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A i4M The busy vacation time is rap ; idly drawing to a close. Whai would we have done without the services of the Reactivation Health Center durinsg the past two weeks! Whirlpool therapy helped to ease tense nerves and give some much needed energy for the NACWC convention. Electronic theraphy helped to increase cir culation needed for all of the walking and standing required for such a convention. Right now those same treatments will help •us to prepare to return to work <on the 27th. 1 * A card from our Mamie Wil liams tells that her work in New York closed on the 14, but that she will go to Chicago on Alpha Alpha Kappa' business before re turning home. . ** ff* (:* Marie Roberts who usually goes Off to far places for work with human relations, has spent a restful vacation at her home on 46th street. S* • Mrs. Hazel G. Brown Cato was escorted home' from NYU by the everloVing men in her life her husband, Paul, and her son, Kiah Brown. Os course they made several stops on the way home. Tlie Fortsons, Rosa L., Charles and Junious, have been enjoying a motor triprdufmg the past sev eral weeks making stops in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. Mrs. Fort son dropped us a card from—of all places Sanford Street in Hartford. Along with her prin cipals, she will report to work on August 20. Her school, Rainbow Park, is rapidly being completed. • * A letter from Nassau from Mrs. Pauline Dunn, music consultant at Holmes Elementary School and minister of music at St. John Institutional Baptist Church, toW of how much she was enjoying her visit there. Her hosts were Mr. and Mrs. A. Pedican of Mar ket Street. Mrs. Pedican is the owner of a dressmaking shop on Blue Hill Road. Mrs. Dunn visit ed many places of interest includ ing Ft Charlotte, the Sea Gar dens and Paradise Beach. She also attended church services at Beth el Baptist Church, Dr. H. W. Brown, pastor; Salem Baptist Church, Rev. E. Backford, and Wesley Methodist Church, Rev. Peter Howard, pastor. * * • Have you noticed the July ad vertisements for U. S. Saving Bond*? They feature Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who performed the first successful heart operation Good for scrapbook material. * * * Pretty Margie Martin has been enhancing the scenery about the Sir John Hotel by modelling re sort wear play suits, bathing stats, etc., all things which may be purchased from Lloyd’s Dress Shop in the Sir John building on 2nd avenue. Special reason for Margie’s stint is the presence of 111 visi tors from Baltimore who are spending a 12-day vacation tour in Miami and the* islands. Miss Ruff, a Baltimore teacher, says that this is the 9th such tour ar ranged by enterprising men es Baltimore. Arranged to fall with in the period between the close of summer school and the open ing of rajular school session, it attracts an Increasing number of people. This Is a double tour 42 eople went to Nassau last Monday and returned this Thurs day. The entire group then left for Cuba Fridav evening on a cruise for the weekend. The group will return tb Baltimore on Tues day. A number of these visitors will return at Christmas for the convention of Phi Delta Kappa sorority and Phi Beta Sigma fra tornity. # , * ADDED NACWC SIDELIGHTS What a privilege to meet and tatk with the Hon. Harris B. Gaines, native Kentuckian and noted Chicago attorney who serv ed for 10 years in the Illinois leg islature. His wife, Mrs. Irene Mc- Cov Gaines, who w?s elected to p ♦a*™ v ’tional presi dent of the NACWC was until hetirement, a number of years Random Notes BY DOROTHY SANFORD ago, a social worker In Chicago. he had the distinction of being the youngest woman ever elect ed president of a state federation when she served in that capacity for the state of Illinois. Mrs. Gaines, a native Floridian, is a iTisk graduate, a Sigma Gamma Rho soror and an honorary mem t«r of lota Phi Lambda sorority. The Gaines are the parents of two sons. * * * At least two professional li brarians bold high spots in the NACWC Mrs. Ruby M. Ken drick and Mrs. Ruby Stutts Lyells and they are both natives of Mis sissippi. Mrs. Kendricks, who nas served for some time as the national director of public rela tions is a native of