenneman, Mrs. Josiah Cohen, Miss Elizabeth
L. Dickey, vice presidents; Mrs. William
A. Seifert, secretary; Mrs. William N. Frew,
chairman of relief; Mrs. J. C. Smith, chairman
of fresh air home; Mrs. Biddle Arthurs,
Mrs. E. V. Babcock, Mrs. T. H. Bakewell, Mrs.
Martin N. Ballard, Mrs. E. M. Balsinger, Mrs.
James P. Cassidy, Mrs. Daniel M. Clemson,
Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards, Jr., Mrs. Frank
Everson, Mrs. George W. Guthrie, Miss Julia
M. Harding, Mrs. W. S. Horner, Mrs. George
A. Howe, Mrs. Norwood Johnston, Mrs. Joseph
Jones, Mrs. Raymond Kaufmann, Mrs.
Hugh Thomson Kerr, Mrs. John M. Lazear,
Mrs. Malcolm W. Leech, Jr., Mrs. W. II. Nimick,
Jr., Mrs. William Price, Mrs. William M.
Robinson, Mrs. Wallace H. Rowe, Mrs. William
Scott, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Miss Annie
Williams, Miss Velma D. Williams, Mrs. J.
Knowles Woodwell and Mrs. Thruston
Wright. Mrs. John R. McCune and Mrs. W.
W. Wattles are honorary members.
During the past year the Association cared
for 191 families weekly; supplied 131,247
free meals and approximately 54,000 free
lodgings. The incomes from the various resources
amounted to $211,903.67, the expenditures
amounted to $210,509.20.
Monday, at the annual election of the Federation
of Girls' School Societies in the University
Club, following a luncheon, Mrs. Ambrose
N. Diehl was re-elected president; Mrs.
Charles L. Snowdon, Jr., Mrs. Frederic T.
Billings, Mrs. Herbert A. May and Miss Helen
Leovy were elected vice presidents; Miss
Geraldine West was re-elected secretary and
Mrs. David E. Jackman, Jr., treasurer, with
Miss Elizabeth Telfer as corresponding secretary
and Miss Harriet Patterson assistant
treasurer. Mrs. James I. Marsh was elected
chairman of the House Committee for the
coming year, Mrs. Augustus K. Oliver of the
Garden Committee and Miss Lillian Dermitt,
Social Service Department. The Nominating
Committee included Mrs. Maitland Alexander,
chairman, Miss Augusta Leovy, Mrs.
Walter F. Schleiter, Mrs. Joseph H. Holmes
and Mrs. Walter Laird. Miss Mary Shiras
was in charge of the luncheon.
Miss Helen Leovy is general chairman for
the annual charity ball which will be given
December twenty-seventh.
The following committee chairmen are in
charge of the fourth annual kirmess that the
Congress of Clubs will give in the Alvin Theatre
at eight o'clock the evening of Friday,
June eighth, under the direction of Karl
Heinrich; Mrs. Carl E. Cosolowsky, president
of the Congress; Mrs. Ralph C. Shaw, general
chairman; Mrs. Thomas P. Otto, co-chairman;
Mrs. William J. Price, publicity; Mrs.
D. F. H. McDowell, hostesses; Mrs. D. Edwin
Miller, patronesses; Miss Helen Bennett, costumes
; Miss Lillian Coleman, programs; Mrs.
W. E. Miller, tickets; Mrs. William Powell,
Jr., ushers; Mrs. H. B. Holt, properties; Mrs.
S. S. Miller, wardrobes.
Monday evening, May twenty-eighth, Mrs.
William Terrell Johnson will give a reception
at her home in Forbes Street, in honor of
Mrs. H. Windsor Wade and General and Mrs.
Robert Lee Bullard, who are touring the
country on behalf of the Leonard Wood
Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy.
Under the general supervision of James M.
Magee, Mrs. Johnson is chairman of the
Women's Committee in charge of raising
Pittsburgh's share of the $2,000,000 fund
MRS. BIDDLE ARTHURS
needed to perfect the world-wide cure of lep­
Retiring regent of the Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters rosy. On Mrs. Johnson's committee are Mrs.
of the American Revolution, at a luncheon given in George B. Berger, Mrs. Henry Clay Bugh-
her honor Tuesday by Mrs. Robert T. Reineman, at man, Jr., Mrs. George H. Calvert, Mrs. Clin­
her home in Devonshire Street, was presented with ton L. Childs, Mrs. Samuel Harden Church,
a silver vase in appreciation of her services during her
Mrs. Henry M. Curry, Jr., Mrs. George Greer
regency. The Executive Board made the gift, which
was presented by Mrs. Reineman.
Coolidge, Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl, Mrs. Jos­
This afternoon, at half past two o'clock, the eph Dilworth, Mrs. Percy E. Donner, Mrs. J.
regular meeting of the Goucher Alumnae As­ Frank Drake, Mrs. H. D. W. English, Mrs. A.
sociation, Pittsburgh Branch, will be held in Rex Flinn, Mrs. William Frew, Mrs. William
the home of Mrs. F. C. Hoenniger, Banbury M. Hall, Mrs. Howard Heinz, Mrs. Jerome
Lane, Ben Avon Heights.
Hill, Mrs. L. M. Johnston, Mrs. John W. Lawrence,
Mrs. James M. Magee, Mrs. Grant Mc­
Cargo, Mrs. Samuel A. McCIung, Mrs. William
S. Moorhead, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, Mrs.
L. F. Robinson, Mrs. James Verner Scaife,
Mrs. James M. Schoonmaker, Jr., and Mrs.
Eric Fisher Wood.
At the recent annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
Society of Colonial Dames of America,
in the home of Mrs. Edward G. Caughey,
Sewickley, Mrs. Alexander Laughlin presided
in the absence of the chairman, Mrs. William
M. McKelvy. Mrs. Marcellin C. Adams was
elected chairman and Mrs. Daniel E. Nevin
secretary.