Women's Service League Makes Plans






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24 November 1931
Brooklyn Daily Sandard

    Mrs. Percy R. GRAY of 12 Clark street was hostess to the members of the
National League for Women's Service, of which Mrs. Walter GIBB, now of 920
Fifth avenue, Manhattan, is chairman.

    Plans were made for the league's chief event of its year, the annual
theater party.  This winter it is to take place on the night of Tuesday,
Jan. 26.  This theater party, which is one of the most widely known in New
York and has been given each winter for a number of years, is for the
purpose of raising funds for the work of the league, now undertakes the
providing of comforts and luxuries for the ex-service men now in government
hospitals close to New York, veterans of the World War, who though fifteen
years have passed since the Armistice, are still uncured.  The league has a
special committee for visiting these hospitals frequently.

    There were present at this league meeting :
Mrs. Walter GIBBS, 
Mrs. S. Edwin BUCHANAN, 
Miss Minnie Belle GEARY, 
Mrs. Edward C. BLUM, 
Mrs. Walter Monfort MESEROLE, 
Mrs. Robert Gerard WILLIAMS, 
Mrs. Cromwell CHILDE, 
Miss Mabel T. CROSBY, 
Mrs. Percy R. GRAY.

    Plans were made not only for the theater party but for a tea, to be held
at Mrs. GIBB's home on the afternoon of Dec. 7.  This tea is to further the
work of the theater party.  A feature of this year, in connection with the
league's work, is the establishment of a new active committee, which will
consist of twenty-five Brooklyn and Manhattan women. 
 
The chairman of this active committee is Mrs. Walter Monfort MESEROLE.

    Others of note in the league, which, so far as is known, is the only
feminine organization of Great War times still functioning, are :
Mrs. S. Edwin BUCHANAN, 
Mrs. John ANDERSON, 
Mrs. Thomas L. LEEMING, 

Mrs. Henry H. ESSELSTYN 
(who is chairman of the ex-service men's committee, which visits the hospitals), 

Mrs. Harrison CADY, 
Mrs. James Guthre SHAW, 
Mrs. Burt Foss NICHOLS, 
Mrs. Frederick D. MacKAY, 
Miss Caroline Deming CAMP, 
Mrs. Lewis Mills GIBB, 
Mrs. Jacob H. SHAFFER, 
Mrs. William Hamlin CHILDS, 
Mrs. J.J. Broes VAN HEEKEREN, 
Mrs. Edward T. HORWILL, 
Mrs. Eugene J. GRANT, 
Mrs. Charles E. SPRATT, 
Mrs. Edwin Moore CRAGIN, 
Mrs. Charles A. HOUGH 
Mrs. Spencer A. JENNINGS.

Transcriber: Barbara Stein
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