Greenwood and served as a librarian at How ard University. She was one of the first public relations officers among Negroes. The mother of three children and grandmother to over half-dozen grandchildren, she directs the publication of NACWC’s National Notes. Her beautiful silver hair has been a mark Os distinction since her early twenties. * • • Mrs. Ruby Stutts Lyells of the wealthy-oil-well owning StUtts family of Jackson, served for a number of years as librarian at the new Jackson State Teachers College. A community leader, she has been able to fill many needs through her personal financial donations but she has also given of her time to these needs. A world traveler, she has a pen chant for hats and many and wondrous are her favorites which bear the labels of famou* designers both in the U. S. A- and abroad. .* * * We enjoyed seeing Mrs. Louise E. Taylor, Florida supervisor of the state Association of Colored Girls. We met Mrs. Taylor and her husband, W. C. Taylor, Belle Glade mortician, when the Grand United Order of Pall Bearers met in Miami two years ago. Mr. Tay lor is chairman of the education program of that order and his wjfe serves as committee mem ber. That work is with the juvdniles chiefly teenagers and the Taylors are responsible for the oratorical and musical com oetition, features of the annual convention of the Order. * * * Mrs. Dollie Alexander of At lanta, former national statistician for the NACWC, is one of At lanta’s outstanding realtors. She is a charming plump little wo man whom one would never sus pect of being the fine business woman that she is. * * * Also from Atlanta, was Mrs. W. A. Scott owner of the Atlanta Dally World. * a * Enjoyed several meetings with Mrs. Foster of Pinehurst, N. C. A trained nurse whose brothers are oracticing physicians, Mrs. Fos ter is a member of the National Arts and Crafts Board, chaired by Belle Glades’ Daisy Murrell. * • * Mrs. Omega Masion, president of New Jersey State Federation beof Clubs and former chairman if the National Executive Board, designs and makes practically all of her frocks. Slender, olive-com plex ion ed Mrs. Mason wore one of her own creations—gray tulle TOPS IN LISTENING WORLD FAMOUS WMBM • The Butterball • Castlerock • Elliott J. Pieze • Curtis Walker • Gospel Blind Boy • Barney Bembry • Man on the Street • The People Speak • Your Neighborhood Police 800 ON YOUR RADIO lightly touched with rhinestones — at the Convention Banquet. • • • West Palm Beach’s Victoria M. Tervey who won the Eleanor Roosevelt loving cup, Ist prize at the National Fashion Show has a .l.ir for wearing clothes and the training and skill to design and construct them. Her winning cos tume was a strapless evening gown of champagne-colored lace with a floating back panel. * * • Mrs. Gertrude Reese Hicks of Los Angeles for whom the beauti u u a ting trophy given by NACWC to persons and organiza tions that have done outstanding work in various types *of Com munications is an interesting arid forceful person. The trophy which was purchased by citizens of Los Angeles was presented to Mrs. Hicks at the 1952 Convention held in Los Angeles as a tribute to her for her community service. The trophy ewas presented to the Washington office of the NAACP in 1954. This year, that office will receive a plaque while the trophy itself was presented to Ed Sulli van who will keep it until the 1958 Convention in Detroit. Free Chest X-Ray Planned Negro residents of two major areas will have a chance to get free chest x-rays at the mobile unit of the Dade County Tuber culosis Association three days next week.. On Monday, Aug. 20 the unit will be stationed at the Spic and Span Poultry and Fish Market at NW 27th ave. and 50th st. Hours will be from 2 p.m. to 5 pm. and from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Tuesday and Wednesday, August 21 and 22 the unit will offer the free service at Liberty Square area, 6304 NW 14th ave. Hours for both days will be from 2 p.m. to 5 pm. and from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Arrangements for the schedule have been handled by Mrs. Arie Gary, program assistant on the Dade County Tuberculosis Assoc iation staff. Painting ? That’s our business! 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