A few of the members will omit the visit to Panama and spend a week in Santo Domingo and Haiti, motoring over the island and visiting various inland cities and the Citadel of Christophe. The faculty will include Lincoln Steffens, Chester Lloyd Jones, Ernest Gruening, Thomas E. Benner, Leland H. Jenks, Samuel Guy Inman, and Charles Thomson. FEMINISM While women have been permitted to assume duties in many a field but a short while ago deemed the exclusive province of men, their entrance into the diplomatic world has been comparatively recent. Miss Lucile Atcherson, the first woman to enter the career service of the State Department, was appointed in February, 1927, third secretary of the legation of the UNITED STATES in Panama, a position which she held until her resignation in September of that year. At the present time, Miss Frances Willis is United States vice consul in Valparaiso, Chile. The United States, however, is not the only American nation that has appointed women to represent it in other countries of this continent. The highest position to which a woman has been appointed in the Diplomatic Corps of the Americas is held by Señora Delia Robles de Andreve, chargé d'affaires of PANAMA in Cuba. When in October, 1931, her husband, Señor Guillermo de Andreve, left his post as Minister to Cuba to accept the portfolio of Justice and the Interior of Panama, his wife remained in Habana to take charge of the affairs of her nation in that Republic until his successor should be appointed. Señora de Andreve, who had studied under President Alfaro in her undergraduate days, was particularly pleased with the appointment as an evidence of the progress of feminism in Latin America. For the nomination of Miss Doris Stevens to membership in the American Institute of International Law, see p. 56. |