Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 May 1937, p. 70

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of the Association of the Junior Leagues of America to be-se-' lected"by thé delegates from the 145. meniber leagues at. the ani- nual association conference in Chicago May 17-21. 'She is the' unopposed candidate f or the of- fice of secretary, to succeed her-* self, and will be: elected -for a two year terrn. Mrs. Philipp was appointed secre- tary last May to fi11 the unexpired term *of Mrs. Peter L. Harvie, who *às elected «president ofthe asso- ciation at that time. The only other officer to be elected this rnonth is Mrs. William Ellery Bright, Jr., of Worcester, Mass., can- didate for the vice-presidency. k 1egienal direceo~f -fiive -of the' association% s fine regions will also - e *elected at the conf erence. They. will becone. members of the central organization'S board of directors to represent the leagues in their regions for the next two years. The Association of Junior Leagues of Arnerica board of directors con- sists of the p»esident, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, directors of nine president, ofthte state lecleratoiT, wuil open the convention Tuesday.rnorn- ing at 9 o'clock, and formally. close it at a banquet Thursday evening, May, 13, in the ballroom of the Pere Marquette ,hotel, the headquarters of the cptivention., Peoria; after the organization of the Illinois lkderation convention ini Chicago in the vear 1934, Wgs hostess to its first annual convention ini 1895. Since then it has entertained this delegation two times. A'program of varied interest bas, been evolved. A symposium,, "Edu-, cation for a Living," will be presented by four talented women together With the banquet speaker, a world- wide figure. Speakers of note and proininence witb informative -mes- ons U nooti ;t, to- Mrs. Rodney Starkweather, a nkewd»njier të? Winnefka, having ,d the movcd to 351 Linden avenue from Aith a Evalisto;n just Iast zweek, is a memn- ed by ber of the ways and means commit- and a tee of the Cripiled Children's So- igram.- ciety of 1Evanston which is having been its drive for funds during the ,nonthi th de- of May. Tau cflapter of iKappa Aflpna Theta at Northwestern universi- ty, a ,birthday lunche'on. will be held Eridayý, June 11, at; 12,:30 o'clock,' at' the Orringtoni hotel in Evanston.. The invitation is, being sent out this week in Tau TaIk, the newspaper the college chapter sends to its six-hundred, initiates. Plans for the, celebration are bei ng made by officers of Tau: association. Mrs. Donald E. Nichols of Highland Park,. president, bas appcpted Mrs.. Ericsson F. McLaughlin as general chairman. Mrs. Duncan O. Welty, ,Jr., h as charge of reservations with Mrs. Walter Goettsch assisting. Mrs.: Wil- liam C. Henning heads the decorating' plan an appropriate stunt. Mrs. Nichols bas invited Genevieve Forbes Herrick, one of Tan chapter's favorite daughters, to corne f rom Washington, D. C., to be the toast- mistress. Mrs. D. Bligh Grasett of Winnetka, national president of Kappa Alpha Theta, and a 'Northwestern alumna, the E-vanst4 regstrations anston, the quarters in, Jiîwauicee league. day were days of r the conference, )r league taking clubroo ms iEv- league at head- y. The registra- Catholie Club Wins Press Bookc Award The iudges of the Teintli, Circle meetings for St. John's itheran church for the month of ay are announced in the follow- Sorder: May 5, Children's circle. o'clock, at home of Mrs. Walter eimer, 2020 Grant street, Evanstoin. Miay 10, the Young Mother's circlv, 8 in the evening, at the home' of rs. John MeClean, 1522 Central Other members of the general coin- mittee are Alta D. Miller, Mrs. Frank T. Murray, Mrs. R. C. Harrer, Mrs. Walter C. Vaaler, Mrs. W. E. Schroe- der, Mrs. 'A. L. Reincke, Virginia Haskell, and three members of the college Ichapter, Virginia Burnham, Mary Alsted; and Cam Juvinegan. uic îague' man.d to attend. motners art the league's

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