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A joint Memorial Service was held in the ballroom of the Jefferson Hotel on Sunday night with a large delegation of veterans and their guest attending. Mrs. Mildred B. Emanuelson, Department tions bn a white Bible, in memory or the eighteen members of auxiliaries throughout the state that •have died during the past year. The Ladies Auxiliary was host at a reception in the Washington Boom immediately following the memorial service.
The Encampment got undeiH way on Monday with • Joint Opening Session. Mayor Stirling King welcomed the assembly to Richmond and wished' the Vet-; erans of Foreign Wars a successful encampment. Mrs. Doris Reynolds, Department Patriotic Instructor, presented an American flag to Mayor King on behalf of . the Ladies Auxiliary. Theodore Pilcher, Department Commander, called on the delegates for positive action toward extention work mong the National Officials attending the Encampment were: Comrade Robert B. Handy, Jr., Quartermaster General, Mrs., Ethel M. Griffith, National Jr* Vice President of the Ladies Auxiliary, Mrs Alice Chadwick, Fast National President of the Ladies Auxiliary and National Councilwoman, Lillian L. Duffy.
On Monday afternoon the delegates visied patients at the McGuire Veterans Hospital and provided them ,with entertainmeijb and refreshments. Mrs. Grace Jones, Department Hospital Chairman, presented the Hospital with a set of twenty lawn chairs on behalf of the Department of Virginia, Ladies Auxiliary to' the vfw. " ■„«>.
As a part of the Americanism * Pragram, the Ladies Auxiliary sponsors an essay contest, and the theme this year was, ‘‘Peace with Honor for America.” The winner, Fay Francisco, a 17-yearold girl, graduate from St. Paul’s School in Portsmouth was awarded an essay medal and a $500 Scholarship, by Miss Aileen Brown Essay Chairman, _ __
The business sessions of the Ladies Auxiliary were full of reports of outstanding work done in every section of Virginia. Over eight thousand hours of service were provided and over nine thousand dollars spent in Veterans Hospitals through the state. One of the most heartrending stories was told by Mrs. Grace Jones, Hospital Chairman. It concerned the fate of three children, Carl, 10, Helerr, 8, and Cailyn, age 6. Their father, Carl Smith was not a VFW member. He was killed in a booby trap Jane 18, 1945, in France, just four months after entering the service. Having beard her husband say that he expected to join the VFW as soon' aa^ eligible, Mrs. Smith, did the next' best thing—joined the Carthage, New York, VFW Auxiliary. Three years,ago she came to Newport) News to make her home and raise her children. April of this year she transferred her member to Auxiliary 176 in Newport News. Shortly after this she learned she had; cancer of the spine and had only three months to live. She had no close relatives who could take the children, so she appealed to the VFW to get them in the National
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