Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1937 — Page 5

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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937

ay Parties

On Schedule After Races

Reunions With Friends From Other Cities Anticipated.

By BEATRICE BURGAN NDIANAPOLIS racing fans are moying in the panorama of Churchill Downs’ Derby Day today. In smart spectator outfits they will be eddying through the grandstands| and paddock, with visitors from all parts of the country. The day will be punctuated with unexpected encounters with old friends from other cities. : After the races there will be parties at country clubs and private’ homes, to entertain the visitors bei they return home. r. and Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ruckelshaus, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fortune Jr., William Fortune and Kurt Matthews will make up one party of local fans. They will be at the Louisville Country Club celebration tonight.

Wears Blue Outfit

Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus' outfit will be a blur of blue ig the picture. With her blue light“ wool tweed three-piece suit, she will wear a skyblue linen blouse and a matching antelope hat. Her hat will be ofi-the-face, with a. cutout, crown, perked up with a bow. \ Mrs. Thomas Ruckelshaus’ choice for the day was a brown dnd white polkadot silk ensemble and a straw hat with a crown formed by chartreuse and tan chiffon which end in streamers down the back. Mrs. Fortune's dark-blue and white print silk gown will be matched with a blue straw hat trimmed in white ribbon. Mr. and Mrs. William Macomber, Kendallville, met Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Cadick to motor to the Derby. Mrs. Cadick’s best bet on her costume before she left was a yellow knit suit, with -a lacy-stitch blouse dotted in green and rust embroidery. Her hat and coat are yellow and her green purse picks up the color of the blouse trimming.

Governor to Attend

Gov. and Mrs. Townsend with their daughter, Miss Lucille Townsend, and son Max, went to the sporting event with Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Gremelspacher, Jasper. They expected to join the party in Thomas Taggart’s box Mrs. Townsend picked out a brown wool suit with a cape and beige accessories as her Derby Day outfit. Miss Townsend took alonga brown linen sport suit and brown straw hat for her appearance. Mr. Taggart was prepared to entertain his daughter Eva; his sisters, Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair and Miss Lucy Taggart; Mr. and Mrs. Fabien Sevitsky, Mr. and Mrs. W. Hathaway Simmons, Gov. and Mrs. Murphy of Michigan, Clara Bow and Rex Bell, Hollywood; Harry Hopkins, WPA Administrator, and Mrs. Hopkins; Col. and Mrs. «Horatio B. Hackett and Mr. and Mrs. George E. Allen, Washington.

Breakfast Opens Day

Mr. and Mrs. James PF. Frenzel joined Mrs. M. H. Moon's party and attended her Derby breakfast. Mrs. Frenzel is to be outfitted in a greybeige spectator sports suit, trimmed with fox, and matched with a turban of the suit material. Miss Anne Ayres and William H. Stafford Jr. joined Robert Snyder, Louisville. Miss Martha. Doherty welcomed , Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kuhn, Misses Helen and Ruth Sheerin for an annual Derby Day visit. Mr. and Mrs. Val Nolan met Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Nolan, Evansville, at French Lick and will be with John K. Jennings and Wash3 3 ington friends. Among others to be on hand are Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. DeHaven, Mr. and Mrs, A. Kiefer Mayer and Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stokely. : ” " »

Next week-end many of these same amusement seekers will help | celebrate the opening of the In- ' dianapolis Country Club. The first dance is to be held next Saturday night, and on May 29 the annual Speedway race entertainment is scheduled. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wemmer are entertainment committee chairmen. ;

Mrs. Willwerth Names Aids for Club’s Dinner

Mrs. H. P. Willwerth has named her committees for the annual May dinner of the Federation of the International Travel-Study Clubs,

Incl, Wednesday in the Claypool |.

Hotel. ; Mrs. Leota Thomas of the Fiéld Museum, is to be the speaker. Mrs. Charles E. Judy, general -chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. Horace G. Dougherty and Mrs. Verlin Crusore. ' Mrs. Mary E. Armel is in charge of place cards for the 31 chapters. Hospitalities are under the direction of Mesdames Virgil B. Marshall, Brewer Clay, William Taylor and Edna Bland. Mrs. Ruth Eskey and Mrs. Horace Dougherty are taking reservations, Chapters at Chicago, Anderson, Crawfordsville and Richmond are to be represented.

Assembly Women’s Meeting Set Ahead

The meeting of the Indianapolis Branch, State Assembly Women’s Club, scheduled for Wednesday is to be held May 19, Mrs. A. N. Bobbitt, chairman, announced today. The place of the meeting is to be announced later, Officers will be elected. Mrs. L. C. Claycombe, nominating chairman, will be assisted by Mrs. Frank Finney ang Mrs. Lawrence Sullivan,

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men of the Week’ in Indianapolis Social Occurences

Sunshine Club of Sunnyside To Hold Benefit Card Party

The Children’s Sunshine Club of

senberger, J. D, Voltz, T. C. Wil-

Sunnyside has set Friday as the | liams, Albert J. Huber, Orval PF.

