Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1947 — Page 25

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NEW YORK, June 27 (V, P.).~The révolt against the national leadFederation of Women's Clubs threatened to flare

| resolution urging that no discrimi-

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ren, Whiting, Is Elected | ent of Federation

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L. Fuller, Brockton,-Mass., as treasurer, Mrs; Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whiting, Ind, was elected second vice president over Mrs. Thurston Roberts, Jacksonville, Fla. the election for recording secretary will be announced today. The Stratton. bill resolution was not a dead issue, however, and the group of women favoring it was re-

sented today. If so, the contest would be on again. s A resolution to’ partially offset the rejection was to have been presented yesterday, but leaders advised against it.

‘Rent Control Action Is Short-Sighted'

Mrs. LaFell Dickinson, retiring president, sald yesterday's action on rent-control was “short-sighted” and “motivated by selfish interests.” “There's something working here we don't understand,” she said. “A bloe here—a bloc there.” The successful opposition to the resolution favoring continuation of rent control was led by Mrs. Laura Gorton, a real estate broker and former president of the Connecticut state federation, who said the control worked hardship on the many widows and other women who owned property. Mrs, Horace B. Ritchie, chairman of the resolutions committee, said the purpose of the resolution was “to put us behind the young people who are trying so hard to become home-makers of this country.” * The federation adopted another resolution - permitting it to participate in an effort to obtain a minimum average standard salary for teachers, consistent with a proper standard of living, and to begin a nationwide teacher recruitment program to get qualified instructors. Objecting to what they called “a trend toward discharging women employees in industrial retrenchments,” the delegates adopted a

nation be shown because of sex.’

STOCKHOLM-—According to Miss Gerda Hojer of this city, newly elected president of the .International Council of Nurses, young women throughout the world are

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By LOUISE FLETCHER Times Woman's Editor

IT BEGINS to look as if the Hoosiers are out to corral all the upper bracket offices in national women’s organizations.

The capital city’s Miss Sally Butler started things last summer when she got herself elected president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women. Then last month came the elec tion of Mrs. Roscoe C, O'Byrne of Brookville to the office of president gerleral in the Daughters of the American Revolution. And yesterday in New York, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren, Whiting, collected the votes that made her second vice president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs —an outfit whose more than 3 million members make it the biggest women’s organization’ in the world. Of course the second vice presidency is a couple of steps from the top‘office—but if G. F. W. C. precedent is. maintained, Mus. Ahlgren in the next few years will move almost automatically up to the presidency.

” ” . IMPORTANT executive positiohs are nothing new to Mildred Ahlgren. ‘For the past three years she has been the general federation's recording secretary. She also has served as dean of directors on its executive committee and’'as a member of its resolutions committee. In the Indiana Federation of Clubs, she worked through the offices of treasurer, first vice president, president and director —in addition to holding a number of district and county offices. During the war, while she was chairman of the women's division of the Indiana war finance committee, she carried out a “million dollar war bond luncheon” - project which drew attention from all over the country. She was one of five women asked by the U. 8. treasury to help plan the post-war savings bond program for women. Her record for.geiting things done has led to her appointment on several governmental committees. The Governor named her to the women’s committee ‘of the Indiana war history commission, of which she is chairman. Another appointment by the

iia are ahead for Mrs. Oscar A.

Ahlgren, Whiting, lected yester-

day to the second vice presidency of the General Federation of

Women's Clubs.

Governor made her the only woman member of the Indiana planning commission and the Indiana personnel board. In addi to "handling 'all these, she is active in the P. E. O. Sisterhood, the Order of Eastern Star, the American Legion auxiljary, the League 0f Women Voters, the Indiana Woman's Press club, League of American Pen Women, National Federation of Press Women, Business and Professional Women and the P.-T. A, ‘She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi, Phi Beta and Beta Gamma Upsilon sororities and is a life director of the Whiting Woman's club. She is an Indiana vice president, too, of = the. Hoosier

2 2 =» / THE PRESS club and pen women affiliations indicate that she -writes—and the Phi Beta connection stems from the fact that she

once taught public speaking. All these jobs Mrs. Ahlgren has fitted in with her homemaking career. The family includes her husband, who is an attorney, and Adrienne, who recently finished her junior year at Wellesley college where she is a pre-medical student. Adrienne, happy over the election results, is with her mother in New York. She has been serving this week as convention page for Mrs. LaFell Dickinson, Keene, N. H,, the retiring Ga F. W. C. president. Her mother is the typical proud parent. Asked where Adrienne expects to receive her doctor’s trainshe has applications in at medical schools at Yale (her father went -to Yale), Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the University of

Then, in a conspiratorial tone,

Alpha Omicron Pi Convention

Next Week Will

Attract

Many Women From Indiana

Nine Indianapolis women are planning to attend the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority Sonveniion to be held Tuesday through ‘July 6 at

Roanoke, Va. Most o

them will leave Sunday.

Mrs. Melvin Myers, president of the Indianapolis alumnae; Mrs. L Victor Brown, national social service chairman, and Mrs. T. Clare Davis, district director, will be official delegates.

Other Indianapolis alumnae attending will be Mesdames Adrian Wilhoite, Thomas Thompson, Clay Trueblood and Clarence Scholl, Miss Norma Oburn and Miss Dorothy Powers. Members from the sorority’s 118 chapters in the U. 8. and Canada will attend the convention, The meeting's theme will be “Heritage,”

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table discussions, a school for district directors and social activities arranged by chapters of the southeast district. Mrs. Verne McKinney of Los Angeles, national president, will preside at the business sessions. Assistants will include; Miss Katherine Davis, New Albany, editor of To Dragma; Mrs. Herschel Neal, Bloomington, trustee, and Mrs. Brown, Sight-Seeing Trips Being Planned Alumnae from Washington will be in charge of a reception and reunion dinner Tuesday. Active members at Randolph-Macon Woman's college will be hostesses at a convention ball Wednesday night, and Lexington alumnae have arranged a sight-seeing trip Thursday. Women in charge of the sorority’s national philanthropic project, frontier nursing service, will be honored at a luncheon next Friday at which Baltimore alumnae will be in charge. Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, director, and Miss Louise Fink, secretary, will speak. The new executive committee will be honored and awards will be made at the banquet July 5. After the sessions have closed, delegates will take a week-end trip through Virginia. ’ The active chapter presidents representing the Ingdiana-Michigan district will be Miss Helen Olson, DePauw university; Miss Patricia Rigg, Indiana university; Miss Janet Osgood, University of Michi gan, and Miss Betty Williams, Michigan State college. Alumnae delegates from throughout the state will be Miss Mary Elizabeth, McIlveen, Bloomington; Mrs. Ralph Broyles, #t. Wayne; Mrs. Charles Greenwald, Gary, and Mrs. Arthur Campbell, Terre Haute,

SUMMER TREAT!

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she adds, “We'd rather like it if she should be nearer home.”

There is another way in which Mildred is typical of practically all the women in this country. It's claimed that every woman is either dieting, getting ready to go on a diet, or has just finished a dieting regime. She just finished. That figurative second vice president's crown resting atop a figure from w 30 pounds recently departed. - On second thought, maybe she isn't typical. Most of us are just “going to diet.” Mildred (who gets things done) did it.

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the couple will be at home in West’ Lafayette where Mr. Nore dyke is a student at Purdue university. The bride attended Goucher

‘ford, O. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.’ Mr. Nordyke is a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity member.

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