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10 THE INDEX, Saturday, June 23, 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 annual meeting of the Junior
League of Pittsburgh, held, following the
usual luncheon, in the Pittsburgh Golf Club
last week, the election took place as follows:
President, Miss Augusta Leovy, (re-elected) ;
vice presidents, Miss Priscilla Hall and Miss
Helen Leovy; recording secretary, Mrs. J.
Sidney Hammond; corresponding secretary,
Miss Evelyn Fawell Evans; treasurer, Mrs.
John F. Walton, Jr., with Miss Anna K.
Childs as assistant treasurer.
As a new project, the League is sponsoring
a Little Theatre for Children, to be opened
in the Fall. The location will be determined
upon and announced later. Marionette plays,
among others, will be given. Mrs. Charles
L. Snowdon, Jr., who is chairman of the project,
has planned to have the marionettes
made by League members. The plan is to
have two performances of each play, one with
rather a high admission fee, to be sponsored
by prominent women, the other for the school
children and crippled children of Pittsburgh.
Among those assisting Mrs. Snowdon are
Mrs. Frederick G. Blackburn, Miss Mary Carroll,
Miss Rhoda Drew, Mrs. Herbert A. May,
Miss Cora McClay, Miss Ellen McClay, Mrs.
Charles Scribner and Mrs. Ruth Rogers.
Mrs. Ralph W. Harbison entertained the
Women's Overseas Service League at the last
meeting of the season at her home, Walmer,
Pine Road, Sewickley. The following officers
were elected: President, Miss Edythe Davidson
; vice presidents, Mrs. Joseph J. Lynch,
Mrs. William Shepard; recording secretary,
Mrs. Arthur Turner; corresponding secretary,
Miss Anne Marlin; treasurer, Miss Rose
Brady. Permanent trustees, elected for the
pension fund, Miss Mary Gray, Miss Rose
Brady and Miss Josephine Hammond.
Delegates to the National convention, to
be held next week in Boston, are: Miss Mary
Gray and Mrs. Arthur Turner, with Miss
Elma Belle Miller and Miss Frances E. Shirley
as alternates.
Miss Martha Shields Brooks, chairman of
the Junior Section of the Women's Auxiliary
of the Allegheny General Hospital, is in
charge of the program for the Sewickley
Kennel Club show, June thirtieth, in the
horse show ring at the Allegheny Country
Club, proceeds from which will be devoted to
social service work at the hospital. Miss
Brooks is being assisted by Mrs. George A.
Kelly, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Jones, III.,
and Miss Clodagh McCune, in addition to the
rest of the membership of the auxiliary. Mrs.
Charles Frederick Holdship is chairman of
arrangements for luncheon, which will be
served from a booth on the grounds; Miss
Priscilla Brown will be in charge of a vege­
table booth, where vegetables contributed
from farms on Sewickley Heights, will be
sold.
Twenty-five silver cups are to be won by
canine contestants and already three hundred
dogs, of thirty different breeds, are entered
from Western Pennsylvania, with a large
proportion entered by young Sewickley Valley
owners. The horse show ring is to be
covered by a huge tent for the occasion.
The judges are Ralph English, of Port
Mathilda, Pennsylvania, who will judge sporting
dogs; Louis Walther, of Pittsburgh, who
is to judge the non-sporting dogs, and G. V.
Glebe, of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, who will
judge the terriers, of which there are about
fifteen different breeds.
Mrs. William Christopher Robinson is
chairman of the Women's Board of the hospital;
Mrs. George L. Collord, secretary, and
Mrs. Christian Ihmsen Shannon, treasurer.
The members are Mrs. Harvey Norton Van
Voorhis, Mrs. Harmar D. Denny, Mrs. Robert
Milligan, Mrs. Alexander Laughlin, Jr., Mrs.
Charles Frederick Holdship, Miss Eleanor
Chalfant, Mrs. Walter S. Mitchell, Mrs.
Henry Chalfant, Mrs. A. Marshall Bell, Mrs.
George H. Calvert, Mrs. Henry Robinson Rea,
Mrs. William Booth Trainer, Mrs. Maitland
Alexander, Mrs. William Bacon Schiller, Miss
Eleanor Kelly and Mrs. J. Frederic Byers.
P a t r o n e s s e s A t C i v i c C l u b G a r d e n P a r t y
MRS WALLACE HURTTE ROWE MRS. CHARLES M. REPPERT MRS. DANIEL M. CLEMSON
Thev are among those who have taken tables for the bridge that is to be a feature of the garden party that the Civic Club of Allegheny County is giving
this afternoon at As You Like It, the Sewickley Heights home of Mrs. William Thaw, Jr.