Hood, Mary Clingenpeel, Harry

date for its semiannual card party | port’ curtis Burk, Frank Bird, T. in Ayres’ Auditorium. The party is |g, Rogers, Dorothy Herrell.

sponsored to raise funds for entertainment and gift contributions for the children at the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital. ™~ On the hospitality committee, jJappointed by Mrs. W. J. Overmire, are Mrs. Overmire, Mrs. Griswold, incoming president; Mesdames Walter Zimmerman, John Connor, Alva

Cradick, past presidents; John W.

Fraim, G. E. Hampton, Claude Geisendorff, Donald: Brodie and M. C. Thomas. Assisting Mrs. Harry G. Kennett, general chairman, is a ticket committee composed of Mesdames Charles Bogert, B. L. Byrket, Alva Cragick, Roscoe Butner, H. M. Pit-

Mrs. C. E. Copeland In Married Today

The marriage of Mrs. Clara E. Copeland to Joseph Herbert Cope-

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Mrs. G. R. Jetfery Is Installed by Alpha Chi Omega

Mrs. George R. Jeffery was in-. stalled as president of the Indian- |:

apolis Alumnae Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority today at the

Butler University chapter house. | Mrs. Thor G. Wesenberg,

Butler Women’s Council chairman, spoke on “The News Letter.” Other officers included with Mrs. Jeffery were Miss Charlotte Wainwright, vice president; Mrs. W. C. Otto, corresponding secretary; Miss Mary Elizabeth Sawyer, recording secretary; Miss Dorothy Jane Stewart, treasurer; Mrs. W. F. Hammel, assistant treasurer; Mrs. Lawrence Wininger, Lyre editor; Mrs. V. A. alumnae chairman; Mrs. H. B. Murnan, warden: Mrs. R. B. Clark, chaplain; Mrs. Scobey Cunningham, historian; Mrs. H. K. Weirick, Panhellenic representative and Mrs. L. A. Helgesson, pianist. Miss Asberene Morris is the new press chairman; Mrs. J. W. Burkhart, program chairman, and Miss Maryellen Clark, year book chairman. The alumnae are to hold a family

Pienle at Northern Beach on June

Children’s Museum Bird Hike Today

The second bird hike of the

land today in the Second Presby-|Jjunior members of the Children’s

terian Church, Dr. Jean S. Milner, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Copeland, St. Louis, Mo. were the attendants. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Copeland are to make their home in the city after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

: Museum was held today in the

vicinity of Butler University campus. The members were led by guides from the Indiana Nature Study ub.

Ge Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Kirshbaum, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Herff, Charles T. Coats and E. J. Joseph have been visiting in French Lick,

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Day breakfast.

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EVENTS

SORORITIES Beta Chapter, Theta Mu Rho. Sun. Kopper Kettle, Mother's Day

Beta Chapter Sigma Delta Zeta. 2 to 4 p. m. Sun. Indianapolis AthMelba Woolery, Grace Myer, May-

Alpha Chapter, Omega Nu Tau. Sun. Kopper Kettle. Mother's

PROGRAMS 3 Twenty Grand Club. Tonight. Mrs. Earl Heaton, hostess. Mrs. Ralph

Young People, Indiana League for Hard of Hearing. Tonight, Y. W. C. A. Banquet for new officers. Program. ; Katharine Merrill Tent 9, Daughters of Union Veterans of Civil War. 12:30 p. m. Mon. Ft. Friendly. Luncheon. Indianapolis Club. 8:30 p. m, today. Castle Hall. Party.

Voters’ League Is to Select Leaders at Session Tuesday

Officers and board members to direct next year’s Indianapolis League of Women Voters program will be chosen at the league’s annual meeting Tuesday in the Woodstock Club. Mrs. Arthur C. Shea, nominatating committee chairman, is to announce the slate at the meeting,

At a luncheon Miss Helen D. Pigeon of the Indiana Department of’ Layman Versus the Professional in

Public Welfare, is to talk on “The the Public Welfare Field.” Miss Pigeon, Welfare Department special consultant, has made a survey of 18 State institutions. She has made recommendations for their development and establishment of a central staff to assume supervisory powers under the provisions of the new Welfare Act.

