Atlanta Daily World

Named To Positions At Phyllis YWCA

Miss Gloria Douthit and Mrs. Helen M. Caruthers have been appointed to positions at Phyllis Wheatley Branch YWCA, it has been announced by Mrs. J. P. Brawley and Mrs. R. C. Chaires, co-chairmen of the Branch Personnel Committee.

Miss Douthit, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., attended Johnson C. Smith and New York Universities. She has taught at Atkins High School in Winston-Salem and, more recently, was on the staff of Harlem Branch YWCA, New York City. In further preparation for her duties as assistant Teenage Director, Miss Douthit attended the YWCA School for Professional Workers at Lake Erie College. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Mrs. Caruthers is the new Membership-Finance Secretary having assumed these duties in July. A graduate of Wendell Phillips High School, she attended Loyola University, also in Chicago. She has served as bookkeeper-secretary for the Chicago YMCA, Senior Claims Deputy and assistant office manager, Department of Labor, Unemployment Compensation Division in Chicago, and more recently, 1949-1956 as secretary, Radio Station WERD, Atlanta. She is married to J T. Caruthers, a teacher at Carver Vocational School, the mother of two children and a member of First Congregational Church.