Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jan 1940, p. 32

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The Story o! Madame Curie's com-, plete-devotion to science throughout al, of her mature years will be told here by her daughter the evening of Fridayl, February 9, when she cornes to New Trier High séhool auditoriumr under the auspices of the Chicago Bryn Mawr Collegç club for the dis trict's Schlarship'Fund. Famous- and beloved,in her own right, Eve Curie will tell of her mother's almost superhuman devo- tion to research and o! the part played by - her scientist father, Pierre Curie, in the, collaboration that led to the discovery of radium. MarhallField She will relate how, atter years of The Woman's Cat1holieC experim.zn±ation and,.study,. thesê depart-menmetng P*WW Fl two scientists, when they finally iso- Woman's club. The afteruoc lated the precious substance that right, departinent chairma was found to have commercial possi- Harry L. Barker, a past preq bilities, that they generously and no- preceding her pro gram Mr bly decided to seek no patent on the book review at 1:30 o'clock. process but to present the resuit o! théir research to the world. That, in making this decision, they gave up what would have meant aBo fortune to them and have freed Bo k Review and them forever trom the near-poverty thakcnsanlyha1idicaIpledI4,their Musicale Program work, as no as iporta t tem as that they should remain true ta o r Cu the scientlftc spirit by whieh theyFo ah lcCu *had always guided' their lives. They decided that they. wculd, as aîways, The fine arts departme -nt_ publish a full report of their re- Woman's Catholic Club of Wi searches and the processes involved. is having its next program1 The decision was precipitated by afternoon o! this. week at th, an inquiry for information about the mette Woman's club. The ail process of isolating radium from a of members is èalled to the comparatively ordinary pitch blende hour advance in time, to residue from a firm of engmneers in o'clock, for the book review Rochester, N. Y. The, very night which precedes the program that the Curies' decision was made, The soloist of the, afternc Pierre Curie wrote the American Miss CIl'are Barker, daughter engineers and gave thern the full in- former president of theclub, formation about the processes h).- Harry L. Bàrker. Miss Barl volved. Twentyvear lte a Dai. nit. inG 4lv 1fi 4e . Photo Corboy Photo Club of Wilmette *vill have ita next fine arts ti alterm Ôj ofthiâ tbel6 atthe WUlmétte )on is lin charge of Mrs. Frank JCaye, at the an. Miss Clare Barlcer, daugihter of Mrs. asident of the club, will give a musicale, and. rrs. Frank Kracha, at the left, will give a of the lilmette Friday' he Wil- ;tention ie haif- to 1:30' 1period i itself. ioon 18. ýr of a 5, Mrs. Three-Day Cooking School, To Be at Woman's Club coverlng Americanism-." Mr. M~etcalfe is ail American newspaper reporter who turned 'spy- hunter and revealed the secrets o! the Nazi movement in the United States. He relates his own authen- tic experiences as a newspaper and congressional investigator in ex- posing the Nazi, Fascist and Com- munist movements in America. In recognition of his worjc the National Readliners club, composed of news- paper men throughout the country, in 1938 awarded him a silver plaque C/ iorLe nest i jJiL.01A. ews report- A cooking school given by Miss ing ini the United States. Martha Logan, representing a Chi- It is eonceded that John C. Met- cago meat pavking firm,. will be calfe I<nows more about the Nazi held at the Wilmette Woman's club and Fascist problems ini the United the three mornings of January 29, States than any other person in the 30, and 31, under the sponsorship o! country. His past predictions have the club. turned into reality with remarkable Mrs. E. J. Matot has been made accuracy, and his.findings.and facts chairman of the school, and Mrs. have been shared generally in .both Floyd L. McGrath lier co-chairman. officiai and .private; circles ýof 'the_, Serving on their conimittee will be: nation. The Mesdames Kenneth B. .:Mc- The opinions and, conclusions he A!ee, Robert Maeser, George Gau- draws on current events and coming ger, Clarence Baustert, Carl Krohl, developments are,. however, entirely Water D. Wilson, Albert E. Gebert, his own. In his up-to-the minute ex- E!. G. Van Whiikle, F. Z. Favori.A. posé ofi subversiveu numnt arisît o fhave a return engagemenýt r1010 Chestnut on the Kraft Hour within such a Lhe inembers o! short period o! time. 'oman's society She will be presented to the .Neigh- ptist church at bors by the muisic committee o! January 8., which Mrs. Paul Clovis is chairman. 1 ner to le. coast, was

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