Report To Be Made

The meeting’s program committee, directed®y Mrs. Guy H. Shadinger, is to report the year's activities in the form of a round table discussion. led by Mrs. Clarence F. Merrell, president. Those to take part include the

| following department chairmen:

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Mrs. Lester Smith, government and its operation; Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin, government and child welfare; Mrs. William Allen Moore, government and economic welfare; Mrs. Ross Coffin, government and the legal status of women, and Mrs. Leonard Smith, government and foreign policy. Mrs. Oliver W. Greer, legislative steering committee chairman, is to report the committee’s work in the 1937 legislature, Mrs. John W. Hillman, personnel chairman, will discuss the placement program, and Miss Mary Sinclair, executive secretary, will give a headquarters’

Mabel L.. Hunt ‘To Talk Before Women’s Club

Mabel Leigh Hunt, author, and Rauh Memorial Library staff mem-=-ber, is to be speaker at the Municipal Gardens Woman's Department Club guest day luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Monday in the club house. Mrs. Robert Shank, toastmaster, is to present honor guests: Mrs. Frederick Balz, Indiana Federation of Clubs’ president; Mrs. J. W. Moore, Seventh District Federation of Clubs’ first vice president; Mrs. Henry - W. Ker, Indianapolis Council of Women president; Mrs. Walter Grow, Woman's Department Club art chairman, and William Kaeser, Indiana Artists’ Association president. ? Other features on the program will be invocation by Mrs. H. E. Chace; luncheon music by Pasquale Montani, harpist; address of welcome by Mrs. Emil Soufflot; marimba solos by Orville E. Stone, accompanied by Mrs. Florence Stone, pianist, and James Stone, saxaphonist, and group singing led by Mrs. H. P. Willwerth' and Mrs. W. Ray Kester. 4 Mrs. Clyde Jones is in charge of a spring flower show, to be arranged by members. Favors will be small potted plants. ¢

Hostesses will be Mesdames William Hodgson, Burton Knight, George Usher, H. J. Rothman, C. C. Rothman, A. O. Ruse, Joseph Walpole, M. J. Qualters, W. H Stewart, Edward Wright, H. D. Spurgeon and Frank . McCracken. The courtesy committee is composed of Mesdames Joseph F. Hancock, Herman L. Kerch, W. R. Burcham, T. L. Carmichael, C. R. Dillon, Arthur E. Johnson, William V. Hoey, William Lee, Colin Lett, A. M. McIntyre and

D. D. Phillips,

1. Mrs. R. Michael Fox was Miss Jane Fitton, daughter of. Mrs. Harry R. Fitton, before her recent marriage. (Photo by W, Hurley Ashby, F. R. P. S.)

2. Ava Davis will join thousands of other daughters in giving add=ed attention to mother tomorrow on Mother's Day. Her mother, Mrs. J. Landon Davis, is chair! man of the Orchard School Parents’ Association committee spon= soring the Indianapolis-St. Paul baseball game May 22.

3. Mr. ahd Mrs. J. G. Naughton have announced the engagement of their daughter Bettie to William A. Shepler, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shepler, Terre Haute. The: wedding is to take place this month.

4. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coudert Nast are to be at home in New York. Mrs. Nast was Miss Julict Houser, daughter of Mrs. Marion E. Ensley, before her marriage last Saturday. Mr. Nast is the son of Conde Nast; Newy York. (Photo by W. Hurley Asfby, F. R.-P. SS), .

5. Mrs. Milton A. Nix formerly was Miss Ruth Pinkham, Racine, Wis., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pinkham, Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Nix are to live in Evanston, Ill. (Photo by Dex-heimer-Carlon).

6. Miss Roberta Mardis of the Indiana University Chapter, Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority, assisted in arranging the annual State Day celebration today at the Indian- . apolis Athletic Club.

7. Tomorrow's and Monday's circus performances are big events for the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home Auxiliary, which is to share in the proceeds for the: benefit 6f the home. Mrs. BenJamin’ Turner Jr. (left) tells her daughter Judy and Mrs. Alfred W. Noling (center) $nterests -her daughter Kathy, in| circus stories while Mrs. Robert Mason, auxile iary president, looks on. ;

8. Before her. recent marriage, Mrs. Thomas J. Blackwell Jr. was Miss Mabelle Sherman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Sherman, (Photo by Photo-Craft).

Hillcrest Club To Hold Show

Lilacs and pink tulips will dec orate the Hillcrest Country Club Wednesday for the luncheon and style show to be held for women members. The stairway will be twined -with apple blossoms and guests will receive corsages = of pansies and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Vance Oathout, chairman, has announced her committee ase sistants: Luncheon, Mesdames G, A. Livingston, A. S. Rowe, Earl Hun ker, E. R. Snider, A. A. Stein and Charles Campbell; decorations, Mesdames C. E. Cox, W. R. Spurlock, W, Guy Craig, Claude Mick, C. B. Borman, K. E. Yates and Alvin Jones; transportation, Mesdames Paul Blakeslee, Peter Lambertus, George Oburn and Elmer Holtgren. Mrs. Demarchus C. Brown is to give a travel talk. This party is to take the place of the May luncheon-bridge.

Garfinkels to Receive Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Garfinkel are to receive informally from 3 to 6 p. m. tomorrow at their home, 3726 Ruskin Place, in. honor of their daughter, Miss Verna Garfinkel, whose engagement to Harold Ham-

merman, has been announced.